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 Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2014]

[thegc161kid.livejournal.com]

She certainly hadn't been expecting to wind up at a school roughly 18 years in the future, she wondered if Annie had known that when she had found this place. Actually there were a lot of things she was going to have to ask her sister when she next spoke to her.

"We do have the internet," Alex confirmed, "but not everyone has it, we only just got it installed at home but it's more for my father to use for his work,"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2014]

[spin_kick_snap]

"That's not going to last long," Kathy confided. "Everyone uses the internet now. Like, our phones are tiny internet machines that also happen to let us talk to people."

Something just occurred to her. "Oh my gosh, you still use modems and phone lines! AOL disks! Hotmail!"

Oh, honey, no. Let Kathy introduce you to the wonders of wireless.

...Eventually, she would remember that she needed to explain the rest of Fandom to Alex, too, but a girl had to have priorities.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2014]

[thegc161kid.livejournal.com]

"Phones have the internet here?"

Yes that was what Alex got from that, actually owning a phone in her own right was still a relatively new concept for her.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2014]

[spin_kick_snap]

"Unless you're using some kind of burner phone, yeah," Kathy said earnestly. "Even dinky little flip phones have the internet nowadays. And there's way more to do on the web now than you had back in the 90s. You can watch TV shows online and download music and play games..."

She wasn't sure what the net was used for back when it first started. IRC chats and ascii porn?

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2014]

[thegc161kid.livejournal.com]

"Wow..." Alex was a little speechless, she was just starting to realize how much she was going to have to catch up on.

It was only 18 years, it couldn't be that hard right?

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2014]

[spin_kick_snap]

That was what Wikipedia was for!

...Oh god, Alex didn't know what Wikipedia was. The nineties had truly been a dark and terrifying place.

"Okay, so, umm, there's more I'm supposed to tell you about than just the internet," Kathy said, belatedly realizing she had yet to explain the island itself to Alex. "Are you ready to hear more? Warning, it gets really pretty crazy, but once you can accept time travel, you're pretty much good."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2014]

[thegc161kid.livejournal.com]

"I think so," Alex said, really after everything she had just learned it couldn't get that much more crazy.

Right...?