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Let's Play Fallout - VD left, never to return. (Completed)

RK47

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Music: Battlefield - Dark Theme

The explosion was deafening. A white light engulfed my vision, followed with the sensation of tiny pin pricks impacting against my armored shell. I opened my eyes and saw the ceiling.
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Ughhhh....I'm...alive?
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BRIAN! GET UP! TAP THE SPACE BAR KEY NAO!
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Todd. Damage report.
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That robed dude took the worst of the blow. He's all over you at the moment. In bits of flesh and bones, that is.

I stared at the tiny little white fragments and red splotches on my armor and realized what had happened. I got a lucky break. I can still finish this.
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And the leader?
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Uh....you may want to get up, starting right now.
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Our gaze met as we both rise off the floor.
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You kill your own men?
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He is...expendable.

The spinning chambers of mini-gun greeted me as I stand erect, I raised my arms to shield myself from the bullets, successfully deflecting most of the damage.
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Shit, Brian, get the fuck out of there! There's another -

Too late.
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The second impact threw us further back. The armor withstood the impact once more.
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Todd, stims!
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Fuck you, Brian. Get out of there, man!
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Not before I take down the leader!

He's badly hurt, it shouldn't take much to bring him down before he could use stims of his own. I formed a sharp tip with my power fist and thrust it at his eye.
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Are you expendable, as well?

With a loud POCK! His red monocle shatters, my finger piercing all the way to the brain.
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I withdrew my finger with a sickening crack...his skull's shattered from the forceful entry and nonchalant exit.
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Oh, man. That is *sick*!

The creature howled in pain...dropping his weapon to the ground and clutching his fractured skull and what's left of his thinking muscles for several last moments. Trying to keep himself together....
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...and failed. Miserably.
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I broke him. Somewhere deep in his FEV infused body, a self-destruct signal was sent. His arms fell off its joints, blood flowed...gushing from recently opened wounds. Once drained, follows the skin tissues and the muscles...peeling him, layer by layer.
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Leaving nothing but a bloodied husk on the floor.
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I'd love to congratulate you on a job well done, Brian but there's still a mini gun and rocket launcher aimed at you!

Another gun fire deflected.
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A blast knocks me off my feet.
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More stims are injected to keep me going, I used my remaining strength to duck behind the wall.
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Without a clear line of sight, the attacks ceased, and I can recover while I wait for the opportunity to strike.
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Now.
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The blow knocks the mutant unconscious. Perfect opportunity to disarm him!
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You're harmless without these rockets.

I return to my cover and wait for the other to approach.
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The fool obliged, and I popped his mole.
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He dies instantly. And his still-living comrade regained consciousness.
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Minus his rocket launcher, of course. He swings his fist anyway, succeeding in giving me a few slight bruises, but nothing threatening.
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Once I've finished defending from his puny attacks, I start my own.
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The mutant caught a clean blow to his eyes, the pain was too much, and his last vision was the tip of my finger pressing against his left eye ball.
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I take a deep breath. Smells like...victory.
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It looks like...we're clear boss.
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Hah....hah....good. Phase one of Operation Majestic Decadence completed.
 

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Fallout's over-the-top deaths were impressive for its time, back when I played it dozens of years ago (especially the "bosses").
 

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lightbane said:
Fallout's over-the-top deaths were impressive for its time, back when I played it dozens of years ago (especially the "bosses").

True. Especially the flamethrower dance of death which me and my friends called the Rain Dance :lol:
 

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Archaeon said:
what... only this..? MORE NOW!

i got back from wedding last night....horrible stuff. I'll avoid them whenever I can. Killed my whole free time.
 

Wyrmlord

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What did you think of the Lieutenant's death?

Cool or too over the top?
 

Majestic47

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It was fine. Kinda unexpected. I never remember it was that brutal. Hahah. He just....disintegrated.
 

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Wyrmlord said:
What did you think of the Lieutenant's death?

Cool or too over the top?

Cool and over the top.
He's a boss, kind of, he deserves special death animations.
 

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Majestic47 said:
It was fine. Kinda unexpected. I never remember it was that brutal. Hahah. He just....disintegrated.
Since he was more intelligent than most mutants, I guess he must have been a vault dweller once.

