Salt and Rust
Commercial fishing, a dying harbour town.
- ~63 min (estimated)
- 13922 words
- 30 scenes
- 20 branch points (script estimate)
- 7 endings (script estimate)
2 recorded plays (one per visitor per day)
Cover art · generated placeholder backgrounds and character art in-game · licensed music, credited in the build · listing metadata: importer · counts: script-heuristic
About
Nadia, 31, comes home to captain her dead father's boat and finds the quota licence already sold to the man who taught her to swim. The crew stays loyal to him; the bank stays loyal to nobody. Between Iosif, 40, the mate who covered her father's drinking for a decade, and Petra, 29, the fisheries inspector who has to write up every corner Nadia cuts to survive — a triangle where sleeping with either one is a conflict of interest that someone will eventually document. Endings turn on whether you keep the boat, the crew, or your name.
Content notice
- Grief and parental alcoholism (aftermath)
- Economic coercion and harbour corruption
- Workplace loyalty conflicts / betrayal
- Violence at sea and dockside (graphic where earned)
- Sex work adjacent pressure (harbour economy); sex cuts away at the door
- Coercion, blackmail, and institutional capture
- Suicide ideation (implied, not instructional)
- Addiction (alcohol; consequences, not how-to)
- Bigotry shown through behaviour (class, “townie” contempt), no slurs written out
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Cast
- N Nadia Varga no portrait yet
- I Iosif Kade no portrait yet
- P Petra Solen no portrait yet
- R Ronja Hale no portrait yet
- T Toma Brink no portrait yet
- L Levi Marris no portrait yet