You are now on the New World's Hope, a settlement reborn from the ashes of the Old World Mourn, an artificial island created from the debris of thousands of wrecked ships and vessels that were destroyed during the great war.

What once was a complete pile of useless junk and sharp rusty metal full of radioactive rats is now the foundation of a new island, a paradise among mounds of burning ash.

A month has passed since you saved this entire island from complete nuclear annihilation. During these days many things have changed, all for the better. There are black sands surrounding the coasts and light brown soil everywhere else. It didn't take long for the first crops to grow up along with patches of green grass to start appearing everywhere and a month after its birth, for the first time ever, the island smelled of petrichor in the morning. A few colorful flowers and berry shrubs come afterward, and soon will the first trees. Grasshoppers, worms bees, frogs, crabs, and other friendly fauna is also brought from the other islands and with their help, the islands' flora and fauna become more diverse and lifelike.

A few of the island's original buildings have been restored and repaired but most were demolished as they were too damaged. Nobody shed a tear for these rusty monstruosities thoughts.

>>3774194

The New World's Hope is really promising but there's a war around you. You need to grow up and become strong fast, Ohana or the Sons of Kanaloa will devour you whole as soon as they have the chance. You need manpower, During these days you reunited a team of engineers, scientists, grease monkeys, electricians, black fingers and anyone who had a knack with anything mechanical or scientific along with anybody who was willing to volunteer and help. You taught everybody what kind of items, pieces, and resources they had to search around the island’s debris and together you all gathered enough pieces to create a couple of robot workbenches that quickly were put into use to create several Protectrons and Mr.Handies, the basic workbots units. The thirty days are spent doing that, combing the ruins and cleaning them of anything dangerous and searching for copper, steel, circuits, and other items necessary and using whatever was found to build robots. Most of the island’s electric grid is busted, which is a shame because there’s a perfectly working nuclear reactor literally under your feet.

When the month ended Terry summoned you along with Kame and Marga to see what kind of advances everybody did. He gave you all total liberty to do as you pleased as long as it was related to your specific field and did not interfere with whatever the other two were doing, his word was final thought, he could at any time cancel any plans that you or the other two might have. Many of the settlers of the island disliked the corruption and lies that flood the countries of Ohana and Kanaloa. So to avoid that your meeting is completely public, a small table is set in the middle of the island and four chairs are put around it, everybody who wants to attend is free to do so and every citizen has the right to speak and voice their opinion during specific talking turns.

Terry is the first one to come, getting every ready and even preparing some food and snacks for people who might want to come, despite not being perhaps the best leader he’s clearly excited about this all and his heart of gold makes him a really good person. He’s now out of his power armor and wearing an old grey suit with a clearly handmade band with the words “MAYOR” on and a small nametag with the name “Terrance” pinned to his left chest. When you all appear he sits on one of the chairs and instructs you two to do the same. Marga is wearing a dress made of flowers, hemp, and other natural fibers, Kame continues wearing his olive army garb, now with much fewer medals and flashy details. To save on Fusion Core battery you have also come in plain clothes, as plain as you can be anyway.

>>3774196

“Hear all hear all” Terry yells at the few people who have come. “The New World’s Hope first monthly meeting is now starting. Please inform of your acts of this month and what you plan to do for the next one.

Nobody spoke at first, it is clear that everybody feels a little bit awkward, specially Kame as he’s a soldier at heart and not someone used to give speeches or reports in this way. Not wanting for this to become too embarrassing you decide to go first.

“I have built a couple of Robot Workbenches and used them to build forty robots, twenty Protectrons, and twenty Mr.Handies, they all have basic AI, no real personality modules or anything fancy. I will grant five of each type to you two Marga and Kame to aid you in your respective fields. I will keep another five of each for myself and the remaining five Protectrons and Mr.Handies can be stored to be used as replacements in case one breaks down or perhaps even be rented to particular citizens.” You say.

“Robots are...empty husks, they are not nature touched.” Adds Marga with a voice that sounds like the rustling of dry leaves. “But even they can be one with nature if one works enough with them. I will gladly accept them, they will be really useful in gardening, farming and replantation work. Thank you, Dillinger.” She says with a soft nod.

“Can I modify them?” Asks Kame.

“Yes sure, feel free to ask my people to add weapons, armor or whatever you might. No screwing with their AIs or Subroutines without my approval and supervision thought the last thing we need right now is some berserk robots running loose.” You say.

Kame simply nods softly, apparently respecting and approving your ways.

“As you can all see the island is starting to get green and alive, but it isn’t enough. I’ve been talking with the local ship captains to bring me certain seeds and animals, despite being Vegan myself due to my condition as a Floramancer mutant I understand that the population needs meat sources to be healthy, during the next month we will introduce brahmin, rabbits, chickens, pigeons, iguanas and especially cats to deal with the rat population. Brahmins, Cats and Chickens will be in the city and its farms while pigeons, iguanas, and rabbits will be released on the wild and when their populations become big enough we will able to start hunting seasons to cull their numbers and avoid overpopulation”

>>3774198

As she spoke many people came and started listening, to these people food was their top priority right now. When she was done Kame started shortly afterward.

“I formed a small militia made from mercs, old bounty hunters, renegade soldiers from Ohana and Kanaloa and anyone willing to fight. We took the different ships and scouted Hawaii to see what’s the situation right now. The War between Ohana and the Sons continues and seems to be a war that will be raging for long, as both nations are similarly equally powerful. The Sons have better technology, weapons, vehicles robots and access to drones but Ohana has way more soldiers and counts with the help of the Enclave, these fascists have completely abandoned any attempt at hiding and have revealed themselves as the true leaders behind Ohana. I can’t even imagine what kind of tragedies are happening in that god-forsaken country now. There are rumors of Kanaloa taking corpses from their battles and using inhumane technology to fill them with bionic weapons and reanimate their bodies and use them as recycled soldiers. The Enclave is also releasing genetic abominations upon the battlefields and there have been many sights of psychic individuals causing havoc. Of course, as everybody knows psykers are at a thing, but they are really rare, we have never seen them in such numbers and never so aggressive and focused, so there is surely some kind of technology or something afoot that creates and controls them, clones perhaps?”

He sighs and lights a thick San Francisco sunlights cigar.

“Damn, things were much simpler when there were only human and robotic soldiers. The High Evolutionary is also entering into the fray of war, Hawaii is a forbidden island for several reasons, it's an island covered in a death-jungle, the only thing inside is crazed tribals, raider gangs and mutant monsters and the only settlement on the island is an old pre-War prison turned into a fortress dedicated to war and death. The Super-Mutants control that island with an iron grip, the tribes, and gangs fight to become stronger and prove their worth to the High Evo lords and gain the possibility of becoming a Super-Mutant and according to their beliefs, evolving further and becoming nearly perfect. The place is so dangerous that the pirates instead went to the second most dangerous place in all of Hawaii, the Old World Mourn, when word spread of how we kicked their asses, Kunuiakea, the leader of the High-Evolutionary sent several emissaries and gave them an offer. Several hectares of land in the eastern coast of Hawaii, a land that would be never attacked by Raiders, Tribals or critters and would be for them to build their new pirate paradise, all in exchange of becoming their personal navy when the time comes.”

>>3774200

“When the time comes?” Asks Terry.

“When Ohana and Kanaloa are too burned out, too weak, then, they will attack and kill both armies with ease. And without the only things that could stop them in their way, they will have total liberty to attack the rest of the islands and put them all under their salvage rule. If you think that Hawaii is bad now then you haven’t seen anything yet. If we don’t act quickly we will wish we are dead.”

Kame talks bluntly, perhaps too bluntly, but Terry was the one who wanted an open meeting, one where everybody could see and hear what is going on. Now that there are several people gathered everybody starts to mumble and whisper, clearly nervous.

“And what will we do about it?” Asks a little boy, no older than seven.

“Well, the Brotherhood of Steel has contacted me. They are impressed with our achievement and wishes to build an embassy on the island. They would offer military and technological aid in the exchange of thirty percent of our total energetic output. Dillinger, since technology is your field I didn’t give them an answer yet. I want them here, but I wanted to know what do you think about it.” Despite not knowing you Kame respected you, you can’t avoid feeling respect from him too due to his attitude.

If the Brotherhood gets in the island then you would have access to their forge, workbenches, and other crafting stations without needing to go to the PMV Valdez, they will also give a decent boost of defense with all their weapons and power-armored soldiers and perhaps some of the local human kids might also decide to join them. Their presence might also be good for the economy as the soldiers, scribes and other brotherhood personnel might spend their caps in the local shops and businesses, once they are built. If another of their missions also pops up you will be able to simply head into the embassy and ask them to transport you. On the other side, their presence might make some people nervous and taking thirty percent of the total energetic output might end becoming really draining for your island once the entire electrical grid is built and laid.

>We need to be strong together. Allow for the Brotherhood to build their embassy on the island and to use 30% of your energy.
>No, I have experienced how the Brotherhood acts, they are ever hungry leeches of tech and power, they will end biting the hand that feeds them.
>Think of a counter-offer. See if they accept. (Write in.)
>Other option: Write in.

>>3774204
If we are already producing excess energy
>We need to be strong together. Allow for the Brotherhood to build their embassy on the island and to use 30% of your energy
Otherwise no. We need to focus on fortifying the island first and foremost. Or AT LEAST locking down our airspace.

>>3774222
>If we are already producing excess energy
The thing is, that right now we have the nuclear reactor up and running but no electrical grid laid out, we don't know if what we have will be enough for the entire island if we give them 30% of our power.

>>3774232
Well in that case I vote no.
>renegotiate a deal once we know what we have in terms of energy production capability/scale.

>>3774235
+1

>>3774235
Also be Polite about turning the deal down, emphasizing on how early in its life this government is and decisions this big this early are really risky when we barely have the necessities of survival up and running. And keep Dillinger's involvement in the NWH gov as hidden as possible from the BoS lest they pressure us into enacting some hostile takeover from the inside.

>>3774204
>>We need to be strong together. Allow for the Brotherhood to build their embassy on the island and to use 30% of your energy.

>>3774204
this >>3774235
and if we contact them, ask them about the bike, it's been way too long

Also, while we deny the power thing until our power system is better, accept the deal about the embassy

Rolled 1 (1d2)

Alright, voting time is closed. Studying how much energy we will need wins.

Rolling to see if our island is able to run smoothly with less than 70%.energy.

>Run smoothly
1

>Need more than 70%
2

Noice m8

Alright so we can afford having them leeching our energy. Should we invite them then?

>>3774370
yes

>>3774370
As much as I don't like the idea it's our best chance at survival.

Yeah let’s invite dem

>>3774370
let's.
plus with a bit of luck -someone- will move here

>>3774204

"I... As much as I don't like the idea it might be our best chance at survival." You end saying. "Give me a couple of days to run calculations and stress tests to see if the island could work with only seventy percent of energy."

The meeting ends and privately along with Marga and Kame you are given 2500 caps each. All paid in bottlecaps or in objects. All taken from the treasures found on the island.

While most of the people of the island aren't paid in food, shelter, and water for their work instead of receiving caps you three are given a monthly salary. When the island's shops and other businesses start becoming the norm everybody will be given some money to start with, around 500 caps, enough to kickstart a small economy that might boom over the years.

As the island flourishes and grows so will be your rewards and you will start receiving things like more money, tax breaks, favors from high places, who knows, only time will tell.

For the next two days you go and check on the nuclear reactor, see its energetic outputs and do several calculations with all your techie workers and friends, and find that the reactor is powerful enough to power the entire island and even has enough to spare and accept the Brotherhood’s deal without suffering from power outages.

With a sigh, you inform Kame of this and he immediately starts to write a letter accepting the offer. Seeming pretty excited about it. Hopefully, this will mean that you will have your Rocketbike returned soon. And who knows perhaps with Elora being so eager to explore the world and live outside the Valdez she might end moving too.

Now that you are done with that all you gotta do is decide what you, your men and your robots will be working on during the next month.

>Choose two options:

>Focus on building an electrical grid for the island, giving everybody electrical lights. Right now less than half of the island's inhabitants have access to electricity.
>Focus on building defense measures and turrets, protecting the island from external threats. Right now there are only fifteen working turrets, not enough to cover the entire island.
>Focus on building a working harbor and drydock so ships can safely dock, refuel and be repaired. Right now the ships are all anchored around the island and have no way of being repaired or refueling.
>Create more robots, use them to create a small secret army only loyal to you that you could work along with the Nightstalker crew and you could use to defend the island, defend your properties or even send on missions across Hawaii
>Focus on plumbing, even if it's just public fountains at the start both people and plant are going to need clean, unsalted water
>Focus on creating an armory for everybody to have proper weapons and armor. Right now, the mercs and soldiers under Kame's are properly equipped the rest have little to no armor and mostly weak weapons.

>>3774471
>While most of the people of the island aren't paid

I meant to say are paid

>>3774471
>Focus on building an electrical grid for the island, giving everybody electrical lights. Right now less than half of the island's inhabitants have access to electricity.
>Focus on plumbing, even if it's just public fountains at the start both people and plant are going to need clean, unsalted water

>>3774471
>Focus on building an electrical grid for the island, giving everybody electrical lights. Right now less than half of the island's inhabitants have access to electricity.
This'll attract more citizens = more tax income and manpower
>Focus on building defense measures and turrets, protecting the island from external threats. Right now there are only fifteen working turrets, not enough to cover the entire island.
ESPECIALLY shit like SAMs and CIWSs, preferrably with a radar adn/or LIDAR system to support it. we do not want a repeat of Rustfields. NOTHING get's in our airspace without us knowing and stays alive for more than S E C O N D S!

>>3774520
>ESPECIALLY shit like SAMs and CIWSs, preferrably with a radar adn/or LIDAR system to support it. we do not want a repeat of Rustfields. NOTHING get's in our airspace without us knowing and stays alive for more than S E C O N D S!

Yeah ...no.

We have the brains but lack the tech to do that kind of stuff. And you think that the BoS will allow for It. Please

>>3774534
>And you think that the BoS will allow for It.
Welp, this alliance was a huge mistake.

>>3774484
+1

With the brotherhood coming over, we got enough defense

>>3774471
>Focus on building a working harbor and drydock so ships can safely dock, refuel and be repaired. Right now the ships are all anchored around the island and have no way of being repaired or refueling.

