12 - Day 13-14
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Freeing Pure-ones - Part III
We meet up in our hide-out where Jo-Ann tells about the situation with The Elder. We decide to quickly deal with the situation here and camp inside the women's Ark and then head back home early tomorrow.
The gateway vehicle rumbles, billowing black smoke as it opens up the gate to let us in. We're amazed by the amount of little people playing and running around here. We're brought to a decontamination area where we unceremoniously scrubbed down. Then we're brought inside the tower where we're fed. Octavia warns that this might be Zone Ghoul flesh, but I don't mind too much (obviously) and it tastes quite good. They did a good job preparing this.
We'll get to meet the Chairman, but we'll have to wait a while for Carla to introduce us. We're allowed to walk around this Ark in the meantime, as long as we don't go to the penthouse or the basement. I wander the grounds investigating how they are so self sufficient. I check out the water hose and their kitchen garden. Finn meanwhile is looking for an alternative way out, unfortunately to no avail, the walls are really thick with a constant group of gun wielding women patrolling along the top. The small humans are a bit scared of Flux, so they keep their distance.
We notice that the man in this society aren't treated like normal human beings. This already starts with the small humans, where the girls are playing mock combat with sticks and the small men have to do the small women's biddings. Overall though there's a great deal of respect for the Chairman also called "He who provides life".
Bolt is doing his gearhead thing and tries to get close to all the nifty stuff they got around here, trying to look under the hood of the gateway vehicle and attempting to go do into the basement. But again patrolling women block his path. Octavia is looking for another chronicler and is learning quite a lot, especially that we've got a bad negotiation position here as they are indeed pretty self sufficient.
As Bolt is standing close to the ramp leading down to the basement, all of a sudden a bloodied man comes running up, sprinting towards the gateway vehicle, attempting to climb on top, yelling "Freedom!!". One of the patrolling women warns him not to continue, but he ignores her. She pulls her gun and shoots him... Wow... A few men are ordered to get rid of the corpse. When we asks some of the bystanders what just happened, they explain he was a giver, which is a holy task. Some weird shit going on here.
Finally Carla has returned telling us that the Chairman is ready to receive us. We stand on a small platform which has ropes attached to it going up in the middle of the tower. We here gears grinding and the platform starts moving. They could've warned us beforehand! Don't they have stairs or something? I really dislike this contraption. Rianna also doesn't seem to feel too comfortable here as she tries to get of the moving platform at every floor. We finally reach the top and we get of the platform.
Carla opens the door and introduces us as the newcomers and then leaves the room. We enter a very boog room with a huge wooden desk with a cloaked man sitting behind it. A long strong looking woman is standing behind him holding a three-barreled shotgun. Cool trinkets are lining the walls immediately distracting Bolt. He welcomes us, both men and women and introduces himself as the fabled Chairman.
Tesla starts to explain whey we're here, that they accidentally mistook Pure-Ones for Zone Ghouls. And that we'd like to bring them back home as we would get a water supply trade route in return. The Chairman completely ignores that they might have made a mistake and offers his own water. He goes on to explain that he would like to cooperate with us. Tesla start spilling the beans about our own Ark, that we're in short supply of water, etcetera, so I quickly shut her up. I don't trust the Chairman at all and it seems the only thing he's after is more power, and explaining where our Ark is exactly located will surely lead to an invasion by this tribe.
I explain that cooperation is possible, but only based on equality and mutual trust, two things which are very far from being achieved here. he even go on explaining how he's the children maker and how we could benefit from that. Friggin braggart being so full of himself. We tell him we'll sleep on it and Carla is called out to direct us to our place to sleep.
There we discuss the situation, I explain why I was so rude on stopping the conversation, being really worried that we'd have an invasion on our hand very soon that way. Our discussion is all of a sudden interrupted by some growls from Flux. A woman appears from the shadows and asks to joins us.
She introduces herself as Krin and goes on to explain she's growing really tired of the Chairman who's just after more power and influence. Just as I thought! He wants more and more offspring and she doesn't want to be involved with this anymore. She suspects there are more woman like her, and definitely the men are done with the situation. perhaps enticing a riot amongst this group of people would benefit both them and us?!
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