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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Other places might have been expecting a cold front wtf polar vortex, but the weather in Fandom was just right for welcoming in new people. The bonfire was mostly going for decoration, but there were also the makings for s'mores among the food offerings.

Mmmm, summer food.

The food was ready, the tables and chairs had been spread across the lawn with just the right amount of glitter on them, and everything was ready to welcome a new batch of folks to the island!

[OCD is coming! 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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Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2020]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Don't break them, just be grateful they didn't get stolen away like last time.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2020]

[legionqueen]

This was Jules' first go at being a 'big sibling', despite being here for just over a year now.

She had to admit, when she saw the name of her assigned sibling, she had to wonder if the similarity of their names had anything to do with how they'd been paired together.

She stuck her own nametag on, and then with Camden at her side as usual, started looking through the crowd, hoping this Julius would also be wearing a nametag.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2020]

[amitragic]

So Ulysses had been assigned another fake sib. He still didn't think he was qualified for that, but at least he didn't think it could go worse than it had last time, what with the volcano and Cass just flat-out leaving the island after they'd gotten out.

So he was feeling chill enough as he stood around with his nametag on, scanning the new people for a Tahani.

... But he was not going to be opening or even approaching any random presents on the ground today, no.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2020]

[white_oleander]

Astrid had made a sign, which she supposed wouldn't surprise anyone, and while it would help with finding out who her little sibling was, she'd mostly only done it because she was bored and wanted something to do and, also, you know, was deeply traumatized by LAST semester's welcome picnic that she didn't even make it to because of being kidnapped by demons and what have you not barely even a week after her foster mother's death.

So, yeah, it had been kind of a distraction. And the sign had all of Astrid's talent poured into it, nearly printed letters to spell out 'ELLI' on a backdrop of brightly colored flowers. Hopefully, holding it would make it easier to find the other student and prevent her from awkward conversations with people who weren't Elli.

Of course, it did strike her that maybe Elli couldn't read, not even their own name, in which case she hoped maybe Elli at least liked flowers?

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2020]

[bookbeltof_love]

Nina was exhausted she'd been up all night doing wiring and lights and then she'd napped for a handful of hours before getting ready for a new sibling and to catch video of the bus returning.

Mission one was accomplished: she'd gotten the bus on video and had sent a copy of it off to her brother and then she'd bolted for the picnic without anyone being the wiser.

Now, like, mission two was in progress and sure. Sure. She could have a sign like Astrid did (which was absolutely gorgeous) but that just wasn't Nina's style.

Especially not when she was sad Prompto wasn't here.

So, sorry, Alexis, but hopefully you weren't shy? Because Nina was standing on a table, with a bright pink, thoroughly bedazzled megaphone.

"HIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'M, LIKE, LOOKING FOR ALEXIS ROSE????????????????????????????????????"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2020]

[thishouseishaunted]

Mae had somehow gotten signed up to be a big sibling again. That must mean she’d done a great job last time, right? She put her name tag on and hopped up onto a table to make up for her decided height disadvantage.

“ALARAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!” she bellowed.

What? Subtlety was for other people.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Summer 2020]

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine had also gone the sign route, since it was eye catching enough to have worked before. It was graffiti-style with Freya's name on it, and on display as Sabine wandered around trying to look at nametags.

Meet Your Roommate [Summer 2020]

[bigdamnprincipal]

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:

212: Alara Kitan / Elli
220: Alexis Rose / Tahani El-Jamil
320: Julius Heartstriker / Freya Crescent

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Summer 2020]

[snowdroplace]

"Alara! That's great!"

Well, as far as roommates went, Elli really couldn't complain! Alara had seemed nice enough before the shuttle and, well...

She'd enjoyed talking to Julius and all but it was for the best that she wasn't rooming with a boy!

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Summer 2020]

[lovethatjourney]

Alexis took one look at her assignment and said, loudly, "Dibs on the closet!"

There would be no room for people. They were gonna have to knock down a wall.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Summer 2020]

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Roommates?" Julius didn't mean to sound spoiled, he really didn't. But he hadn't shared a room with anyone since his clutch had left the hatchery and before that--

Well, being the runt of a draconic litter wasn't a great experience even for dragons who were better at dragoning than Julius was.

