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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Despite the fact that this picnic was celebrating the new fall semester, it was still technically summer, and the weather was making that clear. It was sunny, with not a cloud in the sky, and the temperature was seasonably toasty.

With not a minute to spare, 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!

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Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 22]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Be gentle with the new folks, at least at the start.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 22]

[furrybluefreak]

Kurt was excited. He'd finally get the meet the little sibling he had been matched up with. It was a good thing too because he was really curious about the name he had been given- TJ Wagner. It had to just be a coincidence that they shared the same last name. Right?

Kurt found a spot where he could easily watch the crowd and try to figure out where his little sibling was.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 22]

[onlyajones]

Jo was going to be a big sibling again this semester, she was still a bit nervous even after doing this a few times but she was still excited about doing this again and she put on her name tag and began to look around for Meeka.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 22]

[outofthequiver]

With barely any time between getting back from space and needing to be at the welcome picnic to track down her newest Sibling, Libby was a little rushed in dropping off her things, taking a few moments to make sure she looked presentable, and then heading out to the lawn. It looked like things were just getting underway, though, so she probably didn't need to rush as much as she had, but she immediately started looking around for new faces, potentially at nametags, and trying to figure out which one might look like a Charlie.

Which was proving a little difficult, because she was absolutely looking for a boy and not exactly finding any new ones of those, as far as she could tell!

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 22]

[napking]

Gray had never been a big brother before, and he was positively vibrating with excitement.

Well, that and the extremely large, extremely sugary concoction he'd picked up at The Perk that morning. There was a lot of espresso in there, too. It should hold Sloth off for at least a little while. Now he just needed to find his little sibling.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 22]

[cassandras_sister]

Allie was having the worst morning, which included waking up in jail in the wrong state, having terrible coffee, finding a Portalocity office and having zero luck at the Portalocity office, realizing she was dressed for December in what appeared to be summer, and just general quiet panic about getting back to New Ham.

So she wasn't even aware she was getting a big sib. Sorry!

Meet Your Roommate [Fall 22]

[bigdamnprincipal]

The list posted for everyone read:

201: Allie Pressman/TJ Wagner
207: Charlie Gale/Meeka Joffer
224: Clare Devlin/Beta

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 22]

[scarlet_and_indigo]

Allie? Not someone TJ had met on the bus. She decided to hang out around the list and see who showed up.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 22]

[craic_killer]

Clare got up on tiptoes and searched for someone who looked like a Beta.

Re: Meet Your Roommate [Fall 22]

[nostemneeded]

Meeka was staring at the list, a little dumbfounded.

She'd already met Charlie - and liked her, which was good - and had arrived at Fandom intentionally, but she'd somehow failed to realize that not only were there roommates, but that she would have one.

Huh. Perhaps they meant adjoining suites? That shared a common living space? Possibly even the same bathing chamber?

It would be an adjustment, but she was here for the whole 'American school' experience, so...She could handle this.

Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[bigdamnprincipal]

The best role models this particular place could ask for!

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[special_rabbit]

Well, of course Amaya was there to do her teacherly duty at the welcome picnic, but she was there in indisputably modern and different clothes (a pair of roomy trousers matched with a smart black top, to be specific), and feeling terribly uncertain about the whole thing. But all that time and energy and money went into procuring the clothes, it would just be a shame if all they did was sit in a closet.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[alwaysonguard]

Dwight showed up shortly after all the festivities kicked off. While he was teaching one of the community classes this time around he figured he would still show up and meet some of the new faces. In case any of them showed up to class.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[somethingwithturquoise]

Was Summer rocking a pair of very dark sunglasses and clinging to the biggest cup of coffee she could find that morning, thanks to last night?

Yes, yes, she was.

And she was wearing that hangover like a badge of honor, thank you very much.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[notagoose]

Goose had handwavily been back home for the week and had only gotten in that morning, he had dropped off his stuff at his apartment and quickly made his way to the picnic.

He was finding it pretty weird to think he had actually lasted a whole year as a teacher.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[in_sidon_we_trust]

Sidon was, of course, back from using the break as an opportunity to go fulfil some of his more princely duties, just in time to be very large and very noticeable to be pointed out to newbies. It was practically tradition! And even though he'd now been to many a welcome picnic as both student and teacher, and they didn't really change much, he was still looking about with a pleased, impressed sort of look and the occasional declaration of "Magnificent!" and "Spectacular!" whenever he felt so inspired.

Which was often.

Also, there was pizza, and that was always a highlight for him, too.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[needsacatchphrase]

Well, Jane was there! And definitely ready for this whole adventure. Yes. It was an adventure now.

It helped that she was almost a foot taller in this form and could actually look around the little crowd here.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[imafuturist]

Tony, and his coffee, were ready for another semester of classes to begin. But that was mostly just the coffee talking, really.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[stykera]

Stark was always interested to see who might show up at one of these picnics and he was teaching again so he had carefully written his name on a tag and stuck it on his chest. He had a coffee in one hand and was looking around for new, familiar, or maybe even new and yet still familiar faces in the crowd.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[died8yearsago]

Sure, sure, Rosa was mostly here because she was generally supposed to be, but the free food was always a plus, not to mention it made for some pretty good people watching, especially if any of the newbs wound up being particularly slack-jawed and bewildered. It never got old.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[solo_sword]

You know what Jaina had thought would happen? She thought she'd finished a summer of getting signed up to teach classes and then she'd be done. Except for how she'd been notified that she wasn't done.

She was going to fight a moose later.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[throughaphase]

The summer was over, and Kitty was back to teaching. She'd brought Lexi, but she seemed pretty content to flop on the grass and have screen time and that wasn't concerning at all.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 22]

[tellmehowstuffworks]

Yennefer was here.

Did she look thrilled about it? Was that actually coffee in her travel mug? Did that black dress look at all appropriate for the weather? Absolutely not to all three! But she was here, examining the incoming crop of students with a gimlet eye and trying to remember if she'd actually arranged to teach anything.

General Mingling [Fall 22]

[bigdamnprincipal]

If you get a sunburn somewhere that should be covered with clothes, it's your own fault.

Re: General Mingling [Fall 22]

[pun_king]

Graham had definitely been excited for the welcome picnic that day, but he was pretty sure Triumph was even more excited! Naturally, after riding over from the stables to the lawn, they did a little jaunt around the space to just sort of scope things out and try to spot all the unrecognizable faces, but, eventually, the food was calling and it was time to find a nice spot on the grass where Graham could sit and lean back comfortably a little on Triumph, who was content and pleased for all the fresh air and being around all the people and especially enjoying being fed various fruits and vegetables from Graham's plate in between nibbles of grass.

OOC [Fall 22]

[bigdamnprincipal]

Yay picnic time!