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>>1469110
>Last Thread – Civ Action: Bring the Companions! + Crafting Station (Bonus!)
You decide to recruit four of your known companions.

Ares - the Airforce Android, comes along after you had repaired her and established companion protocol, bringing with her Gatling Laser and incredible robotic strength and toughness. She can pilot a Vertibird and any other Old World American aircraft you manage to restore. She was previously repairing her F80 Shooting Star jetcraft parked in Fort Nellis, although it was currently a dead end due to a lack of sufficient aircraft parts.

Veronica - brings along her favorite weapon, a pair Ballistic Fists, as well as a pair of Combat Armor MK2. In addition she brings her intelligent mind at old world science, particularly that of technology and electronics.

Raul - brings with him his wrench and multi-toolkit, a wizard at repairing conventional technology and old world robotics, he’s not as scientifically or program minded as Veronica or yourself, but a master of repairing circuits, hydraulics, and battery packs. A genius at jury rigging matched only by you he can repair almost he can understand and has the right parts for.

>You also convince him to transfer his workshop, which with the help of your followers you carry by foot over the wasteland, equipment by equipment, giving you a substantial boost.

+Raul’s Workshop! – Much better than a normal one, contains all of Raul’s little tricks tips and bits for repairing of a wide variety of objects. He can repair any of the Courier’s known equipment up to 100% (with some necessary jury rigging for advanced designs) and gives a bonus to repair actions.

>Raul has automatically repaired your damaged Armor and Weapons from the BigMT battle, including your Remanant Power Armor

Rose of Sharon Cassidy - This was an admittedly risky decision to bring her along, you know right well she’s being hunted down by the vengeful caravans after the trouble she caused them in revealing their monopoly schemes to the NCR, who took harsh measures against them and enacted strict trade laws. You don’t know how long the caravans will find out about her being with you, after you told her to lay low and now bring her to your settlement, but she does bring along with her a savvy survival sense, her tribal heritage bringing with her familiar hunting rifle that might a well part of her and just about as an expert as anyone in wasteland survival and hunting (except perhaps Boone).

>>1469131
I think we had solved the arm situation. We settled on Biological arms for both us and Willow

>Hero Action – Get back our Arm + Bring back some of the BigMT Loot

>Vote: Upgrade the Monocyte Breeder
The Doc says to let him scan your Monocyte Breeder Implant, then to return to him in about few weeks or so, during which time you help Raul ferry his workshop while also scavenging BigMT for plasma rifles and laser weapons to bring to your settlement, storing them in the, still intact, southern armory along with the necessary ammo.

Last but not least, you decide to bring the Sierra Madre Vending machine from the abandoned Brotherhood Bunker, storing it in Cottowood Cove.

It is currently limited to a known set list of items.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Sierra_Madre_vending_machine

Furthermore, requires Steel / Metal + Fission Materials and a user who knows how to produce Sierra Madre Chips to function. The average human can only hold Fission Batteries, other fissile materials will pose radiation risks. Currently it’s a non-action to produce individual items for your Courier, but to supply an entire settlement will require a Civ’s worth of material, as well you are limited to the one machine for now.

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Dialogue

>Brain
“I’m glad you’re deciding to stick with elements of my plan for now, remember I just need you to solve your base’s food and medical problems and then return to me with the good news. I don’t think you’ll be able to do that with one machine, but it’s going to help and buy time for you to upgrade those farms.”

>Raul
“I can produce those chips you want Boss, plus I’m a lot more resistant to rads than most. If you can get me some other radioactive stuff like old car batteries I can use that to make chips. I still gotta make em by hand right now though boss, so it takes time.”

>Veronica
“Perhaps if you were to find us some radiation protective suits, I could help Raul make more of them. If I don’t get bored out of my skull making chips every day.”

Remember that settlement stats are relevant to the total number of population deployed/living in a base.

So for example, a settlement with a tiny pop that has (Abundant Firearms) counts as (Tiny-Firearms) for a much larger settlement. Conversely a Huge Settlement that has (Small-Firearms) can share and provide (Abundant-Firearms) to a tiny settlement.

--REMNANT BUNKER--
>>>>>Food: Average
>>>>>Water: Average
>>>>>Morale: Average
>>>>>Armaments: Plentiful
>>>>>Current Pop: 7 (AT COTTONWOOD COVE)
>>>>>Military: 7 (AT COTTONWOOD COVE)
>>>>>Fuel: Vertibird Fuel [Limited]
>>>>> Infrastructure: Spring Water Well [Tiny] Drinking Fountains. Vertibird Hangar [Small]. Shielded Armory/Ammunition Room [small] Barracks [small]
>>>>>Defenses: Bunker Front Door [Intact] Steel and Concrete lining [Intact] Automated Steel Bulkhead Doors [Intact] Radar Installation [Intact]
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Vertibird (AT COTTONWOOD COVE)
>>>>>>Power: Remnant Bunker Power Cell [Tiny/Long Lasting]
>>>>>>Materials: Scrap Trinkets [Abundant] Junk Cars [2]
>>>>>>Weapons: 1 Tri-beam Laser Rifle, 1 Minigun, 1 Assault Carbine, 1 Gatling Laser, 1 Arcade’s Plasma Defender
>>>>>>Ammunition Reserve: Conventional Ammo [Sufficient]. Energy Cells [Sufficient]. Explosives [Sufficient]
>>>>>>Armor: Remnant Power Armor 6. Assorted Enclave Scientist and Officer outfits.
>>>>>>Technology: Enclave Advanced.
Researchers: COURIER, Doc Henry, Arcade
[Research Capability and Assets: Limited/Low]
>>>>>>Other: none
>>>>>>Research Items/Items of Interest: none
>>>>>>Communications: Enclave Radar. Radios.

--COTTONWOOD COVE--
>>>>>Food: Above Average (Stable - 12 Turns)
>>>>>Water: Average
>>>>>Morale: Average
>>>>>Medicine: Below Average (Falling - 5 Turns)
>>>>>Armaments: Plentiful
>>>>>Current Pop: 89
!NEW!
>>>>>Military:
6 Devils Brigade - Power Armor
7 Couriers Companions - Arcade, Doc Delilah, Willow (One Armed), Ares, Cass, Raul, Veronica
11 Settlement Militia
11 Ad-Hoc Melee-Armed Militia
8 Fanatical Civilians
>>>>>Prisoner: 1 Legionaire Recruit
>>>>>Fuel: None
!NEW!
>>>>> Infrastructure: Old World Houses. Tents. Prisoner Pen. Garden Farms (Medium, Primitive). Pump Irrigation. Bath Tub Pots. Medicine Shack. Animal Pen (Small), *Raul's Workshop*
>>>>>Defenses: Wooden Watchtower. Concrete Structures (Weakened Slightly).
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Vertibird (Damaged)
>>>>>>Power: None
>>>>>>Materials: Scrap Metal (small) Scrap Wood (tiny)
!NEW!
>>>>>>Weapons: Average Legion Melee Weapons (+small, damaged. +Moderate, intact) Average Legion Firearms (+small, damaged +moderate, intact). Mercenary Battle Rifles (Moderate, intact) Average Plasma Rifles (+Moderate, Intact) Average Laser Rifles (+Moderate, Intact)
>>>>>>Ammunition Reserve: Conventional (Moderate) Energy (Moderate)
>>>>>>Armor: Average Leionaire Armor (+small, damaged, +Moderate intact) Good Centurion Armor (+Tiny, Intact)
!NEW!
>>>>>>Technology: River Silt Fertilizer. Manure. Delilah's Voodoo. Arcade's Chems. *1 Sierra Madre Vending Machine*
!NEW!
>>>>>>Sierra Madre Chips: None
[Research Capability and Assets: None]
>>>>>>Other:
+3 Allied Followers
>>>>>>Research Items/Items of Interest: none
>>>>>>Communications: (Devil's Brigade Radio)

>ALERT

The number of companions you have with technical skills plus Raul's workshop has given you a (Simple Repair/Jurry Rigging) This counts as a sort of hero action, and is limited to the use of Raul and his Workshop plus at least two other Companions toward a Simple Repair/Jurry Rigging Action for non-complicated conventional technology such as Robots or the Vertibird.

>Raul
"Boss, I've been talking with Ares and Daisy. I think with those spare parts you found from the crashed vertibird and my workshop, we should be able to repair your Vertibird.
>(will take a civ action).

