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

[vaguelyretired.livejournal.com]

Although the summer had been record-breakingly hot, the weather outside today was actually kind of pleasant. There was a cool breeze blowing across the lawn, making the smells of the buffet wander, and hopefully enticing people to come over to the school and welcome all the new folks.

The blue and gold tables and chairs had been set out as usual, 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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Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2012]

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Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to acclimate new students to life in Fandom without leaving any permanent scars. It might be more difficult than it sounds.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2012]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

Jess survived the poorly-driven shuttle. Now she just had to clear the picnic and she was home free.... To, you know, spend time with all of these people she'd have to know for a while. Dammit.

Well, she still needed to get her bearings in this place, which meant that having the school assign a big sibling that she could pepper with questions was actually a good thing. She could get some answers as to just what the hell was going around here both for her personal use as well as her eventually report back to SHIELD.

With that in mind, she made sure her name tag was displayed prominently on her shirt and started looking for a... uh, a Dae... um... Jessica had no idea what that name was. Well, at least things were starting off simple.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2012]

[notconflicted]

After a full summer here, Sia felt confident that she could guide someone through the ins and outs of this place now. So as much as she hated the nametag, she put it on to help her little sibling find her in case he spotted her first, and kept a lookout for... well, the boy she was going to ask what he preferred to be called before referring to him by name.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2012]

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

Olive had written her name on a tag, stuck it firmly to her chest -- much like her A, actually, but this was...you know, normal -- and she'd even drawn a little olive on the tag itself, too.

She thought she was cute, sometimes.

She looked around for someone who looked like a Rilla. She had no idea what a Rilla would look like, though, because wow people here were named weird things.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2012]

[iwishiwasbig.livejournal.com]

Dave had been a little nervous since he received his sibling assignment. He now had a young, impressionable mind to shape into a form that could accept Fandom as a concept. And he knew from experience that doing that could be tough. He had no real idea how to deal with a sibling who reacted the way he reacted. You know, with outright denial for two weeks.

Was it too much to hope that Charles Villette was from a strange world? But not too strange, hopefully.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2012]

[glacial_queen]

Karla had done the big sister thing enough times now to have a routine in place for it. So here she was, basket of 'welcome to Fandom' sundries on her arm, a dinosaur on her shoulder, and a welcome grin on her face.

...If the grin was kind of on the wicked side, it was only to be expected. This was newbie day, after all.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2012]

[failsatspirit]

After waking up on a beach this morning with Naga standing guard over her, Korra had been able to determine exactly two things about this place, one, it wasn't the South Pole, and two, it was warm enough not to need to wear her parka, beyond that she had no idea where she was.

Luckily, Naga's nose and empty belly had led them to this gathering of people.

She wasn't wearing one of the tags with unrecognisable writing (which now made three things she knew about this place, four if you counted how pale most of the people looked), but she did have a polar bear dog standing beside her, so she was kind of sticking out of the crowd.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2012]

[nomoresportscars]

Jackson was already having a strange morning, and he hadn't even met any of the actual Fandom residents yet – well, not anyone who wasn't as new as him. And now they wanted him to play the wide-eyed newbie to some random kid?

He put a name tag on his lapel but didn't look too happy about it.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2012]

[pursuedthestars]

This place definitely wasn't Iowa, that was for sure. And that, Jim thought, was a damn good thing. It meant no farms and no Frank.

Still, everything felt...a little slow here to him. Culture shock and time differences weren't really bothering him right now. Right now, he was walking around, eating an apple and trying to look for someone who might be his big sibling.

He'd ignored the nametags so he might be a little difficult to find.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2012]

[pulseof_life]

The shuttle had been an experience that she thought she could have done without. Too fast, too dangerous, for her. The waiting and talking before had been enough to distract her from the oddity of being on her own but now, as she looked for her assigned sibling, a Dorothy, Yeul was back to wondering how Caius was, without her.

It was strange.

Still, that was no reason to ruin the day for herself, so she wrote her name, just her first name, Yeul, on a name tag and stuck it on herself and kept her expression serene. She was determined to enjoy this.

