Bobby’s Voice Logs
via Pip Boy (aka “Chirpy”)
Entry 51
Yeah so we was heading toward the
bridge. Saw a brahmin drinking from the river, someone was on a cart. They was
on the other side of the river, closer to Murph, Millie and those guys, so we’s
picked up the pace. Lab Coat was huffing and puffing, so I picked him up and threw
him on my back like a backpack. Then he was hot breathing on my neck.
As we got closer, we saw it was a
human and learned they were a trader. Their name was Sam and they said for 10
caps we could buy a “club card” and get 10% off our order. We looked through
what they had and Lab Coat did the math and figured we’d save by getting the
club card. Babs bought a bunch of stuff, Sunshine got spiked armor, Lab Coat
got a nice helmet, and I got a combat helmet to go with my fatigues. I was
kinda missing souvenir – not that I’d take it back from Millie, she needs
something, but I thought I could get something else, so I got a machete.
Sam introduced us to their brahmin
– Costume & Co-Pilot (“Costco” for short.) Sam gave us each a Sam’s Club
t-shirt. I asked for a size down and Sunshine said it was like I was wearing a
halter top, haha.
We made our way back across the
bridge, continued heading north.
Babs was saying weird stuff about
people being prejudiced against certain types of folks (like super mutants) and
asked me about my family, but I just changed the subject. Gotta be drunk ‘fore
I start talking about all that.
As we was walking, we noticed
greenish clouds and lightning in the distance. Rad storm. Lab Coat had never
seen nothin’ like that, but he’s a smart guy, so he used Karl to calculated how
quickly the storm would reach us. We had about 30minutes to find shelter. We
split into two groups and started to look for shelter. Sunshine and I spotted
old T-60 power armor. Like the kinda armor I used to roll with. I radio’d Lab
coat and the rest of the group joined us. Lab Coat looked at the suit, but
couldn’t find a fusion core and instead we found a lot of traps.
Eventually we found a cabin, so
that was lucky and we made our way over there. Headed inside. It was disgusting
– bodyparts and blood everywhere. Smelled of death and fish guts.
Murph found a journal in the
bedroom while I looked around the kitchen. Saw a staircase going down. Murph
read the journal – ex-paladin brotherhood, Clyde, I learned about him when I
was a teenager back when I was a recruit. I just remember he was some kind of
deserter. Turned out he was worse than a deserter. Journal was fucked. Guy
didn’t like fish and was starving, surviving a beer alone for a long time. Finally
an injured guy wandered into the cabin, named Malcolm. Ending up dying and then
Clyde decided to cook him up like a fuckin’ nut case. And got a little taste
for human flesh so started making a habit of it, setting out traps for poor
folks to snack on. Fucked. Real fucked. He’s worse than a deserter, he’s a
fuckin’ abomination. Makes me angry thinking about it. Fucking disgusting.
As we was looking around, we heard
banging on the door – a couple of ghoul find their way to us. Worse yet,
something big was with them, letting out a scream that rattled our insides.
The ghouls burst through the door,
but Karl and I were ready, fighting them back. Then that big guy pushed passed,
trying to get a taste of Babs. Something in my gut told me it was Clyde, you
know. More ghouls trying to snack on the Brahmin. Babs and Sunshine guarded
their babies while the rest of us tried to pick off the other ghouls and Clyde.
Karl and I started focusing on his head, trying to give him a concussion, which
seemed to help... and then Lab Coat pulled out Joy, man I was happy to see her
in action again. Lab Coat hit Clyde hard, but that fucker is tough and Joy, as
strong as she hit ‘em, didn’t do much damage.
Clyde tried to run toward the
basement, but Murph and I stayed on his heels. He let out a scream and Murph
and I were both rattled for a few seconds. Had a little blood comin’ outta my
ears. I saw Sunshine comes runnin’ toward me with a stimpack. She stabbed me in
the ass and was rubbing it after. Got goosebumps. Been awhile since she took
care of me like that.
Murph and I headed down to the
basement. Clyde was in knee deep water, looking a little better the longer he
stayed in there. Most of us jumped in swinging and firing away. That fucker,
took a lot of big hits on me. That’s the Brotherhood training. Finally Sunshine
aimed true and blew the fucker’s head clean off.
Us non-metal folks, went back to
dry land while Karl and Murph searched the waters. Murph found Clyde’s tags. I
asked if I could have them. Not sure what to do with them. I guess I should
send them back? Let ‘em know what happened.
We searched the rest of the place,
found a lot of beer and junk, but a couple of useful items. A lot of us took a
good amount of radiation damage. Lab coat and I split a rad away, while
Sunshine stood in the sun, healing in a way only she knows how to.
I was still looking a little beat
up. Lab Coat’s riffling through his bag, so I’m just waiting for him to figure
out how he’s gonna patch me up. At least my ears stopped bleeding.
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