Fallout 3: Vaults and Vagabonds

[Karcen]

Rose was lucky to actually find her way to the room and actually get it right, normally she would have spent half the day getting lost and going into the wrong rooms over and over. She didn't really understand this goat thing, a goat was an animal, yet they someone had something to do with jobs. It was just to complex for her to understand , well anything more complex than go there punch this was more than she could handle. in truth Rose needed someone nearby to give her directions constantly otherwise she was likely to wander off or not do what she was meant too, still she made it up by being the strongest more durable person in the vault. Still the thought of goats brought Rose to food and made her hungry, maybe she could eat this goat, that was okay right? This was a goat and goats were meant to be eaten so maybe just a nibble would be fine. Then the goat was given out and it was paper, what kind of goat was made of paper? This was a test , who named a test after an animal that was just wrong, though maybe she could eat it? No she couldn't this test did things that got you a job so Rose did what she always did for tests and just answered at random circling or bubbling whatever she could, she didn't even read the questions as reading gave her a headache if it contained big words.

Her answers

1. 2
2. 1
3. 2
4. 4
5. 4
6. 3
7. 4
8. 4
9. 1
10. 3

 

[Pat]

Mr. Edwin Brotch took the papers of his students one by one as they lined up at his desk, grading them with a speed gained from decades of experience you didn't think it was possible to attain. "They say the G.O.A.T. never lies... According to this, you're slated to be the next vault chaplain. God help us all," he joked to Angel. When he scanned Rigel's test, a small smile appeared on his face. "Huh. Vault security officer. Well, sounds like a job right up your alley, hmm?" Moving on to Alex, he grimaced apologetically when he saw his results. "You will be... ahem... You'll be going into teaching I'm afraid. No doubt due to your gift for communication. Don't worry, it isn't as bad as it sounds." Progressing to Dominic, he beamed a little. "Vault security officer. At least one of us got our dream job, right?" With that said, he went onwards to Chris. "Huh. I wonder who will be brave enough to be your first customer as the vault's new Tattoo Artist? I promise it won't be me." He grimaced when he got to Rose's sheet, one that softened a fraction when he saw she had actually completed the assignment. "Well, according to this, you're in line to be trained as a vault security officer, Rose. First time for everything, indeed." He said numbly in a state of shock.

 

[Pat]

Chris Whitton, Alexander Malkin, Angel Sapphire, Dominic Delento, Rigal McCurry, and Rose Harmon, the latter three each equipped with a set of vault security officer armor, a police baton, and a N99 pistol possessing one hundred and twenty rounds, gathered in the middle of the night by the vault door through the secret sublevel exit to the Overseer's office. Amata, his daughter, personally requested of the six gathered to leave Vault 101 after revealing to them her father has lied to them about the habitability of the surface and to bring back something, anything, to show the people of their home they didn't need to fear the surface anymore. Handing her impromptu expedition of volunteers two holotapes, she bid them to read them using their pipboys once they were safely outside the vault before herself quietly departing the way they came.

SpaceDandy , Lonerfemale , ThaDruid , Seraph Darkfire , Rusty of Shackleford , Karcen .

 

[SpaceDandy]

Atlas had been happy the day he had gotten his results from his Goat. But as time went on the drull life in the vault was suffocating. He liked protecting his family and friends but, something didn't feel right. He had been given the nick name Atlas by..... he couldn't remember. It had to do with the weight of the world on his shoulders. Amata was leading a rebellion. The overseer was lying to them about everything...... almost. She had asked a group of people to meet her by the exit out of the vault from under the overseer's office. Atlas had been more then willing to go. He had flirted with Amata throughout his time in the vault . Nothing serious but he kept his options open. He had made sure to clean his gun and his cloths and armor were mended and taken care of to the best of his ability. He had been sneaking some extra food in preparation for this as well as made sure his canteen was full. They were crowded around the door looking at one another. Angel had become as gifted as a silver tongued serpent at her craft of preaching. Rose ever the strong woman was there. Her strength would be required. He was half surprised to see Alex there but he knew his curiosity was going nuts about the outside world. He looked at Chris and Dominic realizing that they must has the same reaction to the vault as himself. He looked over to rose and tossed her a protein bar. She looked back up at him with a smile. "Would you kindly give me your gun and ammo?" he asked in a sweet but confident tone he always used with her. She held a smile on her face as she pulled out her gun, clips and ammo handing them to Atlas. Her rippling muscles were a sight to behold. It looked like her dark skin could barely contain them. She reminded Atlas of the character I believe it was Zulu from the Grognak the Barbarian comic books, but more muscular and with red hair. He handed the pistol and ammo over to Alex with a serious look in his eyes. "I trust you can make good use of this for the time being." he stated more then said. He remembered his birthday party and the Mr. Handy Model Alex gave him, Alex would make the best of it. He looked over at that other girl what was her name? Ahhh Morgan that was it. Atlas didn't know her as well as he would like but he was sure that would change.

