6 - River I Challenge You

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..who's afraid of water..

Played on 18-02-2024

Day 4-7
by Bolt

I've got to get these out of my head and into practice! Another one of those moments where I find out that reading and more importantly writing might actually be a benefit in my trade. Well I work with what I have I guess, I'll just keep making small models and use my tricks on those. Hopefully I can either recognize them later or keep enough of the ideas in my head. But there are so many!

It needs to survive the water, hold a big group of people and we need to be able to take water back with us as well. And stuff we need to trade for the water, I hope someone thinks of that part!

And I need to take rest as well, I am still a bit traumatized by the trip and need a full night sleep. I hate full nights sleep! What a waste of precious tinkering time! I need more lamps in here as well. And more space for my work, I wonder of Rianna will notice if I put my stuff a little into her space. Ah well, bed first.

The tinkering begins!
I wake to the sound of shouting and noise in the background. I slept pretty darn well actually, no idea how long. But it's time to start the real building. I built a small raft in the past to play around with, but the new one needs to be bigger and more durable. People keep on shouting and I guess Rianna is there as well. It doesn't sound like an attack, but something bad happened perhaps. Can't be more important than the savior of our Ark, so I will probably hear about it later. I need to start and need more material and maybe some help somewhere.

I've been building for a while and I know people have been coming in to ask silly questions. I might have been a bit harsh against some. Even people bringing in useful stuff as well. This is marvelous! Did I ask someone for help, guess I did, or maybe someone else? I haven't had any silly questions though, did someone stop them coming to me? Lincoln I would guess, good guy!

Voices again. Someone is trying to get my attention. I look up, it's Jo-Ann. Is it me or am I seeing her a lot lately. Yes, she's been bringing new parts multiple times today. Maybe I should thank her, at least give her notice and listen to her. Yes! What's up?

She mentions enthusiastically that Silas, one of those chronicler peeps, has seen something new. Hah! Probably read something in an old book and thinks that's interesting. But she keeps on and says that Silas has seen moving vehicles of some kind. But I'm working on this raft, I need to continue! Makes me think of my own dream though, I wonder if I can ever get that thing moving. What if others can? Who, none of the other gearheads are able to do that! What if there are other ones out there, like at the Pure Plant. This doesn't make sense! I need to get back to work.

I absentmindedly tell Jo-Ann that it might be a good idea to set up a mission to have a better look. I am interested! Remember to take a good Stalker, maybe Tesla. I'm sure I am missing something there, but before I can tear away my attention from my work and ask her about it she's already gone. Got to ask Rianna later to see if I did something stupid or not.

We go!
The day has come to properly try my new creation. It's the day of departure, the day to convince people this is a good way to travel. Octavia looks pale, apparently she needs convincing, but at least she steps on with the group. Only Lincoln thinks walking at the edge of the river with a rope is a safer place for him. Ah well, I'm convinced he will change his mind as well.

We make our way up the river, this should go a lot easier back towards our Ark when we are on our way back. But for now with us paddling and Lincoln pulling us as well, we make our way up the river. These paddles are a great idea of me, would be hard doing it by hand!

There used to be some kind of big bridge over the river, but that one didn't survive. It takes some time to maneuver through it, but we got past it easily enough. It's mostly marshy land around the river and not much worth the time of exploring so we continue for now. We pass some kind of buildings with paths between them and pools of water with mist above it. It seems a little bit warmer there, so we think that's not a good place to be. Warmth mostly spells out dirty areas Tesla says.

It's nearing dark time and further along the water we find a separated island of some sort. The island and neighboring land holds some kind of thick rotten poles standing straight up from the ground. But it seems safe enough on the island and we make camp, setup watch and fall asleep after the hard work of paddling.

In the middle of the night A female voice in the distance can be heard 'hello, hello, hello!'..

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