fandomhigh | Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part I

It might have been the start of the fall semester, but it was definitely still summer in Fandom. The sun was shining and the temperature was already starting to get high, even as the NPC crew set things up for the day.

Luckily, the school knew how to take care of folks on days like today. Beneath the blue and gold streamers and balloons, tables had been set up with cold drinks and food, and an entire section devoted to offering up different ~~moddable~~ ice cream flavors. As always, there was a stack of nametags set down next two signs: one listing the Big Sibling/Little Sibling pairings, and one listing rooms and roommates for the new students.

With everything set up and the crew out of the way, it was time for the picnic to begin!

[~~Please wait for OCD!~~ The OCD is up! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here and here, in an effort to keep browsers from breaking for as long as possible. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Oh, god. What was she supposed to say to that? And why on earth had she trusted Zack and Karla with the food?

Temporary insanity. That was all she had. Temporary insanity and a general fear of arguing.

"Not right now," she said slowly. "I d-didn't realize you guys meant you were going to bake the cookies..."

"We were feeling really ambitious!"

Let this be a lesson to you all. Only tears and pain can come from ambitiousness. Only tears and pain.

"Oh well, that means more for everyone else, right?"

"Yeah," Tara said, eying the cookies again. "I h-haven't seen a lot of recipes for gray cookies. That's ... creative of you."

And hopefully a warning to everyone else.

Zack was now actually taking a moment to look over the cookie platter thoughtfully.

"I think that might be from the blueberries," he shared. That didn't sound so bad, right? "Or maybe the instant oatmeal stuff we used. We couldn't find any of the regular kind, but we figured oatmeal is oatmeal, right?"

That was a little more iffy...

"Or it could be the fish paste!"

Stop talking, Zack.

"... why did you put fish paste in cookies?" Tara said. She couldn't quite keep the edge of 'are you out of your mind?' out of her voice, though she was trying to hard.

She tried to fix it. "I like blueberries!"

"Well, they were looking kind of powdery, and we needed something to hold them together after the flowers went in..."

Because flowers had sounded so much more exciting than the all-purpose flour had looked, naturally.

"And so it was either fish paste or toothpaste, but the fish paste won, because we figured that it was made to be eaten anyhow."

"Uh-huh." Tara bit her lip. Why wasn't Kennedy here yet? Kennedy was so much better at stuff like this. If he was here, she would ...

Buy her way out of this.

"Zack." Tara said, reaching for her wallet. "Can you run to town for a second? It might be nice to have some d-different types of cookies, just in case anybody's allergic to fish."

Zack looked thoroughly confused for a moment, and then his eyes went wide.

"Oh, man! I didn't even think about allergies! Hey, no, put your money away, I've got it! I won't be gone too long, okay? Tell people that there are more cookies coming if anybody stops by?"

Maybe they should have used the toothpaste, after all.

"Sure thing," Tara promised. "It's okay, I wouldn't have thought about it except I can't eat shrimp, so..."

She waved Zack on. "Thanks for taking care of it."

By the time he made it back, she might have discreetly removed the grayest of the cookies to a trash can across the lawn, and arranged the better-looking ones on a far edge of the tray, so people would have to really think about it before taking one.

If Zack asked, she'd say something about a sudden rush and change the subject.

Edited 2010-08-28 13:53 (UTC)

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