Choose Your Own Adventure, Thursday afternoon

[myownface]

The class was called 'Choose Your Own Adventure,' right? Well, after getting Kenzi's e-mail, Sparkle was going to step up to bat and choose his. He went and sent up a follow-up e-mail to his fellow classmates informing them that there would be a final this semester after all. Show up to the Danger Shop. Bring a... newspaper?

Apparently it was important. Just roll with it.

When they got there, they would find the place all decked out like a seaport, with Sparkle standing on top of a pirate ship that was flying the Jolly Roger and all. Atop his head, of course he was wearing a newspaper pirate hat.

"So, our esteemed captain be down with a touch 'o the scurvy today," he said, in a thick, piratey drawl. "This means we haven't got her guidance for the last voyage of the good ship, Bonne Aventure." A beat, and then he briefly was dropping the pirate accent to add, "It's a clever name if you know anything about Canadian naval history. Just roll with it. Anyway, this be a reverse-mutiny! Don your pirate caps - which you'll have to make yourselves out of the newspapers I had you bring, and let's be doing all those important mutiny things! First step is gatherin' yer effects. A proper hat, and make a cutlass out of cardboard if ye be so inclined. Second step? Plunderrrrr! Stop by the cafeteria and we'll get our fearless captain some proper gruel and grog to help speed her recovery. Then we can set off to her quarters, to wish her a speedy recovery, and that she'll be gettin' through this tough time with all her teeth intact. Arrrr."

He gave the group a grin, and then hoisted his own cardboard cutlass to the sky.

"For good Cap'n Kenzi! Let's set sail, ye scallywags!"

[Open! THIS BE A MUTINY. ARRRRR.]

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[myownface]

You are a pirate!

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[notacokeperson.livejournal.com]

Karina Lyle

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[tigerundercover]

Raven Darkholme

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[wildandbrave]

Cosette Fauchelevent

Lecture!

[myownface]

Wherein Sparkle proves that he's totally crazy.

But the pirate ship is nifty, and he's actually wearing his paper hat pretty well, so...

Re: Lecture!

[notacokeperson.livejournal.com]

It said something that Karina was seriously unsurprised by this, right?

That didn't mean she was just going to take it, mind.

"Seriously?"

But, hey, she was here. And she'd brought a newspaper. Shut up.

Re: Lecture!

[myownface]

"You don't have to be a pirate," Sparkle sniffed. "That's right there in the name of the class. But that means we're going to have to make you walk the plank."

A beat.

"Into chocolate pudding."

Neither of these things were actually true.

Re: Lecture!

[voiceoverdue]

Cecil had showed up with every intention of finishing up whatever final Sparkle had come up with really fast, then heading over to Kenzi's. So this was great!

He had managed to find a newspaper, and had Foucault in tow, since he was sure Kenzi would want to see him, too.

He listened to the "lecture" with approval. He already knew Sparkle was...well, Sparkle.

Gear up!

[myownface]

If you brought a newspaper, make yourself a pirate hat! If you didn't, you're going to ask your classmates for a page from theirs. Or loot it from them. You are a pirate, after all.

There are also a few cardboard boxes and some scissors that Sparkle plundered from a recycling bin (not-quite-piracy), and a teacher's desk (actual piracy), if you want to make yourself a cardboard cutlass, or a parrot for your shoulder, or whatever else you feel you'll be needing for your piratey goings-on today.

Re: Gear up!

[tigerundercover]

Raven had not, in fact, brought a newspaper. She actually didn't know where one would find a newspaper in this day and age, at a school where one didn't have a father figure who liked to hide behind it at breakfast. She could, at least, mimic a pretty swanky outfit at least, though.

She went with cardboard pistols. It was always nice to have weapons you could put down when you wanted free hands, instead of reshaping.

Re: Gear up!

[wildandbrave]

Cosette was thoroughly amused by this, and no, she wasn't going to laugh at Sparkle for acting like a pirate when she went off and had imagined adventures by herself in the preserve all the time.

"Bonne Aventure," she repeated, though a 19th century Parisian accent probably made it sound fairly different, "that's a nice name for a ship. I like it."

And then in the right thread this time she set to work folding herself the most elaborate and historically inaccurate (but who cared, it was going to be pretty) pirate hat she could possibly manage.

There would most likely be a cutlass, too. Sparkly, if she had her way, and don't think she wouldn't make sure she got her way.

Re: Gear up!

[myownface]

"Glitter," Sparkle mused, leaning forward to see her progress. "Kickass touch, I approve."

He had a bias.

Re: Gear up!

[voiceoverdue]

Cecil happily made a traditional pirate hat. He wasn't entirely sure what a cutlass had to do with pirates, but he made one of those, too.

Then he wasn't sure what to do with it, so he found a string and hung it around Foucault's neck. A hat would've slipped over his eyes, but this way he was festive, too!

Plunder!

[myownface]

Which mostly means 'hit up the cafeteria for good sick-people food to bring to our suffering Captain Kenzi,' but if you have better ideas for how to spend the class, whether it be roaming town for get well soon cards, or lazing around and not doing anything, that's totally up to you.

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[notacokeperson.livejournal.com]

"I'm pretty sure cafeteria food is the wrong thing to feed a sick person," Karina pointed out.

Because ew, cafeteria food, that's why. And no, she wasn't going to talk like a pirate. That would be putting way too much effort into this.

Look, the fact she was wearing a newspaper hat was effort enough.

Re: Plunder!

[tigerundercover]

Raven grabbed a big jug of orange juice.

For the scurvy, you know.

Re: Plunder!

[myownface]

"Orange juice." Sparkle nodded approvingly. "That be a fine pirate drink, yarrrr."

He wasn't going to drop the pirate speak for a while, no. He was having fun with this.

Re: Plunder!

[wildandbrave]

Oh, was Kenzi sick? Well, then, Cosette would just have to roll up her sleeves, wash the newsprint off her hands, commandeer a stove in the cafeteria, and whip up a pot of soup (something quick and simple but nourishing), because that wouldn't do.

Re: Plunder!

[voiceoverdue]

Cecil bypassed the cafeteria for flagging down the nearest squirrel. After a bit of bargaining and grumpy chittering, he had a good-sized bottle of rum.

What? Hot toddies were totally a sick-person thing, and rum was a pirate thing! Right?

Reverse-Mutiny!

[myownface]

Yep, near the end of class, First Mate Sparklebeard hollers loudly to gather anyone within earshot out front of the school. And then he leads anybody willing to go with him straight to Kenzi's front door.

Party at the captain's house!

... Or at least delivery of a care package consisting of whatever it is that a sick pirate captain needs. Paper hats and limes to prevent scurvy or something.

Talk to First Mate Sparklebeard!

[myownface]

He'll be humming various pirate themed songs throughout the day, and he'll be happy to help you with any paper hat malfunctions or locks that you figure need picking, or whatever.

OOC!

[myownface]

Had to happen eventually!

We have full permission to crash into Kenzi's post to wish her a swift recovery, or to throw a last-day-of-class party, or whatever turns out happening over there. Feel free! Or just yutz around in this post, pirating for the duration of class, if you'd prefer.

Re: OOC!

[regretiz4suckas.livejournal.com]

HEEEE. Yes. STAMP OF APPROVAL. *STAMP*

I will be back at 4:20 PM ET for pillaging pick-ups, and then gone for a couple hours, then back at 7pm ET!

Re: OOC!

[wildandbrave]

Well, now I just have "The Last Saskatchewan Pirate" stuck in my head.

This is not a complaint.

Re: OOC!

[myownface]

:D You're welcome.

I've pretty much been cycling through every pirate song I know all day.