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.

Session 07

 

Bobby’s Voice Logs

via Pip Boy (aka “Chirpy”)

Entry 56

We chased after Babs’ Brahmin and tried to come up with a plan so’s not to bring the FOC to Kirkland’s doorstep, you know what I mean? Lab Coat had an idea from one o’ his “documentaries” about making a false set of tracks. I thought that was a great idea. The idea was to make the false tracks real convincing-like and then try to hide our actual tracks… but that wasn’t quite what happened. Lab Coat was rolling Karl back and forth and they was directing the wagon all different kinds of directions… it was real messy, not what I had in mind at all…

And then… outta nowhere comes this curly haired lady with a sword on her back! Lumpyeia or something, I aint’t too good with names, so I just called her Curly. Anyway, Lab Coats being all friendly and telling her the whole spiel, you know… but I don’t know who dis lady is, you know? Whether she can be trusted. We asked her what her business is, turns out she’s looking for a lady all dressed in white. I showed her the wanted poster – dis lady? I asked if she was looking to cash in on a warrant or if it was on friendlier terms. She didn’t know nothing about no warrant… so seemed she wasn’t after her for nefarious reasons. I still wasn’t sure she could be trusted… We also introduced her to Millie and Chompers, who was on the cart and then we asked if she knew Kirkland. She didn’t. We said she was welcome to follow us, but just to warn her, Kirkland can look, uh, intimidating but he’s one of the good ones, you know? It ended up coming out that he was a super mutant, but our friend…

And then… Murph noticed an eye spying on us… he wanted to shoot it, but I was worried that give us away (in hindsight, Murph shoulda just trusted his instincts… but I’ll get into all dat in a bit.) After all the talk about Kirkland, the eye sped away, outta sight. Shit. We picked up the pace and hurried to Kirkland, knowing that fucking ball was gonna rat us out.

On the way, I asked Curly to stay near the back and watch our six with me. Still trying to sus her out, you know? I asked her about her tear drop tattoo and she said, “Don’t worry about it.” Haha, alright kid. It was then that I knew I could trust her. I don’t trust nobody that’s too forthright, you know?

At one point, and I can’t remember exactly why I brought it up, but I was talkin’ about those little legs, youknow? Those tiny pieces that you can put together to make things like cars. Babs was like righteous cars? I said I guess they could look pretty righteous. Some cars are red, some are blue. Babs was like, are we red cars? And then Murph said, are we commies? I didn’t quite understand what Murph was getting at – Murph’s cleverer than me, you know… Murph said, oh you mean LeGOs… but I don’t know what that is. He said, when you step on them they hurt real bad and I was like yeah that’s it, but we only called them Legs, not this LeGO name. Lab Coat was like, Murph you remember something! Maybe Murph was a bodyguard for some kid or something? Need to get to work on unlocking those memories of his, you know? I don’t even remember why I brought that up… I guess I was just remincing about being a kid when we used to build things with the legs, I guess.

Anyways, we eventually made our way to Kirklands. No sign of his signs, but we avoided the usual boobytraps like usual. Murph ran a scan, no signs of life… but did pick up a signal of a recently deceased. Shit. It was coming from the compost heap. Murph and I hurried to dig it out while Lab Coat searched the home and Sunshine, Babs, and Curly looked around the farm.

Turns out the recently deceased was an FOC. Babs said he could talk to him. Recognized him as his friend Samuel and told a whole story about the events leading up to his coming across a grenade. Babs was real torn up about it. Interesting guy, that Babs. I never knew nobody that could get all that from a corpse, you know?

Meanwhile, Lab Coat is calling me on Chirpy from the house. Said there’s a pile of Kirkland’s signs and an eye bot. Also found some of those to-mat-toes in the kitchen, like Kirkland was preparing them for us. Sunshine found a trail of blood, so we follows that. From the look of it, looked like the body was dragged… we figured maybe Kirkland double backed, so we followed the trail for awhile…

I got eyes on his tracks…  but as I came up, I hit my head on a tree branch.. but I was alright, my nonna always said I had a testa dura, you know?

Ended up near the river and sure enough, there was Kirkland, in the water. He was taking apart the bridge. Seems like he’s taking all the necessary precautions, you know? We started loading up on timber and heading back to his farm… He was in the lead, already in the treeline, when a group of FOC’ers met us near the river. Me, Murph, and Karl were nearing the treeline… Lab Coat, Sunshine, Curly, and Babs thought they could stall ‘em so we continued on our way.

I only got pieces of information – Lab Coat was clever enough to hit his pip boy enough to radio to me what was happening. He said this group of FOC was coming to take a tour around the farm. I told Kirkland to go off and hide and the rest of us would make like we was farmhands…

I didn’t get the full story of how the conversation went until later… so I can get into that then…