>Auto-Doc
"Implants done cooking son, come on over to BigMT and try it out
>(does not take an action. Indicate you are ready to receive your new arm)

---
!NEW!
Civ Actions Available Per Turn: 1
Hero Actions Available Per Turn: 1
(Simple) Repair/Jurry Rigging Action: 1

>>>>>A. Scavenge (for what)
>>>>>B. Try to improve (which) base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons (where).
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>F. Scavenge for raw materials (where/what)
>>>>>G. Your choice/Write in
>>>>>Turn: 17

Horray, it's here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9HUyHmLFzA

Rolled 8 (1d100)

>>1469214
>>>>>>B. Try to improve (which) base
To expand on our supply of Brahmin and Bighorns, send some militia up to Matthews Animal Husbandry Farm. They have a good amount of animals. We could even make our own caravan animals.

>Hero Action
Go up to Repconn and see if we can find the last electrical parts we need for our Vertibird to be fixed.

>Repair
Have the legion melee weapons be turned into pristine by cannibalizing the broken or damaged ones.

Also have the courier use the vending machine to stock back up on medicine, as he used it all almost during the spaceship escapade. Also, lets get our new arm

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>>1469254
>Mfw they tell me I don't have to go to work
>Mfw they call me in and tell me I have to go to work

>>1467733
>>1468471
>Brain
"Worry not my corporeal shell, I'm aware how much you love weapons design. Stick to my plan, and you'll have more potential weapons combinations and potential modifications than you can ever dreamed."

>>1469260
I think we can already fix the Vertibird so we don 't have to spend a Hero action on it.

>>1469305
Doesn't mean having extra electronic parts isn't a very useful thing.

>>1469293
Delicious

If I want to edit my plan, do I keep my original roll?

>>1469310
We do still need to fix black Mountain radio, does that require electronic parts?

>>1469325
Yes

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>1469327
Then i support >>1469260
Keep in mind anons we still have the Chinese to deal with so we should do that next turn

>>1469293
God that weapon rifle looks awful

>>1469334
...why did I say "weapon rifle"

>>1469260
Supporting

>>1469334
That's why I always used the combat rifle

>>1469343
Roll, and make it a good one

Rolled 38 (1d100)

>>1469372
anything to have a rifle without a million pounds of bullshit on the front

>>1469380
48 is still good.

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>>1469260
>>1469380
>>1469331
>I just wanted some animals for our settlement
I still love you anons though <3

Wish I could play this game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFfb8NasMZU

>>1469331
[LOCKED]

>>1469405
Fallout 4 might have a shit story and an ass-tacular dialogue system, but it looks like it's actually pretty fun to mess around with and just do goofy shit in.

>>1469392
>Post-Bungie Era Halo
Leave the realms of good taste and respect for IP's.

>>1469405
Because of a shit PC?

>>1469421
I think it's been said that our QM is playing on a toaster.

>>1469420
>implying you didn't want to fuck Cortana even more

Rolled 73 (1d100)

>>1469327
support >>1469260

>>1469435
Literally the only part of the 343 era stuff I liked was Cortana's ass.
Everything was a monumental disappointment and a tragic mishandling of things I cherished.

>>1469437
fuck
>>1469440
We don't speak of any fallout past Reach now

>>1469444
>Any Fallout past Reach
I mean I guess the release dates line up, so your right.

>>1469451
yeah, that's exactly what I meant. It's not just a happy little accident

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Rolled 16 (1d100)

>>1469260
You go to find the Mathew's Animal Farm, just past the irradiated town of Camp Searchlight. Thanks to the nearby Ghouls and how dangerous the area is, no one has decided to take the animals.

>Settler
"Cottonwood Cove has some very poor grass, so we won't be able to graze any animals we bring back. Unless you want to feed them with crops."

CHOOSE:
>Secure the settlement with settlers and/or militia (how many)
>Bring the animals back and feed them with crops
>Other?

Meanwhile, the Repconn site has a wide abundance of Electronic Parts, thanks to Jason Bright and Chris Haversam, both of which have long since departed. There's a wide array of electronics, especially of the kind needed to repair Black Mountain Radio.

Raul with the help of other companions salvage the legion melee weapons. As a bonus they also salvage and repair the Legion Armor as well.

The Courier stocks himself up on all his supplies, ready to be the killing machine of the Mojave once more.

----

Meanwhile, at BigMT

>Sink AutoDoc
"Alright son, step inside and let's get that new implant in you. Hopefully I do as good a job as that Doc Mitchel fella you told me about."

Rolling

>>1469465
Can someone post the New Vegas map? It would help with this decision.

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>>1469473

>>1469465
>Rolled 16 (1d100)
AW SHIT

>>1469465
great we have an arm made of cancer. Lovely.

And bring the animals to the cove. we can pick up super grass from the brain when its ready.

>>1469465
>16
Shit man

>Bring the animals back and feed them with crops
We can just expand on our farms, or work on enriching our grass

>>1469480
>Oh cool, it glows in the dark!
>It ain't supposed to do that son. Lemme hack that off for ya.

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>>1469473
I've marked it in blue

>>1469477
I dislike that there are no full maps of New Vegas that show all the areas names, the ones where you only have numbers and a legend are a pain IMO.

>>1469497
Close enough to be worth it, i recall we sent some guys to reclaim a mine which one was it?

>>1469465
Are there any suitable grazing spots closer to cottonwood cove?

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>>1469465
You wake up out of the AutoDoc, shaking off the anesthetic.

You look down to your right, and see your arm. It's there again alright, feels normal, fingers move fine.

Only problem is its visibly. . .weaker than your left arm. The look of an average human arm makes it seem skeletal in comparison to your left arm which resemebles an average persons thigh.

"Darn, sorry about that son. Must have gotten something off with the muscular regeneration settings. My scans indicate your arm is fully healed and normal. I guess it just reverted back to human baseline. You've still got yer adamantium skeleton underneath.

Should be able to get it back to the way it was with a couple thousand curls and a bit of weight lifting."

>>1469528
Not that bad.

>>1469528
Well now we got to get big. Could we curl while we are walking the wastes

>>1469528
Well its not a big loss. Especially when we're wearing powered armour.

We can work on our gains in down time.

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>>1469528
Point of note this is what your left arm looks like, and most of your body.

>>1469516
Unfortunately not, the nearest grassy place is a bit too close to Camp Searchlight

>>1469539
What in da fuck.
No seriously
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zC3hNdW-NY

>>1469546
10 STR is a helluva drug

>>1469548
Can you answer >>1469508

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>>1469508
The Camp Searchlight Easth and North Gold Mines. Not much of value in them, but they are very defensible positions to secure.

>>1469567
We can train more troops next turn, then have some post at the bottom mine, and have some others post up at the farm. For now, lets take the animals

>>1469567
Alright, so we could use them as checkpoints for a path between Cottonwood and Mathew's animal farm.
What is that town above the animal farm?

>>1469575
Certainly.

>>1469575
We do need more people. Should we recruit from Westside?

>>1469591
Can we get on a regimen of Rebound and Buffout while we get our arm back up to speed just to make it go a little faster?

>>1469465
>Secure the settlement with settlers and/or militia
>Set up a Checkpoint at the Searchlight north goldmine
How many people should we send anons? I think 30 for the farm and 5 for the Checkpoint.

>>1469623
10 for the checkpoint and 25 for the farm. Then we are running a little but low on pop.

