Thrawn's diary - A madman's song

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On board of OCV Tobruk, O'Rhu cell's Osiris light battleship, Omicron Major, Date Unknown

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Between light and shadow, exists an entire world.
That world is not necessarily our own.
Get out. Now.

As we proceeded further into the "tunnels", a certain thought kept going through my mind again and again, like the chords of a song to which harmony your mind obeys and keeps repeating. Its something that you would call a "negative thought" and namely - Even if we do survive long enough for the rescue party to pick us up, there's no guarantee that any of us would remain with their sanity intact. All of us were experiencing headaches and I've already noticed some signs of odd behavior in one of the marines. Carrying arms inside an infested environment can be extremely dangerous to say the least, but having no arms at all may mean a certain death so considering the odds, I'll just have to play this one by my senses and recognize any signs of unwillingness and weird behavior.
Speaking of death, on the way we've noticed signs of blood on the vent's walls which of course doesn't necessarily mean we should be talking about death at all but since I've been down the road of negative thoughts for some time now, I couldn't care less about it.


Neil: "What's that stench.... few meters ahead Neil notices blood on the walls "....that's usually not a good sign, it looks like someone has been partying here recently."

The six men continue throughout the tunnel until they reach a section consisting of eight tunnels that meet in the center.

William: "Keep your eyes open, its possible that we're not alone down here."William aims his flashlight to a piece of paper left on the floor, picks and reads it partly, it appears to be some kind of a note "Its for certain now, we're definitely not alone....And judging by the way its written, it seems like its been left from someone with a working mind" the guys soon arrive in the center while William passes the paper to Neil behind him "What would you say?"


And it goes:
If you're reading this I guess you have found my last note.
We're through the thick of it now. If you, like me, have just escaped into the ventilation, you shouldn't be far from deck three. We've dig ourselves in one hall there. I've been marking my route, follow it and you'll be fine.

Neil reads it out loud and after a brief silence says "If ya ask me, its a load of crap. They might have been on their senses while writing it but who said they still are? We can't know for how long this has been sitting here. And even if it was left from an actual survivor, how da hell they'd know that we are going to end up here anyway? I just see more reasons to light up that thing...."

A longer silence follows while the sound of the air flowing through the vents is heard, suddenly Kovalsky looks around looking wondered and says "Still, we might be interpreting it out of the context, we should be assuming that the said survivor is trying to refer to anyone who might be coming this way, and infact the logic behind it can be seen clearly, as they have written "I guess you have found my last note."
Apparently there are other notes, and if so, its actually possible that the note is real, but.... What I'm wondering on is where that blood came from."

Neil throws the note on the floor "Well, if ya by any chance want to find out, then count me in, I'm pretty sure I've enough ammo to take out 200 of dem monkeys, one shot for each" he smiles willingly.

"William looks at Neil annoyed "Lets assume Kovalsky's right and there are survivors out there, I don't like the idea of risking everyone's life by wasting any more time and waiting on life support to go down. If there are any untouched people there, apparently they've no idea that the ship's shielding is actually dead and we're all going to have this ship as our grave if we don't do something about it."

"So what you have in mind?" asked Hill while staring at the note on the floor

William scratches his head while looking at the note "Alright, Neil you take the marines with you and check what those lads on deck three are up to, just take the way from here and follow the marks.
William: "Oh and also...." he throws a transponder towards Neil and he grabs it "....take this and should you need to contact us, do so at will. If you find any survivors, make sure they're secure. However, if its monkeys that you meet, make sure they bite the dust. In the mean time, me and the rest will make our way to Storage, will gather what we can and try to get to Engineering, we'll see what we can do about the power."

Neil: Understood. We shall pop down as many of them as possible, if that's where the things would lead to."
William: "The rest of you, its time for us to move ahead."

The silence once again prevails and only the air in the vents is heard as the two groups slowly turn and head towards their own path, when suddenly William looks back at Neil "Redwood!"Neil looks back at him William: Best of luck out there mate, and try not to get yourself killed, alright?"

....Neil nods confidently and soon after, both groups lose sight of each other

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Captain's Log, 822 A.S.