[color=LightSalmon]Time:[/color] 4:58 PM -> 5:19 PM
[color=LightSalmon]Location:[/color] Campus Commons; Welcome Banquet
[color=LightSalmon]Interacting:[/color] Echo Gallagher [@Amethyst]

As always, the presence of one of Naomi's less... high-strung friends soothed her. She nodded along to everything Echo said, happy to hand off half of the responsibility to them. She practically shoved half of the alarm clocks into their bag by the handful She just wanted the actual [i]risky[/i] part to be over and done with so they could get to the fun part- when they would actually set off. Just the thought made her light up with excitement. But nervousness, too- Echo's comments didn't assuage her worries all the way. After all, any number of things could happen, and authority wasn't always constant. 

Although rather used to the gesture at this point, Naomi's face still went beet red when Echo blew the kiss at her. [color=LightSalmon]"See you!"[/color] she whisper-shouted after them, and then got to work. 

Naomi was strategic in her placement of the alarm clocks. Under her watchful gaze, they were hidden under mulch, in the leaves of bushes, and in the midst of blooming flowers ripe for the picking. At seeing a bush of vibrantly orange and red lilies, she gave pause, and then snapped a few off, putting them into her pocket. They were beautiful. Might as well save a few for later. Then she dropped a single alarm clock square in the middle of the bush and kept going. 

However many clocks she might have placed in the landscape around the stage, Naomi did save the majority of them for the actual stage itself. A few weeks ago, in the library, alone together, Echo and her had planned out the majority of this prank on paper. They had wanted there to be alarm clocks actually close to the speaker, but one of them would actually have to get physically close to the stage, even on it, for that to happen. Echo getting up onto the stage would have been too suspicious, what with their history of trouble-making, so the task was left up to Naomi. To her never-ending surprise, faculty at NI seemed to love her. They didn't suspect her in nearly anything. Which was why the task of actually getting up to the stage was left to her.

This process, in order to look nonchalant, took a few minutes. Naomi sat herself on the edge of the stage and began to work her magic. While shielding her hands and the duffel bag full of alarm clocks from view, she hid alarm clocks everywhere she could think of. Under speakers. In between speakers. She even kicked a few under the stage. And then, for the crowning jewel, she scooted back enough to be just touching the mic. And one was slid right inside of the podium.

Seeing that the duffel bag was empty, the orientation about to start, and her due diligence done, Naomi smiled to herself. She went to go get a plate full of food, loading up on fruit and veggies and grabbing a bottle of water before heading to where Echo was. She paused a minute, remembering the flowers in her pocket. Then, she pulled them out and presented them to Echo, a silly grin on her face.

[color=LightSalmon]"Happy start of our junior year, Echo,"[/color] she said, smiling. She did a mock bow and then plopped herself onto the edge. Then, she leaned in for a whisper. [color=LightSalmon]"It's all done. I hid, like, 10 on the sound stage, so we should be good on that front."[/color] She then giggled and shook a little, a rare burst of excitement. [color=LightSalmon]"Even if we are put permanently in detention, this is gonna be really funny! I've been waiting for this all summer, which has been [i]so boring[/i]. No offense to you, of course. I just had to do a lot more stuff at home. But I do think this might be my first real prank."[/color]