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

The weather was just as hazy, hot and humid as a typical July on the East Coast of the United States could get, but the sun was shining brightly, which was kind of a rarity this summer.

It wasn't raining anything weird, the teal deer were keeping to themselves in the Preserve, and another welcome picnic was underway complete with tables and chairs for chatting around and a buffet table filled (and then some) with all kinds of ~~moddable~~ summer treats.

The lists of new roommates, student siblings and teaching buddies were posted in a prominent location. Now all that was needed were people to enjoy the day!

[OOC: This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic will be in post two in an effort to stop our browsers from dying. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers and townies!

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Anna was so startled at someone suddenly trying to hug her that she might have gone a little incorporeal there for a moment. Sorry about the hugging air, Mavis. "Um," she said, trying to pretend like that was a totally normal thing to have happen, "We're in room 205. I was already there, so I hope you don't mind the other side of the room. But I don't have much stuff, so there's plenty of room in the closets and whatever...uh. Did you say coffin?"

Was someone playing a joke on her? Was it Kenzi?

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Mavis, for her part, blinked a little when solid suddenly became not, but her confusion cleared quickly enough. "Oh, are you a poltergeist?" Most ghosts around the castle didn't do bodies so much as mist or sheets or animating suits of armor, but some of the guests -- the ones who tended to pay extra for trashed hotel rooms -- were another story. "I thought you were a vampire like me, sorry!"

"Oh, a vampire!" Anna exclaimed, clearly relieved. That explained so much. "And, no, I'm not a poltergeist--I mean, I'm a ghost, just...kind of a weird ghost, I guess." It was kind of a long and depressing story for first acquaintance.

"We've got a lot of ghosts at home," Mavis answered, blowing off the weird because ahahaha no. "But I've never met any my age before. This is so great!" Remaining ridiculously enthusiastic while feeling like a dork about being ridiculously enthusiastic was a skill Mavis hadn't known she possessed until now. The dork part did manage to slip in a followup of, "I've never really met anybody my age before. I guess that's kind of obvious."

"I wouldn't say so," Anna assured her. "This place is a lot for everybody at first...but really? Nobody?" That sounded depressing.

"We live in a hotel," Mavis explained. "So I meet lots of people, but they're all either little kids or my Dad's age or ancient. Teenagers mostly don't want to come hang out in the Carpathians with their parents and play bingo on vacation."

"But what about school?" Anna asked. "Do vampires have school?"

((Ugh, sorry, the notif just now showed up.))

"Dracula High valedictorian, swim team captain and president of one student body, a hundred and three years running," Mavis pointed to herself and rolled her eyes. "Don't get me wrong, I love my Dad and he's a great teacher, but there's a limit to how long you can stay trapped in the same place without going crazy, you know?"

[No worries!]

"Yes," Anna agreed, maybe a little more solemnly than Mavis might have been expecting. "I know exactly what you mean."

"But we're here now. At least I think we are; I'm still not sure this place isn't just a really amazing dream!" Mavis grinned. "Did you just get here earlier than me, or were you already a student?" The grin lost a little wattage as a thought occurred and she added, "Wait, you're not trapped here, are you?"

Amazing place or not, never being able to leave would make things a whole lot less dreamy.

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