However, since he broke down so badly after being killed, he must have been a terribly botched early prototype of the first FEV experiments of the Master that he was talking about. We do hear that FEV had 1/6 success. So the Lieutenant could easily have been a near miss.
 

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I fished through the remains of the mutant leader.
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A holo-disk. This looks important. Todd, download the data from this disk and see what it's got.
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Eh, I don't know what it's for Brian. Just a bunch of codes.
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That's fine. I don't expect much from you.
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Thanks for the compliment, Brian.
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That wasn't...ah..never mind.

Examining the tattered robes confirmed that it was indeed the Cathedral's trademark. It's clear that the next step after blowing this installation sky-high is to bring down the cult, along with its leaders.
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I rummaged through the nearby locker, finding some highly advanced electronic lockpicks, as well as a strange looking key.
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Todd. Any idea how to escape?
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I'm very busy, Brian.
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Doing what?
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I'm burning every moment in this installation into my data storage, man. I'm planning to do something big with it.
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Like what?
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I'm going to code a game based on our adventures. It's going to have the smartest AI and killer animation. It'll be so cool that you'll even forget that you're playing a game.
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That's nice, Todd. But you never even recorded conversations...
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Blah blah blah. Who needs to talk? Show me some action, Brian. Don't you have a base full of mutants to blow up?
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Fine.

A red forcefield blocks my path.
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I wonder if I could shut it down...damn...no dice.
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Brian, it's weak enough for you to pass through. Quit being a pussy and do it.
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Fuck. It hurts.
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I never said it won't. You passed anyway...I detected a high computer activity behind this door...
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Let's find out.
It wasn't locked. Scores of robes-clad technicians greeted me. When they recognized that I was an intruder, they froze in shock.
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What is this place?
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None dare speak a word. Each of them were paralyzed with fear, not daring to attack nor flee.
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Pussies. I say we torture one till they talk.
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I'm here to shut down this operation. Is this where you create the mutants? Speak, I've killed the mutant leader!

The man suddenly screamed like he was in severe pain...His eyes grew wide as his fingers trembled. I figured that he was having a nervous breakdown but...
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Extreme. I'm going to replay that shit over and over again when I'm defragging my storage drive.
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What the fuck just happened? How did he die? There was no explosives!

I stared at the cultist nearest to the mess and he also self-destructed in the same manner.
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Time to bring down this madhouse. Those vats....must be the stuff where Richard Grey, Harold's friend fell into...

I get to work on the main terminal.
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Todd, get me access.
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Hmph. Done.
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Download all the logs to the PipBoy unit. And display security codes.
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Lines of numbers appeared on screen.
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What am I looking at, Todd?
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Errr. Numbers?
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What do these numbers me- Sigh. Never mind, let me get to work.

With slight difficulty I hack into the source code, slowly decrypting the true system functions tied to each code.
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....Brian, what the fuck do you think you're doing?
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Setting this place to blow.
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In THREE minutes? Are you crazy? Do you know how many mutants are there in this place?
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It's all the time we've got. Done. Everyone, get out if you want to live.
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Steel be with you, motherfuckers.

I drove my fist into the console screen. Ensuring no one will be able to cancel the countdown. Time to get out of this mad house.
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I passed by some kind of a holding cell.
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I'm not a prisoner.
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Look, there's no time. The place's going to-...never mind.
I decide not to bother, there is no alert whatsoever, she'll probably raise an alarm if I persist.

My stealthy approach lasted a few seconds past the cells, a lone mutant guard fired his laser rifle at me as I turn round a corner.
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Brian. 277 seconds. Don't even fucking fight him.
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I know.
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I ran past him, he follows in pursuit, no doubt the alarm will be raised momentarily. I ran until I felt a sharp shock on my feet...and through my whole body.
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Shit, the floor's trapped.
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Fucking A, that's the least of your worry if you don't make it out in 267 seconds!

Another mutant, this time with plasma rifle.
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He scored a good hit. Burning through the armor.
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Todd, is the psycho still working?
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I'm injecting stims, but fuck..there's no known defense against plasma.

