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

[bigdamnprincipal]

With all the rain that had blown through earlier in the week, the school administration had been worried that welcome picnic day would be wet and gloomy. Thankfully, it was sunny, warm, and beautiful outside, and everything had been set up just in time for the shuttle of new folks to arrive. There was a buffet table of food and drinks waiting, along with the list of Big and Little Siblings, the list of roommates, and more name tags than they'd probably need for three picnics.

Also, there wasn't a single flower out on the lawn after last weekend. Just saying.

With everything in place, it looked like it was time for the first summer term to begin!


[OCD up! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara looked oh so friendly and approachable as she leant against the nearest wall, really she did.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

//Well, you're looking thrilled to be here,// Jono mused, nodding over at Cara as he picked a patch of wall to lean back against, himself. //Welcome to the faculty, Cara.//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara resisted the urge to shake her head, hearing without her ears was never not going to be odd.

"I'm ecstatic," she deadpanned. "Jono, right?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

//Jono, right,// he agreed, giving a little nod of his head. He generally tried to at least give some sort of visual cue as he spoke, mostly because his voice really was just a disembodied head-sound connected to nobody, otherwise. //Just one of apparently more than I thought there would be who were mad enough to come back here to teach after getting our pretty little diploma and being allowed to leave. Not a single actually new face among the faculty right now, have you noticed?//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara had noticed a certain lack of boggling. "Disappointed you don't get to break in someone new and unsuspecting?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

//I'll probably manage to keep from crying myself to sleep at night over it,// Jono replied with a shrug. //Means I don't get to give the 'avoid small green things, brace yourself for bigger, meaner things trying to eat you on occasion' speech, though.//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

"Don't let me stop you giving the speech," Cara said, crossing her arms and raising an eyebrow. "Though the 'meaner' part would be inaccurate."

Because foregoing a chance to boast was apparently just too much.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

Hey, she'd survived being a student on the island. She'd earned the right to brag.

//Well, bigger and meaner than some, at least,// Jono amended. //There are some who can most certainly handle themselves when large, hungry things come scuttling through. Perhaps I'll just cut my speech down to asking if you have any questions about the students, or need any help settling in, that sort of thing?//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

"If were talking about the students, how resilient do you think these ones are?"

No, bad Cara, no thinking about breaking students on the first day.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

Jono felt that he was something of an expert on the subject, really, since he'd met some of them before anyone else on the faculty but Anakin, and he'd taught others for the past few semesters. He looked vaguely amused as he looked out over the crowd.

//The old ones went through nothing shy of hell last semester,// he noted. //They're tough, they'll last. The new ones... it's a difficult call. The ones I've talked to so far have varied between timid and utterly lost to 'saved an alternate dimension,' at least. We'll likely have a couple that survive the summer, I suppose.//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

"Metaphorically speaking." Since unless they'd changed things since she graduated, they still weren't allowed to kill students. Not even the annoying ones.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

//Metaphorically,// Jono agreed, //tempting as it is sometimes to just smack them upside the bloody heads, sometimes.//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

"But that might knock some sense into them," Cara said. "Can't have that."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

//Really, if some of the things that hit this place can't smack sense into them, we don't stand much of a chance,// Jono pointed out. //Now, I'm not saying that some of them are hopeless, but...//

Well, he thought it, from time to time.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

"But some of them are hopeless." Cara and tact would never be the best of friends.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[harpy-daughter.livejournal.com]

Of course Surreal was going to saunter over to the totally friendly and approachable member of the faculty. She was contrary that way.

"So," she said by way of greeting, calling in a flask and offering to the blonde woman beside her. "I hear you're my assigned 'teacher.'"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara took the flask, brushing gloved fingers against Surreal's as she did. "I did ask for a tractable assistant."

It took a Mord'Sith's control to keep her face straight for that statement.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[harpy-daughter.livejournal.com]

"You ended up with me instead. Sorry," Surreal deadpanned. Except for how she wasn't sorry at all. "Guess you got screwed, sugar."

Totally dirty.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara hoped so.

She took a sip from the flask to cover her grin. "I don't know what I'm going to do with you."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[harpy-daughter.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure you'll think of something," Surreal promised. "If you can't, I'll be very disappointed."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

"I'll definitely have to do something with that smart mouth of yours," Cara said. "Or you might make me look bad in front of my class."

Because she was totally worried about that. Yes.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[harpy-daughter.livejournal.com]

"Oh, you don't need my help for that," Surreal demurred, eyes shining wickedly. "If you forget breakfast, they'll just take one look at that sour face of yours and run screaming."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

"If I don't eat, it's because my assistant forgot to fetch it for me." Because ordering Surreal around like a servant would end so well. "Or stole it for herself."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[harpy-daughter.livejournal.com]

"If an adult can't manage to keep one delinquent from stealing her breakfast, then how will she manage a room full of them?" Surreal teased, shaking her head. "A sad state of affairs."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

"Nothing else for it," Cara said, oh, so very sadly. "I'll have to make an example of you, give you special attention."