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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZjQqT_0bkA&list=PL8STZtfjCPZZsWWJOe6LkAj9JQ4CrfrWO&index=3

 

 

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

Session 1

 

Bobby’s Voice Logs

via Pip Boy (aka “Chirpy”)

Entry 46

Been 164 since Sunshine saved me.

Found a hunk o’ junk in the scrapyard. Sunshine’s tryin’ to figure out what it is, but neither of us can make head or tails of it. Worse case, we sell it for caps.

Entry 47

Been 177 days since Sunshine found me. Weird day.

Met a couple strange ones at a crossroads. Doctor something or other and a real wack-a-do with a brahmin. Wack-a-do smells like chems - not all there, real space case. Lab Coat’s fresh out of the vault shiny. Very literal. Went on rambling about saving the world – about kaijus and Godzilla and other nonsense. Trying to recruit us. They called me a bully when I weren’t too into what they was pitchin (Sunshine says I come off a little rough sometimes. That don’t make me a bully though, just tryin’ keep Sunshine safe is all.) Sunshine asked me to play nice, so I’ll play nice. Lab Coat has a robit named Karl who’s seems like a stand-up guy at least.

Another good thing – Lab Coat took a look at the hunk-a-junk we’s been carryin around and bing bang boom fixed it right up! Turns out it’s a robit named Murph. Murph don’t remember nuthin about how he got all folded up. Tough one that.

Played cards with Karl and Murph while Sunshine chatted with the strangers. Murph and Karl both ended up hustlin’ me. Lost every stick I bet. Good guys those. Remind me of the folks I used to run with (just less squishy on the insides.)

Sunshine suggested we all head to town for supplies, on the way she joked about me being the little spoon. What she bringin’ that up for?! It was one time and it was cold! Lab Coat and Wack-a-do thought it was funny and for some reason they keep callin’ me Booby Tumbleweed and Babby Riker. Only Sunshine gets to call me Tumbleweed, she earned it.

Close to the five, we saw there was some kinda trouble. Group of folks with kids and brahmin tryin’ to dig through the mudslide. Luckily no one was hurt. Murph, Karl, and I started to help dig. I had a pretty good idea how to clear a hole faster... but then Lab Coat called Karl away and then Murph left me for some reason or another...

Anyways, I was covered in mud, head to toe, just workin hard to dig through the mud when bam! Whack-a-mole come right at me! I knew if I yelled “Godzilla” those nut jobs would come runnin to help and luckily that worked. Murph hurried over to me and we took care of the first one lickety-split. Murph just gets it, you know? Then more and more started popping up. Everyone took to whack-a-moling and before anyone got too seriously injured bada bing bada boom we was done. (Few of us had some scratches, but nothin’ squirrel stew couldn’t fix up.)

Started watchin’ another of those moving pictures Karl was projectin’. Called Predator. Just gettin into it when we realized the kids was missin’. We got to searchin’ but took a bit before those new guys picked up a trail - Wack-a-do noticed his brahmin was lookin’ a certain way and then Lab Coat saw tracks, so we went hurrying.

Came to a canyon, switched into my training, keepin’ my eyes open for an ambush. Murph scanned ahead and saw a number of bodies, including some in the water. Gotta mental image of kids drowning, so I abandoned my training and sprinted ahead...

Heard whimpering and then some geckos popped up and we danced for a bit while the others hurried to help. Lab Coat found the kids cowering near some rocks, luckily none of them looked hurt or nothin’.

Gecko’s kept a comin’ but I showed some of them a little mercy and respect and a couple more a little bit of joy. Couple minutes later, bada bing bada boom and we was collecting meat and ready to head back.

Before we did though, Murph noticed somethin’ shiny in the water. Pulled up a chest and Sunshine got to picking the lock. Inside the box was a boatload of goodies! Including beer! Lab Coat handed me a ball cap cuz that’s the only part of me that didn’t have some kinda protection. There was other stuff too, but I’m mostly excited about the beer if I’m bein’ honest.

When we got back to camp, Wack-a-do convinced the locals to trade us fusion cells in exchange for helpin’ their kids and they gladly did. I never woulda been able to do that. Just been handin’ out good deeds for free this whole time.

I wasn’t so sure about these strangers when we met them... but Lab Coat sure knows how to fix stuff... he knew right away how to fix Murph when Sunshine and me has been stumped for weeks. And when Karl and Murph’s weaponry got jammed, he fixed it lickety-split! Sunshine is pretty good at talkin, but Wack-a-do does it so much more easily. Somehow a real charmer that one....

I don’t buy inta none of this savin’ the world shit, but I’d be lying if I didn’t say these new folks aren’t handy to have around. Who knows, maybe if we stick with these folks, they can help Sunshine get that settlement of hers she been dreamin’ of. And more numbers is always better, ‘specially when folks bring useful skills to the fold and aren’t afraid to jump into the fray, you know what I mean?

In the meantime, I just gotta play nice like Sunshine asked me too.

Entry 48

... Shit.

Just realized Lab Coat’s been watching me this whole time... muttering “fascinating” and makin’ notes in that fuckin’ notepad of his.

Is it too much to ask for a little privacy here? The fuck.

-BR

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