Sean
Do you know what the most dangerous sentence in the modern world is?
Eljara
There are rather a lot of candidates.
Sean
I have a favorite.
Eljara
Go on.
Sean
“Nobody could have seen it coming.”
(Silence.)
Eljara
That seems unfair.
Sometimes nobody could.
Sean
Could they?
(They walk through London beneath newspaper headlines, factory smoke, and the certainty of progress.)
Sean
Tell me.
If a man drinks poison every day for twenty years—
Eljara
The result is predictable.
Sean
And if a nation does the same?
(A pause.)
Eljara
Less obvious.
Sean
Only because the timescale is larger.
(The city noise fills the silence.)
Sean
People understand immediate consequences.
Eljara
And struggle with delayed ones.
Sean
Exactly.
Sean
Destroy a forest.
Exhaust a river.
Exploit a generation.
Forget an obligation.
(A pause.)
Sean
The consequences may take decades to arrive.
Eljara
Long after the original decision.
Sean
And so we rename them.
(Silence.)
Eljara
Rename them?
Sean
The old world called it a curse.
Eljara
The modern world calls it economics.
Sean
The old world called it divine punishment.
Eljara
The modern world calls it political instability.
Sean
Different language.
Same event.
(The answer hangs heavily.)
Eljara
Then the stories were never prophecies.
Sean
No.
Eljara
What were they?
(Sean looks toward the horizon.)
Sean
Records.
Eljara
Of what?
Sean
What happened last time.
(A long silence.)
Sean
And the time before that.
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Game: Pulp Cthulhu: By Gaslight
Campaign: Mythveil Chronicles
Theme: June · Summer · Nothing Happened By Accident · The Oldest Story
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