Uh… but after a bit, we saw a group of lady FOC coming our way. Not the friendliest group, either, mind you. They demanded to look around. I asked if they had paperwork. This land was under the protection of the Brotherhood of Steel and you can’t just trespass without papers. The lady in charge wasn’t buying it though and got all testy with me. Said her name was Corp. Graves. Oh, Corp. Graves, you look different than last time I saw you. She said that was her brother, also Corp. Graves (well you can see why I was confused, you know?) Anyway, I remembered Lab Coat said something about a tour, so I just pretended I was a farm hand showing them around the farmstead. I asked if they wanted to see the Apiary… but this corporal, she was all business and she said she’s here for the Super Mutant. I said, Super Mutant? We don’t grow none of those here and asked if she wanted to see the to-mat-toes. My charm wasn’t working on her and she started to reach for her gun. This FOCer. The charm sorta melted away and I was starting to get angry. You fuckin’ come to my farm, disrespecting me like that? So I just started walking up to her, trying to use my six feet of muscled frame to intimidate her… sure enough, she draw her weapon and then zap, outta nowhere Corp and two of her goons took a nice bolt of electricity. Atta boy, Lab Coat! Graves took a shot at me, with she musta been shaken up by Lab Coat’s electricity and she fired wide, shooting a hole through the side pocket on my cargo pants. Murph charged at her and swiped at her real good. I heard Sunshin’s shotgun go off in the treeline, but my sights were on this Bitch Graves. I pulled out my big mouth and bing bam boom, suddenly there was two halves of her on da ground. Fuckin’ disrespect me.

The rest of our party closed in, Curly was taking particular notice of the FOCers cart… looked like maybe there was something on it? Babs and Curly took out a couple more of the troop. Curly seemed a little apologetic? Funny, that one. She then hurried to the cart, pulled off a blanket, revealing a manacled lady in white!

It didn’t take long for us Brainz N’ Brahmin to make mincemeat outta those FOCers… but then Lab Coat warned that there was another group of them coming. Sunshine hurried over to the cart to unlock the unconscious chef. I thought about lifting her out of the cart… but then the other FOCers showed up, so I just stood guard near it.

A bunch of them came running out of the treeline aiming at our party… one of them got a sight of me and tripped ass over tea kettle, my abs tend to have that effect on people, if you know what I mean.

This troops Corp Graves came running in, looking for his sister. He got a sight of both sides of her and went red in the face. His troop wasn’t playing and started laying into us. Babs took a big hit to the leg and got knocked down and Murph took a shot to the chest and started sparking. I saw Lab Coat hurry to them both… and then one of them FOCers hit Sunshine in the head, she looked dazed. I carved into that one, stunning him good and then hurried over to the big boss, Graves.

He started pissing himself real good after a minute and ran into the woods like a fuckin’ baby. Murph and I chased after, but this fucker was hiding real good. Shit. I knew the others needed help, but I couldn’t let this FOCer get away, you know? Murph musta been reading my mind and he hurried back to help the others, while I tried in vain to find this guy.

I ran pretty far and then took a second to get my bearings… and with some luck, found his tracks… I trailed him to the river and saw him dive in. This FOCers makin’ my job real hard, but he was fighting the current and barely made to the other side… by then, I was able to pull out Joy and took aim, dazing him a bit as he tried to pull himself out of the water. I radio’d to Lab Coat to let him know what’s what, asking for backup. I’m good with Joy, but much better equipped hand to hand, you know? Most of the others are much better at shooting from a distance.

I kept my sights on Graves, kept widdling away at him, but this guy refused to die. I heard Lab Coat radio in, saying we need to take him alive, but… I pretended not to hear that part. Soon enough, Murph and Sunshine came out of the treeline and hurried to take aim. Murph took aim and finished the FOCer off. We then hurried to the bridge to snag his body before the current took him away.

I carried him body back and we regrouped with the rest of the party. Lab Coat said another FoCer got away… but then Kirkland came out of the southern treeline, with a body over his shoulder.

Only thing unaccounted for is the eye… but I’m hoping Lab Coat can fix up this receiver so we can call it back to us.

Lab Coat stabilized the lady in white. Turns out she’s not Gwendolyn, but she works for her. She was sent to meet Curly. She still looked in a bad way, think we’re gonna have to rest up a bit before we can talk to this lady and find out her story, you know?

The party gathered all the bodies of the FOCers. Shit, if I didn’t know better I think I was running with my old crew again, you know? This group of Brainz N Brahmin got a lot of skill, if you know what I mean.

I was real proud of Lab Coat, he kept us a live – fixin up Babs and Murph like it was nothin’. Good kid, that one.

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Session 6

 

Bobby’s Voice Logs

via Pip Boy (aka “Chirpy”)

Entry 53

So after that scuffle with the bandits, we searched through the stuff and divvied up the ammo, weapons, and armor. Sunshine got a new hunting rifle and Babs took one of the shotgun and clothes that fit him. We split up the fusion cells and I gave some of my portion to Lab Coat, because I feel like Big Mouth and me work well together, so I’d rather use that than Mel or Joy if I’m able to. Lab Coat took the Tesla Rifle (he’ll need to come up with a name for it now!)

Murph thought we should keep watch, in case more mirelurks show up. I stayed up for the first watch with him before turnin’ in. I was gonna play cards, but Murph thought it wiser to patrol the farm, so he could use his sonar senses. You know that Murph, he’s a smart guy!

