forward-dated to very early on the 14th

[yourattention]

[for those of you who are having trouble reading the font:

top text:
found this on umui w/ lup in a locked drawer
come find me if you wanna see the og ver

bottom text:
found these on a different pg w/ blood

and the rest of it is just a transcript of this.]

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[prettypurpleparlor]

[Someone's just gotten back from a very busy searching trip, and the first thing she finds is this. No rest for the wicked.]

Both of those are scientific names- plants or animals have common names, that ordinary people use, and scientific names so that scientists will know exactly which type they're talking about.

Primulaceae, that's a family of plants. Primroses, usually. Astragalus is... usually milkvetch, I think, but it might cover other plants, too.

What the numbers might indicate, I don't know. Being the first of their kind, perhaps? If those were both '1', they might have intended to build more...

[yourattention]

are we all just gonna ignore the fact that the flowers are people

[crosslaced]

Can you explain this?

[yourattention]

[He's drawn an arrow to "reclaim it from those bell-shaped blossoms" and underlined it.]

when i say shit like that im being dramatic
when a scientist says shit like that theyre being literal

[crosslaced]

[Squinting at the entire paragraph. Rereading it once. Twice. Then he goes to write this piece of good news in another empty space, nice and big.]

I get it now. Fuck.

[prettypurpleparlor]

Ah. Large, regular patches of flowers all around the island, positioned in unnatural ways, as though they're growing from something beneath... graves. Of course.

Foolish of me not to consider it given that I've heard of human funerals before, but my people don't bury our dead, so the possibility slipped my mind.

[crosslaced]

I think few of us did. Flower plagues are rare for us (I assume) & the plants hardly looked like grave markers.

But if

[thisisourfuture]

Could be first of their kind or the means to break up the code? But that wouldn't apply to the written word.

[prettypurpleparlor]

The number does seem to be higher in the later-dated entry... 39 as opposed to 1.

[thisisourfuture]

So...maybe it means a different person in that one? Could both parties be sick?

Then again it seems like...if they're becoming a flower wouldn't sunlight speed up the process?

[prettypurpleparlor]

It seems likely to be different people- if we're assuming that A.E. refers to years, the two entries were quite far apart, and the handwriting is notably different.

I don't know if sunlight would help or harm someone in that case, but from the sound if it they didn't seem to think there was much hope for a cure in any case. If they were going to die either way, they might as well enjoy the sunlight in their remaining time.

[thisisourfuture]

[Well isn't that cheerful.]

So...if I have this right we could be looking at the experiences of different groups?

...

If they had no hope this island was their last stop. Quarantine?

[prettypurpleparlor]

It may very well have been. It could explain how a community of people with such a deadly condition kept going so long- if people who contracted the affliction elsewhere were sent here, it would have replenished their numbers over the years.

[thisisourfuture]

Then that leaves that scroll. What was this island originally used for? Maybe that's part of the key pieces to solving this.

Or at least, establishing what we might find here.