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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Whoever worked their magic to ensure that the welcome picnics had nice weather had cut their mojo very close this time around. The weather was lovely today - sunny and hot enough to make it clear that summer in Fandom had finally begun - but the overnight thunderstorms had left puddles all over the lawn that hadn't quite dried up yet.

Still, the tables and chairs had managed to be scattered around, along with the buffet table of moddable food and drinks, and the information table with name tags, the Big and Little Sibling list, and the list of new roommates. The only thing missing was people to enjoy the festivities!

[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 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 Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Respect your elders! And the ones who are only slightly older than average.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[locointhecoco]

Pinkie was already super buzzed from getting to drive the shuttle from the airport, and now here she got to meet and welcome another new teacher! She had her welcome wagon all set up and ready, and she'd triple checked to make sure she put the cake batter in the oven and the confetti in the air cannons, this time.

There'd be no firing of cake batter at her new teaching buddy this time, no sirree!

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[sith_happened]

"How did the drive go?" Anakin asked, ambling up to her with a small smile.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[cannotdenyher.livejournal.com]

The Spirit had found his own means of transportation onto the island, so he'd sadly missed meeting Pinkie Pie on the shuttle. Or maybe it was for the best, even if it meant he didn't know what to expect.

Well, no. He was expecting a dame, was what he was expecting. Pinkie Pie was practically a perfectly adequate name for one where he came from.

But of course, all that temporarily left his mind as he came face to face with a pink pony. "... Huh."

That was strange.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[toteshammered.livejournal.com]

Thor had a buddy! A teaching buddy!

Because somehow, someone, in their infinite wisdom, had concluded that since Thor had now been responsible for the education of several dozen youngsters and had not, in fact, screwed that up, he was clearly responsible enough to mentor another teacher.

Of course, he was also pleased to just chat with other non-teaching-buddy teachers. Or students.

And eat the food, of course. Because Fandom knew how to throw a good feast.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[justonecondition]

Bruce blinked.

Bruce took off his glasses, rubbed them against his shirt, and looked back up again. Yep, still Thor.

"Excuse me," he said, tilting his head just a little at that thunder god who'd helped shut down that alien invasion in Manhattan a while back, "Are you...?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[6buckstohisname.livejournal.com]

His teaching 'buddy' was named Thor. Or was Thor. Because, you know, Dean wasn't going to make assumptions here.

Okay, he really was, but it was mostly just to be judgmental.

"So, you're Thor." Looking better than the other people in your pantheon. Being alive and all.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[endsthegame]

Ender wasn't exactly happy to be here, but he had a lifetime's practice at keeping on a poker face. He stood there looking friendly, but not particularly approachable - his hands clasped behind his back in a subconscious military stance.

Sigh.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[lockestheway]

"Andy!"

There was a glint of overplayed enthusiasm in Peter's eye as he approached. "You didn't tell me you were coming back for another swing at the ol' island!"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[not_a_whiner]

True to med staff's word, Kaidan was back in mostly healthy shape by the time the picnic rolled around. His arm still ached and there were still remnants of bruises visible on his face, but neither were exactly a problem.

He kept his eyes on the students as they milled around. Nothing terrible had happened at a newbie picnic yet - but there was always a chance.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[6buckstohisname.livejournal.com]

"Lookin' a little tense there, buddy." Dean was totally relaxed though. Totally and completely relaxed. And also scanning the crowd.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[bitten_notshy]

This marked Jack's second picnic as a teacher; any more of these, and he'd start feeling like quite the old hand. He took some muffins and fruit and watched the people mill about, trying to suss out who (if any) among the newcomers might be more interesting than usual.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[momslilassassin]

So Ben was a teacher now (thanks, Portalocity, for that). In deference to his new position, he was not trying to eat the entire buffet today, but he definitely had a plateful of treats he hadn't seen a lot of on Shakespeare.

Mmm, processed food.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[sith_happened]

Anakin was there with a cup of coffee and his phone out as he argued with a Georgetown bistro about Mother's Day brunch reservations for tomorrow.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

Josh, remembering the spread from the last picnic, had no problem getting up early on a Saturday to head down and meet the new students.

He had one of the finest muffins in all the land in his hand as he looked for new faces in the crowd--especially any who looked particularly dazed after meeting a talking pink pony...

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[justonecondition]

Bruce... had not known that there was going to be a giant picnic full of people (and ponies and dinosaurs), and he sort of wished he'd been able to prepare for this, because crowds of strangers were not his specialty.

He hung off to the side, wondering around when it would be acceptable to excuse himself from this social anxiety nightmare.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[talentforlying]

Right. He was teaching this term or something.

It was possible that John was going to send to Hell whatever administrator had decided to give him a class. Oh, he was here, doing his adult duty and all that, but that didn't mean he had to like it.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[justlurkinghere]

Derek had found the darkest part of the place to lurk. Off on the edge of the crowd. Because he was the creepiest of all the teachers.

And don't you try taking that from him, people. Don't even try.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[6buckstohisname.livejournal.com]

So, Dean was trying his hand at teaching. Which meant he should probably show up for this whole picnic thing.

On the plus side? Free food. Which he was taking liberal advantage of.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[so_hawkward]

Clint had to admit, half the fun of these picnics was the free food. He had coffee and a full plate of a variety of things that probably didn't go together, but "free" meant that really didn't matter. Now he was prepared to face this day and whatever weirdness might come up.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[likethegun]

This wasn't Sam's first time teaching for the summer, but he still felt a little weird about being here, partly because he was teaching with Dean, and partly because there were so many people here he didn't recognize. Still, he had coffee and a bagel and surely everything else would fall into place?

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Zoe was very relieved that the weather had cleared up, and it probably showed as she weaved through the crowd, monitoring how things were going.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[amthenight.livejournal.com]

A sleek, black jet zoomed by in relatively low airspace above Fandom. Specifically, above the picnic itself. After the jet continued past, it eventually banked and returned toward the mainland. But the sky was not yet empty.

Anyone who was still looking up would see what appeared to be a large, black bat swooping toward the ground. But as it got ever closer, they might realize that it was a man. A man with a billowing, scalloped cape, who wasn't so much 'swooping' as he was 'falling with complete confidence and plenty of style.' As he came ever closer to the ground, he seemed to shoot a bat-like object from his hand, and it was attached to a cable. This bat-grapple caught a sturdy part of a tower on the school, and the caped crusader's fall was officially turned into a swing.

At a precisely timed moment, the grapple line was cut, letting the caped man fly through the air toward the teacher's area. As gravity took hold and brought him back toward the earth, the cape billowed once again until he landed in a crouch.

With his cape falling neatly over his shoulders and covering his gray and black costume, he slowly rose to his full height.

He was the Batman. And he liked to make flashy entrances.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[solo_sword]

Jaina never knew when a picnic was really her last picnic, so she didn't get nostalgic at these things anymore. She was very focused on seeing who all was here, because this island liked to throw curveballs at her, but that was pretty much how she normally spent her time at a picnic.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2013-1]

[electrocynic]

Yeah, sure, Electroclash had donned her uniform and made her way over.

Mostly for the food, and to stand in the sidelines smoking a cigarette and judging people. But still. She was here, that was good enough.