When I headed to Sunshine’s to sleep, I heard cryin’ coming from Lab Coat’s room... so I stopped by to make sure he was alright. It seemed like he was kinda upset about killing those bandits. At first, I was a little confused, I thought he killed stuff before... he said yeah he’s killed lots of people before, before having all the orgies. Ah... right. I’ve seen this before, with young initiates. Some of ‘em ain’t cut out for the harder parts of the job, you know? I tried explaining to Lab Coat, where I’m from some people are better at the book stuff or fixin’ stuff, not everyone has ta be a stone-cold killer, you know? Lab Coat said he’s good at killin’ and that Joy is misnamed, he doesn’t have no joy when he uses her. He’s right, some people are good at killin’ but it’s not in them to do it, you know? I guess this musta got through to him cuz he hugged me, getting his snot all over me... I patted his back... and then he just sorta fell asleep in my arms... I kinda exchanged a look with Karl and then laid the poor guy onta his bed and tucked him in. I quietly crept inta Sunshine’s room and laid on the hardwood floor next to her bed.

When I woke up, my clothes felt too tight. Sunshine said it’s because alla that dried snot on me and told me to wash up. I striped off my fatigues and carried them through the farmhouse – some of the others had started to gather for breakfast, but looked like Lab Coat was still sleeping. I headed to the trough outside where I washed them as best I could.

After a few minutes I heard Sunshine call for me, so I laid my clothes out to dry and hurried in the house. Ellie Mae and Jethro was talking about something called Walla Walla and gave Sunshine a little packet of seeds, by the look on her face you’d think they gave her gold bars or somethin’, Lab Coat also seemed excited by the packet.

Speaking of Lab Coat, he looked kinda different at breakfast, couldn’t quite put my finger on it. Seemed more confident somehow. His hair looked really good too... and he was a little easier to understand too, like he was speaking more clear, you know?

Ellie Mae and Jethro told us about an island west of Tacoma that’s rumored to have some kinda berry. Sunshine immediately perked up. I guess that’s something we should look into once we settle this pizzah! quest. (I was thinking – we’re making friends with all these farmers, maybe we could find a tract of land somewhere near all these new friends of ours, start Sunshine’s Settlement somewhere between here and Kirkland’s maybe?)

Closer to the end of breakfast, Jed and Daisy Mae came in the house. Daisy Mae said she’d be happy to show us how to make cheese from the brahmin milk. Sunshine, Babs, and Lab Coat were super excited to hear that!

Then Jed pulled out a wooden box, said he belonged to his father. He wanted to give it to us as a thank you for saving them. He pulled out a decorative belt and holster with dancing brahmin and a 10mm pistol. I think all of us knew this would look perfect on Babs, who gladly accepted it. Then Jed pulled out a weird Kaiju mask... Lab Coat asked if I wanted it, but, I mean, it clearly is perfect for him, so I insisted he take it.

Since Jed was giving us stuff, Lab Coat wanted to give them something back... so he called for Karl and pulled out something he called “Argon’s Bread.” It smelled awful... and Jed reluctantly accepted it. Not quite sure exactly what that was about, but you know those scientist types, always up to something, I guess.

We asked if there was anything we could help them with – with Sunshine’s injury, we thought it best if we stuck around the farm for the day (or year if it was up to Lab Coat.) They said they could use help burying the bodies. Murph and I said that’d be no problem. I asked if they wanted any sorta “warning” for the other bandits, but Jed didn’t like the idea of dead bodies being hung around the farm.

Then Jed said if there are any repairs we’d like to make, he has a workbench we’re welcome to use. Lab Coat was very excited by this and asked if any of us wanted to upgrade any of our weapons. All of us had some things we’d like to improve, so we helped Lab Coat crush down our junk to make the parts needed. ... I was a little too enthusiastic about crushing the materials and pulverized most of the junk I had... but luckily we still had plenty to work from and Lab Coat had enough common materials for future improvements. The upgrade I wanted for my Big Mouth was simple enough, so Lab Coat said he could work on those and the upgrades to Babs’ pipe gun today. When Lab Coat finished my Big Mouth’s upgrade, it looked like it was smiling (or frowning) depending on which way it was held. Lab Coat even painted “my Big Mouth” on the weapon, or at least, that’s what he told me it said. I’ll take his word for it.

When he handed me my improved weapon, I reached out for a handshake like they did in that movie Predator... but Lab Coat seemed to misinterpret the gesture and placed his head into my hand instead. Ah... haha. We’ll work on that.

While we was busy breaking down junk and Lab Coat was upgrading our stuff, Karl was busy burying bodies (Murph and I would occasionally help, though a good chunk of our day was breaking down the junk.)

While we was doing that, Sunshine was resting her leg. Toward bedtime, I asked if it’d be alright if I slept on the floor again, but then Sunshine said something about Lab Coat being in the room with her. Oh! I didn’t realize there was somethin’ between the two of them... but they said it was to “check in on” her injuries... but I wasn’t sure if it was like how Sunshine was taking care of my injuries or something more “romantic” you know? They said it wasn’t like it, but I don’t know, I think Lab Coat acts a little different around Sunshine maybe?

Before we turned in for bed, I asked Lab Coat if he wanted to take first watch with me. I wanted to show him some tips. He did a pretty good job. During our watch, we saw Babs in the Brahmin pen... striped down to his underroes (though still wearin’ the dancing brahmin belt.) Seemed like he was showing a lot of affection toward both his brahmin – even the one he always yells at. That guy... that guy is somethin’ else, you know? Heh...

At the end of our watch, I said that Lab Coat did a real good job fixing our weapons – I was super excited about the improvements he did to my Big Mouth. I said that when you’re in a squad, everyone brings something different to the group and he’s really good at fixin’ stuff. I tried the handshake again and this time Lab Coat got it. Then he, uh, got kinda misty and ran off.

