Thread: MEMORIAL DAY PICNIC! Who: Everyone at the school is invited! Hop in! And when you hop in, please tag yourself in the entry; the mods try to keep track but it's easiest if you tag yourself :D When: Sunday afternoon/evening, May 25, 2008 Where: Xavier's School, backyard grounds What: It's time for the MEMORIAL DAY PICNIC! HAVE FUN! GET DIRTY! Who knows what will happen! OOC Notes: The thread below has several different sub-thread headers detailing different events/locations/etc at this party. Your characters are more than allowed to jump between threads, so don't think you need to pick an event and stick to it! In fact, your character can be in two or more sub-threads simultaneously, under the assumption that they take place at different points in the day. This should keep us from getting bogged down with doing everything completely chronologically, and if your sub-thread dies for one reason or another, you can always leap into or start a new sub-sub-thread. Even if you can't stick around for major threading, pop in and just mention what your character's up to! :D
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Memorial Day weekend was a special weekend for residents of Xavier's School. When doom wasn't imminent and things were relaxed, at least. Needless to say, this meant they hadn't had a good Memorial Day picnic in a good long time. The fact that they were having one at all really said something about the state of things. The world wasn't perfect, sure, but it kept on turning.
Students and teachers were coming up on their last week of classes before finals. They had prom and graduation. There were lots of opportunities to dress up, but the Memorial Day picnic (Hank McCoy's favorite school-sponsored event) was the time to dress down, laugh it up, and get dirty. From the pie-throwing to the watermelon-eating to the tug-of-war over the mud pit, every school resident was supposed to roll up his or her sleeves and jump in face-first. It was just dirt! Just food! It would all wash off!