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]

"Or it'll do both." Cara still had concerns about most of the island's residents.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

//Or that,// Jono allowed. //Actually, now that you mention it, there is a fair bit of that. Though I suppose around here, a break with reality is almost the same thing as just accepting what goes on around the island as 'normal.'//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

"I'm surprised we haven't had anyone snapping all the way and declaring themselves some kind of god."

No, she hadn't met Thor, why do you ask?

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

//At least, beyond the ones that actually are gods,// Jono mused. //Or as close to it as they get.//

Jono actually thought Thor was pretty okay.

That little brother of his, on the other hand...

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

"Wait, that's actually happened?" She wasn't sure if this was better or worse than 'the Creator' running off with a boy.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

//Really, it can't be that surprising, luv,// Jono replied with a shrug of his shoulders. //Hell, from my world alone they've probably had four or five, over the years. Asgardians and Olympians, mostly, I think...//

Thor, Loki, Hercules...

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara's mythology was not your mythology, Jono. "Right."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

That was a hint of a smirk, somewhere around the corners of his eyes. It wasn't really myth so much as fact, where he was from, but he could at least grasp that it wasn't the same everywhere.

//Of course, we might be running off different definitions of the word 'god,' as well. It seems to differ somewhat, from place to place.//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

"We should be grateful the Keeper is unlikely to try enrolling any time soon." What with the trying to wipe out all life and everything.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

//I'll take your word for that,// Jono decided. //Most of the mad gods that I've learned to be wary of have come to school here at one point or another, so I'm sorry I can't say the same.//

He was side-eyeing Loki again. Because Loki.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

"You'd notice if they had," Cara assured him. "Mostly from all the death and the banelings."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

//I'm not sure what a baneling is,// Jono noted, //but it has 'bane' right there in the name, so I'm going to just accept that it's probably unpleasant.//

Smart lad.

//Let's hope that it doesn't come to that, here, then. I'm certain the island has plenty of other nightmares to drag us through, anyway.//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

"Like zombies, but worse." Boy had going to Caritas been fun that first time.

"I'm sure the island will find something suitably horrific to welcome the new kids." Don't sound so happy about that, Cara.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

//And keep us from getting too bored? I suppose we'll see what the summer brings,// Jono agreed, looking out again at the new faces in the crowd. //With any luck, it'll be something we can put up a proper fight against, next time.//

Jono hadn't been a huge fan of, say, the Nothing.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

While Cara had such fond memories of the Swamps of Sadness and having to remember all the things she usually did her best to repress.

Oh, wait, they weren't fond at all.

"I have plenty of things to keep me from getting bored." Things that were stabby and witch-shaped. "But you need a good fight to keep your edge."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

//The island doesn't exactly march off to war. Or even really have much in the way of people to train with,// Jono noted. //I generally have to go elsewhere to keep that edge up. Some of the things that wander through here are bloody refreshing, with that in mind.//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

"Clearly we should be hoping for more frequent invasions then." Cara, it wasn't nice to want other people inconvenienced to satisfy your need for violence.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

//What better way to break in the new students, right?//

Jono, listen to Cara's narrative.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

Because someone had to listen to it.

"It'll get them used to the place. You could even say it'd do them a service." Who had thought it'd be a good idea to let her teach?

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

Probably the same crazy person who agreed to hire any one of the school's teachers?

//It'd weed out the ones that can't handle it right away, at least. Let them know right up front just what they're in for.//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

Clearly someone needed to look at their life and their choices.

"Make them more likely to listen to use when we warn them about other things." Everyone won!

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

They needed to look at their life and their choices, and they needed to feel bad about themselves. Very bad.

//Of course, it isn't as though the students who have been around a while bother to listen, either...//

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

"Sounds like they might have hearing problems." Or they were just too stubborn for their own good.

Because Cara could totally judge people about that!

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[furnaceface]

//That must be it. The entire lot of them have something th'matter with their ears.//

Honestly, Jono had spent a month without a head last semester, and he'd still been better at listening than some students around here when it was a matter of personal safety.

Ish.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2014]

[wrongkindofsith]

Cara knew all about ignoring your personal safety. It was only alright when she did it.

"Someone really should do something about that."