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>>1469214
--REMANT BUNKER--
>>1469176 Unhanged

--COTTONWOOD COVE--
!NEW!
>>>>>Food: Below Average (Falling - 7 Turns)
>>>>>Water: Average
>>>>>Morale: Average
>>>>>Medicine: Below Average (Falling - 4 Turns)
>>>>>Armaments: Plentiful
>>>>>Current Pop: 89
>>>>>Military:
6 Devils Brigade - Power Armor
7 Couriers Companions - Arcade, Doc Delilah, Willow (One Armed), Ares, Cass, Raul, Veronica
11 Settlement Militia
11 Ad-Hoc Melee-Armed Militia
8 Fanatical Civilians
>>>>>Prisoner: 1 Legionaire Recruit
>>>>>Fuel: None
>>>>> Infrastructure: Old World Houses. Tents. Prisoner Pen. Garden Farms (Medium, Primitive). Pump Irrigation. Bath Tub Pots. Medicine Shack. Animal Pen (Small), *Raul's Workshop*
>>>>>Defenses: Wooden Watchtower. Concrete Structures (Weakened Slightly).
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Vertibird (Damaged)
>>>>>>Power: None
>>>>>>Materials: Scrap Metal (small) Scrap Wood (tiny) Electronics (+Above Moderate)
>>>>>>Weapons: Average Legion Melee Weapons (+Moderate, Pristine) Average Legion Firearms (+moderate, Pristine). Mercenary Battle Rifles (Moderate, intact) Average Plasma Rifles (+Moderate, Intact) Average Laser Rifles (+Moderate, Intact)
>>>>>>Ammunition Reserve: Conventional (Moderate) Energy (Moderate)
>>>>>>Armor: Average Leionaire Armor (+Moderate, Pristine) Good Centurion Armor (+Tiny, Intact)
>>>>>>Technology: River Silt Fertilizer. Manure. Delilah's Voodoo. Arcade's Chems. *1 Sierra Madre Vending Machine*
>>>>>>Sierra Madre Chips: None
[Research Capability and Assets: None]
!NEW!
>>>>>>Other:
+3 Allied Followers
+12 Herd Animals (Brahmin/Bighorn)
>>>>>>Research Items/Items of Interest: none
>>>>>>Communications: (Devil's Brigade Radio)

>ALERT
You have brought as many Herd Animals as Cottonwoods Animal Pen and current Crops can reasonably sustain, and are diverting some of your crops to feed them.

>>>>>A. Scavenge (for what)
>>>>>B. Try to improve (which) base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons (where).
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>F. Scavenge for raw materials (where/what)
>>>>>G. Your choice/Write in
>>>>>Turn: 18

>>1469630
I agree, i want to recruit after we fix Black mountain radio.

>>1469623
>>1469630
>>1469634
You can still vote for this to secure more animals and the settlement this turn.

>Raul
"I can also create some Sentry Turrets boss, if you provide me some metal, weapons, and electronics."

>>1469632
>CIV action
>>>>>G. Your choice/Write in
Train our Population with the guns and blades, have a focus on Guns, Melee and repair.

>Hero action.
Have the courier go back to Big MT and deal with the Chinese.

>Repair
Repair Black mountain Radio, use it to recruit new people.

>>1469646
Wait i thought we already took the farm, we just brought a few animals back for convenience.

>>1469632
>>>>>G. Your choice/Write in
Train 35 more Militia for guard duty. They should be equipped with just basic firearms, maybe some of the Legion weapons

>Courier
The courier should hop back real quick to maybe get the Chinese to join our side.

>Repair
Have him head back up to Black Mountain to fix the radio systems to try to get back to broadcasting.

>>1469651
Dude, the Chinese can wait. We need to make sure our shit is stable and well defended before we leave again.

Rolled 46 (1d100)

>>1469655
Change the chinese to

"Have the courier scour the area around Camp Searchlight to kill any ghouls that are running around" and clear the airport

>>1469655
>>1469662
Eh sure, i'll support this.
But then it's right back to Big MT.

>>1469662
this

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>1469667
Here's my roll i forgot.

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>1469669
>>1469662
forgot to fucking roll

>>1469667
If you give a plan on what you want to do with the chinese, and nothing goes terrible, then sure

>>1469671
Damn
>>1469673
Nice

>>1469632
Can we further improve the crop fields to produce more food and medicine?

>>1469674
Convince the Chinese to join us and help rebuild America, then we take them to Cottonwood.

>>1469679
They might have to drive the tank there, as the teleporter only works on one.

>>1469675
Well once we secure ranch and the mine, our food will go back to normal

>>1469692
>They might have to drive the tank there
I know anon.

>>1469675
But jesus medicine is an issue, you are right. Should we try to get some caravan contracts or increase our medicinal garden?

Hey QM, if we bring the chinese back with us, can we start making sweat and sour gecko?

>>1469539
>Just realized with that body type we are senator Armstrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEM5hW6BMJA

>>1469701
Naturally, they also know how to prepare authentic schezwan sauce.

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>>1469707
I honestly pictured more of a Dwayne Johnson type physique.

>>1469655
>>1469662
[LOCKED]

>>1469710
Is that a cultural victory then?

>>1469710
Welp, guess we're gonna have the most successful restaurants in the wasteland once we get that chick with the deathclaw omelet recipe to move up here.

>>1469731
we don't need to. We have her daughter or something in Sloan. She teaches you how to make the omelet.

>>1469751
I was talking about her daughter in Sloan, but if we know the recipe, then fuck it. She can stay in Deathclaw Quarry.

>>1469758
kek

>>1469710
schezwan deathclaw

The deadliest food you will ever eat in the wasteland.

>>1469792
>The happy-meal toy is a deathclaw glove

>>1469823
With a kid sized deathclaw nugget meal.

Now I wanna export deathclaw.

>>1469833
Well once we cleanse the Mojave, we could farm deathclaws

>>1469836
>We somehow domestic Deathclaw without mind-control
>Deathclaw phase out Brahmin within the decade
I want this future.

>>1469850
>domestic
I meant "domesticate"

>>1469836
Was was thinking of that but imagine that.

Farming Deathclaws.

Immediately that speaks freaking highly of any civilisation in the wasteland. Farming the most dangerous prey.

>>1469869
Thick hide for clothing like raincoats, their meat for the tenderness, and their claws for their amazing sharpness

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>>1469869
>FUCK! We got a pack moved in!
>What? No, that's just livestock.
>Come over here. I call this one Rocky.

>>1469877
>wasteland roo's

>>1469655
Additional militia have been trained. The Devil's brigade are aided by Cass teach a new batch of militia how to properly hold and fire a rifle.

The Courier, with the usual amount of fun and glee, starts turning Ghoul Heads into paste with a variety of weapons, clearing out both Camp Searchlight and the Airport, making them much safer for others to travel into, although the radiation is still present in Camp Searchlight.

Black Mountain Radio has been fixed! Moreno has once more resumed the role of the "Voice of America", much to great cheer by your people. He's become something of a second hero to them, outshone only by yourself.

---
>Auto-Doc
"Hey there son, I got the 2nd implant ready. I think I worked out the bugs in this one. I've got it right here along with a surgical kit for you to work on yer friend."

>>1469888
New turn?

>>1469888
>Get to work implanting the Monocyte Breeder in Daisy.
>Start doing a regimen of Bicep Curls and One-Arm pushups during all available freetime.

>>1469914
>Get to work implanting the Monocyte Breeder in Daisy.
We can't do that.

>>1469920
We're a doctor...sort of. I'm sure we can stick a damn implant in somebody without too much trouble.

--COTTONWOOD COVE--
>>>>>Food: Below Average (Falling - 6 Turns)
>>>>>Water: Average
!NEW!
>>>>>Morale: Above Average
>>>>>Medicine: Below Average (Falling - 3 Turns)
>>>>>Armaments: Plentiful
>>>>>Current Pop: 89
!NEW!
>>>>>Military:
6 Devils Brigade - Power Armor
7 Couriers Companions - Arcade, Doc Delilah, Willow (One Armed), Ares, Cass, Raul, Veronica
52 Settlement Militia (Firearms)
11 Ad-Hoc Melee-Armed Militia
8 Fanatical Civilians
>>>>>Prisoner: 1 Legionaire Recruit
>>>>>Fuel: None
>>>>> Infrastructure: Old World Houses. Tents. Prisoner Pen. Garden Farms (Medium, Primitive). Pump Irrigation. Bath Tub Pots. Medicine Shack. Animal Pen (Small), *Raul's Workshop*
>>>>>Defenses: Wooden Watchtower. Concrete Structures (Weakened Slightly).
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Vertibird (Damaged)
>>>>>>Power: None
>>>>>>Materials: Scrap Metal (small) Scrap Wood (tiny) Electronics (+Above Moderate)
>>>>>>Weapons: Average Legion Melee Weapons (+Moderate, Pristine) Average Legion Firearms (+moderate, Pristine). Mercenary Battle Rifles (Moderate, intact) Average Plasma Rifles (+Moderate, Intact) Average Laser Rifles (+Moderate, Intact)
>>>>>>Ammunition Reserve: Conventional (Moderate) Energy (Moderate)
>>>>>>Armor: Average Leionaire Armor (+Moderate, Pristine) Good Centurion Armor (+Tiny, Intact)
>>>>>>Technology: River Silt Fertilizer. Manure. Delilah's Voodoo. Arcade's Chems. *1 Sierra Madre Vending Machine*
>>>>>>Sierra Madre Chips: None
[Research Capability and Assets: None]
!NEW!
>>>>>>Other:
+3 Allied Followers
+12 Herd Animals (Brahmin/Bighorn)
>>>>>>Research Items/Items of Interest: none
>>>>>>Communications: (Devil's Brigade Radio)

---

"Howdy folks, this is Mr. New Vegas.

