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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"But what are imps? Or clacks?" he asked, because he had a need to know all.

"You don't have imps?" That was just odd. "They're small beasts that can run the smaller machines. Clacks are... clacks. They're like signals along a line that you transmit messages."

"We do not have imps," Faramir confirmed, tilting his head in thought. "So it is like a code in sound?"

He wasn't certain about the latter. Naming something clack suggested sound, at least he thought it did, but how would one transmit sound through a rope?

"Lights, I believe." They weren't used too much in Borogravia. An abomination unto Nuggan and all.

"More like beacons then?" he asked. "We have beacons ourselves, to alert our allies when we are hard pressed for their help."

"Home was too... volatile to have allies." Oh, Borogravia. "Though, luckily they assure us Nuggan is dead."

"Nuggan was your enemy?" he guessed.

"God, actually!" A beat. "Well, not mine, but the one of the country."

"You were waging war with a God?" Faramir blinked. That sounded complicated.

"No, but the echoes of him was leading it." In a way. Look, things here could be more confusing than Middle Earth. THEIR DWARVES ALL HAD BEARDS AND THEIR ELVES WERE PSYCHOTIC.

Yeah well, you try getting stuck in a living forest and have to be rescued by some weird with a feather on his head who sings his way through life.

"I'm uncertain what would be an echo of a god," he admitted, "but I have a feeling there might be a long answer behind it."

Not that Faramir minded long answers.

No, but they had a god who was a turtle!

"They say a god's power is based on how much people believe in him. And when people stopped believing and only feared, he faded away..." Maladicta replied. "At least, that's what the wizards said."

"And what was left of him turned against the people?" he guessed.

Maladicta shrugged as if to say 'what can you do?'. "Things do tend to be difficult like that."

"Yes," he agreed with a rueful smile. "Perhaps these different worlds do have that in common."

"I fear that's will always be the same, Faramir."

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

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