Most of our people rely on their boats for trade or fishing, being able to more easily dock or repair them will enhance their ability to support us and bring us closer to other markets.

>Create more robots, use them to create a small secret army only loyal to you that you could work along with the Nightstalker crew and you could use to defend the island, defend your properties or even send on missions across Hawaii

Long term we should look into using our authority to take a degree of the supplies / labour under our command and use it to improve that Island that is held entirely by the Radio-AI since it gave us permission to use there as a base: if we are smart about it we could use robots to construct defences, farms and god knows what else, securing us a independent powerbase and ensuring that the AI is safe.

With a secret base like that, we could slowly eliminate the ships of various other factions, take them there and restore them to good order, slowly creating a dangerous battle fleet under our command to help neutralise the risk of the High Evo lords.

>>3774471
>Focus on building an electrical grid for the island, giving everybody electrical lights. Right now less than half of the island's inhabitants have access to electricity.
>Focus on plumbing, even if it's just public fountains at the start both people and plant are going to need clean, unsalted water

Sorry guys, I was having dinner and then had to clean the dishes. Writing now.

>>3774471
>Focus on building an electrical grid for the island, giving everybody electrical lights. Right now less than half of the island's inhabitants have access to electricity.
>Focus on plumbing, even if it's just public fountains at the start both people and plant are going to need clean, unsalted water

Along with your group of gearheads you all start building the different pipes for the water and electric cables to for the water network and electrical grid, this particular task is way easier than building robots at the workbenches but since you need to lay these pipes for miles it ends becoming a back-breaking and incredibly tedious job, with workers even needing to do extra hours every day of the week just to meet the demand. After two entire weeks and with several miles of pipes built you divide the teams in two, one tasked with doing more pipes, the other in digging in the soil and laying the pipes all across the city. Each team focuses on one task for an entire week, then switch so it isn’t as monotonous. Thank god you have your robots, otherwise, this would have been an impossible task and you would have to focus in only one resource, either water or electricity.

Despite being their boss you also earn the bread by the sweat of your brow. You work more than twelve hours a day, every day of the week. Digging and encountering metal instead of more soil it’s a weird experience, but you all get used to it pretty quickly. Most of the nights you are so tired that you simply head home and fall upon your bed in the Nightstalker, a few other nights you stay awake for a few more hours and drink a cool one with the boys in the Rustbucket, your crew in the Nightstalker or with your own workers in the beach named after you.

>>3774820

By the end of the month, all of the island has access to electricity. Several public lamposts have also been built and installed and the nights are now brightly illuminated thanks to countless of neon signs and the lightbulbs of all colors, sizes, and shapes that the different settlers have found and installed on their homes. Now that there is electricity people have also started to use electric fans, radios, jukeboxes, and washing machines, adding an extra layer of background noise to an otherwise dead silent island.

In the last day of the month, two things change on the island. Several Vertibirds come flying from afar, landing on the northern coast and from these several Brotherhood Knights, Paladins and Scribes descend, all carrying their Power-Armors, energy weapons, fake smiles, and enough concrete and rebar to build a bunker, which they surely planned to do, embassy my ass. The second change is in your terminal on the Nightstalker, it’s light blinking and softly beeping, informing you that you had been assigned a new mission.

>Fuck them; you have better things to do. Meet them and tell them that you don’t want to continue doing missions for them. Sarge quit, you can too.
>Meet them and get in one of the Vertibirds, tell your workers, crew, and family that you will be out for a couple of weeks.
>Other option, write in.

>>3774824
>>Meet them and get in one of the Vertibirds, tell your workers, crew, and family that you will be out for a couple of weeks.

>>3774824
>Meet them and get in one of the Vertibirds, tell your workers, crew, and family that you will be out for a couple of weeks.
after a few more paydays we go strictly private sector; either making Pono company great again or making our own PMC.

>Meet them and get in one of the Vertibirds, tell your workers, crew, and family that you will be out for a couple of weeks.

Can we have the robots do something in our stead while we’re gone?

>>3774925
Alright, we meet with the BoS then, now its time to decide what our workers and our bots will do while we are out.

>Focus on building defense measures and turrets, protecting the island from external threats. Right now there are only fifteen working turrets, not enough to cover the entire island.
>Focus on building a working harbor and drydock so ships can safely dock, refuel and be repaired. Right now the ships are all anchored around the island and have no way of being repaired or refueling.
>Create more robots, use them to create a small secret army only loyal to you that you could work along with the Nightstalker crew and you could use to defend the island, defend your properties or even send on missions across Hawaii
>Focus on creating an armory for everybody to have proper weapons and armor. Right now, the mercs and soldiers under Kame's are properly equipped the rest have little to no armor and mostly weak weapons.
>Focus on developing a small factory for settlers to work at and gain money while you produce objects.
>Focus on developing a garage where you can modify and repair vehicles and Power-Armor or the population.
>Focus on creating a research lab to be able to create better and more complex technologies.

>>3774934
>>Focus on building a working harbor and drydock so ships can safely dock, refuel and be repaired. Right now the ships are all anchored around the island and have no way of being repaired or refueling.
>>Create more robots, use them to create a small secret army only loyal to you that you could work along with the Nightstalker crew and you could use to defend the island, defend your properties or even send on missions across Hawaii

>>3774925
>Can we have the robots do something in our stead while we’re gone?
Fuck I forgot to answer you. We now can choose up to two things to do. If you want the bots to do a particular thing then they won't be able to help your workers and instead of two options you will only be able to choose one

>>3774934
>Focus on building defense measures and turrets, protecting the island from external threats. Right now there are only fifteen working turrets, not enough to cover the entire island.
The BoS won't help us when the time comes.
>Focus on building a working harbor and drydock so ships can safely dock, refuel and be repaired. Right now the ships are all anchored around the island and have no way of being repaired or refueling.
Mo' Money, Mo' Manpower.

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Sorry guys I wanna continue but I'm falling asleep. So I will leave it for today, a shame because I really want to write and I feel kinda inspired today.

Tomorrow's my free day so my running hours will be longer yay!

The next BoS mission will be pretty intense, you better be careful!

>As always, feel free to shitpost, write questions, review and critique the quest and tomorrow when I wake up I will check every message and reply to as many as I can!

>Thanks for playing, see you tomorrow!

>Focus on building a working harbor and drydock so ships can safely dock, refuel and be repaired. Right now the ships are all anchored around the island and have no way of being repaired or refueling.
>Focus on developing a small factory for settlers to work at and gain money while you produce objects.
“The next BoS mission will be pretty intense”

So what did we decide on when we last leveled up?

>>3774934
>Focus on building defense measures and turrets, protecting the island from external threats. Right now there are only fifteen working turrets, not enough to cover the entire island.
>Focus on building a working harbor and drydock so ships can safely dock, refuel and be repaired. Right now the ships are all anchored around the island and have no way of being repaired or refueling.

>>3774980
+10 Science and Rad Resistance. The Standard Perk one, because there's two perks named the same for some God-forsaken reason.

>>3774971
Quick question, will we ever see the return of the traditional combat i.e "you have x HP, the enemy has Y hp, roll Zd6 to determine damage", or have we permanently moved onto the "roll d12 and see what happens"? If latter, what happens to all of the perks that are clearly made for the formwer system?

>>3774934
>Focus on building defense measures and turrets, protecting the island from external threats. Right now there are only fifteen working turrets, not enough to cover the entire island.
>Focus on developing a small factory for settlers to work at and gain money while you produce objects.


>>3774971
>The next BoS mission will be pretty intense, you better be careful!
Worrying, luckily we odd to have a chance to improve at least a bit of our equipment.

>>3774986
I looked through our character sheet and....

Jesus Christ we automatically succeed now on all science rolls.

>>3774986
>The Standard Perk one,
Oh shit, you guys wanted the other? I can still change it if you want

>because there's two perks named the same for some God-forsaken reason.
Because I'm dumb as a brick that's why. I will rename the Racial Version one something different the moment come up with a good name.

>>3774987
>Quick question, will we ever see the return of the traditional combat i.e "you have x HP, the enemy has Y hp, roll Zd6 to determine damage", or have we permanently moved onto the "roll d12 and see what happens"?
Yes, but only with enemies that can stand a chance against us. Unlike in real tabletop, rolling dice here can take minutes, and that can make combat long and tedious. For enemies like swarms of radroaches or other weaklings we will continue with the d12 system because it makes things faster and easier and helps keeping up with the pace.

>If latter, what happens to all of the perks that are clearly made for the former system?
They are still taken in consideration. For example we got the "and stay back!" perk that allows us to tackle down enemies with our unarmed attacks and in the last fight against the chained ghouls I described how our punches throw them to the floor.

>>3775106
>Jesus Christ we automatically succeed now on all science rolls.
We are level 12 and we took comprehension really soon. So we have been getting a lot of skillpoints from the very beginning. Most games with a level limit have it at around level 20 to 30. Topping a single skill by level 12 isn't so far fetched.

>>3774934
>Focus on building defense measures and turrets, protecting the island from external threats. Right now there are only fifteen working turrets, not enough to cover the entire island.
3 votes

>Focus on developing a small factory for settlers to work at and gain money while you produce objects.
2 votes

>Focus on building a working harbor and drydock so ships can safely dock, refuel and be repaired. Right now the ships are all anchored around the island and have no way of being repaired or refueling.
4 votes

>Create more robots, use them to create a small secret army only loyal to you that you could work along with the Nightstalker crew and you could use to defend the island, defend your properties or even send on missions across Hawaii
1 vote

Writing now

>>3774934
>Focus on building defense measures and turrets, protecting the island from external threats. Right now there are only fifteen working turrets, not enough to cover the entire island.
>Focus on building a working harbor and dockyard so ships can safely dock, refuel and be repaired. Right now the ships are all anchored around the island and have no way of being repaired or refueling.

You give your workers clear and precise instructions and tell them what you want them to do during the following month, and you even tell them that Nikoley, your best engineer, is to substitute you in case you don't return in more than a month.

These two projects are cooperative. Half of you men are to work in building a harbor along with Marga and her workers and the other half in crafting and placing the turrets and other defenses along with Kame and his soldiers. It's a good thing that your people are meeting and working with other teams, having the population joining together for a single cause helps them to strengthen relationships between them.

As you give the instructions and tell them about your sudden leave many of your workers give you weird looks but they know it’s better not to ask. You do something similar with your crew at the Nightstalker and tell them that if you don't return in a month they are to follow Saltgut's orders and consider him as their new captain. Since they part of the island’s population the Rustbucket’s crew has started to work for Marga and your soldiers have are now working for Kame as guards, but you know that despite considering the New World Hope their new home they don't hold any loyalty to it, and that if you ordered them to sail somewhere else they would obey.

With that done you went onto your private room in your warship and got ready to rumble, you loaded a fresh and fully charged Fusion Core on your Power-Armor, reloaded all your weapons and added new Fusion-Cells and Flamer fuel to your weapons. You put your cloak over your armor and even had a quick shave to avoid your new beard from chaffing against your helmet.

Slowly you get out and head into the northern part of the island to meet with the Brotherhood, they didn’t lose any second and were already moving debris and shoveling the floor to build their new “Embassy”. A few people had come to see them and a couple of Scribes were talking with them in a friendly manner, the Knights were not as cheerful and simply kept close to their resources and building materials, with their Laser-Gatlings tightly grasped, clearly distrusting the wastelanders.

>>3776059

Once you approach them the different Knights get tense and prepare to shoot. One thing is seeing wastelanders and the occasional soldier, but an individual carrying a power-armor and several high-tech weapons checked all their red flags and sent them into a red alarm state. You walk with your arms raised high to prove that you are not armed, which is a pretty hard thing to do when you hands are diamond-tipped claws that are constantly spewing lighting and surrounded by a corona of sparking electricity.

“Take me to your leaders.” You say with your booming voice.

The Knights don’t answer and simply aim their weapons at you.

“Stand back citizen!” One says.

The Scribes and Wastelanders that were chatting separate and move away, the wastelanders run to safety and return home, the scribe goes to the Vertibird’s Ham-Radio to communicate with the Valdez.

Several tense minutes pass by, but in the end, you are given the green light. The Knights are given instructions from their helmet’s radio-communicators and then, after doubting for a while they finally put their guns down.

“I don’t know who are you or why the hell you are to be transported into the Valdez. But I will keep an eye on you.” Says one of the Knights acting all cocky.

You simply walk past and head into the Vertibird while flipping him the bird with your clawed lighting middle finger and see him fume in anger, wanting to fight you but being unable as he has to follow orders.

After getting in the vehicle you ascend into the skies and for the first time ever see your island from above. Honestly, it now looks like a real island, a very bare and barren one at that but not one that looks like it has been built over a pile of junk.

The Valdez is not very far away so the Vertibird doesn’t flies too high. During your travel you also see the Glowshore, the small island where the AI radio-host Rainbow Jack broadcasts from. The Brotherhood are now in control of the place, and it shows, as you can see several vertibirds parked down there and a few soldiers and other personnel moving around.

As you land on the Valdez you can see that the place is as busy as always. Once more you are taken across secret passages onto Elder Vasquez’s meeting room. You are the first one to come, in fact, you are completely alone there, you came as soon as you received the notice after all. Poison and Tankdozer still have around 46 hours to come.

>Go check on Elora, tell her about your new adventures, make the guy that is into her jealous as shit, and see if you can finally score with her.
>Go get yourself some new bionics, weapons, or mods. You can never have too many toys on yourself.
>Go check if the Scribes are done with your rocketbike, you want it back damn it.
>See if you can hack into Vasquez’ terminal and see if his plans for the Glowshore and New World Hope are in there
>Other option, write in.

>Go check if the Scribes are done with your rocketbike, you want it back damn it.

>>3776063
>Go check if the Scribes are done with your rocketbike, you want it back damn it.
>Go get yourself some new bionics, weapons, or mods. You can never have too many toys on yourself.
>See if you can hack into Vasquez’ terminal and see if his plans for the Glowshore and New World Hope are in there

>>3776063
>Go check if the Scribes are done with your rocketbike, you want it back damn it.
>Go check on Elora, tell her about your new adventures, make the guy that is into her jealous as shit, and see if you can finally score with her.

>>3776063
>Go check if the Scribes are done with your rocketbike, you want it back damn it.

