BWI Airport Portalocity Lounge, Saturday Morning

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The Khan family was not known for doing the minimum for anything. Which is why the entire family drove down in multiple cars the entire way from Jersey City to BWI. Three hours in the car of her mom and dad asking if she had everything. Asking if she needed anything. There's a Target on the way in case she needed or forgot something. Meanwhile Aamir kept texting her complaints about Abbu's driving skills and asking if Kamala needed anything.

"I'm fine," was the common answer to everything. Again, again and again. Then there was hugs and fussing over everything when they got to the airport and reminders and more fuss. To which everything Kamala laughed and said "I'm fine."

And then they got in their car and left.

And Kamala was standing in the Portalocity Lounge taking it all in while holding her stuffed sloth and a pile of luggage next to her.

Deep breath. "I'm fine."

...

"Why is there so much glitter?"

[OCD Incoming]

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Wait for the shuttle

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Only one charger is working under the seats and the outlet isn't working. What's your battery percentage?

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[aroughtempestiwillraise]

Gale had full spell slots and was raring to go! Was that... was that not what you meant by battery percentage? Because clearly that was the only thing you could have meant, right?

He certainly could have opened a a portal of some sort to arrive directly to this school in order to set up his lodgings, but where was the fun in that? As such, there was an archmage and his tressym companion, snoozing on his shoulder. Also looking at the glitter. "Oh, they most certainly haven't swept here in some time," he muttered.

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Kamala turned to see... wow. Okay. An adult and-

Okay, that is not exactly a cat.

"Hi! I'm Kamala. This is the place for Fandom University right?" She asked double checking. "And if you don't mind me asking what exactly is that?"

Yes. She was pointing at the tressym.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[aroughtempestiwillraise]

"What is..." Gale asked, turning a little as thought maybe there was something behind him. There was not. Well, other than the strange seats available to them. "Oh! You mean my companion! You have a keen eye. That would be Tara. She's a bit tired from our journey here from Waterdeep to Merry-Land."

Which was as foreign to him as Earl-Lay Ack-Seize.

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[ifwebeworthy]

"Thor. Hey. I need you to get a look at this weird cat and tell me what the fuck it is."

It appears to be a cat with wings.

Thank you, god of thunder. Very helpful.

"Well, you know how it is with glitter," Don said at a more normal level of volume.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[aroughtempestiwillraise]

Don't worry, Gale was very friendly. Or maybe just desperate to get away from the glitter. He was going to need so many castings of prestidigitation to be free from it's crafty curse.

"Hello there!" The cat in question just shuffled her wings and slept harder.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[x_wondrous_x]

Clad in his black overalls and bowler hat, Stewart had skulked through the airport on the way to what was apparently his shuttle terminal. There was, perhaps, a soft growl of disapproval in his throat as he narrowed his eyes at the obscenely glittery banner that heralded the act that he was, indeed, in the right spot, even if its entire sparkly existence left him questioning whether he'd made the right choice, or if it would be better to just turn back now. But no. Chin lifted in defiance, he knew he must persevere. Opportunity awaited; would he deny it? Or embrace the call of potential, even if it meant that being perfunctorily pre-punctual would result in habing to fester under such a cheerfully shimmering herald?

For now, he was in a state where such lofty goals seemed slightly more teneble than the alternatives. Was it really much worse than festering in his mother's basement? Surely not. So, after taking a moment to toss his hulking duffle back sideways to slide it toward a chair and shrugging off his backpack, he, too, slid along the floor in front of a chair, threw his bladed hands up parallel to frame his face, before folding them down and twisting them in a brief spurt of voguing, his arms a sharp and precise flurry of movements around him, before crossing his feet below him to execute a tight little turn, finishing it with a kick of his leg out as he fell back into the chair, landing in a slouch with his arms folding in front of him. A moment, to hold the pose, and then he lifted a hand to pull down the brim of his hat over his eyes and settled in to wait.

His phone, for the record, was at 11%, because someone like to live dangerously.

(Or just desperately needed an upgrade because he could have sworn it was fully charged when he left Letterkenny...)

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[slothbabyproductions]

Okay, Kamala was not adverse to grand entrances but even that was a lot for her.

"You doing okay?" she asked, wondering if the pulled down hat brim was a cue to be left alone.

But if he did what was with the voguing?

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[x_wondrous_x]

Grand? Ha. That had been, truly, almost achingly boilerplate.

"Inconclusive," Stewart answered, lifting his chin in an almost skeptical way that anyone would even bother asking, which seemed to spark his curiosity enough that he also pushed the brim of his hat back up with a finger to peer with narrowed eyes at his fellow traveler. "Debatable? Answer Tee-Bee-Determined by future events still beyond comprehension. Perhaps even speculation."

