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

[bigdamnprincipal]

Whoever worked the weather magic around here had done an excellent job to make sure things were nice outside for all the new (and old) residents of Fandom. It was warm and sunny, but not so humid that people would melt. There was plenty of moddable food and drinks, places to sit in the shade, and more than enough nametags to go around. It was time to celebrate the start of the summer!

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Re: General Mingling

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Oh, but Graham would adore having visitors!

"I don't think they had postcards," Arden said. "It was very medieval fantasy. Wanna see some pictures?"

She was already digging out her phone to show Steven the one million pictures she'd taken for no reason that absolutely didn't have anything to do with Cal in the slightest.

Re: General Mingling

[hasaknightjob]

"Yes, please!" Steven said. He patted himself down for his glasses so he could look at the photos properly. "I've not gone to a medieval fantasy world. Been in a fair few castles though. Hard not to in England. Stumble over them on the way to work."

Re: General Mingling

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

It was a very picturesque country. "Oh, that's Acorn, the knight I convinced to throw the trials so he could do what he really wanted, which was open up a craft store," she said, pointing. "And that's the baker...that's the forest where I found Triumph in a tree...that was a nice bird that became my friend..."

There were a lot.

Re: General Mingling

[hasaknightjob]

"That's nice he could follow his dreams," Steven said. He didn't know this Acorn of course, but that didn't mean Steven couldn't be happy for him. "I do love a baker - " Little joke there, Arden, don't mind him. " - and good that you made friends. Do the birds talk?"

Re: General Mingling

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"No, but this one sat on my finger and my shoulder and sang at me." She whistled a tune which sounded shockingly close to the sound a bird would make. "There is magic, I mean, there's the magic shop there, and Graham fought a dragon and took it's eye, but that bird was just a normal one."

A very normal conversation they were having here.

Re: General Mingling

[hasaknightjob]

"That poor dragon," Steven said. "Didn't it need its eye? Or was it diseased somehow and it had to go?"

Re: General Mingling

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"No, just one of the trials was to go get a dreadful beasts' eye," Arden sighed. "I have a lot of noted on how Daventry can do better with their knight trials."

Re: General Mingling

[hasaknightjob]

"I suppose if it was dreadful," Steven said, though he didn't look fully convinced. "Erm - still. All the other pictures are lovely. And you had a song sung just for you by a bird, that's sweet. It was sweet, right? The bird wasn't dreadful as well?"

Re: General Mingling

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

"The bird was adorable," Arden said firmly. And she had her own suspicions about the dreadfulness of the dragon, since nobody had been begging for help about a rampaging dragon, but Steven didn't need to hear that. "In the end, though, Graham got to follow his dream and in his father's footsteps, so it's still overall a win."

Just not for the dragon. And poor Achaka.

Re: General Mingling

[hasaknightjob]

"I'm happy for Graham then," Steven said. He put his glasses away. "Though he will be missed. I must confess when he did his last radio broadcast and mentioned possibly coming back, I thought that might be the case. A see you later and not farewell."

Re: General Mingling

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Arden shook her head, curls bouncing. "If he failed the tournament, he would have been back here," she said. "There was only one spot to be a knight, and if someone else filled it, he would have to come back and wait until next year."

Re: General Mingling

[hasaknightjob]

"I see," Steven said. "I have to imagine that would have been bittersweet for him. Best he left while his time here was happy memories and not sad ones of having to come back with disappointment."

Re: General Mingling

[afraid_of_marshmallows]

Arden nodded. "Yeah," she said. "Agreed. So...happy for him, but sad for us it is. Which is better than the other way around, for sure."