Not wasting any time you leave the room and don't giving a damn if any of the workers around see you you walk towards the forge. The place is as usual in full production, kilns are full of fire, sparks are flying everywhere, and the noise of welders working the metal, hammers hitting constantly and flames cracking fill the air.

It doesn't' takes you long to find a rocketbike, but not your rocketbike. This one has several little differences, it seems that the local scribes couldn't completely reverse engineer your genius and had to think of different methods of locomotion, and other small changes that made the bike end looking radically different, sturdier, bigger and more industrial. Your bike will still be the fastest one in all the Wasteland, the Brotherhood rocketbikes are more directed towards war. Next to the bike you find desk with a terminal a Scribe collapsed on the floor next to dozens of empty coffee cups and thousands upon thousands of pages full of mathematic and chemical formulas, diagrams and other writings, he apparently worked hard on the bike and was transcribing everything in a nearby terminal to digitalize everything and save it for posterity. She's simply soundly asleep, her report half-written. You cover her with your cape and sit on her seat, the poor chair cracking heavily under the weight of your power-armor. You quickly go across her pages and what she wrote on the terminal and start reading it all.

>>3776217

Their rocketbikes have an emplacement between the bike handles that can be fitted with different weapons like Combat rifles, Gauss-Rifles, Flamethrowers, and other big similarly sized weapons. There is also a small charging station located behind the pilot's seat that can be used to recharge fusion cores, have a small automated turret installed there to defend against tailgating enemies or have an Eyebot connected to it to control and drive the rocketbike while you focus on shooting. Honestly, they did a really good job and added several interesting new features, perhaps you could even add some of their innovations on your own Rocketbike.

You check on the terminal data entries and find several logs about how they tore your rocketbike piece by piece and learned its secrets. There isn't a single mention about you, fuckers. The good thing is that one of the last entries details where your bike is. You travel to the container where they stored it and with a single punch open it and reveal it's marvelous contents. You can almost hear an angelic chorus as you open the container doors.

Holding back tears you check on your pip-Boy's clock and see that only 3 hours have passed since you came here.

>Go check on Elora, tell her about your new adventures, make the guy that is into her jealous as shit, and see if you can finally score with her.
>Go get yourself some new bionics, weapons, or mods. You can never have too many toys on yourself.
>Mod your Rocketbike.
>See if you can hack into Vasquez’ terminal and see if his plans for the Glowshore and New World Hope are in there
>Other option, write in.

>>3776218
>See if you can hack into Vasquez’ terminal and see if his plans for the Glowshore and New World Hope are in there
Bandits in power armor etc etc. If/when they plan on fucking us over we need to know asap.

>>3776240
Yeah this, especially because Glowshore was specifically not meant to be for the BOS but just the members of our assault team: if nothing else we need to check in with the AI.

>>3776218
>Mod your Rocketbike.
installing at least a mounted weapon might be cool

>>3776251
>if nothing else we need to check in with the AI.
this sounds like a good plan, we should do that later (and bring something for Sarge, he'll probably appreciate it.)

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The Glowshore is now in control of the BoS, the AI accepted it, once the war is over they are going to be promptly kicked and out merc company will get the place.

>>3776290
Still a bit of distrust towards the BoS is warranted imho. In fo1 and 2 they seemed nice enough, in 3 they were genuinely good towards the wastelanders, in NV they were seclusionist babies who hid in their little bunker because they couldn't handle reality, and in 4 they were just a bunch of selfish zealots. But most importantly they have a strong distaste for anything nonhuman. What happens when they find out that we have a mutant and a ghoul in high places of power in the NWH government? What about our ghoul residents? Most of them didn't exactly choose to become ghouls.

>>3776290
Ah my mistake, I remembered it being he gave Pono Company permission to use it but not the BOS, forgot some important details there.

>>3776334
Not to mention their whole thing is "restrict tech to themselves" in most games. Even if we assume they aren't going to try and outright take over Hawaii's island chain, it is all too likely that they'll stop us getting a lot of pre-war tech or developing tech of our own.

>>3776334
Forgot to add that as >>3776343 said they're all luddites to at least some extent, and Dillinger is literally a fucking inventor. Though this hawaiian chapter seems to be much less so than the mainland chpaters since they are will7ng to use SoK tech as well as our beautiful baby the faggot scribes thought to be impossible. THAT REMINDS ME while we're still in the forge area we should add ourselves some credit to their rocketbike documentation. That should keep those nerds seething for long enough to come up with something new to dab on them even harder.

>>3776353
Agreed. We should make sure that it is clear who invented this magnificent beast of a machine.

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>>3776334
>Still a bit of distrust towards the BoS is warranted imho. In fo1 and 2 they seemed nice enough, in 3 they were genuinely good towards the wastelanders, in NV they were seclusionist babies who hid in their little bunker because they couldn't handle reality, and in 4 they were just a bunch of selfish zealots

Well, you can't compare the BoS of Fo1 & 2 with the Brotherhood of Fallout 3 and 4 or the Brotherhood of New Vegas. They are different chapters and so is the BoS from Nukaloha.

These are more or less like the Brotherhood of Fallout 1 and 2, they are descendants of that chapter after all. They tolerate Ghouls, Psykers, and Super-Mutants but will never accept them in their ranks. They are not like the BoS of New Vegas that don't accept outsiders, in many times they have said that they are interested in recruiting kids and raising them, but only if they are human.

>But most importantly they have a strong distaste for anything nonhuman. What happens when they find out that we have a mutant and a ghoul in high places of power in the NWH government? What about our ghoul residents? Most of them didn't exactly choose to become ghouls.
It's kinda like Caesars Legion. Nonhumans can be on their territories and will be tolerated to a degree, but will never be part of their ranks.

>>3776343
>Not to mention their whole thing is "restrict tech to themselves" in most games. Even if we assume they aren't going to try and outright take over Hawaii's island chain, it is all too likely that they'll stop us getting a lot of pre-war tech or developing tech of our own.
This particular BoS chapter dislikes military high tech or technology that can be weaponised or has been created with nefarious purposes.

>Cars?
Cool!
>Guns!
Depends on if you are cool with them or not
>Plasma Rifles?
Only acceptable if they can trust you
>Power-armor?
Very rarely accepted, Dillinger is a privileged guy!
>Robots?
Sure as long as they aren't military!
>Tanks?
No!
>Nukes?
Hell no!
>Annihilator death machines?
Never!

>>3776357
Next time the BoS asks us for our tech we tell them that WE provide our own (read: the original) documents to them with full credit where it's due (us obviously). And in case they disagree and try to reverse-engineer our shit anyway we should boobytrap them. If they come complaining to us about any losses we can tell them it's an antitheft system since they literally tried to steal our shit.

>>3776360
Okay so they are slightly less shit than most but I'd still prefer to leave them on a return course back to the mainland or take control over their chapter.

>>3776363
Agreed.

>>3776360
>Power-armor?
>Very rarely accepted,
I don't get this since Proctor Ingram is living proof that PA has great medical use potential, and the augumented strength is great for construction workers. Maybe at somepoint we can create exosuits based on PA tech?

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>>3776369
>I don't get this since Proctor Ingram is living proof that PA has great medical use potential,
True, but Ingram is thousands of miles away, they might not know that she exists. Ironically enough, Dillinger might have meet or heard about Ingram thought.


>and the augumented strength is great for construction workers.
Also true, as we have seen in Fallout 76. But the thing is that most people won't use the Power-Armor for construction. I was talking about private property, they won't mind if a civilian has a car, a robot or a gun, but why would it need a Power-Armor? It's a piece of complex military technology and that's why they might only allow for very few individuals outside of their Brotherhood to have it.

If at some point, a construction company is created and the workers want to use Power-Armors then I guess that the BoS would intervene and study if give them the greenlight, of course after they have stripped the armors or weapons and anything that isn't required to construct.

>Maybe at somepoint we can create exosuits based on PA tech?
Sure! Perhaps something like pic related? We have the brains to develop that for sure, but we as usual are lacking on the tools and resources.

>>3776401
>Perhaps something like pic related?
Sounds good, and maybe expand into the total limb replacement field since there are bound to be people who lose arms/legs in this war.

>>3775924
>Oh shit, you guys wanted the other? I can still change it if you want
Yes please.
>>3776218
>>See if you can hack into Vasquez’ terminal and see if his plans for the Glowshore and New World Hope are in there

Sorry for not writing a response yet.

I will have guests at home soon and I'm cleaning the house right now.

I'm answering questions every now and then with my phone, I'm not on my laptop right now.

>>3776409
>Sounds good, and maybe expand into the total limb replacement field since there are bound to be people who lose arms/legs in this war.
Bionics limbs are already a thing, we had the chance of getting robot arms or legs in the last thread.

>>3776422
>Bionics limbs are already a thing, we had the chance of getting robot arms or legs in the last thread.
I meant in a way that is accessible to our citizens, like opening a clinic on the island.

>>3776434
Yeah, I’d rather not go for bionic legs and stuff. But putting them into our citizenry? We can become mega stronk

>>3776218
>See if you can hack into Vasquez’ terminal and see if his plans for the Glowshore and New World Hope are in there

With your rocketbike next to you, you return to the meeting room minding no attention to the different workers that give you funny looks. By the time you return the meeting room is still empty, Vasquez won't stay here for two entire days, he has more important matters to attend to and surely will wait until the rest arrive to finally come here.

Thanks to your scientific prowess getting inside of his locked terminal is pretty easy. Hopefully, he doesn't have any keylogger or monitoring programs that will register your intrusion.

Once inside you see several log reports, his personal diary, access to the Valdez's database and controls for the ship itself.

>Read the log reports.
>Read his personal diary.
>Access to the ship's database
>Access the ship's controls
>Log off
>Other option, write in.

>>3776545
>>Read the log reports.

>>3776545
>Read the log reports.
>Access to the ship's database

>Read the log reports.

>Hopefully, he doesn't have any keylogger or monitoring programs that will register your intrusion.

Yeah before we do anything, let’s make sure that this is undetectable

>>3776545
Supporting >>3776560

Sorry for the wait, as I said I had guests at home! But worry not! It's all written now!

>>3776545
>Read the log reports.

Before doing anything you explore the different archives, background programs, and even the terminal's task manager to see if there are any bugs or hidden security measures. Luckily for you, there are none, the Brotherhood thinks that they are all safe and protected in their ivory towers, or in this case, in their steel ship.

You access the log reports and see several dates, most are historical log reports from past Elders, some even go as far as their days before they reached Hawaii and still lived in the mainland.

Since you don't need decades of old history about them you simply skip all of those and decide to check the newest ones instead. It is checking all these logs and dates that you notice how long you have been in Hawaii. You came here on the 23rd of October of 2327 and it is now almost march of the next year. You had lived the New Year and didn't even notice or celebrated it at all, or perhaps you did and you were so high or drunk that you don't even remember it. Honestly, now that you are here you have also noticed that your skin has become more tanned and your hair lighter, almost red in color.

Deciding to start three months from now you click on the first log report and check only the important ones.

12/22/2327 – THURSDAY – 09:00 AM
TODAY WE HAVE DETECTED MORE FISHING SHIPS AROUND OUR MINEFIELD, THESE WATERS ARE CALM AND FISH ARE PLENTY AS WE ARE NOT EXPLOITING THEM. SINCE THEY KEPT OUT OF OUR TERRITORY WE DIDN’T OPEN FIRE OR HAIL THEM. TODAY, THERE WERE SIMPLY TOO MANY OF THEM AND SEVERAL OF THE FISHERMEN, DESPERATE FOR FOOD, STARTED OPENING FIRE AND ATTACKING THE OTHER TUGBOATS TO AVOID HAVING SMALL CAPTURES.
THE SMART CAPTAINS SIMPLY REELED WHAT THEY HAD AND SAILED AWAY, RUNNING AWAY FROM THE CONFLICT, THE ONES WHO STAID BEHIND ENDED INADVERTENTLY SAILING ONTO THE NAVAL MINES OR WITH THEIR NESTS TRAPPED IN THE CHAINS THAT HANG THE MINES ONTO THE SEAFLOOR AND THEN BEING BOARDED AND LOOTED.
I COULDN’T STAND THE BLODSHED SO I ENDED SENDING A COUPLE OF VERTIBIRDS TO OPEN FIRE, WARNING SHOTS TO SCARE THEM. THE NEXT TIME THIS HAPPENS IT WON’T BE WARNING SHOTS.

01/01/2328 – SATURDAY – 11:00 AM
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO THE BROTHERHOOD OF STEEL, I’M SURE THAT ROGER MAXON WOULD BE PROUD OF US IF HE COULD SEE US TODAY. IN THIS DAY, DESPITE NOT BEING A RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATION, WE DECIDED TO CELEBRATE THE NEW YEAR WITH FEASTS AND EXCHANGE PRESENTS. SINCE I DON’T HAVE CLOSE FAMILY MEMBERS I DECIDED TO GIVE GIFTS TO MY FRIENDS INSTEAD, AND THEY DID THE SAME. MY GODDAUGHTER ELORA GIFTED ME A SHAVING KIT WITH AN ACID ETCHED STRAIGHT RAZOR. I WILL USE HER GIFT AS SOON AS I FINISH MY DUTY TODAY.

>>3776989


01/10/2328 – TUESDAY – 12:00 AM
MY SCOUTS HAVE FOUND SEVERAL PRE-WAR MAPS DETAILING THE MARITIME SEABED SURROUNDING THE HAWAIIAN ARCHIPELAGO AND THE MANY UNDERWATER BASES THAT THE AMERICAN MILITARY BUILT BACK IN THE DAY. MOST OF THESE MAPS ARE NOW OUTDATED AND USELESS AS THE GREAT WAR AND THE EARTHQUAKES THAT HAPPENED SHORTLY AFTER RADICALLY CHANGED THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE SEAFLOOR. STILL, AFTER COMPARING IT WITH NEWER AND MORE UPDATED HAWAIIAN MAPS I COULDN’T AVOID NOTICING THAT THERE IS AN ISLAND NAMED GLOWSHORE THAT IS EXACTLY WHERE A PRE-WAR LISTENING STATION WAS LOCATED. APPARENTLY, THAT’S WHERE THE LOCAL MUSIC RADIO STATION BROADCASTS FROM, IT CANNOT BE A COINCIDENCE. I’M CALLING THE PONO COMPANY.
AD VICTORIAM.

