7 - The Tree

Which almost ate Rianna!

Played on 25-02-2024

Day 7-8
by Octavia

Sweetest Notebook of all!

I'm not sure what wakened me, but Tesla was gone! Where was she, who was keeping watch? Rianna was also gone. I heard some noised from the North, so quickly woke everyone up.

It was pitch dark, but we walked towards the noise. There was a dim flame in the distance across the water. I ran after Finn and Flux into high dead and rotten vegetation. Then there was a clearing with a huge plant, which must have been a tree, I've heard stories about those.

It had a big mouth and was attacking Rianna and Tesla with its branches! A green person was standing next to it. Or not really a person, since it had no face! Really, nothing, no eyes, no mouth...

Finn and Flux were attacking a bearded guy that was standing next to a woman at the edge of the clearing. When I got at that clearing, I got a weird feeling as if the tree was calling me... Luckily I could resist.

But Tesla was very close to the tree. This was not like Tesla. She would shoot arrows from a distance. I motivated here to find the courage to get out of there!

The fight continued and luckily Tesla could get away from the tree. Lincoln bit the bearded guy and the woman, Bolt spit acid on the woman and the tree, and Rianna set the green creature and tree on fire! Even I picked up a rock and throwed it at the woman! Yes, not sure what got to me but it was really scary and I needed to help!

But then things went worse. The branches of the huge tree grabbed Rianna and started to bring her to its huge mouth! I tried to encourage Rianna to get out of the tree's entangling grip, but it was too late. The tree crushed Rianna's foot with its mouth, leaving her in paralyzing pain. But she was not alone! All the others helped and we could finally kill the tree!

I quickly got Rianna away from the burning tree and started to look at her foot. I needed to act now! First I put the bones back into the correct place. Then I stitched it up with needle and thread. Rianna stayed surprisingly calm during all of this, she even seemed happy? Lastly I took 2 branches which I used to splint the foot, and bandaged it with some cloth.

We went back to camp to get some sleep. In the morning it was time to eat. I started to cook some contaminated grub in the pans I brought with me. It took me a long time, but in the end I think I did it! It tasted... normal! So I gave everyone a portion from it! I ate some of the disgusting contaminated grub myself. That sounded as the best choice, since my body could handle it.

Then Tesla had an amazing surprise for me! She found this thin book, that had all these drawings in it. It also had a name: "Deadpool #483". The pictures were very violent, and it was about a mutant, just like us. When he wasn't wearing a cap, his face looked contaminated by the Rot, and he had very powerful mutations. Did the Ancients also had mutations just like us? Wasn't everything better before? So many questions! I will study this book a lot for sure, all the violent and wounds in it might give me some more insights into how to cure those wounds!

There were also 2 other artifacts found. Apparently a device that could make light from electricity, and a metal stick use to hit something with, but it wasn't clear what to hit with it.

Time to go! We went into sector I-18. Here we found this fenced area with a lot of metal structures in it. Some with ladders, chains and some even 4 times Rianna's height! Close to it we also found a vehicle for 1 person. It had 2 wheels and a chain like Finn's weapon. Using it looked difficult, since it would fall over quickly. But i'm sure Bolt can figure it out! We also found more useful stuff like water, bullets and contaminated grub.

In I-19 there was a huge skeleton of a building next to the river. You could look through it and it was 10 stories high! We were inspecting it from a distance when it suddenly collapsed! A lot of dust and sounds falling stone and... squeaking? Tesla recognized it as rats! Lots of rats! We quickly got away from that place, since rats can come in huge numbers!

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