I'm leaving a log here in case Hermit finds it. I tried heading back to where we got separated but the forest keeps turning me around. I'm going to try and go further in, instead, to see if I can find the source of this unnatural forest. If I haven't gotten completely turned around, it should be another hour or so of walking? If the forest is still the same when you find this, Hermit, head back. Tell LV-13 that you found the source but can't kill it alone, as the divine entity here will definitely be worse than that the one in the junkyard. Even if it gets me, I'd be like the ones we rescued at the Junkyard. You'll have time to get back up and come back for me.
DO NOT ASSIST ANY PRIESTESS WITH ACCESSING RESTRICTED AREAS! Dissidents have been infiltrating facilities like this under the guise of being a newly transfered theocratic authority. They would have been briefed on the procedure and it is their responsibility to remember and rectify any access issues. Anyone attempting to elicit assistance for access to restricted areas must be reported immediately.
It is every citizen's responsibility to maintain the dignity of the Empire and the purity of its officials. Indecent material, whether real or fictional, is a direct attack on the dignity of the Empire and will be treated like any other dissident attack. Symbols and imagery have power, and shameful imagery is an effort to weaken us. No decent citizen should tolerate it. Possession of such material is likewise a crime, but clemency may be granted for the surrender of both the material and its source.
I need more sacrifices here. Do you know how much wood all the divine rites across the empire use every day? We only just barely got the damn god working and now they expect us to make do with only a quarter of the sacrifices we're supposed to have for the same output! With how the Empire's been expanding, I'm supposed to believe they can't send a few more undesirables our way?
Weird that the stuff in this room avoided getting consumed. It's just a bunch of papers and stuff. It must be important if it was warded against the corruption.
Maps. I can't really make sense of them. It doesn't help that the world would have ended since these were made. Who knows how the places these show were changed by rampant divine entities?
One file stands out. "Night Fall." It doesn't say a lot about what it is, but the fact that was kept in such a well-protected room promises a lot. The maps, at least, seem to be more forthcoming with where "Night Fall" is. Hopefully Hermit could make more sense of it.
Most of the forest has died off with the death of the divine entity at the center of it all, making it much easier to find my way back. Hermit found me first. She wanted to see everything I had found with the "Night Fall" files, which meant going back in. I can at least say that it didn't feel as bad to be around where that tree died, unlike the thing in the Junkyard. Still, we just grabbed everything and got out of there as fast as we could.
A reminder to EVERYONE that you must have approval from the administrators and have all 3 access switches activated before coming into or out of the facility. It doesn't matter if you can "do a sick jump" with just one or two on, the Type-B's (stop calling them Handgunners) have been ordered to only allow people to enter or leave when the bridge is fully up. They won't bother to identify you before they start shooting.
interlevel teleports
