The School O'Crossbones

Ricardo's Log - Day 1 - Part 8 - The Sorting Quest

Oooh the bottle test? Oh yeah, way to chuck me into the deep end.

But  honestly it was nowt to worry about, I remember when I did obstacle course on one of those inflatable floating thingies at my local swimming pool

Ya know the ones I'm talking about right? Like those inflatable gauntlets filled with rubber pillars, spikes and ramps that you would find at like a festival or something ygm?

So I did that but on like water but once you are bounced off, you go into the pool and then you have to try again. Tbh I failed loads but it was all worth it for that big slide you get to do at the end.

Tho it's been ageeesss since I've been to one of those, I think I stopped at the same time that I stopped going to swimming lessons. I remember starting to hate it because of the added pressure plus it was taking the fun out of swimming for me.

But anyways I can swim so I can not like drown badly, so it iiiiisss what iiiiisss.

When it came to being inside the bottle and I could see that we had to swim to the ship, I was looking for a changing room or like the loo, so I wouldn't have to deal with damp clothes but then I saw everyone else was diving anyways so I thought...

...Oh flip it.....and then I went into the pool without my birthday suit on. Just my regular unbirthday suit. Which became my UNDRY unbirthday suit.

Now before swimming, I would need to swim with my goggles but Also weirdly enough, when I ducked under water it didn't hurt my eyes and no hurty eyes meant no chlorine but it didn't taste salty either. It was like I was swimming in like drinking water, it was weird.

I mean, I could swim no problemo to the boat, butterfly dive, porkscrewing and frog suit stroking and stuff which I enjoyed swimming expect for having WET SOCKS WHICH I CAN'T STAND.

It's was like EEEWWW like it was stuck in my boots and it was kinda marinating in there while I swamed across.

Wait am I gonna get trench foot? I remember in like class once, like back in like World War One, dem soldiers would get like trench foot in the trenches because their boots would get damp from all the wet mud and stuff. I heard that it's like athelete's foot but WORSE.

And what's even worse I wasn't in no trench neither, so it's less honorable.

I looked around me for the peeps that I knew just so I could stop thinking about the moist status of my boots.

Hehe...moist...

Anyways, I could see that Spoopy Zombie Pirate Lady, just be walkin' around the sand at the bottom of the bottle. The water was clear and not that deep so I could see her. And she was barefoot, well she was barefoot before so I now regret my choices with MY BOOOTS!*!\!

Nope, not gonna talk about it again.

Finnally I reached the ship! Now just to find a way to get onto the ship...well everyone else was like climbing up by ropes and stuff so I tried doing the same. Only one prob. I....not great with the climbing or with heights.

I don't like heights...NOT that I'm scared of heights or owt. I have the accidentally-falling-off-and-becoming-a-splat-due-to-fall-damage-aphobia. Ya know what I mean rite?

Then I heard a KA-BOOM mixed with a big splash so it was like sounded like

KA-SPLSSSH! KA-SKKKSH! KA-BLOOSHHAAAAOOM!

That's cuz some of the other guys exploded the Bum/backside of the ship so there was an opening that I could go through!

I doggie paddled over and I could see a butt load of coins and gold.  I thought it was like the booty room, so I looked on the map we were given.  Surprisingly unsoggy, despite I was drenched earlier.