7 - The Tree

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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? And Rianna was also gone! I heard sounds from the North and therefore woke everyone up.

It was pitch dark, but we carefully walked towards the noise. A dim flame could be seen in the distance across the water. I ran after Finn and Flux across the water and through dead and rotten vegetation. We arrived at a clearing with a huge plant! This must have been a tree, I've heard stories about those!

The tree 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, it had no face! Really, nothing, no eyes, no nose, no mouth...

Finn and Flux started to attack a bearded guy that was standing next to a woman at the edge of the clearing. When I arrived at the clearing, I got a weird feeling as if the tree was calling for me... But I could resist it.

Tesla was too close to the tree. This was not like her at all, she should shoot arrows from a safe distance! I motivated here to find the courage to get out of there, away from the tree!

The fight continued and Tesla found the courage to break free from the tree. Lincoln started biting the bearded guy and the woman as a wild animal, 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 threw it at the woman! Yes, not sure what got to me but it was really scary and I needed to help!

But then things worsened. The branches grabbed Rianna and brought 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 managed to kill the tree!

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

We went back to camp and tried to get some sleep. In the morning it was time to eat! I cooked contaminated grub in the pan that I brought with me. It took me a long time, but in the end I think I finally did it! It tasted... normal! *Hurray!* I gave everyone except me a portion from it! For me it was better to eat the disgusting contaminated grub, since my body could handle it. Better keep the good stuff for my friends! <3

Then I looked up and saw Lincoln. What happened to him! His beard... it turned into vines and moss! And it even had flowers in it! So beautiful! Seems eating those tree-creatures had changed him... And I like his new look!

After breakfast Tesla had an amazing surprise for me! She found this thin book with 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 and could heal himself!

Did the Ancients also had mutations just like us? Or even more powerful ones? Was the Rot already around that long ago? So many questions! I will study this book a lot! All the violent and wounds in it might give me more insights into how to better cure those wounds!

Tesla and Bolt also found 2 other artifacts. A device that could make light from electricity, and a metal stick use to hit something with. But it was not clear what to hit with it...

Time to continue following the river! We went into sector I-18. There we found a fenced area with a lot of metal structures in it. Some had ladders, others chains and there was one that was 4 times Rianna's height!

We also found a weird vehicle for 1 person. It had 2 wheels and a chain like Finn's weapon. I wasn't sure how it could function and stay straight with only 2 wheels, 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 concrete building next to the river. You could look through it and it was 10 stories high! We were inspecting it from a distance to see if we could climb it for the view, when it suddenly collapsed!

A lot of dust and the sound of falling stone and... squeaking? Tesla recognized it as rats! Lots of rats! We quickly got away from that place. Rats can be very dangerous in huge numbers!

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