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

[bigdamndean]

Everyone might have been getting ready for the fall semester, but it was definitely still summertime in Fandom. The temperature was high, the wind was low, and it was only going to get hotter once everyone arrived.

There were chairs and tables set out around the lawn, some in shady spots and some out in the sun, and there was a long table of

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Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2015]

[bigdamndean]

Please don't break them too early, or the first weird rainstorm won't be nearly as fun.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2015]

[tigerundercover]

Raven was sure to end up topless for "tradition"'s sake by the end of the picnic, but she didn't want to scare off her latest little sib too quickly. So for the time being she was mimicking a perfectly classy blue and white number, complete with mimicked name tag to make her easier to recognize if her new sib spotted her first.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2015]

[halfaclink]

"Just to lay out a ground rule, I will not stand for any noogies. They're disrespectful and could cause me to spill my drink," Frank said right after spotting Raven's nametag. "If you can agree to that, then I'm Frank, your little sibling."

And yes he was holding a drink. That should be a given by now.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2015]

[tigerundercover]

This was going to be very interesting. "Good to know," Raven said. "But who would you be if I didn't agree to it?"

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[halfaclink]

"I'd be that guy over there who won't let you have a drink," Frank explained. "I'd still be named Frank, but you'd be in no position to know that."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2015]

[tigerundercover]

"Well then, I'll happily accept your terms," Raven said. "Honestly, I've only ever been a little sister before, so I wouldn't know how to give a proper noogie, anyway."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2015]

[halfaclink]

"And I hope you never learn!" Frank said, carefully pulling a bottle and a glass from his big, clanking bag of liquor. "And to toast that hope, have a drink. Or refuse it and it'll be more for me. I'm okay with your decision either way."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2015]

[tigerundercover]

. . . His bag was clanking. This was new.

"I'd love a drink," she said, mostly to be polite as it was -- well, she wasn't sure of the precise time, but it definitely seemed early for drinking. "I see you've come prepared."

For what, she wasn't sure.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2015]

[halfaclink]

Early for drinking? Nonsense!

Frank poured and handed the glass to Raven before refilling his own which had become suspiciously empty. "If there are four things said about me, I expect that 'comes prepared' is likely one of them, and you just proved that to be true."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2015]

[tigerundercover]

Raven took a sip of her drink and had to smother a cough.

And Kathy thought she made her cocktails too strong.

"What would the other three be?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2015]

[halfaclink]

"Drinks like a pro, good to have around in case of the supernatural, and something I won't share in polite company and you haven't proven yourself to be rude enough just yet," Frank said, .

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2015]

[tigerundercover]

"Well then, something to work on," Raven decided. "So you're familiar with the supernatural, then."

That was always a plus, around here, though often not nearly as fun to watch get to know Fandom.

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2015]

[halfaclink]

"So familiar that it's essentially natural," Frank said. "Fandom is a hotbed I'd imagin? It has all the trappings. Tiny town. Giant castle. People named 'Raven.'"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2015]

[tigerundercover]

"I'd be offended, but it's true. I'm a shapeshifter, in fact."

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2015]

[halfaclink]

"Oh, really? What kind?" Frank asked, slightly interested in somebody beyond a basic politeness to generate white noise while he drank. "Demonic? Lycanthropic? Some other kind of ic, perhaps?"

Re: Meet Your Big/Little Sibling [Fall 2015]

[tigerundercover]

"Mutant," Raven said. "But don't think that stopped folks back home from trying to chase me down as a demon a time or two."

Those wacky townspeople and their wacky pitchforks.