A laser bolt streaked from behind me, barely missing....and striking the plasma shooter instead. Lucky me.
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More footsteps from the hallway in front...shitstorm rising. I landed a few good punches at the plasma-toting mutant, but he's still standing.
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A second laser bolt struck the mutant by mistake and killed him.
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Fuck yes! Get out to the elevator! 242 seconds left!

A laser bolt caught my back...but it merely scratched the armor's paint.
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The elevator is my goal, but trouble is just around the corner...
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Not taking chances...
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Stop fucking around man, the elevator is just RIGHT THERE.

I looked at the red forcefield and gambled that the bullets/rockets can possibly pass through completely.

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Sounds like a good idea.
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Ugh!
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The hulking mutant halted their fire as I passed through the red forcefield. Looks like I was right. The minigunner attempts to cross the field as I jammed the elevator call button.
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......Pwned.
A burning smell spread throughout the hall. With a loud ding, the elevator doors opened. Just in time~!
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222 seconds...
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Plenty of time..
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Hngghhh.
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Fuck. Droids.
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Todd, can I pass through the green field?
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No....
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Means I gotta punch the droids first.
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Problem solved. OK. How do I get through?
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179 seconds. Mess with the emitter, that should temporarily disrupt the forcefield.

I pick up the droid scraps and stuff it on the beam emitter circuity. The forcefield fizzled for a few seconds, enough for me to get through.
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I can see the exit from here...166 seconds....

Emitter disrupted, home...
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Whoops.
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No time to play with you guys, see you!
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They've got a rocket launcher!
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Shi-
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The impact knocks me off my feet. I'm still alive, but the internal injuries are getting to me.
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It held, keep moving. Just a little bit further!

The minigunner holds his trigger. The bullets bounces off my armored back, I pressed onward.
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A second rocket launched, I dodged it at the last minute.
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Up yours, buddy!
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I never felt happier seeing the sunlight again. But I'm still in the blast radius, final yards...
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The laser bolt grazed my feet for minor damage.
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148 seconds!
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Enough time for me to kick his ass.
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One punch, and he's out. I couldn't even be bothered to loot him. There's two more guards out on the field. One a distance away...
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And the other stood at the guard house.
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Out of my way.
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One decisive blow and the way is clear!
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Made it!

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Mission accomplished.

:salute:
 

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The best part of the mission he just did is that there is a dozen ways of doing it.

And you can finish it even at level 3-4 early in the game. Of course, you'd have to ignore the fight in that case.

Did you take all the loot from the lockers in the Lieutenant's place?
 

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Like a true action-hero James Bond. And extremely lucky, too. You should have been blown into smithereens once or twice in the last floor.

I'm feeling the urge to play Fallout 2. Lucky boxer this time... We shall see.
 

Morkar Left

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I don't remember this prisoner. Can anything else than say hello/goodbye be done via dialogue or otherwise ?

I only know that she's complaining that you killed one of the two supermutants in the floor and don't want to talk to you because of this. She's probably already brainwashed for the cause and waiting for her transformation.
 
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Morkar said:
I only know that she's complaining that you killed one of the two supermutants in the floor and don't want to talk to you because of this. She's probably already brainwashed for the cause and waiting for her transformation.
She will call her mutant boyfriend if you try to rescue her.
 

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Wyrmlord said:
The best part of the mission he just did is that there is a dozen ways of doing it.

And you can finish it even at level 3-4 early in the game. Of course, you'd have to ignore the fight in that case.

Did you take all the loot from the lockers in the Lieutenant's place?

I only took the interesting looking stuff. I was overloaded, my loot out of the whole base was a ripper, a rocket launcher with several rockets. I really have no more space for anything else.

I wish they wouldn't pause the timer when using inventory. Heheh. That would make decision making much harder when you're on timer. And yes, the first time I played this game I just walked around the northwest wasteland looking for that green circle, while farming mutant patrols for EXP. Compared to that, this is much more faster and easier to pull off.
 

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The Brazilian Slaughter said:
Damn, no cool logs from Maxson and Grey?

:decline:

That said, nice destroying of the Vats!

Do you have time reading the logs during a 3 minute countdown? :smug:
I've downloaded it to the PipBoy but will cover it later...

