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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, Saturday, All Day

However weather magic worked around here on any given day, the weather for the welcome picnic wasn't all that bad. It was a little chilly outside (50F/10C), but not as awful as January could be, and the bonfire in the middle of the lawn was providing a nice amount of warmth. No one noticed who specifically put the cute presents around it, but the gifts looked harmless and ignoring non-dangerous weird things was just how a lot of people coped with living here, okay?

The food was ready, the tables and chairs had been spread across the lawn, and everything was ready to welcome a new batch of folks to the island!

[OCD is up! Siblings | Roommates | Teachers | General Mingling | Kidnapping(!) | OOC]

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Yay for meeting new people!

[Obviously, feel free to use this space to WTF with anyone who wants to ping in over the fact that your siblings have not arrived!]

Current students who had been assigned new rooms and/or roommates had been handwavily informed of the change, but the list had been posted for everyone to see at one of the tables:

234: Alexis Rose and Abigail
236: Sea Hawk and Heather Davis
333: MOMO Mizrahi and Cass Charke
337: Fragile

[Yes, I made a thread for this. TRADITION! There are names, surely there should be new people?]

A wonderful batch of role models, old and new!

[Same as the others, feel free to notice it's the same batch of weirdos as last semester!]

What a lovely day for a totally typical picnic!

Wait, this isn't usually part of the picnic! But then, neither are those presents that keep popping up everywhere and hey, that one has your name on it!

[This is the thread for those who volunteered to get kidnapped to receive their present and get whisked away. Mwahahahahahahahahaha!]

Posted early for time zones, SP, and the fact that I'm old and need to sleep early.

It's still the most wonderful time of the year, even with a little kidnapping. If you have any questions, leave them here!

*cackles at roommate assignments*

Heather's probably going to be grateful for the kidnapping when she realises she was going to end up with my boy here.

Liam and Verity had arrived back in Fandom late enough Friday night that it was technically Saturday morning.

Sure, it meant Liam had only been able to catch a few hours sleep before heading out to the picnic but 1) he didn't actually need more than about three hours to be totally functional and 2) it was a few hours of sleep in his own bed and not in a hotel, which made it that much better.

But he was here, he was ready to chat with any new (or returning!) students or teachers, and- yeah, he was sporting some new jewelry on his left ring finger.

It had been a very busy break, okay?

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Liam? Definitely not single by any stretch of the imagination (he had the paperwork to prove it and everything!), but he had a plate piled high with picnic food and he was absolutely ready to mingle.

Though as the day wore on, his good mood started to dissipate as he got the distinct feeling that Something Wasn't Right.

As per tradition,Sabine was looking for her little sib with a graffitied sign she'd made bearing the name "Fragile." (Which she hoped people knew was a name and not like some kind of statement.) She'd waited a while to find her siblings before, that wasn't a problem.

It was a problem when it was taking this long.

I think RNG knows who Mermista's VO is. . . .

This was Tip's last chance to get a new little sibling, so of course she'd signed up. And she was all set to welcome MOMO. . . . If they ever got here.

She saw Sabine waiting too and headed over. "Do you know if the bus has gotten in yet?"

So not only had Duke been assigned a random class, he apparently also managed to get himself a "teaching buddy".

Well, if he could pay Hannibal's brain-breaking first day welcome forward, that was just what he was going to do. Assuming he ever found his new assigned new teacher.

He wasn't really looking very hard. Apparently showing up to the picnic for the snacks was, like, tradition or something. Far be it for him to buck that.

[pre-kidnapping threads are cool, yes?]

Question: the kidnappings -- all modded, or are there NPCs for that?

Mae grabbed herself a seat on one of the tables (no, you didn't read that wrong), a plate of crunch snacks piled high on her lap. Which she alternated between eating and flicking at random passersby.

So, she was a teacher.

Seivarden had brought her own tea and wasn't going anywhere near the picnic table, but she was here, looking around for people she knew.

Wonderful! It was finally here! The welcome picnic, and Sidon had his very last little sibling to help usher into the world of Fandom High! Poor Heather wouldn't even know what hit her, because he was determined to ensure that this last sibling got the utmost best Sidon had to offer!

