re-writing posts is hard

Writer's note: over a year later and I still don't have a proper name for the ecologist. Anyone have a suggestion?

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Ash storms, dust storms.. thunder storms, all of it a massive hassle in getting out here to check out the source of the biggest calamity of the times...Well second source I guess, one being that all the nukes got launched.. well I hope all of them did, the other being yellowstone.

I keep going over it in my mind, how did I get convinced to do this job.. it's stupid, insane and ..well exciting.  That and the ecologist, his enthusiasm is a bit infections, even if he is possibly overly cautious. Apparently I wasn't exactly on the list to be chosen for this job, neither was Eivan for that matter. Leishey seems to have gotten some kind of organization put together stupidly fast. Stalkers, thieves, all sorts really, apparently he handed the ecologist a pile of dossiers and after going through it rejected them all. Wanted people with actual experience out in the ashlands... I don't get it. All we did was do our best to survive a hostile environment while trying to make sense of what the fuck was going on.


We all thought we were dying from radiation poisoning, slowly losing our minds. Guessing the nukes cracking yellowstone open like they did....did something.. I dunno I'm not a scientist. Leave figuring out the how and why to the eggheads, could all just be mutations I guess, but that wouldn't explain some of the people that never got exposed having abilities that could be described as magical.. hell even we didn't really get exposed enough to even get a mild case of rad poisoning.  And that doesn't explain the anomalies out here either...


Anyway, final bits here. The GPS stopped giving us an accurate location a while ago... maybe 5 days or so, but we found a map in a wrecked park service truck, no corpse there or nearby, kinda hope he made it out alright, we're going to camp here where we know more or less where we're at, before making our way further into the park. Definitely going to follow the old roads as best as we can.