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

When the planning for the new semester had started, no one had really noticed that the welcome picnic would coincide with Cinco de Mayo. When the food arrived and all of it, including the desserts, had somehow ended up as a variety of Mexican food, well, it was a little too late to change anything.

Hopefully, the wandering mariachi band that had shown up wouldn't throw anyone either. It was a festive day of new arrivals, after all.

The blue and gold tables and chairs had been set out, along with nametags and the lists of Big and Little Siblings, and rooms and roommates for the new students. Assuming the shuttle arrived with all of the students and teachers in one piece, everything was set for the picnic to begin!

[OCD is up, have at it! 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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"Well, I work the door at one of the local bars, the Devil's Nest," she said. Yes, pretty little Anna was a bouncer. "But we card there. The other bar, Caritas, doesn't. It's a karaoke bar." So it was a trade-off. "And there's usually something going on in the common rooms. Some of the TV here is really interesting. The hockey playoffs are going on right now!" She sounded quite excited about that, yes. "Do you have hockey in Telos?"

"Not a lot of anything going on on Telos right now," Atton said vaguely. "I'll give you 'what's hockey', though."

"It's a sport that's popular in Canada, where I'm from," Anna explained. "It's played on ice, and the goal is to hit the puck--it's a rubber disc?--into the goal with your stick. And there are a lot of fights," she added when she realized she'd made it sound pretty boring in trying to keep her explanation as basic as possible. "So what's it like where you're from, then?"

"Telos? Right now it's one big crater in space," Atton said. "The Jedi Civil War isn't doing much to keep things nice and clean."

Thanks, Atton.

"Oh," Anna said. "Oh, I'm so sorry." But. "What's a Jedi?"

Did she really just say that?

That sounded good.

"Not really important to you out here," Atton said. "Though if you ever run into one, they'll probably think otherwise."

"Are they ghost hunters?" Anna asked. "Because I can handle ghost hunters."

"Just guys in cloaks with funny religious convictions and a funnier way of dealing with them," Atton replied. "No ghost hunters. I think."

Anna knew one of the professors wore a cloak, but she didn't know him, so she wasn't anywhere near drawing that connection. But the religious thing made them sound like Catholic clergy, who had been known to do an exorcism or sixty in their time, so Anna made a mental note to steer clear. "Well, you won't have to worry about that here," she assured him. "There aren't any wars here. At least. Not in this country. And definitely none about the Jedi."

"Glad to hear that," Atton said. He wasn't even lying this time. "Sounds like I chose to go to the right place. I was getting sick of hanging around refugee areas."

"Yes, that...doesn't sound like it would be very nice at all," Anna said. "It's safe here, even if is are the occasional...strange invasion. Things like dolls that bite," she added hastily, "not other countries or anything like that! And they don't usually last very long."

"...Okay, could you run that by me again?"

That was a completely reasonable reaction. "I've only been here a semester myself, but sometimes, there'll just be...weird things, all over the island suddenly. Once it was dolls, only they moved and some of them were trying to hurt people. Another time it was these rabbits with sharp teeth, and there were a couple of other things, too. But they always go away again in a few days. You do have to watch out for the gremlins, though. They're these...green pest things in the dorms, and they bite, and then you hallucinate."

"So you're saying I should not be throwing my blasters in the ocean," Atton said, but his brow was creased in a mildly disbelieving frown. "... and take some kind of anti-hallucinatory... something."

"I don't think there's an antidote," Anna said apologetically. "But it wears off fairly quickly. Just keep an eye out, I guess. And if a girl named Kenzi tries to sell you repellent it's a scam."

"I'll keep that in mind." He threw a glance at the crowd.

"Don't suppose you can point this Kenzi girl out for me?"

Always good to know who the scammers were.

Anna stood on her toes and looked around, but, "No, I don't see her right now. I'm sorry. She's actually very nice."

"Most scammers are," Atton said. "Eh. I'm sure I'll run into her eventually."

"That's true. Both parts. It's a small school," Anna agreed. "Which reminds me, if you ever need anything, or just want to talk, I'm in room 205. And I don't sleep, so you can really come by any time, although if it's late knock quietly so you don't wake my roommate? And I should give you my phone number. Do you have a phone?"

"You're going to make fun of me if I say 'a what', aren't you," he said.

"Not at all," Anna assured him. "It's a--well, I don't know what the technology's like at all where you're from, so this will either sound like I'm treating you like you're six or like I'm talking about magic, but it's a device that lets you contact other people and talk to them across a great distance. The ones now have voice or you can send a text message, and you can carry them around with you! When I was alive they had wires."

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"So it's basically this planet's version of a communicator," Atton summarized. "Yeah, I got that. Might not work with the same kind of numbers, though."

"Oh, good," Anna said, relieved that he knew what they were. "They do use numbers, but they might not be the same, yes. We can go into town and get you one later, if you want."

"Nah, I think I can figure out how to make this thing work with whatever system you've got."

He might be a little overly optimistic.

"All right," Anna agreed. "I hope you can!"

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