Welcome Party for the Summer Students and Staff

[bigdamnprincipal]

Despite the slightly overcast sky, the weather is still good for welcoming all of the new arrivals for the Fandom High summer session. The graduation decorations (and gremlin debris) have been cleared from the front lawn, and replaced with tables of information packets, food, and drinks. A series of signs point the students to the information table first, where they can pick up their room assignments from the office drones, and then continue on to the food tables to mingle.

And no, there are no inflatable gremlins around today. It's far too early to start scaring the new folks. That's what the mingling section is for!

[OOC: All right folks, have at it!]

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Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"First by train," Tim said. "Then by bus. Finally I lugged my bags from the bust station to here."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[narglette.livejournal.com]

"Are you a muggle, then?" Luna asked.

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Am I a what?" Confusion.

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[narglette.livejournal.com]

"A person of non-wizarding birth who is neither a witch or a wizard." Luna stated.

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Oh, then yeah I guess I am. I do have a wand, but I'm not really sure how to use it yet. The directions are kinda hard to make out."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[narglette.livejournal.com]

A muggle with a wand that came with instructions?! Most interesting. Luna cocked her head to the side. "Mine didn't come with instructions."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"So, are you a witch then?" Tim asked. "And what's your wand made of?"

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[narglette.livejournal.com]

"Yes." Luna answered. "Hazel with a tail hair from a unicorn at the core. Yours?"

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Wow, that sounds..." what could he say that wouldn't sound lame? "Neat." Nope, that wasn't it. "Mine's crystal, well, now it's crystal and, I think steel, cause it kinda got fused with a sword."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[narglette.livejournal.com]

Neat was fine by Luna's standards. It was much better than 'far out' or 'unusual' or 'odd'. "A spell gone awry?" she asked and thought that perhaps American wand makers lacked access to good resources.

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

I can be your web my lady For the second time that day, a memory tried to surface, and again, he refused to let it. Whatever it was, it was too painfull.
"Not, exactly." he said hesitantly. "I think it was deliberate. I wasn't quite lucid for most of it."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[narglette.livejournal.com]

"Perhaps there were potions involved." Luna offered. Then she lay down her plate and cup, then turned atop her trunk, so that she might better observe this Tim Desmond of New York. She pulled her knees up under her robe and crossed her arms in front of her legs.

"Have you been inside yet?" She nodded towards the school.

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"It's possible." But he wasn't so sure that was it. "No I haven't been inside yet. Have you?"

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[narglette.livejournal.com]

Luna wasn't going to pry further. If it was something a body wished to let out into the world, it would find away. "No." She shook her head. "I'm to live in room four-twelve. I've never had a room with a number before."

[ooc: Meep! Crashed! Er, which is par for the course.]

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"I've never had a room before. I'm in 314."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[narglette.livejournal.com]

"New York must be an interesting place if no one has rooms."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Oh most people do." Tim explained. "But, me and my mom aren't so well off as some. We only have one bedroom, so I sleep in the couch in the living room."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[narglette.livejournal.com]

"Poor in pocket, rich in love, lucky in life and with the spirits above." Luna sing-song-ily recited. "It's just my father and I at home in summer if we aren't traveling with yaks."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

Tim smiled. He liked that. "That kinda sums it up." he said. "It was just me and my mom up until a short while ago. Now we've got a Hobgoblin and a Bannik living with us."

[ooc: mun must go to bed, back tomorrow afternoon]

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[narglette.livejournal.com]

"My mum taught me that." Luna smiled back. Not a wizard but had a less than usual life and bankers living in his home. "It's been Father and I for quite some time. Are Banniks related to Snorkacks?"

[ooc: No worries, this player is usually in bed by 8pm EST anyways. :) See ya!]

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Are Snorkack's Russian?" Tim asked. That was a new one on him. "A bannik is a domestic spirit, master of the bath house. Which in our place means he's in charge of the bathroom. He can be kinda pushy about it sometimes." Damn was he missing the little guy already?

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[narglette.livejournal.com]

"No, we have reason to believe that they might be Swedish." Small snowy country, big snowy country, both end in 'k'... they could be cousins! Totally cousins! "Does he cry a lot?"

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Hmm, not so much. He does tend to sulk if we don't bathe enough. Or when we send him into the hallway so we can have privacy. I've never heard of Snorkacks, what do they look like?"

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[narglette.livejournal.com]

"We have a ghost that haunts the girl's loo on the second floor at Hogwarts. She's a rather sad individual. No one's given the same account of a Snorkack yet, but Father and I hope to catch a picture of one later this summer if ever when we go to Sweden."

Re: Mingle/Meet the Newbies

[grand-fallguy.livejournal.com]

"Well I haven't had any experience with ghosts." Tim admitted. "But I wouldn't think a ghost would be very happy. Isn't that what causes ghosts? He took a sip of his drink. "The Snorkack sounds like an elusive animal."