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...this is the neatest thing I've ever seen. I want one for home so bad.

-Right! This is Sorey, please leave me a message so I can get back to you!

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I did! And let me tell you, it is REALLY hard to transcribe something when you don't know the language except for one word.

WELL UR IN LUCK

allen and i have ben trying to gather up words, we have af ew so far but it still doesn't make much sense

whats your word??

Kiskhan. Means 'butcher.' Or 'a butcher,' I think an identifying particle is included.

Is this gonna work if we don't understand the grammatical structure of the language?

idk but we gotta try right?

and wow you got a morbid 1

[There's a pause as he jots it down, looks at all the other words and tries to figure it out... but oh yeah, right, Sorey's trying to do it too. Oops.]

oh right the other words are:

yesui = 'asleep' or 'sleeping'
deseht = 'will never'
akun = 'cull'
sahat = 'you'
atuav = 'caught'
vissai = 'sister' or 'close female kin'

[Sorey was about to protest how morbid a butcher could be until he got the rest of those words. Yeah that is looking a lil bit morbid.]

That 'sister' word and 'caught' are right next to each other. 'Cull' and 'butcher' are near each other too.

Did you guys have any thoughts yet about what this means?

'cull' and 'butcher' are also in 2 separate sentences, tho yeah theyre pretty clsoe to each other

we still dont really know it still doesnt make much sense with the words we have

but we're trying to ask whoever we can for more

Right...so it'd be helpful to look at the contextual clues we had as well, just in case.

So...people reporting a strange compelling feeling, or a feeling like being 'filled up.' It looks like it varies but invigoration and a feeling like needing to stay are the most common, especially as you go deeper into the forest.

There's a shadow that shows up at night to watch. It's huge but tentatively not hostile, since it hasn't tried attacking yet. Could be that it can't, but I'm not so sure; I don't sense any malevolence off of it, anyway.

The ship is obviously downed, sent out an SOS so it wasn't an intentional landing. Similar to the Marvisa, maybe not the same but some identical deck layouts. I made a map of what we can tell so far, though I haven't gone any deeper since I wanted to be able to leave quickly. A deeper expedition log might be useful here.

Anything else?

the waystation above the planet gave me some info too

apparently the sos signal has been going on for a long time since other ships have passed by trying to get to it and to scavenge for ship parts

but for some reason most of the ships tend to crash on the planet even when they get near it, or if they do land safely, their ship gets wrecked beyond repair, and no one knows why it happens

this makes them vulnerable to space pirates or scavengers

thats why they try to warn people from going near it

also: the downed robots inside are the same as the ones we found on another ship thatw as like the marsiva

were you here for the maldua? we had these gumballs that we had to transport to them, and when we got there the robots helped unpack everything, but theyd shut down permanently if you poked them too much

I remember that. So that's what those parts scattered around are. They looked so old...

So how were all of our ships able to land safely when all the other ships have crashed?

thats the question isn't it?

maybe they or whatevers the source of the voice wants us to find the ship for some reason

like... whatever we find theres really important

Good thing it's being documented then.

And there's that shape from the forest watching us. It's huge and it seems benign. Maybe some kind of emissary of the planet?

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