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

[bigdamnprincipal]

As the heat continued to bear down on the lawn, many of the tables and chairs were set up in the spots where there was shade, so no one got overheated or anything. That would be very rude for the first day in Fandom, after all.

[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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General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Be kind rewind to the new folks, there's plenty of time to break them in.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[sparkinyou]

Feeling a little rattled, Miles took a seat near a table and brought out his sketch book. Not finding any true inspiration he began sketching the castle that was apparently his new school.

"So weird."

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[legionqueen]

Over the past few weeks, Jules had gotten pretty good at navigating with a crutch, but the picnic presented a particular challenge.

"I need to rig up some sort of harness so you can carry things on your back," she remarked to Camden as she and the mountain cat finally got settled at a table after, like, three trips with carefully balanced plates of small amounts of food that she was now consolidating on to one plate.

Camden looked deeply unimpressed by this idea, for the record.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[canlendanear]

This time round Alara didn't feel nearly as awkward as she had when she had first arrived at Fandom and so was making more of an effort to try and be a bit more social at this picnic.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[weirderthanthou]

Well, you're the mayor of a school town, you should... probably be at the school picnic.

Jesse was here, holding a glass of orange juice, and kind of... hovering on the edges of the park.

Maybe next time she should ask for a designated mayor spot, or something.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[white_oleander]

Astrid sort of had a favourite tree by now that she settled under to watch everyone and sketch people and the picnic or sometimes just the scenery. There was a bit of a lack of interesting new non-human faces, by the look of it, and that was always a little disappointing, because they were always a good challenge, but it wasn't like Astrid was ever short on ideas for things to draw.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[notarockharpist]

Yasha had gotten herself a plate of food and then retreated all the way to the shadiest spot she could find at the edge of the lawn, close to the school gates but still within visual range of the picnic so she could at least observe what was going on.

So don't mind the tall, muscled, and freakishly pale woman just lurking as best as someone this visually striking could lurk in the shadows, okay? She was hoping the massive sword that was visible over her shoulder would be enough to deter people from trying to start a conversation or something equally excruciating.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[dauntlessdragoon]

Freya had actually managed to get a portal to the right Gaia earlier that week, and so she was convinced that that was that, and her little excursion to this island was over, and she could continue her search for Sir Fratley in earnest.

So imagine her surprise when she boarded a train car for the business district in Lindblum and wound up exiting it not in the business district or even in Lindblum at all, but back at the end of the causeway on Fandom Island.

So if she seemed a little irritable, especially in her flickering tail, as perused through various cheese bites at the food tables, well, could you blame her?

She clearly needed to stop taking those cars. She could get there in a few leaps if she had wanted to!

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[lilac_eyed_lieutenant]

Despite generally not really caring for the heavy amount of eating finger foods without gloves that usually went hand-in-hand with these kinds of events, Tisarwat did let Summer convince her to at least swing by because it was always interesting to see new people, and it was a rare event where she might get the chance to talk with some of her friends from when she was a student here, because she hadn't been socializing as much, and she missed seeing some of them more often.

She would skip the food, for the time being, but she did have tea.

Her own that she brought with her, of course.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[grayskollar]

Adora was having A Day, but at least there was food and plenty of it. Some of it she even recognised.

It may have looked like she'd just helped herself to an entire platter, but she did have enough table manner to know that'd be rude. Instead, she'd found an empty platter and filled it with a little bit from all the others.

See, completely different.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[mylandmyrules]

Nell was both excited and nervous to be a big sibling this time around. She got herself a plate of food, taking care to try some things she'd never had before, then found herself a place to sit where she could watch all the goings on.

She might also have had a bag with little samples of teas and lotions to give out. If she got brave enough.

Or if anyone asked what was in the bag.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[complexfemale]

Maeve was not trying to be social over here. She was only even intending to stay long enough to get a feel for what kind of place this was, so she found a spot to sit and watch, and look vaguely threatening.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[sith_said]

Did Cait Sith actually have any connection to the welcome picnic? Well... no. He'd never been a student, or the gods help them all, a teacher, and he was probably the most inconsistent bartender Caritas had and yet...

