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

[bigdamnprincipal]

There were chairs and tables set up all across the lawn; some were by the bonfire, for the people who wanted to be warm and central to everything else at the picnic, and some were set farther away from the action, for the people who wanted more peace and quiet.

There was no escaping the glitter though. Sorry, but not really.

[OCD is up! This is the picnic post for general mingling. Roommates, fake siblings and teachers are all here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: General Mingling [Spring 2015]

[tigerundercover]

"He came to Parents' Weekend my first year here. He'd've come this year, but he had an interview for college."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2015]

[notamascot]

"He's choosing to do more school?" Kaylin asked, hoping futilely that the sheer horror of that didn't show on her face. "Why?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2015]

[tigerundercover]

Raven shrugged. "He likes it. He's studying genetics. He wants to find out how evolution led to us being the way we are. Not just as humans, but the whole 'I can have wings and he can read minds' thing."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2015]

[notamascot]

"Huh... does he study about why some people have magic too?" At least those seemed like sort of useful things. If you had to study something.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2015]

[tigerundercover]

"He probably would," Raven said. "But my world doesn't have any."

That she knew of.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2015]

[notamascot]

"Oh..." she thought about that for a moment. "I guess I forget because Elantra has magic even if mages," she spit to the side to express her opinion of them, ' and here has magic, so..."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2015]

[tigerundercover]

Kaylin was not a fan of mages. Good to know. "That's fair," Raven said. "It took time to get used to the fact that other worlds do have magic."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2015]

[notamascot]

"This electricity thing? That's what was hard to figure out. Sometimes I think the magic version is much better, but then we don't have things like the little mirrors - phones, I mean - that you can carry with you."

She patted her pocket where she carried hers. "I like those. And I have to admit having lots of hot water just there to turn on whenever you want. That's wonderful."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2015]

[tigerundercover]

"The phones were new for me, too. They haven't been invented yet, when I'm from. We have hot running water, though."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2015]

[notamascot]

"We have mirrors that you can communicate through," Kaylin explained. "And the big ones store information - written or spoken or pictures or video. If you're rich enough you can afford to get one that connects to some of the bigger information storage, but most people just have ones that let them talk back and forth or leave a message.""

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2015]

[tigerundercover]

"We have . . . TVs with teeny little black and white screens. And phones that attach to walls and dial with actual dials."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2015]

[notamascot]

"Dials? Like... sundials?" Kaylin wasn't at all sure how that would work.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2015]

[tigerundercover]

"Like . . . dials?" Raven hadn't realized that wouldn't be an easily translated term. She made a spinny motion with her finger. "Like a switch, that goes around in a circle."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2015]

[notamascot]

"Oh..." She made the spinny motion herself. "Okay. I guess."

It still didn't make a lot of sense to her, but then so much didn't here.