He looked at the vault door with trepidation and elation. He didn't know if he would live to see the day he would leave the vault but here it was. Destiny stood before him would he have the guts to leave the vaults with his friends or would he go back to his room to complain and do nothing. He looked over too Angel, "You do the talking when we get out of here. You seem to have a way with words...and with making people think or believe what you want." Atlas walked over to the leaver that would open the vault door and plugged in his pip boy. He accessed the controls and set it to open as he simultaneously pulled the leaver to open the large door. He looked back at Amata one last time. "Smoke me a kipper ill be back for breakfast." he told her with a wink as a blew her a quick kiss and began walking toward the vault door. The red light flashed, a siren blared, and a gust of steam and air blew back from the door as it began to open breaking the seal to the vault. He looked down at the gun in his holster as well as the Baton at his side. He was ready for anything. Well...he hoped. They would need to get weapons for the rest of the group fast. To be honest he didn't feel like this was going to turn out the way he planned. But he didn't expect much except an adventure. As the door finally rolled to the left revealing the dark passage beyond.

He walked through a dark stone passage with a dim light sneaking out from the edge of a rectangular door frame. As he approached he noticed the door was made of old wood and reminded him of a door to an old mine or a cabin. He approached and he saw the door had metal fencing all over it. He looked back as the rest of the group followed. He looked back to the door sweat dripping down his face. He felt his heart pumping and butterflies in his stomach as he pushed the door open into the blinding light. as it creaked from rust..............................

 

[Seraph Darkfire]

Alex was amused by his results from the G.O.A.T. It had been an interesting profession he'd been given. Communication skills had nothing to do with it. His intelligence was much higher than most people and despite this better uses in other places, he found it somewhat fulfilling to mold young minds, much to the chagrin of their parents. Alex had an unusual style, designed to get their imaginations working and often taking apart various devices from around the Vault. Under the guise of teaching students, he'd been able to examine and explore the various components of the vault in detail.

Of course, none of his experiments came to fruition when Amata came to him about the surface world. However, new ideas formed with that information. The surface world had so much more to offer. So many more tools and interesting devices formed over the past two hundred years since the war. He couldn't wait.

Over the years since that test, he'd grown friendly with a lot of people, but of course, he was part of a niche group of friends like most people in the Vault. Close friends were hard to come by, even in a place like the Vault. Of course they were all close to Amata, mainly due to Atlas always being around. He supposed that was why she'd picked them. They were close friends and less likely to go running to the Overseer out of loyalty to the vault. Fights were common and they disagreed on a lot of ways to handle problems, but in the end, they were friends and he was confident that they'd have each other's backs out there.

And of course he took the gun from Atlas, popping it open and examining it before stowing it away on his person along with the ammo. As tough as Rose was, he didn't trust her not to accidentally shoot them in the back. Of course, it was for her safety too. Alex was a strange one, but that wasn't much news to his friends, despite reasons not to, he was attracted to Rose. There was something about her low IQ that made her cute to him and want to protect her, despite the fact that she could easily flatten him.

Of course, he didn't let his affection for her distract him from what he needed to do. There was a chance that Amata had been wrong about the surface setting. He was turning dials on his pipboy running through a series of diagnostics on the air quality as they walked towards the door. With the vault open, there was no clue as to what they were being exposed to. He wanted to make sure they were actually going to survive stepping outside.

 

[Lonerfemale]

Angel sighed quietly at what she was told she would be doing for a job and replied 'ok'. Over the course of time she had gotten quite good at her job, but now she was getting ready to leave the vault for the first time in her life. She looked at the door as it opened and said a small prayer of safety for everyone and followed then out the door.

