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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Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"Genetics?" Jessica asked. "That's what my family did a lot of work in. My... well, 'father,' especially."

Yes, she finger quoted. That's what you get, Otto! Finger quotes!

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[tigerundercover]

"Oh! Are you adopted?" Fun fact! The use of finger quotes has been traced as far back as 1927!

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"It's... a very complicated situation," Jessica said. "There have been a lot of parental figures and now I'm kind of on my own. An emancipated minor, I guess."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[tigerundercover]

"I'm sorry," Raven said. "I didn't mean to bring up anything bad. Being on your own is tough."

She'd been quite the little homeless urchin in her day.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"Oh, no, it's nothing too bad, relatively speaking," Jessica said. Well, except for the mad science and everyone being dead and cloning. Still, she gave a comforting smile. "It's just something I'd need a flowchart and a whole lot of time to explain and I don't have any of that handy."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[tigerundercover]

"Well," Raven said, trying for a lighter mood. "Maybe another time, then. After all, we're apparently sisters, now."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"In that case, you will have to braid my hair when I'm making the flowchart," Jessica said very seriously. "I'm sorry, but it is in the sister code."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[tigerundercover]

"I'll need to get a copy of that," Raven said, just as seriously. "I only have a brother back home, so I haven't been issued one yet."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"I'll make a request at the office first thing Monday," Jessica vowed.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[tigerundercover]

"I appreciate that. It'll make my transition here so much easier."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"Well, at least this part of the transition," Jessica said. "The ponies and the time travel and all that is going to be their own deal."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[tigerundercover]

"Well, at least I have some warning. Anything else I might need to know?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"What, all of that wasn't enough for your first few minutes in Fandom?" Jessica joked. "No, you seem reasonably adaptable. I'm confident you'll survive here without too much trouble."

"But, if you need absolutely anything, I'm on the fifth floor of the dorms, room 503. And here," she said, pulling a card out of her pocket, "is my cell number. I always have it on me. Call whenever."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[tigerundercover]

"Oh," Raven said, looking at the card. ". . . What's a cell?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

The clothes. The politeness. The not knowing what a cell was. "You're from the past, aren't you? I knew there was something I was missing about you," Jessica said as she pulled her cell phone out of her pocket. "A cell phone is a portable phone. Most of the people here have them."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[tigerundercover]

"The other girl on the bus said her world was done with the Cold War," Raven said. "I didn't realize this world was ahead, too. That's amazing!" She stared down at the phone. "Does it work by radio? How'd they make it so small?"

Yeah, alternate universes and future kids didn't get much more than a blink -- being from a Marvel universe made things like alternate universes way too easy to swallow, really -- but a cell phone?

Mind = blown.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"Welcome to the distant future, Raven. It's 2013. The Cold War ended decades ago. And we're really good at making electronics these days," Jessica said.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[tigerundercover]

"That's sixty years!" Raven stared some more. ". . . Why aren't we living on the moon, then? The bus didn't even fly."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"We stopped going to the moon a while ago, but we're sending robots to Mars these days," Jessica said. "And flying cars never got off the ground. It's a shame."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[tigerundercover]

"Why would we stop going to the moon?" Come on, future! Where were your priorities?!

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"The short answer is 'money,' the long answer is 'I have no clue, but it involves money,'" Jessica said.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[tigerundercover]

"Sometimes, every now and then?" Raven glanced around, as though McCarthy was going to come leaping out of a bush at her when she finished this statement. "I think the Communists might not be totally wrong about everything."

Money stopped people from going to the moon. That was just wrong.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"Don't worry, you can speak openly about that stuff here. College students all over the country go way farther than you just did and the worst trouble they get in is someone telling them to shut up because it's distracting them from doing a keg stand," Jessica said. "The times have changed in a lot of ways."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[tigerundercover]

Talk openly about things? That might take some practice.

"That does explain why no one's wearing gloves or hats," she said. "And is that why I've been assigned to live with a boy?"

That was pretty beyond modern, right there.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2013-1]

[craftyladyparts.livejournal.com]

"I think that's usually because somebody in the office is either drunk or thinks they're funny," Jessica said. Both were probably true of the RNG. "But it's a common enough thing here. My roommate is a boy and he hasn't been a problem. Except for being moody. And sometimes stumbling in drunk. But he's a unique case with a lot of that."