AI Stage Theme : An Addendum to the Past
156Download the script here: https://www.bulletforge.org/u/python/p/augusta-iaponicorum
This is the stage theme.
Named "An Addendum to the Past".
From "Augusta Iaponicorum", created for the S&Y Script Festival 2019.
It's a theme that reeks of nostalgia, going as far as to incorporate PC-98 synths among regular instruments. So it's a theme that tries to connect the past to the present, as if desiring to alter the past in order to fit the present.
This is exactly how Cisa's and Ma's legends came about. Not based on bits and bobs of historical evidence, no, they were retroactively forged into the history of the town of Augsburg. They're addenda to the past. But this is unknown to most people. Even the actual legends themselves are incredibly unknown.
Cisa created Ma Sekisei from a statue known by the locals as "the Stone Man" located at the old city wall. It depics a man missing his right arm, holding a loaf of bread in the left, and having two pedestals with spiral ornaments for legs. According to legend, this man was a baker that helped ward off Imperial troops during the Thirty Years' War.
By using sawdust to create loaves of bread and publicly tossing them into the moat, he was able to convince the besieging troops that their attempts at cutting off the town's food supply had failed. Enranged, they shot him, blasting his right arm off. He died from this wound later that day.
A hero of legend indeed. Well, analysis of the statue found that it was not created in his honor, but about a century later, from different pieces that didn't originally belong together. So, was there or was there no such baker?
Well, would the answer make her story any less interesting?
This theme music was composed by Tokiko Tatsunagi.