1 - The Cross

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With the Ancient

Played on 14-01-2024

Day 1
by Octavia

Dear Notebook,

Here another update from me. It was an existing day today! But first some backstory, since I'm not sure if I told this already. Our water basin got contaminated. I'm not sure if it's the Rot or not, but it looks a bit green or blue, which is not good. Lincoln decided it was time to do something about it 14 days ago. He send Ruby, Ava, Finley and Felix out in search of the Pure Plant. That's the place that was mentioned in old writings, it would have an endless supply of clean water.

So yeah, I miss seeing Ruby, and the worst thing is, they are still not back! While we would've expect them for sure now to be back. I'm a bit worried... And apparently I'm not the only one. This morning Lincoln asked me to join a group he is setting up to go look for them. It includes Tesla! And also Rianna, Bolt, Garrett and Flux (and then you get Finn for free).

Well, I didn't say no, so here I am in the middle of the Zone! We did see some awesome things today. Let me explain by this map on which I'm keeping track of everything. K-16 is the sector where the Ark is. First we went to sector J-17, which is to the North-West.

J-17:
Tesla quickly found the way through this sector, she even found some grub! While it looked contaminated I'll have a look later at it, maybe we can make it work.

In the middle of the sector there was this big stone building, like an ancient spire with a sharp point! Inside there where rotten wooden benches and a lot of rubble. There also was a cross with a half-naked ancient on it, right behind a big table. Let me draw it.

I heard about places like this. It is where the Ancient one talked with their boss in the sky!

Tesla wanted to go into the spire to get a good view of the surroundings which I thought weas a great idea! It would really help us find the safest way through the Zone. The others joined her except Finn. Bolt tried to join them but didn't manage to climb up there. So he started to gather scraps around here. He did found some weird yellow metal and some mechanic that could move. So nothing really interesting.

It was a few minutes later that I found a huge notebook! It had that half-naked man on the outside. Was he the boss in the sky? But why on a cross then? It didn't make sense at all. On the inside there were letters I recognized, but the words didn't make sense. Let me show you what it started with: "In principio creavit Deus caelum et terram". Makes no sense, right? Lets bring it to the vault, maybe others can use it.

After half an hour or so the others finally came down again. Tesla explained a bit about what she saw in the surrounding sectors. I-17 had a another big building with a cross on it. I-18 had an open area with a fence around it. In the middle there was some structure with metal tubes connected with chains and ladders. And I-16 was a lot of huge bushes with some paths in between, but it was hard to see if that area was safe. We decided to go to I-17!

I-17:
The building which Tesla saw looked different to me. The cross had a different shape, let me draw it:

And inside it was crazy! There were skeletons everywhere! A lot of rooms, and in them beds with more skeletons. When looking at them it was soon clear they were from ancients. And even very small ones, like not much longer then my leg! We continued looking around until we say this metal door which slightly ajar. It had this weird symbol on it:

There was a terrible smell coming from the room and there were some barrels that were leaking a black-green liquid on the floor. On a metal standard there was some weird yellow clothing. This place smelled and looked Rot-contaminated! Against my warnings Rianna and Bolt entered and quickly took those yellow clothes. Bolt was thinking that it could protect you against the Rot.

This building had 5 floors and since it was starting to get dark outside we looked for a place to spend the night. We found a nice room on the 4th floor. We agreed on a watch order:

• Tesla
• Bolt
• Rianna
• Flux (and Finn)
• Lincoln
• Garrett
• Me!

I'm going to bed soon. Goodnight sweet Notebook!

Cheers!

Octavía

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