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

[bigdamnprincipal]

As the picnic continued, there were tables and chairs arranged on the lawn, the food smelled delicious and inviting, and no one was going to be bitey without explicit consent. Hopefully, everyone would take some time to enjoy themselves!

[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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General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Be kind to the poor newbies and their brains!

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[okteiviakom]

There was a picnic, and so there was also an Octavia, piling her plate high and stuffing her pockets with things that would keep a while.

No, she didn't really need to do that. At this point, maybe it was just the ritual of it? Or just not wanting to lapse into thinking securing food for longer than just the current moment wasn't important. She didn't really think this kind of abundance would last for her, after all.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[firstofitskind]

And there was Liam, with his own plate piled fairly high (mostly with things of the sugary variety, some of which would absolutely be coming home with him as bribes for the mice), wandering over to say hi.

“The picnic leftovers are the best part,” he said with a nod. Not that he’d ever had to deal with not knowing where his next meal was coming from; he just wasn’t much of a cook.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[always_someone]

Norman was here to... face the music, he guessed. Without actually facing the music. He'd brought a comic book to flip through, anyway, and had hunkered himself down in a corner, in the shade. It was about as close to giving in to his desire to just not be here at all as he was willing to go.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[following_my_fishie]

Nope. Hi. Your new roommate is going to plop down next to you and try to read the comic with you.

Looking around, she asked a little anxiously, "Should I be butterflies again? I feel sort of all butterfly-ish inside and maybe they should be outside and flying around? Maybe some fish? I don't feel very fish-y or swimm-y but I did butterflies before so maybe something new this time? What do you think?"

There were people here and so far she didn't recognize any of them. In a crowd, there was usually at least one or two that she recognized in her own strange fashion.

Barnabas curled up next to her, nose on his paws. She wasn't asking him. Delirium was attempting to engage with another person and he wasn't about to interrupt that.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

Lana frowned. Norman off to himself reading wasn't unusual. But Norman with a big cloud of metaphorical darkness around him was. And she liked him, and that darkness didn't seem to be one he was doing well with.

So, have a Sith. She came bearing cookies and set the plate down next to him as she sat. "Another semester starting, then."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[cypher_can_fly]

The day was beginning to look up.

"Sandwiches," Owen said, approaching the picnic with something akin to glee. Was he allowed to take any? Did it matter? "A poor man's treasure."

He had one shoved in his mouth well before he started putting anything on plates. He was starving.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[howareyanow]

Food spread seemed pretty good, Wayne had to admit, that was not a bad way to continue the day. It'd been an interesting one so far, he could tell you that much, and interesting days were likely to build up a man's appetite. So he helped himself to a plate and went to sit down. He'd never had much of a problem just sort of sitting in peace, though he was thinking he could go for a Puppers about now. Didn't think the school would look too kindly on students just sitting around drinking beer, though.

Could maybe do without the few odd things he was seeing, though, that made his squint go a little bit blinky, but he'd maybe deal with that later, once he didn't have quite such an empty stomach.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[hashtag_chocobro]

If anyone asked (and he really hoped they wouldn't), Prompto thought he was doing an excellent job at pretending to be okay and putting on the happy, excited face for the newbie picnic. It helped, though, that he was spending a good portion of the time behind a camera, trying to snag some great candids and maybe trying to see if anyone in particular might seem comfortable with a few more posed shots.

And he was taking a lot of pictures of the food, too, because that was always a good highlight, and he might have been a particular dork by favoring some burgers in that respect, because, hey, come on, it was at this picnic his first semester piling a plate with burgers that he'd met Yang. Kind of brought back some awesome memmories, okay? And he wanted to infuse his day with all the good stuff he possibly could.

And eventually he'd get to eating some of them, too, but he knew once he got started, he'd be hard pressed to really stop.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[following_my_fishie]

She saw the boy with the camera and he looked a little like her roommate without looking a single thing like Norman at all. Something about him spoke to her in a whisper of her sister and that was the thing that was sort of the same.

He was new and he was a people-shaped person and not ladybugs or a pile of swishy leaves or any of those sorts of people so she was a little hesitant walking over to him. Barnabas followed.

She wasn't sure what to say. There were so many words all at once and all at the same time but most people didn't talk that way and she didn't sometimes know how to talk the way they did so.. she.. simply said.. "Hi?"

And waited to see if that was enough.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

"Have you thoroughly documented the incoming class yet?" Lana asked, smiling.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Ah, yes! The welcome picnic! There were many things about Fandom that Sidon enjoyed immensely, and the welcome picnic was right up there near the top of the list! It was always such a joy to see so many new faces, some of them just filled with baffled wonderment, others just as comfortable with their new situation as ever, and he loved every moment of it. New siblings, new friends, new semester! Marvelous!