Caravaners coming from Cottonwood Cove have reported that the settlement has repelled an assault by Legion forces attempting to retake the camp. The "New American Radio" station has resumed operation and is reportedly giving out details of the "2nd Battle of Cottonwood Cove

In other news, the NCR is holding a national holiday following the capture of a Brotherhood of Steel Bunker, in a plan orchestrated by Secretary of War Arnold Yaunker. This following a previous failed attempt by President Kimball is placing him closer to his approval rating on the polls."

---

>>>>>A. Scavenge (for what)
>>>>>B. Try to improve (which) base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons (where).
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>F. Scavenge for raw materials (where/what)
>>>>>G. Your choice/Write in
>>>>>Turn: 19

>>>>>Reputation level: Noble Anti-Slavers / Cottonwood Settlement / Anti-Legion Defenders

>>1469920
You certainly can.

>>1469923
Your medical skills are superior to even such people as Arcade and Doc Delilah and Doc Henry. Thus far the only thing in the wasteland with better medical skills than you would be a proper Auto-Doc.

Also it is Willow who is missing an arm.

>>1469925
>Civ
Send those 35 new militia members to the Farm and North mine, meanwhile the rest of our Pop will make more medicine plantations.
>Hero
Go back to Big MT to deal with the Chinese.

>>1469925
>>>>>>B. Try to improve (which) base
Cottonwood. Get the farms producing more crops and medicinal herbs. Maybe expand fields?
>Courier
Help Daisy get her implant in and start negotiations with Jacobstown so we can get some friendly supermutants posted in Camp Searchlight.

>>1469925
>Bring Willow to the autodoc to regenerate her arm.

>Civ action, have the settlement work on improving the medicine farm, utlise droppings from the cattle herd we have to further fertilise the crops. The cattle can be fed with more chaff, the waste created when harvesting the crops.

>>1469937
>Also it is Willow who is missing an arm.
Because I'm fucking dumb idiot ho cant read

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>1469925
>>>>>>B. Try to improve (which) base
Deploy 10 militia to the southernmost mine, while 25 go to the Ranch and take the animals with them. Their product will be transported back tri-weekly

>Courier
It is now time to go back to Big Mt. We will try to find the Chinese and see if they want to return with us, if they don't follow whatever communistic ways they had before.

>Fix
Make sure the Vertibird is in prime shape. Oil added where needed to be, guns cleaned, rotors rotated, etc.

Also, Bring WIllow her arm first.

>>1469937
The autodocs at big MT right?

Can we bring willow to the doc and go see the chinese at the same time.

>>1469937
QM, would deploying the militia and moving the cattle back be counted as an action?

>>1469978
We can only teleport one person, ourselves

>>1469925
>Civ
Start fortifying the cove- maybe some walls, a guard tower somewhere close by.
> Courier
retrieve the chinese

I don't think we want Arnold as President. He sounds like a warhawk, while kimbal is just a wimpy leader. I woould prefer if kimball won next election through a slim majority.

>>1469978
>>1469951
Only one person may use the Transportal Ponder Gun

In theory you can give it to a companion and have them go but if something happens like, say,they get kidnapped and lobotomized, you're going to have to take a LONG walk to BigMT.

>>1469984
> would deploying the militia and moving the cattle back be counted as an action?
You could do both of those in one action.

Cottonwood Cove has enough grass to sustain at least one or two animals without compromising your food stores.

Gotta lot of tied single votes, gonna give it a bit more time

>>1470006
My 88 that I rolled counts, right?

>>1470006
I'll switch to >>1469956
to move things along.

>>1470010
roll then senpai

Rolled 57 (1d100)

>>1470010
>>1470021

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>1470006
switch >>1469987
to>>1469956
and include a roll

Rolled 43 (1d100)

>>1470028
>>1470026
>>1469956
[LOCKED]

You go to Willow and find her, still somewhat sad about the loss of her arm. Her eyes twinkle when you tell her you might be able to give her back her arm, and she practically jumps up and kisses you.

You prepare the operating tent again, Doc Henry and Doc Delilah there to help, as you put on your gown and sterilize your equipment, giving Willow several doses of Med-X.

Let's see how the implant goes this time

>>1470037
AW CMON

>>1470047
If 16 just causes a lack of muscle regeneration 43 is perfectly fine anon.

>>1470054
That was with an autodoc.
We may have fucked her arm up.

>>1469888
Just recalled something important.
>There are four jet planes in the area. They are all very rusted and two have their landing gear stuck in junk piles, but otherwise appear to be intact.

>>1470065
And with ARES, in the future we could easily secure the airport and maybe move our Vertibird there as well as try to fix up a few.

Jesus Christ this cove is in an almost perfect spot

>>1469956
>>1470037
Willow wakes up. Her arm is still a stump but. . .the stump is growing longer than before. You tell her to rest and avoid heavy lifting, her arm should hopefully grow back to normal in time.

Your soldiers deploy to the Farm and Mine and outpost respective, turning it into outposts. The animals are brought back, saving your food stores.

The Vertibird has been fixed! Raul, Ares, and Daisy manage to put it back together and its now in full working condition once again. This has raised Morale.

A note on Outposts. Outposts are not yet settlements, but garrisoned positions usually attached to a settlement. Their supplies reliant on settlement, unless they themselves are providing supplies.

--MATHEW'S ANIMAL FARM--
+Cotton Cove Outpost+
>>>>>Military: Settlement Militia (Firearms)
>>>>> Infrastructure: Ruined House
>>>>>Defenses: Ruined House
>>>>>Animals: 23

--CAMP SEARCHLIGHT SOUTH GOLD MINE--
+Cotton Cove Outpost+
>>>>>Military: 10 Settlement Militia (Firearms)
>>>>> Infrastructure: Empty Mine
>>>>>Defenses: Mine Entrance

--COTTONWOOD COVE--
>>>>>Food: Below Average (Falling - 9 Turns)
>>>>>Water: Average
!NEW!
>>>>>Morale: High
>>>>>Medicine: Below Average (Falling - 2 Turns)
>>>>>Armaments: Plentiful
>>>>>Current Pop: 89
!NEW!
>>>>>Military:
6 Devils Brigade - Power Armor
7 Couriers Companions - Arcade, Doc Delilah, Willow (One Armed), Ares, Cass, Raul, Veronica
17 Settlement Militia (Firearms)
11 Ad-Hoc Melee-Armed Militia
8 Fanatical Civilians
>>>>>Prisoner: 1 Legionaire Recruit
>>>>>Fuel: None
>>>>> Infrastructure: Old World Houses. Tents. Prisoner Pen. Garden Farms (Medium, Primitive). Pump Irrigation. Bath Tub Pots. Medicine Shack. Animal Pen (Small), *Raul's Workshop*
>>>>>Defenses: Wooden Watchtower. Concrete Structures (Weakened Slightly).
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Vertibird (Damaged)
>>>>>>Power: None
>>>>>>Materials: Scrap Metal (small) Scrap Wood (tiny) Electronics (+Above Moderate)
>>>>>>Weapons: Average Legion Melee Weapons (+Moderate, Pristine) Average Legion Firearms (+moderate, Pristine). Mercenary Battle Rifles (Moderate, intact) Average Plasma Rifles (+Moderate, Intact) Average Laser Rifles (+Moderate, Intact)
>>>>>>Ammunition Reserve: Conventional (Moderate) Energy (Moderate)
>>>>>>Armor: Average Leionaire Armor (+Moderate, Pristine) Good Centurion Armor (+Tiny, Intact)
>>>>>>Technology: River Silt Fertilizer. Manure. Delilah's Voodoo. Arcade's Chems. *1 Sierra Madre Vending Machine*
>>>>>>Sierra Madre Chips: None
[Research Capability and Assets: None]
!NEW!
>>>>>>Other:
+3 Allied Followers
+2 Herd Animals (Brahmin/Bighorn)
>>>>>>Research Items/Items of Interest: none
>>>>>>Communications: (Devil's Brigade Radio)

>>>>>A. Scavenge (for what)
>>>>>B. Try to improve (which) base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons (where).
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>F. Scavenge for raw materials (where/what)
>>>>>G. Your choice/Write in
>>>>>Turn: 20

>continued for Courier Action

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>>1470102
Map

On any other circumstance the Remnant Bunker would count as an outpost, but considering how many valuable supplies, assets, and tech it has it counts as a settlement.

