Crimson tree
Day 1
Today I will set sail with the colonists to the distant lands, where I will be a soldier.
I hope the winds are in our favor, I hope we don't encounter any sea creatures.
Day 2
Fortunately, we were able to navigate safely and the
best there is no sign of creatures and the sky is clear
it seems that it might take a few more days
before we reach our destination.
Day 3
I woke up today with a strange surprise a fog surrounded the ship, which is strange the sky was clear yesterday, I hope it's not a fog generated by the fog of the octopus.
In the afternoon, the captain asked to reinforce the lookout at night, to my disgrace, I was cast.
Day 4
During my patrol around the deck at night, the fog still lingered.
and the wind was strong, that's when I heard a strange noise,
it was like something was moving in the water, at first I thought it was just ocean waves, but that's when the noise changed, it was like
if something was hitting the hull of the ship, when i approached i realized
which were nothing more than wooden debris brought in by the sea, that's where
that a strong wind blew, and with it came a strong smell of decay,
the sea stirred the temperature dropped quickly, the fog seemed to open up space
to something like she was being ordered to that, that's when I saw
the silhouette of a ship, the unbearable smell hangs in the air again
but this time I couldn't resist that smell mixed with my tiredness
and the nausea of being at sea took me to the ground.
Day 23
Today I woke up in the ship's infirmary, the strangest thing was that when
questioning the doctor about the fog, and about the events of the first days, he replied saying that nothing had happened, I also reported what happened on my patrol during the night.
He said that on the third day of the trip I was found unconscious suffering from severe fevers,
the doctor believes that I suffered from a kind of heat stroke,
but he can't say exactly what happened, he said that everything I reported didn't happen.
So I asked the doctor, how come none of this happened?
The doctor responded by saying that everything I reported was just a hallucination,
he explains by saying that the rotten smell I smelled probably came from the kitchen, which is near the infirmary,
while the cold I had, he justifies it by saying that it was probably due to the fever, the doctor believes that all I thought I was feeling was just a hallucination, caused by the fever, I think I agree with him.
Day 24
This is very strange, it looks like we're going to reach our destination tomorrow, it feels like I've been unconscious for 19 days.
When I left the infirmary, I asked the crew about the fog, they said there was no fog at all.
It seems it was all a hallucination of mine, even so I wrote on the 4th day.
Day 25
We finally arrived at our destination, we quickly settled in the coastal region, and a flat region
surrounded by trees, some trees look familiar to me, but others are red, I believe
maybe we can use the red leaves of the tree as dye, I also saw some animals from the region like the wild boar
and servants at least that's what I saw. To a rumor that a group is going to explore the forest.
Day 26
The rumors were true a group of hunters and some soldiers are going to explore the forest that I decided to go with
I can't bear to look at the sea anymore, I keep thinking about what happened on the ship.
It looks like we're leaving for the woods tomorrow morning and I'm particularly intrigued by the crimson trees.
Day 27
We left at dawn, when we entered the forest the light was left behind, until it started to seem like night, that's when I came across a strange luminous blue flower, at first I didn't understand why it glowed until an insect landed
in it, it was when the flower closed swallowing the insect, I decided to pick some of these flowers to study, when picking the flower I burned my hand slightly,
so I decided to use a cloth to collect it.
We walked a little further through that dark scene full of luminous plants
until we discovered hoof footprints, bigger than a wild boar's, we never saw anything like it, following the footprints we arrived
the crimson tree, that's when we came across a scene, totally unreal, at the foot of the tree there were hundreds of skeletons, skeletons of animals, we questioned our minds, but the main question was what piled up so many skeletons at the foot of the tree and why?
we quickly decided to go back to the settlement, we definitely didn't want to come face to face with the thing that did this, when
when we arrived at the settlement in the late afternoon, we explained the situation to the captain, who said he would call in military reinforcements for safety.
Day 28
Because of the bones we found yesterday, we decided to strengthen the settlement's defenses, the military reinforcement still
it was supposed to take days to arrive, it was decided that he would only go into the forest during the day to hunt animals.
Today while helping in the city's defense fortifications, I felt something watching me, when I looked back I saw
the bushes move slightly, as I approached the bushes I came across small hoof marks, I think they were marks left by a wild boar.
Day 29
I'm currently working as a lookout at the settlement, it looks like I'll have a lot of free time,
I decided to do small tests with the luminous flower I found in the forest, I tried it first
make a paste with the blue flower, I did it without touching it because I think the flower has some poisonous toxin that burns, I think the flower feeds on various insects, some of them must be poisonous, so I think it's toxic.
I continued my tests, kneaded the flower into a paste, then I put the flower paste on any plant, the result was interesting, the plant where I applied the paste started to wither, I also tried to throw the flower paste on the fire, when doing this , the fire changes color to blue, even after death the flower still glows for a while in the dark.
Day 30
This morning, at the end of my watch as a watchman, I was surprised by a young man running out of the forest,
towards me the boy looked desperate and in shock, I quickly asked for help, it didn't take long
until the doctor, the captain, and half a dozen soldiers appeared.
In the afternoon, word had already spread that a wounded young man had arrived from the forest.
and the population of the settlement was agitated, the captain decided to talk to the population to reassure them, he explained, what the young man had reported, the captain said that the young man was part of a group of 4 hunters who clandestinely entered the forest during the night to hunt, the young man said that the group was attacked by a creature, it seems that the other hunters did not take better ...
the boy said he fled the scene out of fear of being the next victim, the captain in an attempt to calm the population said military reinforcements must be coming, he also banned people from approaching the forest.
Day 31
This may be my last report, on the 30th during the night, a fog took over the camp, that's when I saw creatures from 2 meters to 1.50 meters in height emerge from the fog, approaching the city, the monsters instead of the feet that had hooves, their color was crimson, they had long horns, their spears, axes and arrows were covered in a bright blue substance, I had no doubt that the blue substance was the blue flower paste I studied.
The monsters without any warning started shooting arrows at us, those who were hit by the arrows quickly fell to the ground, some of the 2 meter monsters tried to tear down the gate.
the captain ordered us to fortify the wooden gates of the village with logs, but they were useless, the creatures easily tore down the gate in a desperate attempt to
trying to defend the settlement the soldiers attack the monsters in the middle of that dense fog, the disoriented and shocked soldiers are being massacred one by one and the blood starts to mix with the mist, some monsters burn the houses, stray arrows stained by the blue substance, hit the flames turning them blue.
and in the midst of this chaos, seeing that everything was lost I ran, as I ran I saw the silhouette of what seemed to be a lost child trying to get closer I was surprised by a
little creature with horns that managed to stab me in the stomach, I still managed to regir, breaking the creature's neck, being wounded I saw that I couldn't help anyone, so running away through the fog and the smell of blood, there was blue fire everywhere, while people screamed for help, I kept running out of town.
Looking down from the top of a small hill near the town, I saw the remains of what the village once was, so seeing I didn't have much time, I leaned against a tree and wrote down what happened, I hope. may this manuscript be useful to anyone who finds it. Ironically, now that it's dawn, I realized that the tree where I'm waiting for my death is a crimson tree.