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 Mentor/Mentee

[ifwebeworthy]

"I'm afraid I'm not very musical," Don said with a shrug. Sorry, Billie. "Is that your area of interest?" he guessed.

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[mostnonheinous]

“Absolutely. Music will save the world. Again.”

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[ifwebeworthy]

It definitely wouldn't be the craziest thing to save the world. "I love that kind of spirit," Don told her. "So, can you tell me a little bit more about where you're from, so I know what your kind of...baseline, I guess, is?"

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[mostnonheinous]

“Because of the multiple universes,” Billie said, nodding. “I’m from Earth. Uh, 2020. Our reality just almost collapsed but be totally defeated that gnarly situation! Uh. Oh! No fairies or necromancers, as far as I know. And like I told Erasmus, I feel like we would have noticed when all of reality was encompassed in one freeway interchange.”

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[ifwebeworthy]

"One would think so, wouldn't they?" Don mused. "Well, it's 2025 here, so congratulations on your little time skip there. I don't think things have changed that much in the past five years," haaaaaaaa, "but I was dead for most of them so don't quote me on that."

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[mostnonheinous]

“Oh yeah? Did you meet Death? Isn’t he rad?”

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[ifwebeworthy]

"I--didn't, but I'm given to understand she's female in my universe," Don told her.

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[mostnonheinous]

“Huh!” Billie nodded with a private little smile. “Good for her!”

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[ifwebeworthy]

"I--guess so," Don said. "I never really thought about it."

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[mostnonheinous]

“Why not? Thinking about gender can be most enlightening.”

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[ifwebeworthy]

"That's probably true," Don agreed. "I just never thought about Death's...oh, but you should know that apparently sometimes the island likes to play tricks with things like that. Changing people's sex or age for a few days. Sometimes people are animals. Once I was a duck. That talked."

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[mostnonheinous]

“You’re right. I should know that. Thanks, Professor Blake!”

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[ifwebeworthy]

"Happy to help," Don said. "It's impossible to know what size you'll end up, of course, but it might not hurt to keep some, uh, smaller or larger clothes around, just in case."

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[mostnonheinous]

Billie nodded seriously. “It would be most enlightening to learn what my voice sounds like when I’m different sizes, too.”

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[ifwebeworthy]

"If you're worried about your voice, don't become a duck," Don advised her. That had been...an experience.

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[mostnonheinous]

“Did your voice permanently change because you were a duck?”

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[ifwebeworthy]

"No, I just--I sounded like a duck all weekend." It was a good thing Thor hadn't been able to beg anyone to take video.

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[mostnonheinous]

“Dude, I would love to get a sample of that. Were you still, like, you on the inside? Or were you all duck?”

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[ifwebeworthy]

"Oh, no," Don told her. "I thought I was a duck named Donald, who could talk and wore a shirt but no pants." Very normal stuff.

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[mostnonheinous]

“Why would a duck need pants?”

Aren’t you glad you brought this up, Don?

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[ifwebeworthy]

Okay, but counterargument, "Why would a duck need a shirt?"

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[mostnonheinous]

“I don’t know,” Billie said, like Don was telling a joke. “Why would it?”

You were the one who’d been a duck, Don.

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[ifwebeworthy]

"See, this is my point." If you were a duck, pants didn't make any more sense than shirts, but they didn't make any less sense, either.

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[mostnonheinous]

“It’s easier to keep a shirt dry than your pants, if you’re a duck going for a swim. Maybe the duck wanted to be fashionable, but not chafe!”

Re: Meet Your Mentor/Mentee

[ifwebeworthy]

"I guess that makes sense," Don realized.

He had a feeling Billie was going to do just fine here.