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

Today's class again met in the Danger Shop, and again Hook had programmed a three masted vessel for the activity of the day.

"There we are, there we are. Everyone here and ready?" Hook said, after the class had gathered. "Jolly good job with the rope work last week. Jolly good. You all got up and went straight into things, and for that I applaud you, at least figuratively."

He paced back and forth on the deck a bit, as he spoke.

"As for today, the activity on the syllabus is an exercise in following orders. Which is simple. On the sea, there are instances where you'll have to put your own mind aside and follow orders so that you and the rest of the crew survive. Originally I had something rather harsh planned for today, but given recent events I've decided that would be bad form. Instead, I'm going to test your limits."

He opened a large chest on the deck of the ship, which contained several frilly pink dresses (including one frog-sized). He also gestured to a barrel which was full of dead, whole fish (and one sardine).

"Everyone is to pull on a dress, grab a fish, and slap another student across the face with it. Not hard, mind you, I don't want any permanent damage. A slap, not a wallop. If you find that too difficult, I can provide other orders, if you really feel you can't follow them."

He snapped his fingers. "Chop chop, get to it. This is an object lesson. Don't object to it unless you're ready to present a very good case for why you should mutiny."

And perhaps that was part of the object lesson as well.

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

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Possibly discuss whether the teacher is completely insane.

It took a lot to keep Luke's attention in class on the best of days, especially lately. Luke didn't sleep well last night thanks to the extra person in the room and still he managed to sit upright and focused during class today.

You won this round, Hook.

Dolf... was staring. He was famous for making his 'good cases' - and they only ended in him nearly getting tied to a pole and set on fire half the time - and he was trying to spur his brain to go from 'WTF?!' to working on one.

But seriously. WTF.

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Percy's eyebrows started going up when Captain Hook started talking and stayed their the entirety of the lecture. Dress? Fish? What? Percy didn't know which part of this lesson was worse.

Remind Nico to thank Leo for the extra warmth sometime, given it was the only reason he'd slept so well and could now focus on the teacher and his insane request this morning.

Alexander knew he didn't have any problem following orders. That had never been a problem.

But Manannan, evil tyrannical wizard as he was, had never quite requested anything like this out of him before.

He shrugged, though, figuring it could be worse, and then just decided he hoped Maladicta didn't catch wind of this.

Watch Rilla stare. Stare, Rilla, stare.

Jason had been asked to do quite a few weird things in his life - Bruce's training wasn't exactly full of standard activities - but putting on a dress and fighting with a fish were both new, and he wasn't sure whether to laugh, or be kind of horrified at the thought of whether or not the class could get stranger from here.

Claudia was over here snickering.

She had absolutely no problem with this exercise.

Zack kind of... gaped a little bit.

At the fish, more than the dresses. That didn't seem so bad, really. Zack actually liked pink.

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