Meet Your Roommate [Fall 2012]

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The list of roommate assignments (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/pub?key=0AjS4JO1IqKXldDNFMTJwand1U2NseVUxV3NLT0UzQUE&output=html) was 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.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 2012]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

Shuttle? Done. Big sister? Met. Roommate? Coming up. And probably awkward. Jessica hadn't had any kind of a roommate since... well, ever. The closest she ever came was in Peter's memories when Gwen was staying with him and Aunt May.

A big locked chest where she stored her costume and SHIELD uniform would probably be a little obvious, wouldn't it? Dammit. Anyway. Roomie. Hopefully a dim, unquestioning roomie. With no romantic interest in girls. Look, if she was going to be wishing for a best case scenario, she was going to make everything as simple for her as possible.

Now she just had to figure out what kind of name "Atton" was and what one of those might look like.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 2012]

[dirtiest-skank.livejournal.com]

Okay. Okay, Karolina was a girl's name -- that didn't look like it was necessarily a trend on this sheet of roommates, so Olive was kind of happy about that -- and also? Kind of a normal name. More normal than like, half the people she'd met so far, anyway.

So she looked around, trying to seem more confident than she was like, at all.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 2012]

[robinonadderall]

Stiles had never had a roommate before but he spent the night at Scott's house a bunch of times so that counted as something, right? Right? Whatever, he didn't think he was that annoying (ha!) and he would undoubtedly be a pushover if his roommate happened to be bigger than he was.

Look, he was just going to be thankful Cade sounded like a guy's name because his anxiety couldn't take rooming with a girl.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 2012]

[nomoresportscars]

... A roommate?

Of course.

Jackson (and his nametag) would be over here, trying not to scowl too hard.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 2012]

[pulseof_life]

Yeul found her name on the roommates list right away (it was easy when she was first on it) and wondered who Darcy was.

As she read further down the list, she wondered if Darcy was a boy or a girl. (Given what some people were named in her world, it was a tough call.) With a shrug, as she couldn't change it, no matter how it fell out, Yeul began looking for her roommate.

Hopefully they were nice. Though, she knew, she couldn't change that either, if they weren't. Most people wouldn't find that comforting but Yeul did.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 2012]

[notyetplatypus.livejournal.com]

Chaz read the list and ran through his brain to try to figure out what kind of a name Korra was. He finally settled on "unusual".

Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2012]

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It's time to find out who all your new drinking buddies are! Or see if the new teachers are as easy to freak out as the students.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2012]

[givehimahand.livejournal.com]

Jaime was there, armored and clad in the white cloak of the Kingsguard. Though, in all honesty, it still had a few splotches of blue and red from the popsicle rain at the last picnic.

It was better than shit and blood, Jaime supposed. He was a cheerful man like that, after all.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2012]

[solo_sword]

It was a little strange to be back here after a long time (for her) of thinking she'd had her last picnic ever, but Jaina was sort of okay with that. Here, strange was sort of familiar.

She was off to the side a bit, out of the way, and keeping a lookout for familiar faces. Or faces that might passingly be familiar because they might be related to her and she hadn't met them yet. You never knew.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2012]

[fates_jaye]

And once again, the school was allowing Jaye to teach and to be a teaching buddy. It was like they never learned or something.

She looked innocuous enough, though, nursing a soda and people-watching in case anyone looked interesting. Maybe something would top the (shudder) talking pony.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2012]

[cataclysmicluck.livejournal.com]

It was a new school year, and Zayne had both a successful mission and a successful haircut under his belt and atop his head, respectively. He knew he'd have to leave the picnic a little early in case anyone needed to get an apartment, but he still always liked showing up and seeing if he could spot any Jedi. Old habits died hard.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2012]

[not_a_whiner]

Yeah, Kaidan wasn't happy to be stuck here for another semester, but he was going to make the best of it. He'd gotten thrown into the 'teaching buddy' pool this time around - didn't really sound like anything that played to his strengths, exactly, but he was willing to give it a try. His own had been spectacularly helpful, and the place could be...

Well. The place could be.

So there he was, name tag visible on top of his Alliance uniform, keeping an eye out.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2012]

[screwyoumarvel]

Steve was here to meet the new teachers and students, and catch up with the old, looking like his usual upstanding self in a polo and khakis.

OOC [Fall 2012a]

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Sometimes I think I should not be allowed to write OCD. :)