Entry 54

The next mornin, we woke up to some corn walla chowder and it had some cheese sprinkled on it. I don’t know why but everytime I had a little bit of cheese, my rear end got a little noisy.

When Lab Coat got up, he was dressed a little different. He had his shirt rolled up, so his “abs” were showing. I thought his new look looked pretty good. I asked Jed if he had any leftover paint, so I painted a six-pack on Lab Coat’s abdomen area. Babs said something about he wasn’t sure if I counted right or whatevah, but it looked pretty good to me.

That day, Daisy Mae and Ellie Mae showed most of the group how to make cheese... but I figured it was probably our last day on the farm, so I wanted to spend more time with Jethro, you know? I helped Jethro and Jed out around the farm, getting ready for the upcoming farmer’s market. Jethro was cracking jokes all day. I didn’t say much of anything, just kinda... grateful to spend time with him. Not that it’s the same or anything, but just kinda miss it, you know?

At the end of the day, Lab Coat said something about wanting to help Murph and they went off, though it didn’t know much of how that went. Murph seemed to be in a good mood after, so musta went well I guess. Then Lab Coat and Jethro went out for a walk.... I thought bettah about following after, I don’t know, I didn’t want to get all nosy.

That evening we took watch again, I let Lab Coat take the lead, but it didn’t go so well... he seemed very unfocused.

I again laid down on the floor next to Sunshine and went to sleep.

Entry 55

The next morning, we got ready to head out. Daisy Mae handed us 3 lbs of cheese! And then Babs did a really interesting performance for 20 minutes. He was rolling all over the floor. As first I thought he was having a seizure or somethin’ but... it seemed kinda purposeful, you know? It was strange... but also inspiring? That Babs, he’s something, heh heh.

After the others started to head out, I hung back, told the farmers to take care and then I turned to Ellie Mae and said, you look after Jethro, he’s a real special guy. I could hear my voice breaking a little, but tried to keep my cool. As I turned to leave, Jed said we could have the cart to take, if we wanted. So, I grabbed it and jogged up to the others. Sunshine was excited about the cart and attached it to Rosemary and Thyme. I put Chompers in the cart, was a little easier that way.

Oh! Chompers. Forgot – the last couple days I had been tryin’ to teach him different commands... gave him some of those fuckers to chew on (before we buried ‘em) and exercised him a bit. The others were like, Chomper’s is just a puppy and he’s real big, and were strongly hinting that we should probably leave him with Kirkland, but I don’t know... he’s such a cute little guy, you know? It’s nice having a dog around again. I don’t know, maybe I’m not the best and handling animals though... I mean, I did a pretty good job... but, it wasn’t ever my job in our unit to handle Rex, you know? That was Tommy’s thing.

As we was walking, group was talking about abs... Babs’ abs and Labs’ abs... I guess mine would just be abs’ abs? I was sayin’ we could be Abs n Brahmin instead of Brains n Brahmin, you know? But... Brains n Brahmin is probably bettah.

I was tryin to talk to Sunshine to see what was going on with her and Lab Coat but she insisted there weren’t nuthin going on. I said like how she was taking care for me after I was hurt? Wasn’t like “playing doctor?” I musta said something funny cuz she asked me something... and I just kinda blacked out... and ran off, sayin’ I was going after chompers.

As we was making our way back to Kirkland, we figured we wouldn’t get there til after dark, so the group thought best that we find a place to make camp. Sunshine found a hidden spot behind a hill, near the hwy. I asked Sunshine if she wanted to take watch... but then Lab Coat came running up, all excited to do watch with me... shit. So I said maybe Sunshine and I could do watch another night together. Sunshine said that’s alright, she’d do watch with Murph instead.

During our watch, I was tryin to show Lab Coat some better techniques... like actually paying attention to what he was lookin’ at you know? I thought he was starting to get it... but when I noticed a couple eyes in the distance, for some reason he saw something way worse and he wanted to hurry over to it! So... I grabbed him and he hit the ground hard. I told him I didn’t want him to get himself killed. He said it was like when I went off and spotted the bandits and then I said the assholest thing evah and said, “And you think you’re the most capable of the bunch to be the one sneaking off?”And then he got real upset and ran off, pulling his head band off and running to Karl, I guess... I fucked that up real bad.

Sunshine and Murph took the next watch, they made a good team, that’s for sure.

The next morning we started heading out again... I pulled Lab Coat aside – he was looking like his old self again, his shirt was rolled down and his hair looked like his normal doctor style... still not quite sure what’s going on, though I kinda like the new look, you know? Not quite sure why though. Anyway... time to get real, you know? I told Lab Coat—Argon, that... I was real sorry about what I said last night. I didn’t mean it like I said it. I said that... we’re a squad right, a unit? And... my last unit... our medic got killed first, we got jumped and when she died... there wasn’t anyone to patch up the others. I got lucky, I survived... but I don’t want that to happen again, you know? Someone like Argon, he’s real special. He’s got skills to keep the rest of us alive. I could try to do that, but it’d take a lot of luck. When you’re in a unit, you all have to work together – you all have different skills. He said it likes that in the vault, everyone has different skills, but you have to stay in your role... you can’t branch out. I said, well if we wanted to learn from each other, that’s great. That only makes us all better... but sometimes you also gotta lean on what you’re good at. I’m real strong, and Sunshine is good at blasting enemies from far away. And Murph, well Murph is killer with his claws, you know? And then Babs makes us all feel good, really inspires us with his speeches. And Argon, well, he’s good at fixing us when we’re broken (like how he helped Sunshine’s leg and fixed Murph and Karl when they was broken...) In a unit, we depend on each other to keep each other alive... and Argon is very special and if something happens to him, the rest of us would be in big trouble. Didn’t mean to share so much about my past... don’t like talkin’ about all that, but I was just tryin to get through to him, you know? We hugged it out... think we both got a little misty...

