Log Two

[desig_survivor]

[He's making an effort at better handwriting by going slowly and deliberately, and it helps that he's writing on a flat surface in temporary housing, but the lines all waver and slope a little on the right side.  Rogue will get better at this pen-and-paper thing

Comments

[hanakioku]

Dangerous.

[desig_survivor]

I know. But everything's dangerous.

[hanakioku]

Don't sink.

[desig_survivor]

If I can help it, I won't go into the water at all. Maybe I can find some rope that doesn't float...

[ice_echani]

That sounds... unsettling.

[desig_survivor]

It is. I want to pull them out - whoever they are, they deserve a proper burial - but I've got a very bad feeling about actually doing that.

ping for that phrase

[ice_echani]

A b

Then you should trust that feeling.

She's going to hear it a lot if Hobbie makes it through the app.

[desig_survivor]

Sometimes you have to do something despite how it makes you feel.

But I'll hold off for a while. There are something like fifteen days left before it changes into something else, right?

[snowburned]

I haven't been there myself, but others have reported the same thing. They must have come with the rest of the Wilderness. I don't know whether they'll follow the same patterns as bodies up here-I guess we'll find out in a few days.

[desig_survivor]

Patterns? Do bodies here do something unusual?

[his first assumption: zombies.]

lol

[snowburned]

They disappear after three days. I have to admit, it does help with sanitation.

[desig_survivor]

Disappear as in evaporate, or disappear as in walk off when no one's looking?

[innerautonomy]

...it doesn't seem right but, [Circles his comment about a bad feeling] I agree that you should trust your instincts.

[desig_survivor]

The thing is, I don't have just one instinct. Leaving them underwater and trying to get at least one of them out both feel like bad ideas.

But I'll wait for a while, at least until no one else is lost.

[innerautonomy]

And its hard to tell what's right without...our memories.

For now, its for the best. We'll see everyone else out until then.

[spandexisyouth]

Perhaps that is how they are buried properly, for them.

[desig_survivor]

That's what Fred thought. But when you sink bodies in still, shallow water, the water gets tainted and the smell is incredible.

Still, they might have lived far away from the swamp. And only just started putting their bodies there. I don't know, Youth.

[spandexisyouth]

I did not know that. Do they smell at all? Do they look like they have been there long?

The Wilderness is a very confusing place.

[desig_survivor]

They look fresh - really fresh, like they're asleep. There's a very distinct smell when meat rots underwater, and the only rotting smell I picked up on was plant matter.

I'm starting to figure that out. Other than a luxury indoor storefront and a wasteland, what has it been? Does it usually alternate between extremes like that?