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Fandom High Graduation Ceremony, Class of 2024, Early Saturday Evening

The week leading up to graduation had been fairly peaceful, which meant it was only a matter of time before things went completely awry.

What? This was graduation #19, everyone at the school knew what to expect by now.

As per tradition, things had been set up to start right around dusk. The lawn of the school had been lit up with blue and gold lights, and there was a tasteful amount of glitter on the decorations to honor the seniors in one last bit of sparkle. It was like a graduation present that never went away.

Congratulations, Class of 2024! You made it!

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Grab a seat and take your bets on what might go wrong!

At the appropriate moment, there was Pomp and Circumstance, because even this place followed some normal traditions. It was time for the soon-to-be-graduates to make the last adjustments to their blue and gold robes, and get to walking to their seats!

Amicia and Alara
Allie and Beta
Libby and Vi

Edited 2024-05-04 13:39 (UTC)

What kind of ceremony would it be without some speeches?

Once the speeches were over, Zoe came back up to the podium, and called each graduate's name to give them their diploma.

[Please wait until the diploma-receiver has pinged into their appropriate thread before commenting with reactions.]

As the last diploma was handed out, a creepy mist came over the stage, bringing with it a creepy bridge and a creepy guy standing between the seniors and their seats.

"Who would cross the Bridge of Death must answer me these questions three, ere the other side he see!" the bridge keeper said menacingly.

"And if they answer the questions wrong?" Zoe asked.

"Then into the Gorge of Eternal Peril they shall be cast!" the bridge keeper replied.

Zoe sighed and went for one of her guns, because of course she'd prepared herself. "We don't have one of those, and I'd suggest you pick something less perilous."

"Well, ye should look into that," the bridge keeper said sullenly. "Fine! Into the Pond of Ducks they shall be cast! And if me questions frighten thee, perhaps the Rabbits of Caerbannog will be thy end instead!"

Look, be honest, you all came for the show.

If ye dare! But answer wrong, and into the pond you'll go!

Surely they can't be that bad, right?

Lick your wounds, check on your friends, and be thankful this is over for another year.

Thanks to Fry for the Monty Python suggestion! Any questions, toss them here and they will be answered when I regain consciousness in the American morning!

I think some wires may have been crossed, maybe even on my end, but I thought Eleanor wasn't graduating until next year?

I can still totally roll with it, though!

Edited 2024-05-04 07:58 (UTC)

Not everyone! This was Liliana's first graduation and she, like a sucker, assumed everything was going to go well because why wouldn't it? It was a graduation, not a staging ground for a Phyrexian invasion, while the narration looked at the camera and winked.

It was graduation and she was a teacher, so naturally she was present in the audience, honestly expecting a great deal of pomp and remarkably little of circumstance, but this is just what one did as a professor. And while that kind of reasoning rarely mattered to Liliana and her activities, acting in her capacity as a teacher was... different.

Shut up, no reason to make a big deal out of it.

Liliana audibly gasped as the creepy, riddle-speaking vagrant showed up on the stage. She got ready to blast him off the stage and out of the land of the living entirely as a danger to the students before noticing that no one else seemed to be reacting.

"Is this part of the ceremony?" she hissed.

Edited 2024-05-04 12:36 (UTC)

Was Vi feeling extremely ambivalent about this due to that whole impostor syndrome about being here she'd never quite gotten over (and maybe a few other reasons)?

Yeeeeeeeeep.

Vi would actually have been much more comfortable fighting the rabbits, but she could smell a trap when it was tiny, fuzzy, and hopping around. So creepy question guy who looked like something Steph would come up with when she was feeling especially mean it was.

This was absolutely not Ignis' first time sitting in for a graduation, and he'd been to enough to know that things were likely to get a bit strange or interesting. But, since that sort of thing tended to be easy enough to keep under control and hardly was to the level of needing to warn Liliana about, like the kids,he was just going to sit back and enjoy the additional entertainment once it did finally go down.

Never mind the faint smirk unable to leave his face. He was clearly just still riding the residual good mood that went along with no longer being a bat...

Even though she'd been spending the last few weeks getting everything in order of what came after this, Libby's head was buzzing a little with the wildness of the fact that it was actually happening. So much do that she nearly rushed across the stage before her ner es caught up to her to get her diploma,beaming from ear to ear and ducking her head awkwardly as she said "Thank you!" and then beamed at the crowd and thinking how she would have never imagined she'd ever be doing something like this, and yet here she was!

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Fandom High Graduation Ceremony, Class of 2024, Early Saturday Evening

Welcome [Grad 24]

The Procession [Grad 24]

Speeches! [Grad 24]

Principal Winchester's Speech

Dean Skywalker's Speech

Diplomas [Grad 24]

Amicia de Rune

Alara Kitan

Allie Pressman

Beta

Liberty Hazlett

Vi

AND THEN [Grad 24]

Audience! [Grad 24]

Answer the questions three! [Grad 24]

Fight the rabbits! [Grad 24]

Aftermath! [Grad 24]

OOC [Grad 24]

Re: OOC [Grad 24]

Re: Welcome [Grad 24]

Re: Audience! [Grad 24]

Re: Vi

Re: Answer the questions three! [Grad 24]

Re: Welcome [Grad 24]

Re: Liberty Hazlett