Cruising right along

[scotch_egg]

Who: Alec and You
What: Safety, survival and sleep deprivation
When: Before April/Early April
Where: Anywhere
Warnings: blood but no injury




I. Rules and Regulations
[everyone is going to find at least two pieces of folded up paper under the door of their cabin. It is a photocopied guide of pool safety, handwritten, with words similar to this save for one additional piece of advice.]

6. Don't be an idiot. We're in a lot of trouble already, try not to actively make it worse.


[and it is signed on the back]

-Hardy



II. Practice Makes Perfect cw: blood

[Alec is on deck-- what deck depends on the day and the weather, but rarely indoors. A russet red liquid is flowing around him as he moves from awkward stance to awkward stance, a rough beginner's tai chi--if said beginner had a rusty coat hanger up their backside. It's not much liquid, a ribbon of oxidizing blood, and occasionally he'll have to stop as if he's tired, but then presses forward.

After a moment he senses he's being watched and snaps.]

What.

[at that moment his concentration is broken and he has to scatter to stop the ribbon from splatting on deck and looking like a small murder scene or a children's hospital]


III. Dream on Dreamer

[Alec is a victim of an unexpected nap attack, where and when depends on the time of day, but either way he looks as if he was in the middle of doing something before putting his head down and accidentally passing out. You may want to warn him before he slides of his chair...or not]


IV. Wilde Card
[whatever you want to make it]

Comments

i. (via shiptalk)

[skaikru]

Oh. Do you work here?

[scotch_egg]

No. If I did there wouldn't be so many bloody pools. Why do you need pools on a ship? We're already surrounded by water.

[skaikru]

Salt water. Cold, oceanic salt water. I'd assume the pools main purpose is preventing hypothermia.

But anyway. If you don't work here, why the informational pamphlet. Just trying to lighten Friday's workload?

( this being a bit of a crappy joke, considering their host seemed relatively unconcerned with the permeance of death. )

[scotch_egg]

No, it's for entertainment. [if he was speaking that word would have a thick slant of disgust]

Nothing about this ship is practical.

I did it so I won't go out there one day to find some idiot floating face down in the water because they didn't know how to behave.

[skaikru]

Who have you met so far that seems dumb enough to drown in five feet of water with a ladder in any direction you swim towards?

[scotch_egg]

It's that kind of arrogant thinking that leads to accidents. Maybe someone was horsing around and concussed themselves before falling in. Maybe someone thought it would be funny to dive in to a shallow end or push someone in who didn't expect it. Maybe someone was playing a stupid prank.

And not everyone can swim.

[skaikru]

Okay, I get your point.

And I'm not trying to be arrogant. Pool safety just seems like a really weird thing to get caught on when

a) Dying here is semi-impossible

and b) It's apparently a lot more likely that we're going to kill each other, or be squashed like bugs under our ethereal kidnappers boots.

[scotch_egg]

How do you know it's semi-impossible?

And I'm not hung up on anything- I'm just wasting my time reminding people not to be stupid about common sense. We're full up with children, teenagers, and other assorted idiots who think they're immortal until suddenly they very much aren't.

[skaikru]

So far, it's just an anecdote. No one's tried it out yet, but Friday insists.

( and as a resident teenager who didn't learn to swim until she was seventeen and it was a necessity, clarke's still feeling... a little insulted. )

Maybe you could offer swim lessons, then. Is drowning a personal issue for you?

[scotch_egg]

I wouldn't trust anything anyone insists on until it happens-- and even then.

I'm not a strong swimmer, and strong swim lessons are not going to help someone who was running and smacked their head on something hard.

And I would think drowning is a personal issue for most.