Diary of a Survivor 4 by Matt Pike

Author:Matt Pike [Pike, Matt]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2019-06-20T22:00:00+00:00

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March 12, 2015

I haven’t updated the diary for a couple of days. Things have been busy, but no real new direction of things worth noting. That all changed this afternoon.

It was day four of bringing the Goodwood crew in to dig today. Things had taken a little longer than expected to find an access point to get into the frigate. The first hatch we came across had been deformed by some impact, presumably in the tsunami. It had warped its shape enough that it wasn’t going to budge. We eventually had to move our dig point to the other side of the ship.

We finally reached the second hatch late afternoon today. Thankfully, it opened without issue and we were in. Time was not our friend this afternoon, so we didn’t get much more than a preliminary scout of the ship, but wow! This was everything we could possibly imagine, and more.

Where to start? OK, bedding wise, there are enough mattresses to house the entire Goodwood team and us. Most of it is small quarters with bunks, but there are also more private quarters for the officers.

The storage kitchen looks like it’s loaded with food and water - like ridiculously loaded. Also, the entire ship looks like it’s powered by diesel generators. If we can get them up and running (assuming the diesel is still actually usable), well, we have hit the motherlode.

The timing of hitting the hatch worked out well for us, too. There’s still a debate as to what information we want the Goodwood crew to have. We herded them back to their home after the initial run though the ship, so they’ve only really seen the bridge, rec areas, kitchen and quarters. The food and water discovery came after we’d sent them back.

The general consensus is that it’s best for us to do a full analysis and stocktake before we allow them back in.

That aside, things have just been busy building. We now have a decent water supply in the bank. It’s nearly a month’s worth of fresh water at our current usage levels. Of course, that changes massively whenever the Goodwood crew moves in. We’ve really got to factor that into our supply equation now. It’s going to happen sooner or later and it’s going to bring a lot of change when it does.

We are in no way ready for that ourselves right now. We need to be in a much stronger position before we move another group in close by. I mean, the only true way this is going to work is if it becomes a partnership of groups. That’s entirely what it will be. But we still need to take care of our business before we can be in a position of strength to make that happen. Partnerships take time and trust.

I think it can happen and happen right. It’s happened before, after all. When the watched, as I called them, joined Shane and I at the oval. There were a lot of similarities between then and now.

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