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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Thankfully, the weather on the island today was fairly nice for the tail end of December, but there was still a medium-sized bonfire going in the middle of the lawn, partly due to tradition and partly due to the potential for shirtlessness (which, Zoe supposed, was also tradition.)

The usual tables were set up with warm foods, nametags, and lists for the new and old folks to find each other. Once everything was set up, it was time to celebrate a new year and the start of a new semester!

[OCD is up! I'm consolidating this down to one post, so bring all your new and old folks over here! Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2017]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Please make a New Year's resolution to not break anyone's brain!

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2017]

[sprinklesgoboom]

So. One minute, Pinkie Pie had been hanging out with her friends by the Wondercolts statue on the front lawn of Canterlot High, as they were wont to do even when they didn't have school that day.

The next she'd made the eensy weensy error of startling Twilight Sparkle while she was experimenting and got blown backwards through a portal on the wrong side of the Wondercolts statue.

She was guessing this was not Equestria. There was a serious dearth of horses, for instance. There did seem to be a party going on, though, so who was she to complain?

Meet Your Roommate, Sort Of [Spring 2017]

[bigdamnprincipal]

The good news was, everyone seemed to be satisfied with their roommate arrangements. But that meant there was a sign on one of the tables that simply said:

Pinkie Pie - Room 317

That room would look good covered in glitter and pink, right?

Re: Meet Your Roommate, Sort Of [Spring 2017]

[sprinklesgoboom]

Pinkie frowned at the sign. "I didn't even know I was coming here and they already have my very own room set up for me?" Then she brightened into a broad Pinkie grin. "Neat!"

Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2017]

[bigdamnprincipal]

If anyone was going to have alcohol to make the day a little warmer, it would probably be one of these people.

Also, this part of the OCD is specifically mocking Deadpool, haha!

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2017]

[imafuturist]

Tony did not have any alcohol, unfortunately. But he did have a warm drink in hand.

It was coffee. Of course it was coffee.

He kept an eye out for this Nathan Algren guy as he sipped.

RE: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2017]

[captainskullpoopl]

"And after I gave serious thought to waving at you at the airport," he said, shaking his head sadly. "I didn't because I didn't want to seem desperate, but I thought about it."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2017]

[never-dull.livejournal.com]

Hannibal was here, and interested in what the person he was supposed to be shepherding would be like. Until they showed up, he had very good coffee and a selection of very good meat and vegetable pies in his thermal bag, for himself and anyone else he liked enough to feed.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2017]

[simply2ndnature.livejournal.com]

An elderly man made his way onto the front lawn. Though clad in a violently violet velvet coat and top hat, his most noteworthy accessory was a large, covered object. He dragged it along well enough on the sidewalk, but once he reached the grass, the task became substantially more difficult. (http://i.imgur.com/hRaK5bV.jpg)

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2017]

[electrocynic]

Electroclash was here. Looking surly, with coffee. And wearing a black coat with some green accents on it over her uniform.

She kind of wished she'd brought alcohol, if she was honest.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2017]

[shiroi_tiger]

Ah. Alright. Apparently Algren was supposed to be teaching, again. He wished he could even muster up a look of surprise at that, but mostly he was just continuing to look mildly uncomfortable as he staked out a place by the fire, clad in a men's kimono and sock feet. Tabi feet. Whatever.

Fandom Island. He'd missed it, except for things like this.

At some point he was going to bother to find out what it was he was even supposed to be teaching, here. That time was not right now.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2017]

[myownface]

Did Sparkle look a little bit like a deer in the headlights?

Sparkle looked a whole lot like a deer in the headlights. He'd even left his backpack at home today, because there was probably some kind of unspoken rule about stealing food from the welcome picnic when you'd apparently lost your mind and applied to be a teacher. Probably. He wasn't sure. He wasn't going to steal food for leftovers just to be on the safe side.

There was totally alcohol in his coffee, though. He wasn't even going to pretend there wasn't.

What had he been thinking?

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2017]

[wefindintheashes]

Well, now. There was a picnic going on. And far be it for Goody to be rude and avoid the town's festivities.

It's deeply confusing festivities.

"Oh, I am in hell then," he said, eyeing Deadpool.

A common mistake.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2017]

[vdistinctive]

Eliot had been to enough of these by now that it felt like old hat. He didn't have a beer with him -- that would be tacky in front of the students. He had a thermal travel cup full of coffee instead. Even better than alcohol for keeping things warmer.

Really, they couldn't have this thing at, like, the community center or something?

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2017]

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan was on the list of teachers with alcohol. Not blatantly obvious alcohol. Not even all that much of it. But he'd more or less lost his mind that morning and had made a pot of caf, using the... questionable... product that he'd purchased from Hondo back during the market. It was horrible. And rather than dump the whole pot of it out and throw the beans away in defeat, he was stubbornly hell-bent on drinking what he'd brewed.

Drinking it had required alcohol. If he could pretend he was actually drinking ship fuel, he'd probably be having an easier time of this.

If he actually just keeled over and died on the spot, at least people could say that he died doing what he did best. Being a stubborn moron.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2017]

[suitably_heroic]

"I shouldn't have come back here until after the weekend," Atton groused. "There's heating in my apartment."

General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[bigdamnprincipal]

For all your other welcome picnic-y tasks!

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[cracksmostly]

Merrill found her way to the picnic through no conscious intent of her own, mind you. But there were trees and there was a nice fire and there was food, so it seemed like a nice place to be.

She helped herself to a plate of food and sat down beside a tree, mostly content to eat and watch people.

[[Extreme SP until evening my time, but GDI, I had to get her out again.]]

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[sprinklesgoboom]

It was a party! And as far as Pinkie could tell, seeing as it was a welcome party and she was the only one on the list of new rooms, it was a party all for her.

She was pretty sure she should be looking for another portal to take her back to Canterlot High, but party. Anyway, Twilight Sparkle and Sunset Shimmer were sure to be right on top of that already. It didn't hurt to have a little fun in the meantime, right?

"WAAAAAAAAAAAAHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!"

Okay. Maybe a lot of fun.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[intotheout]

Tip found herself a spot at one of the tables and curled up, tucking her legs as best she could into her coat. Bill flitted about in front of her, providing color commentary.

"You know I can't read Boov that fast," Tip told him with a smile. "And don't be mean. I'm sure that girl with the pink hair is just excited to be here."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[crimson_sister]

Lucille had just returned from Allerdale Hall. She was torn between missing her brother and her home and being surprisingly pleased to be back. Perhaps the picnic would distract her from this. She had picked up some food and drink, sat down and was now watching the crowd, wearing a rather unimpressed look.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[luckywithjacks]

Faraday didn't know what half of this food was, but it was free, so he would take it.

Possibly Not Hell was a very confusing place.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[notouchykuzco.livejournal.com]

Kuzco had managed to wake up from the concussion Kronk had given him the night before and had extricated himself from the bag that he'd been stuffed in.

"Ugh, I'm back here again," he sniffed, trotting into the picnic.

No, he hadn't realized he was a llama yet. Won't this be fun?

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2017]

[rebelseekspizza]

Dante was out in the lawn for the express purpose for eating all the food; it didn't seem like there were a ton of new people to deal with.

Which he was fine with. Food was good. And so it was that he hung out at a picnic table with a plate full, digging in.

OOC [Spring 2017]

[bigdamnprincipal]

You know how when the year changes, you forget to put the new year on dates instead of the old year? I've been putting 2017 on things for like, a month now.

Re: OOC [Spring 2017]

[cracksmostly]

To be fair, I hardly think anyone could blame you for preemptively wishing 2016 over. Like, at all.