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

[momslilassassin]

There were plenty of tables and chairs scattered around the lawn for anyone who wanted to sit down once they'd had their fill of the buffet, or to recover from starting to find out what this place was all about. No one would judge the need to take a mental breather.

Some of the tables were out in the open, for those who weren't allergic to the sun, and some of the tables were in the shade, or far from the rest of the crowd for those who needed a little more space to process. Wherever people decided to rest, there was space enough for everyone.

[OOC: This is part two of the picnic, separated in an effort to save our browsers for as long as possible. Part one, to run into siblings, roommates and teachers, is over here, though teachers are also welcome in this post, of course. Because the picnic is outside, it is open to all students, teachers and townies.]

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Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[momslilassassin]

Eat, drink, meet someone new! Don't get sunburned, you practitioners of the traditional newbie picnic art of shirtlessness.

Lurk! [Summer 2013 - II]

[momslilassassin]

If you're not that into mingling. We don't judge.

OOC

[momslilassassin]

HAPPY NEWBIE DAY!

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade was a proud member of the shirtless picnic club, which meant that anyone looking toward him would see a guy (and his scraggly beard) with biceps not normally seen on an almost 18-year-old and at least, depending on their angle, four tattoos.

He didn't want to have to explain the pink, glittery "totes" tattoo on the small of his back, but he would if you were a cute girl.

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[endsthegame]

After a while, Ender drifted away from the teacher's area to his preferred perch somewhere between 'the outskirts' and 'the center' of the group.

He had a small burger on him, which he ate as he watched.

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[lockestheway]

Like Peter was going to take his extremely expensive shirt off.

He sat down at a table with a plate of food in one hand and his mobile phone in the other. He could browse the available newbies and check his email. Perfect.

Re: Lurk! [Summer 2013 - II]

[fewer_explosions]

Liara... was not at what anyone could describe as her 'best' today. She had half-considered simply not going to the picnic at all, but her growling stomach had eventually driven her out of her room.

She sat near the edge of it all, hunched, staring at her vegetable patty like it was trying to make her cry.

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[suitably_heroic]

Atton had snagged some food, shoved some liquid (water, but nobody needed to know that) into a bottle with the label pulled off, and then collapsed in the grass.

Who needed picnic tables anyway?

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[shippedtomaine]

Emma had missed breakfast, so she would be over by the food tables, thank you very much. And if things that looked like they'd keep were going in her bag rather than her belly, what business of that was yours?

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade ambled up (shirtless) and filled a plate of his own. "The fruit keeps for about a week," he offered quietly. "Skip the cake unless you want to be scraping icing out of your bag for a karking afternoon."

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[shippedtomaine]

Emma spared a glance at Cade's shirtlessness between bites.

"Already ahead of you there, sport." You didn't put stuff that might leak or spill in the same bag as anything you didn't want wrecked, and Emma only had one bag. "Fancy spread this place puts out."

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

Cade nodded. "It's to hide how karking weird it is."

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[shippedtomaine]

"And the guy with a sparkly pink tattoo is the one to talk about weirdness." How'd he even get a tattoo to sparkle?

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

The Fandom tattoo artists could work magic! Possibly literally. He hadn't checked.

"Well, I got the tattoo here," Cade said, "and thought it was a good idea at the time."

He'd been a blonde princess at the time, but.

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[shippedtomaine]

What a coincidence, Emma was always a blonde princess. Not that she was aware of this fact.

"What don't they check ID?" Emma asked, because reasons. She didn't think there were any good reasons for sparkly pink tattoos though.

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"Only at the bar run by the blond vampire," Cade said. "Everything else is really easy to get into."

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[shippedtomaine]

Emma was just going to ignore that whole 'vampire' part, she didn't care what the crazy owner of a bar she wasn't going to visit called himself. "That doesn't seem like such a great idea on an island full of teenagers."

Potentially useful while she was here, but not too smart.

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"There's a lot on this island that isn't smart," Cade offered cynically. "I'm Cade."

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[shippedtomaine]

"Emma." She'd offer you a hand, Cade, but they were full of food. "You mean like building a school on top of all those stairs?"

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"That definitely doesn't help," Cade said, "especially after a night out."

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[shippedtomaine]

Couldn't you just feel the waves of sympathy pouring off her?

"Clearly they should have built it at the bottom of the steps so you could roll down them instead."

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[makemyownway.livejournal.com]

"It comes in handy for classes, at least?" Cade offered. "What floor are you living on?"

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[arsenicmauls]

It was Gert's birthday, so she was having cake, obviously. It was picnic cake that said something like "Welcome, Newbies" or whatever, but that was fine, because she had scraped the icing off. Gert wasn't a huge fan of anything that was that sweet anyway.

She was reclining under a tree against Old Lace, who was curled around her, and a water bowl and a couple of cans of soda were in their immediate reach. It wasn't a bad birthday so far.

Plus she had her camera ready to document anything weird that might happen. Like someone showing up in his boxers, for example.

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[shippedtomaine]

"The fourth," Emma replied. "You?"

What, it was important to know if she was on a floor with boys who were allergic to shirts.

Re: Mingle, Mingle, Mingle [Summer 2013 - II]

[godgavemecable.livejournal.com]

Yeah, no, Toby was not a practitioner of shirtlessness. He was a practitioner of "pile his plate as high as he could and look around for interesting people".

[ooc: SP while I'm at wooooork, but I should be able to sneak some pings by.]