8 - A Strange Woman

Is she from Eden?

Played on 03-03-2024

Day 8-10
by Octavia

My dearest Notebook,

It was an uneventful night, and in the morning I prepared contaminated Rot which Tesla found in the Zone! She finds the most useful things in the weirdest places! I also managed to cook some contaminated water which became drinkable! Too bad this is not easy to do on a large scale...

We continued following the river into H-19. There we found an area with multiple parallel roads with small hills between them. On those hills were signs that contained words like "Brookland", "Chevy Chase" and "Takoma". No clue what they meant. And on the roads there were these wreckages of big vehicles. I entered one and it was filled with chairs! Maybe these were used to transport a LOT of people, probably more than 50 in each one of them!

Tesla found a metal container with a weird liquid in it. Bolt who seemed very happy with 2 tires he found could tell us it might could be used to fuel machines.

We continued to G-19. While following the river north we saw a humanoid wandering in the distance. Lincoln approached her but she seems confused and hurt! Even Tesla's telepathy and Finn's pathokinesis powers didn't help much. She was confused and her brain was a mess.

I investigated her, gave her some fresh water and treated her open wounds. She was very cold and had some black spots on her skins and fingers. Was it the Rot that did that to her? Her talking also didn't make sense... I did notice 3 "words" being repeated... Oes Zie Red, or something like that. She was wearing clothes from a weird fabric, and also had a star-like logo on it. It had some resemblances to the logo on Mary's notebook.

Tesla proposed to bring her on our raft, which was a great idea! We wouldn't leave her here alone, she would probably die. And we needed to figure out who she was, and where she came from. Not our Ark, so what was it? Maybe Eden?!!

We continued on the raft when we noticed the influence from the Rot. The river looked dark and dirty, and suddenly Bolt had to throw up. He was very sick and passed out...

When we were close to the Pure Plant we spend the night at the shore. Here the water was clean again. We made a campfire and made sure the strange woman was close to it to warm up. Lincoln made a stupid joke about putting the woman above the fire... he didn't like use sharing resources with this strange woman, and probably rather eat her then help her. Sometimes he makes me very angry and I wonder why I even help him...

During the night Finn woke us up. It turned out there were some Pure-Ones that found us. They mentioned something about another group? Let's get to sleep and find out tomorrow. They left one behind, which I noticed swimming away at the end of my watch.

In the morning Tesla had some water for me since I gave my last one to the strange woman yesterday. She already looked a bit better now and was very happy with the grub Tesla gave her. But she still spoke in a weird language which didn't make sense at all. Tesla tried to read her mind again, and this time it was the image of a weird white lighted room or area with some vague shadows moving around... Could it be her memory of Eden?

Most of us also washed themselves in the river to get rid of the Rot. Rianna helped the strange woman. Myself I thought it was better to not get rid of the Rot in me. I might needed it later...

We went to the Pure Plant and moored the raft at wooden structure in the water, which turned out to be very useful!

Tesla and me wanted to go inside to talk to Lutrell but Lincoln wanted to stay behind with Rianna and Bolt. Why wouldn't he join? It was his plan to trade and I assumed he would arrange the trading?! After some convincing he did join.

I noticed that the door to the hall was broken, and saw some dried out blood spots on the ground. What happened here? Lutrell could tell us that a group of 20-25 woman attacked them. Some died, and they took some of their man and boys with them as prisoners! He also told us they arrived in a big vehicle!

It was a sad story, and the Pure-Ones didn't deserve that... We should help them get their people back! But I'm sure Lincoln wouldn't do that without good reason. It's then when I had this amazing idea! What if we could free their people, and they would pay us in water for it! Maybe we could even offer protection for water every 30 days!

Tesla in the meanwhile talked to Lutrell about the trinkets we had to trade for water. And while walking to the raft I explained my idea to Lincoln, who told me to go align that idea with Lutrell!

Updated on: 10:27