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

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Well, Cade wasn't going to smile back or anything, even if he noted that she wasn't ugly either.

In fact, all of the girls here were pretty. One plus to this rock.

"I had to get here on a karking bus," he said. "With wheels." He looked cranky.

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

[glacial_queen]

Mother Night. He sounded just like Ben bitching about trains. Not that either of them realized that yet.

"If you're bitching about the bus, best of luck with dealing with the rest of the island," Karla said, lips twitching. "That's probably one of the most normal aspects there are."

She held out her hand, the one not encumbered by the basket. "I'm Karla, your school-appointed big sib. Welcome to Fandom. What's wrong with wheels?"

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

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"It's one step above riding around like a karking Sand Person," Cade bitched. "Don't you people have hover technology?"

What backrocket hole had Uncle Bantha sent him to?

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

[glacial_queen]

"My people use Craft and a different set of technology entirely," Karla corrected with an amused eyebrow. "There are some people here on-island who do have hover tech, but most people don't. Are you going to be able to handle it? Or is the horror of such primitive tech going to send you screaming for the hills, skirts over your head?"

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

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"I'm not wearing a skirt," Cade pointed out. "I'm wearing pants."

Tight black ones, even!

It was possible he'd missed the point entirely.

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

[glacial_queen]

"I'll try to keep that in mind," Karla said, still Quite Amused. "So, Cade, I'm at least spared the explanation that you might be far from where and when you expected to be. So, where are you from?"

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

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Coruscant," he said, which wasn't true, but "aboard a pirate ship for the last three years preying on the Outer Rim" was kind of a long address.

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

[glacial_queen]

"Oh, you're from Coruscant?" Karla asked, thrilled to have heard of it. "Didn't pick up the accent much, did you or at least its not mentioned in your infopost and this question can be deleted to be less moddy? My friend Ben grew up there, too. Did you grow up at the Temple, or...?"

Sorry Cade. Karla didn't mean to harp on those very issues that cause you grief. But, considering who she was closest to, you were kind of lucky she wasn't asking right away if you were part of the Skywalker/Solo clan.

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

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade held up his hands. "Whoa, slow down. What Temple?"

Maybe it would distract her from how he totally didn't have the right accent.

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

[glacial_queen]

"The Jedi Temple," Karla said, brow furrowed. When she'd been there, it'd been a huge and imposing edifice, where all the Jedi had gone for training and whatall. Perhaps she'd been a little biased by the company she'd kept, but she'd been under the impression it was kind of the heart of the planet. Certainly the heart of the Order. "...Please tell me who know what Jedi are?"

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

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Your information's a little out of date, pateesa," Cade said. "The Jedi are long gone. The only Temple on Coruscant now is one for the Sith."

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

[glacial_queen]

And that would be a jaw drop out of Karla, yes.

"It's what?!" she screeched. "Sith?! In the Temple. Hell's Fire, Mother Night, and may the Darkness have mercy!"

Anakin was going to freak. And Ben--

Right. Ben wasn't going to know. Because he was on a ship and away from communication for the next fifty years.

"Have you ever heard of Luke Skywalker?" she asked. Maybe this was before Luke did all his...saving of the Jedi? Yeah, that was probably it. This was before Luke.

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

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Ahh, Luke. The reason Cade used drugs.

"Yeah," he said shortly. "He's long gone too."

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

[glacial_queen]

Luke was a pain in the ass like that, yeah.

"Long gone?" Karla said, faltering. "I--oh. I don't suppose you have any idea what happened to his son? Ben Skywalker? Does anyone talk about him?"

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

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"That's about a hundred years before me, pateesa," Cade said, sounding almost apologetic.

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

[glacial_queen]

"Ohhh," Karla said, looking relieved. "That still doesn't answer what the Hell happened to the Temple, but..."

She could try to find out more later. This was Cade's welcoming picnic, not his 'get interrogated by his big sibling' picnic.

"Sorry. Ben just graduated and was one of my best friends. I worry." She offered him a smile. "Hi, welcome to Fandom, timelines are fuzzy, I'll explain more, and what does 'pateesa' mean?"

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

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Pateesa's pretty much sweetheart," Cade said. "It's Huttese."

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

[glacial_queen]

"Funny," Karla said, one side of her mouth twitching. "All the Huttese I know is along completely different lines."

And then she shared one of the filthier phrases she'd learned from being within earshot of an angry Anakin Skywalker, her expression not changing in the slightest.

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

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Nice one, even if your grammar is about two hundred years out of date," Cade replied, grinning.

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

[glacial_queen]

"In that case, it's your younger siblingly duty to teach me how it's changed over the past two hundred years," Karla informed him, tucking that date away in case it was necessary later. Using her haughtiest aristo accent, she added, "After all, it would never do to be seen using anything but the most up-to-date of grievous insults and gutter language."

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

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"In that case, repeat after me," Cade replied. "U kulle rah doe kankee kung."

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

[glacial_queen]

"U kulle rah doe kankee kung," Karla repeated, managing to not mangle the words too badly. And then tried a few more times until she thought she'd gotten pretty close to Cade's pronunciation. "U kulle rah doe kankee kung. What does that mean?"

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

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

He grinned. "You're my kind of scum."

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

[glacial_queen]

Best little sibling ever.

"I'll have to keep that one in mind," Karla said with a laugh. "Don't be surprised if I show up at your door demanding to know more sometimes."

Collecting nasty phrases was kind of a hobby of hers.

"Though I suppose we should get around to all that stuff that I'm supposed to be teaching you, huh?"

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

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"I'm pretty good at landing on my feet," Cade assured her.