Session 08

Bobby’s Voice Logs

via Pip Boy (aka “Chirpy”)

Entry 57

Following the Eyebot

So yeah, after we rejoined the others back at Kirklands, Lab Coat searched the body of Corpse-sal Graves and found the receiver. It only took him a few minutes to beep bop boop it and then transferred the data to both of our pip boys. We saw the eyebot was heading North. While we was taking care of Graves, the rest of the party  had started to sift through all the bodies of the FOCers… got a shit ton of guns and ammo, some food, and drinks, and a decent amount of CAPS.

My eyes were glued to Chirpy, watchin’ where that eyebot was going. Gut was telling me to go. Some of the group wanted to talk to Calamity about all her business, but I couldn’t just let that eyebot get away, so I just started booking it toward it. Eventually the others followed and caught up to me. Murph and Sunshine did a good job navigating us to the eyebot.

After awhile, it looked like the FOCer bot was just going in circles. We didn’t know if that meant it got to its location or something else was going on wif it.

Curly looked like she could keep a low profile like me, so I asked her if she wanted to  join me in scoutin ahead to scout ahead with me. Lab Coat wanted to join us, but I told him, we needed someone to stay back to protect the others. That seemed to do the trick… and for some reason, he lifted his shirt a little higher. Funny guy, that guy.

Anyways, Curly and I stealthily made our way up over the hill, there we saw a Rocky Outcropping; I relayed to Lab Coat… who mustve thought I was calling him “Rocky Outcropping” or something… anyways, he was talking way too loud, so I turned the volume down on Chirpy and then Curly and I proceeded up, to see if we could get a better look. Eventually we could see the eyebot got itself caught in a net of some kind, so we called the others to join us.

Gulpers

Murph and I took the lead to move in… looking around I got a glimpse of something, so I moved toward it and BLAM! Slipped on my ass as this giant toad-like creature charged at me. It swiped at my left leg, but my fatigues took the bulk of the damage. The rest of the party moved in to help, but this froggy had it’s bulging eyes set on me and took a bite outta my leg, ripping my pantleg clean off and splitting my shin bone in two. Fuck that hurt! I fell back as Curly, Murph, Babs, and Sunshine closed in. Curly noticed something struggling in the net, another one of those creatures. She thought maybe freeing it would calm the other one, but I yelled out, “It’s food! There’s no arguing with it!” Luckily, when she tried to “free” it, her sword got caught under it.

I grabbed my only stimpack and jabbed it into my broken leg, which healed the injury enough that I could tourniquet it. I was still very very hurt though. You know that feelin when you get hit really hard and you start seeing all them black and yellow spots and your head feels all woozy? Yeah, so I was starting to get like that… but that Dr. Lab Coat comes running toward me, my hero, and man, I don’t know what voodoo he did, but by the time he was done patching me up, I was feeling right as rain, as good as new, you  know? 

When I stood up, he slapped me on the ass (like Sunshine always does when she heals me) and I made my way back to the frog guy. Lab Coat yelled something at me about how I shouldn’t run back into danger, but this creature was tough and it was going to take all of us to put it down.

By the time I got back into the fray, the others had hurt it pretty bad, and by then all it took was a quick swipe of My Big Mouth and bing bang boom, we got sashimi for dinner, if you know what I mean?

Curly went to grab her sword… and we debated what to do with the unconscious frog. We agreed putting it out of its misery was the best thing.

Harvests & Plotting

After all that was done, Sunshine went to harvest meats, while Curly worked toward cuting off the hides to make armor out of for later. We jokingly called Curly “Lumpy Gulper” when she put the Gulper head over her own face. Lumpy Gulper and Rocky Outcropping; we got nicknames for nicknames now I guess. Haha.

It took a little bit to skin & harvest, so the rest of us had a minute to catch our breath. We debated what to do about the eyebot. Lab Coat thought we should do a misdirect, send it back to the FOC w a goose chase message. My initial thought was we should keep it for ourselves, have our own reconnaissance drone, but Lab Coat made a good point. I thought, to add to his idea, that we shouldn’t just send it anywhere, but somewhere where there was actually Super Mutants. Lab Coat got upset by this, thought all Super Mutants were like Kirkland. I said, no these ones, they just straight up kill. They’d take someone like Lab Coat and pull his vertebrae from his body; trust me I’ve seen it. I said I know where some Super Mutants are… in Seatle. Then Curly chimed in, said she’s from Seatle! What a coincidence… but she made a good point and said Seattle was probably too far away to use as a “goose chase” we needed someplace around here. Curly knows the area really well and suggested we goose chase it on an island, she had a very specific place in mind. I thought that was an excellent idea, but ultimately, we should bring the idea to Kirkland – it’s him theyre after, after all, so we should  let him weigh in on whatever we decide.

We was asking Curly more about herself, apparently she really likes Okras, which is not a slimy vegetable I guess. Some kind of sea Kaiju. Lab Coat got really excited by that

Another Ghoul Argument 

Then, for some reason, we was talking about ghouls and then Lab Coat goes to Curly, how it’s a good idea to take blood from Millie and use her like a fucking science experiment and my blood started to boil. I don’t care if she’s 60 she’s still a kid and if anyone wants to use her as a science experiment, they gotta go through me first. That’s not fucking happening. What’s the big deal anyway, why you gotta try to change her, she’s perfect the way she is… the whole thing just gets me real worked up… make me like I can’t breath too well. It just ain’t right, it’s not okay… you can’t just round up Ghouls and experiment on them like that. Their people too, they got families, and people that care about them. It just makes me… really really angry and I don’t wanna talk about it, I just want them to stop. It’s just not right… it’s just not right…

Eventually we changed the subject and I had time to cool my jets a little.

