8 - A Strange Woman

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Is she from Eden?

Played on 03-03-2024

Day 8-10
by Octavia

My dearest Notebook,

We had an uneventful night, and in the morning I prepared the contaminated Rot which Tesla found in the Zone! I love how 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 short parallel roads with small elevations between them. On those elevations were signs that contained words like "Brookland", "Chevy Chase" and "Takoma". No clue what they meant.

On those short roads there were these wreckages of big vehicles. I entered one and it was filled with broken benches! These were probably used to transport a LOT of people, more than 50 in each one of them! But why would you need to move so many people around?

Tesla found a metal container with a weird liquid in it. Bolt, who seemed very happy with 2 huge tires he found, could tell us it might be used for fueling machines? Or to burn!

We continued to G-19 and saw a woman 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. Her brain was a mess!

I closely inspected 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 any sense... I did noticed 3 "words" being repeated... "Oes Zie Red", or something like that. She was wearing clothes from a weird fabric, and it had a star-like logo on it which had some resemblances to the logo on Mary's notebook.

Tesla proposed to bring her to 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 from our Ark, so from where was she? Maybe ... Eden?!!

We followed our journey on the raft. The river started to look darker, more dirty and started to smell. There was more Rot here and soon Bolt had to throw up. He became very sickly and passed out...

When we came closer to the Pure Plant the water became cleaner again and we spend the night there at the shore. We made a campfire and made sure that 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 Pure-One behind, which swam away at the end of my watch.

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

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

We went to the Pure Plant and moored the raft at the wooden structure in the water. Tesla and me were going inside to talk to Lutrell, but noticed Lincoln stayed 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 by Finn he did join us.

The door to the hall was broken, and I noticed some dried out blood pools on the ground. What happened here? Lutrell told us that a group of 20-25 woman attacked them. People died, and the woman took some of their man and boys with them as prisoners! He also told us they arrived in a big riding 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 want to do that without a good reason. It's then when I had this awesome idea! What if we could free their people, and they would pay us in water for it! Maybe we could even offer them some kind of protection after that for even more water?!

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 amazing idea to Lincoln. He told me to go with that idea to Lutrell and see what he would say!

Later my love,

Octavía

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