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

[bigdamnprincipal]

The good weather continued throughout the day, making it very comfortable to be out on the lawn. Who would want to miss such a nice picnic?

[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 2020]

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

Julius would like to introduce him to the revolutionary concept of running away.

"Okay, so can I ask you a weird question?" Julius asked, giving Ulysses a small, self-conscious smile.

He had dimples. Sorry, Uly.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2020]

[amitragic]

"... You can ask me anything you want."

That did not, it should be noted, come out sounding at all smooth. Not that he'd tried to. It was one of those things that he maybe hadn't meant to say at all.

But there it was.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2020]

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Thanks!" Julius said, his smile growing bigger. "That's really nice of you! But, uhh. I was hoping you'd tell me what year it is? Here?"

Because the bus driver had said 2020 and that absolutely couldn't be right.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2020]

[amitragic]

"Oh." He wasn't sure what he'd been expecting. He kind of kept forgetting that was a question that was even an option. "Uh, it's 2020."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2020]

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Really?" Julius pressed. "I mean, really-really? This isn't some kind of...I dunno. Island-wide prank?"

Like the time all the Ks and Js had pretended that Julius had turned invisible and no one could see or hear him.

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2020]

[amitragic]

"Really," Ulysses replied, his chin bobbing up and down on a few nods. "Why, what year'd you think it is?"

Wait, no, that was the wrong way to ask that.

"Or, like, what year is it supposed to be for you?"

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2020]

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"2097," Julius said with an awkward laugh. "Guess that explains why nobody understood what I was talking about, half the time."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2020]

[amitragic]

"Yeah, that'd do it," Ulysses decided after a beat, eyebrows knitting together in a befuddled-ly curious frown. "Wait, so we must all seem kinda backwards to you, right? Like, I'd hope another hundred years would bring, like, advancements that make us look like we're just... playing with rocks or something."

Re: General Mingling [Summer 2020]

[nicedragonsfinishlast]

"Yeah, kinda," Julius admitted with another one of those small, self-conscious chuckles. "So, back home, we have immersive AR and cybernetics and suborbital flights and all sorts of stuff. Also, umm, magic? A comet hit - will hit? - Canada in the thirties and that brought - brings? Tenses are really hard, wow - all the magic back. So yeah, there's magic, and tech, and magitech. I nearly had a heart attack when I saw that the bus didn't have as much as an autonav system."