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

[bigdamnprincipal]

The lawn was arranged with tables and chairs - some near the food, some not - and there was plenty of food to go around. The school had even wised up and put to-go boxes by the plates, so people didn't have to put food in their pockets to take it with them for later. No one was gonna judge you for making some pocket bacon, but at least now it wasn't a necessity.

[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 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

Yeah, Beau was here for the free food mostly, and maybe to give Fjord a bit of a hard time if she saw him.

She was alternating between casting thoughtful, skeptical glances up at the castle and kind of glowering as she looked around and assessed the students, but the whole time she was, yes, absolutely shoving bacon into her pockets while she ate. WHAT.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[magnusrushesin]

First Magnus was concerned about the pocket bacon. Then he was curious. And than after that little mind journey, he was of the opinion that it was the only way to carry bacon.

Wait, back to concerned.

Full circle.

"Heeeeeey, buddy. You okaaaaay?" He drew both those words with wavery concern. So much concern.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

Beau stopped trying to devour a cheeseburger slider and gave him a look that was half amused, half ‘are you for real?’

“‘m fine, dude, chill,” she said, which to be fair she would have said if she had two broken limbs and half her blood missing. “What, do I not look like it?”

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[magnusrushesin]

Yeah, but she probably had a more competent healer around than he did. Wait. Couldn't monks do that shit? His only other monk experience was also a cop in a Fast and Furious death race.

"Well, you put bacon in your pockets. Do you need money? I'm pretty sure I have some saved up from the last guy I looted."

He didn't understand that teaching earned him a paycheck.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

She hadn’t even met the first of her party’s healers yet, and anyway while Jester was perfectly competent at it she also got grumbly about using her spell slots for healing when she could be using them to fuck shit up because she was basically battle Mercy, and Caduceus was going to be way more effective at healing people after they got knocked out. You know, when he wasn’t almost getting killed himself because the universe seemed like it was out to do that.

. . . she did have a healer’s kit on her, though, along with like a thousand ball bearings. And now pocket bacon!

“I’m good, dude,” Beau insisted, still giving him that weird amused look. “It’s just, it’s bacon, right?”

What else were you supposed to do when you got access to bacon but hoard it?

“Nice sweater, though, man, I like it.” Sleeves were bullshit, okay? It was supposed to be a compliment! Even if she sounded more sarcastic than genuine.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[magnusrushesin]

Still better than Merle. Low bar, but there it was.

He still offered up a cheerful fistbump for it because he was used to Taako who alternated between cutting sarcasm and cloud cuckoo lander stupid when it suited him. "Do you have a magical pocket for it? Because lint on bacon sounds bad."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

Beau just kept side-eyeing him for a second or two before she returned the fistbump. Sorry, Magnus, she just wasn’t used to people being that friendly without some kind of ulterior motive.

“Nah, dude, it’s fine. It’s like really high quality material, you know?” Fancy-ass silk monk clothing and all. At least she didn’t have a tiny owl that she kept forgetting about also in that pocket. “I just like to have some extra protein on hand. Like I need the energy, you know?”

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[magnusrushesin]

Magnus would just keep being friendly at her because bitty level 1's needed all the help they could get. Also, what if he got invited for a one shot on Critical Role? What then?

"Like a video game," he said as though it was dawning on him. "I keep GORP for that reason. It's nutritious and keeps forever."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

It was totally the same principle as hoarding 999 healing items because WHAT IF YOU NEEDED THEM? She’d still end up getting knocked out a lot and not using them, though, probably.

“That doesn’t sound really appetizing, though. I mean . . .”

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[magnusrushesin]

But at some point she'd end up with triple the HP of her party members like Magnus? Maybe. Hopefully. Get those stats, girl.

"What? GORP? It's granola... um... oats! Oats, yeah. Raisins and peanuts. Though Lucretia uses pistachos and that shit's amazing."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

Probably not, but maybe she’d end up with a ridiculously high AC for being dodgy as fuck?

“Oh, okay, see, that sounds better. Why can’t you just —“ Beau cut herself off and shook her head. “Right, that’s a mouthful. Abbreviations are unfortunate sometimes, man.”

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[magnusrushesin]

Well, that worked too. He was just a good meat shield for his party.

"Yeah," he agreed, already digging for his bag of GORP to offer her some. Despite the pile of food right next to them.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

Beau wasn’t really meat shield material, but you try telling her ‘totally going to tank a hydra’ ass that.

“Do you get that a lot? Offering that stuff to people —“ she was already making grabby hands at it, again despite the pile of food — “and having them go ‘dude, no, what the fuck is that?’”

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[magnusrushesin]

"You know, for some reason, everyone back home just knows what it is." Possibly because they were from the same West Virginian family.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

Possibly.

"Oh." Beau shrugged. "Like a regional thing. Yeah, that's fair. Also better than dried rations, probably."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[magnusrushesin]

"Hell yeah it is," he agreed. "Rations are the worst. Not that we do much with them."

Or remember they exist.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

Nobody remembered they existed. Because they were that bad.

"I know, I know," Beau added while chewing, because manners were for other people, "that's like, a super low bar but still."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[magnusrushesin]

"It's hardtack, right? I'm betting it's hardtack."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

No, that would be after the accidental detour into piracy.

"I mean . . ." Beau made a face. "I don't wanna say I'm never going to touch that stuff, but I never want to, you know?"

Not that the multiverse cared what she wanted.

"So you teaching this term too?"

Wait.

"Like Fjord, I mean. Not me."

NOBODY NEEDED THAT.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[magnusrushesin]

Hey, she could teach punching! Punching was a valuable skill.

"Yep! Problem solving. With your fists."

Yeah, she could totally teach that class.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

“Gods dammit, why couldn’t I have gone to school here?”

She would have been all over that class.

“I mean, please, that’s the best kind of problem solving, am I right?”

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[magnusrushesin]

"Hell yeah!" She was gonna have to get used to the fistbumps. Because that was his thing. "You could come by and check it out! I don't think this school has very good security, to be honest."

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

“Obviously,” Beau said, smirking and returning the fistbump with slightly less hesitation this time. “Shit, they let me past the gates.”

And she was going to leave with so much bacon, too.

“I might do that, though. It’s something to do.” That involved punching things, which was always a draw.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[magnusrushesin]

"Yeah, but you're cool," Magnus replied. "But that's great! You can show kids cool monk moves."

Cara had the terrifyingly competent stuff covered for the both of them.

Re: General Mingling [Spring 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

“That’s kind of my thing, though,” Beau protested, mostly in an attempt to pretend being called cool wasn’t gratifying. “It’s no fun if it’s everybody else’s thing too.”

She totally wanted to show off a little bit, though.

“I’ll think about it.”