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

[stars_and_money]

There was the bonfire for everyone who thought Maryland in January was a little too cool for their taste, as well as the moddable warm food and drinks, and chairs and tables in the school colors of blue and gold. Some tables were also set a little further away from the crowds.

Because there were always people who preferred the fringes.

[OCD up! This is the FIRST post for general mingling. Please use this post first, if your browser can handle the comment load. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here and there's more room for mingling here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[arsenicmauls]

Oh god, the enthusiasm. Karla was so... chipper.

"...Hi," Gert said, much more mildly than Karla had sounded. "Gert. And this is Old Lace. She's a... deionychus."

Damn it, Victor, way to mess up her worldview.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[glacial_queen]

There was a dinosaur, Gert! How was she supposed to be all grumpy and boring about a dinosaur?!

"Pleased to meet you, Old Lace," Karla said, smiling up at the dinosaur. "And, you too, Gert?"

She was going to get around to actually looking at you in a minute, Gert. Really. "Pet, student, or intelligent companion?"

Sorry. It was a question Gert was probably going to get many more times over the coming weeks.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[arsenicmauls]

"Between the first one and the third one," Gert settled on. "But not the talkative kind." Because apparently that needed to be specified. "But apparently when dinosaurs make their comeback in the eighty-seventh century, they're smarter that time around."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[glacial_queen]

Karla nodded. "My dinosaur is also just a pet," she explained, tentatively reaching out a hand for Old Lace to smell. "But around here, you can't be too careful. And back home, we have intelligent animals, so you start talking baby talk to a dog and suddenly it starts sympathizing that your parents never taught you real language."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[arsenicmauls]

"You have a dinosaur too?" That was a first. "And I still had to explain the concept of dinosaurs to three different people today?"

Sigh.

"What kind is yours?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[glacial_queen]

"Nemi-something-saurus," Karla replied promptly, if not usefully. "Tiny little guy. He eats bugs and flies around, like a mini-pterodactyl. He's been mostly in my dorm a lot this past month or so. He's not all that fond of cold."

He tended to beep quite crossly at her when she let in the drafts.

"He's a modern dinosaur, though. My boyfriend picked him up for me during a males' night out to the Savage Lands." And this is what happens when you dated an X-Man who was also friends with Tony Stark. Sigh.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[arsenicmauls]

"He know that guy Victor?" Gert wondered, because this was the second mention of dinosaurs in the Savage Lands she'd heard today. "And hold on, he took a dinosaur out of its habitat on purpose?" Old Lace had at least been chilling in the Yorkes' basement when Gert had found her!

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2013]

[glacial_queen]

"I think Victor went with them that night, yeah," Karla said with a nod. "And it was less that Warren decided to take Nemi home and more that Nemi curled up in Warren's wings and refused to leave."

It was a thing that happened.