Rise from green hand to captain in a neon-black whaling survival game. The hunt matters, but the career matters more.
Provisions become discipline. Discipline becomes cruelty. Every number is a human condition wearing a game label.
Debt is pressure with handwriting.
The wrong choice on the third voyage is still alive on the tenth.
The memorial is not optional flavor.
Sometimes it is money. Sometimes it is ruin. Sometimes it is obsession.
“Every barrel of oil is bought with debt, rot, obsession, and the names of the dead.”