Picnic Time!

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Picnic Meme

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It's time for a picnic! Are you on a date or just hanging out with a friend? What kind of food did you bring--homemade, store-bought, or take-out? The nice thing about picnics is you can have them just about anywhere, like the park or your front lawn or that little grassy patch by your apartment building. You don't even have to sit on the ground, honestly, that's what picnic tables are for! Hopefully it's a nice sunny day and you don't get rained out, but maybe you brought an umbrella just in case.

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[trystabbingit]

[Once it's clear that Barkspawn and Ellana are bonding, Tabris steps into her usual spot next to Alistair. He puts an arm around her shoulders and gives a little squeeze, which makes her smile.]

No, no, I completely understand. The dog's the real head of this family anyways.

[Tabris snorts.]

Yeah, he really is. His name's Barkspawn, you know, like the monsters from Deep Roads: Origins. But a dog.

And I'm Alistair! Unfortunately not a dog.

[Tabris laughs and shakes her head a little.]

As for the rest of the team... Where did they go?

Apparently Anders owes someone named Varric money, so he's hiding. Noooo idea where anyone else went.

[inthistryingtime]

[Egg looks back down at the dog and gives him a very affectionate scratch behind the ears.]

Nice to meet you Barkspawn!

[She looks back up at Tabris and Alistair.]

Great name. Nice to meet you, too, Alistair.

[When Varric is mentioned Egg's eyebrows raise and she finally stops petting Barkspawn.]

Wow, first Leliana now Varric, too? Seems like we really didn't need to schedule those ice breakers after all.

[Egg lowers her voice a little and adds, mostly to herself.]

Not that we really needed them in the first place, but no one asked me for my opinion on that...

[She lets out an annoyed sigh and scans the area, resting her hands on her hips.]

Do you want to look around or just come join the group? I can just say I signed everyone in if you need to cover for them. No one's going to see this list after today but me anyway.

[trystabbingit]

[Barkspawn responds to the ear scratches with furious wagging of his stubby little tail and butting his head against Ellana's knee when she stops. When this fails to work, he turns his attention to Alistair, patsy number one.]

That's the secret, we're not actually a security company, we're a front for the illuminati. We know everybody.

[Alistair does some kind of strange wiggly hand gesture intended to convey mystery.]

See, the fact that you make jokes like that means we'll never get invited to any real secret societies, sweetheart.

[Tabris shakes her head with a dramatic sigh, but she can't keep the smile off her face.]

I'm down to pretend we're all signed in. If you need any particular Warden you probably just need to check the keg or the food anyways.

I wasn't expecting the keg, to be honest.

[They saw Hawke dragging it onto the lawn while they were driving in here.]

[inthistryingtime]

[Egg smiles warmly at their interactions, enjoying watching them be sweet with each other, until a keg is mentioned.]

Wait, someone brought a keg?

[She looks back towards the group and, sure enough, there's Hawke standing over a keg and talking with? Arguing with? Laughing at? Cassandra. She can't tell exactly the tone of the conversation from this distance but she can see Josephine standing nearby with her hands covering her face. Egg's face shifts into an expression of wonder and she whispers to herself.]

Holy shit.

[Hawke, who Egg has met once at a fundraising event, shouldn't even be here. How in the world did this happen? She searches her memories and tries to think if she did something to make Varric think he could bring a plus one and then she remembers all at once and she realizes Varric isn't the only one who asked her about this. Almost all of her coworkers asked if they could bring a plus one but she was so focused on making this event happen that she said yes without thinking.

Who else is here? Well, that figures, there's Dorian's husband, too. He's probably not the only spouse or partner that's here either. Egg stares at the group for a moment before she bursts into uncontrollable laughter.]

Oh, oh no, oh gods, I am going to be in so much trouble, hahahaha!

[trystabbingit]

[Tabris and Alistair exchange a look that is really no more than a shared wince. They have no context for the plus one situation, as it hadn't come up for the Wardens that were taking part, but judging by that reaction, the keg is An Issue.]

I'm... starting to get the idea that you weren't expecting the keg either?

[Tabris squints over at the circle of people around Hawke.]

Is that Carver's sister?

[Alistair lights up in recognition next to her.]

Oh! It is!

[He drops his voice into a conspiratorial whisper.]

Do you think that's why he called in sick?

Probably! So, uh. Was this supposed to be a sober event or did we just not approve the honest to maker keg? We can totally steal the keg, if you need it to mysteriously disappear.

[inthistryingtime]

[Egg breathes deeply to calm her laughs and shakes her head. Her expression is somewhere between deeply amused and horrified, like she can't decide whether this is the best day of her career or her worst.]

Oh, I should have seen this coming! I really should have seen this coming.

[She lowers her voice.]

May the Dread Wolf take me...

[Good thing she's speaking quietly because he's RIGHT THERE probably standing with Cole and looking disapprovingly at people having fun or something...Egg looks down at her clipboard with a stack of papers detailing activities, the agenda for the day, and bingo sheets that someone suggested as a 'getting to know you' activity. They're all useless now! She unclips the papers from the clipboard, drops the clipboard on the ground, and then tears the papers in half in one swift motion. With that done, Egg finally looks back at Tabris and Alistair.]

Well! That's that I suppose! It wouldn't really matter if you stole the keg at this point because Cassandra has already seen it. Not that I don't appreciate the offer! It's just--this wasn't really supposed to be that kind of picnic?

[Egg is going into the zen zone about this situation. They shouldn't have made her be in charge of this picnic anyway. And who knows? Maybe it's not that bad. Maybe instead of a stupid corporate picnic this can just be fun for real? And maybe people will actually still bond because they're enjoying spending time together.]

I guess there's really no point in pretending that this is going to go the way we planned it anymore.