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

[cunningkingfish.livejournal.com]

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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Class Activity!

[cunningkingfish.livejournal.com]

That's right, put on a dress, grab a fish, and fish-slap a fellow classmate.

Re: Class Activity!

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

Percy wasn't actually doing anything just yet. He had the dress in hand and was looking down at it with something akin to horror. He wondered if he could just slap someone with a fish. That'd be smelly but he'd avoid the dress.

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

Percy was going to have to do something soon, if he wanted to avoid the fish being swung at his head limply.

Re: Class Activity!

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

Percy did do something. Considering he was still holding the dress, he actually brought it up to use as a shield when he noticed the fish coming his way.

Hey, if he wasn't going to wear the dress, he could at least make it useful.

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

"Hey, that's not FAIR!" Hank whined.

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[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

"I don't remember this being against the rules," Percy said, keeping the dress held aloft even while he peeked around it. "I'm not going against orders or anything. I'm just improvising."

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

"You're not wearing the dress," Hank pointed out. "You have to. It's the rules!"

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[deaths-demigod.livejournal.com]

When the captain said jump, you asked how high.

Nico put on a frilly dress, thought he looked okay for a dude, and grabbed a fish. Someone was getting slapped.

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[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke whistled at Nico when he saw him in the dress. "Niiiiice choice. The color goes well with your eyes."

He hadn't put on a dress because, well, he just didn't want to. He was pretty good at following orders until it came to clothes. He liked being comfortable, dammit.

Re: Class Activity!

[deaths-demigod.livejournal.com]

Nico glanced down at the pink dress, only a little embarrassed by the whistling. "Think I should drop the whole black thing and go for pink? Might be a little hard to hide in the shadows, but I'm getting better at solidifying them around me."

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[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"I think pink is definitely your color," Luke decided. He didn't have a fish in his hand because he could just snap one into existence the second he felt like hitting somebody with one. Which had never occurred to him to do until today.

"You've been practicing with your powers?" Luke asked. "The fact that you can use them after training means I should work you harder."

Not dirty.

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[deaths-demigod.livejournal.com]

"Hey, I've gotta keep practicing or I'll pass out the next time I try to raise anything to fight on my behalf," Nico explained. "But trust I'm not practicing for hours after our training."

After their training he usually wanted to sleep in the shower.

Re: Class Activity!

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"That's sort of a relief. I don't want to push you harder; I feel like passing out after we're done as it is." Though he rarely actually slept after that and they both knew it.

Re: Class Activity!

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

Hank pulled on the dress and looked down at it disapprovingly. "I feel like a raspberry tart!" he complained.

But, oh, well.

Re: Class Activity!

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"Better, I suppose," Alexander commented to the other boy with an arch of his eyebrow down at his own cerulean affair, "than a blueberry one."

Which he felt was all the introduction needed to then go and thwap the floppy fish in his hand at Hank. Lightly, of course. It was actually a mostly confused and uncertain sort of swing.

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[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Alexander was pretty sure he'd seen the blue dress and black girdle combination he wound up with somewhere before, but he was also thoroughly convinced that his sister wore it much better. Still, he had his dress and he had his fish and so it was off to do some slapping. He supposed.

Re: Class Activity!

[notmyownage]

Claudia flounced up in her frilly pink dress, fish at the ready.

*FWAP!*

"Have at ye!"

Re: Class Activity!

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"Oof!" said Alexander, who really should have been more prepared for that. But, then again, was there really a good way to prepare oneself to be fwapped with fish?

"That's hardly fair," he said. "Even though we're all in dresses, it still feels terribly ungentlemanly to hit a girl with a fish."

But, imagine that, there was a fish heading for Claudia, anyway.

Re: Class Activity!

[notmyownage]

Claudia took the fish like a girl.

Which was to say, she handled it well.

"Good to see you're overcoming your archaic biases."

And she fwapped at him again.

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[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

"Ah, see, but you're not the only sibling I have that is a girl, my dear Claudia," said Alexander, stepping back and holding his fish like a floppy fencing foil. "She's never quite clobbered me with halibut, but it definitely did well to cancel my reservations about that sort of thing. She was certainly not showing me any mercy, so why should I return the favor?"

And with that, he went to thwap her in return.

Re: Class Activity!

[dontvotemeout]

Jason might have been less weirded out if the dresses weren't pink. Still, he was willing to go along with the assignment for the moment, especially after seeing Percy's reluctance. Somehow, dressing faster made him feel like a better student. At least there was one area in which Jason could beat him.

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[puppy_fair]

Hey, orders were orders, and Zack was... Well, not a pirate, but SOLDIER functioned more or less the same way, in the long run.

"... Okay, the fish is kind of weird. Or is that just me?"

Re: Class Activity!

[dontvotemeout]

"No, it's not just you," Jason said, poking experimentally at one of the fish. "I kind of don't get it. Is it supposed to hurt, or just smell? Because you're gonna make yourself smell just as bad handling it."

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[puppy_fair]

"Yeah, which is kind of..." Zack wrinkled his nose at the fish. "Well, why make the dresses smell all fishy in the first place?"

The pink might have looked stunning when contrasted against Zack's luminescent blue eyes, but he doubted that even his eyes could save the dress from the trash bin if it got too fishy.

He was clearly not putting much stock in the fact that this was all Danger Shop fakery.

Re: Class Activity!

[dontvotemeout]

"And if you're not wearing a dress," because he was not that kind of guy, no matter how pretty the pink was, "why would you want to hit someone with something that lets them know you're coming at them?"