10 - Sleepy Flowers

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And a huge tower

Played on 24-03-2024

Day 12-13
by Octavia

My dearest Notebook,

I don't remember too much from yesterday morning anymore... it is a bit of a blur. We left on the raft to free the Pure-Ones, that's for sure...

After a few hours on the raft we put it on the East-shore close to J-19 where we continued on foot. The area was a wasteland... not many buildings, and everything in ashes. It was clear there was going to be Rot here, and Bolt prepared himself by putting on his Rot-suit. And indeed, I started to feel the rot accumulating while Tesla found a path through the area. I even had to use my mutation to make sure to not get hurt by the Rot.

J-20 wasn't too much better. There was high vegetation here, but it was all burned and dead. Until at some point we saw that some of these dead trees being overgrown with vines and beautiful flowers!

Lincoln warned us to be careful, and threw a rock at the flowers. But Finn walked towards the flowers. And at that moment a big cloud of colorful dust came from the flowers, and Finn dropped on the ground. What happened? Was it poison? Was he still alive?

It wasn't safe to get close because of the dust clouds, but still Lincoln crawled towards him while covering his mouth and nose with a rag. There were bones on the ground, and Finn was stuck. Thorned vines grapples his legs.

I encouraged Lincoln to cut Finn loose and get out of there quickly! Rianna, Bolt and Tesla all helped with fire, acid and a machete and together we managed to get Finn out of there.

I had a look at Finn. He was... sleeping? His leg was wounded and it looked like he had a concussion. While trying to heal him my mind couldn't focus. Thoughts went to last night and Lincoln. He did save Finn without hesitation.. he had to be good, right?

Luckily Rianna helped me to treat Finn, I couldn't do it alone in that state. It's only after we were done I noticed Rianna's hair?!! It was bright-red? What happened there? That wasn't the case earlier today... or was it? Was my mind playing tricks on me?

Tesla found a path that avoided the area with the flowers and she even found tracks from a large vehicle! We were getting close, and decided to spend the night a few hundred meters from the tracks.

That evening when it got dark we saw lights coming from a huge tower in the south-east. And the lights changed every now and then. At one moment we even saw some kind of beam of light next to the tower pointing into the air. But a moment later it was gone again. According to my map that could be the "Singing Monolith".

The rest of that evening Tesla was there for me. We talked a lot, I even cried a bit. So much happened lately and it was all filling my head with doubts. But she helped me make sense of things again, and that night I slept very well.

In the morning I cooked all the contaminated Rot Tesla had, and I made some more time to check up on Finn. I gave him some advice of how to handle his concussion to speed up his recovery.

Next we walked into K-21. You could see more buildings here, most in decent states. But there was one thing you could almost always see, the huge tower! It had a huge wall of scrap around it, with people walking on top of it! And one of those big vehicles was blocking the entrance. Maybe they could drive it away to open the entrance?

Tesla and Ava went ahead to scout the rest of the area. They found out that there were about 10 people on the walls, all woman with guns. Outside of the walls they saw remains of Zone-Ghouls. They didn't find any weak spot in the walls, the gate was the only way to go in.

Next to the entrance they saw a huge lamp. It was pointed towards the entrance. This would also make it more difficult to get in unseen during the night. And It's probably the source of the light we saw shining into the sky yesterday...

We were almost certain this were the woman that kidnapped the Pure-Ones. But where were they... inside? Somewhere in the tower? We had no idea, and it looked impossible to get even past the scrap wall...

We spend some time with Lincoln searching for tunnels in other buildings. He hoped that there was an underground way to get in, like at the Pure Plant. But we found nothing...

So I have no clue how we can ever save them... It seems so difficult to even get in, and they all have guns!! We could try talking, but I doubt they are willing to give away their slaves, or whatever the Pure-Ones are for them... So what can we do?? Maybe Lincoln has an idea?...

Be safe,

Octavía

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