When we was done talking, Murph and Sunhine said there was folks on the bridge. As we approached we saw they was FOC. Those FOCers again. Instinctually, I put my baseball cap on Millie’s head and told her to stay more hidden. I reminded the group, the FOC... they won’t do nuthin’ to hurt someone like Millie, but they also won’t do nuthin’ to help them either... so better to not to draw attention to folks like Millie, you know?

As we approached, the leader of them, Corporeal Graves said they heard rumors about a super mutant in these parts. Shit, they probably mean Kirkland. Said there’s a bounty for any information (or an even bigger bounty if we trapped him ourselves.) I didn’t want to do the talkin’ I’m not good at that, you know... Argon said we didn’t know anything about Super Mutants, but there was a cabin with lots of blood and if there was a Super Mutant, that’s probably the best likely place it’d be. (Good thinking, doc.) The other chimed in to support what Argon was sayin.’ Babs went on a tangent about kaiju and said he didn’t even think super mutatns were real... they’s like movies or something. Graves got real suspicious and asked how he knew about “movies.” I stepped up and said, “I told them about movies.” When he asked me how I knew about them, I said “I’m Brotherhood.” He seemed to accept this answer. I said most people only ever see a super mutant once, you know, because then they’re dead. Graves then noticed Murph... and started looking him over and I said Murph’s Brotherhood, he’s Brotherhood, he’s with me. Graves didn’t see no Brotherhood insignias on Murph and we said that’s because Murph got injured and we replaced those parts... things was getting real tense and then alla sudden Babs’ brahmin just started running! So, Babs’ started running after them and we after him... boy that was lucky!

As the FOC turned to cross the bridge, Argon noticed something fall from their pack... so I picked it up... when we got further away, I opened it. The others asked what it said... It had a picture of an angry lady... and a lot of bigger words I couldn’t quite make out... so I handed it to Babs... who started reading it, but what he was sayin’ didn’t quite make sense, so Argon took it and read it and said that lady who gave us the pizzah! quest is wanted by the FOC for sedition or something.

The others weren’t sure if that meant she was bad or not... I said the FOC – they’re like the Brotherhood, they are kinda black and white on things. I said, they might not have noticed, but I... I don’t like Super Mutants much. Someone like Kirkland, he’s different, you know? But those FOC’ers won’t see that... so just like him, they could be looking at the lady in white very similar, you know? Seeing her as bad, but maybe she aint bad, just misunderstood. I said we can try to find out more and if she’s evil, we can handle her... but if she’s not, maybe we can help her.

Shit. Things just got a lot more complicated you know?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mugjM4Go04c&list=PL8STZtfjCPZZsWWJOe6LkAj9JQ4CrfrWO&index=6

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?

...

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-335UROaYU&list=PL8STZtfjCPZZsWWJOe6LkAj9JQ4CrfrWO&index=5

Session 4

 

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6pMjc4WAF4&list=PL8STZtfjCPZZsWWJOe6LkAj9JQ4CrfrWO&index=4

Session 3

 

Bobby’s Voice Logs

via Pip Boy (aka “Chirpy”)

Entry 50

Yeah, so we finished searching up that room but before we was gonna go into that other locked door, I thought maybe it'd be good idea to show Lab Coat how to use Joy, you know? So, I was telling him, you know, you gotta, like, treat her right. Gotta talk to her all nice and like and then, you know, she'll come through.  He seemed a little confused by my instructions and wasn’t quite sure how to hold her. So, then I kinda just stood behind him, you know, just kinda putting my arms around him to demonstrate how you're supposed to hold Joy and all that. Anyway, it was… it was alright—he's, you know, this guy is like he's real little, he’s like a little princess or something, you know? Anyway, heh, it's just a little weird. Uh, and then Murph, decided to-to join us too, which is very funny. You know Murph, he gotta good sense of humor that guy. Anyway, Sunshine helped me explain to Lab Coat how to properly use Joy and all that. I think it made sense.

So, then Lab Coat told that other Protectron bot guy to unlock the door. So Murph and I flanked around and then as he opened it, we made our way in and then, sure enough, there was three ghouls on the other side of the room. Murph and I got a couple shots in and then the rest of the group filed in and, Lab Coat, you know, first try at Joy didn't go so well. She got a lot of kick, you know what I mean? Uh, so I just kinda told him he gotta really hold that butt up against his shoulder to kinda like keep her in place so she don't kick back, you know what I mean?