 

[BlackOrchid02]

Morgan stood with the group rocking back and forth, she could feel small sweat beads start to form across her forehead. She was scared and wasn't afraid to admit it, all through her head were voices shouting at her, Turn around! What are you doing?! It will always be safe in the vaults!. Growing up everybody always told her the vaults would be the safest and the outside world was toxic and unhabitable. Morgan didn't know what was on the surface and she wasn't she anybody else did either, from what she knew of Amata she trusted her. She wiped her forehead and looked ahead at the door, Morgan knew she had to start thinking for herself and making her own decisions and this was the time to do it. Morgan looked around at everybody, it was a small group and she had seen some of them around the vault, was she gonna put her life in the hands of these people? Putting her arms by her side and clenching her fists into balls she steadied herself and prepared for whatever was on the surface.

 

[Karcen]

Rose didn't really understand what was going on, to er she had been told the outside was dead so it was she had never even thought about anything outside of the vault, actually she most likely couldn't understand it. Still when the boss said they were going to go outside she just accepted it and when someone said there was life she couldn't really object. Rose had learned over the years she was an idiot and thus tended to keep any thought she had to herself as most often she was wrong anyways. This had been how Rose had acted she let someone else do the thinking or the talking even if it was talking for her she really had nothing smart and anytime she talked people got mad. Really thinking about it the vault was kind of a mean place or at least the younger kids had gotten meaner at least rose, so maybe leaving was a good idea. when her boss asked for her gun and have her something to eat Rose was more than happy to hand it over, she had never really used it, though in truth she was a decent shot, but well she liked to punch things more.

While the others might talk about leaving or troubles or even what they were looking for rose opened the bar and started eating, she would let the others do the thinking as to what they were doing, she would just listen and do as told. As rose followed the others out she wasn't nervous she just wasn't bright enough to be worried about anything if she had someone to do the thinking for her she was just fine. Rose did wonder what outside would be like, she hopped there would be cram and nuka cola, maybe even some of the special kinds of nuka cola. Really if one thought about it Rose might be the most positive about what they would find though all she thought about was it having something for her to eat.

 

[ThaDruid]

Dominic felt... Excitement. A great deal of it, all concentrated in the pit of his stomach. He couldn't help but maniacally drum his fingers on the length of his baton, tapping it gently against one of the Vault's walls. tap tap tap, he wondered if the world outside was illuminated by the sun like so many books told, or if it had been destroyed by the Great War so much time ago. He would understand the Overseer's fear at going outside, if the whole land was shrouded in perpetual darkness...

A series of thoughts flashed in his head, images of what made his life arrive to this point. A happy childhood, safe within the confines of Vault 101, sheltered from all harm. Passing the G.O.A.T, then recruitment into the Vault's security force. The respect and responsabilities coming with that title. And now, into the world beyond...
From the start, it seemed like Dominic had been born under a lucky star. Fortune just followed him, and that truth seemed to be more and more absolute.

The blast door hissed, vibrations propagating into the walls and floor. He looked over at Amata and tried a confident smile. It didn't come out good. Suddently, Dominic was much more thankful of the helmet covering his face.

Slowly, the Vault began opening to the outside world, giving way to a dark, rocky tunnel ending in a rickety door of warped metal. Slowly but surely, Dominic took his first steps into the darkness and towards the light outside. He did not say anything to his friends, and how could he? Only silence was fit for such a moment, anything else would be uncalled for.

 

[Pat]

Alexander detects no radiation in the immediate vicinity of the door at the cave mouth on his pipboy 3000.

 

[Pat]

The sun was blindingly bright, brighter than anything anyone who saw it ever could have possibly have imagined safely locked away from the surface. As the intrepid explorers of the surface stepped outside of the door covering the cave mouth, the distant star overwhelmed them with its intensity and heat. As their eyes adjusted to their new environment, before them they saw a rusted scenic overlook sign denoting a small cliff. Climbing it by instinct, Chris Whitton, Alexander Malkin, Angel Sapphire, Dominic Delento, Rigal McCurry, Rose Harmon, and Morgan Stratton, saw the ruins of a small town unfold before them in a desolate northern valley, its debris strewn streets filled with blasted wrecks of prewar automobiles flanked by scorched buildings. Within it, a floating and shining spherical object caught their eyes for an instant, disappearing behind a crumbling house in the next. To their east, the road to town curled upwards past the site of Vault 101, but its ultimate destination was anyone's guess. In the distance behind the sun bleached town in front of them, a massive scrapyard, steady columns of smoke steadily rising from it, could be seen. Further still, the mountainous steel ruins of Washington D.C. itself could barely be observed to the far east. The city appeared to smolder as well, leaving all who witnessed it the unsettling implication that the fires of the nuclear holocaust have somehow endured two centuries since the few short hours that the Great War was fought, and lost, for both sides. What little of its skyline such as the Washington Monument and the Capitol Building that remained standing appeared ravaged by not only by the thermonuclear wrath of the People's Republic of China, but the ravages of time as well, some of the landmarks moaning and shifting with the breeze. As your gazes lingered, one could almost make out the flash and then the mushroom cloud of a miniature atomic explosion rise from one of the impossibly high rooftops before the entire structure, groaning as if dying, toppled to the ground, kicking up a great cloud of rubble and ash.

