Thursday, January 31, 2008


Curse of the Hesperides

The last journey through Donegal – the most important of the Atlantic Northeast-Caverns – was quiet and well conducted... The men were rest and fed, and some samples were collected in the short stop in land, last Friday...
However, while retrieving the anchor, something happened, that scared the men so badly, that many refused food or water in the fallowing days...
The situation aggravated itself to a point of despair, where half of the crew died of quick induced starvation, due to excessive vomiting...
We tried to find anyone who witnessed the incident, but the testimonies were contradictory at best...: some claimed to have seen a monster grabbed to the anchor dripping a sticky fluid, some say it was a ghost... the mother of all diseases, in the form of a mad hermaphrodite... or a mermaid of pestilence, hypnotizing the men to suicide...
No conclusion was taken, but two days after, everything strangely calmed down, when the Senior Admiral – Sir Peter Hornblower – was found by my associate, dead in his cabin...
The medic – a Portuguese doctor – disappeared at the exact same time... and everything was back to normal...: No sailors died, no one was sick, and the ship was only a few miles from land...
...I wonder...: was it a monster attack, that confused us to a collective vertigo...? or a drug-induced illusion, with the soul purpose of assassinating the commander unnoticed...?
The suspicions strongly indicate poisoning, but the medical-officer's briefcase was never found...
It is my desire that this receives the necessary funding, for further investigation...

William Bartletts,
Gracefully, Your Royal Highness, Queen Elizabeth I of England, France and Ireland.