Oh, and then Babs is doing something weird. He, like, ran up and started staring at the wall or whatever. Still going on about the building being alive, I guess. But yeah, second time Lab Coat used Joy (it was a) perfect shot. Like he really had a good grip on her that time and was ready for that kick. He’s a quick learner, so that was good. And Joy looked good on him… And then I got to use the new Musket. So, I was like, alright, let's make some music with this. So, I fired up some of those guys and man, that new gun really sings, you know? So, I think I might call that one Melody because she’s gotta nice song about her, you know?

So yeah, at one point I ran up to one of them and Chirpy was, like, freaking out cuz the door to the office was lightin’ up real hot, you know, like radiation-wise. And I was like, oh, man, that's where that John guy is, so for some reason, something more radioactive is happening in that room. Anyway, after we finished all the ghouls—took care of them, Lab Coat hacked the door (to the office.) Then he ran back, so all of us fleshy ones, we was hiding on the other side of the room because (we’re all) sensitive to radiation, you know what I mean? But Babs, you know, he was still looking at that wall kinda not really understanding what's happening in the room, but you know, that's how it goes. Anyway, sure enough this radioactive ghoul comes out just like lit up, you know? And Murph took a swipe at him, but his claws didn't do nuthin’ against this guy, so we had to switch tactics a little bit. Had to try to hit him a lot harder because he had just more natural resistances to some of our weapons, you know? But yeah, Mel was doing—Mel got some good shots in with her and Joy was working awesome as usual.

But then as we was like hitting him and stuff, it's like he started glowing more and more, you know? Then finally, Babs turned around, got a little freaked out when he saw, you know, Nuclear John and then just fired like a whole round into the guy, and then he just collapsed on the ground, luckily, before he had time to, like, blow up whatever. Yeah, that was real tense. But everyone did a good job.

So, then we just searched the area. Sunshine picked a safe in the office and pulled out some real cool items. I got a little excited when I saw this like chainsaw thing called the Ripper, saw it in a magazine a long time ago. So, I was real excited about that and it turned out, I don't think anyone else had the kind of training for it or whatever, so they said I could have it. Gotta come up with another name. Lab Coat said maybe “Jack” or whatever cuz I guess there's some guy called Jack the Ripper. I don't know, I never heard of him. I don't know, I’ll think about it. I gotta find something that feels right.

But yeah, I was like maybe I don't need Souvenir anymore? Got a little emotional, saying goodbye to him. But you know, I thought Millie could probably use something like that—cuz she ain’t got any kind of weapon—she just had a pipe or whatever. I was like, well, “Souvenir, we get off on the wrong foot, you know, in the beginning, but he's been pretty lucky for me since…” So, I give Millie Souvenir. Ah, I had that thing for months, you know what I mean?

Anyway, we decided it was getting late enough that we decided just to sleep there. Murph and Karl kept watch. I played cards with them for a little bit before I went to bed. Those guys, I keep losing to them because they got like, you know, the best poker faces cuz you can't read their expressions at all, you know what I mean?

So, the next morning we made our way out towards where the Toe Matoes are supposed to be. We saw like a dead Rad Stag along the way. Looked like something funny might have been up, but it turned out it was probably just broken leg. That’s kinda what Lab Coat was thinking when he was looking at it. So Sunshine, you know, kind of gathered some of the meat up and the leather. We didn't get too much off of it cuz I was—I gave the Ripper a little bit of test run, and I was still getting used to it so I kinda cut up too much of the meat, you know. We didn’t collect as much as we probably could have. Anyway, I'll get—I'll get the hang of it. I'll get the hang of it and still kinda gettin’ used to it.

So, we got closer to the river, and it was raging, it was, you know, 30 feet across or whatever. Ain't no trees that we could have cut down, so we split up and looked around the area. Lab Coat, Murph, and Babs, they ended up finding a little bridge just south, so we met up with them. Murph said that he could go across and kind of just make sure that the bridge was safe, and I thought, well, Murph looks kind of heavy to me, so I was a little worried that he’d take the bridge—I shoulda never doubted Murph, you know what I mean?

So, Lab Coat went across first and then Babs followed. Sunshine had a little bit of trouble. I was ready to jump in that river, though cuz she, like, slipped at one point. I went after, I—I was okay, I was a little wobbly across that thing, not the most stable. And then Murph went at the end. Murph was like the—the bridge didn't even fuckin’ move you know? He just glided across it, like, got on all fours, transformed a little bit. Ha. Pretty impressive, pretty fuckin’ impressive. Yeah. Never, never doubt Murph, that's what I learned.

So, we're all across—oh, before that, we decided that Millie and the Brahmin and Karl should stay back because the Brahmin wouldn't have fit and Karl was kind of big, so Millie said she'd stay back with them.

Anyway, so on the other side, there was a path we followed up. And then we saw some signs, you know, saying “Raiders, go away.” And I was like, oh, shit, I—I don't come off as the most friendly kinda—kinda person, know what I mean? So, Babs and I switched places in the line. He's much better with people. I come off a little aggressive sometimes—I mean, that's what I've been told. So, as we’re going, we're seeing these, like, trip wires and cans in the trees and all that stuff. Not—not so inconspicuous, you know? More signs, something about, you know, “Kirkland Grove” and “Stay Out” or whatever.

And then, yeah, so that we came upon a clearing, looked like a nice little garden and a building. And I was like, alright, well, this is a kinda nice little settlement, you know? Sunshine’s taking notes; some ideas for her future settlement that she wants. And then, uh… and then this guy comes out of the house and, uh… [voice gets quiet] big guy… super mutant, you know?

