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

[momslilassassin]

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

[ultron_junior]

No, no, he was just going to tell her he was an android! That was much easier to swallow.

"About 15 months," he said, scruffing a hand along the back of his neck. "Chill's not the word today, but wait until fall. And thanks, on the restaurant thing. I'd offer to do the same for Mexican, but -- seriously, throw a rock in L.A. and you hit a better taqueria than anything on this coast."

This was likely to remain a point of contention for Victor until he graduated.

A bit more gingerly, he added, "Also, we ... might not be from the same L.A. You ever heard of multiple dimensions?"

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

[spin_kick_snap]

The android thing might have worked out all right; her L.A. did have superheroes and the like.

But multiple dimensions...

"Yeah," Kathy replied, turning wary again. "I read comics and scifi." You know. Fiction. Like the idea of multiple dimensions. "Why?"

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

[ultron_junior]

"Because this place is what's called an interdimensional nexus," Victor answered, matching her wary tone with one of his own. "Like ... my world has superheroes and aliens. My roommate's doesn't, really, but it has demons and stuff. And some people are from worlds where none of that stuff is real at all. And then you get people from 1900 and people from a thousand years from now. It's like weird stuff soup."

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

[spin_kick_snap]

"..."

Kathy really wasn't sure how to respond to that. "You're trying to get me to believe that there really are aliens, time-travelers, and demons? Really."

Okay, technically Cairax was supposed to be some kind of demon or something, but Kathy hadn't seen any kind of actual proof to support that.

"Was there some kind of Mr. What convention in town that I missed or something? Or is this the normal way of hazing and Sarah Space-Alien from the shuttle was told in advance?" Some kind of school-wide conspiracy that she'd been left out of or something. She tried not to look hurt, but she'd really thought they'd been bonding!

"Look, I'm just gonna go find my room or something. You can tell everyone I fell for it, if you want, okay?"

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

[ultron_junior]

Victor looked hurt in return. "Dude, why would I sign up for the big brother gig just to be mean to a new kid? I swear I'm telling the truth. The shuttle chick's probably really from space."

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

[spin_kick_snap]

"Because, I don't know, people think it's fun to tease the new kids?" Kathy argued. "Occam's razor: hmm, am I really going to school in an interdimensional meeting hall, or are people have fun teasing me? Gee, which should I think?"

Sorry, Victor. She probably would have been less cranky about all this if she'd had more sleep. Still probably hurt, though.

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

[ultron_junior]

"I don't think that's how Occam's razor works," Victor argued right back, a hint of annoyance creeping into his voice. "Either a, everybody at this school is a liar and we spend a bunch of money getting people to dress up just to play a joke on the new kids -- seriously, look by the teachers, there's a pink pony over there -- or b, the nexus thing is real. And personally I think conspiracy theories are bogus, so I say Occam says I'm not teasing you."

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

[spin_kick_snap]

Sure, Kathy had seen the teachers swirling around in capes, but she hadn't caught sight of the pony yet. "Right, the pink pony," she snarked, turning to expect some kind of mascot or something.

And saw Pinkie Pie. Bouncing. In ways that physics suggested was damn near impossible.

"What the...?" The rest of that sentence included language that her parents would have been very displeased to discover she knew. She rubbed her eyes and peered again. "What am I looking at?"

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

[ultron_junior]

"Pinkie Pie," Victor said simply (and with a hint of smugness). "She teaches classes about friendship and glitter. Pretty sure her world is all ponies."

Which Victor found a vaguely terrifying thought. One Pinkie Pie was bad enough.

"So ... do you want to sit down or anything?"

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

[spin_kick_snap]

Sitting down was a good idea, Victor. A great idea. In fact, Kathy was going to do that right there. On the grass. Pretty much exactly where she'd been standing.

Thump.

"Is--is she some kind of superhero?" she asked. "Like the Awesome Ape? I mean..." Okay, Kathy wasn't entirely sure what the pink pony's powers would be or how she would fight crime, but there was a bouncing pink pony over there and Kathy's tired, jet-lagged brain was trying to make sense of that.

