A History of the Social Democracy of the Red Blossom, Year 0, Spring.
Ah Soviet Russia, we will eradicate the unneeded filth which infests this place. This I---
excerpt from a bloodied journal, name unknown
For whatever reason, multiple communities were abducted and placed here. While the only link are the appearance of strange aliens. Tensions are high, and I fear there may be fighting soon. At the moment, I'm trying to resolve the issues and get gathering parties set up to collect food, but we only have our old homes to rest in, and not all of those are whole from the journey.
excerpt from the journal Of Kuroshi Yamanaka
Not even 30 days, and violence erupts in the colony. Ethical values, and pride, led to a temporary dictatorship between a large number of Russians and Germans. They were far stockier than most of us, and managed to put together makeshift guns from old parts they had. It was a trying time, where they held total dominion over food gathered and the best residences. They may have only made up 25 percent of our population, but that was enough to take over, and many were lost in that transition.
Not only that, but we had steadily been losing groups to the snowy land outside, which only increased with their orders to scout the area. Of course, over time, they also lost some people, but that just led to worse travesties.
Year 0, Summer
The Summer began, though we didn't quite have a proper calendar at the time. What flowers grew were in bloom, and while our food stockpiles should have increased, the Dictators ate most of it. Of course, this is also when a native life form came along, the Scaled Whale. Made up of numerous white scales and fur, they were fat, and traveled on four legs. It was swiftly killed and a feast held on their orders, but it didn't particularly help us in a few days. Strange creatures attacked in the night. There was numerous blood spilled, mostly of us. The dictator tried to get us to fight, but most of the dictator's group broke and ran, and were never seen from again. He died shortly after when his gun broke down.
At the next dawn after they left, we were done to about 60% of the number we started with, and no bodies to show for it. However, we rallied together and searched the old dictator's belongings and houses, finding numerous stockpiles of weapon parts, and strange tech. Apparently they used it to put the makeshift guns together before hiding it away.
With this, we created weapons, mostly hammers and swords and axes. Basic gear which could be put together quickly with the strange welder tech. From there, we made sure to bury food and try not to attack any of the wildlife. We turned to fruits mostly, and avoided the Scaled Whale, as despite it's teeth, it's armored hide was what protected it, for it was too large to get at us if we used cover.
With work we repaired our housing, and built walls. Despite everything, another attack came for us. But this time we were ready. Even as they climbed straight over the walls, guns, blade, hammer, sickle, axe. We worked together, using our numbers and tactics to kill them. And as Dawn came, we were victorious together, united.
Year 0, Fall-Winter
It was the latter parts, but we mostly decided then to treat it as nearing fall. The bodies were identified after the fighting. We called it the Giant Orb Spider, a spieces that was effectively an upsized version of an old earth type, or near it. It's legs were full of meat, but it needed to be washed, and was quite stringy. It's center body was made up of an incredibly thick shell, and it's head and eyes quite large. Likewise, it had a large amount of webbing and fluids inside it's posterior, spider silk. Not as strong as steel, but soft and pliable, almost like small lengths of strands. The webbing recovered from the walls however showed it's strength, which was more than capable of holding it's weight, and only sticky on parts of it, which had long since dried.
From this, we had the fluid, which could be made into glue if certain leaves were added to it, and cooked in a pot. Or simply the strange spider silk itself, though it was clear that they had developed a way of selectively and quickly mixing it as it left.
It was quite a boon though, around 30 of these spiders were killed, with many more legs scattered about. The stranger Spider Silk was called to be named Spider Wool for it's strange attributes, and used for warmth. While the Silk collected from the walls were used to make traps for smaller game, which up till now were fairly difficult to hunt.
Later on in the year, we had mostly resorted to old techniques know to us. We had quite a range of different techniques for storing food in pots, though we were running out of spider glue. We decided to search for ores to finish off though when another spider attack came later during the dusk. The numbers were far smaller, but it let us restock supplies.
Nearing the coldest months, we were mostly forced into staying near our home territory, but we did manage to make some crude maps. Some strange flowers also appeared to bloom during what became known as the latest part of the year. Other than that, we melted fat down to try and make lye, to finally be able to make leather.
Year 1~2
Quite a busy couple of years. During the early Spring into Summer of Year 1, we sent out parties to check the land, after making a compass among other things during Winter. The results were a bit surprising. Apparently to the south webs could be seen. They retreated immediately, but had to fight off one of those spiders. Likewise, we identified a more passive animal in the form of the Blossom Yeti, a giant eight armed Ape, with it's limbs arranged like a spider. Despite it's size, it didn't actually attack the group, and they may have managed to remain unseen. Was noted to be capable of standing on four of it's limbs.[See ARC-CRAFT result]
Many other species were identified. Some more peaceful than others. And we ended up losing two of our search parties to... Something.