>con't

>>1470102
>Civ
Expand the Medical farms, create fortifications in Mathew's animal farm if possible.

>>1470102
>>>>>B. Try to improve (which) base
Improve Cottonwoods ability to manufacture medical care products by expanding the farms and fertilizing with Brahmin droppings.
>Courier
Go find Boone and ED-E and see if they won't help out in Cottonwood

Rolled 5 (1d100)

>>1470113
FUCKING FORGOT TO ROLL AGAIN

>>1470115
FUCK

>>1470113
Courier is in Big MT, which we deal with next OP post.

>>1470118
We just put performed surgery on Willow. Doesn't that mean we're in Cottonwood?

>>1470121
>continued for Courier Action >>1470102

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>1470102
rollin for the supportin her e>>1470113

>>1470123
Oh

>>1470124
Well alright

>>1470124
I really hope this roll counts for later.

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>>1469956
You go back to the alien ship, wiping out a few Alien stragglers now and again, and return to the Chinese base inside.

You talk with DanDan about the prospects of inviting the Chinese to come with you, but on the mention of them abandoning communism, she says her people are unlikely to do so.

"Communism has been the courage and hope of my people for 200 years. They would not abandon it. I think you can convince them to come with you, but they would still be communist.

I think, many would also want to stay here and keep settlement going. Has been home for very long.

How would you bring my people with you? Bawang Tank is big but. . .only hold 10 or 11 people in it. Our War Factory could have build some Assault Troop Transport but. . .not working. No materials, no power, no factory. Only blueprints."

You decide to consult your brain, moving stuff in between BigMT and the Mojave is becoming a recurrent pain.

>Brain
"Hmm, yes the logistical constraints of transport. Well first off, if you manage to convince some of them to come with you, you'd need to protect them from being lobotomized within BigMT by the Think Tank, as well as get them through the Radar. Could be done through the old train tunnel, but those were as you know, blocked off by Elijah. You'd need to clear out the tunnels.

Then supposing you manage to get this done, you'll need to actually transport them. Supposing you wanted to get more than you could carry on the Tank, we would need to either:
>Restore a working train locomotive and railroad, and slowly rebuild the rails from BigMT to Mojave
>Build a Chinese War Factory, get some Troop Transports going
>There is another option. . .but its incredibly risky and I don't recommend it

Keep voting for the next turn action, your Courier will be able to perform it while traveling to and fro BigMT unless otherwise noted

>>1470186
>>1470182
>>Restore a working train locomotive and railroad, and slowly rebuild the rails from BigMT to Mojave
cool. refer to >>1470113 for my Courier action still

>>1470182
Can the Vertibird reach Big MT?

>>1470190
You'd need to find more fuel

>>1470191
Would corn ethanol work?

>>1470182
>There is another option. . .but its incredibly risky and I don't recommend it

>>1470182
I'd say we should go for the rail line as that will help work out transportation in the long run. Not to mention if we are to open trade to House or to the NCR it would help us out a bit if we had that option.

Though I feel like we should keep the assualt troop transport on standby in the meantime.

As for the tunnel how hard are we talking about going through that?

Rolled 23, 12 = 35 (2d100)

>>1470113
I'd like that it sounds like a good plan. Though we will need to start working on bringing over that tech eventually.

HEre is my rolls if needed

>>1470204
>Not to mention if we are to open trade to House.
NCR is one thing but why the hell wouldn't we take over the securitron army?

>>1470195
You'd need to grow a lot of corn.

>>1470196
>Brain
"Go to the Higgs Village. See if Mary-Jo Casey is still in Doctor Mobius home."

You go to he Higgs Village, heading for house 001. Doctor Mobius home, you walk up the stairs into the bed room.

There's not much there besides the bed, a humming computer, and an empty chair.

Behind you, you hear the crackling of bones, and a skeletal hand reaches out and grabs your arm.

>con't

>>1470209
Less chance of their being a monopoly, if we don't have competitors then there is no press to improve or do better than the other guy. Not to mention that House has alot of old world ideals and is a living relic of what the old world was like. Can't hurt to lend a hand or not eh?
>>1470214
Mother of fuck we might have lost Doc Mobius.

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>>1470214
>You
[Do you ever just say Hello?]

>Mary-Jo
"Eh, I was bored, it was funny the first time I did. It's boring when you're not around."

>You
[Hello Mary-Jo. I need you, do you still have your prototype transporter?]

>Mary-Jo
"The one that doesn't work right? That would just kill whoever I sent it through, even the other skeletal harnesses? Yeah, I have it"

>You
[I need you to bring it and come with me to the Forbidden Zone]

>Mary-Jo
"Great! Let me get my hat."

---

>Brain
"Good, so there's option #3. We try to fix her prototype portal gun and see if we can't get it to work without vaporizing whoever we send on the other side. That would allow you to move another person from BigMT to the Mojave instantly."

>>1470217
But we already have 2 competitors, NCR and Legion, and there's also the rest of the US for future enemies to be in.
And why wouldn't we want our government to not have a monopoly? we're not a corporation, preventing Monopolies is for our Citizens.

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>>1470204
>As for the tunnel how hard are we talking about going through that?

>>1470226
Also trying to live without some measure of peace and harmony between other nations also lead to the Great War because people couldn't make peace either.

We have to be firm, but we don't need to be dogmatic and antagonistic.

As it right now we're mostly at the level of city state status and not even that becuase we only have unique personal that allows it. While Mr. House however has the infrastructure and army for it. It'd be best to work together for now at least.

>>1470223
I think we're better off trying to fix the railway systems before trying to make another teleporter.

>>1470182
What kind of communism are the Chinese talking about actually? If it's a communist government/state that's bad, if it's just a Communist community/settlement i think we can help them if they agree not to tell other people their ideology.

>>1470182
>Restore a working train locomotive and railroad, and slowly rebuild the rails from BigMT to Mojave

>However have the portal gun worked on as wekk,

>>1470229
Oh well that's not to truly terrible, just get some power armor, knock over the trailers, maybe use some power fisters to pummel our own tunnel and we might be in business here!

>>1470229
Oh that's not that bad. We can use the tank to drag the rail cars out and I'm sure we can find a way to get the remaining lobotimites to help with tunneling through the rest of the shit.

>>1470230
Dude we are not a city state yet, that's New Vegas, and you also have to recall that both the NCR and the Legion are expanding right now, they will annex us if they can.
I'm not suggesting we fight every Faction we meet, I'm just saying we need the Securitron army if we want a Legitimate chance of surviving and making our dream Nation real.

>>1470182
>Restore a working train locomotive and railroad, and slowly rebuild the rails from BigMT to Mojave
>However, keep working on the portal gun.

>>1470244
Yeah I know we're not at the city state portion yet, I just don't think trying to take over New Vegas is the greatest idea right now.

>>1470249
Why not? The courier can do it all by himself.

Perhaps once we settle the medicine, we should work on the defences of the settlement. The legion is an army after all. The losses from that battle are nothing to them and they'll send another group sooner or later.

>>1470277
That's my plan.

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>>1470277
It's kinda why I want Boone ASAP as well as much equipment and medical aid we can muster.
The guy fucking hates the Legion with a passion and he certainly knows what he's doing when he's waging a one-man war on them.

>>1470279
Speaking of which, we should form an adhoc arrangement with the ranger outpost. We can put up some militia of our own to aid in the patrolling of the riverine coast to ease their workload plus a mutual defense pact they'll come to defend our settlement if we do need help and we'll send aid if they require it.

>>1470282
While that would help, I'd like to try and avoid getting in bed with the NCR as much as possible.
Gonna make the ensuing backlash from raiding their bases during the 2nd battle of Hoover Dam a lot less painful for us.

>>1470283
Needs must. At this stage in development we'd be hard pressed to fend off another attack from the legion. And it's not like this is a formal treaty, this is just a settlement agreement with a local NCR outpost, dealing with the boots. And besides theres absolutely no way there will be little badblood come the 2nd battle.

>>1470285
Fine. I guess we should try getting an agreement going with Ranger Station Echo about having our backs when the Legion tries to pull some shit at Cottonwood.
We should also get some friendly supermutants from Jacobstown moved into Camp Searchlight.
That's another squad of badasses we could have roll into Cottonwood at a moments notice.

>>1470287
Friendly supermutants would be rad.

