Outdoor Adventure Time!, part 2, Tuesday, period 1

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Class met today on the sand below the boardwalk, where the geography of the island kept the waves to a minimum, allowing for greater underwater visibility. Eliot, wearing a pair of swimshorts and a tank top, was holding a swim mask and giving it a suspicious look. There were other masks, tanks, fins, vests, and other equipment carefully set in a line on the sand.

“How many of you are already SCUBA-certified?” Parker asked, looking hopeful. “It’s okay if you’re not. We both are, unlike last week. Eliot just has issues.”

"I don't have --" Eliot sighed. "Look, you try fightin' a spear fisherman underwater while avoiding getting shot by drug runners and see how you like it."

Parker kept talking like Eliot hadn’t said anything more combative than “It’s hot out today.”

“For those of you who want to take it easier, we do have snorkeling, which is just as fun. But if you go into the deeper water, you’ll probably see weirder and more beautiful things! Or possibly find shipwrecks! Or pearls!”

Yeah, Parker was in it for the treasure.

"Or a damned seamonster," Eliot muttered. "Swear to god, one of these days I'm gonna get tossed into this water and end up fighting that damned seamonster. . . ."

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[vdistinctive]

With goggles. Or boggling!

Listen/Play with equipment/Socialize

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Just don’t release the oxygen, mmkay?

SCUBA! Or snorkel

[vdistinctive]

Some basic rules being laid down, and Parker and Eliot in the water keeping an eye on everyone, take your underwater cameras, and have fun!

Bonus points if you get a selfie with an octopus.

Talk to the teachers

[vdistinctive]

They know sign language and may be talking to each other under water.

Talk to the TA

[vdistinctive]

Would being able to bounce help her underwater? Let’s find out.

OOC

[vdistinctive]

Now Parker-mun want to see Eliot make friends with an octopus.

Eliot's more likely to catch it and cook it up for dinner.

Re: Talk to the teachers

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Did you know that you could swim grumpily?

Eliot's just that talented.

Re: Talk to the teachers

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Parker was there with a knife, in case a student got hung up on something. The weightlessness of water was almost as much fun as free-fall.

Also, you don't find treasure on clouds.

Re: Talk to the teachers

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Parker signed, There aren't even any Russian mobsters here!

Re: Talk to the teachers

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That we know of, Eliot signed back.

Grump grump grump grump.

Re: Talk to the teachers

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

Do you want me to find you some?

Would fighting them make you feel better about being right, Eliot?

Re: Talk to the teachers

[vdistinctive]

The expression that Eliot gave Parker at that should be very familiar. He'd been giving her more or less exasperated versions of it since they met.

He shook his head. I'll just keep an eye out for -- stuff.

Like sea monsters. Or ghost pirates. Or . . . something.

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If you find any doubloons, I get half.

She had to spell out 'doubloons', but still. She got her point across. Then she did a slow and lazy somersault, just because she could.

An eeeeeeeeee! of happy bubbles trailed out of her.

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Eliot raised an eyebrow. Baboons?

The way the light was refracted by the water made that finger-spelling slightly hard to follow.

Re: Talk to the teachers

[whoisalicewhite.livejournal.com]

Where?

Parker did a slow spin, then gave Eliot the universal look of And You Call Me Crazy?

Re: Talk to the teachers

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Eliot just huffed and rolled his eyes.

It was a testament to how well they knew each other that they could make out these expressions even behind SCUBA masks.

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Kathy Li

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Ain't we got enough tentacles already?

Re: Talk to the TA

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The hardest part about being a TA was making sure she was around enough to be useful and still get in all the exploring she wanted.

As for being bouncy--everyone was bouncy beneath the waves. But it was so much slower. If being below the waves wasn't so gorgeous, Kathy would actually be a little annoyed by it.

Re: SCUBA! Or snorkel

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Kathy wasn't SCUBA-certified, but that wasn't going to stop her from trying it out anyway. She listened to the rules and as soon as it was feasible, dove in to explore what lurked under the water.

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Kathy stood behind the equipment, ready to hand out either snorkels or SCUBA gear to anyone who asked for it.

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Ringo Noyamano

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Ringo was torn. She knew that she wasn't really much of a swimmer. Sure, she could not-drown pretty well, but she wasn't sure that was enough to try the SCUBA thing.

But she really, really wanted to try the SCUBA thing.

Life was full of difficult decisions.

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Alluka Zoldyck

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Edward Kenway

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Cosette Fauchelevent

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What was so odd about this equipment that Eliot kept giving it such suspicious looks? Cosette was curious now, so she went over to peer at the swim masks to see if she could figure that out.

She couldn't, but honestly it was the snorkel she really thought was odd anyway.

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Was Cosette SCUBA-certified? Absolutely not. Was that going to stop her from taking a camera and some SCUBA gear and giving it a try anyway?

Of course it wasn't, and after twenty minutes or so of fiddling around with the equipment until she thought she could reasonably maneuver underwater, she took her camera and was snapping away.

The pictures probably weren't that good, and weren't of anything particularly noteworthy, but she was taking pictures of things underwater, and that was amazing enough in itself, all right?

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Vider Bearskin

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Of course Vider wasn't SCUBA-certified, but like she was going to let that stop her. She really, really wanted to meet that sea monster.

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Alana

Re: SCUBA! Or snorkel

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Alana wasn't sure her wings would play nice with the scuba equipment or the pressure of being deep underwater, so she went with snorkeling and saw some amazing fish -- and, thankfully, no sea monster.

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Daphne Blake

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Jalian d'Arsennette y ken Selvren

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Certified? What an odd concept! Jalian listened to the instructions, then followed them. It was odd breathing through a mask, but the underwater scenery was interesting.

She wasn't taking pictures, but she was looking around a lot. And she had her longest knife strapped to her leg, just in case.

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