Foreman’s Journal is a letter found within the game Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden.
Foreman’s Journal Guide
…men chafe and fume, they plead aches and pains and the day but hours old. The good folk in town call them “saturnine” and I do not think it a compliment. I think they fear…
…friends fight friends. Men are wounded, sometimes gravely. Mistakes are made. We lose a man each day to accident (or if not accident then I shall enquire no further) and bury him in place. This cannot continue until…
…calamity. I write this note by the flickering light of our last lamp. By error of labor or failure of material or perhaps by both, the mine is sealed and we have no way out. We shall die here, all of us.
Which means Antea was right in her suspicion that the mines being haunted. They are haunted by these men who I guess worked the mine and something had happened to trap them here until they all perished. Though something was going on beforehand, making them fight one another–possibly kill them in ways that nobody took notice of.
I looked up “saturnine” and it’s basically saying these people are of a bitter or moody disposition.
I don’t know what it means by the townsfolk fearing them…unless they thought it had something to do with the curse of New Eden Town? Did the townsfolk fear the men were losing their grasp on reality, losing their mind?
