fandomhigh | Being a Proper Sea Dog, Friday, Period 3 [Session 4]

Today would not be a fun day in Hook's class. The class gathered in the Danger Shop as usual, where the ship looked not as clean as normal. In fact, the deck was filthy with stains of various colors, dirt and salt residue and things you probably didn't want to imagine.

The environment was also quite warm, with a simulated sun beating down upon the ship.

There were mops and buckets. One for every student in the class.

Hook stood in front of the Captain's cabin door, and gestured with his hook once the class was gathered.

"Life at sea is hard. Today, under the hot sun, you will all roll up your sleeves and swab the deck until it is spotless. This is again what we call an object lesson. You will learn the hardship of the sea first hand. And for refreshment, there is a barrel."

Hook gestured over at the barrel with his hook. "It is filled with biscuits called hardtack. They are nutritious, but I sadly will admit they are far from delicous, far from delicious indeed. You are alotted one biscuit for the class, and you must continue to swab until either the deck is clean or we are out of time."

He laughed. "If you manage to clean the whole deck, there will cake as a reward. Sadly, that is not part of the object lesson. It is merely extra motivation for you good students."

He patted the railing near him, since he couldn't clap. "Well, that's it, chop to it, there we go, there we go."

He eyed Jason and Zack for a moment, as if daring them to think of a way to mutiny this week.

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

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Dirtily.

Percy Jackson

Luke Castellan

Nico di Angelo

Dolf Wega

Prince Alexander of Daventry

Rilla Blythe

Claudia Donovan

Hank Venture

(oops, wrong dirty)

Zack Fair

Jason Todd

Why yes, you've just been made into the ship's janitors.

Whistle while you work. Or grumble. Or talk. Or whatever you like.

Percy had a frown on his face and a mop in his hands. Sure, this wasn't putting on a dress and getting hit with fish but he still didn't have to like it.

Idly, he wondered if Luke's ship ever got this dirty and who he made clean it up because Percy was sure he didn't do that himself. The lazy ass.

Luke didn't mind cleaning much. It was something he could do while zoning out at the same time so it wasn't that big of a deal. Sometimes ADHD was a blessing.

There wasn't anything particularly romantic about cleaning a floor, and it was hardly Rilla's favourite activity, but she knew how to mop, and she was doing it well. She was also grateful for her hat--she wasn't sure just how a sun that hot (real or not) would affect her winter pale skin.

Alexander didn't whistle while he worked. He didn't grumble, either. He just picked up a mop, took a moment of reflection for how familiar a feeling it was, and set to work.

He was not at all a stranger to hard work, especially not cleaning, and the task actually seemed fun to him in the light of the fact that it was merely for a class, for something that he was quite fond of, and he actually had the freedom to refuse it if he wanted to. That made a world of a difference, but it was so easy to fall back into Gwydion, to work with focus, determination, and complete silence until the task was finished.

"You know," Claudia said to no one in particular, glaring down at the deck, mop in hand. "A little dirt totally never hurt anyone."

Hank grumbled and got to work. He did his best to amuse himself by dancing around with the mop.

Cleaning was in no way Nico's preferred way for spending class and he was regretting daring to hope for better things. As he worked, he wondered if he should poke at Percy and see if the boy could do something to make the task go faster, but really, it wasn't like he expected things there to be any less weird than things with Luke after the other night. Whatever, he'd just scrub and frown.

Jason was really hoping that this wasn't a punishment for everyone because he and Zack had pissed Hook off last week. He would just be over here, scrubbing a section of the ship a little way away from everyone else in case it was.

This is actually impossible, unless you have no sense of taste.

Percy took about two bites of the hardtack biscuit and nearly retched it all back up. That would have been embarrassing so he kept it down but it was a struggle.

This thing was disgusting.

Yeah, Luke wasn't eating that. He'd just...put it back in the pile and let someone else enjoy it.

Rilla took a small bite and made a face. They tasted like ~~her~~ Karla's cooking.

The hardtack was was still better...and more...food than Alexander would have gotten from Manannan in a week, so he felt it was actually a pretty generous offering.

Of course, that didn't mean he had any intent to try to eat it. It was more the sort of thing you slipped into your pocket to use for something later. Like knocking out giants and trolls...

Hank took a break from mopping to pull out a pocketknife and try to whittle something interesting out of the biscuit.

Look, Zack was a puppy at the best of times, and he'd been presented with food. Food that made clunking sounds if you rapped it against the floor, sure, but food all the same!

So it was totally getting gnawed on. Relentlessly.

Mmmm. Bread-ish.

Once the deck is swabbed, there is... oh wait, there is no cake.

"I'm sorry, dear students," Hook said. "But the cake was a lie. A metaphorical carrot dangled to encourage you to do the hard work necessary of you. A bit of bad form on my part, I admit, so instead I do have a reward for you all."

A chest then appeared on the deck, open and full of gold coins.

"That isn't real gold, I do admit," Hook clarified. "But it is real chocolate. Have your fill, but don't dirty the deck now!"

Who is quite definitely still alive.

The Cake for Week 12 of the class is most definitely not a lie.

Also, I want cake now.

Hardtack is awesome if you have some chowder to soak it in.

*Canadians at*

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