mingle log | the quad and elsewhere | we were young and drinking (coffee) in the park

[lamiaceae]

Characters: Gansey and whoever shows up
What: Interpersonal interaction! Meet each other face-to-face while nothing is on fire
Where: the quad, unless elsewhere seems cool to you
When: loop 1, day 10 (6/10 irl)
Content Warnings: nothing yet. please use and check thread subjects

It's a pleasant day outside. There's a nice breeze and the sun is doing its best. At very least, it's not raining and warmer than it was yesterday. This is, statistically, likely to bring college denizens out of their dorms and offices since rain seems to often be on Newcomb's horizon. Fall in not-at-all-New England is lovely that way.

Gansey, for his part, can be found throughout the day in several places! He likes hanging out near the clocktower to study, since he's found time works best there (at least for him). It's nice to have a watch that's doing something vaguely akin to timekeeping for once.

But he's an explorer at heart, so he can probably also be found in the library, the computer lab, and wandering the grounds. Gansey isn't sure he's interacted with anyone outside a classroom or on Fermii since the train crash, so he's more likely than usual to strike up conversation instead of waiting for it to come to him.

The real question is this: where's everyone else hanging out today?

[ i'll be throwing gansey at anyone who doesn't note that their tag is closed. please mingle! ]

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Claudia Donovan | OTA

[beingawesome]

Claudia has been taking her time getting to know the campus. You might find her in the library, helping people with technology issues in the computer lab, or even just on a bench noodling around with a borrowed guitar.

She's focused on getting a grip on what's going on and what kind of information is known about both the campus's strange temporal predicament and how to avert the disaster so they can break the bubble and hopefully go home. Even so, she's not above meeting people and trying to figure out who might be useful in that quest.

Loki | OTA

[abit_ofboth]

It’s a bright and lovely fall day and it is the exact antithesis of how Loki feels currently. Actually, scratch the currently, how he feels all the time. He doesn’t know why he’s here or how he got here even if his memories have come back to him since the train crash. He should be dead at the bottom of the World Tree, not stuck in this obnoxious school.

As he sits on a bench near the edge of Mandeville’s Pond admiring the crocodiles (he feels a certain affinity with them that he can’t quite explain), he finds himself frustrated an annoyed that he cannot leave this place. And possibly even more annoyed that somehow this place seems to know him considering he’s been enrolled in theatre and horticulture. What does Loki love more than acting and gardening? Nothing, really, but no one knows that. He’s got a smattering of other classes on his roster, but nothing he’s really bothered to check out yet. Why would he ever need to know anything about human history? And he’s already quite good at combat, thankyouverymuch.

What’s worse is that though his abilities seem to have returned to him, he is so far unable to teleport out of this madness. Or even project himself back home so he could even attempt to ask for help find out why Odin dumped him here.

He makes a frustrated sound and picks up a rock before tossing it into the water so that it skips across the surface next to one of the crocodiles. Maybe if he never attends class they’ll just kick him out of here. It’s at least one plan, though it won’t be his only.

Penric kin Jurald | OTA

[learnedfool]

Pen is in the library, which is to no one's surprise. Since apparently he is a professor, he went to look for books, and now has realized that the natural sciences have advanced a lot from his world. If you aren't careful, you may be interrupted by an enthusiastic scholar sharing information like 'how an optical microscope works' or 'the germ theory of disease'.

He is trying to take breaks, if only because Desdemona both tracks if he's eaten recently AND will tell him that she's bored, so can be roped into other people's projects.

Ignatius "Iggy" Melville | OC | OTA

[dead_tongue]

((CW: no srsly the song links are nsfw))


Studying?

Sweetie, please.

It's too beautiful a day to be inside, and too beautiful day to be reading outside. Iggy's out on the quad enjoying himself - autumn is, he thinks, the best season. You can wear a turtleneck. He looks great in a turtleneck.

From 2024's Earth, Iggy knows how a smartphone works. He's wasted zero time in figuring out how the search, video, and music apps work. Which means that he's stretched out on the grass testing the power of the phone's speakers by blasting some nsfw pop songs.

And vaping. Cotton candy flavour.

He's a menace.

Steve Rogers | ota

[pursuitofcappiness]

Library
Steve finds his way to the library where he's busy putting together his curriculum for his classes. It's odd, it's the middle of October, so clearly he should be able to have a plan together already, right?

But this whole place just feels fuzzier in his memory the longer he tries to think about it, so he puts his mind off of it.

If your character should have need of finding a particular book, Steve's excellent at using the card catalogue system. In fact, here we go, he's got a location. "For your studies? Or just reading for fun?" he asks.

Grounds
Sometimes, Steve can be found on the grounds, cutting a perfect picture in his brown tweed suit, glasses with lenses that do nothing, under the bright autumn sun sat on a bench under cover of colorful leaves. One leg crossed over the other, he has a leatherbound journal in his hands, and though he's meant to be taking notes of some sort, he keeps doodling things from a very odd and vivid dream.

If you know him, you might be able to recognize some of the people in his drawings - and if you don't, well, they're nice drawings.

Alfred Pennyworth | OTA

[flippin_peachy]

While some of the other arrivals might find the grounds of Newcomb University to be archaic and creepy, Alfred finds comfort in the old buildings. They remind him of Wayne Manor and of places he saw growing up in England, buildings that are rich with history and stories.
Good ones and bad.

On this particular day Alfred is enjoying a long walk around campus, taking note of all the buildings, wings and classrooms. The sheer size of it doesn't intimidate him, he's used to knowing every nook and cranny of Wayne Manor, and he strolls through the areas with a sort of slow confidence. Every now and then he'll stop to admire a painting or to run his finger along a banister to check for dust, old habits die hard and he can't help but check to see if everything is shipshape.

Bucky Barnes | OTA | coming in late with Starbucks?

[staringproblem]

It's a nice day indeed, one which is free of classes to give on Bucky's schedule, though it still means he's up at the crack of dawn. Even with his memories coming back to him in a constant trickle, his sleep pattern is still shitty, and as the sun peaks on the horizon, he can be found jogging all over campus. Maybe he's mapping the whole place in his mind, but one thing is sure, he's not breaking a sweat during his run, and doesn't even look out of breath when he stops once back at his Skolem Townhouse.

The morning is spent at the Buridan Brew coffee shop in the Sayre Humanities Center to either prep for his classes or grade assignments. Sometimes, he takes the time to write down all the memories that come back to him in journals, trying to connect them in an orderly timeline. The exercise feels familiar, like he's done this before, and the thought of it is somewhat comforting. But once the coffee shop gets too busy with other faculty members and students, Bucky moves to his office.

Lunch is spent at the dining hall, with his plate filled to the edge. And maybe he goes back for a second serving too: Super Soldiers burn through more calories than normal people, and being here hasn't changed that. One thing is sure, he has a sweet tooth, and from the towering sundaes he's made, his favorite ice cream is mint chocolate.

And because the afternoon is mild and sunny, Bucky spends it reading 'Les Malheureux' by Vincent Hugues in its original French version, his back firmly against one of the big trees in the quad. Even if he looks absorbed by the book, he's very well aware of his surroundings and of the people walking around him.