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School Assembly, Wednesday Afternoon, September 22, 2020

The chairs were in place, the auditorium was clean, bright, and entirely unarmed, and it was time for yet another exciting installment of "Things the Moose Thought Were Good For Human Children to Learn About."

Anakin climbed up to the rostrum, note card in hand. "Today we have another of our local businesspeople here to talk with you," he began. "Alluka Zoldyck, who is the owner of Pixie Dust, one of the clothing shops in town. She is also an alumnae of this school, and still lives here!"

Which was either a good thing or very odd, depending. Anakin thought it was fine, but he'd been here for 15 years, so his judgment was seriously suspect.

"She will be doing a talk on," he looked down and read from the card, "Street Fashion - Literally!"

So that sounded vaguely ominous.

"I'm sure we'll all learn a lot," he added.

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Chat! Worry about the relatives who may be showing up!

It was Nina's first chance to attend one of these things and she wasn't really sure what to expect?

Still, she was showing up a little early and looking around to see what there was to see and how many people showed up to this sort of event…

Miles arrived feeling a bit better that there was not an obstacle course set up in the auditorium. Hopefully nothing weird was going to happen today.

Troy was definitely getting the hang of this show up for an assembly where he didn't usually do much except maybe talk to people thing, and he showed up and planned to not really do much except maybe talk to people that Wednesday to prove it.

Shuri was in her seat, texting quickly with Okoye and Nakia about plans for the weekend.

Nakia, apparently, had a "thing" and couldn't make it. Shuri was telling her not to refer to her brother as a thing.

Sabine had no worries about people showing up! Which was why she always stuck around by the warehouse on these weekends.

But since she hadn't done that yet she could show up to the assembly.

Wei Wuxian was definitely not looking forward to a weekend full of reminders that he didn't have any living family. He slouched in his seat and tried not to look miserable.

Yeah, so.

"Hey," Nina said softly. "You, like, okay?????"

"What?" He looked up, startled, then flashed her a big smile. No mope here, nope. "I'm fine. Didn't sleep enough, that's all. How are you?"

Nina eyed him for a moment--long enough for him to recognize that she didn't buy it at all if he was as smart as he seemed to be.

"I hope you sleep better tonight," she finally said, allowing the lie since she didn't know him well enough to pry.

At least to his face.

"I'm, like, okay????? Kind of wondering what we'll be doing today--this is the first one I've managed to show up to......"

"The one where they ran over stuffed bears with a trolley was very thought-provoking," he said.

...

"I see," she said, after turning that over in her mind and deciding that was almost definitely a gentlemanly sort of go away rather than an actual attempt at conversation.

"Cool," she said, giving up. Fine. He wanted to brood in peace. It was strange to brood in public but, like, maybe that was how they did it in his world. "Assembly's starting soon so I'll talk to you some other time."

"No, it was!" Wei Wuxian said quickly. "You had to decide what bears lived and which died. But this one'll probably be more normal."

Alright, maybe she'd read him wrong.

"That sounds like a pretty interesting assembly," Nina admitted. "Do you think this one being more normal would be better or worse??????"

"I don't know what 'normal' is here," he confessed.

"That's a complicated thing to define," she said, having to agree that normal here was definitely different from normal at home. "I suppose, like, the best way to help you figure that out would be to give you sort of a base-line for this place and time????? Fandom isn't quite like the rest of this world but a lot of the normal here is basically the same....."

She wasn't going to suggest a trip to the mainland, though, since Nina actually paid attention to the news off the island and... no, thanks. Rather not.

Take it away, Alluka!

Alluka felt very small as she looked to see who'd shown up for her assembly.

Given that she looked like she was maybe ten or eleven at the oldest, she probably seemed pretty small to the rest of them too.

Still, her outfit was really pretty and she knew what she was talking about, so when it was her turn to talk, Alluka beamed, bouncing a little on her toes, and gave everyone a little wave.

"Hi, everyone!" she said brightly. "Like he said, I'm Alluka! I, I don't know that we'll be learning a whole bunch today but I hope everyone has fun anyway!"

Learning could be fun but fun wasn't always learning.

"So, um, this weekend is a pretty big deal and while we might not all have visitors coming to the island," and given what had happened the last time her Dad had encountered her Papa… Alluka didn't want that sort of visitor either, she got it, "but we all live here. Some of us might not live here for long but while you're here, this is what you're used waking up to."

Whether or not that was a good thing, Alluka would leave up to you.

"But that doesn't mean things don't need a bit of a touch up! And it's nice to spruce things up and change things up while you're the one in control instead of at the island's whim! So today we're going to be decorating the whole island!"