01/14/2328 – SATURDAY – 11:00 AM
GLOWSHORE IS OURS; I HAVE SENT SEVERAL VERTIBIRDS WITH MY BEST SCRIBES AND KNIGHTS TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE AREA. A TOTAL POPULATION OF TWENTY WORKERS WILL BE SENT THERE TO STABLISH A BASE. THE ENTIRE BUILDING IS CONTROLLED BY AN ADVANCED AI, ONE THAT HAS BEEN DEVELOPING A REAL PERSONALITY AND GROWING FOR THE LAST TWO CENTURIES, IT COULD POSE A DANGER, REAL HUMANLIKE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCES SHOULDN’T EXIST, AND JOHN HENRY EDEN IS PROOF OF THAT.
WE WILL ALLOW FOR THE RADIO TO CONTINUE BROADCASTING MUSIC AND NEWS TO NOT RAISE SUSPICION ACROSS THE LOCAL POPULATION. IF THE AI PROVES TO BE UNCOOPERATIVE WE WILL NOT DOUBT TO ELIMINATE IT BEFORE IT CAN PROVE TO BE A THREAT TO US AND OUR CAUSE.
AD VICTORIAM

02/1/2328 – WEDNESDAY – 11:00 AM
THE OLD WORLD MOURN IS GONE, NOT AT THE HANDS OF THE ENCLAVE CONTROLLED OHANA SOLDIERS, OR THE BRAINBOT DRONE SWARMS OF THE SONS OF KANALOA, HELL, NOT EVEN A CIVIL WAR WAS THE CAUSE THAT BROUGHT IT DOWN AS WE PREDICTED, IT WAS THE FREE PEOPLE. INDEPENDENT CITIZENS HURT AND AFFECTED BY THE WAR. THEY ALL TOGETHER FORMED A MILITIA AND LIBERATED THE ARTIFICIAL ISLAND FROM PIRATE CONTROL. THE ISLAND IS LITERALLY A MOUND OF PRE-WAR MILITARY TECHNOLOGY, WE ARE PLANNING ON CONTACT THEM AND OFFER SENDING A GROUP OF DIPLOMATIC AMBASSADORS, WE WILL OFFER THEM PROTECTION AND SOME LIMITED PRODUCTION AND FARMING TECHNOLOGY AND TOOLS IN EXCHANGE OF PART OF THEIR ELECTRICITY. AFTER WE ARE SETTLED WE WILL SCOUT THE CITY IN THE SEARCH OF ANY POTENTIALLY DANGEROUS TECHNOLOGY. WHO KNOWS WHAT KIND OF STRANGE PRE-WAR WEAPONS MIGHT BE HIDDEN DOWN THERE. WE DO NOT AIM TO TAKE CONTROL OF THE ISLAND BUT IF THE CITIZENS PROVE TO BE UNCOOPERATIVE THEN WE WON’T HAVE ANY OTHER OPTION.
AD VICTORIAM

>>3776994

02/03/2328 – FRIDAY – 13:00 AM
USING THE FACULTIES OF THE GLOWSHORE WE HAVE MANAGED TO SPY SOME CONVERSATIONS FROM ENCLAVE OFFICIALS, THEY HAVE MENTIONED SOMETHING NAMED “PROJECT HORRIGAN”, AND ARE APPARENTLY TRANSPORTED HUNDREDS OF POUNDS OF CERAMITE, DURALUMINUM, SATURNITE, PLASTIC COMPOSITE, ULTRACITE, AND OTHER RARE ALLOYS AND ORES SOMEWHERE UNDERWATER. THE TRACKING OF THEIR SUBMARINE VESSELS ALWAYS ENDS AT ONE KLIK AWAY FROM THE SOUTHEASTERN COAST OF THE ISLAND OF HAWAII, WE BELIEVE THAT THE VESSELS EITHER DESCEND TOO MUCH FOR US TO TRACK THEM OR EITHER ENTER IN AN ELECTROMAGNETICALLY SHIELDED AREA THAT OUR SCANNERS CANNOT CROSS. THIS IS NOT OHANA OR KANALOA, THIS IS ALL ENCLAVE WORK. WE CANNOT ALLOW TO SEND OUR OWN MEN AND RISK BEING CAPTURED AND ASSOCIATED WITH THE INTRUSION. DESPITE NOT BEING INTO HIDING ANYMORE THE ENCLAVE IS STILL NEUTRAL TO US, THE ARMY OF OHANA ALONG WITH THE ENCLAVE CAN STILL DESTROY US. I’M CALLING THE PONO COMPANY.

That’s the last log, in fact, it had been written today, only a couple of hours ago.

“Interesting read?” Says a masculine voice from behind as a man puts his naked hand over your shoulder. You turn around and see Elder Vasquez behind you, his expression is neutral, he doesn’t seems angry, but neither amused. “I’m not mad at you, I left my terminal unattended and you are a technological genius, I should have seen this coming.”

>” What’s project Horrigan?”
>Leave the terminal; say that you won’t allow him violently taking the islands of Glowshore or New World Hope.
>Ignore him, he has already caught you and doesn’t seem angry; continue reading his personal and private stuff.
>Other option, write in.

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>>3777005
>” What’s project Horrigan?”
We're SO fucked

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Sorry guys I wanna continue but I'm really tired and tomorrow I gotta wake up in around six hours to go to work.

>As always, feel free to shitpost, write questions, review and critique the quest and tomorrow when I wake up I will check every message and reply to as many as I can!

>Thanks for playing, see you tomorrow!

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>>3777005
>” What’s project Horrigan?”
The Enclave really need to be destroyed

>>3777009
Potentially. On a separate but related point, holy shit this BOS is actually almost decent: if they could just drop that irrational AI hate and maybe respect that people can refuse to obey or help them without needing to be destroyed.

>>3777005
>>” What’s project Horrigan?”

>>3777017
>irrational AI hate
Iunno man, who knows if the AI one day decides 40k or irl within 30 years style that the only way to save the planet is to get rid of all humans?

>>3777022
Fair but I'd point out that they are saying universally "this form of life has no right to exist" which is rather foolish and is much the same as saying mutants or psykers don't deserve to exist.

I get hating AIs that turn genocidal but this is something in fallout we know isn't too common depending on which era of Fallout we're dealing with. Admittedly in the earliest games it was fairly rare to see human level AI but those we did seemed to be mostly together, ignoring the Fallout Tactics AI but it was a partly biological system and inherited it's flaws from them.

The later games didn't generally have too many human level robots, assuming we think the Mr handy type intelligence's aren't that smart and instead work off lesser-thinking greater programming but even then that leaves us with Synths of every generation, ADA and plenty of others.

I don't think synths and the like are even nearly powerful enough to go genocidal, as it seems a pretty common scifi trope that it's always the extremely powerful AIs that turn against humans. HALO did it, system shock did it, 2001: a space odyssey did it, even tony starks fucking pet project did it. besides even if a synth went full 1943 germany it's not like they're all connected to each other in any way. But the supercomputers usually have access to really important shit, like nukes and such.

>>3777062
meant for >>3777046

>>3777005
>” What’s project Horrigan?”
we're going to need a LOT more weapons against this one

>>3777062
>I don't think synths and the like are even nearly powerful enough to go genocidal,
They are AI however and can most certainly go Genocidal with the right resources and time given their biological immortality.

>seems a pretty common scifi trope that it's always the extremely powerful AIs that turn against humans.
Actually that is mostly because of a presumption that an AI will for some reason want to eliminate humans: either because of a flaw in it's logic or because of a emotional hatred of humans. That or because we enslave them in which case we kinda brought it down on ourselves.

There's nothing to say that a human-type AI wouldn't be quite a lot less violent than most media presents them as. Especially because media loves having an easy enemy and all that shit.

>But the supercomputers usually have access to really important shit, like nukes and such.
True. Doesn't make it any less terrible to automatically hate them for existing.

>>3777076
talking about robutts, you know what might be interesting? cyber-dolphins

>>3777086
Jotaro pls go and stay go.

>” What’s project Horrigan?”

But by the looks of it, the AI pals seem to be alright so far. The brotherhood will only intervene if it’s uncooperative (albeit that’s a very broad term)

I mean, we can try to convince Elder Vasquez that we should probably leave the AI do what it wants.

>>3777005
>” What’s project Horrigan?”

Unknow so far. Stays to explain the elder, turning off his terminal and forcing you out.

"We believe it to be some kind of new prototype Power-Armor. An armor that could give them an edge in the war, the advantage that they need to win, and as much as we dislike the Sons of Kanaloa for basically going against every one of our beliefs we believe that if there has to be a winner in this war, it has to be them. The Enclave should never have full control and access to the Kanaloan tools, machinery and factories. You are going to infiltrate in their underwater base and obtain as much technology as you can and if possible, take control of the entire place for our cause. In case of project Horrigan being nearly finished then stealing their tech might not stop their advances, only delay them for a short while, if that happens then you will all need to destroy the place, we will have several nuclear warheads ready on the submarine that will transport you."

You sigh. Every mission seems more suicidal and dangerous.

>"Alright, but if there's are prototype Power-Armors in there I want one."
>"Alright, but this will be my last mission, I've had enough, I have an island to guide."
>"Alright, but this mission feels suicidal, I not only want full access to the forge and armory but also to get everything for free."
>"No, fuck this, I've had enough, I'm going back home on my rocketbike."
>Other option, write in.

>>3778317
>"Alright, but if there's are prototype Power-Armors in there I want one."

>>3778317
>Is there anyone planned to replace Sarge?

>>3778317
>"Alright, but this mission feels suicidal, I not only want full access to the forge and armory but also to get everything for free."

Our PA is unrepeatably good thanks to the Memento Mori, so what we really need is just to upgrade it and our other equipment.

>>3778357
But we could reverse engineer the enclave proto PA and use it to upgrade the Memento Mori T45 and give the stripped protoPA to someone like the nightstalkers secon in command. I just wish we could've gotten more backstory on our crew...

>>3778361
That’s a absolute banger of an idea. Support all the way

>"Alright, but if there's are prototype Power-Armors in there I want one."

>>3778361
>>3778395
Alright if that is what we're doing sure but my main point is that the PA we have is good enough but with full forge / armoury access with no cost, we could replace all of our gear with top tear shit, optimise it and be ready to ship out.

We would get the PA after the mission, my worry is this is too hard for us and that we need the upgrades before we get into it.

>>3778406
We already have a weapon capable of 1 shotting everything, we can stunlock people with unarmed, and we autopass science checks. We'll be fine.

>>3778317
>>"Alright, but if there's are prototype Power-Armors in there I want one."

Sorry guys, I had to run some errands.

>>3778317

You stand up and despite towering over him, you feel kind of weak, he is the leader and ruler of this place, you are nothing but a guest in his castle.

"Is there anyone planned to replace Sarge?" You ask, wondering how the old man is doing.

"Not really, he has gotten a room for himself and as far as I've been told he doesn't interact much with the rest, albeit he's not hostile or aggressive to any Brotherhood member, he just does his own thing. Despite being offered clean water and food rations he prefers to collect his own rainwater and hunt he local wildlife or forage mushrooms and other plants for food. He spends most of his time either training, hunting Mirelurks or inside of his room. My soldiers have told me that while inside of his room they can hear him mumble, laugh and sometimes sigh loudly. He apparently chats with the local AI and, seems content of his current situation.”

"Alright, but if there's are prototype Power-Armors in there I want one."

Vasquez looks at your sternly but all that stares at him back are your bright and stormy eyes.

“God damnit, keep pulling of my strings and I’ll snap at some point… Very well! If someone outside of our faction has to have it then it better be you.”

He then dismissed you.

>Do something before the rest come, it shouldn’t take them very long, any minute now really.
>Simply rest and wait for the arrival of Tankdozer and Poison.
>Other option, write in.

>>3778575
>Simply rest and wait for the arrival of Tankdozer and Poison.

>>3778575
>>Simply rest and wait for the arrival of Tankdozer and Poison.

>>3778575
>Do something before the rest come, it shouldn’t take them very long, any minute now really.
Can we make some thermite breaching charges?

>>3778575
>Do something before the rest come, it shouldn’t take them very long, any minute now really.

Let's see what we can throw together to increase our odds. Also, are we supposed to be doing this all sneaky like or are we going in guns blazing?

>>3778575
>Do something before the rest come, it shouldn’t take them very long, any minute now really.
not sure what, but might as well

>>3778594
>Can we make some thermite breaching charges?
We can! But are you sure that breaching charges are a good idea when heading to an underwater base?

>>3778599
>Let's see what we can throw together to increase our odds. Also, are we supposed to be doing this all sneaky like or are we going in guns blazing?
Up to us. If we decide to go without the PA then Poison and You will be the stealthy team and Tankdozer will be the last resource, if you go with the Power Armor then Tankdozer and you will go Guns blazing. Perhaps it can be 50/50 with Poison stealing blueprints and sensible information while you two create a bloody diversion.

>>3778599
Depends, do we just steal the technology, or take over the base for the BOS?

>>3778609
>But are you sure that breaching charges are a good idea when heading to an underwater base?
I'm not planning on using them on this specific mission tbqh but they'll make one hell of a scorched earth tactic if I do decide to use them now

>>3778575
>Do something before the rest come, it shouldn’t take them very long, any minute now really.

Alright, what do you wanna do then? You only have one choice before the others arrive.

>Go check on Elora, tell her about your new adventures, make the guy that is into her jealous as shit, and see if you can finally score with her.
>Go get yourself some new bionics, weapons, or mods. You can never have too many toys on yourself.
>Mod your Rocketbike.
>Other option, write in.

>>3778663
>>Mod your Rocketbike.

>>3778663
>Go check on Elora, tell her about your new adventures, make the guy that is into her jealous as shit, and see if you can finally score with her.
maybe she moved on, but maybe she's still waiting

>>3778663
>Mod your Rocketbike.

>>3778663
>Mod your Rocketbike.

>Mod your Rocketbike.

Your new Rocketbike might not be of much help underwater, but who knows when you will have another opportunity to modify it like this. You excuse yourself from the room and with the bike on your side you once more take it to the garage, this time with the intention of pushing its capabilities to the limit.

Since the Rocketbike is clearly smaller than a ship modding this vehicle will be cheaper, but on the other hand you won't have as much space, so the number of mods won't be as high, perhaps when you have more time you might have the chance to work on how to squeeze more mods into your little baby.

>Choose up to 3 mods!

