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

[bigdamndean]

It may have just been a coincidence that the weather was sunny now that Fandom was back home in Maryland, but no one was going to complain.

Okay, maybe they were going to complain a little since the sun meant it was in the high 90s 32C outside, but that just meant there was a good excuse for all the ice cream on the buffet table of picnic food

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Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[hollywoostar]

Mr. Peanutbutter had been picked up at his world's BWI by a very dapper gremlin holding a sign with a picture of Mr. Peanut on it. It managed to convey that the other gremlins would handle dropping Mr. Peanutbutter's things off at his new home -- much easier than it had ever managed to convey anything to any other person at Fandom -- and showed Mr. Peanutbutter to the picnic.

Mr. Peanutbutter tipped the gremlin with five dollars and an autographed headshot. The minute his back was turned, the gremlin shredded its suit and dove into the bushes. Mr. Peanutbutter didn't notice a damn thing. He was too busy admiring the set up.

"A Welcome Picnic! For me? Aw, you guys. You shouldn't have. I'm touched."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

"Actually," Kanan said, smiling as he made his way over (read: was dragged by a rainbow dalmatian) to greet the new teacher. The one new face here that wasn't human? Clearly the guy who had grown up surrounded by non-human sentients wasn't a bad choice for the job. Probably. "I'm pretty sure the picnic is for all of the newcomers to the island. But since you're one of them, I don't think anybody will worry too much if you steal some of the thunder, here."

He offered the guy a hndshake. Stance, meanwhile, was sniffing merrily at Mr. Peanutbutter's feet.

"Kanan Jarrus. The office told me to be on the lookout today for a new teacher. I'm assuming that would be you?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[hollywoostar]

"It would! Mr. Peanutbutter, pleasure to meet you." He shook Kanan's hand and then offered it to Stance. "And you are?"

Man, some of the folks here were short. He knew better than to point that out, though.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

Stance, naturally, was going to do the polite thing and give the offered hand an enthusiastic sniff, tail waggling away, before deciding that he liked this new dog friend and licking Mr. Peanutbutter in greeting.

"This is Stance," Kanan supplied, bemused. "He's really not much for conversation, I'm afraid."

Being a dog and all. Though, in hindsight, there was something of an uncanny similarity, there...

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[hollywoostar]

"He's probably a little camera shy. You have such fun customs here!" Mr. Peanutbutter cheerfully licked Stance back. Not doing so would be rude. "Now, Kanan, are you . . . my assistant, orrrrrrrr. . . ?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

So, Kanan's teaching buddy just licked his dog. That was a new one, even for Kanan, and he found himself kind of wondering just what he'd gotten himself into.

"Something like that," he replied. "I'm another teacher, myself, so I've got other commitments to look after, of course. But the school has a teaching buddy program. Apparently it's so that new teachers can settle in to life around the island a little more easily. I'm here to answer whatever questions you might have, show you around... that sort of thing. I think."

In hindsight, be probably should have taken advantage of his own teaching buddy more back when he had the chance. Knowing where the bars were had been important, sure, but there was more to the island than that.

There was a pause, and then Kanan added, "Did you say 'camera?'"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[hollywoostar]

"A mentor character! Of course, that's brilliant! A little off trope to make him younger than me, but that's what's selling these days." Kanan, you were going to learn so much about Earth television culture. "Oh, are we not filming this bit? I heard this was going to be a hidden camera production, so I just figured I'd assume I was on any time I was on campus."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

... You had confused the Padawan, Peanutbutter. Well done.

"Oh. Uh." Kanan looked around, nonplussed, before shrugging his shoulders a little bit. "I suppose there are the squirrels. They're usually recording whatever goes on in their vicinity, if you're ever not sure."

Of course, they were doing so with tiny pads of paper and pencils, but let's be real, here. Paper and Earth's telecommunications technology were both practically the same thing compared to the holos that Kanan was used to.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[hollywoostar]

Mr. Peanutbutter waved that off with a flick of his hand. "I'm used to paparazzi." They were usually birds back home in LA, but squirrels made just as much sense to him as anything else. "I'm surprised they were here already, though. Is there anyone else famous? Or -- ooo, is it the water thing?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

Kanan blinked, following roughly half of that before settling on the easiest part to address. He hoped.

"Uh... there's a water thing?"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[hollywoostar]

"Isn't there? I could be mistaken." Mr. Peanutbutter was not well known for following current events that didn't directly relate to him or his family, or weren't written on question cards for his short lived game show. "My wife was always talking about it. 'There's too much lead in the water, we have to send them bottles of water, everyone forgot about the water crisis once it wasn't in the news but it's still going on, it's illegal to serve water until the customer asks.' That last one might be about California." He rubbed his chin thoughtfully. "She's really well informed. She listens to NPR."

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

"Oh. Right. The... water thing." Kanan scratched at his beard, and then shook his head. "I think the water's pretty okay out here. I mean, I don't know for sure, and I can probably find out for sure for you if you're concerned. But nobody ever mentioned it to me as an issue. Of course, we've only been parked here for a couple of days, now. Maybe it's just a Baltimore thing."

He wasn't from around here.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[hollywoostar]

"Right, right, of course." Kanan had clearly been brought in specifically for Mr. Peanutbutter's show. Hence the only being parked there for a little while. It made perfect sense. "I only really drink bottled water anyway, I'm sure it's fine. Did you say Baltimore? I loved meta for The Wire!"

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

"Yeah, it's... great." Kanan smiled the smile of a man who had no idea what that was. And then he shrugged. "I keep meaning to get out and check out the mainland, see if there's anything worthwhile to take in on that side of the Causeway. There has to at least be a decent night life. The small town thing is okay, but Fandom doesn't have much to do when the sun goes down."

The lament of a man who had grown up in cities that were entire planets large.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[hollywoostar]

"Ooo, yeah," Mr. Peanutbutter said, eyes distant and speculative. "Even the Labrador Peninsula's bigger than this place seems to be, though Captain Peanutbutter and I mostly liked to go out and have campfires after dark, there. Oh!" He threw his hands in the air, his ears perking up excitedly. If he'd had a tail, it would be wagging. "We should take a crew field trip! Really bond as a production before we get into the full swing of things."

This was a terrible idea. Standard Earth Baltimore was not ready for the likes of Mr. Peanutbutter. And the population of Fandom was probably only slightly better prepared for Mr. Peanutbutter's Baltimore.

Re: Meet Your Teachers [Fall 2016]

[uncertain_dume]

And see, these were the things that other, less stunted Jedi probably had 'bad feelings' about.

Sigh.

"Actually, that sounds like fun," Kanan admitted, because he was still in his 'bad at Jedi' phase. He'd grow out of it. Someday. "See the sights, assuming there are any. Acquaint ourselves with the area, that sort of thing?"