ThaDruid , SpaceDandy , Lonerfemale , Karcen , BlackOrchid02 , Seraph Darkfire , haku_81 .

 

[Lonerfemale]

Angel covered her eyes as she stepped outside into the light and slowly moved her hand away as her eyes adjusted to the light. She looked around at the scenery taking in what the surroundings looked like. She turned to her group of friends and asked 'which way do you guys want to go?' and wondered what they would say to that idea.

 

[SpaceDandy]

Atlas put his right hand over his eyes like the brim of a hat. He looked out into the wastes with a sense of depression. He sighed as the rest of the party emerged from the dark womb that was the vault. He looked at Angel who asked the question of where to go. "Wouldn't hurt to determine what kind of people or monsters were dealing with before heading into the Capital. Good Intel and equipment are going to be the key to us making it back to the vault alive. I say we either go to the town in the northern valley or go to fires ahead where the smoke is coming from, must be some kinda life there. " he said as much to himself as to the group. He took out his canteen and took a drink of clean water. He knew that dehydration was going to be a problem out here. Especially finding clean water sources or ways to filter the water. Atlas noticed the Spherical object attempting to identify it in the northern valley.

 

[Pat]

Atlas could discern that the distant floating sphere certainly wasn't organic, but little else. If anything, it reminded him of Mr. Andy, Vault 101's Mr. Handy, but without any limbs extending from its body and no immediately visible means of suspension.

SpaceDandy .

 

[SpaceDandy]

Atlas sighed only able to make out something that looked like Mr. Handy. "Mother fucking shiney object with my luck...O Sweet Baby Jesus in a Birchbark Canoe....... Hey...Rose?" he said looking around intently.

 

[BlackOrchid02]

Morgan looked around, rubbing her eyes as they adjusted to the bright sun. "Wow, people used to live here? It looks terrifying." Morgan whispered to herself. She noticed what Atlas said about monsters and felt her palms get sweaty, that's what she knew she wasn't prepared for, the...things, that still lived out here. Luckily she had a group with her, and she wasn't by herself. Morgan heard Atlas call Rose after a few words she didn't quite understand came out, she tried looking in the direction Atlas last looked, all she saw was dust and a shiny object she couldn't make out clearly. What is that? She thought to herself as she squinted her eyes trying to see it more clearly.

 

[Karcen]

Rose being rose was actually almost instantly bored as soon as her eyes were adjusted to the light. The world looked like well it had been destroyed over and over and it likely had. Really that was all secondary this stunning and likely awe inspiring vistas were second to the shiny thing near by. This was her priority something shiny and floating it was a giant baseball, a giant floating baseball, that made sense to her. Before any other the others could say much Rose ran off running right for the floating baseball, she would catch it and find it's baseball eggs as to her it had to be alive. Rose didn't understand what robots were and eventually people had just given up and let rose think they were silvery talking baseballs and she had often looked for baseball eggs. Thus this was her chance to find wild baseball eggs and she went full speed towards it.

 

[SpaceDandy]

Atlas finally noticed Rose but she was a good distance away already "Fuck, Fuck, Fuck, Fuckty, Fucking, Fuck Cakes!" he said has he sprinted after her and pulled out his pistol. "ROSE I HAVE FOOD!" he screamed as he continued down the way. "ROSE STOP!" he commanded uselessly as he continues running after her. " ROSE!!!!!!!!" he yelled. "THAT SHINY OBJECT TASTES BAD!" he pleaded.