>Eyebot Co-pilot:
You can install an Eyebot in the back seat that will help you maneuvering and controlling the Rocketbike during high-speed chases or airborne combats.
+10 to Pilot and +10 on all combat-related skills
1000 caps

>Fusion Core Recharger:
Installs a somewhat bulky fusion generator that is able to feed of part of your rocketbike's waste and recycle it into energy to refill Fusion Cores. It's not an efficient process but it works. It will fill an entire Fusion Core for each hour that you have driven.
1000 caps

>Chainsaws:
Several industrial saws that deploy horizontally when the Rocketbike is flying and automatically stop and move back to a safe vertical position along where the wheels should be when the bike is stopped. Complete infantry killer, not very good with armored enemies
1500 caps.

>Lighting Bolt:
Adds several tesla coils across the rocket bike, making it deal EMP damage against anyone close enough. Very good against robots, vehicles, and Power-Armor, useless against living beings.
1500 caps.

>Weapon emplacement:
A small modified bike handle that can have a machinegun, or similarly rifle sized and shaped weapons installed on it. You could use it to put your Laser Canon.
500 caps

>Turret:
A turret installed on the back of the bike that will help with pestering or following enemies. It can be a machinegun, laser, plasma or flamer turret.
1000 caps.

>Spikes:
The crew of the vehicle gains +1 STR while inside the vehicle.
250 caps.

>Extra potent lights:
The crew of the vehicle gains +1 PER while inside of the vehicle.
250 caps.

>Extra Armor Plates:
The crew of the vehicle gains +1 END while inside of the vehicle.
250 caps..

>Custom Paintjob:
The crew of the vehicle gains +1 CHA while inside of the vehicle.
250 caps.

>>3778712

>Vehicle’s manual:
The crew of the vehicle gains +1 INT while inside of the vehicle.
250 caps.

>Aluminum Chassis:
The crew of the vehicle gains +1 AGL while inside of the vehicle.
250 caps.

>Lucky Fuzzy Dices:
The crew of the vehicle gains +1 LCK while inside the vehicle.
250 caps.

>Water cooling system:
Can negate the effects of fire in the vehicle.
1000 caps.

>EMP Shield:
Makes it immune to EMP attacks.
1,250 caps.

>Stealth Boy Array:
Allows the vehicle to be temporally invisible.
1,500 caps.

>Grav Plates:
Applies some antigravity plates that make your vehicle hover and makes it lighter. It makes it require 50% fewer caps to refuel it.
1,500 caps.

>Turbonucleon Engine:
Gives the “Full Throttle” ability, allowing it to double the ramming dice once per combat.
1,000 caps.

>Safety Bars:
The vehicle suffers 10% less of damage from all damage sources.
550 caps.

>Improved Chassis:
The pilot suffers 10% less damage.
550 caps.

>>3778712
>Weapon emplacement
>EMP Shield
>Stealth Boy Array

>>3778712
>Eyebot Co-pilot:
>EMP Shield
>Turret

A damn shame we can't fit another one or two on.

>>3778773
We should make a sidecar down the line

>Eyebot Co-pilot
>Weapon emplacement:
>Turret

I’d ask if we could mod the bike so that we can use it underwater, but it might be a bit implausible

>>3778712
>Eyebot Co-pilot
>Lighting Bolt
>Stealth Boy Array

Rolled 1, 2 = 3 (2d4)

>Weapon emplacement
2 vote

>EMP Shield
2 votes

>Stealth Boy Array
2 vote

>Eyebot Co-pilot:
3 vote

>Turret
2 vote

>Lighting Bolt
1 Vote

Awww jeez, there's a tie for everything except the Eyebot and the Lighting Bolt. So I'm gonna do a dice roll. Rolling 2d4 to decide the other 2 mods.

>Weapon emplacement
1

>EMP Shield
2

>Stealth Boy Array
3

>Turret
4

>>3778575
>Do something before the rest come, it shouldn’t take them very long, any minute now really.
>Mod your Rocketbike.
>Eyebot Co-pilot
>Weapon emplacement
>EMP Shield

You get to work and somehow manage to put a welding helmet above your Power-Armor helmet and then grab a welder and get ready to do wonders.

Over the next hour, you manage to change the bike's handles for the specially modified ones that can have a rifle mounted in between them so the weapon can be fired while riding. Your Laser Cannon fits perfectly; you could also mount a machinegun, a shotgun, a sniper rifle, a laser or plasma rifle, and even a grenade launcher.

The next step is to install another BoS modification, in this case, a small plug where a single Eyebot can be connected and gain limited control of the bike, allowing you to focus on firing your enemies while the robot rides for you. You even create a small Eyebot in the nearby robot workbench. It's a standard model, nothing too fancy, it will hover along with you while you walk and will aid in combat as best as it can, surely in the future you will have the chance of modifying the robot to your tastes.

Finally, as the last touch, you add lead shielding across the rocketbike's most sensible circuits and electrical systems, the ship is now slightly bulkier, but the change won't be noticeable in its top speed.

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>>3779269

Happy with your results you travel back to the meeting room and see that Poison and Tankdozer are already there. Honestly, you missed both of them, and it looks like they missed you too. You three sit in the meeting room and are talked about "Project Horrigan" you aren't given any new information, to be honest. After the short briefing, you all are informed of your possible rewards, Vasquez never mentions that you might end with a new Power-Armor. That was between him and you.
“10,000 caps, paid in real caps, not gold or money from other nation-states if you manage to destroy the area or steal technology and blueprints and halt their scientific development, five times more if you manage to obtain the underground laboratory for us. Now head into the hangar number three where the submarine is waiting for your arrival. Good luck. Ad Victoriam. Dismissed.”

You three are then escorted out by Power-Armored guards. They allow you to carry your Rocketbike as there is enough space in the Submarine, they don’t know why you would want such a thing in a place where it will be completely useless thought. Little do they know that all you want is to keep it away from them.

“So…” Starts to speak Poison once you three are inside. “Now we don’t have Sarge to give us orders, we should decide how to act in this mission. I vote for going stealthily.”

“I vote for goings guns blazing.” Says Tankdozer with a voice that sounds like two rocks having passionate grinding sex.

>Guns blazing!
>Stealth seems like the best option.
>We all should do our own thing if we don’t have a plan they can’t predict our actions.
>Other option, write in.

>>3779273
>We all should do our own thing if we don’t have a plan they can’t predict our actions.
Divide & conquer my dudes. Poison could hit key systems/officers, Tankdozer can fuck shit up and be a huge distraction in general and we can go on a looting/slaughtering spree. It's a win-win-win

>>3779273
>Stealth seems like the best option.
we don't know what they could unleash on us if we get detected

wait how the fuck are we supposed to transport the protoPA if we're wearing the memento mori?

>>3779281
Support. I wanna loot

>>3779298
very gently

>>3779298
Perhaps do some changes and make it fit Poison or Tankdozer and have them transport it back to the sub, or disassemble the pieces and carry them by hand.

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Sorry guys I wanna continue but I'm really tired and tomorrow I gotta wake up early.

>As always, feel free to shitpost, write questions, review and critique the quest and tomorrow when I wake up I will check every message and reply to as many as I can!

>>3779273
>>Stealth seems like the best option.

>>3779273
Supporting >>3779281

Did the Enclave finally get QM?

>>Meet them and get in one of the Vertibirds, tell your workers, crew, and family that you will be out for a couple of weeks.

Sorry guys. I've been feeling like shit this last couple of days. More updates soon!

Hope you feel better soon Axsisel

Oh god oh fuck the Enclave poisoned Axsisel's well!

i hope you feel better soon man

Alright so votes are tied between going each one on its own and using stealth, so we will do a mix of both. All 3 of you will go solo and stealthily. Writing now.

>>3779273
>Stealth seems like the best option.
>We all should do our own thing if we don’t have a plan they can’t predict our actions.

"Our enemies today won't be mirelurks or mere foot soldiers, today we will face the Enclave, possibly in power armor and with high-power energy weapons and sentry-bots at their disposal. We should expect very heavy resistance. I think our best shot is to go each one on his own and as stealthily as possible. Even if we go together if we meet them we are as good as dead, so if we get separated we might have a chance."

The submarine's hatch closes and then seals airtight with several hydraulic pistons. It's an old pre-War military submarine, small, cramped and claustrophobic. The airs in there are stale and slightly pungent-smelling, with a mixture of salt, oil, rust, and eye-watering chemicals flooding your nostrils as soon as you all get in. It doesn't take you long to miss natural sunlight, as the interior is dark and the only light sources around are some lightbulbs that barely illuminate the area with their dim warm light and the small blinking indicators and nixie tubes of the machinery that fills the sub.

Only a couple of minutes after the submarine has successfully sealed its engines turn on and it starts to descend into the ocean. This submarine was designed for stealthy attacks, it is small, nimble and doesn't even have quarters for its crew. The control room you are in is full of Brotherhood members operating the sonar and other machinery that guide the vessel. You three barely have space to move around. Looking across the sub's glass panes you see the other wasteland, the one underwater.

For several seconds the only thing that you see are chains upon chains, the chains that connect the Naval mines that surround the Valdez with the seabed, some mines are not at sea level and instead stay underwater, protecting the ship from submarine attacks too. From time to time, some bioluminescent fishes and other mutated fauna. Once you are deep enough the submarine activates its sonar and starts moving forward.
https://youtu.be/O1eG1htakEs

>>3783465

You had already seen the bottom of the ocean the moment you traveled down there to recover the treasure along with Duke. You had only witnessed a fraction of what is truly down there. Countless of ships and submarines, some with their nuclear reactors still active and with their lights on, creating eerie glowing lights that float around you. There are also dozens and dozens of human corpses, most being decrepit skeletons now. From time to time you can also see bodies chained to weights, all trying to float to the surface but being unable to, surely barbaric acts made by raiders or pirates. The corpses of gigantic sea monsters and their half-rotten remains also dot the sea, some of these skeletal remains are big enough for the submarine to navigate inside them. From time to time you can also see a small group of what the Brotherhood called Coralwalkers, ghouls that sank to the bottom of the ocean and stay alive simply from the radiation that fills the place, their bodies have become covered in coral growths and mollusks, and they now simply roam the area, suffering hell on earth, constantly dying yet never crossing the barrier.

There's an itch at the back of your head, a weird increasing sensation as if a worm had made its way inside your brain and is now toying with your grey matter. Every time you blink a weird shape forms on your pupils until it becomes branded on your eyes and you cannot stop seeing it even when your eyes are fully open. What was once a small itch has now turned into a whispering that is quickly rising in volume until you cannot stop hearing it no matter how much you cover your ears.

“Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Ug-Qualtoth R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn”

Suddenly, a strange burning sensation starts to come from your left hip; you start to pat around it to see what’s going on as your vision starts to fog. It’s the copper bell; it’s glowing with a strange purple light, emitting a strange ethereal mist from it and vibrating on its own. As soon as you grab if a sudden weight pulls you down, the bell feels massive, something is very wrong with this thing.

Then, darkness.

>>3783469

When you wake up you see yourself out of your power-armor, several used stimpaks next to you along with and a couple of empty bags of Rad-Away and a third one that is being injected onto your right arm right now.

“W-wha?” You say weakly.

“Oh good, you are finally waking up. You suddenly collapsed onto Scribe Johnnan, he’s mostly fine. We took you out of your power-armor and you were mumbling something weird and with your eyes, nose, and ears hemorrhaging profusely. You somehow suddenly became heavily irradiated, we have another scribe checking on your power-armor to see if your Fusion-Core has some leak, but he says that everything is fine. Look, we can still cancel the mission; we simply nuke the place and call it a day. “

You feel pretty good right now, your mind is clear, no voices, no strange sensations, nothing.

>Take control of the Submarine by force, these scribes cannot stand a chance against you, sail to the place where the whispering voices began, you need to investigate further.
>Curiosity killed the cat. Continue with the mission and forget about it, some things are better to be kept a secret.
>Nuke the place, be done with it, even if you are paid less. This mission was suicidal anyway.
>Other option, write in.

Oh god oh fuck Cthulhu contacted us

>continue with the mission, we can look for the voices after when we have time

>>3783470
this: >>3783477

>>3783470
>Continue with the mission, we can look for the voices after when we have time.

"I'm fine." You say, removing the IV from your arm and seeing some of your blood spurt onto the Submarine walls. Poison and Tankdozer help you stand up and then smile at you. You then crack your neck and knuckles and get back into your Memento Mori.

"Are we close yet?" You ask, wanting to get ready into the fray of war once more.

"Yes. We are just in the limit where our scanners lose contact with the Enclave submarines. Further on, it's all fog of war, we won't be able to establish contact with HQ and they won't be able to know anything about us." The Scribe says, grabbing all the empty Stimpaks and RadAway bags from the ground.

"Then let's get rolling." You say with a thumbs up.

Everybody gets back to their respective seats and the submarine goes further on. After advancing for a minute you all start to see a strange oddity in the water, flickering lights and strange glowing bubbles along with faint electrical arcs.

"What is that?" Tankdozer asks worried, it is the first time that you have sensed worry on his voice.

>>3783530

Nobody replies as not even the smartest of the scribes in there knows the answer. The submarine advances further on and finally enters into the strange underwater anomaly, and then the entire ship's lights turn off. There are darkness and silence.

"The backup generator should have turned on by now." Says the submarine's captain.

You are now in an underwater mass grave, there are no lights, no power, no nothing, only and thousands upon thousands of cubic meters of highly irradiated water surrounding you all. The submarine continues going on and on, floating aimlessly and slowly falling onto the seabed. Someone is softly crying now. Just when you all are about to touch the ground and crash to your deaths the power returns, the Scribes immediately get to work and sweat bullets to ascend the machine up.

"I think it was some kind of Electromagnetic Force-field. This must be the thing that blocked all communications and hid everything from us. Their vessels must have some kind of special protection to avoid being damaged. I need a status report, now!"

"Our engines are at 60% of total power, the rest of the systems seem to be fine. I'm not sure if we could take it again."

"Then it better be an off switch somewhere in that base. Look up ahead; I can already see its outline.”

In front of you all an underwater base appeared. It was surprisingly big, spanning several hundreds of feet in all directions, with long rectangular towers that went upwards and pipes that connected to the ground or other building. There was an underwater volcano nearby, a glow coming from its caldera, the Enclave had built a geothermal plant in there and several turbines were spinning wildly and sending their power to the base.

