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CHAPTER VII

LOG OF THE “DEMETER.”

2 August, midnight.---Woke up from few minutes' sleep by hearing a cry, seemingly outside my port. Could see nothing in fog. Rushed on deck, and ran against mate. Tells me heard cry and ran, but no sign of man on watch. One more gone. Lord, help us! Mate says we must be past Straits of Dover, as in a moment of fog lifting he saw North Foreland, just as he heard the man cry out. If so we are now off in the North Sea, and only God can guide us in the fog, which seems to move with us; and God seems to have deserted us.

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[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Dunno why they don't just run the ship aground or swim to shore, if they're so certain they're gonna be kild. See, that's how DRACULA VS THE SPARTANS begins: there's this crewman on watch on a ship in the fog, singing hymns to himself and looking terrified. Suddenly there's sounds around him and he's attacked by this archaically-dressed gentleman, but the sailor keeps saying prayers and every prayer he says seems to make the gentleman more furious and animalistic-looking, and suddenly the gentleman/animal attacks and we hard cut to the ships control center (or cabin or watevertf it's called) and the captain and his "mate" hear the screams and crunching of bones and the "mate" is like: just run the ship aground! and the cap'ns like: no way man I can't do that, but the "mate" is like: we're dead if we stay out on the water! so the cap'n turns the ship towards land and just then they hear the door cracking down, hard cut to these guys dressed like ancient spartans around their camp in the woods, hearing the crash (of the ship running ashore) and maybe was that a scream? The boss spartan is like: you, you, and you, go check out that sound...

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 5 points 2 days ago

or swim to shore

Most sailors in this period probably couldn't swim, fwiw.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I kinda wanna see this movie. Definitely has to be a movie, rather than a book, to get the real impact of the sailor's prayers and the visual change to the gentleman.

[–] Sergio@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Oh yeah gotta be visual. There's a scene I got in mind where they Spartans are fighting slow-motion Zack Snyder style, then Dracula comes on the scene but he's fighting at regular speed (not slow motion). And there are flashbacks to each of the Spartans to what they do in day life when not cosplaying, like a couple are architects and some are engineers; they get past the speed disparity by setting traps during the daytime. There's a scene towards the end where they're all in a circle facing out with spears/stakes drawn, when Dracula magickally appears in the middle of the circle and is like: I don't always just eat people, you know... sometimes I hire them if I think they're more valuable that way...