Now, if only he could just find her, a task that should not be as difficult as it was proving to be, because it would seem that none of the faces he was seeing toward were at all unfamiliar, which was very curious and a little bit worrisome indeed...

Oh. Hey. What's up?

So, Summer was totally there, just sort of chilling back, with a soda, a sweet pair of shades. Y'know. NBD.

Trying to keep a smirk off her face about it, but not doing a terribly good job. Honestly, she was totally impressed with herself that she did manage to be so chill and wasn't, like, just totally bouncing around and flinging herself at evvverrryyboooddddyyyyy right now.

Last night's shenanigans had left Prompto feeling pretty tired that day, but it was a good tired, an accomplished one, because, man. It was so nice and so rare when you had a perfect vision for something and it turned out exactly the way you hoped it would, and quite possibly even better. And he couldn't wait to find out what all these newbs had to say about coming to their new school in what was essentially a giant yellow chicken bus.

He might have let him sleep in a little, but he did have a new sibling, and he felt it was always best to get on that pretty quickly so, tired as he was, he got some coffee and then went looking around for who might be Alexis, to introduce himself and help get her orientated. But as he started looking around for new faces, something seemed a little...off? Maybe it was because he was so sleepy, but it almost seemed like there weren't really any new faces at all?

What?

Clearly, he just needed more coffee. Man...

I ALSO HAVE A QUESTION. Should all the kidnappings happen at the picnic, or are kidnappings around the island also totally fair game?

Just when Rosa was starting to feel like maybe she and the moose had finally gotten an understanding (since he hadn't bothered messing up any of her classes for a while now), he had to go and do something like this. Ugh. She seemed to be particularly irritated to be there (yes, yes, more so than normal), and ready to just glare daggers at any face that looked a little bit new. Especially any faces that seemed particularly new and might belong to a person named Jaskier.

But since she actually wasn't noticing too many new faces, it might just have to be glares for familiar ones. With a small slice of frustration and confusion that the one face she did want to see wasn't one she was yet seeing, either.

Because you really didn't need to know Rosa well to know that she planned to immediately try to pawn a Teaching Buddy off on Blackstone as son as humanly possible.

Especially a Teaching Buddy with a name like Jaskier.

At least one of the teachers would be found underneath a tree, legs folded in front of his, his posture suggesting something like meditation, though the tilt of his hat to mostly cover his face (and even the smallest amount of knowledge about him whatsoever) suggested napping.

Which Shunsui'd probably still be doing right now even if he hadn't been woken up in the middle of the night by meddling kids with machinations toward buses, but it was nice that he had an excuse on hand.

He was, on occasion, lifting said hat to take a slight glance around, mostly to see if any new incoming teachers appeared to be lovely ladies that might require an introduction, but so far, everyone seemed vaguely familiar at least, so he'd just lower the hat again and resume his beauty rest catch-up.

Tisarwat was looking forward to enjoying a picnic like this when she herself wasn't so culture-shocked and fresh and new, especially since it afforded a good opportunity to just people watch a bit, so long as she studiously avoided watching anyone eating with their hands. She had her tea with her, of course, as she settled at one of the tables for a little while, considering which foods had not required hands to possibly help herself to some later. Sure, she was much more used to it now, but finger foods still put a pretty big damper on her appetite overall.

Welcome Picnics were tradition, now, weren't they? So of course Wayne would be there in support of all the festivities and the apparent new students that were supposed to be coming in, but he wasn't seeing a whole lot of them at the moment. But still. Social gathering. Tradition. He'd be there, standing off to the side a little with his square little stance, his narrowed gaze, one thumb looped in his belt loop while he occasionally took a swig from a pop in his other hand.

Mebbe ocassionally helping himself to a cupcake.

"Haven't seen it yet," Sabine answered, frowning. "I'm starting to think it broke down on the way here or something."

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Fandom High Welcome Picnic, Front Lawn of the School, Saturday, All Day

Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Spring 2020]

Meet Your Roommate [Spring 2020]

Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2020]

General Mingling [Spring 2020]

Kidnapping [Spring 2020]

OOC [Spring 2020]

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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Spring 2020]

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