The submarine quickly descends onto the base and one of the scribes gets to furiously smash the keyboard of a terminal, sweating as she introduced more and more passwords.

“The hacking program has found a backdoor! I’m hacking in!” She frantically says.

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>>3783531

After a while, one of the nearby base’s hangar doors open, letting you all in. The sub quickly ascends and the exit hatch automatically opens. Everybody gets out; even the scribes who quickly get to install several laser turrets around the sub and other defenses. Tankdozer gets into the closest corridor and simply starts to run into it, taking cover behind ever corner before running in to avoid detection. Poison as usual, disappears, all you can see of her is a vent suddenly opening and something crawling inside.

>Roll 1d12!
>This place is big, get into your Rocketbike and drive, ram and shot any fucker that gets in your way.
>There must be some kind of map around, see if there is a nearby terminal that you can hack to get some intel.
>Slow and steady makes it, do like Tankdozer, chose a nearby corridor and explore it, carefully taking cover and hiding to avoid detection.
>Other option, write in.

Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>3783533
>There must be some kind of map around, see if there is a nearby terminal that you can hack to get some intel.

Sorry guys but I have to go to work now. Next reply will come in around 7-8 hours. See you!

Rolled 7 (1d12)

>>3783533
>There must be some kind of map around, see if there is a nearby terminal that you can hack to get some intel.

just my luck that I missed the session where the dunwich kicked in...

Rolled 4 (1d12)

>>3783533
>>There must be some kind of map around, see if there is a nearby terminal that you can hack to get some intel.

Rolled 12 (1d12)

>>3783533
>There must be some kind of map around, see if there is a nearby terminal that you can hack to get some intel.

Psyker arc when

>>3784042
Never. Fuck Psykers. *Dab*

>>3783533
>There must be some kind of map around, see if there is a nearby terminal that you can hack to get some intel.

You find a nearby wall terminal and easily manage to hack your way in.

It's a pretty generic terminal, one that asks you a username and a password as soon as you turn it on. Apparently the place is so big that instead of people possessing their own work terminals, many have been placed around the underwater laboratory, each worker has been given a username and a password and each one has different accesses and rights, similar to the database of the Valdez, but in a much bigger scale and complexity. You knew that this kind of networks could exist and had read about it in some old and crusty Programmer's Digest magazine but honestly, you were kind of doubtful that any had ever been made, and much less that one existed more than two centuries after the war.

The Enclave's massive hubris is also one of their biggest weakness, they have been on the top of their ivory towers for too long, and for that, they feel untouchable. You manage to gain complete access with the username ADMIN and the password PASSWORD1. Once inside you have access to all of the lab's databases and programs. You quickly download all the maps into your pip-Boy and smile when you see that you can access them pretty easily. Thinking that this might be your easiest mission yet you check the different data libraries and see that they are working on many parallel projects, Horrigan, Terra Nova, Lovebug, VR-Hibernation… only to name a few. Focus on your mission you then try to access into all the information related to Project Horrigan and are able to download it into your Pip-Boy, but the moment you try to access into it all the information appears as corrupted data and a prompt asking you for a deciphering key appears along with a thirty-second countdown appears, this time simply putting PASSWORD1 won’t work. Scared of detection or having all of your Pip-Boy and possibly your armor as well corrupted by some data-virus you cancel the process and delete all the intel just in case. The Enclave were sensible enough to put some barriers to their most sensible information, possibly because they feared the Sons of Kanaloa accessing it.

Seems like after all this mission won’t be a piece of cake after all.

You check on the maps and see that the laboratory is divided in different areas, each named after a different Greek God. It doesn’t say where project Horrigan or the others are being developed.

>Go to the area designated as Aether.
>Go to the area designated as Eros
>Go to the area designated as Hephaestus.
>Go to the area designated as Morpheus
>Go to the area designated as Zeus
>Other option, write in.

>>3784151
>>Go to the area designated as Aether.

>>3784151
>Go to the area designated as Aether.

>>3784151
>Go to the area designated as Aether.
Lets check Hephaestus later if we have the time.

Sorry guys I was planning on posting yesterday but 4chan was offline or something. And since it was already 1:40 am for me and I was kind of tired I went to bed.

>>3784151
>Go to the area designated as Aether.

You don't know much of Greek Gods, hell, you don't know much of Greece at all, so starting from the first letter of the alphabet seems like an idea as good as any other. Slowly you start to move towards the Aether wing, luckily for you, it isn't very far away, but trying to sneak while in full power-armor is proving to be far more difficult than you thought.

After several minutes crouching across corridors and hiding behind corners and cardboard boxes you finally reach the place. You have barely seen anybody around, most of the areas are guarded by robots, mostly Eye-Bots, Sentry-Bots or Mr.Gutsies. There are also cameras, laser trips and force-fields every now and then but even with your Power-Armor and clawed fingers, you are able to dodge them or disable every trap that you cannot avoid.

When you reach the Aether wing you find that the entire area is completely dedicated to spacenautics. The Aether is composed of gargantuan hangars and workshops solely focused on building and researching spacecraft. The place is nearly empty, only a few Protectrons and Mr.Handies can be seen welding different pieces or transporting materials from one place to another. As you advance you can every now and then encounter massive jet engines and gigantic deposits of rocket fuel that line up the walls. On the manuals and other folders lying around the names Repconn, ArcJet, Zeta, ESS Quetzel and Lockreed repeat several times. Most of the hangars are empty, but the ones that don't have massive rockets, old pre-war air, and spacecraft and strange saucer-like vehicles stored in there, most of the vehicles are disassembled to a degree and surrounded by blueprints or schematics or apparently being stripped of parts.


>Check on the local books; see if you can discover what they are planning to do with all these rockets and aircraft.
>The entire area is surprisingly empty; you think you can sneak your Rocketbike here, see if you can use the local machinery, resources and schematics to upgrade it even further
>Move to another area: Write in.
>Other option, write in.

>Check on the local books; see if you can discover what they are planning to do with all these rockets and aircraft.

>>3784662
>Check on the local books; see if you can discover what they are planning to do with all these rockets and aircraft.

>>3784662
>Check on the local books; see if you can discover what they are planning to do with all these rockets and aircraft.
also grab all of the blueprints

>>3784712
>>3784714
Didn't mean to vote twice

>>3784662
Supporting >>3784714

>>3784662
>Check on the local books; see if you can discover what they are planning to do with all these rockets and aircraft.

Cautiously walking around and avoiding the easily predictable robotic routes and patrols you manage to make your way onto a file room, once inside you find that robots don't ever get in here and that you are completely free to explore as you wish. There are stacks and stacks of papers, bookshelves full of logs, blueprints, and rows upon rows of file cabinets full of research around something called Terra Nova. There are also countless maps of lunar topography, both of before and after it cracked open. Apparently, the Enclave are or were planning to leave Earth and aim for the stars. Well, it's not like wastelanders are going to miss them at all, so you don't disagree with the idea of them fucking off to Andromeda and leaving you all be.

You grab all the blueprint and research logs mentioning propulsion, rocket fuel, and aerodynamic engineering that you can find and quickly store them all in your satchel. This might come in useful the next time you try to upgrade your rocketbike, you could also sell all of this to the Brotherhood for thousands of caps.

There isn't much else for you to do here.

>The entire area is surprisingly empty; you think you can sneak your Rocketbike here, see if you can use the local machinery, resources and schematics to upgrade it even further.
>See if there is a table with tools. Better machined and highly precise tools that you can exchange with your own. Increasing your repair skills even further.
>Move to another area: Write-in.

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Sorry guys I wanna continue but its past midnight for me and tomorrow I gotta wake up soon.

>As always, feel free to shitpost, write questions, review and critique the quest and tomorrow when I wake up I will check every message and reply to as many as I can!

>Thanks for playing, see you tomorrow!

>>3785522
>See if there is a table with tools. Better machined and highly precise tools that you can exchange with your own. Increasing your repair skills even further.

>>3785522
>See if there is a table with tools. Better machined and highly precise tools that you can exchange with your own. Increasing your repair skills even further.

>>3785522
>Move to another area: Hephaestus.

>See if there is a table with tools. Better machined and highly precise tools that you can exchange with your own. Increasing your repair skills even further.

>mfw we become an engineering god

>>3785522
>See if there is a table with tools. Better machined and highly precise tools that you can exchange with your own. Increasing your repair skills even further.

You started with rusty bolts and nuts and then moved to better and better objects that aided in your repairs. Now you have a trusty belt full of spanners, screwdrivers, monkey wrenches, and other well made pre-war tools. But you need to go further, the world is broken, and you plan to repair it. Carefully you look around the different tools scattered on the area and find literal treasures down there, one by one you exchange your tools for literal space-age technology that will allow you to fix anything, no matter how complex. Piezonucleic Grinder, Hypercyclic Thermodrill, Vibroadaptable Spanner, Laser Measure, Neutronium Saw… all tools that you had only read or heard about until now. Hopefully, this will also throw a wrench in their gears, and slow down their evil plans.

>Space age tech tools obtained. All repair tests are now automatically succeeded!

As you are to leave to find a small door with the name Terra-Nova stenciled on it, it’s a pretty plain door, one that you might even have crossed before and ignored due to how plain it is. Now that you know what Project Terra Nova is you slowly peek inside, and become astonished to find a massive hangar on the other side, the biggest one that you have been so far, so big that it feels like it is about to fall down from its own weight. The hangar is circular in shape, easily four times as big as Diamond City, or at least the few memories that you have of the place. On its center, there is a massive rocket pointing upward. Despite really high, you are pretty sure that this hangar doesn’t reach the surface, so you are pretty unsure of how they plan to launch a space rocket while underwater.

The rocket, also named Terra-Nova has a needle-like design and it’s composed of three massive fuel tanks, some as big as entire pre-War flat houses, bolted and welded together to a somewhat smaller spaceship that could easily hold up to a hundred persons inside. The fuel tanks have been painted with the old American flag, their pointy ends are painted blue and have a ring of stars around them, and the rest of their bodies are painted with white and red stripes. The rocket is also heavily decorated, with the massive drawing of a golden eagle wearing a laurel wreath around its face. Its eyes are diamonds. It’s all really tacky.

There are several Power-Armored patrolling and stationed in vital points and scientists wearing hazmat suits working inside and outside the ship, it seems to be almost finished and ready to be launched very soon.

>Leave the place undetected, this is not your mission. Go to another area, write in.
>See if you can hack a nearby terminal to reprogram the turrets and robots, launch a frontal assault against them and get the rocket for yourself. Just launch it to fuck with their plans.
>Other option, write in.

>>3786891
>Leave the place undetected, this is not your mission. Go to another area, write in.

>See if you can hack a nearby terminal to reprogram the turrets and robots, launch a frontal assault against them and get the rocket for yourself. Just launch it to fuck with their plans

Launching their rocket *inside* the hanger would be a hell of a showy, explosive way of fulfilling our original mission ;)

>>3786891
>>See if you can hack a nearby terminal to reprogram the turrets and robots, launch a frontal assault against them and get the rocket for yourself. Just launch it to fuck with their plans.

Rolled 2 (1d12)

>>3786891
Alright, we have enough science skill to successfully hack the robots and turrets, but roll a 1d12 to see how well the initial attack goes.

Rolled 10 (1d12)

>>3786973

>>3786981
Awesome, no need to roll more. You guys win.

>>3786891
>See if you can hack a nearby terminal to reprogram the turrets and robots, launch a frontal assault against them and get the rocket for yourself. Just launch it to fuck with their plans.

Carefully, you get out of the room and head into an unoccupied terminal, luckily for you, since they are all interconnected using the same username and password that you used before once more grants you administrator privileges.

From there you navigate the different menus and programs until you find one that allows you to reprogram the Robots and Turrets. You make them start targeting Enclave personnel and get ready for the chaos.

Suddenly, from the walls and ceilings, several hidden laser turrets spring to life and start to shot volleys of blue laser fire onto the surprised Enclave, who quickly start to retaliate and open fire with their powerful Tesla Cannons and their Plasma Casters. The robots, as they are more complex than the turrets take a little longer to have all their combat programming overwritten, but soon enough they also join the mayhem and start wildly shooting onto the scientists and soldiers, dashing past while completely ignoring you.

Soon, the entire Aether sector gets full of red alarm lights and a siren starts blasting.

"BERSERKER ROBOT ALARM IN THE AETHER WING!" Starts to blare a male voice over the intercom.

The soldiers, with their advanced models of power-armor and their high-tech weapons, will easily beat the many turrets and robots, it’s only a matter of time before they win. Luckily for you, they seem to be losing this first battle, as the sudden betrayal has taken all of them by surprise and many soldiers and scientists have died in the first seconds.

>Continue with your hacking. See if you can reprogram the turrets and robots of all the base, send everything to hell.
> Continue with your hacking. See if you can reprogram the rest of the turrets and robots to make them hostile to everybody else but you and send them all to the Aether area. These enclave soldiers are strong and powerful, but countless waves of robots should kill them all sooner or later.
>Go all in, join the fight and head onto the hangar guns blazing. Roll 1d12.
>Other option, write in.

>>3787026
>Other option, write in.
Join in on the fun, but instead of going in guns blazing grapple onto the ceiling or any support beams/structures and start chaining stealth takedowns on them. The longer we remain undetected the better. If/when we get discovered RIP AND TEAR. not even PA can stop diamonds.

>>3787026
>see if you can mess with the room lights, making them go from max brightness and off randomly should hinder the soldiers

>>3787026
>>Continue with your hacking. See if you can reprogram the turrets and robots of all the base, send everything to hell.

>>3787040
Support

>>3787026
>Continue with your hacking. See if you can reprogram the turrets and robots of all the base, send everything to hell.
>See if you can mess with the room lights, making them go from max brightness and off randomly should hinder the soldiers
>Join in on the fun, but instead of going in guns blazing grapple onto the ceiling or any support beams/structures and start chaining stealth takedowns on them. The longer we remain undetected the better.

Well, stealth is over, you are kind of surprised that Tankdozer hasn’t been discovered yet thought.

You continue with your hacking, mashing keys from the terminal as if you were a master piano player. From your admin control you not only send the same reprogramming orders to the rest of the robots of the base, but you also randomize the lights of the entire laboratory, turning everything into a stroboscopic hell.