 

[Pat]

Morgan noticed before the sphere vanished behind the building that it was a robot with loudspeakers and a laser cannon mounted on the front with whip-like antennae resembling long whiskers trailing behind it, but it didn't appear to be like anything she's seen before, barring Mr. Andy the Mr. Handy robot of Vault 101 of course. Before Rose could touch the metallic sphere as she ran into and through the husk of the small town it soared higher in the air, beyond her reach. Reorienting itself to face her in a second's passing, it hummed, its laser cannon powering up and casting an ominous red glow onto her face as it charged up a lethal concentrated beam of energy... Then, miraculously, it became still. The threatening red glare it gave in response to Rose's attempt to tackle it died down, and it began to ceaselessly circle around the woman just out of arm's reach, trying to get a look at her back. Moments later, an audible whirring sound emanated from the automaton that continued to go on and on forever without any indication whatsoever of stopping in the near future.

BlackOrchid02 , Karcen , SpaceDandy .

 

[Karcen]

Rose didn't pay much attention to the boss right now what mattered was the baseball, she would have proof that there was life here and it was baseballs. The baseball was fast really fast, but there were few things that Rose could not catch as if she wasn't as fast as something she would just outlast it the baseball had to get tried eventually. The base ball had to have a nest it would head too like people had rooms they went back to when chased, this was her flawless logic. The thing was this wasn't a living being so it wouldn't get tired and it seemed to just want to float up and stay out of reach leaving her trying to hop up to catch it.

 

[Seraph Darkfire]

Alex frowned when Rose ran off, they needed to do something to curb her curiosity. Her running head first into danger was a great way to get them all killed. He then sighed and headed towards her, keeping an eye on the sphere, examining it as he walked. It was a robot, that much was clear, but he had no idea of how it was staying in the air. Even their Mr. Handy hadn't been able to simply soar around like this one was doing. Even more so, he wondered what its purpose was. It didn't seem to have any scavenging equipment, maybe it was some kind of scanner? An early warning system for someone else?

He wanted to take it apart and get a look at its insides. If he could better understand it, perhaps he could make one himself. That laser cannon attached to it would be a useful tool as well.

"Rose, you have to use your brain" he said "Things are more likely to come to you if you don't chase them" this thing didn't seem to be inherently hostile, from what he'd observed, it'd only turned hostile when Rose attempted to 'attack' it.

Still though, that noise it was giving off was getting annoying. He wondered if there was some way to stop it without seeming hostile themselves.

 

[Pat]

As more and more people arrived, the machine sped in circles behind them out of reach, and eventually the whirring of the machine ended with a soft click, and a voice with a fatherly southern accent began pouring out of the loudspeakers as it continued hovering in the air above their heads, watching those gathered. "Hello again America, this is John Henry Eden your president, there are some things we should talk about, if that's alright. I've been thinking quite a bit lately about something we can all relate to, something that is unquestionably, inescapably... American. I am referring, of course, to our great national pastime - baseball. Or so it had been. That's right, America. Before we were devastated by atomic war, each state had it's own professional baseball team. Imagine, a perfect, cloudless day. The sun is warm and welcoming. And on the horizon, they appear, like knights of yore, armed with bats of ash and hickory. Their name? The Capital Congressmen. Their purpose? To make you, dear America, revel in the joys of sport and sunshine, if only for an afternoon. Now ask yourself this: what if the Capital Congressmen could live again? What if they could compete with baseball teams from Pennsylvania, or Maryland? Put your faith in John Henry Eden great America, and baseball will live again! Comfort, recreation, healthy competition, all will live again! This country will live again!"

Seraph Darkfire , Karcen , SpaceDandy .

 

[Karcen]

The baseball was put of reach and now it was talking about baseball it was such a weird baseball. Still it wasn't going to its nest so there would be no baseball eggs and no one would understand like her where baseballs came from. With the idea of finding a nest gone Rose lost intrest just as fast as she gained it and stopped going for it.

"Baseball cheats no fair" she said in regards to it floating out if reach "and talk to much no fun" she continued more or less telling anyone close she was once more bored.

 

[Lonerfemale]

Angel soon turned and noticed Rose running after a spherical robot and went after her. She knew sometimes curiosity could be good but other times be bad. She continued to run until she caught up to everyone else and catches her breath 'haven't had a workout like that one before'.

 

[SpaceDandy]

Atlas caught up to Rose and looked at the robot hovering out of reach. He caught his breath as he closed the remaining space between them. "Rose, please don't run after shiny objects unless someone from the group asks you too." Atlas stretched as he listened the eyebot..... Atlas frowned as he listened to the recording. He knew it was possible that civilization would rebuild but..... He would need to find out more about this self proclaimed president with robots running around. Atlas looks to his surrounds to see if their is anything useful or interesting in the area they ran too. "Rose, Check the area for stuff Shiny and Not Shiny that would be useful."