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

[bigdamnprincipal]

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 Roommate

[mindofageneration]

Riri would survive even without them!

"Apparently I was already enrolled," she said with an expression that said how weird that was. Like, kidnapped to Wakanda weird. "And something about a moose?"

Anakin, why would you do that to her?

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mostnonheinous]

“A moose?” Billie tilted her head. “Woah.”

She did not seem anywhere near surprised enough to be hearing that.

“I bet there’s time travel involved. You probably came back to sign yourself up after you graduated or something!”

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mindofageneration]

Something must have cracked in Riri's brain because that actually made sense.

"Let's hope I'm not time travelling," she settled on. "Because that implies something bad happened to necessitate it."

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mostnonheinous]

“Or that something bad would have happened without it,” Billie said. “In my experience, time travel is largely preventative.”

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mindofageneration]

"Maybe we avoid that," Riri suggested, blinking at the 'in my experience'. "Or save it for after I figure out what classes they even signed me up for."

She would not like them. At all.

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mostnonheinous]

“Oh yeah, classes!” Billie grinned. “The course catalog here is most eclectic. I signed up for . . .” She visibly thought back. “. . . Cryptozoology, Diplomacy, and Food Adventures.”

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mindofageneration]

"Isn't cryptozoology hunting for Bigfoot or Mothman or something?"

And aliens. But everyone knew aliens were real now so that didn't count anymore.

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mostnonheinous]

“Indubitably! How sweet is that?”

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mindofageneration]

Ohhhh. Blow off classes. Riri had... honestly never taken one of those before. She'd been focused. And eager to prove a professor or two was wrong.

"Any idea where I can get my schedule?" she asked. "Kinda hoping that the 'moose' is a joke to make new people ask."

Oh. Oh, Riri. No. The moose was real and surly.

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mostnonheinous]

“I don’t know. This is supposed to be a nexus between worlds. Anything can and likely will be true.”

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mindofageneration]

"A nexus?" Explain everything.

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mostnonheinous]

“That’s the term the pamphlet used. It’s a place where many different universes connect. I guess . . . maybe that’s what was going to happen in my world, only on a most exceptional timescale, if we hadn’t united the world in song.”

You know. Like you do.

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mindofageneration]

"Huh," Riri replied. "I'm gonna need to find one of those pamphlets."

And then be very upset about everything before trying to figure it out scientifically.

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mostnonheinous]

“Oh for sure! I bet they have loads around here.” She looked around. “Somewhere. Oh! And your faculty mentor might know where they are!”

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mindofageneration]

"We get one of those?" She'd have to keep an eye out for that. "Maybe they've got information on this moose thing."

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mostnonheinous]

“It seems worth an attempt, certainly,” Billie agreed. “Ri! Can I call you Ri? We are going to have a most amazing first semester here!”

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mindofageneration]

"Ri works, sure," she said, laughing a little at the enthusiasm. It was actually kinda infectious. "I should apologize because I'm kind of a night owl."

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mostnonheinous]

Billie waved her hand dismissively. “I come from band people. Night times is always the right time.”

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mindofageneration]

"And you're in luck, my stuff is still at MIT," she said with a sigh. "So you'll be able to set up and I'll hope they send it before I need to buy new everything."

Which she could not afford.

Re: Meet Your Roommate

[mostnonheinous]

“I hope the rooms are big,” Billie said. “I kinda . . . cleared out my folks’ garage.”