Since updating it on another post would bump it to next page, I decide to just edit this post to make use of the one update per thread page policy. Sorry if it seems short, I'm having a very slow Monday. And kinda hooked with DC Universe Online. :lol: I really need to get in the groove, but it's hard when all you can think about in the bus is whacking the next mole with your big hammer while shouting "FOR HONOURBLADE!" in Metropolis.

Brotherhood: Origins
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Todd, radiation check.
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Meh, minimal. It should be safe to approach.
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OK, let's take a closer look and survey the damage.
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Looks good. No one's coming out of that place for a long, long time.
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I wouldn't be too sure, Brian. Maybe it'd be hard coming out from inside, but what about from the OUTside?
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You know, Todd. Sometimes, I think somewhere, ...deep inside that blabber circuit of yours, you do have that spark of intelligence in you.
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Thanks for the compliment, boss.
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Yeah, it'll take a while for anyone to dig through this, but I reckon not many know this place existed. Maybe just the Brotherhood after I report it. And the Vault records once I upload the mission debriefing.
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So, what now?
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Let's head back to the bunker. I need to think. *Checks coordinates on his PipBoy* This is going to be a long trip...

Days later...
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I've got movement, Brian.
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What is it?
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I...uh...I don't know...looks like a Brahmin, only skinnier.
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Okay. This is new. Has the FEV affected the outside life?
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Who cares? Punch it, Brian.
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Where's the eye ball on this thing?
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Eh...right...there.
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I swung at the biomass and felt the flesh tearing off. The creature recoils in pain, yet still alive. The pack looks enraged and crawls at me. The closest one gets a free bite on my right arm.
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Go ahead, bunch up you freaks...
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Let fly.
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The creatures are tougher than they look. A few more grenades detonated, yet the bites continue to sting.
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Have another!
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Looks like those grenades softened them up a bit. I start tearing them apart with my power fist. The squishing sound and flying pieces of flesh fill the air.
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Goddamn, those are so cool! I'mma record this for my video game!
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There goes another one!

I tore one head free, watching the creature succumb to the pain and bled to death.
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The last one fared no better, its head snapped backward, its eyes permanently punched in.
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Todd, check my radiation levels.
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Man, you are like a black cock tearing up some eastern european you-know-what.
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...The fuck?
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Never mind. You're clean. Let's leave this mess behind, shall we?

I eye the puddle of non-living biomass and cursed how late I was in blowing the base up. There must've been hundreds of them out there...and the mutant army, too. Some of them must've survived.
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I'm gonna need a nice shower after this.

Thankfully, the rest of the return trip was uneventful.
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I report the aftermath to Maxson, who together with me bring the good news to the Council.
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Later, in the privacy of Maxson's office...
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I"m not done yet, Maxson. The Cathedral is behind this. I saw their technicians working in the compound. What do you know about them?
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Boneyard? What can you tell me about that town?
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Alright, thanks. I'm gonna need a shower.
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We've reserved a quarters for you at level 2, son. Take a rest, you've earned it. Once you take down the Cathedral, leave the mutant hunting to us.

Later...
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Knight, definitely.
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No, not at all.
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Goddamn, I thought he'd never leave...
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Whatever, I'm going to shower. While I do so, why don't you play the audio logs we've recovered from Mariposa?
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Fine.
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This is some sick shit, Brian.
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Keep going.
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...Richard Grey was...is...alive?
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You know him?
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No. Not exactly. *Steps out of the shower and puts on his jumpsuit.*
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...Grey, what have you done?
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He was so close to ending it, too. Damn mad scientists syndrome. I'm going to stop him. *Puts on the power armor.*
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There's another log...not Richard Grey, but...uh...Maxson's.
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Huh? You're shitting me.
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Listen and weep.
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This isn't the same Maxson. This...the Glow. They must've relocated from the Glow to Mariposa.
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*Sigh*...'It' happened.
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Y'know, I always thought the Brotherhood came from the Glow. Guess I was wrong. Time to confirm this with the High Elder.
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Tell me about the Exodus.
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I see. I've rested enough. High Elder, I take my leave.
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Give them hell, son.
 

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