bigdamnprincipal: (i am having a picnic)
Zoe Winchester ([personal profile] bigdamnprincipal) wrote in [community profile] fandomhigh2025-08-29 10:50 pm

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

So, it wasn't Fall yet by a long shot. The temperatures were still high, the leaves were still green, and the calendar still said August. But the calendar of consumerism didn't care about reality and thus, the welcome picnic was decorated for fall. The tables were covered in reds, oranges, and yellows, there was apple cider in the punch bowls and, of course, if the food on the table could come in pumpkin spice form, it was here in pumpkin spice form.

Enjoy your basic seasonal welcome picnic, everyone!
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Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] mindofageneration 2025-08-30 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Same hat!

"Uh, present?" Riri said like she wasn't sure where this was going, but hopefully it wasn't an immediately expulsion because of, you know, all the minor bits of academic dishonesty in selling projects before.
solo_sword: (back)

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] solo_sword 2025-08-30 03:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"Hi. I'm Jaina, I'm apparently your mentor," she said.
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Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] mindofageneration 2025-08-30 03:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Are you the one to ask about what classes I'm apparently signed up for?" Riri asked. "And not... a moose?"

Look, she'd settled on Anakin messing with her. It was the sane choice.
solo_sword: (keep talking)

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] solo_sword 2025-08-30 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes. Please don't ask the moose, the moose is a lot," Jaina told her. "You have questions?"
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Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] mindofageneration 2025-08-30 04:18 pm (UTC)(link)
"...the moose is real?" Jaina, no. No!
Edited 2025-08-30 16:19 (UTC)
solo_sword: (talking)

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] solo_sword 2025-08-30 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
"The moose is real," Jaina confirmed. "Pretty much all of the crazy stuff people are going to tell you is the truth. It's an adjustment."
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Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] mindofageneration 2025-08-30 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"...seriously?" Why can't you do normal stuff like a basic alien invasion wiping out half the population?
solo_sword: (appraising)

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] solo_sword 2025-08-30 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"Did you know anything about this place before?" Jaina checked.
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Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] mindofageneration 2025-08-30 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
"Not at all." So, that's what you're working with here. "I was trying to get home to Chicago when I sort of ended up at the bus stop?"
solo_sword: (you know...)

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] solo_sword 2025-08-30 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh. Well. Welcome to Fandom, it's a multiversal hub of different worlds and times and universes, and also you go to school here," she said. "Also it's in Maryland."

So, not really close to Chicago.
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Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] mindofageneration 2025-08-30 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"...of course there's that in Maryland," Riri said, pretending this was normal. "Woulda guessed New York, honestly."
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Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] solo_sword 2025-08-30 06:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"No, it's much quieter than New York," she said. "Until it's not."

Coming soon!
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Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] mindofageneration 2025-08-30 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's ominous. You know that's ominous, right?"
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Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] solo_sword 2025-08-30 08:14 pm (UTC)(link)
"It's because it's ominous." Jaina. "Sometimes things attack."
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Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] mindofageneration 2025-08-31 01:21 am (UTC)(link)
"...can they not?" Riri Williams, asking the real questions here.
solo_sword: (considering)

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] solo_sword 2025-08-31 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
"Most of the time, yes," Jaina said. "It's pretty seasonal."
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Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] mindofageneration 2025-08-31 01:50 am (UTC)(link)
"Man, I stayed away from New York for a reason," Riri muttered. "Does the school have, like, an evacuation plan or something?"
solo_sword: (taking it in)

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] solo_sword 2025-08-31 01:52 am (UTC)(link)
"No, people just usually walk out to fight," she said. "Though we did have a kraken drill recently."
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Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] mindofageneration 2025-08-31 01:55 am (UTC)(link)
"And this school hasn't been shut down?" Riri asked.
solo_sword: (neutral)

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] solo_sword 2025-08-31 01:59 am (UTC)(link)
"Would you go and try to shut down a place that gets practice fighting monsters and things a few times a year?" Jaina pointed out.
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Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] mindofageneration 2025-08-31 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
"Me or the US government?"

Big difference.
solo_sword: (listening)

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] solo_sword 2025-08-31 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
"I'd still bet on Fandom against the US government."

Said someone who was the actual government somewhere.
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Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[personal profile] mindofageneration 2025-08-31 02:15 am (UTC)(link)
"I think I'll sit that one out," Riri said, with the strong implication it did not end well the one time she got on their radar.