Being a Proper Sea Dog, Friday, Period 3 [Session 5]

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Today's class met again on Hook's special simulated ship in the Danger Shop.

He looked positively pleased as peach today, as he tweaked the end of his mustache with his hand while the class gathered.

"Today we will discuss the various methods that are used to discipline unruly and mutinous sailors at sea," Hook said, looking like he enjoyed the subject all too well.

"While you can see the plank off the starboard bow, it is not used as often as you'd think. After all, the discipline is rather... final."

He laughed, thinking this hilarious.

"There's the whip, of course, lashes across the back. Some rather enjoy it, so I hear. There's even special whips with multiple lashes to increase the effectiveness. And the crack of a whip, of course, has a very intimidating sound. We will not, however, be whipping each other in class. I do have to draw the line somewhere."

He then gestured to a chest on the deck, which seems to have a hatch installed in it.

"This is my personal favorite, and an invention of mine. It's called the boo box. The poor soul who thought it good to question my orders is placed inside, then we open the little hatch and drop in various things and say 'boo'!"

He laughed again, today being a rather mirthful class for him.

"Usually various things included scorpions, spiders, rats, and sometimes worse. Depending on what they did, of course. Always make sure the punishment suits the crime, after all!"

He then gestured to a large pile of potatoes that was behind the students, surrounded by basins, benches, and a plethora of potato peelers.

"Today you'll all engage in that old chestnut, peeling potatoes as punishment. Not that you've done anything wrong, but just as an example of course. I can't go about whipping you or making you walk the plank, after all. However, if anyone can come up with a suitably proper punishment that was not discussed today, and propose it to the class, you will not have to peel potatoes and can instead enjoy a relaxing bit of sunbathing under our simulated sun, accompanied by tropical juice drinks. While watching your friends toil away at peeling potatoes. Right, right, there we go. Peel some potatoes, like good students, like good students indeed."

He'd have clapped to get them to go, but obviously he could not.

[ooc: OCD first, plz Class is up and ready to go!]

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Kyle Reese

Listen to the Lecture

[cunningkingfish.livejournal.com]

Hook enjoys punishment rather a bit too much.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

Hook's ideas of punishment confused Kyle to no end. The Boo Box sounded more like torture, which he was learning was more commonly accepted at home than he expected.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

The examples of discipline didn't really surprise Percy. The Boo Box even sounded creative in a messed up sort of way. That didn't mean he wanted to experience it though. He was just fine going without.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[deaths-demigod.livejournal.com]

Whips and a box certainly grabbed and held Nico's attention this week, even if his mind started drifting a little with his own ideas of examples of how these tortures worked.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke knew his Greek history and he was just glad that Hook's punishments didn't involve being turned into an animal and having hunters be sent after you and stuff like that. That stuff was brutal.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

Rilla physically recoiled at the descriptions of punishment. Her punishments had been limited to a few spankings and her mother and father telling her how disappointed they were in her.

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[notmyownage]

The Boo Box sounded very 1978^[*] to Claudia. Next thing you know, Hook would be striking words from the English dictionary. . . .

* Do we have a meta for 1984? Should I have gone with "MCMLXXXIV"?

Re: Listen to the Lecture

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

Right then. Punishments.

Alexander didn't exactly need to hear a lecture on this sort of thing; he had the scars all over his back still to show his firsthand experience with such things. It was probably not a good sign that not even the description of the boo box seemed to come off as anything too unfamiliar.

So he was just going to stand here and try not to be too awkward about today's topic of discussion.

Peel Potatoes!

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Like a Boss?

Re: Peel Potatoes!

[seaweed-demigod.livejournal.com]

Percy reached for a potato and a peeler and started in on the potatoes while he thought about other punishments. He didn't want to approach Captain Hook without a solid idea.

He was pretty sure that way would just get him laughed at.

Re: Peel Potatoes!

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

Luke didn't really mind manual labor, even if it did mean he was gonna smell like a french fry for the rest of the day. He didn't even really want to think about punishments since that sort of led down the line of thinking of what Kronos would do to him if he screwed up this whole theft thing.

He was just lucky he didn't cut his hand off while thinking about this stuff.

Though he might have gotten extra credit for the dedication to the class.

Re: Peel Potatoes!

[rilla-myrilla.livejournal.com]

Rilla was just fine with peeling potatoes, thank you very much.

Re: Peel Potatoes!

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

Kyle found himself getting into a rhythm with the potato peeling after a while.

Re: Peel Potatoes!

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

Robin picked up a potato in one hand, a peeler in the other, and with a flurry of flailing limbs, and a blizzard of flying potato skins, in no time at all had a perfectly peeled potato.

It's a Muppet thing.

Re: Peel Potatoes!

[daventryprince.livejournal.com]

...peeling potatoes was not a punishment.

Peeling potatoes was what you had to do to avoid punishment.

Or death.

Needless to say, Alexander had no problem peeling potatoes. He was an expert at peeling potatoes. He was a potato peeling prince.

Propose a New Punishment

[cunningkingfish.livejournal.com]

Hook is always out for new ideas.

Re: Propose a New Punishment

[weetinyreese.livejournal.com]

"I have a question," Kyle said. "Why is this punishment?" He gestured to the potato in his hand.

Re: Propose a New Punishment

[trickydemigod.livejournal.com]

"I know you can't cut off someone's leg as punishment," Luke started after he had spent about five minutes peeling potatoes. "But you could make an annoying student wear a peg leg for a while. That way you get the amusement of watching them hobble around on the boat while also teaching them the lesson about how difficult the life of a pirate was."

Re: Propose a New Punishment

[notmyownage]

"You know," Claudia said thoughtfully. "Sunbathing doesn't have to be reward. Take away the tropical drinks and anything resembling shade, tie the punish-ee down, leave 'em there for several hours. . . . Like a really dehydrating time-out."

Re: Propose a New Punishment

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Hank snorted derisively. "You didn't even mention keelhauling!" he pointed out. "What kind of pirate are you?"

Talk to the Teacher

[cunningkingfish.livejournal.com]

Hook will happily speak with you at length.

Re: Talk to the Teacher

[robinthefrog.livejournal.com]

"Sir I'm sorry I missed class last week, I was sick."

OOC

[cunningkingfish.livejournal.com]

The Boo Box (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCx-M8dcDhk)

True fact: That's Glenn Close as the bearded pirate that goes in the Boo Box.

Re: OOC

[allyofthevarden.livejournal.com]

I love that movie so, so much. ♥!