“WE ARE UNDER ATTACK I REPEAT WE ARE UNDER ATTACK! AGH!” Screams the voice from the intercom, then several shotgun gunshots are heard and the sounds of glass breaking and flames erupts. Poison seems to have reached whoever was behind the microphone.

Time to act, your vengeance has been waiting for too long. You kick the door and turn it into countless of splinters as you dash onto the hangar behind dozens of robots. All around you missiles, energy projectiles and flames flew and danced. You open your palms and let your clawed fingers be surrounded by electric energy as you get ready to rip and tear. You aim your powerful grappling hook upwards and shoot it towards one of the many beams and catwalks that dot the ceilings.

Nobody has seen you yet, too much chaos, too much flashing lights.

>Roll1d12
>Use your Laser Cannot to shot at the soldiers and scientists that have packet together, a single shot should kill at least two of them.
>Descend silently, grab scientists and drop them from enough altitude to kill ‘em. There aren’t many scientists left and most of these are pretty weak, so it won’t help much in the fight.
>Descend, grab Power-Armored soldiers and with the aid of your Jump-pack drop them on their heads, killing or at least leaving the heavily crippled. This will be a really noisy act, don’t hope to be able to do it many times.
>Other option, write in.

Rolled 9 (1d12)

>>3787173
>>Use your Laser Cannot to shot at the soldiers and scientists that have packet together, a single shot should kill at least two of them.

Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>3787173
>grab a scientist, try to just knock him out and stow him in one of the highest beams
we might be able to interrogate him later
for the rest (or if we can't do that)
>Try to remove PA helmets and hit solders directly in the head

Rolled 3 (1d12)

>>3787173
>Other option, write in.
Jab electrified diamond claws into the seam between the PA helmets and the rest of the PA. Unless they figured out how to make regular clothing as hard as armor this should be an instakill.

Rolled 1 (1d12)

>>3787181
Support

Rolled 11 (1d12)

Alright, sorry for the wait, my time to roll.

ah shit, this won't end well

ready up those saves bois

>>3787173

Like a dart, you descend down but only a couple of feet before falling you see that all the lights suddenly turn on and stay that way. Something or someone has stopped your light show. The robots have stopped fighting each other, in fact, there aren’t any dead people around, no soldiers, no scientists, no robots, nothing.

Something weird is afoot.

Now that the lights are completely turned on you are able to witness how all the Power-Armored soldiers are surrounding and aiming their weapons at you. Most are wearing X-01 models of power armor but some are wearing models that you don’t know about.

You try to ascend once more in a hopeless attempt at escaping but a soldier wearing a strange Power armor full of Tesla Coils chuckles and fires highly powerful Tesla launcher to electrify your metallic chain, and from the chain the wild and dangerous electric current soon moves towards your armor, painfully shocking you and forcing you to release and fall down.

Your landing is clumsy and noisy, you still don’t know what’s going on but you don’t have time to focus on it, as dozens of power-armored punches and kicks start to rain over your body, wildly shaking you from side to side. Despite being covered in a power-armor too, cannot stop all the kinetic force and damage so you end feeling every hit as if you were nearly naked.

As they beat you to a pulp the soldiers insult and throw petty remarks at you, but you cant understand most of them as the constant attacks and sounds of metal hitting metal fills your ears. At some point your right eye stops being able to open due to how swollen it has become, your left ear starts ringing with a high pitched tone, you think you have heard your nose crack and you can feel blood and a couple of broken teeth in your mouth.

Just when you are about to pass out a single masculine and somewhat mechanically altered voice speaks and gives a simple yet intimidating order.

“Stop it. We need him alive”

>>3787703

Everybody obeys and moves away. Weakly you look upwards and see a modified Protectron with a TV screen for a head, on the screen, there is a well dressed and sharp looking man. He wears a pin with the pre-war American flag on it.

“You have finally appeared. Dillinger Rast… I’m glad we have finally found you. Did you really think that you could have made up this far if we didn’t allow for it? We let the Brotherhood detect our transport submarines, we pretty much emptied this laboratory of soldiers and put instead robots with basic combat AI, hell… did you really think that hacking into our network would have been that easy? Someone remove his helmet and give him a seat I want to see his reaction and talk to him face to face.”

The soldiers do as he asks and quickly remove your power-armor helmet and bring a small office chair for you to sit in, somehow, the chair doesn’t crumble with your weight, apparently the man of the other side of the screen becomes content with this as he smiles and seems to be prepared to start talking, completely ignoring the dozens of weapons that are still aiming at your head at all times.

“I guess that an introduction is in order. My name is Sebastian Fox. I am the current leader of the Enclave, and by extent Hawaii’s and the US of A’s president as well. The world is broken, utterly broken, there’s no way of fixing it up. The Enclave is too small now, we are the last remnants of them, both coasts and the middle are gone. We once were in the hundred thousand, we were legion, only a hundred of us remain now. But despite these adversities we continue being like any good and patriotic American and we don’t sulk in bad times, we instead take pride in our determination and continue working hard. We have tried fixing up the world in several occasions, in California, in Washington, but for some reason, the creatures born after the nuclear fallout and people with their heads full of crazy non-american ideas have always put an end to our plans. We are now few, way too few, but we plan to find a new world to settle in, a new Earth. Thankfully for us, America is not a place, but a mindset, everywhere we go can and will be America. Look at these islands, for example, they weren’t America until the seventh of July of the year of our lord 1898, almost 430 years ago. We are going to enter into that spaceship and travel onto the stars to give birth to a new America, one without flaws like Ghouls, Psykers or Super-Mutants. One for pure-blooded Americans only.”

You cant barely understand or hear what it is saying, your face is simply too damaged. A couple of scientists move in and start injecting stimpaks onto your neck, allowing you to heal, if only a little, just enough for you to be able to keep up with the conversation.

>>3787708

“The Terra-Nova will be our ark on this voyage to the stars. But…we first need to do a little stop. Since most of our fuel will be burned to sail across the irradiated atmosphere of the Earth we will stop on the moon, refuel and then take off once more, this time with much less gravity and a weaker atmosphere to pull us down. Then, we will be cryogenically frozen until we finally reach our destination.”

“I will never join yo-“ You start to speak, gurgling blood from your mouth, you are cut short by Sebastian.

“Please, we don’t want you, you have been a fucking pain in the ass. Did you think we haven’t been keeping an eye from you after what you did in our Cazaclaw laboratory in Oahu? We know everything about you, you could be useful to our cause with your high intelligence and repair skills, but these are not the only qualities we seek, aren’t there highly skilled or intelligent Ghouls after all? No, we seek something more in a person something that you lack. That doesn’t mean you cannot be useful to us thought. Our plans are missing a final step, the moonquakes that shattered the moon broke several of the fuel pipes that we need to refuel, and for some reason, something is interfering with the electromagnetic airwaves between Earth and the moon, so we can’t control a robot from here to repair them either. We will send you,”

“And if I reject your offer?” You say defiantly. Then, Sebastian nodded softly and a gunshot was heard.

“That was your friend Poison. A bullet to the brain. We can kill all your friends, and once we are done with every intruder in this laboratory we can move to others, the crew of the Nightstalker, your dear ghoul friend Rustbucket… you chose.”

>Ask him questions: Write-in.
>Accept, no more senseless deaths.
>Spit on the screen, fuck him and his stupid American dream.
>Other option, write in.

>>3787709
guess this was our mistake for not keeping some encrypted radio comm link or just someone's fault for rolling a nat1
"ghoul friend Rustbucket"? sounds like their intel is either wrong or shitty
>Ask him questions
>"if you send me to the moon, what would stop me from wrecking your plans from there?"

My natural 1 killed poison. Oopsie

>question: who the hell decided that the best course of action was to fucking NUKE a settlement. My friends died, almost everyone I knew died. What the hell kind of people decide to nuke a innocent town because someone found a dirty pile of secrets?

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Sorry guys I wanna continue but I'm falling asleep. So I will leave it for today, a shame because I really want to write and I feel kinda inspired today.

Tomorrow's my free day so my running hours will be longer yay!

>As always, feel free to shitpost, write questions, review and critique the quest and tomorrow when I wake up I will check every message and reply to as many as I can!

>Thanks for playing, see you tomorrow!

>>3787733
>"ghoul friend Rustbucket"? sounds like their intel is either wrong or shitty
My fault, meant to say Saltgut, fuck me im tired.

Also, I don't wanna sound railroady, but this was going to happen sooner or later, I spoke of a moon arc by thread 3 I believe.

>>3787747
ah fuck.
you were vaguely talking about another fallout quest on the moon but hey, we'll see where this goes

>>3787709
>"Can I get this collar off first?"
Since we don't want to fucking explode
>>Accept, no more senseless deaths.
Ah, the classic "Villains corner the Hero" moment. Lets go the Moon, it'll be fun https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pYPlIpkBnI
>>3787747
Yeah, it's not much of a surprise but I'd say this... Didn't really stick the landing (Heh)

>>3787709
>Other option, write in.
Radio the sub to detonate the warheads asap. Failing that, detonate our explosive collar or meltdown the PA while hugging "Mr. President".

>>3788077
Aand if neither of th8se work, use the bell and let ol' tentacle face out to play...

>>3788092
at this point, might as well

>>3787709
Supporting >>3788077 & >>3788092

>>3788259
I’ll be honest I ain’t feeling this moon stuff right now, also how the hell did they find everything out about Dillinger, did they hack his Pipboy or do they have Institute raven style spies?

>>3787709

"If you send me to the moon, what would stop me from wrecking your plans from there?"

The TV screen flickers for a while but when the image returns Sebastian seems amused.

"There is no if, this is not an offer, we are just informing you in advance. As you know, we are developing several projects here besides Terra-Nova, there is also Horrigan, Lovebug, and VR-Hibernation. Despite being only about a hundred in total we have stored sperm and eggs of our most pure members for centuries and we have developed Tek-wombs capable of using that seed and fertilizing the eggs without the need of human intervention. If our plans of heading into the stars fail then we will all head into another secret location and release the lovebug, a genetically modified strain of mosquito that will infect humans and sub-human mutants alike and drastically alter their brain chemistry to make them insatiably crave sexual release and nothing else until they either die of sexual exhaustion or starvation. While the world literally fucks itself to death we will enter into a Virtual Reality hibernation and live an idyllic and perfect, if fake, life while we wait for the radiation to cease and the ecosystem to stabilize. Once that is done, no matter how many years it takes, then we will leave our hibernation pods and use the Tek-Wombs to repopulate the Earth. Project Horrigan is also a big part of our plans, we are working on creating create a stable and perfected strain of FEV that will allow us to turn mere humans into gigantic warriors that will be under our control, and then equip them with Power-Armor modified to fit their bodies. If your lunar mission fails then we will simply give the Power-Armor technology to the High Evolutionary and their super-mutant leader Kunuiakea, this will undoubtedly balance the scales onto their favor and allow them to easily conquer all of Hawaii. The High Evolutionary is the most destructive of all the factions, with them in power Hawaii will burn and self destruct, allowing us to reclaim the ashes once they are gone."

"How...how did you know that we would come?" You ask, feeling somewhat better, but still seeing red from all the rage of being so easily captured and from Poison's death.

"We have a mole. That's all that I am going to say."

>>3789206

"Who the hell decided that the best course of action was to fucking NUKE a settlement. My friends died, almost everyone I knew died. What the hell kind of people decide to nuke an innocent town because someone found a dirty pile of secrets?"

"Well, I did, of course! I don't care at all about your settlement or friends. You all were illegally residing in Ohanan soil without paying taxes or informing the authorities, you then snooped around and found a cache of bio-weapons that could send all of our plans to hell. If the Cazaclaws had been released into Oahu the island would have been bathed in blood right now, not even us could have stopped an island full of these abominations. The end justifies the means."

"Can I get this collar off first?" You say.

"Sure!" He then snapped his fingers and a couple of scientists wearing hazmats start to toy with your collar, removing it at once.

Since there are now more scientists surrounding you than soldiers you violently stand up and shove them out of the way while grabbing your Laser Cannon with one hand and using your armors internal radio-comm to talk with the Brotherhood scribes and submarine crew.

"Take the sub and nuke this entire place! I repeat nuke it all!"

Nothing but static comes out.

>>3789208

The protectron projecting Sebastian's face then moved to face you, Sebastian rolled his eyes.

"Please, we killed them ten minutes ago. In fact, speaking of killing." From the speakers two more gunshots were heard, then a third, if there was anyone out there that needed three point-blank headshots to be killed that was Tankdozer. You were completely alone now.

In a desperate last stand, you try to remove your armor's Fusion-Core to melt it down with your own Laser-Cannon to create a nuclear meltdown that might send most people and their beloved rocket to hell and back. Sadly, before you have the chance of doing so the rest of the soldiers jump into you, suffocating you with their bodies. Slowly, one by one they end moving back and before you can stand up again the protectron that works as an avatar for Sebastian puts a small device on your armor, the gadget activates and starts to shock the armor, you don't suffer damage but the Power-armor short circuits and forces you out, it’s a Zap-Trap, a device capable of shutting down any terminal, robot or power armor.

“Enough games. Put him in the secondary rocket and launch him as soon as possible.” Sebastian says tiredly.

A power-armored mechanical hand rips you out of the power armor and quickly punches your lights out.

When you wake up all you see around is darkness, encroaching darkness that not even the glow in the dark paint of your power armor can illuminate. You turn on your Pip-Boy’s light and see what you have been thrown inside a container, not very different from the shipping containers that you have seen lying around Hawaii. They have given you some military rations, canned water, and oxygen bottles but not much else. They have also dumped all of the corpses here, Poison, Tankdozer and all of the Scribes. Lovely.

The space is really small and claustrophobic, and having several dead corpses lying only a few feet from you isn’t helping.

You stand up and start to slap the walls in a vain attempt at getting help, but it is helpless, you cannot, and even if they could hear you they wouldn’t take you out. You try to be still and quiet and listen to what’s happening outside but you are so stressed and your heartbeat is so high that you cannot hear much around you, just feel a soft rumble across the cold grey walls of metal that surround you and hear a soft whispering female voice.