We could cannabalise some legion armour to make armour sized for the super-mutants.

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Oh yeah. I forgot to ask, but did we ever find the Survivalist's Rifle? That shit's like a national treasure.

>>1470223
If we are going to do this at least test it first on the single prisoner we have.

Rolled 10 (1d100)

>>1470248
Support

Rolled 90 (1d100)

>>1470248
supporting

>>1470113
support

>>1470297
We could use it as a propaganda piece. How even though an American citizen and soldier saw his country destroyed, he still helped his fellow American and he was generous until the very End. Maybe we could even come onto Black Mountain and tell his story, and then call for any man, woman or child who wants to restore the United States and bring back this kind of generosity and caring for his fellow American.

Of course if it would help exactly what I would like him to say, I have a rough outline of a small script of what the courier would say.

Also, we forgot Ulysses again god damn it.

>>1470414
>we forgot Ulysses again
And Graham.

>>1470285
But remember, if we get too close to the NCR, then some might find it hard to turn their back on some NCR. While we could work our a deal with Echo, I think that should be the extent

Morning fella's, whose up right now?

>>1470423
>implying I ever sleep
By the way, could we get Boone to ever leave the NCR and join us?

>>1470425
Depends.

Do you like mind control?

>>1470428
Not to Boone, he doesn't deserve it. Well Maybe I should have known his extreme patriotism couldn't be overridden

>>1470429
Perhaps there's a thing or two to be learnt from the NCR

>>1470429

I guess what matters is not actively antagonising the NCR. IF we wanna keep boone, we can work with them on issues like fighting the legion but refuse to integrate. If or when the NCR comes knocking to try and forcifully integrate our fledging nation, thats when we can kick boone's loyalty a swift gut kick, that his beloved country would just forcefully break a community that just wants to remain separate.

Still, we should bring him to this settlement so that he builds ties here and becomes even more conflicted when he can put faces and lives to names.

>>1470437
Oh most certainly.


I also think we should try and invite him to help us raid the legion, so he is aware that almost everyone on our side would be a ex-legion slave. Something he has spent so long freeing and saving that I doubt he would willingly march to kill them.


Also, we should really get a basic numeracy / literacy program running assuming there is a need for it.

>>1470113
The farms are expanded again, but will take time to come into effect, as its not spring right now and the medicinal plants need time to grow (previous plants were harvested from the ground and placed in pots,this one is an entirely new batch being germinated).

>Settler
"We've still got more land to farm, but eventually we're going to run out.

Not to mention every new plot of land we farm is one we can't use for other structures, and the houses are still rather shoddy. Some folks are patching up roofs with dried plant leaves."

ED-E is found in Primm, where he goes when you dismiss him. You activate his companion protocol again, helping him to return.

As for Primm itself, unfortunately, it's currenty under NCR rule. That was one of the things you had to do to get in the good graces of the NCR right now. Still, the soldiers nearby greet you as you pass them, the Courier is still reverred among the NCR for now.

In NOVAC, Boone is in his motel room. When he learns that you are part of the New American Radio, he frowns.

"I'm not about to join someone who puts down the NCR and weakens its support. If you're going to fight the legion and protect people that's one thing, but if you plan on fighting the NCR and killing our soldiers or citizens, I will take this gun and hunt you down myself."

>Let him be
>Kill him
>Other? - Boone is highly unlikely to join of his own volition.

>Con't

Had a lot of trouble posting, glad its up now.

>>1470441
>Other? - Boone is highly unlikely to join of his own volition.

"I respect your position but killing me would do nothing but doom those under me to death by the Legion's hands. Whom I managed to save them from and who my group are protecting.

You can hate my group, you can hate our goal but I just wanted to make sure you were aware that if you want to take part in raiding Legion shit we are getting as many guns as we can. We could use your skills if nothing else and I would point out that any sort of conflict against the NCR is a distant possibility in my opinion.

The simple fact is, that if even only a few of my lofty goals work, which they will, they will make my nation better than the NCR. I have access to pre-war tech and other such things that make even the most advanced stuff the NCR has seem trivial but I need to get my nation ready to produce it first.

I see the NCR still is your state of loyalty and would ask if nothing else, you don't mention my relations to the radio station to them. The messages being broadcast from there are the honest opinions of many under them and around them and they should be voiced no matter what you may think. That is the goal of my nation, to be the third choice, between NCR and chaos. Between NCR and death. Between NCR and Legion."

Damn, its not letting pictures be posted right now is it.

>>1470454
4chan is being weird, they must be doing maintenance or something.

>>1470441
>Other? - Boone is highly unlikely to join of his own volition.

"And thats perfectly fine. We can all disagree. It's how we deal with our disagreements that matter.

I have no intention of fighting the NCR. I just don't like the way it does things around. Look around the mojave boone. Has the NCR been the best for this region? I'm not saying the legion scum are better than the NCR, no sir. But what the NCR wants, it will trample anything in its path. 'Don't tread on the bear, it treads on you'.

I want to create a different nation. One separate from the NCR and the Legion. A different path to a goal of what the ideals of this land used to be.

Still, whatever your decision, I will respect it. You've been a great friend and companion Boone. We've had good times and if you ever need help for anything, you know where to find me."

>>1470189
>>1470204
>>1470234
>>1470248
>>1470248
>Brain
"Alright, I'll work with you on the actual logistics of such a rail line. But first, you're going to need to convince the Chinese to your side. Your power armor isn't strong enough to move train cars, and you'll need their engineering expertise."

---
You return into the spaceship and make your way to the Chinese settlement. Immediately you are greeted and then rushed by a cheering crowd. Flower petals fall from rooftops and bouquets are pressed into your hand, as the people lead you toward the main Barracks and DanDan.

The people are also amazed by the return of your right arm, one raises it high for all to see.

As you walk by you see a big painted mural death of the tunneler queen. Chinese soldiers firing bravely at the beast, DanDan beneath slashing its underbelly, and you standing in the center, the stump of your right hand still smoking as you bravely lob a grenade into the open mouth of the beast.

There’s a bit of artistic liberty here. For the one, you weren’t standing tall and brave, you were crouched on the ground barely crawling like a worm and doubled over from pain and blood loss, but it’s a nice homage.

You suddenly realize that, as you are walking toward the barracks, you are part of an impromptu parade of sorts. Red flags flying, posters and banners, trumpets and music. You think you hear their national anthem playing as their Red Flag is raised on a pole.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnrbIBH4Ruc

Finally you come to the barracks where DanDan is waiting. Its nice and quiet now and so you have a chance to discuss. You are up front with what you want, and DanDan is able to understand clearly.

>DanDan
"My people will not give up Communism, 'the way'. That is the sort of. . .American propaganda we are taught as children to resist.

We like our way of life, it is the way of our ancestors and the way we want to teach our children. We work together, make a greater future for all, share food in hard times reap field together in good times, not work for greed or money."

DanDan tells you if you want to convince her people to join your cause, they'd mostly likely have these terms:
1 - They are free to continue to practice Communism, and any people who wish to join them
2 - Wherever you decide to take them to, they want to be able to find a land to call their own, to farm and build and live in. they are hard workers and soldiers, but they would not live in radiation or where no humans could live
3 - they would be a free people and state, owning their own means of production where they build it, not to be a vassal or a fief

"My people would be an ally to you, I feel that is the most of what you can ask of them. To abandon Communism, the way, is inconceivable to them."

>>1470454
Is there any way we can clear that radiation from Searchlight? Some prewar tech? Also I like the two posts trying to convince Boone>>1470478
>>1470446

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>1470478
I'll support this. Make it clear we have no intention to fight the NCR, hopefully there can be an understanding there. The legion must go, we think the NCR is better but we think we can do better still.

Live and let live. Besides the NCR might like having the Legion worry about something other than them for a change

>>1470487
Well eventually we have to deal with the NCR but he doesn't need to know that

>>1470489

Eventually. But it won't be us making the the first move, probably. Since militarily it makes no sense.

No it will be the NCR coming after us that we will be forced into a defensive war.

>>1470482
"I am afraid I can't realistically sponsor the creation of an independent state, no matter how closely aligned to my own people's interests.

The simple fact is this, outside of the Alien ship is a land filled with death made by the old world. Beyond that lies a new world nation of american descendants who follow the capitalist ways closely and intensely who might see you as a threat or something to forcibly absorb. Especially for your technology, the tank and so on.

However, my people are few in number and our culture is still forming. If you were to join with us...I suppose we could attempt to incorporate the spirit of communism but I don't think the system itself would survive.

