Session 5

 

 

Bobby’s Voice Logs

via Pip Boy (aka “Chirpy”)

Entry 52

Got a lot to catch up on... Might be some sounds in the background cuz of our current location, but I’ll get into all that later, you know?

Let’s see, where was I? After we took out cannibal Clyde, a few of us was looking a little rough, so Doc was digging in his bag for awhile, tryin’ to find the right sorta medicine I guess.

Anyway, eventually Doc healed me up, but while doing so he pressed into my old wound. Doc said a little pussy was comin’ out of it. Doc studied it more, got real curious about it and figured it came from souvenir, smart guy; but I didn’t wanna talk about all that.

Babs and Sunshine were still a little hurt, so I helped Sunshine cooked up some Molerat meat. Lab coat really enjoyed it! I guess he ain’t never had nuthin’ like it before. Sunshine’s a great cook.

We decided not to double back, so we’s headed up the river. We thought, who knows, maybe we’s run into some mirelurk and be able to collect the peperoni ingredients we needed.

I lead the charge followed closely by Murph. As we approached the river, we tried being quiet - Babs caught Murph from slipping, but otherwise we was pretty stealthy.

I spotted some mirelurk eggs across the river. Too far to jump across. I thought maybe we could lure the mirelurk out by shooting at the eggs. So we all hid in the treeline, while Murph took a shot. Murph’s really got that instinct, ya know? He just laid into those eggs, killing a handful in one shot.

Sure enough that got momma and papa mirelurk’s attention and we got to work. Papa mirelurk came running to me, but Sunshine laid into him. I was ready to take him on, but those heavy hits pissed him off, so he went running for her--hitting her real hard, crippling her leg. Rage filled me, I was so angry I couldn’t see straight, kept trying to shoot at the piece of shit but missing with every shot. But it was alright because she was alive and Lab Coat got to her and patched her up in time for Sunshine to finish the fucker off.

Fighting the mirelurks was no joke, those crab legs were tough. After we was done taking them out, I showed Millie how to collect the meat from the shells. We didn’t have any luck with the soft shell meat, but we got a good amount of regular meat. We took an hour to collect and Sunshine rested in the sun while Karl walked across the river to fetch the intact eggs. Lab Coat collected samples from the eggs and then put the remaining eggs in Karl for safe keeping.

Some of them eggs weren’t fertilized yet, so I said be careful not to sing no lullabys near it or you might make some baby mirelurks. Babs thought this was real interesting, guess he never learned where babies come from, you know? Said he probably has a lot babies all over the place cuz of him singing lots of lullabys.

Ah, so... yeah, we packed up our stuff and then we headed out, continuing North toward the farm where the raiders was headed. The journey took several hours. At one point, Sunshine got tired of walking and asked if I’d carry her. Murph said he could do it, but I said it was no problem. I was happy to help, especially after everything she did to get me back on my feet again months ago... it was the least I could do. I was just relieved she was okay.

After awhile, Sunshine felt rested so she headed to the front to guide our troop. Babs made a comment about sparks between us... So he and Lab Coat started giving me advice about Sunshine. Said they could make some kinda concoction using my DNA, but Babs said the first 8 would fail, only number 9 would work. Whatever that means.

As we got closer to the farm, Sunshine signaled for us all to be quiet, but we was still gabbing and didn’t get the message, you know what I mean? Not quite the stealthiest.

We finally reached the farmstead. Sunshine could see a light in the distance, coming from behind the farmhouse. Probably a bonfire of some kind. There was a brahmin pen to the left of the house and a barn behind it. To the right was a cornfield. The group thought maybe just a sneaky non-injured person should run up ahead to get a look of the bonfire and then they all looked at me. So I guess I was gonna do it? I snuck up around the house... staying as quiet as possible. I could hear voices and they didn’t sound like no farmers, they was talking about trapping a ghoul and taking him to a grocery store. Fuckin’ bandits. I sent a quick message to Lab Coat, “Bandiz.” I took a quick peak, there was four of ‘em that I could see. One of them heard something they went to take a look and I quietly retraced my steps back. Then sent another message with “Be Sneeky” to Lab Coat. The guy on patrol missed me and headed back.

When I got to the others, I was worried what would happen to Millie, so I gave her the NCR cap Lab Coat gave me and we sent her and the Brahmin into the cornfield to hide. I don’t know if I could forgive myself if I let anything happen to that kid, you know?

The rest of us started to head back around the house. We hung back a little while Murph headed in. Murph took a shot, and boy that got their attention and things started to heat up fast! Lab Coat pulled out Joy, I got Mel out and ready, and Sunshine pulled out her shotgun. Babs held his position against the wall, probably working on one o’ his rousing speeches, you know?

Mel did good, but her cartridge came loose, I was gonna pop it back into place, when one of the bandits hopped over the wall with a tire iron. He just started swingin’, but the tire iron just bounced off my abs.

I pulled out my big mouth and that guy lost his head. Chains got caught and came off, shit that’s gonna take a little bit to fix. I was waiting for that speech from Babs, but he must’ve been dealing with something else near the side of the house.

At some point, we saw a couple guys run off – one into the house and the other around near the brahmin. When the guy ran into the house, we heard a couple woman scream. Then instincts kicked in and I hurried to the house. As I was running, someone from the house shot at Murph – he looked in a real bad way, but Lab Coat hurried over to him. Then I saw Babs coming around the corner and fired at the fucker who shot at Murph. He seemed a little surprised after he shot, not sure what that’s about exactly.

When I got into the house, I saw two woman chained to tables and a couple bandits who seemed distracted by something in the front of the house. There was some screams and energy weapons firing – but not at us or the farmers. What the fuck is going on?

I hurried to the woman and they told me about Jed and Jethro. Jed’s in the brahmin pen, but they don’t know where Jethro is and then they told me Jethro is a ghoul and I could feel my blood starting to boil. I hurried to the closest bandit to interrogate him, he didn’t know fuckin’ shit, so he was useless to me, you know? So I just put him down.

I saw Babs and Sunshine in the hallway... and then realized what all the commotion was, there was mirelurks in the kitchen! What the fuck? Did they follow us cuz we took their eggs?

Another fucker comes down the hall with a fancy energy weapon, seems to arc and hit a number of people. That fucker throws a Molotov and me and Sunshine and I just charge at him, in flames, screaming where’s Jethro you motherfucker! I pulled out my big mouth, but the rage took over and I didn’t quite get an answer from him as his head hit the floor.

When all the bandits and mirelurks were taken out, I hurried outside while the others freed the women. I found Jed tied up in the brahmin pen, they had him chained to the trough where the brahmin would drink from. Those fucking bandits. I didn’t have a key and I think the rage finally started to settle, having some kind of feelings about what those fucking bandits was doing with these people, to the ghoul brother... I just hope that guy’s okay.

Sunshine managed to find a key on one of the bandits and she freed the woman and Jed. We all hurried to the barn and heard muffled sounds when we got there.

Luckily Jethro was alive, thank fuck. He was beat up, but alive. Coming down from being so angry... this is all bringing back too many memories, you know?

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Oh yeah, so as we was looking around, I heard some sort of whimper coming from an overturned cart – turns out it was a little mutant hound puppy in a cage, so I picked him up and headed over to the others. Think I’ll call him Chompers... but as soon as the others saw him, they thought maybe Kirkland would want him. Yeah, I guess that makes sense n all, but you know, gonna be hard giving this little guy up.

Anyway, I think we’re gonna go talk with the family and then maybe stay here tonight, finally get a good night’s rest.

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