And if anyone thought a few days as a starving, raving vampire would have done anything to alter Sidon's boisteriously cheerful demeanor for the picnic, well, then, that person clearly did not know Sidon!

So, helping himself to some little morsels of fish-related food and a few slices of pizza here and there and sporting some brand new scars that he wore with pride (most notably a small fist-sized chunk of flesh seemed to be missing from his headtail), he looked around the picnic brightly and eagerly in the search for new victims friends.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[special_rabbit]

Was that...was that Amaya Blackstone completely passing over the variety of different meats, some of them even on sticks, and filling her plate with a very large salad and other various fruits and vegetables (and, okay, plenty of bread, too)?

Why, yes. Yes it was.

Turns out, there was something about voraciously attempting to eat one of your best friends, one of your favorite students, and a handful of troopers that sort of put your stomach off the idea of meat for a bit. Imagine that.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[notallbluemonks]

So, Beau might have been a little loopy on painkillers today. She was fine after that whole showdown in Baltimore, really, no concussion or anything and just those two cracked ribs, and one good night of sleep had been enough to get her all fixed up as far as she was concerned, but Karolina had insisted she go to the clinic and get checked out so she'd totally caved. Anyway, she'd be lying if she said she didn't enjoy the way Karolina had been fussing over her since yesterday.

Getting her to stay in bed all weekend, though, was really not going to happen, so here was Beau, helping herself to generous portions of food from the tables.

And, yes, stuffing bacon in her pockets. What? She was healing up here. She needed all the nourishment she could get.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[bookbeltof_love]

When Nina wasn't bopping around and weaving through tables and chairs just to see who was new and who wasn't and pointedly avoiding a couple of people that she just, like, didn't want to deal with on today of all days, because really...

She was primly seated at a table off to the side, scribbling in her diary and nibbling on goodies. Mostly fruit, honestly, but there were a few cookies in the mix as well.

Eventually she'd go find something more filling, maybe.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[following_my_fishie]

Delirium took one look around and went to sit by Norman. He was, so far, the one person she recognized since he was her roommate and she was going to stick to him like glue.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[biotic_psychotic]

Jack was there, looking over the crowd with something like bemusement. A whole new crew of kids.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[hernando_fuentes]

Hernando was curious about the welcome picnic. He was a little uncertain about being out and about. It was the first time he'd done any real socializing since.. well. Since the prior summer. He found the food and made himself a cup of -ick- Lipton, more so he'd have something to hold in his hands.

Jack being the only person he really recognized, he kind of drifted to stand where he could see her. Not close enough that he'd have to engage talking with her - he was well aware how she felt about small talk - but enough that it made him feel less isolated in the crowd.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

It was too warm out today for Lana's own clothes, so she was in her local things - a skirt and tunic. And it was sunny, so she had on sunglasses.

Which meant she could probably pass as Earth-normal at a glance. She couldn't decide if she liked that, was darkly amused by it, or utterly despised it. But, there it was.

Anyway, the pizza was always good.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[scoffs_at_tradition]

So this was America, huh. Shuri was pleased by the array of food, but felt like there needed to be music and dancing in order to be a real welcome event.

"Why is so much covered in mayonnaise?" she wondered, poking at various dishes.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[momslilassassin]

Ben was kind of a newbie? A oldbie who had been gone so long he didn't recognize anyone but his grandfather, at least. And baby Bantha was a newbie by any definition, curled up in a baby sling on Ben's chest and sleeping.

Since Ben had his hands empty, for once, he was helping himself to a plate of snacks. It wasn't piled as high as it had been back in his high school years, but it was still a pretty good stack.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[endsthegame]

Ender settled at one of the picnic tables with four-year-old Val next to him. She was happily digging into some fruit and cookies he'd dug up for her.

For his part, he was just... observing.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[firstofitskind]

Right, so. He’d slept through most of yesterday, which was frankly pretty damned unusual for him. And to be honest, he still was feeling kind of tired. And sore as hell. But the picnics were a valuable opportunity when it came to sizing up new arrivals, so he’d opted to drag himself out anyway. Unfortunately, painkillers put him in a state far beyond merely ‘loopy’, and thus not an option while out in public, so he was dealing with that by piling a plate high with all sorts of sugary pastries and the like.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[shapethecentury]

Hotty McBallcap Bucky was technically only barely at the picnic. He hovered around the edges with a drink in hand, close enough to look like he belonged but just far enough to be comfortably ready for a clean exit.

He knew he should've been off the island by now, now that the drama of the week had died down. But somehow, he didn't think he could go without stalking checking Steve was okay.

So he was being kind of a creeper. Just without being obvious about it.

OOC! [Summer 2019]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Mmmmm food...