fandomhigh | Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, All Day: Part I

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

Everyone had been keeping a close eye on the weather, and gave a sigh of relief as it turned out to be a pretty decent day. Sure, it was still a little warm, but it wasn't humid, or raining something strange. You had to take your wins where you could get them around here.

As usual, there was a buffet of food awaiting the folks on the welcome shuttle, and blue and gold tables and chairs were set up across the lawn, most still covered in glitter from the last picnic. Sorry ~~not~~! Happy picnic day!

[OCD is 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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"If it helps, I'm pretty sure there's at least three or four other people from your galaxy already on the island." What with Vette having the same head-tentacle things as Kanan's not-girlfriend did and all.

~~... Kind of cute name, not kind of curse name. Fingers, what.~~

"Already? You mean, besides the other kid that came here on the same bus?"

Yup. Definitely looking around some more. At this point, Vette would settle for seeing a Togruta or a Nautolan or a Rodian or...

"Yup. My swo -- um. Fighting teacher for one." Kanan was still pretty paranoid about people finding about about the whole Jedi thing, and she wasn't sure how many other people from his area even fought with swords. "And the lady who runs the junkyard's probably even from your same planet."

"Well, that's convenient. Maybe one of them can find me a translation tool for all the High Galactic writing around here."

Vette still hadn't even achieved 'nametag.'

"Probably," Tip said with a shrug. "And if not, you wouldn't be the first non-Earthling I've helped teach how to read."

That'd be J.Lo. And then Peridot.

"I can also give you tips on, like, getting around the dorms and who'll take pity on you if you don't have money for new clothes and stuff yet."

Vette gave Tip a grateful smile at that, heck yes.

"I will take those tips," she declared, throwing in a nod for good measure. "At this point, I probably need all the help I can get, you know?"

"See, then the Sib program is already working," Tip said. "Oh, and if a you see a little green scaly thing running around, don't let it bite you. I mean, not letting things bite you is generally a good plan, but especially not the little green scaly things."

"No getting bitten by little green things," Vette echoed, nodding thoughtfully. "Okay, what are those? Dangerous? Should I stay armed while I'm out and about?"

... She was already going to stay armed while she was out and about. But still.

"I mean, that's no the worst plan. Most of the time things here are perfectly safe, but we do get invaded fairly regularly." Tip shook her head. "But the little green things are called gremlins. Their venom is a hallucinogenic."

Vette was silent for a long while.

"I'm adding 'bitten by a gremlin' to my list of explanations for today now, you know."

"It'd be weird if you didn't."

"And I definitely wouldn't want to do anything weird."

Said the one who had tried to steal the shuttle this morning.

"Not on your first day," Tip agreed, facetiously wide-eyed. "You'd get a reputation!"

"A reputation! Oh, what is a girl to do?"

Vette let a hand flutter about in front of her chest for a moment, and then she bent over a little, laughing.

Tip giggled back, then shook her head, her curls bouncing.

"Okay, but on a more serious note: the radio could potentially report on anything you do."

. . . Damn, that sounded creepy when she put it that way.

Yeah, there was no way to not make that sound creepy. Vette sobered up almost immediately, giving Tip a faintly concerned, slightly suspicious look.

"Report on me? Are there cameras set up that I haven't noticed? That wasn't what that one kid taking selfies was doing, was it?"

Note to self: Beat Prompto up and steal his camera later.

"Nope. It's all squirrels." Tip looked around and finally spotted one hanging out on a nearby tree trunk. "Those little things. I've heard you can bribe them with alcohol, but I've never tried."

Vette looked at what Tip was indicating, and then frowned and pointed a finger at it.

"You better watch what you say about me, you little creep!"

Seriously, spying on students? That was just wrong.

"Haven't tried that either," Tip admitted. "We'll have to listen to radio tomorrow to see if it worked."

"I guess we will," Vette replied. And then paused. "Do you have a radio?"

She had... nothing. Her blasters? A few credits? Everybody else on the bus had come with some kind of luggage, and she'd shown up with her arms outstretched, making a reach for a relic that hadn't even had the courtesy to come along too.

"I can hook you up," Tip assured her. "And I can probably get you a phone, too. It's the standard for Earth communication."

"If that's the standard, that's probably what I'm going to need," Vette agreed, looking thoughtful. "Not all that big on holos around here, huh?"

She'd noticed with Prompto's camera, too, how flat everything was.

"Nah, maybe some day, but we're not even that into video phoning, either. Kids these days are all about the text message."

"Aaaand that's where I hit my stumbling block," Vette sighed. "Well, looks like I have some work to do, I guess."

"Someone really needs to get onto making a translation app for those of you who aren't familiar with the Roman alphabet."

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