2 - The Pure Plant?
Where did the dog go?
Last night I didn't sleep very well. I was rudely awoken in the middle of the night by shouting. It was Rianna! I looked around and only saw Bolt. Through the darkness we quickly ran towards the noise downstairs. The only light was coming from an oil lantern on the floor.
The others were there. I heard Flux howling in pain and saw some shadows in the hallway around him, poor dog! Who were these attackers? Zone-Ghouls? I inspired Lincoln the beat the !@%$# out of them, they would not stop our journey to safe Ruby and the others! With the help of Rianna and Bolt they managed to kill all 5 Zone-Ghouls!
After I had a look at Flux to make sure he was fine, I finally dared to get a little closer to the (dead) Zone-Ghouls. They really were as ugly, stinking, wretched, skinny, short, ugly and terrifying as in the stories. Also I heard about Lincoln's mutation in the past, but seeing how he started to eat their corpses almost made me throw up (barf!). At least it saved us some grub... I tried to get back to sleep, but I had a restless night...
Sector H-18:This morning I noticed the first effects of the Rot. Some of us were coughing and scratching, but nothing to worry about yet... We travelled to the sector in the North-East, where the surroundings started to change. Less ruins and more water.
Sector G-18:
Next we decided to go North where it was less wet. Tesla found some bottles of clean water and 2 cans of contaminated grub.
I have the contaminated grub in my backpack and am planning to try one tomorrow. To see how bad it is, at least I should be able to handle it, I don't want to feed the others Rot. Maybe I can try to prepare it in a way that will reduce the Rot... like... heating it above a fire for a long time? hmm...
Then suddenly Tesla raised her hand! Far in the distance we saw a large grey creature. If I was not mistaken that could be a Devourer as from the Elder's stories! Bolt told us it hungers for flesh! Best to avoid! Tesla guided us in a very long and safe path around it.
Sector F-19:We should be starting to get close to Pure Plant location now. And indeed, soon we saw a huge river that was a few hundred meters wide. In the middle of it there was an island with huge metal barrels at least 20 meters high! And next to it a even higher tower! Could this be the Pure Plant? Let's hurry, Ruby might be there! <3
The river didn't look deep at the edge, it had algae but didn't smell bad. It felt like there was less Rot around here. While Bolt started searching scrap to build a raft, Lincoln found a stick to poke the river bottom and went into the river. It turned out it not to be deep, and we could wade through it!
I followed the others and made sure my backpack containing you, dear notebook, was kept dry above my head! Bolt followed a little later since he was distracted as always by his raft-building. On the other side Lincoln found tracks of people and a dog! Could it be from Tank, Felix his dog?
I made sure I stayed back and didn't ruin the tracks this time, while complimenting Lincoln on his great achievement! From there Flux could follow the tracks! After a short walk there was an area where the tracks went into all directions. And after some more investigation it turned out that the tracks of 3 people went towards the right (where did the 4th go?), and the dog tracks went towards the left.
Finn heard a dog sound, and decided to let Flux follow the dog tracks to the left...Octavía
Updated on: 10:59