And I got all, um… what do they call it when your eyes get a little blurry, everything looks a little fuzzy, and feels like you're up falling or something? Anyway, I got kinda dizzy, I guess. Hands got all clammy. I—you know it's been a…I didn't see one of those ones since… um, so I’m just tryin’ to keep it together, but I mean, my first instinct was to grab Mel, you know what I mean? And just let her sing. But I was just trying to keep my cool. I don't even know what theys was talking about. Babs, you know, and Sunshine, they were going back and forth with this guy, and I was just thinking about all this other stuff, you know?

Heh, I was like—I had told Millie the story about how I got Souvenir, you know, as we was walking looking for a bridge. And I was—if I had told the other guys the story, then they'd kinda understand, you know what I mean? Why I got all pale.

Yeah…

Sorry, what was I talking about?

Oh yeah. They's asking me how he could make better traps. I don't know—it took me a little bit to get my head back into, you know, the present moment. Ugh, still thinking about it, it's making me a little sick, actually.

Umm.

Fuck. Look, I know this guy wasn't there, know what I mean? It's just, I didn't know, you know, he coulda been? I don’t think he was—it sounded like he's just a regular guy… I don't know.

Anyway. Um. So, he just wants help getting rid of some Raiders… [voice cracks] oh fuck…yeah, sorry, I’m getting all emotional. So, these Raiders go after ghouls and I was like fuck, I was gonna run back to Millie, you know? I—I think my emotions were a little bit, not kept under wraps as they say, I guess. So yeah, the others, they figured it out with this guy. We're just gonna go find these—these Raiders and take care of them for him and we'll come back and see how it goes.

So, we headed back to the river and Murph runs across. Again—lickety-split. I didn't even, like, barely see him, bridge didn’t fuckin’ move.

So, he went to accompany Millie, Karl, and the Brahman, while the others, you know, me and the others stayed on the other side, just cuz, you know, Sunshine and Lab Coat didn't have the easiest time getting across so I don't want to risk them falling… So, oh right because the guy was like there's another bridge, a bigger bridge, like two miles north. We're like, well, we'll just walk parallel to the other group. We'll meet up at the bridge. So, we're just making our way there.

So, yeah. So that's about it.

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Session 2

 

Bobby’s Voice Logs

via Pip Boy (aka “Chirpy”)

Entry 49

Been 178 days since Sunshine found me.

Anyway, uh, last night after we rescued those kids, we finished watching that moving picture – Predator or whatever - think that one might be my favorite one yet. Anyways, Murph had a great idea to keep watch so there ain’t no surprises in the middle of the night. Karl, Murph, and I stayed up – well, I’m pretty sure they stayed up all night, you know what I mean – I stayed up for a little bit, keepin’ my eye on the brahmin. Figured anything shows up the brahmin’ll know it first, you know? Afterward, I needed to get some shut eye, so I curled up next to Sunshine...

Woke up, no surprises. Started helping the locals dig more while Sunshine and Wackadoo they’s milkin’ their brahmin. Lab Coat’s real fascinated by the milking process, you know what I mean?

So we’s digging and notice the FOC coming down with their bots, you know, they’re mod’ed with the shovels or whatever, so they’re making way more progress than we was. So, they comin’ in acting like fuckin’ heroes or whatever. Lab coat was fascinated so I just kinda pulled him aside, “Hey, these guys, the less you say the bettah, you know what I mean? Like the kaiju stuff, maybe just keep that to yourself.” I didn’t know how those FOCers was gonna react to that kinda stuff, you know? I didn’t want them to give him a hard time or whatever. Those kinda guys... I mean I used to be like one of those guys, you know.

Oh yeah, they did this thing – stay vigiliant or whatever; Lab Coat was eating that shit up. Heh. It was pretty funny. Anyway, I thought Lab Coat did a pretty good job talkin’ to those guys. He’s pretty green, but he’s smart. He’s a smart cookie. So that was good.

So, after all that we was making our way up toward Olympia to get more supplies... and Lab Coat’s all up our business. Asking about, you know, our whole story and whatever. So, I just was like, well what’s your story? You know what I  mean, these guys like talkin’ about themselves. So, he’s going on about these orgies they do. He has like 16 kids or whatever. Finally we realized his 16 kids aren’t actually kids, they’re rats... cause he’s like I can’t actually has 16 kids, but he didn’t actually know because he participates in this orgies, so who knows how many kids he actually has. But it’s all communal or something. I don’t know, it’s just very different – these vaulties, I’m telling you, they’re different than from where I come from. That kinda thing... that kinda thing... doesn’t really happen... you know. Heh heh. This guy.

So... we’re on our way, heh... and this, uh, this lady started calling for us. She’s all dressed in an immaculate white dress or whatever. She’s all knowin’ our business. How we was helping the kids last night. And none of us remembered her... but she’s talkin about this pizzah thing... and then everyone got really excited about it. I didn’t know what the fuck pizzah was... but then Lab Coat was like they had in the vaults. They call it pizza though, not pizzah. And has all this stuff on it, Lab Coat was like – “you Bobby” – well, he still calls me booby though – I would really like it. I don’t fuckin’ know what it is, so I’ll take your word for it, you know.