Well, there was a plush cat with a red cape and a jaunty little crown crowing to the crowds from atop a picnic table.

"Welcome, welcome! Welcome tae th' islain! It's weirder than ye ur!"

And, yes, the plush cat had a very heavy Scottish accent. Why? ... Because.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[snowdroplace]

It was so strange--it seemed like it had been just yesterday that it had been her welcome picnic and now, here she was, and there were other people who were new!

How marvelous!

Elli tucked herself under the shade of a tree, with a plate of goodies, and mostly contented herself with people watching and smiling in sheer delight.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[amitragic]

Ulysses was mostly here because he was starving. Or at least that's what it looked like, based on the mountain of food on his plate as he headed for one of the tables.

He was also here to scope out the hotness of the new students, but that was less obvious. Especially because he was wearing another ridiculous pair of sunglasses.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[stykera]

He'd gone to Caritas the other night and survived the movie so Stark was reasonably sure he could handle a welcome picnic. Besides, it was outdoors and the sun was out and these events were generally fine so even though there would be no teaching for the fall he thought he might as well show up, at least for a little while.

He filled a plate with an assortment of things, including some desserts of course, and found a table to stand near where he could put the plate down if necessary.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[thebeastofhouston]

Yes to free food. Arabella assembled herself a plate of everything that looked good and found a place to sit, then pulled out her phone to send some texts.

To Nevada and Catalina: Don't tell Mom, but I'm rooming with a boy.

Her phone immediately started blowing up with incoming texts, so she decided to shelve her debate on whether to ask Bern for a background check on her new roommate--who might not even exist in her world, apparently--in favor of shoving her phone back in her pocket and eating delicious food.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[lovethatjourney]

Alexis wanted to make sure she mad a good impression on the new people, so she'd dressed herself up all pretty and made sure her makeup was perfect, and was walking around (on grass, in heels, flawlessly) to see who was who and who was cute.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[seriesofbaddecisions]

Sabine had been avoiding people on purpose for the last week, but once the newbies showed up, it was really kind of a trauma reset, right? Which was also why she showed up at the picnic with bright blue hair with purple and teal woven through it.

The armor would be next. The hair was always quicker and more cathartic.

She found a seat at a table where she could watch for people, but she still kind of stood out.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[thishouseishaunted]

After presumably meeting her new little sib -- who as with most people, was much taller than her -- Mae filled a plate with lots of snacks and went to grab a seat on a free table.

On the table, mind you. Not at it. Sitting in seats like a normal person was for . . . normal people.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[betterthanaplan]

It was picnic day, and Duke still hadn't been told he'd been assigned a class. He was really hoping that meant he hadn't been assigned a class. Maybe the moose was finally giving him a break?

Well. He was here anyway, giving the moose lots of time to come find him if it hadn't. And, you know, still keeping an eye out for any evil goat people.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[x_discospider_x]

It had been one hell of a morning for Troy and, even though he was definitely disappointed that his big sib wasn't a magic cat that gave him magical powers, this seemed to be going...well. And then there was food, and a lot of it on Troy's plate, and he was going to demolish that food. All of this had really worked up appetite.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[howareyanow]

Wayne was back from a week on the farm, and feeling pretty good for it. He'd done his Big Sibling duty to the best of his ability, and so now he was just going to take his lawn chair and set it up off to the side of the picnic a little to enjoy a pop and a dart and just sort of see what new tom fuckery they might be in store for this semester.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 2020]

[toottootmagicflute]

Wei Wuxian wasn't sure how long it had been since he last ate, what with the breakdown, the fighting, the dying, and the journey through... a portal?

Anyway. He was hungry. Most of the foods were unfamiliar, so he took a little of each to try them. He recognized shrimp, but most of the plate was empty. He took the few that were left anyway. He tried the sauces on the table, filled up a bowl with sriracha sauce, and balanced it on top of his food. Then he carefully carried his food to an open spot on the grass and sat down to eat.

OOC [WP 2]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Up slightly early because I need sleeeeep...