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

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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"Like, go on a quest?????? Or explore a place most people won't go??????????? Like, sure, a bunch of friends and I did that over break!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

But they had come back to school.

"And that's what I'm doing. I'm on an adventure break," Owen said.

He had no idea if he ever wanted to go back to the Satomi, mind you. But it was still, technically, a breka.

"Tell me about your quest. Was it exciting?"

But it was a weird break, to come to school on an adventure, though given this school...

Well, maybe he was onto something.

"Put that way, an adventure break sounds pretty amazing!!!!!!!! And, like, ohmygosh we had so much fun!!!!!!! There was this totally evil castle headed by this vampire lord and we explored it while fighting off unicorn zombies and skeleton sorcerors and, like, look--" Nina dug out her phone to flip through her pictures before offering it to Owen, "--I've got a selfie with a zombie!!!!!!!!!!!! I, like, named him Egbert, but Lana said that he probably already had a name but, like, since he was dead we couldn't really ask him???????????"

But Egbert had been pretty cool.

"You've taken a picture with a dead person," Owen repeated, like that was a perfectly normal bit of conversation, and took the phone. "... What is this thing, by the way? You're not the first person I've seen using it."

Okay, looking at thep hoto now.

"I mean, like, he didn't mind?????????????" Egbert had been confused, but he hadn't minded, and confusion was perfectly reasonable when nothing like her phone existed in her world. "Oh!!!! It's a cell phone!!!!!!!!!!! People, like, use them to call each other and you can like, take pictures and send messages to people too!!!!!!!!!!!!"

"Ohhhh, right, my roommate was telling me about these," Owen said, sounding more than a little excited at the thought of having one. "How does it work?"

"They're pretty simple," she said, leaning over to get a better look at her phone to show him. "Like, see, it's a touchscreen??????????? And you can slide out of photos and into the other options. A lot of people have, like, games on theirs too?????????"

Nina did not. Nina's phone was a tool, not a game system.

"So, like, that icon there is the one that let's you send messages to people right?????? They're all named pretty obvious things, like, you can look through my photos under the photo icon right there!!!!!!!!!"

"Like the one you just showed me," Owen said, tapping the icon before he looked up to grin at her. "Thank you, Nina."

She grinned back at him.

"Any time," she said happily. "And, like, if you want to get one for yourself, Turtle & Canary sells them here!!!!!!!!!! And Summer, the owner, is so cool, she'll totally be willing to cut you a deal or figure out something if you, like, don't have a lot of money!!!!!!!!!!"

"Maybe I'll get back to that when I have more than 'no money'," Owen said, laughing only a little nervously. "Have I mentioned I appreciate the free food?"

"Free food is always available here," she assured him. "And, like, you'll have a place to sleep and get clean in the dorms, so that's also covered under free. If you want a job, though, a ton of places will be hiring, so you shouldn't have problems finding a place to work??????????"

"Just like that?" Sorry, Nina. Owen was... okay, his tone was a hint of skeptical, no more than that, but still. "Would you happen to have any suggestions as to where I should start? I mean-- do you have a job?"

"I have two, actually!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Though she, uh, wasn't really sure if she still had the one at the Magic Box after her and Norman's... conversation. But, whatever, she'd figure that out later. "I work at the Magic Box, it's a store that, like, sells things for spells and rituals and everything. And I also work at The Bookbelt, which is the book store!!!!!!!!!"

She eyed him thoughtfully.

"Like, I could actually, you know, offer you a job at The Bookbelt, if you wanted one??????????"

She was a co-owner.

"Selling books?" Owen said. On the one hand, it sounded a bit boring. On the other hand, he'd never done it before, which meant it would at least be interesting for a bit.

And money. Also money.

"I might need to get some glasses," he joked, "But I think I could handle being a handsome bookseller. Are there trials? I could ace those trials."

"The only trial is being nice to me," Nina said loftily, then grinned, "and you've, like, already passed that one!!!!!!!!!! So if you want it, you'd be a very dashing bookseller."

"Well, one, money," Owen mused, "Two, a new thing to do with my day. Three, an excuse to be nice to you some more in the future. How can I say no to any of that?"

"It's, like, a trifecta of winning!!!!!!!!! And I'll have the excuse to be nice to you more in the future too, which is pretty great??????????? You in??????????? If so, like, what day would work for you?????????"

How had this turned into getting him a job?

"A... whatever tomorrow is? I just realized I have no idea what your days might be called," Owen said. "... Bloody hell, there might be a lot of things I don't know about."

"Tomorrow's Sunday," Nina said helpfully. "Does that, like, mean anything to you???????????"

~~Barring a piece of lore the player hadn't uncovered yet~~... "Why, I believe it does," Owen said, relieved, beaming at her and shooting her a thumbs up. "Next Sunday. Not this Sunday?"

"Unless you're desperate to start this Sunday, next Sunday is totally great," she said, beaming right back at him. "And I'll, like, stop by to show you the ropes!!!!!!!!!!"

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