In other news, during that year we managed to identify ore deposited, and start up a basic forge, along with clear cutting of the nearby trees.
Year 2 saw another 3 groups nearly get wiped out, even though we moved to a 6 man group with the best weapons we could make. Over the winter of Year 1, we even managed to scrap together an alien pistol, though it could only fire a single shot before breaking into slag. ... We'll work on it. This report came from the only two survivors of the group who managed to get away, separately.
A Lizard roughly 7 feet long, with a further 6 feet of tail. I's mouth opens up into an X cross at the snout, and the esphargos has serrated teeth traveling down it's length, with numerous fangs in the four opened cross sections of the mouth. The mouth itself is fairly mobile, capable of grasping most food.[arms ripped off, and weapons simply ripped from hands]
A muscular create, it's four legs further are somewhat flexible, capable of running quckly. The feet are also like the mouth, capable of griping objects in their grasp and sticking to tree trunks. Despite this, it showed a preference to fighting on the ground, liekyl to take full advantage of it's gripping capability.
Be advised, it has shown a great regeneration factor, capable of healing from wounds extremely quickly. It;s tail was also shown to be powerful, if not capable of grasping objects, and it often used this to trip opponent's and strike as it turned.
It's eyes are fairly small, located up on the skull facing forward, and it's neck accounted for about half a foot to a foot of length of it's main body. Showed no negative effects in the cold, but it's blood was quite hot, and blue. Had no toung, so likely makes use of it's teeth to shred food before swallowing mostly whole.
Alien Laser Weapon was effective in pushing it back for a time, and the wounds did not heal, as if cauterized. Suggest more pistols be made and standardized for safety.
All in all, a pretty dangerous predator. Beyond that and a few spider attacks, we've been developing and compiling knowledge as possible. The alien weapons don't seem to do much at the moment to them, their shell just cratering.
Year 4, Spring~Fall
Another year has passed. With it and the almost standard Winter Research, we've managed to replicated the alien tech. It only holds three shots, and is ridiculously hard to power given our current tech leIt does deal a lot of damage though, and testing on the now rare spider attack showed it is at least capable of leaving a hole in the shell, so it's better.
In other news, Paper, or a form of it at least. Along with Ink, and carpentry. We should be better able to keep records now, which is good.
Spring once more shows more sightings of those Blossom Yeti. They seem mostly solitary, though given our experiences with the X-REX last time, it is best not to press our luck. Likewise, another three of our Scouting parties encountered an X-REX again. This time, despite losing 3 people, they managed to damage it greatly before it sped off. It seems it has a certain hunting ground, but we need to locate the resources around us, so we'll need more people next time. Which is beginning to get difficult, despite the amount of experience our more military people now have.
Summer shows up uncharacteristically warm. This is a good thing, since food is easier to collect. Another thing was noted, a new type of flower. The few collected show them to be a Red Blossom glowing a brilliant Gold, not unlike the azure-glowing Blue Blossoms ones that show up in late winter for a few nights. They bloomed off and on for a few weeks before stopping.
Fall and Winter was mostly the same as previous years, collecting, building, and survival. Leather, glue, paper, and stone production is currently proceeding, though Winter will prevent stone mining..
Year 4, Winter
Well, where to start. First off was our introduction to something some of our Japanese are calling Slimes. They appeared in mass, ate almost every bit of greenery they could get their gel on, then left. We mostly tried to stay home that winter. Our only respite is that they all glowed, if a variety of colors, making them easy to see at night and avoid. Observations showed most animals also took that approach, disrupting our usual trapping. Thankfully we do have quite a bit of food stored, and they never climbed the walls.
This is a bit exaggerated, as they didn't eat everything. But we did record a list of types that were observed.
Blue Slime: No Glow, but fairly slow and small. Japanese conclude these are child slime made somehow. Which doesn't make sense to them because others were shown to split.
Ice Slime: Giving a pale blue glow, these slime were noted to leave a trail of frost on whatever they touched that wasn't snow. Prevalent.
Fire Slime: Giving off embers and a red-orange glow. Wasn't noted to be as prevalent, with at most 5 spotted over the course of their time here. It's speculated that the environment isn't good for their survival, but they stuck around anyway, if usually in trees. No forest fires reported.
Wind Slime: Gives off a Green Glow, and floats around. Saw a few in the sky, and they ate a few trees' leaves and pines in our compound. Left afterward, but they could be seen floating everywhere.
It is speculated by our Japanese residents that there are more, but they aren't as obvious. There were reports of a brighter blue glow for example, but nothing specific was found.
We didn't really choose to fight them since they seemed passive, and their likely acid bodies, while potentially useful, wasn't really worth somehow turning their attentions to us. As a side note, the alien tech for the pistol got upgraded, just in case. [Were noted to likely be community based, and nomads.] Despite a significant dip in temperature that winter, the Azure-White Flowers didn't seem to be seen, likely cause they were eaten.