In saying that, I don't think communism would survive outright out there and I feel the future of my nation drifts away from old american capitalism. So perhaps you could be the force that brings us to a new system, eh?"


>>1470484
We can clear the radiation using IRL tech, primarily we just need to find all the irradiated material and either move it or bury it deep under ground. However we can probably throw together something better than that.

>>1470492
Which is the best war to fight against the NCR


>>1470496
We are not adopting any kind of communism. They either become a cultural minority in our empire, or they can sit in their base for eternity

>>1470507
We must make compromises to absorb them and to ensure our survival.

I would point out I am saying the "spirit" of communism. Which essentially comes down to a worker receiving their fair share of the profits and the rich not being in complete control of the government / oppressing the poor / working class.

>>1470496
The Fallout World explicitly operates under a different level of physical constraints more based on 1950's understanding of radiation than we know it today, according to its creators.

Furthermore although the title of the series is 'Fallout' a considerable amount of radiation wasn't just simply from the bombs but also from the nuclear infrastructure of American. In a desperate attempt to try and stave off the total collapse of oil, they tried to integrate nuclear technology into anything they could, cars, home generators, robots. It just wasn't fast enough.

As seen you readily find barrels of radioactive waste throughout the world. This was with less of a stigma than you would have if factories dropped radioactive barrels in the open today, because radiation poisoning could be fixed at the time with a dose of Rad-Away and Rad-X to protect against it.

>>1470511
Our survival isn't dependant on them at all, if anything it is the opposite. We can talk about the spirit of communism all we want but we have a system that we agreed on that meets everything you want and we all agree on that is still capitalistic

>>1470517
That's not to say its impossible to clean up radiation, obviously conventional methods still work (donning suits, and trying to dispose of radioactive items)

There's just a lot more radiation sources to deal with than IRL so the problem is exacerbated.

>>1470517
True but all that you have just stated makes the Sierra Madre machines so much easier to make use of...assuming we get some super mutants or ghouls to process the materials.


>>1470521
True our survival is not dependent on them but at this point in time we can hardly turn down a tank, a town, their troops and the fact they are seemingly skilled with pre-war tech.

As to our system, seemingly the only thing we agreed on was what our priorities in educating our children would be.

>>1470496
"To live in the same place can compromise both our peoples beliefs, would it not? Maybe it work for best and something good come of it, but at worst much conflict and confusion.

Is not coexist but separate the safest? Maybe we not live in Mojave, but somewhere else."

>>1470528
Ha, now you're thinking.

>>1470528
That was what the vending machine debate last thread was for. That basically decided what kind if society we were having. Yes they would be very helpful, and that rank makes me hard, we shouldn't change our culture and government for them

>>1470532
"Still both our old nations no longer exist and that we'll all have to make changes to how to do things eventually. Otherwise all of us might end up fighting each other down the road. Perhaps even though our settlements are separate, we should allow our young ones to mingle and learn? Like some travel to ours, some of ours to yours. Teach them both our ways. Perhaps in time, our children or their children will meld both our ways peacefully.

>>1470441
While at Novac, you see the little shack in front of the settlement. You remember its the home of Rusty, the Pre-war toy turned sentient by some unknown scientist. For his size, he's quite handy with a gun and a knife.

Do you want to invite him to join your cause?

--COTTONWOOD COVE--
>>>>>Food: Below Average (Falling - 8 Turns) [5 Turns till New Farms take effect]
>>>>>Water: Average
>>>>>Morale: High
!WARNING!
>>>>>Medicine: Below Average (Falling - 1 Turns!) [5 Turns till New Farms take effect]
>>>>>Armaments: Plentiful
>>>>>Current Pop: 89
>>>>>Military:
6 Devils Brigade - Power Armor
!NEW!
8 Couriers Companions - Arcade, Doc Delilah, Willow (One Armed), Ares, Cass, Raul, Veronica, ED-E
17 Settlement Militia (Firearms)
11 Ad-Hoc Melee-Armed Militia
8 Fanatical Civilians
>>>>>Prisoner: 1 Legionaire Recruit
>>>>>Fuel: None
>>>>> Infrastructure: Old World Houses. Tents. Prisoner Pen. 2 Garden Farms (Medium, Primitive). Pump Irrigation. Bath Tub Pots. Medicine Shack. Animal Pen (Small), *Raul's Workshop*
>>>>>Defenses: Wooden Watchtower. Concrete Structures (Weakened Slightly).
>>>>>Vehicles: 1 Vertibird
>>>>>>Power: None
>>>>>>Materials: Scrap Metal (small) Scrap Wood (tiny) Electronics (+Above Moderate)
>>>>>>Weapons: Average Legion Melee Weapons (+Moderate, Pristine) Average Legion Firearms (+moderate, Pristine). Mercenary Battle Rifles (Moderate, intact) Average Plasma Rifles (+Moderate, Intact) Average Laser Rifles (+Moderate, Intact)
>>>>>>Ammunition Reserve: Conventional (Moderate) Energy (Moderate)
>>>>>>Armor: Average Leionaire Armor (+Moderate, Pristine) Good Centurion Armor (+Tiny, Intact)
>>>>>>Technology: River Silt Fertilizer. Manure. Delilah's Voodoo. Arcade's Chems. *1 Sierra Madre Vending Machine*
>>>>>>Sierra Madre Chips: None
[Research Capability and Assets: None]
!NEW!
>>>>>>Other:
+3 Allied Followers
+2 Herd Animals (Brahmin/Bighorn)
>>>>>>Research Items/Items of Interest: none
>>>>>>Communications: (Devil's Brigade Radio)

>ALERT
Medicine stores are about to be critically depleted very soon!

>>>>>A. Scavenge (for what)
>>>>>B. Try to improve (which) base
>>>>>C. Try to improve weapons (where).
>>>>>D. Research technology.
>>>>>E. Explore in a direction/something.
>>>>>F. Scavenge for raw materials (where/what)
>>>>>G. Your choice/Write in
>>>>>Turn: 21

>>1470532
Have them go towards the east coast. They could be the Institutea problem. Tell them that we will eventually spread across this great continent, but we will not forget your friendship. Then ask them if they cam give us any schematics or tricks for their vehicles. A parting gift

>>1470551
What can we trade with the caravans to get a short term steady supply of meds?

>>1470532
"We have a fair bit of time before we will have access to the wider world, so we can discuss this more in future. However I would point out, that in the wider world there are very few places your people could go without having to displace others or facing great hardships.

Everything east, south and for a fair distance, west is completely colonised and lived on by two mighty nations and many separate townships. One of whom are a mighty empire that enslave all who won't serve them and commit hideous crimes like leaving their enemies to die on wooden crosses for days at a time.

The other is a nation like the old world America. A nation ruled by the rich, abusing the majority of it's citizens depending on who you believe and forcing others to join their nation. Yet others say that compared to the alternative, that even if these rumours were true, it is better than struggling as townships against bandits and raiders and the radiation-beasts.

The north is a largely unknown region but I can say with good certainty it is filled with horrors like the tunnellers you faced here and the usual assortment of the wastes: bandits, tribal groups and tiny fragments of civilisation. Assuming it hasn't been nuked to hell or something."


>>1470542
I am well aware of that debate. I am well aware of how that debate went and I disagree with the conclusion drawn that we shouldn't rely on these wonderful devices and that many of the reasons for not relying on them were strange.

As to changing our culture and government, that is unlikely. However it wouldn't hurt to have them influence our development seeing as they've maintained a successful and stable society in isolation for 200 years at least under incredible conditions.

Why are we so afraid of letting the Chinese start a settlement.

Only a man who isn't convicted in his beliefs being the best would silence those of others. Let em have their base, well make use of their services, and whether or not we do convince them to adopt capitalism well always have an ally in them. Like anon said they can be a minority in our Empire.

>>1470556
God knows a capitalistic society could do with a healthy dose of civic-mindedness.

>>1470555
Weapons, ammunition, food, armor, just about anything you currently have. Could even slaughter some Brahmin or sell them.

>>1470566
How much brahmin would we need to trade to get us through the 5 turns? Is the +2 the natural growth of the herd?

I'm assuming this wont cost the civ action?

>>1470566
Question, would the Sierra Madre machine be capable of producing the needed medicine?

>>1470561
God yeah, not to mention that famous Chinese stability and productivity.

