25 - Eden is Command Centre Delta?

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And we met Collin!

Played on 11-08-2024

Day 31-32
by Octavia

Hi friendly Notebook!

So we decided to go to Xerxes the next day. Not trying to kill him, but first trying to talk to him to get him to treat the Farzads better. The night we spend on the oil rig.

We took our boats and went to Xerxes's oil rig. But halfway there was a loud thud against the bottom of our boat. And more thuds were heard on both boats. On the second boat it even made a hole in the floor! We went full speed to the oil rig and quickly jumped off the boats.

Farzad23 stayed a little longer on the boat to turn off the engine. But then it happened, another loud bang and the boat capsized! Farzad23 felt into the water and started screaming. There were large fish-creatures in the water biting him. Rianna didn't wait a second and jumped in trying to safe him. She didn't look comfortable in the water at all, and I was afraid she would sink!?! Luckily Bolt threw a rope to her and Rianna managed to get out of the water together with Farzad23.

Farzad23's leg looked terrible. I wasn't sure if it could be saved, but tried to stop the bleeding and bandaged it. I also gave him one of my pills, hopefully that would stop the pain.

There was a man calling us. He was dressed just like Lona, so that must be Sadek, the other doctor! We managed to get Farzad23 up the ladder, and followed Sadek to the sickbay. I told Sadek that I already bandaged him, but it seems he had better material here. He replaced all the bandages. The new ones looked so clean and white! He also put some weird fluid on the wounds, saying it would help against inflammations? I wish I had access to such awesome materials!

After a while there was a new Farzad that told us Xerxes wanted to talk to us. We followed him to a very nice place on the oil rig. It was a nice and clean room, with awesome furniture. One wall had a huge window that overlooked the oil rig, and another wall was filled with books!! That must be that "library" Lona was talking about!

A man was sitting in a chair, that must be Xerxes. He didn't look like a machine at all?! I introduced us all, and explained why we were there: to get him to treat the Farzads as normal people.

His reaction was... interesting... He explained the Farzads were "clones", and were not normal people, but were "grown". Not sure what he meant with that, but it became clear quickly that he saw the Farzads as less than human, and that he saw himself as better than humans, or even as "perfect"...

I tried to talk sense into him. Explaining that the Farzads had feelings like any humans, that they could learn and evolve. But it was not really convincing him. We called for Farzad17 to join us to explain his point of view. Bolt volunteered to get him, and while Farzad17 was there five minutes later, Bolt didn't return...

Farzad17 first seemed anxious, but after a comforting shoulder tap from Finn he suddenly was very calm. The discussion only really went into a positive direction when Finn explained some of the benefits this could bring for Xerxes. That the Farzads would work better if they were happier, and that they couldn't be replaced if no new boat arrived.

Meanwhile I started to doubt myself... Why couldn't I convince Xerxes? What did I do wrong? Didn't Xerxes want his people to be happy? Should I've really just have talked about technical benefits this would bring?

Farzad17 also had an interesting request, he wanted to get a real name! And it became... Collin! A great choice! So we agreed that they could get their own name, that Xerxes would start giving the Farzads compliments, that he would give them other jobs if they were wounded, and that they could go back with the next boat if they couldn't do their job on the oil rig anymore.

Xerxes then noticed his boat! We also saw it through the window, it was going around on the water. He got angry, apparently Bolt was in it... So that's were he was... A discussion started about our rewards that were promised by the Farzads. But it became clear that that boat wouldn't become part of it...

I myself, still a bit in thoughts started to look at the wall of books. But there was another weird device. I started to check it out... it was made of a dark material, and had one round glass eye. There also was a small square surface that could be folded out. Then suddenly an moving image appeared on the square surface!

It was amazing, like I was looking to the world at another place and time! There was a big building, with 6 people in white rot suits walking away from it. Behind them there were lots and lots of children, but not normal children, they had mutations?! There also was a sign... wait.. Eden! And.. Command Centre Delta?! Wait, was Eden at the location of Command Centre Delta? And these children... mutants... how long ago was this? Could that be where we came from?

Big Hugs,

Octavía

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