With the arrival of the Lodjan's that was pretty much a full house with only the Rokkenjiman's not present, Rhian greeted the latest two delegations to arrive and then explained to them what she had just explained to the others and then they were all on the tram and heading for the university campus.
The funny thing about Avalon was that despite the city being built on an artificial island it was just like any other city, a little more centralized perhaps given the geographic constraints that precluded expansive suburbs, and the population was probably as a result relatively small in comparison to other major cities on Mundus. The University Campus sat just outside the city centre, well at least the heart of the campus in terms of the library, students union, admin buildings and such. The tram stopped at a stop marked as Avalon University Central, the walk from there was a short one to their destination a small domed building. This was the University's theatre, where the students performed plays, shows, drama's, where they recited poems, where they played music and at the end of each academic year it was here that the university held its graduation ceremonies, stylistically it was a more modern building but inside was a classic theatre layout.
Rhian led the group inside and to the restaurant area that was staffed on a day to day basis by a small group of professionals located in the kitchen, management and supervision and a larger group of students who worked the front of house. A selection of food had been prepared and laid on should any of the guests want something to eat before the big event of the day. Waiting for the group were
Olivia Leonidas, the noble who held title over Avalon and was going to participate in the renaming of the university library then there was
Jack Azurewind, the Emperor's nephew who'd been 'pushed' into helping out with the day mainly because in his uncle's eyes he needed to get a little experience of these occasions and get to know these people.
Olivia already knew their guests, well most of them at least, on sight her eyes darted around the approaching group instantly her eyes were drawn to the Morelander's two stars from the world of sport in Sophie and Rollo they resonated confidence in the way they walked, the Lodjans were similar well at least Helene was, strong and confident by contrast Alana seemed a little sheepish, the Seaforthian's seemed to have turned it into a family affair the only one among their number that Olivia didn't recognize was the woman walking at Andrew's side. As for Krista well this sort of thing was partly her arena wasn't it? Yes she hadn't been near one for a while but this sort of thing was about being yourself, there wasn't anything to get too worried about.
"So typical." Olivia said quietly glancing at Jack and following his eyeline it had rather predictably gone to the member of the approaching delegation of his age - Alana.
"My Uncle thinks highly of her." Jack said "I was just curious to see."
"Yeah right." Olivia said not believing Jack for a moment "You just got volunteered to be the Lodjan's guide."
Before Jack could say anything else the guests joined them
"Welcome to the University of Avalon." Olivia said "I'm Olivia Leonidas and technically speaking I'm your host for the day, this is Prince Jack Azurewind the Emperor's nephew. Today this university will open new colleges named after your loved ones, the act of opening the colleges is one we have reserved for you and we're honoured that you've all accepted the invitation to come today. We have about half an hour before we need to get you all to the respective colleges so if you want something to eat or drink in the meantime feel free to help yourselves. If you want to have a quick look around the theatre before we have to go that's fine as well just don't take longer than twenty minutes please."
OOC - basically just moving this along slightly once we get past Christmas we'll get on with the openings and then the evening social so for now feel free to have characters chat etc if you want.