I vote we let the Chinese have a settlement in Vault 3 where the fiends used to live. I presume we've already killed them. Its right next to the NV Steel and we could employ them to help work the factory, maybe even build things out of steel using their knowledge.

Maybe we could even introduce capitalism to them that way. Pay them for their work, even if it's as a state instead of individual.

>>1470573
We haven't killed them. As we haven't launched the operations relating to eliminating the NCR's control of the wastes.

>>1470568
Trade does not cost an action unless you want to spend a hero action to have their CHA or Barter skills give a boost.

>>1470570
If you scavenge enough metal and fissile material, you can indeed produce turns worth of medicine pending on how much your civ finds.

>>1470573
Sorta hesitant to just hand over that strategic piece of equipment to them. Remember they have no intention of being vassals after all and what would we pay them in? They'd probably grow their own food and medicines so we'd need something else.

We should just find some other settlement plot they can plant roots in.

>>1470575
>>1470573
The Courier has indeed passed by Vault 3 in his walk through the Mojave, however he:
>Decided to open up trade with them, for drugs
>Killed them
>Decided to pass on and let em be

>>1470561
But we do have a healthy dose? We talked end on end about community and influencing the nation to have a close knit relationship with each other. We don't need communism

>>1470579
>>Killed them

>>1470578
We wouldn't give them the NV Steel mill, just let them work in it. Most likely wle'll be the ones bringing in scrap to recycle.

We would trade them with Steel from mill itself, a cut of what is produced, so they can manufacture their own goods. Even gives them something to trade with us or other settlements.

It treats them as independent but an ally.

>>1470580
Have faith in our system. Our people are more used to Capitalism, I see no reason they'd want to switch to communism.

>>1470580
I dont? But there have to be some good lessons from how this community is doing things to incorporate. I mean to cherry-pick the best practices to help create a stable society.

>>1470579
>Decided to open up trade with them, for drugs


We need them alive for Operation Trojan.

>>1470579
We let them be. We need th3 fiends for their assault on Mccarran

>>1470579
QM, how would the Chinese feel about living in a Vault we could give to them? Let them be independent but our ally and share our steel mill together. We would give them a cut of steel to work the mill.

>>1470591
What are we getting from ththough?

>>1470595
Vault 3. Currently held by a group of Raiders. Plans are in place to secure it during the battle of the dam, Operation Trojan.

>>1470595
Workers for the factory, plus engineering and a military ally. I think they have old world blueprints for a War Factory don't they?

When the time to attack comes they'd probably attack camp mcarran much better than raider junkies.

>>1470597
Oh wait you said what not where!

We get a free work force and an ally in a useful position.

>>1470550
"Our people will not forget what you have done for us. You survive the nightmare where no one else has, and now even the aliens no longer control us. You are a hero to them, even if you are a capitalist American. Even if a hundred years past, we will tell our children what you did, and we would honor your people.

I think we can agree to share students. History says before the war, Chinese and American students used to 'exchange program', in name of peace."

Let's talk Federalism then.
Since we are the new (and better) United States it's a policy we ought to adopt anyway. The Chinese can be the First (or Second State) in the new Union we (the Courier) are head of the Nation (at least until elections and a three branched government become feasible) and we use this opportunity to lay down a basic constitution (Liberty is a really sexy Right when you are a slave) and make (production-) Property a State Right. Not only can the Chinese keep their Communism we get a way to (eventually) absorb the NCR without bloodshed -until now it was either us or NCR now our offer can be us and NCR. Plus we can mine this for delicious propaganda opportunities: treaty signing celebrations, a holiday, et cetera.

>>1470600
>>1470601
We don't really need workforce. We have enough people for our factories all around the wasteland

>>1470608
Doesn't mean we should reject an opportunity for allies and more workers.

How many of them are educated in schools and know how to work a tank like the Chinese do.

>>1470607
I hate federal governments but I can see the benefits. So long as we include clauses to allow us to absorb the states in the long term. As I find that states often don't maintain a real usefulness for management after a few decades at least, thanks to economic centres moving and needs changing.


>>1470608
We really don't. Seeing as we currently have about 100 people.

>>1470579
Killed them.


>anons think communism work somehow

>>1470617
We have a 100 people but the NCR has tens of thousands in their capital alone.

>>1470620
Exactly. So why are we arguing. I am saying we need more people?

Hey guys. Let the Chinese stay here and help clear out MT and work on this side of the train tracks.

>>1470556
"In much older history, before even Great War, our books talk about an ancient empire we once fought. They came from the east of China too, to enslave us all. Cut the heads of men and women with swords. Put babies on bayonets. Rape and burn entire cities. We call it "Great War before Great War". Legends say empire was so evil, even Americans became ally of China. The "Rìběn" Empire, our books call it.

I think, to fight an enemy like that again would inspire my people.

They also not want to bow to the other nation, where the Rich rule and abuse. It is asked "is this not also slavery?" when the poor must bow to the rich. This is against our way.

It saddens us that there are few safe places for our people, but this is the world after the Great War. We are still brave and if you were to lead us to find a safe place we would be even more brave."

>>1470591
"hmm, I think . .yes, I think that work well. My people would agree to that. We hear of ancient Vaults where American's would make safe place for themselves in the War.

My people would agree to live in Vault if belong to our own, and work alongside yours, work as allies yes? Fight two evil empires together."

>>1470630
Ask'em how they'd fair or fell controlling this side of the railway line?

>>1470634
Your pip boy pipes up.

>Brain
"I wouldn't recommend keeping the Chinese inside BigMT and outside the vessel any longer than needed. I think that might trigger some old world anti-communist defenses and that would be very very bad for you and I. If you move them, you'll need to get them out of BigMT as soon as possible."

>>1470644
What type of communism we talking about here anyway?

>>1470625
That is the assumption we are making, the problem is that the old world researchers will essentially use them as test subjects.


>>1470630
"We can set you up in that vault and help you survive and adapt to the new world outside but for now we need to clear a path. Might I suggest fixing one of the trains and clearing the line out of this cursed crater before the pre-war automated defences find and try to...eliminate you.

Also, that second empire is not evil. It's just they lack a competitor and thus are falling to corruption far quicker than they might otherwise do. Given a proper opponent, say both of our groups and a few others I know, we could present a serious competitor in the market of being the major power and the nation people want to join."

>>1470648
>Brain
"There's very little records about what communism actually means here that isn't just propaganda. The system is simply attuned to any sort of Red stars, Chinese voices, and obvious insignia. Whatever the American's have on communism seems to be based on how to find, detect, and kill communists."

---
>DanDan
"I'm not sure how else to explain. We work together for all yes? Farmers till the soil, then gather it in storage. Then we hand out food to each of us. Bullet makers make bullets, put it in armory, then hand out to soldiers. That really most of what I know."

>>1470648
Based off of the game, Maoist theory possibly. Which is focused heavily on the agrarian section of society.


>>1470653
...However...based off of her description it seems they've reverted to true communal theory: no private property purely because to have such a thing would greatly weaken their ability to survive, thanks to ineffective management and division of resources on their scale. Plus a lack of things to really trade.

>>1470653
Point out we are worried that if transplanted into the 'land's' we dwell in. It'll be like a virus entering the human body. They may fall under attack from the various groups and even not be able to make friends. As there are currently 2 super powers competition and various minors

>>1470657
I'm worried how House and everybody will react to this sudden..showing

>>1470661
House wouldn't care, they are too small and weak (assuming he doesn't hear about the tank or at least doesn't believe) to effect his plans significantly.

Don't forget to vote on a Civ/Hero action, plus you have a free Repair action

>>1470666
Actions:

Civ - Hunt Mire-lurks / Geckos in the area
Hero - Assist with the above
Repair - Attempt to improve the condition of our weapons

This will solve our food problems entirely while making things safer in the region.


ALSO send someone to go and update the radio station's message, set up a general call for any medical resources people can spare to be sent to Cottonwood cove.

>>1470661
"Your people seem brave to face 2 super powers, my people would not like to be cowards and bow where you stand against them. I think, we find strength together instead of alone. That is a tenant of our 'way'. 'Cooperation'"

>>1470650
Dandan nods.
"If we can live there and rule ourselves, then we help you clear railroad and even help work steel mill."

You are able to offer the Chinese the terms:
>They will help clear the railway and build a railroad to the Mojave
>Vault 3 will be offered for them to live in, in relative autonomy as allies
>They will also help work the steel mill for a portion of steel given to their state
CHOOSE:
>Confirm/Deny

If you want to suggest they live somewhere else or modify the terms, say so