fandomhigh | Being a Proper Sea Dog, Friday, Period 3

As was usual, the class met in the Danger Shop, on a simulation of a pirate ship.

Today there was another ship, pressed up next to the pirate vessel. The boarding planks were out, and the vessel the students were on was primed to storm its new, trapped neighbor.

"What we have here, young ladies and gentlemen, is the wonderful time where you need to storm the opposing vessel and claim your wealth and prizes. But! Before one can storm a ship, it is important to know the rules. Now, I'm certain some unruly and bad-form practicing pirate did some awful, awful, awful things to those that they raided. But I, Captain James Hook, cunning kingfish of Neverland, say no to that. There are rules. There is good form. So here are my rules."

He pulled out the handy chalkboard, though this time it was all pre-written, so he did not need a chalk-holder-hand-attachment.

"One, do not stab the unarmed women or children. Self explanatory. Two, only take as much as you can carry and still hold a weapon. Never put down your sword or pistol to grab more loot. That's just asking to get stabbed or shot in the back."

He cleared his throat.

"Three, don't leave their ship sinking. Disabled, certainly, but you might as well leave them alive. After all, once they see the might of piracy, they might become pirates themselves! Four, don't care if they're orphans or not. That doesn't get you anywhere, and just encourages them to lie. Liars deserve to die, not be saved."

He then pointed emphatically at the last rule.

"Rule five. Don't do anything in bad form. We are not that sort of seagoing raiders. Got it? Good."

He pushed the chalkboard off the ship and it splashed as it hit the water.

"So now, I want you to propose rules that you think should be part of the crew's instructions when raiding a fallen ship for goods and treasure. My rules are direct and to the point, but I'm sure you have proposed ideas. Well, now is the time to speak up. And if you don't wish to, instead you can enjoy some root beer. There are kegs on the opposing vessel. Go and claim it, if you want it."

And that was today's class. Chat, or raid a ship for root beer.

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Like a Raider!

Luke Castellan

Percy Jackson

Nico di Angelo

Rilla Blythe

Claudia Donovan

Hank Venture

Jason Todd

Kyle Reese

Rules! That are kind of vague and not well explained.

He's a Captain, his word is just law, yo.

Well Luke was made for this raiding stuff, though he was slightly disturbed by the fact that he had less morals than Hook did in the matter.

And, excuse you, liars did not deserve to die.

Percy hadn't ever gone by these rules when he'd raided a ship but he'd only really been on one other ship (that wasn't his own) and he hadn't really been thinking of raiding and plundering that day.

He tapped his pencil and tried to think of a new rule or two.

Nico wasn't sure he understood how the rules worked or where they came from, but he thought fighting to steal root beer could be fun.

Assuming it didn't turn into spaghetti-o's.

Claudia wasn't so sure about that first rule. She agreed with the spirit of it, certainly, but there was way more you could do to unarmed women and children other than just stabbing, and a lot of it was really, really bad.

The opposing ship is actually deserted, sadly, so raiding is more "Go and grab a cup and kind the root beer kegs"

But if you want to chat about the morality of stealing from ships you've crippled, the teacher is right there!

Luke wasn't really good at the whole rules thing so instead he just chilled with some root beer. He was glad for the relaxed class even if it did have him itching to actually steal stuff.

Percy thought about raiding the other ship but first, he was gonna toss out a possible new rule for raiding.

"What about a rule for attacking a ship that's bigger than yours?" he asked. "Something like 'don't be afraid to attack and raid if you know you can beat them.'"

Of course, that could lead to some suicide missions but still.

"That's a judgment call, wouldn't you say?" Hook said, nodding along. "Perhaps not best as a rule but more of a... guideline the Captain can stick to."

"Because some captains aren't going to take size of the ship or the army into account before sending themselves on a kamikaze mission?" Percy guessed, nodding. He could understand that. "At least they'd go out in a blaze of glory?"

"Fools go out in a blaze of glory," Hook said. "The brilliant know when to fight another day."

"So, you don't believe in the saying 'go out with a bang, not a whimper?'" Percy asked curiously.

"Boy, I tell you this," Hook said. "While there is something to be said about not going gently into that goodnight, you have to be very careful your 'going out with a bang' is not akin to... I believe his name is 'General Custer'."

"Yeah, point," Percy said grudgingly. "You wanna be a hero but you don't wanna be a fool kinda thing. Going out with a bang means hero, going out by getting slaughtered makes you a fool. Tricky line to walk."

Rilla raised her hand. "Couldn't we just ask them to share?"

Rilla rather spectacularly failed at pirate.

That got a laugh out of Hook. "Do you find that most merchants are willing to just share their goods, without payment, Miss Blythe?"

"Sometimes," Rilla said with a blush.

She was pretty and her home village was quite small.

"OOOH! OOOH! We could barter!" Hank cut in.

Hank wasn't all that keen on raiding. But taking root beer from an empty ship? Heck, that didn't even count as STEALING!

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