Being a Proper Sea Dog, Friday, Period 3 [Session 2]

[cunningkingfish.livejournal.com]

Hook's time spent reading the Danger Shop instructions had paid off. Today's class met inside that wonderous room of programmable places, where Hook had created a simple replica of a three masted vessel.

He had a series of handouts for the students, showing illustrations of various knots.

"Today we're going over that staple of seamanship," Hook declared, after the handouts were passed among the students. "Knots. Rope is very important, very important indeed for the average ship. And before we can go into things such as rigging and nets and so forth, you need to learn the basic knots. For practice today, and for a bit of fun, we're going to split into pairs. You'll practice tying your partner to something on the ship. A mast, the wheel, the anchor, something. The idea is to use a knot that you think will hold them tightly. The partner then, of course, is to try and break free. If your partner fails to break free, then bravo. Midway through the time of the class, please untie your partner if they've not already obtained their freedom, then switch places as to who is being tied to what."

Hook chuckled. "And no, no one is allowed to tie me to anything."

He snapped his fingers. "Chop chop, get to it, that's a good crew. It's all very self explanatory. Yo ho and all that."

[ooc: OCD first, plz Up and ready to go!]

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Activity: Practice Knots!

[cunningkingfish.livejournal.com]

Tying up friends for fun and profit and classwork.

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke sat around waiting for a partner, keeping himself entertained by seeing if he could tie his own wrists up. He probably could if you gave him a moment. Houdini was his half-brother, stuff like this was in his genes.

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[i-am-the-rat.livejournal.com]

"You know, I'm supposed to do that," Hank pointed out as he sat down. "Howdy! Let's be partners, pardner!"

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Are you a cowboy?" Luke couldn't help but ask.

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[i-am-the-rat.livejournal.com]

"Oh, GOLLY, no!" Hank answered. "I'm a boy adventurer! ...Why, are you a cowboy?"

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"Uh, no, I'm not," Luke said, not even wanting to ask what a boy adventurer was. "I think we're both supposed to be wannabe pirates in this class."

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[i-am-the-rat.livejournal.com]

Hank nodded. "Arrrrrrrrrr! And we be tyin' knots!"

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

Even though Percy saw Luke was without a partner, he knew his cousin would easily slip knots and he wanted someone this might work on. Besides, he so didn't need Nico and Jason teasing about it being some kinky foreplay.

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Hi! Wanna be partners?"

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"If you can manage knots, yeah, why not?" Percy asked, shrugging. "Never been tied up by a talking frog before."

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Muppet frogs were more dexterous than one might think. It was especially incongruous considering that so much of what they did just looked like wild flailing.

"Great! So I guess I'll tie you first then."

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Okay," Percy said, amused. "Anything in particular you wanna tie me to?"

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Uhm..." Robin looked around. It couldn't be anything very high up of course. "How about that barrel over there?" It meant Percy'd have to be sitting down for the tying.

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[notmyownage]

Claudia could totally do knot tying and escapism. Totally.

It was all just, like, a form of physics, right?

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[puppy_fair]

"Heya!" Zack offered Claudia a little grin as he held up a length of rope. "Looking for a partner?"

He could so handle this knots thing, honest. It couldn't possibly be all that hard, right? It was just rope.

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[notmyownage]

"That I am. You wanna tie or be tied, first?"

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[puppy_fair]

"Either is fine with me, really," Zack replied, tilting his head thoughtfully. "I mean, I don't know if I'd be any good at this, but maybe I'll watch how you do it and pick it up from there?"

His reading comprehension skills were not exactly up to par, and so an actual demonstration would serve him best. But he wasn't going to admit that so easily.

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[notmyownage]

"Right. So I'll go first, then." Claudia picked up a length of rope and looked at it thoughtfully. She could totally do this, right? "Any place you prefer to get tied to?"

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[puppy_fair]

Zack pursed his lips, casting a thoughtful look around the deck of the ship.

"Anywhere that you can get the rope around is fine," he noted, grinning back toward Claudia. "But if it isn't firmly bolted to the deck, I might pry it loose trying to get free, so that's probably something to take into consideration..."

He really wasn't here to break the ship, after all.

"Maybe the mast? That should stay put, I hope."

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[dontvotemeout]

Jason had grabbed some rope, and was practicing some of the knots as he looked around for a partner. He might have been looking in one specific direction as subtly as possible.

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[deaths-demigod.livejournal.com]

When the class broke up for the activity, Nico snagged a piece of rope and meandered over to where Jason was being completely obvious with his looks. "I don't suppose you're in need of practice tying people up, huh?"

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[dontvotemeout]

"It just so happens that I might be needing that skill in the future," Jason said, holding back the leer that would accompany that comment if they weren't in class. "Would you be willing to help me practice?"

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[deaths-demigod.livejournal.com]

"My wrists are looking kinda free," Nico teased, stuffing one end of his rope in a pocket for safe keeping before raising his hands. "It's too bad there's no requirement you catch me first."

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[dontvotemeout]

"So I can practice catching you like a criminal? I get enough of that on real criminals," Jason said. "Is there a particular part of the boat you'd prefer to be tied to?" He figured he was being nice, giving Nico a choice.

Re: Activity: Practice Knots!

[deaths-demigod.livejournal.com]

"I don't know, did you want this to be easy or hard?" Nico shrugged. "I mean, there's a whole lot of potential positions..."