He considered Kamala a little more.

"Are you...also bound for scholarly pursuits? At the...hopefully!...rather aptly named...F. U.?"

Had the school's initials been a big factor in his decision to come?

Yes. Absolutely, why wouldn't it have been? The only other one in the running was possibly Concordia University of Michigan.

Re: Wait for the shuttle

[ifwebeworthy]

O...kay.

Sometimes Don wondered how much he'd really missed out on by never having actually been young.

"Good morning to you, too."

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[x_wondrous_x]

Stewart glanced up at the sound of that, taking a moment to take the man in and doing very little to hide the decisive scoff that seemed to be his conclusion at the inspection.

"Is it?" he asked, quirking an eyebrow, tilting his head. "Do, praytell, illuminate," he lifted his hands, sweeping them palms up in front of him in a gesture to show his willingness to receive such information, "me on what you think makes it so good..."

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[ifwebeworthy]

Don had opted for the train down from New York, himself, but it didn't go all the way to the coast. Thor could have flown them over, but Thor could also have gotten spotted on radar and brought all sorts of SHRA-shaped annoyances to their door, so here he was: a backpack his only piece of luggage, plus his walking stick in one hand and the largest coffee Starbucks could legally sell him in the other.

"Oh, wow," he said aloud upon entering the lounge. "I...was not expecting that much glitter." Would anyone? Could anyone?

(His phone, for the record, was at a healthy 95% because he'd charged it on the train, so he would not be claiming any valuable charger space today.)

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"It is a bit extra," Kamala agreed as she snapped a picture of the glitter to send back to Nakia and Bruno. "I'm afraid to sit down. I was over my glitter phase ages ago."

Like... 3 years ago? but still.

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[ifwebeworthy]

"I'm sure it'll wash out. Eventually." Hopefully. "I hope the whole place isn't like this, though." Don had vague pollution concerns, and he hadn't even heard of a microplastic yet.

Trip to Fandom

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I'm sure whoever shows up is an excellent driver.

Re: Trip to Fandom

[sith_happened]

Sensing, perhaps, the degree of extra embodied in this particular group of newbies, Anakin swept into the pick up area just in time for the sun to shine behind him, causing his hair and his cloak to be backlit dramatically.

(Had he loitered outside until that would happen? Of course he had.)

"Who's heading to Fandom?" he bellowed.

Re: Trip to Fandom

[ifwebeworthy]

"Thor, you gotta check out this guy's cape."

Hm. It is a cloak, and it is acceptable.

Well, Don was going to take a moment to appreciate a clearly well-thought-out entrance before he shouldered his backpack and said, "I guess that would be me, for one. Nice cloak."

Re: Trip to Fandom

[sith_happened]

"Thank you for not calling it a bathrobe," Anakin said with a quick smile. "You may get on the bus with me."

Re: Trip to Fandom

[aroughtempestiwillraise]

It was a perfectly normal outfit! Said the wizard in a very classic robe.

"You have found us," Gale called back cheerfully, waving at the man. "What a strange sort of wagon this is."

Submersible? Normal. Bus? Weird.

Re: Trip to Fandom

[sith_happened]

Oh, good, someone from a different time and/or space! Anakin loved those. "It's called a minibus," Anakin said. "Are you used to horses?"

Re: Trip to Fandom

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Wow. Even the bus driver is extra dramatic.

"Oh! Me!" Kamala started pushing all the luggage and supplies her mother insisted she take towards the bus. It was a lot. Muneeba never skimped on anything.

"It -oooff- will just take a minute!"

Re: Trip to Fandom

[sith_happened]

Anakin watched for a moment, bemused. "Would you like assistance?" he finally asked. "We do need to put other people onto the bus, as well as all of your things."

But they'd picked up Tahani al-Jamil once upon a time. And Alexis Schitt. There was always room for stuff.

Re: Trip to Fandom

[x_wondrous_x]

Extra? What degree of extra could tje narrative possibly be referring to?

Just ignore the fact that Stewart seemed to take that dramatic backlighting as a challenge, and rose to the occasion of meeting it.

By picking up his bags, slinging them over his shoulders, and moonwalking his way smoothly over to the bus. When he arrived at the door,he paused, did a little spin, one hand on his hat and the other on his crotch in a move straight out of Michael Jackson's 80s playback, while looking like the Wish version of the 90s MJ, after his feet did an inexplicably complicated little bit of work beneath him.

Then he cocked a smile at Anakin and gestured grandly toward the shuttle.

"I see our chariot awaits..."

Re: Trip to Fandom

[sith_happened]

Well. Game recognized game.

"It does," Anakin said, consulting his list. "Who are you?"

OCC OCD

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