Jack's got the kind of luck where you cannot board a ship without it getting attacked by pirates or hijacked by demons or having a vampire on the crew snacking its way through the passengers, unless it is the Titanic. He always survives, though, because he's a Hero(tm), like it or not.

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The nightmare of the galleys came before the coin in the mud. Had all his pain and fear and agony there been manipulated by the gods to their ends? Was he nothing but a puppet on a string? Or was that, a mule on a rope, balky and stubborn, to be whipped along? He scarcely knew whether he felt wonder or rage.
- Curse of Chalion, Lois McMaster Bujold