Story/Rum Matcha Posterity

Rum Matcha Posterity

Scene 44 of 29217 lines

Where it plays

Scene number44
Lines17
Plays in a runYes
ActAct II
Where in the act21 of 40

Nothing in the hub sets this scene off, and nothing in the game changes when it ends. It runs from the story itself.

How it starts (2 ways)

Matcha's own scenes, lore, rolled. Starts: when you talk to Matcha. Needs: you are playing Rum and you have not seen Lore Rum Matcha Posterity.

Rum's own scenes, lore, rolled. Starts: when you talk to Rum. Needs: you are playing Matcha and you have not seen Lore Rum Matcha Posterity.

Who speaks (2)

Matcha

Rum

The scene

Matcha
I gather you've seen a great deal of maritime combat Rum! If you don’t mind my asking, whom were you fighting and… to what end?
Rum
That would depend on which war you are referring to, private.
Matcha
You've fought more than one?
Rum
I've seen three in my time. The war forgotten, the fight for survival and finally this cosmic conflict we find ourselves in today.
Matcha
The war forgotten? How do you forget a war? And moreover how do you label it as forgotten if you forgot about it??
Rum
Tis but a name son. We less forget the war as much as we collectively cast it aside. But we forgive and forget the choices once made so, it is a forgotten war.
Matcha
Did you forget... What that war was about?
Rum
Land my boy, land. A scarce commodity on my planet which grew scarcer still with a growing populace and rising sea level.
Rum
Our kingdom of wax clashed against an empire of chalk as we squabbled over isles and archipelagos.
Matcha
And then everyone just... Gave up!? All at once?
Rum
In a sense. When the black tide rose, the color of your coat or the quality of your flesh seemed a trivial point of delineation.
Matcha
What about the Tide made you all get along? A common threat?
Rum
A foe most horrid. As the black tide rose, so did the corpses of dead men and the shambling wreckages of ships once sunk.
Rum
These reanimated dregs saw no color nor creed, and only sought to drown that which had yet to sink.
Rum
And so a new war began.
Matcha
That’s terrible Rum. I’m so sorry.
Rum
Don’t be son. We forge on, come what may. And besides, I’m glad not to have wasted my life fighting folk who eventually would become my crew!
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