Addendum to the “Memories” Podcast
There was something I’d meant to mention in the most recent podcast; specifically around the subject of haunted vessels and “Homeboy Gon’ Fuck The Phantom”…
I’m reminded of a scene from a contemptible horror movie from 2002, titled Ghost Ship. The premise of the film is that a salvage crew journey to retrieve the hidden treasures of a sunken cruise ship…but it’s got g-g-g-ghosts!!!
The scene is of one crewman, seduced by a phantom temptress, being lured into dropping trou and positioning himself behind her to tap dat ethereal ass. To his surprise, he instead falls through her intangible form, plummeting to his death at the bottom of an elevator shaft.
Now, his first mistake was impatience. If I’m going to get to work behind a woman, it won’t be in a doorway. I can wait until she reaches a nearby wall or something that will offer some resistance to my efforts.
Not a good plan!
Furthermore, if I do intend on getting in while the getting’s good, even in mid-stride, I’d have to be in pon farr to not recognize an elevator shaft. Should I choose to believe that the woman weren’t already dead, I’d assume that she wouldn’t be far from it after my first thrust in front of an open elevator shaft.
What’s most unnerving is the reaction of his teammates upon discovering his carcass. The camera stays fixed on their reactions, with his fate just out of frame. They’re distressed that their friend has been found dead; gruesomely impaled on protruding rebar…but no one makes comment about his pants being around his ankles.
Seriously. Not one word. Not even a perplexed wince. If anyone jumped to the conclusion that he was taking a leak into the shaft when his assassin shoved him to his doom, they didn’t vocalize it. I suppose everyone just accepted that Greer died as he lived…
March 3rd, 2010 at 6:42 pm
Not to be an ‘actually’, but Lei Lei’s a chinese hopping vampire, and I thought those were solid as a rule. Not that it’s any more of a good idea to screw corporeal undead, especially in front of open elevator shafts, it just bugged me.
[Reply]
The Grey Ghost Reply:
March 3rd, 2010 at 7:00 pm
Lei-Lei’s mostly a ghost, but also kind of a zombie. The Chinese word for it is Kuang Shi. Whether or not she’s tangibly interchangeable in the game’s canon has never been addressed, but fan artists will roll with the ghost thing and all that might suggest.
Bottom line: This is the best image I could find for this article of a ghost that is “presenting”. :p
[Reply]