fandomhigh | So You Want to Be a Pirate!, Wednesday, period two

The Danger Shop for today's class was set up a bit differently than it had been before. Instead of the deck of one big ship, the students would find themselves on a replica of Fandom's docks facing seven small sailboats.

"Ahoy, mateys," Duke greeted. "I thought today would be a good day to give you all a taste of some actual sailing. Pick yourself a boat, give her a good name, and lets get started with some sailing basics!"

Duke kept the whole "intro to sailing" lecture as short as possible (which wasn't very), glad to have a classroom available where he could control things like wind power and direction, and be reasonably assured that no one was going to get concussed or crushed by a swinging boom. There was a lot of terminology to cover, and loads of guidelines, and he was pretty sure at least half the students would end up capsizing or falling into the drink today. But hey, that was half the fun of learning to sail, right?

"Alright! Now that you've got at least a bit of an idea of what to do, let's have ourselves a race! First one to make it all the way around the island and back here wins! Seeing as we're pirates —" and in a very safe environment full of safety protocols "— sabotage and cheating are not just allowed, but encouraged. Show me what you've got, ye scurvy bunch of sea dogs! Arrr!"

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With your tiny-enough-for-single-person-sailing-but-not-so-small-as-to-make-Sidon-feel-too-cramped sailboat's name!

Prince Sidon and the Wind Waker!

Ulysses Zane and the Odyssey because of course

Nell Ingram and Soulwood

Edited 2019-11-11 01:07 (UTC)

It's long and detailed ~~and entirely handwaved~~, full of warning about that swinging boom. Seriously. You did not want to take one of those to any part of your body.

Around the pretend Fandom Island! Where there be ~~moddable~~ sea monsters and ~~classmates~~ enemy pirates aplenty!

[RNG dictates the winners thusly:
1. Sidon
2. Jack
3. Elisabeth
4. Evie
5. Theron
6. Nell
7. Ulysses]

Hmmmm. Well, then. If there was certainly anything to lead Sidon to believe that sailing, especially in a boat that, while big enough for him to not feel cramped, was still pretty small, was not for him, it would be this. Because something depending on wind to move was going to need quite a mighty gust to handle the sort of weight that Sidon was bringing on board.

Which meant he might have to get a bit creative. Or...he might simply have to cheat.

But considering the fact that, as pirates, they were encouraged to perhaps think a bit outside the hull, as it were, was it really cheating? If anything, he was merely taking advantage of his natural talents, which would be the most logical thing to do in any situation.

Which is why Sidon was going to go from being barely able to get his weighted-down boat to move to rigging up a rope so that when he dove into the water and started racing forward, he could pull the boat along with him, occasionally taking great, arching, definitely showy-offy leaps out of the water to adjust the sail in passing when the wind shifted or they were going around the bend, so that some of the movement of the boat was indeed, in part, sailing, and not just towing.

He'd worry about the legitimacy of such an approach later, after he'd finished the race, an approach he felt was merely in line with the class as a whole, anyway.

If you went after the hatchet, he would love to hear all about your adventure!

So You Want to Be a Pirate!, Wednesday, period two

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