We headed back to Kirkland and threw all these ideas his way. He liked the goose chase idea, using Curly’s vampire island as the location to say in the message. Lab Coat (with a little help from me to get the “military lingo” correct” erased Graves’ previous message in the eye bot – which had said they found Kirkland and gave specific coordinates to Kirckland’s grove… to instead say; dead end, target not here, new lead at blah blah blah peninsula; heading there now” overall, I think that was very clever plan; Curly’s suggestion about the island was clutch – specificity helps, you know? Makes it more believable.

Frankie

I was kinda sad we didn’t get to keep the eyebot as our own reconnaissance drone, but Lab Coat thought he might be able to repair the broken eyebot (that Kirkland had destroyed) and then we would have one. And then bing bang boom, just like that Lab Coat worked his magic and we has our very own reconnaissance drone. We all agreed we should name it. Lab Coat wanted to call it Right Ball Sack, but I said what about Brains, like Brains & Brahmin… but Lab Coat liked the ball sack vernicular, so then I suggested maybe Beans like Frank & Beans, and then someone else (Sunshine or Curly?) really like Frank, so we decided to name it Frankie. Which is actually a pretty awesome name, I think. Send Frankie out to do some recon, for us you know. It’s fun, I like it. Haha.

The others got the rundown on Calamity. She’s part of a group of ladies called “Chef’s War” Helping Everyone Flourish while Advocating Revolution or something like that. They unite through food, making pre-war recipes and use new technology to regrow extinct flora. Sunshine perked up hearing about the plants. Lab Coat seemed disappointed he couldn’t join on account of not being a lady. I ain’t so sure I count as a lady neither, not cause I’m not female, but because, well, no one ain’t never called somebody who looks like me a lady before you know? I don’t know how to use the silverwares or wear pretty dresses or nothin’ like that, you know?

Dropping Pants

We decided to rest at Kirkland’s before heading out again. Sunshine said she could fix my pants for me and told me to take my breeches off so she could get to sowing. I dropped my pants and handed them to her. Felt my cheeks get all red, just standing there in my boxers. I’ve taken my pants off in front of my squad before, but never got embarrassed like that.. Sunshine just makes me feel a certain way though… ah, anyways, sure enough Sunshine sowed the leg back on my pants and they was, well, not perfect, but they was perfect. She did great.

It was about that time that we realized Curly wasn’t looking so hot… her arm was all bloody and gross. Shit. We was worried about my stupid pant leg and poor thing just been slowly bleeding this whole time! Luckily, Lab Coat got her all patched up and Babs pulled out an extra heavy leather arm piece to replace Curly’s damaged one.

Someone commented its too bad we don’t gotta way to talk to Kirkland. I said, got that receiver, maybe Lab Coat could work his magic and make it like a radio, but Lab Coat got all upset outta nowhere… that that that’s impossible and then said he was gonna call me zoom n enhance. I said don’t you dare fuckin call me zoom n enhance! You wanna be Rocky Outcropping, don’t fuckin call me Zoom n Enhance. I felt bad getting mad at Lab Coat… I could tell he was pretty shaken up, he went venting on about fixing all the bots, fixing my half dead ass… fuck. Poor kid. I said, you did real good, you fixed me up real good. Sorry I thought you could magic a walkie talkie, I don’t know about that stuff, just that if anyway could do it, it’d be you. That seemed to make him feel better. 

Vertibirds

A moment later, we felt the ground rumble… looking up, we saw ‘em – 3 vertibirds in the air, heading North, probably toward Olympia. Brotherhood. Some of the others didn’t know what that meant… 

The group had questions about the vertibirds, I said I’ve been in one before. That’s how I got here. Babs wanted to know why we aren’t taking one of them. I said you need someone to fly it!

I told them Brotherhood are like FOC… been trying to get a foothold out here for awhile, but haven’t been able to… I said, to be honest, this area would be better off if the Brotherhood did take over. Calamity said something about the Coolaid… and I said yeah Brotherhood has good coolaid, what about it? I found myself clutching Clyde’s dog tags… pit in my stomach. We could return them… but there’ll be a lot of questions if we do. 

The group wanted to know if we should go to them, would I get in trouble. I said, they’re not my Brotherhood faction… I’m from the East Coast… the last time I talked to them, I was bleeding out and they weren’t sending no one to get me… that’s when Sunshine found me.

They asked if I’d go back, I said there aint no one left that I care about, everyone I cared about died (in Seattle.) Lab Coat said you have us now. Yeah and if you all die, I’ll just find another group and they’ll just die too probably. Like how it was before the Brotherhood… that’s just how it goes… Lab Coat said I had a lot of “trauma” and I should use Karl for therapy. I said how is shitting in Karl therapy? Murph laughed. Murph gets it. Haha…

… Fuck. Not sure what to do. I don’t want to deal with the Brotherhood getting into my business. I like rolling with my new squad… they like me and seem to care about my ideas and stuff… I don’t want to go back to just being a mindless brute who follows someone else’s bad ideas.