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

The tables and chairs had been scattered around the lawn - some near the food, some not, some in the shade, some not - and the food was ready for anyone who wanted to come by and greet the new people.

Enjoy your last picnic where shirtlessness will be enjoyable until next summer, folks!

[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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"What?" asked Prompto, smirking uncontrollably as he shrugged and gave his own camera a cursory look. "This old thing? Just a ~~bla bla bla details my canon will never be able to provide for me~~, nothing much, but I did refurbish it a little with a deeper scope for better range and zoom."

The effort it took for him to sound that casual about it and shrug it off was ridiculous, really. He cocked his chin up as he eyed hers. "What're you rocking?"

"Refurbished 70s Poloroid," Tip said, holding it up. "I've got a fancy digital one, too, but I love these old things. Gotta love instant gratification."

"I don't know if I'm familiar with that kind," Prompto admitted, since he definitely wasn't familiar with it at all, and his head tilted curiously, "but you had me at instant gratification."

Tip laughed. "Here, I'll show you." She held up her camera and lined up a shot of him. "Say cheese!"

A camera was up, and so Prompto was posing, quick to shift to his best angle, give his best crooked grin, and toss up a peace sign. "Cheeeeeeese!"

Tip laughed and took the picture. The camera whirred, and the thin, white square photo paper came sliding out of the front. Tip pulled it out and started shaking it.

"Now we just wait a couple moments for the chemicals to do their thing, and you'll have your picture!" She held it up. "It's fun to watch it develop, too."

"Oh, no way,"said Prompto, bouncing slightly where he stood before moving in closer for a better look, his mouth hanging a little open in its excited grin, eyeing the camera with fascination. "So it's a special kind of film, huh? Everything you need to develop it right already in there? That's so cool; that's...that," his voice took on a seriously approving tone, "is brilliant!"

"Yup! It's all in there," Tip said. "It doesn't have the sharpest colors or resolution, which I guess is why it went out of style, but I love it. And thanks to Fandom, it's not too hard to find more film."

"Do they sell those here, then, somewhere?" Prompto asked, his mind whizzing right by the brief question of how he was going to afford it when he had all of 100 gil to his name. "I mean, this guy," he waved his camera in the air a little, "works great, but, I mean...hey, who doesn't love new shiny toys, right?"

And with the excitement of seeing how other people's new shiny toys reaching a nice steady level, he got a chance to really see the person behind the camera and had to grin.

He loved this new school.

"I'm Prompto, by the way," he added, making a little gesture with his hand to highlight the nametag he'd slapped onto his vest. The nametag that, over the course of the day, seemed to have gained a big bold exclamation point after his name, a few stars here and there, and a ltitle doodle of something that looked like a little fat bird.

"Well, I special order through Portalocity. And I brought this from home. But they might! You can find all sorts of things in this town."

"Mmmm, what's Portalocity?" Prompto, being oh so shiny and new himself, asked after a moment. "Wasn't that the name of the place where the shuttle picked us up?"

"Yup. They manage all the portal travel for the island. They have that kind of thing where you're from?"

Prompto lifted a finger, took in a breath and opened his mouth like he was going to say something important, then swiped his finger in the air to cancel it out as he laughed and admitted, "Not even a little! I mean, not that I know about, anyway. I'd like to think something like portals would at least make the news or something."

"Yeah, that kind of thing usual makes headlines," Tip said. "When my world got invaded by aliens, nobody broadcasted anything else for months. And, well, then they didn't broadcast anything but pro-Boov propaganda until we managed to kick them out again."

"Aliens?" Prompto asked, and he understood--thank you , Sabine!-- but it still sounded so weird.

"So I take it you're from another planet, too? What's yours called? Mine's Eos!"

He had to admit, asking people what their planet was called was a whole new level, way better than just asking what town they were from or if they'd ever heard of his.

"Actually, I'm from this one. It's called Earth. There's just people from, like, a couple dozen different versions of Earth, at least."

"Different...versions," Prompto said slowly, his jaw a little slack, looking at Tip with a faintly amazed expression. Then he shook his head a little and laughed, hands dancing up and waving slightly. "Man, this place has just got layers and layers!"

"Yup," Tip said. "And those layers go all the way down."

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