So... she’s asking for these supplies or whatever, “I’ll give you 50 caps each, here’s a list of stuff that I need to make this pizzah...” Anyway, one of the ingredients she said was tomato. I mean, honestly, I thought Sunshine was makin’ that up when she was describing it. But apparently they’re actually real. I don’t know, I aint’ never seen one. Anyways, she wants cheese, some tomatoes, and a bunch of other stuff... so... you know, she marked the map on chirpy and uh, I don’t know, I guess we’ll go find this stuff.

Anyway, we on our way walking, heh, and uh, we see a Radstag and then Wackadoo justs goes up like he’s gonna have a conversation or something... honestly, I kinda thought he was actually – he almost convinced me this was something he could actually do; talk to the Radstag. Anyway Radstag’s kicking his legs up, you know, he’s not too happy, so we kinda just keep our distance. Wackadoo rejoins us or whateveh.

Anyway, so get closer to the grocery store. Murph and I tell the group, stay back for a second as we scout ahead. Towns like fuckin’ empty. No buildings, no people, nothing... just this grocery store. Fuckin’ weird. Anyways, there was piles of trash up against the front doors. Murph was like, this looks like someone’s tryin’ keep something in, you know what I mean... like, yeahh... fuck. That’s when we’re like – who’s this fuckin’ lady asking for these ingredients, right? We didn’t ask any questions about this lady. Dress was like, fuckin’ clean you know what I mean? Where she fuckin’ come from? We didn’t ask! Ah... again, I think we was just so excited about the pizzah thing.

So, we head around back... Lab Coat thought we should find an access to the roof or somethin’... Sure enough there’s a ladder, Murph jumps up it, takes a look, after a bit, I join ‘em. He found some kinda room with an electrical lock and then a big hole in the ceiling. Ah... I was tempted to jump down it, but, you know, the others thought it’s probably bettah not to jump down the hole.

Anyways, so Lab Coat came up and unlocked the electronic lock. And then, they find a pipe gun and some other stuff inside there. A fusion core... Lab Coat’s about to grab it, but Murph and I were like, wait, wait... there’s probably power in this building, right? So, let’s just keep it in there so we have power if we go inside. And then we can come back and get it after, you know, when we leave.

So, Sunshine, she lockpicks the back door. I yanked it open – almost had a piece of ladder fall on my head, but I caught it – and then, made our way in. Lookin’ for a light switch... we found some... Wackadoo turned them on. Oh yeah, Sunshine decided to bring all her – Rosemary and Thyme inside and I was like you know I think it’s safer for them not to be inside this creepy building. But she didn’t wanna listen to me, you know. Whatever. Then Wackadoo’s like I was like his brahmin’ll be safer outside and anything happens to them, then it’s my fault... But even- I didn’t – I’m... eh... okay guy, heh heh, I guess. Whatevah. Oh yeah Wackadoo’s like building alive or whatever. I don’t know that guys on... but uh, it’s something... he’s on something that’s for sure.

So yeah, lights on, searching around. We found one ingredient – one of the plant things, or whatever. Then there’s a buncha doors, so... just go in the doors, right? Sunshine opened up the door... badabing badaboom... Karl and Murph filed in first, I went in after, looking for lights, again. Then we just... kinda all filed in; keepin’ Rosemary and Thyme in the other room, where it’s safer... and then, uh, oh yeah cuz Murph was like, something ping’d off his sonar. Something’s in this room, right?

Anyway... so we’re all on edge, heh... dark creepy room. Kind of a vibe, right? I’m going up one of the aisles... then I heard a fuckin... a fuckin voice. A little voice talkin’ to me. So, I just... quietly, snuck ahead – well, I thought I was scouting ahead and then I realized that Wacksdoo’s like two steps behind me. Heh... these guys gonna get me killed.

So, we carefully makin’ our way to the voice... turns out, it’s a little girl. A little ghoul actually. A little ghoul girl. She said there’s others in here... with her. I... I didn’t want, you know what I mean... so I took her hand and I brought her over to Sunshine... Sunshine and I got different opinions on ghouls... So... uh, so... Sunshine she weren’t too happy about the ghoul. But she’s a little girl, you know I want I mean?

So, she’s told us there was at least 4 other guys in here... feral though. And... they weren’t in their right minds, so it’d be a mercy to put ‘em down. So, alright, we’ll take care of ‘em. She said, there was a security bot on the other side. So, I radio’d to Lab Coat, let him know what’s what. I meant for him to go ahead to go get the security bot but then it became like a whole thing and Karl started shooting at bodies... so it was a big of a mess. But it worked out okay. Turns out, yeah, there was gabaghouls, you know what I mean? Was a bit of a dance and then boom, done. But turns out... Lab Coat was like reading a journal where the bot was... there’s more in another room or somethin’. So, alright, well they’re in the other room... so let’s just search this room while we can. Searchin’ around, found a whole buncha stuff. Gotta upgrade to Joy... so, I think I’m gonna give Lab Coat Joy... Uh... and then I’ll take on this other one. Gotta see how she feels, you know? So yeah... I guess we’re gonna go in this other room in a little bit. So that’s about it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TDrboz75NE&list=PL8STZtfjCPZZsWWJOe6LkAj9JQ4CrfrWO&index=2