Which was all of them, really.

Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2020]

[bigdamnprincipal]

They might be adults but try not to scare them away either.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2020]

[solarhippie]

Once more, Karolina had a nametag that said GUIDANCE COUNSELOR Karolina with a little rainbow sticker at the end, and a little basket with small welcome packets for the new kids, as well as a list of said new kids.

Hopefully she would actually be able to find the new kids this time. No one wanted a repeat of January.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2020]

[somethingwithturquoise]

Summer might be a little disappointed to find out that her very first teaching buddy was someone already well acquainted with the island, but she didn't know that yet. Because she was kind of ready to break some brains, and on the look-out for unfamiliar faces behind which there might be brains to be broken.

And still, somehow, a little bouncy about the novelty of being in the teacher's group. Would it ever get old?

Probably, but not yet! Don't you try and crush her youthful exhiberence!

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2020]

[died8yearsago]

Ugh. Looks like it was time for one of Rosa's favorite things about a new semester! Showing up and looking surly at a picnic. She probably could have skipped it, but she'd been doing this for so long (UGH) that it would have felt weird if she didn't. Besides, after what happened last time, she figured it would be good to be present as both a member of the faculty and the (UGH) troopers just in case anything weird started to go down again.

But it was fine. She actually had something to keep her pretty entertained this time, and that was spending as much time as possible glaring over at Blackstone.

She knew what she did!

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2020]

[special_rabbit]

Oh, Amaya definitely knew what she did which was why she was going to be very determined in ignoring the glare being burned into her back and just focus on having a good time, trying to be social, and probably consuming a worrisome amount of meats on sticks.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2020]

[sake_shinigami]

Shunsui was there...eventually, wondering why anyone thought these things needed to start so early, although they very much started at an incredibly reasonable time. But once he did get there, he was eager to mingle with his fellow teachers, especially if there were any particularly beautiful new ones, and things were good. He had his hat to protect his eyes from the sun, his haori to catch any dramatic or errant breezes, and his jug of sake to share (with like-minded adults, not students, sorry ducklings ♥!), and already had a good spot picked out for a nap later if he felt so inclined.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2020]

[imafuturist]

Tony, armed with a very large coffee and the beginning of a friendly smile was ready to meet his 'teaching buddy'. He sort of felt that someone named Yennefer of Vengerberg would be pretty easy to spot, but who honestly knew?

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2020]

[ohvalleyofpenis]

You might think that after being captured by a Krampus and held hostage with a bunch of strangers (and Geralt) would have made Jaskier less likely to return.

You would be right.

Hence his very loud, very annoyed, "Oh, fuck." A line shamelessly stolen from someone else.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2020]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Someone had introduced Zoe to Yeti tumblers, so she had one of the big ones filled with enough coffee to get her through... probably the morning. But, she was smiling and in good spirits for the moment, at least.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2020]

[magnusrushesin]

Magnus, armor, weapons, and all were totally there for this. Because free food and also sometimes maybe there might be a fight. He'd totally be down for a fight.

He even brought his D20 to get that initiative off right away!

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2020]

[betterthanaplan]

Last time Duke had come to one of these things, he’d gotten kidnapped. The time before, he’d found out the island had somehow known he was coming here before he did. So he couldn’t help the slightly suspicious way he was eyeing everything at the picnic.

Nothing seemed amiss yet. But he’d thought that last time too.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2020]

[spin_kick_snap]

This wasn't Kathy's first go-round at teaching, but that had been the first summer after she'd come back from the dead and honestly? She barely remembered it. Something, something trauma response.

Still felt very weird to be on this side of the picnic, though.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Summer 2020]

[bookbeltof_love]

Was she supposed to hang out here?

Nina honestly didn't know?

Like, she was well aware of the fact that she was in a weird, weird spot (and it was her weird spot and she was going to cling to it for all she was worth) by being both a student and a teacher, even if none of her classes were allowed to be taught at the school.

So... she was sort of spending about half her time hanging out around the adults?

Well.

This was awkward? Though she was going to pretend it wasn't.

OOC [WP 1]

[bigdamnprincipal]

NGL this is the only way I know it's Saturday right now.