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

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Well.

It was raining popsicles and suntan lotion today. Because Fandom liked to make the newbies cry sometimes. Yes, the island had a sense of humor about these things.

We've all learned to accept that and move on with our lives. Well, all of us except for Britta. But she's the worst.

[Please wait for 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.]

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Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[not_a_whiner]

Kaidan laughed softly, though he still looked a little puzzled. "Christmas trees?" he said. "Now I'm trying to picture it."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan reached sideways into... nothing, in fact, his hand disappearing up to about mid-forearm before he pulled out a small photo album. "Here," he said, flipping through until he got to a picture of a group of... beings, all gathered in a forest clearing. "This is me and some of my friends -- most of them wizards, although a few of them are just associates."

Carmela would probably argue that she isn't just anything, thank you.

"That's Filif there." Ronan pointed out a conifer-like tree covered in red berries, a New York Giants ball-cap sitting at a jaunty angle on his top. "And the giant centipede is my friend Sker'ret."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[not_a_whiner]

"...Huh."

That was to both the act of making the photo album appear to begin with and the picture itself. Very eloquent, Alenko.

"That's something all right," he added a beat later. "Uh. The asari and the quarians are fairly humanoid-- as are the batarians. That's about it. No sentient trees, though... as far as I know."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[not_in_the_book]

"Ah, okay, so they'd be pretty much ready for human use right away, then."

Ronan glanced around the picnic, sighing a bit at the weather. "Did you have any other particular questions yet?" he asked. "I'll be around to help all you need. Oh, you... probably don't have a mobile." Ronan pulled his own out of his pocket, holding it out for Kaidan to see. "What kind of tech do you use for communicating over distance? Does the omni-tool cover that?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[not_a_whiner]

"Yeah, it's used for long-distance communications," Kaidan said. "I can make a few tweaks, fit it into the local communications system...? But I'd have to take a look at that."

He reached for the phone.

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan passed it over without hesitation.

What? If it got screwed up, Ronan was pretty sure that Dairine could get it fixed, if no one on the island could.

"You may need to speak to a local carrier about a number," he suggested, "if your omni-tool can't set one up for you. Ten digits, at least around here, that identify you on the network. It's what people use to call you."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[not_a_whiner]

"I thought it'd be something like that," Kaidan replied. He waved his omni-tool over the phone, took a few readings. "Shouldn't be too hard. It's mostly a matter of frequencies and... setting up a decent pass-code for the network..."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan nodded. "If there's anything you can't get off the phone itself, I'll ask a couple of friends who have experience interfacing tech and wizardry -- they'd probably at least know where to look for system specs, that kind of thing."

Dairine'd probably be the most helpful, or Darryl. And a few of the younger wizards from home had tech-Manuals now, too...

"Anyway," he continued, pulling a pen and a notepad out of his pocketspace, "this is my phone number, email address, and my address here in town." He tilted his head for a moment, considering. "Yeah, school will have an email address for you, you'll just need to tap into the internet. So if you have any questions about settling in here, or getting ready for classes, anything like that, feel free to let me know."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[not_a_whiner]

Kaidan switched off the omni-tool with a flick of his fingers. "I think I'm good," he noted. "Alliance has me stationed at the local hotel, I think-- that's on the way up, right?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[not_in_the_book]

Ronan turned around, orienting himself. "Over that way," he said, pointing. "... Which is probably not helpful. Go out the north gate, head left onto Loon Drive, then right onto Griffin Way, and the Arms is just down Thunderbird Lane.

"That said, if you want to find something a little more permanent, I've got a couple of rooms available. Two other roommates, if you don't mind sharing space, but I cook, usually in large quantities."

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[not_a_whiner]

"I'm used to bunking in tighter quarters, but--" Kaidan said. "Uh, I mean-- I'm grateful for the offer. I'll think about it. My superiors have to vet housing."

Whatever way it went, it was going to be strange-- had been strange, bunking planetside instead of on an Alliance vessel.

Re: Meet Your Teachers (Summer 2012)

[not_in_the_book]

"Let me know!" Ronan assured him. "Either way, and no rush. If they need any other information on me, I can get ahold of that, too."

... And probably fake something up to cover Jack and Emma, since he wasn't entirely certain any military organisation, future or not, would be entirely okay with a werewolf and... an Emma.