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

[ultron_junior]

"Not that I've heard," Victor said, and -- more gracefully - took a seat next to Kathy. "What's an Awesome Ape?"

Other than something going on his list of potential code name inspirations. Not that he was an ape, but awesome was a good word.

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

[spin_kick_snap]

"Superhero," Kathy mumbled. Sorry, Victor, but you were still demoted to the second most interesting person in Kathy's field of vision. "He's in Chicago. Showed up a few weeks ago. I'm still not sure if he's a real, like, uplifted ape or something else. The internet's not sure and every theory has someone with 'proof,' you know? Like whatever Cairax's deal over in Venice Beach is."

Her brain slowly ticked over and she glanced at Victor again. "Wait, didn't you say your L.A. has superheroes in it?" She couldn't believe she'd said your L.A. Like this alternate dimension thing might be real.

"Like the Might Dragon and Blockbuster and stuff?"

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

[ultron_junior]

"Or like Captain America and Spider-Man," Victor said slowly. "Wait, so we're both from L.A.s with superheroes, but completely different superheroes?"

That was weird. Cool, but weird.

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

[spin_kick_snap]

"I guess so?" Kathy still wasn't sure she was buying all of this. Sure, the pony was a great argument for some truthfulness, but she was only a single, verifiable datapoint. The things Mira and Victor were saying still lacked proof. "The superheroes just started showing up recently, though. I might not have heard of yours yet?"

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

[ultron_junior]

"No, ours have been around for, like ... a while," Victor said. "Some of the old ones go back to World War II. And I would have heard from home if some ape started calling himself a hero."

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

[spin_kick_snap]

"This is too weird," Kathy mumbled. "You're really telling me that we're from L.A. but from different dimensions, the girl from the airport really was from outer space, and there's a pink pony over there that's--you said she's a teacher?"

Kathy had never felt the urge to drink before. Now might be an excellent time to start.

"And you got mad at me for thinking this was some kind of hoax?"

Or maybe some kind of jet-lagged delusion brought about by inhaling too much recycled air.

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

[ultron_junior]

"Yeah?" Victor said, a little sheepish. "But when you say it that way I feel like I shouldn't have gotten mad at you."

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

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy wasn't gonna say anything, but a pair of eyebrows were being lifted in his general direction.

Ya think?

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

[ultron_junior]

Victor laughed nervously, the kind of laugh that admitted maybe he had screwed up. "Okay, point taken," he said. "Sorry."

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

[spin_kick_snap]

Kathy laughed with him, leaning in to bump his shoulders if he'd let her. "It's okay. I'm not exactly at my best right now, either. Over-tired, over-caffeinated, overwhelmed."

Because, seriously. Pink Pony.

"None of this was in the brochure."

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

[ultron_junior]

"I swear they have different brochures," Victor said, bumping her shoulders back. "Some mention powers, some don't, and no matter what they don't tell us about gremlins."

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

[spin_kick_snap]

"Gremlins?!"

Now Kathy was torn between wanting to know and desperately not wanting to know.

"...Do I want to know?"

Maybe Victor would have some kind of insight to her dilemma!

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

[ultron_junior]

Victor wasn't sure whether she wanted to know or not, so he just shrugged and told her. "It's a little green animal that makes you hallucinate if it bites you," he said. "But they're pretty shy. I've never seen one. Might just be a massive in-joke."

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

[spin_kick_snap]

"Everything else is crazy, but that might be the in-joke." It was official. This place was insane.

Kathy closed her eyes and counted backwards from ten to one, trying to regain some composure and to keep herself from whining about finding anything normal here. When she opened them again, she gave Victor a shy smile. "Sorry. The whelming is continuing. Uhhh, is there a gymnastics team on the island?"

Step one: find something familiar to cling to.

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

[ultron_junior]

"There's cheerleading during the school year," Victor said, hoping that might be the kind of answer that didn't make her freak out. "And the gym's pretty good -- I think it has a whole gymnastics set-up."