She clapped her hands sharply, once, twice, and then one more time. Supplies appeared as if from nowhere. There were cleaning supplies and things to repair broken bits and bobs that happened—a screen that needed patching, a hinge that needed tightening—and then…

And then there were the decorations. Absolute miles of decorations were all neatly stacked and organized, everything from spray paint to long ribbons to blocks of stone. Anything someone could imagine would be in the piles, ready for them to work with.

"My sister and I have prepared everything you might need," and then some, "and for anyone concerned about permanent changes, please be assured—anything you fix, like a broken screen, will stay fixed. But the decorations will last just past the weekend before they disappear!"

Nanika was so tired. It had taken them ages to figure out how to swing that.

"So I'm going to appoint some Style Gurus, who'll be able to point you in the right direction if you need help with ideas on how and where to decorate! Our Style Gurus for today are: myself, Miles, Astrid, and Tahani!

"Remember, the whole island is your canvas—so have fun with it! If you have any questions, feel free to ask!"

She clapped her hands together again, this time just out of delight.

"Let's go!"

Alluka will most certainly try to help out!

If you need something, it's in the supplies! It'll last just past the weekend and disappear unless it's something strictly for an actual repair.

Feel free to rummage at will!

Or bother the voluntolds for ideas because, oh man, there's enough here to inspire anyone! Conspire with each other to make the island so ~fancy~ for Parents Weekend. Or draw dicks on the walls.

LBR it's probably some combination of both.

Astrid was maybe more than a little amused by this, and she was more than happy to help, already getting some ideas as she picked through a few things and started to get a few ideas and directions of where she, an true Style Guru in her worn jeans, Fred Segal shirt, and thrift store shit-kicker boots (hey, apparently, the '90s were coming back, right?), could direct people to go, in an activity that had once given her the prestigious honor of spending a night in the station's holding cell, once upon a time.

"I'm afraid I'll have to bow to your expertise for this event," Elli said, coming up to Astrid with a soft laugh.

"I don't recommend etching anything," Astrid said with a faint grin, since that was what sort of got her in trouble the first time, "but I like the look of these paints. I would think the wood could have potential, but I'm worried that the woodchucks'll just get to anything we try to do with that. I think....it'll depend on where we go to decorate, and we can sort of base what we do on that particular location."

"You're right that the woodchucks might make things difficult," Elli admitted, looking at all the options with wide eyes. "And where—oh, I suppose that is the first choice, isn't it? A shop or a street would be fun… though there's also the park, which might not get as much attention…"

"I wonder if the weather will hold until this weekend," Astrid mused, though she was pretty sure, because it was Fandom and this was a Thing, it definitely would. "Maybe we could do something like decorating the trees in the park with streamers and ribbons and making the place look ready for fall with autumn and harvest kinds of decorations.

"We can't paint the playground equipment really bright and colorful, too. I don't think a lot of little siblings and kids show up for parents weekend, but it could be fun, anyway."

The island was very… convenient… like that, it was true.

"Oh, that would be lovely! We could use braided rope on the swing sets—that would look pretty and might actually add grip, rather than detract, should anyone use the playsets."

Because it would be a terrible thing if anyone got hurt because of decorations.

"Do you think we could find lanterns in the pile?" Elli asked. "We could plant small lights at the base of trees to illuminate the decorations in the dark too."

"Okay," Nina muttered to herself, "I need, like, all the stencils…………."

Luckily, rummaging around netted her… rather more than even she'd be able to use.

Perfect!

Miles needed no urging for this. Especially when he saw the cans of spray paint. He was immediately down there and rummaging through to pick out the color palette he'd prefer.

Of course Tahani was a style guru! Just look at her!

"Exterior design isn't my forte," she was musing aloud, "but I do know how to garden. Flowers make everything look cheery."

Wei Wuxian gathered supplies to make paper lanterns and started painting a bunny on one of them. He was trying not to think too much about the upcoming weekend.

Feel free to either make a thread here with the business/area of town you're decorating OR make a post in the appropriate comm for it! Go wild!

Just keep in mind that if a PC-owned business you want to decorate isn't opted-in over here, you'll need to check with the player who owns it to see if they're cool with decorating their place!

Although she figured not many people would really even be able to notice it or appreciate it, Freya figured it just made sense for her to go and take care of cleaning up the rooftops around town, maybe getting into cleaning gutters and the like, while also adding decorations to the eaves and chinmeys while she was up there. It was, after all, easy enough for her to reach, and this way, the cleaning and decorating could really be a bottom-to-top effort!

And she definitely had her sights on doing a bit with the lighthouse, as well.

It's possibly silly to add an OOC thread to a post that already has an OOC thread but I had to.

Up early for timezones!

And I just want to thank you all for indulging me with this nonsense! <3 <3

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Yay, Our Speaker!

The... Lecture...?

Questions! And maybe answers!

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Around the Town!

The Rooftops

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