Yang Xiao Long
Sunny Little Dragon
The Blight [Chapter 1: The Calm Between]
"Welcome back ladies and gentlemen, this is Marshall with Pleasanton Public Service Radio. In the news today the Raiders came back from yet another successful sortie into the wasteland, expanding our maps by another several kilometers in diameter. Meanwhile after their recent conflict with the NSF the red masks are still recovering, in our local pubs…
Now onto weather, the heatwave continues, the sun is shining at a sweltering 38 degrees, and the sky is clear. My recommendation? Camouflage and a good scope. Seriously though, a pretty good day for hunting if you don't mind the heat. If you can afford it bring water, most of you wasteland assholes might not care, but if the Reavers don't kill you dehydration will. As always this is Marshal, Signing off.”
Just your average day in the city of Pleasanton. The sun is shining down, impartial to the ravaged world orbiting it that was once teeming with life, now only a fraction of its population remain due to an unforeseeable epidemic that reduced life on it to a twisted mess over the span of merely a decade. Whether or not this Blight was a fluke of nature, supernatural, or by design you may never know; but there is one thing for certain, it’s a fact of life now. One which for many of our people today has been all they’ve known, born in the early days of the Blight. Only few remember the green trees, the sprawling cities, the complexity of everyday life by first hand experience.
Though right now you probably aren't waxing too poetically, You’re just living life like you always have. How you are depends on who you are of course! As a wanderer you’re probably in the middle of the commercial district. The markets bustling with activity, people bartering over whatever it is they need, children running away from their marks giggling clutching to whatever they had just stolen, bounty hunter's either coming from or going to the gate decked out in combat gear. Here and there a vehicle would pass. That didn't matter to you, you had your own goals, your own ideals. Your story, and past were as different from the next Wanderer’s as morning was to night. Though there was probably something in common with him, the willingness to leave the walls, to risk it all just to live free. Why you were here? Who knows, might be you were running from something after all a set of NSF dogtags was starting to become a common sight on wanders who were of military age, or towards something a new life perhaps, or perhaps you were just there for another job, another bounty. It’s been a hard life, but it’s your life.
Meanwhile elsewhere in the city despite it being early in the morning a familiar bar is packed with men and women. All of them sharing something in common, a memory of a battle in which a home was lost, a battle where many of their brothers and sisters had fallen. The sign of their mourning? A common Red Mask; though that was not what it was intended to be. Not before the battle of Fort Scar, not before the NSF drove them from their home like common Bandits. Those people those mercenaries were recovering and recovering quick. Soon they would reclaim their former glory, they had already begun taking contracts again. This time out of Pleasanton, out of a city who had a force that could rival the NSF, out of a city who now had the protection of them: The Red Masks.
As the Red Masks licked their wounds, another group was strapping on their boots. The Raiders, the most badass mother fuckers in Pleasanton, possibly even all of the wasteland were beginning their day. Greeted by the familiar sounds of their part of the capsule. The grunts and thumps of sparing coming from the gym’s sparring pits, the synchronized crash of boots as unit’s ran PT through the sprawling halls of the bunker, the low constant din of the mess hall that was always there at meal time. While off duty many Raiders stay in their home, the capsule, the current height of humanity and science. A spotless environment in which the livelihood of the human race is stored. The Raiders were met with the familiar hum of machinery and soft whoosh of air vents, today would be like many other days. Get their duty assignment, requisition any equipment they needed, and then out into the wasteland through the series or hermetic doors that formed the barrier to the outside world.
While the day was early, there were a group of men and women up before even the Raiders. The men and women of the Pleasanton Volunteer Militia, general referred to as the Militia they were a bit more than that. Not just defenders of the city, but keepers of the peace. Their day had started off much like any other, got up, ate, put on their uniform, then they met at their headquarters in the governmental district for morning parade, after that it was onto the day’s duty. Either watching the gate, guarding the walls, or patrolling the streets, all in all it was routine. Though for those off duty, they might still be strapping on boots, readying weapons, for many members of the Militia in their free time took jobs as bounty hunter's. Leaving the sanctity of the walls for glory and better pay, it wasn't so much as they disliked working in the Militia, it was so much as the Militia didn't necessarily pay too well.
Yeah. Just your average day in the wasteland, July 4th 2061 to be exact. Nothing special about it really, well unless you live in the United Remnants of America, or had at one point. What you make of the day is up to you. Good luck... A storm is brewing.
Public Bounty Board
Send New EmailNew Email ReceivedSloanA ProblemLook I have this problem, see? And I'm looking for a few able bodied people to help me with it. You see a couple wise guys decided to skip town on their tab and I need ya to teach em a lesson. Should be an easy job, find me at the Howling Wolf bar for the details.
Bounty: 200.00$ and a percentage of their tab if you came make em pay up.
Send New EmailNew Email ReceivedThe Pleasanton Volunteer MilitiaSearch and Destroy ContractA large band of Reavers has been reported to have settled in a nearby town. Normally a group of militiamen would be deployed to eradicate a threat but due to the increased traffic in and out of the city as of late we are unable to spare the manpower to take care of the threat. The Reavers in question seem to have settled in the town’s supermarket. Proof of completion will be required.
Bounty: 500.00$
Send New EmailNew Email ReceivedJackson SoyuzRecoveryI'm looking for a small team for a recovery mission outside the walls. Details will be provided on reply to the bounty. Must be willing to do physical labor.
Bounty: 100.00$ For Service plus an equal share of whatever is recovered.
(Note: This will be a GM headed mission.)
Raider Assignment Roster
Send New EmailNew Email Received---DisposalSix man team requested for disposal of waste from the primary reactor.
The waste must be safely transported from the capsule to primary disposal site, full protective suits are required.
Transportation will be provided.
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