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

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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Put on a nametag! It will help everyone out in the long run. Unless you enjoy being difficult. In which case, I'm judging you.

The list of roommate assignments (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AjS4JO1IqKXldGhZZ1hid09iNDFjV1VteVN6M0lTbXc&output=html) was, but of course, located in a prime spot on one of the tables. Current students who had been assigned new rooms and/or roommates had been ~~handwavily~~ informed of the change.

Now mingle. But not too much. And for the love of god, don't get hit by a popsicle.

I like to party. Party party party. Party (http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m4xv1rfTNd1qd7kr6o1_500.gif).

Of course Deadpool was there for the picnic. He had a teaching buddy to hunt down and a teaching partner to... hunt down.

There was a lot of hunting going on here. A whole lot.

Alec had a nametag over his traditional ratty black sweater, and between that and the fact that it was way too hot for sweaters, his customary scowl was in place and it was intense.

Also, he'd stepped in a melted popsicle. This place was quickly becoming Not His Favorite.

Clearly his big sibling had some work to do in terms of getting him excited for life on the island. Clearly.

Jaime Lannister had been well on his way to Riverrun when he had, somehow, managed to lose the entire column of men he'd been riding with. He had even managed to lose his squire.

Well. He'd never thought this whole 'losing' thing would spiral quite so out of control after he lost his hand as well.

Ah ha.

At least he had a sense of humor about him as he eyed the strange crowd gathered there. And then he was struck in the head by a sweetened chunk of ice. His day was just getting better and better.

Alec had known roommates would be involved in this process since he'd spoken to Jace, but that didn't mean he was exactly thrilled about it. Still, though. He could be nice. He'd totally been nice in the past. You know. Once, or... or maybe twice. No, probably once. But he could do it again.

Even if right now he just looked a bit intense.

Frank was maybe a little bit excited about getting his own little sibling to help to guide in the ways of Fandom. You could tell from how he was smiling and kept adjusting his collar to look all professional, and was toting around a popsicle, some sunscreen and some lemonade to actually give to this girl when he found her.

His name was printed on his nametag in clean, legible handwriting, and he was excited for this. Dork.

Yakko was at the picnic, ready to meet his new teaching buddy.

So, seriously, they gave this guy a teaching buddy. Why would anyone do that? WHY?

A better question was probably why he was sitting on a bucket labeled "Icy Hot." He had his reasons.

Please, as if Kennedy was going to pass up a chance to look important and teacher-y? Besides, there were popsicles.

...not that she needed the suntan lotion. She didn't need help for that. Ha.

So, you know. Thumbs hooked into her belt loops, slightly smug expression, the occasional tilt of her head as if trying to listen to something-- the usual. Okay, that last bit was new. Whatever.

Ender - looking tanned and like he'd just gotten off the portal - walked into the picnic fairly early, his eyes trained on the other teachers. He had a mission here, something to do before getting on his next portal back to Naboo a few hours later.

It had not escaped him that this would be his last welcome picnic here. It just didn't make him as nostalgic as it probably should.

"Jaime Lannister?" Ender inquired politely.

Liara felt terribly disoriented.

She'd woken up not too far from here just a few minutes ago, and now she'd taken to wandering around in a daze, spotting only aliens of a species she didn't actually recognize.

By pure luck, she'd come to a stop somewhere near the table with the nametags. Well-- it would've been lucky if she'd be able make out any of the markings on the labels.

Then the omni-tool on her arm lit up suddenly. "Receiving translator update..."

She couldn't help it. She jumped.

Okay. So they hadn't been joking when they'd said this posting was... different.

Kaidan - nametag neatly attached to the appropriate above-the-breast-pocket location on his Alliance casual uniform - frowned up at the sky. Occasionally, his kinetic barriers (had to be careful, so he'd come in wearing shield emitters under his casuals) flared up blue as something struck it.

"Remind me to thank Alliance brass for giving me all the details," he murmured under his breath.

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Jaime glanced over at the boy, carefully wiping sickly sweet blue off his cheek as he did. "I'm afraid you have me at a disadvantage," he said with an easy smile.

He wore the white cloak of the Kingsguard and the carefully crafted gold lion of Lannister upon his chest. It was not a difficult thing to guess at his identity.

That, and there was only a limited supply of new teachers around, and some of the male ones were wearing nametags already.

"Andrew Wiggin," Ender offered easily. "I believe the school has assigned me to help you adjust to the teaching life."

That would be going by the less than certain knowledge that he was in a land where The Kingslayer was not well known. Even by the small folks.

"Teaching? I'm no maester, Andrew," he replied. He was, however, starting to wonder what sort of dream this was. The heat of summer, the wrongness of the 'snow', and now this? "I can assure you of that. I would drive them to tears in Oldtown."

He would have thought a dream this odd would have at least involved Cersei. Or perhaps the Maid of Tarth.

"Ah," Ender said, making some mental logic leaps about Jamie's presence here. "I take it you didn't intend to come here."

He much preferred the dreams where he was whole again...

"And just where is here?" he asked, ignoring the phantom twitch of fingers that were no longer there. That threatened to prove this was less than the mad dream he took it for. Too much wine, perhaps.

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"Fandom Island," Ender said with a wry, if sympathetic, little smile. "Think of it as a beacon, drawing in the wayward, the lost, and the rather easily inconvenienced. Many wind up here by accident."

"An island," he said with amusement. "How far I must have travelled then. I hadn't known my horses capable of walking on water."

Definitely a dream. The heat of an almost forgotten summer baked him with in his armor, like the fever in Harrenhal had. He could almost see that wench's ugly face contorted up in confusion at his ramblings.

"Well, we do have a land bridge," Ender said. "As well as some rather less obvious means of transportation."

His next smile was a little less on the wry end. "I realize you probably think you're hallucinating right now," he said, "And no amount of assurances on my part will change your mind. However, I did have a question for you."

"And what might that be?" Jaime asked pleasantly.

"Would you happen to be related to Tyrion Lannister?" he asked. "He's been teaching here for some time."

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

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