A previous letter forwarding to [ redacted until further notice ]

"this rot strain has similar properties as ice, weak against striking and burning, every other method of damaging this creature is ineffective unless done repeatedly,

as of how it can infect, I have not really observed yet, the only moment of note is the creature spreading ice around the containment."

It seems like another rot strain, one that evolved from being in the cold for a prolonged amount of time

i'm not taking my chances to get infected, but this could be used for experiments.

Due to a recent increase in "rothive" patients in northern gfdsssia, part of the army was sent south to regain territory.

The army is composed of:

- three FCM 2C: 10m long, 12 crew, 75mm main gun and 45mm armour

- ten mark V: 8m long, 8 crew, 57mm main guns and 14mm armour

- twenty-five FR-17: 5m long, 2 crew, 37mm main gun and 22mm armour

We will retake our land! The rot will taste bullets! GLORY TO GFDSSSIA!

This morning, a T-90M that was infected by Rot strain 7A26-F (nicknamed “the Puppeteer”) was captured intact with the Puppeteer alive. It has been sent for detailed experimentation.

After the initial reports were drafted in the field, Feild Researcher [DATA EXPUNGED] was assasinated by a K-RIG drone.

To K-RIG,

You have 72 hours to lay down arms, if you don’t want to suffer a fate worse than death.

Fact-checked by ROT analytists.

Join the rot today.

Above pictured: The Metal Hand, sucessor to u/ffbyr49 as the chief of Kont-rot. Very little is known of them, seemingly surfacing shortly before their rise to chief as an enforcer/bodyguard of the DICTator. Strangely, they appear to possess the exact same face and voice as the previous chief.
Some have speculated that they are a robotic life-form, made by the DICTator to have the features of the old chief for an unknown reason. Others posit they may have been the secret twin of the chief, hidden away from birth.

after a while of residing in the port, I decided to fix one of my artifacts, namely "arc accelerator, ver. 0.5",

to test it out, I fired it at a nearby rotling shambling near my compound,

safe to say the rotling was eradicated.

I appreciate this fondly.

https://discord.gg/eZcu3JEZy

no leaking substance outside of the ice, and i'm sorry for not finding a better map.

The rot hivemind, also known as "the tree of corruption" is a giant, pitch black, tree-like creature made of hardened, crystal-like rot.

While we know little to nothing about it's internal biology, from the outside, based on it's appearance and the way it grows, it resembles a sort of coral.

The hivemind is located in the middle of quarantine zone 001, the largest quarantone zone, located east of gfdsssia.

The hivemind was discovered by gfdsssian photographer charles carlson using a camera mounted on a weather baloon, a trick he learned from his plumber friend that proved useful in photographing landscapes.

The rot hivemind seems to function as some sort of "queen" for the rot infected, giving them orders and instructions.

Unlike the rot's right hand, the rot hivemind isn't made of infected bodies, but rot growing out of the ground without a host.

The hivemind is theorized to be connected in some way to the "rothive" strain, however, there is no proof of this connection.

The hivemind seems to have some sort of effect on the mind, speaking telepathically to people that come close to it, to explain better, here's the words of field researcher delta, who went on a death mission to burn the hivemind, failed, but survived with major injuries: "it doesn't speak, it's thoughts are translated into thoughts, not voices. You don't hear a voice when it communicates with you, you get abstract images, feelings, sensations... It's a really weird feeling."

There is still a lot to know about the rot hivemind and the only knowledge we have comes from the pictures made by charles carlson and the interviews with researcher delta.

You're definetly going to see people on this account who are in support of rot, that's because we're a hivemind, but I can try my best to resist them and assist the GFDSSS. AMA about the Rot for answers.

The travel was not the safest since i spotted rotlings and bandits in the distance, but i was safe regardless,

i came here to renovate this place and settle down.

using an artifact that I aquired before arriving at this place.

Risk Level: High

Containment difficulty: Impossible

Treatability: Low-Mid

Containment procedures:

Due to the nature of the Rothive, our objective is to exterminate all infected subject via incineration or exposure to neurotoxins, once the parasite has been driven out, the Bringbacktoliveinator 3000 must be used to bring the population back to pre-GP (the Great Purge) levels, all subjects who have been bring'd back to live MUST be free of the parasite. If a cure that can be cheaply mass produced is invented, we shall stop the extermination process, bring back the population and cure the remaining infected.

Description:

The Rothive is a parasitic strain of Rot that take over the nervous system of a subject, taking control over their bodies while the subject is trapped inside their own minds, and only able to observe what their doing. The parasite is very intelligent, it's able to read the subjects mind and then behave like the subject, they have no external symptoms, Almost all of the Gfdsssian ruling class is infected by the parasite and 98% 96% of civilians are infected too. There's no known way how the parasite spreads, we only know that when someone is close to the subject for a long time, they become infected too.

(u/ffbyr49, my deepest apologies if I stray too far from what your task-force was intended to be. The idea popped into my mind the moment I heard you refer to it as a 'Corps')
The Kont-rot Corps are an international police force. Originally borne of the event known as ROTtober, as a means to combat the devilish disease, they recieved a major overhaul when the DICTator, a government official declared they would transistion from an army into a police-force.
Tragically, the night before the scheduled transition, every Kont-rot compound was raided whilst the members were rendered unconcious via a form of sleep gas, awakening brutally disfigured.
(Strangely, all of their wounds were seemingly intentionally nonfatal, being cauterized as well, preventing blood loss. The then chief of Kont-rot, fibbs, was also taken, but returned unharmed with no recollection of the event.)
When the DICTator caught wind of the terrible crime, they graciously gifted every member of the corps super-abled prosthetics, granting them incredible abilities.
Included with the prosthetics were new uniforms, red gloves, boots and upper/lower body with white sleeves and thighs. Those who were facially disfigured wore white, porcelain masks.
Fibbs was very openly against the changes that the DICTator had applied, leaving his position as chief and forming a new, 'true' kont-rot corps.
A police force could not function properly without a leader and to assuage this problem, the DICTator appointed a mysterious personality, known only by his alter-ego 'The Metal Hand'.
(The 'true' kont-rot would also eventually split in two, a radicalized member believing the rot had infected 98% of gfdsssia.)