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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Picnic-ing in January - still not the best idea ever! But there were tables and chairs set up in the sun, and a nice bonfire going, and plenty of warm food for everyone to encourage socializing for as long as possible.

[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 2016]

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"I...have not seen any of that, no," Nathan said, shaking his head. Admittedly, he hadn't been looking too closely either. "I've been all right. Sick off and on but I've gotten used to that."

He'd been trying to stay inside more and more but it was sometimes too much and he had to go outside. Sometimes he waited too long to do that, though.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[not_every_mage]

"I still wish you didn't have to get used to it," Anders sighed. "Is it getting worse or better or --anything?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"It doesn't change," Nathan told him, shaking his head. "It doesn't get better or worse unless I take myself away from the environment. The best I can do is get used to it and know what to do when it happens."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[not_every_mage]

"I guess it's good you know what to expect," Anders said. "It's less frightening that way."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"Don't worry," Nathan said, trying to sound as reassuring as possible. "It's been happening most of my life. It's not the worst thing I've dealt with. Not even close."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[not_every_mage]

"You say that like it's reassuring," Anders said lightly, but some of the concern fell from his eyes. "Oh, I was meaning to ask -- did you run into any trouble when things got strange a few weeks back? It wasn't too bad for me."

Other than the weird dreams and a few clashes with giant spiders, and Anders could have those at home.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"I didn't," Nathan said, shaking his head. He'd heard about it but he hadn't really witnessed anything or been exposed to anything terrible. "I spent a lot of it off island, actually. Must have gotten lucky."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[not_every_mage]

"You didn't miss anything important," Anders told him. "There were somethings to fight but nothing we couldn't handle. And then there was a party at the end for ... some reason."

He still half thought radio had been kidding about that.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"To celebrate the victory?" Nathan guessed. "Or just...a really badly timed party?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[not_every_mage]

"I think it was part of the victory?" Anders said,crinkling his nose. "That's what radio said,anyhow. I never know how seriously to take it."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"Huh." Nathan thought about that and then just stopped thinking about it because it made no sense. "Was it fun?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[not_every_mage]

"It was all right," Anders decided. "Honestly I didn't stay long. There was a lot of Christmas stuff."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I kind of avoided doing much for that," Nathan said, shrugging. Christmas hadn't ever been that important to his family and he didn't have many things to be thankful for. "I can't remember the last time I celebrated any holiday when I wasn't here."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[not_every_mage]

"They're never my holidays," Anders said, shrugging back. "I have could tried to do something for First Day, but it's almost exactly the same as New Years' anyhow."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"We never had the money to do Christmas or birthdays," he sighed, tucking his hands into his pockets. "My mom probably would have liked to do things like that if she hadn't died. Or maybe not. Sometimes we saw fireworks for the new year if we were lucky."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[not_every_mage]

"We had nice holidays when I was with my parents," Anders noted. "But in the circle it was an extra Chantry service and a piece of cake after supper."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"But hey, you got cake," Nathan teased lightly. "Can't really go wrong with cake, right? Unless it was really terrible, I guess."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[not_every_mage]

"They didn't figure out how to make cake terrible," Anders said, smiling a bit. "They weren't complete monsters."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"Good to hear," Nathan said quietly. "Plans for this semester? Taking any good classes?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[not_every_mage]

"Only two this time," Anders answered. "Surviving in the field with Rand and something about international travel. What did you go for?"

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"Physical education and something about going around the world," Nathan recalled. "Figured I'd be all right at the first one and bloody terrible with the second."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[not_every_mage]

"Why, what do you think is going to go wrong in the around the world one?" Anders asked. "You're pretty good with directions and all of that."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[halfbad.livejournal.com]

"Maybe but I'm not very good with other areas of the world," he said, shrugging. "I can figure out where to go but I've only put that into practice in a few places. Not the world."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2016]

[not_every_mage]

"Maybe it'll be Danger Shop," Anders suggested. "You can only hurt yourself so much in there."