Year 5
Another Year. This time, we sent out a large expedition to the area the X-REX was noted to be in. After it attacked us, we successfully defeated it with massed fire and our new steel blades, along with some half decent armor. There were a few arms lost, but nothing super serious.
In other news, we have started building a proper city with the first confirmed pregnancies. This is notable for who remains in our group, and it seems to be a sign that we will survive this trial, even if we won't even see our old homes. Due to it being summer, we have named ourselves the Social democracy of the red Blossom, committed to helping each other fairly, with all having a voice to speak concerns to those who lead. Heh, those old middle countries would probably be surprised, given our chosen color and being similar to communism. Unlike them you are rewarded for good work, for all the issues we still have to face. We've been lucky not to get sick, though that might be something our abductors did, some in our society think.
This year brought to us the locations of mineral deposits, though that X-REX is still hiding somewhere. It really is tough to put down for good. Likewise, the Azure-Blue flowers returned. We'll need a name for those things, and the other flower of summer.
Year 6~7
Still spider attacks, though they have died off in recent years. They seemed to have learned attacking us equals death.
Not much has happened. We've finally expanded beyond our initial area, though we are still wary of going into the spider territory. Likewise, we're finally producing the basics of modern civilization, with our Makeshift Rifles finally getting a standardization so we can make them easily. They're still bad, but at least they don't require alien tech anymore to make, which mean we can focus on other things in year 7's winter.
Year 8
Rejoice, for we have viechles. Basic stuff, but we can now travel farther.
More of the same year to year stuff, but soon we can actually produce electricity. There is still some stuff that needs making, but we're getting there.
The X-REX made a reappearance in another area, but it appeared to be a different one. We have also learned those jaw's teeth are tough enough to rip apart iron and stone vehicles. We later sent someone to finish it, but like the other it slinked off somewhere. Some paranoid are begining to think it has some kind of camoflage ability, given this one was a different color to match it's surroundings. At least they seem loners, though who knows how they breed.
Moving into fall, we found strange bridges made of alien metals leading across a bottomless canyon. And another encounter with an X-REX upon trying to explore them. It ambushed us from beneath one of the bridges before darting off with someone screaming. On another note, it seems to math those bridges to an eerie degree. For now we;ve put off actually exploring, since those bridges do not help with our peoples usual strategies.
Year 9
This last Winter, Radio! And a crude Radio Scanner/Radar. Also this year, when we were setting up forward points in near some of the mountains, we got contact with another human group apparently?
This also happened once we managed a forward point on one of those supported islands, after fighting off the local giant bird... Speaking of, did you know there were Giant Birds in that area? They've been found to make their nests on some of the islands. After a bit of study, we've found the canyon isn't completely bottomless, and these birds are capable of hunting enough food to sustain themselves, likely in the nearby ocean waters that tumble down.
Into Fall, we've managed to set up in the bridge area. And fight off that Black X-REX, though we still lost another person. However, it seems the ones in the plains have also set up on the other side? We've tried to get info from them, but neither side is really communicating anything about their intentions. With the expanded area, we've found more alien tech, and made our way to the ocean that cuts off at the canyon edge.
... Why in the world is there a giant octopus in the shallows?
Year 10
By the Akai yūhi... Well, Winter has at least seen us make a makeshift pistol that can stun others. However, things on not going well on the diplomatic front. Or the mountain front either with the giant snakes, the small snakes, the flying dragon snakes. Oh, and Slimes, earth this time. The last aren't as dangerous with the pistol's stun function, but killing them is very difficult with a gun, and maim mode doesn't work on them. And they tend to degrade our melee weapons. We've also had to deal with fire slime getting into our gas supplies and blowing up. Multiple times, since it seems it can do that if it gets some oil. Aoi yoake, I hope we never see a gas-type fire slime.(Aoi yoake being the Blue Blossoms blooming in Winter. Akai yūhi are the Red Blossoms.)
Hah.. We've at least secured a tenuous position in the mountains, but we need better vehicles. At the least, we'll moving into the industrial age, finally able to locate and extract oil, and the ore we've been collecting. Not to mention the Spiders being quiet. And that Black Tower that has appeared in the horizon, along with the alien drones spotted over the ocean.
Current Log of Head of Archives
Apparently the Blossom Yeti are intelligent & Sentient. That kinda says something about the others we've seen these ten years. There is talk of forcing them to work as drones, but I don't really believe that is the best choice going forward. We need manpower badly, and another war with the Blossom Yeti, if they have enough of a societal structure to communicate, would be dangerous with tensions so high. I hope this collection of notes is read and paid attention to, as some seem to have forgotten the original problem the first time.
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