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

[bigdamnprincipal]

The island was still thankfully, blissfully normal, so fingers were crossed that the picnic would go off without a hitch.

The weather was pleasant enough - sunny, but not so hot that people would melt outside - and all the decorations had been safely pulled out of storage. There were tables and chairs set up with blue and yellow balloons, a table for all the information the new students would need, and enough food to probably feed two islands. It was time to welcome some new folks, everyone!

[OCD is up! This is part one of the picnic, specifically for meeting siblings, roommates, and teachers. The rest of the picnic is happening here. Since it's outside, the picnic is open to all students, teachers, and townies!]

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Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2019]

[chirpchirpchirp]

Vette gave a little grin at that laugh.

"I think you'll do great here," she decided. "But if you need any help finding anything at all, I'll hook you up with my phone number and room number. And I can be found at the scrapyard on Thursdays and selling guns at the Wellspring Arms on Fridays, and hey, maybe we'll even have a class together sometime."

As if she was organized enough to think to check her class schedule before today. She'd had a late night of decorating, after all.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2019]

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Tisarwat's expression went a little serious again as she listened to Vette, because she had no doubt that her questions were only going to increase as she moved forward from here. She nodded, repeating some of it back, even if some of it was a little unfamiliar and already raised questions all their own. "Phone number, room number. Scrapyard on Thursdays, and Wellspring Arms on Friday. Maybe even a class together...

"What's...a phone number?" she ventured. "And what are the classes like here, anyway?"

So many questions, Vette. And each answer just seemed to spawn a half a dozen more.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2019]

[chirpchirpchirp]

"Oh! A phone is a two-way audio transmitter," Vette explained. "A comm, basically. So the number is the connection code you use to contact another particular device. I'm guessing you're going to need a phone, huh? I can hook you up. I have a bunch I put together from spare parts I keep in my room for when I feel like tinkering."

She always felt like tinkering.

"And the classes... really depend on what you're taking and who's teaching," she added. "Like, I took a whole class about cooking using bananas last term. That... was weird. But there are a lot of classes about self-defence that are useful, too."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2019]

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

That all sounded like a clunky and inefficient way to communicate, but, already, Tisarwat felt pretty desperate for any sort of comm device at all.

"That does sound like something I'll need," she agreed with a grateful smile. "If you don't mind, that is. I'd really appreciate it, Vette. And...it sounds like the classes here are probably just as varied as the students themselves."

And nothing at all like re-education. Her thoughts had started swaying away from that possibility by now, but it still lurked there in the deepest depths of her fears.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2019]

[chirpchirpchirp]

If re-education involved bananas, Vette had some serious questions about the Radch. Really, really serious ones.

... Coming from Nar Shaddaa wouldn't make the existence of re-education weird for her at all, though. Scary, sure. Weird? Nah.

"Great! Then I'll set you up with a phone as soon as I can. Maybe I'll just leave it gift-wrapped outside your door if I don't manage to catch you in your room," Vette decided. "And hey, maybe you'll even like the classes. They aren't all a waste of time, anyway."

Vette would forever treasure the time she got to spend beating on the Dean with a large padded Q-Tip.