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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Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

Lana nodded. "That's good to keep in mind, too. But mostly just please be careful." She gave him a wry smile. "And maybe come eat something and meet people, since that's what this thing is for?"

Honestly, Norman, Lana appreciated books as much as anyone, but people were good, too.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[always_someone]

Norman gave a small, halfhearted laugh. "Meeting my new roommate and my new sibling wasn't enough, huh?"

Because where he was standing, wow, that sure felt like plenty...

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

"You can meet old people, too," Lana said. "But I'm always up for intelligence gathering. What are your new roommate and sibling like?"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[always_someone]

"Pretty much polar opposites, as far as I can tell," Norman offered. "My new sibling is Janet, and she was worried about things like what day the cafeteria has the best food. My new roommate... roommates, I guess... are Delirium and her talking service dog Barnabas, and... Delirium is sometimes tiny fishes, I think."

Delirium was a lot of things, really.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

"And sometimes butterflies? I've heard about her," Lana said. "She seems interesting, at any rate. Which one is Janet?"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[always_someone]

Norman looked around the crowd, and then pointed her out.

"Janet seems pretty nice," he offered. "Just... normal. I don't know how she's going to take to Fandom yet. Not really sure if taking it easy or just ripping off the band-aid is the thing to do with the kind of weirdness we have here..."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

"I tend to favour the sudden approach myself," Lana confessed, "but she's your sibling. I haven't met mine yet."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[always_someone]

"I'm kind of afraid of scaring her off," Norman confessed. "And... I really don't want to just throw anything big around right now, you know?"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

"So, start small but undeniable," Lana suggested. "What's something her world doesn't have?"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[always_someone]

Norman... shrugged a little bit.

"I'd guess her world probably doesn't have any of the stuff my world was pretty convinced it didn't actually have. Ghosts and zombies?" He paused. "I'll be the first to admit that 'zombies' might not be 'starting small.'"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

"The zombies in the bar might," Lana said. "And if not, she can always have a drink to help out."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[always_someone]

"If she drinks," Norman added. "Maybe she doesn't drink?"

He was back to worrying too much again.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

"Then she won't drink," Lana said sensibly. "But she'll have you to help her past the zombies."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[always_someone]

"I mean, I could introduce her to the zombies," Norman noted. "I don't think she's going to think I'm any less crazy when that happens, though."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

"No, but being introduced to them might make them a little less overwhelming," Lana pointed out. "Come to think of it, I don't think I've ever been introduced to them. I don't even know their names."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[always_someone]

Norman paused for a long moment.

"... You know, I don't know their names, either."

And he'd spoken to them.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

"I wonder if the owner knows?" Lana asked. "Or if they can write them down? I haven't understood their...talking?" Verbalizations?

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[always_someone]

"They talk," Norman replied with a shrug. "They just don't talk in a language most of the living can understand."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

"If you do, that's even better," Lana said. "You can ask them. What are they like?" she asked, curious. "Are they much like living people, or do they have different concerns and interests? Apart from the obvious."

Most living people, unless they were poorly augmented cyborgs, didn't have to worry about losing pieces.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[always_someone]

Norman shrugged.

"They're just guys who like music," he explained. "They were really encouraging when I had to take the stage to do a comedy thing for drama class last semester, actually. Good people who also happen to be dead."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

"That's good to know. I've never met anybody dead like that before," Lana said.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[always_someone]

"I was eleven before I'd ever met somebody dead like that," Norman replied. "They're not exactly running around everywhere, you know?"

... Well, some worlds...

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

"Around here, I've learned there are worlds for everything," Lana said. "There's probably some they are."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[always_someone]

"Probably," Norman agreed, and then frowned a little. "... Those must be sad worlds, though."

He really didn't want to go there. And he was the person who could talk to them.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2019]

[unusual_sith]

"Why?" Lana asked. "They wouldn't have to worry about other people there, and everyone would understand them, wouldn't they?"

She had possibly missed things like the zombies' bits falling off.