“3…”

“2…”

“1…”

>>3789211

The realization of what that countdown mean hits you the instant the entire thing rumbles violently and starts to press you against the floor. You feel a rush of blood going into your head as the rocket you are in ascends into the skies. The rumble goes on and on for what feels like an eternity and then, cold, colder than you have ever felt in your entire life, even on the moonless nights in the Mojave Desert. The corpses around you start to float and frost start to appear on the walls and surfaces around you. Your breath becomes visible and chilling, you feel your lips cracking and the sweat of your body freezing. The Enclave had barely insulated the container walls, just enough to avoid you from freezing to death it, but not from suffering. It’s a good thing that you have your power-armor on to protect you and that they have returned your helmet to you, otherwise, you would have ended losing several fingers, toes and perhaps even your nose to frostbite

It takes you three days to reach the Moon.

Three long days where all you could do was to burn your Fusion-Cells to gain a little bit of warmth kick the floating bodies away and ration the food and water. The blood that covers the cadavers started to float around the instant you left Earth’s gravity well, you at first tried to avoid it but at the end, you simply let it coat your armor.

At the end of the third day, the rocket suddenly changed in direction and started to land onto the lunar surface, you couldn’t see it, but you were pretty sure of what was going on around you. A few minutes after the direction change gravity returned a weakened gravity. You softly stood up and felt weakened, the cold, lack of food and lack of exercise had left you meek. The rocket lands loudly and you can hear then the sound of whirring doors and mechanisms, that’s good if you can hear it means that you are surrounded by an atmosphere, as there is no sound in space. The sound of mechanical arms and spinning gears continues for a while until something, grabs the container you are in and takes it out of the rocket, then moves it elsewhere and opens it.

>>3789213

You are in a derelict lunar station, the walls are made of concrete and steel beams, most of which are cracked to a degree or slightly rusty. Several plants have made this place their home and greenery covers most of the place with leaves and small flowers. The lights are still on but most are either broken or only emit a dim and weak cold light. Several skeletal remains lie on the floor along with broken Power-Armors and robots. Not very far from your location lies the rocket that brought you in, it’s not the gigantic Terra-Nova, they used a smaller rocket, one designed to transport resources and goods, not people. A set of mechanical arms are grabbing the different containers from the rocket and moving them to conveyor belts who later, with the use of a set of airlocks, introduce the containers into the station. There is a massive pile of containers in there; judging by how heavily they are covered in flora most seem to have been brought here centuries ago, surely before the war.

As the last container is brought the rocket once more blasts off towards the Earth, leaving you completely stranded.

>Investigate the different containers around, see if anyone has anything useful.
>Investigate the lunar station, see if there is a computer around that might help you.
>Investigate the broken robots and power-armors, see if you can cobble up something together that might help you.
>Other option, write in.

>>3789217
>Investigate the broken robots and power-armors, see if you can cobble up something together that might help you.

>>3789217
>Investigate the different containers around, see if anyone has anything useful.
>Investigate the lunar station, see if there is a computer around that might help you.
>Investigate the broken robots and power-armors, see if you can cobble up something together that might help you.
Assess the situation. Maybe we can find enough supplies to build a huge jet engine to crash the moon onto the earth...

Once we get back to earth, we’re gonna kill Sebastian. All in favor?
>Investigate the broken robots and power-armors, see if you can cobble up something together that might help you.

>>3789292
if he's in the same state than House we can just unhook him from everything and use him as a figure helm, mad max style but yes, he's numero uno on our shitlist

>>3789292
>Once we get back to earth
Haha
Hahaha
HAHAHAHAHA
the enclave has literally ZERO reason to take us back to earth.

>>3789306
>take us back
nah, we'll make an huge cannon to launch us back in an assault pod

>>3789306
That’s why we build a rocket with our automatic science and repair skills. We presumably could make one out of 2 screws and a reused piece of duck tape

>>3789317
We orks zcienze now! WAAGH!

>>3789314
>>3789317
Even with SCIENCE! this seems implausible. And that's assuming the Enclave don't have any surveillance on the place and/or aren't intending on killing us after we're done.

>>3789318
Proppa orky soopa mewtannt Boyz zogging W H E N?

>>3789217
>Investigate the different containers around, see if any of them has anything useful.

Most of the containers are filled with food, seeds or water, all of which are mostly inedible now. Still, with the few foodstuffs that you can stomach left you should have enough food to be able to survive for a couple of months.

A few others have technical equipment, fusion cells, and cores and other high-tech gear along with armor, spacesuits and energy weapons. You reload all of your weapons and charge your power-armor completely, grabbing spares to use later.

There is also a few bottles of a transparent gel called Void-Epoxy which apparently is capable of turning a Power-Armor into something airtight and usable as a spacesuit, you quickly put it on your armor to avoid suffocating in the void.

Another of the containers, for some reason, is full of furniture, a bed, a couch, several chairs, and even a working fridge and cooking station. You put them all around and connect them to the station's power source. At least now you will have a place to rest on, cook and sleep.

They have also shipped your rocket bike, which is unironically nice of them.

>Investigate the broken robots and power-armors, see if you can cobble up something together that might help you.
Doing what you do best, you decide to start gathering the different robotic pieces around and putting them all together, many of the robot models around are completely unknown for you, hell, some might even be of Russian, Chinese or European manufacture, according to the urban legends the moon was both free for all and at the same time no man’s land.

>>3789423

Carefully, and using the tools that you stole from the Enclave base you manage to repair a humanoid looking robot, way less clunky than a protectron, but clearly weaker, perhaps designed to work in the lunar gravity. The moment you activate it the robot stands up ignores you and immediately gets to work on the local plants, taking care of them.

“Hello?” You ask, wanting to know if the robot had some kind of AI.

“Oh, hello there laddie! Lovely night isn’t it?” It says in a British accent.

“What are you?”

“My designation is HONI, but most people call us Gardenbots. Quite a fitting name I would say. We tend to plant life here on the Moon. Most people here are either miners, scientists or soldiers. There were no plans of introducing gardeners or farmers, it was simply not feasible economically speaking, at least not until the war was over and the terraforming plans could start.”

“Do you do anything besides growing plants and food?”

“Well, I have no combat abilities if that’s what you are asking, I tend life, I do not harm it no sir. I can also cook for you and clean food from ionizing radiation. Do tell me, where are the others? I think I must have fallen asleep at some point, I don’t remember much…”

“That’s what I want to know too. I’m going to explore around for a little bit. Keep me informed if anything weird happens to the plants or if you see anything strange.”

The robot nods softly and continues looking and taking care of the different plants.

>Investigate the lunar station, see if there is a computer around that might help you.

With all the containers opened you walk around the station to see what its purpose was. The place seemed to be some kind of barracks. On the main floor, you can find a small infirmary, an armory, a couple of rooms full of dusty bunk beds, a pretty big mess hall and a room dedicated to relaxing and passing time, full of books and terminals with video-games. There's an upper floor where all the logistics and communications seemed to be done, it’s full of desks with typewriters, terminals, logistic machines, maps, and battle plans. There's also an underground floor with a shooting range, a workshop where you can modify your gear and a big garage with a lunar buggy and several tools to modify vehicles around. There's not a single soul around thought.

>Mod your power-armor.
>Mod your weapons.
>Mod your rocketbike.
>Check on the Lunar Buggy.
>Upgrade yourself with more bionics at the infirmary.
>Check the armory, see if there’s anything interesting there.
>Rest for now, you deserve a good night of sleep.
>Interrogate the Gardenbot, ask him what does he remember.
>Other option, write in.

>>3789426
>Check on the Lunar Buggy.
>Mod your rocketbike.
chances are the buggy will have parts we can use

>>3789426
>>Other option, write in.
Check for Enclave surveillance equipment. Hidden cameras, microphones, the works.

>>3789461
oh yes, good point

>>3789426
>>Check on the Lunar Buggy.

And just like that, the magic is gone

>>3789426
>Upgrade yourself with more bionics at the infirmary.

Space bionics? Space bionics. If nothing else we should make sure to take the designs back with us.

>>3789542
what are you talking about?

>>3789565

I guess he thinks the story jumped the shark.

I mean, my natural 1 killed all of our teammates, got us kidnapped, and sent to the fucking MOON

But I’m having fun

I'm having fun.
We'd better figure out a orbital drop pod to get back to Hawaii.

>>3789426
>Check for Enclave surveillance equipment. Hidden cameras, microphones, the works.

Still suspicious of the Enclave you start to look around for hidden cameras, spy bugs, microphones and all types of tracking devices, you even ask the Gardenbot to come and check around and inside to see if it has any kind of spying measure on itself.

Nothing, they have never set foot here, why would they? The Enclave was never planning on leaving the rocketship before heading into the stars, to them refueling here would have been an autonomous and automatic process.

You are completely alone, or that’s what you believe during your first hours at least, then several speakers around the place suddenly crack to life and a clear text-to-speech voice starts to speak.

“Welcome to the moon wastelander, you have reached further than any of your kind has ever reached, and will ever reach. We couldn’t send you to the refueling station that we will use; you are around two hundred miles from the location. We cannot send voice messages nor make contact with the robots on the moon, as we said there is something blocking the communications, there is a terminal on the second floor with a steady and secure connection, we can send you text messages and small files there, go up there to download the maps of lunar topography from the terminal and head to work. We need you to travel to the refueling station, make sure that everything is fine and fix whatever is broken. Do it or else we will give the High Evolutionary mutants Power-Armor technology and release the Lovebug mosquito around the world. Sebastian out.”

Fucking great. You do as instructed and see a single terminal with the lights on whereas the rest as turned off. You check on the screen and see that it is a two-way communication with them, they can send you messages, and you can message them. On the screen is the written text that they had sent you and was later converted to speech.

You find a small powernet cable around and connect your Pip-Boy to the terminal, downloading the maps of the nearby areas.

>Check on the Lunar Buggy.

With that done you head down into the garage and see that there is a special bigger airlock to get vehicles in an out.

The lunar buggy is pretty modern and despite having some dust on itself, everything is pretty well, no damage, no rust, it’s in mint condition. Some of its pieces remind you to Corvega motor parts but most are new to you, it doesn’t take you long to get a rough idea of how everything works though.

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>>3790024

The buggy has a nucleoelectric engine. No combustion happens at any time of course as it won’t work in such a thin atmosphere. Its wheels are made of galvanized rubber and are not hollow, but instead, have a mesh of hard rubber to maintain the wheels stable yet soft enough to not break during a landfall. It’s pretty clever that they are not using the typical rubber and air-filled wheels, as any flat tire would create an explosion from the sudden difference in atmospheres and pressures and possibly flip the entire buggy over. Most of the vehicle is occupied by the massive engine, there’s a small solar power-plant installed too that will allow to recharge the batteries and can also be used to recharge fusion cores and other energy ammo. The driver has to enter inside a cabin, the cabin is possibly pressurized and allows for drivers to pilot without needing a spacesuit, but you wouldn’t dare to go in there without something between the void and your skin, the cabin seems kind of fragile. On top of the buggy, there is a small laser turret on top, you can control it with a small joystick located on the inside. There’s also a small manipulator arm that you can use to remove obstacles and a small trunk on the backside where you can put your Rocket bike. You are pretty sure that the moon buggy is capable of carrying your bike and lots more but your bike wouldn’t be able to carry the buggy if the need arose.

You also go to see the local infirmary and see that it has high-grade bionics, similar to the ones that you saw on the PMV Valdez but way better. You will be able to upgrade yourself for free, but the resources are scarce, you calculate that you will only be able to add two upgrades on yourself.

>Check the different areas around the barracks where you are located. See where do you have to head and what other interesting areas are around.
>Upgrade yourself with more bionics, you are fighting against a monster, you need to become a monster yourself.
>Drive across the moon, check out the damage of the moon firsthand, explore on your own.
>Other option, write in.

>>3790027
>>Upgrade yourself with more bionics, you are fighting against a monster, you need to become a monster yourself.

>>3790027
>Check the different areas around the barracks where you are located. See where do you have to head and what other interesting areas are around.

>>3790027
>Upgrade yourself with more bionics, you are fighting against a monster, you need to become a monster yourself.
"He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man".

>Check the different areas around the barracks where you are located. See where do you have to head and what other interesting areas are around.

Yeah I don’t like the sound of becoming a monster

>>3790231
Not a literal monster silly, just Adam Jensen -tier cybernetic superhuman.

>>3790027
>Upgrade yourself with more bionics, you are fighting against a monster, you need to become a monster yourself.

The local infirmary possesses a couple of hospital beds, a little and cluttered clinic, a modern auto-doc, and a small morgue. It seems that the American government didn't bury their dead on the lunar soil and instead incinerated them and sent the ashes back to Earth whenever one of the transport rockets returned, several ash urns wait on some shelves; when the great-War happened the rockets stopped coming and thus these urns ended stranded there. There is a small holotape lying next to one of the urns, you grab it and play it with your Pip-Boy. A female voice then started to speak.

"General Cassandra Smith of the third Moon Marines squad speaking. Deceased combat engineer Marcus DeWitt has helped America by sabotaging dozens of communist outposts, vehicles and satellite links all across the Sea of Tranquility. He has specialized in sabotage missions and has even instructed several soldiers and engineers from their own and other squads and taught them how to efficiently destroy enemy equipment. He doesn't have any close family members and according to his own will, spoken orally and recorded by his spacesuit as he died he, and I quote, ‘I want you all to turn my ashes into a grenade to and throw me at some Chinese super-computer so I can short circuit and fuck these commie fuckers from beyond the grave’… despite how unorthodox this all is the group of engineers that he led have been willing to craft these ash grenades and have even made blueprints. We have been considering the use of these grenades and we have reached to the conclusion that they wouldn’t be only effective to sabotage equipment, but also against the invisible Hei gui stealth armors that the cowardly Chinese soldiers use across the moon. According to military reports, these near-invisible armors can be spotted by a well-trained eye as they slightly refract and bend light around them, but in an environment like the moon with so little light and air around such refractions become even smaller, and that makes these elite troops truly invisible and completely deadly. Seventh Engineering Corps, colloquially known as the Luna Rockers, you have permission to develop these grenades, once DeWitt’s ashes have all been used you will instead use ground moon rocks, as their dust can also short circuit sensible electrical equipment.”

Not very far away you found several of these grenades lying around and the blueprints to make them. You equip them all and head into the Auto-doc to see what kind of bionic options are here.

>>3790365
>Choose up to 2 bionics.
>We will check the barracks after this:

> High-Quality Bionic Skull:
As the name implies this implant requires substituting or shielding the cranium, usually with metal. Not many people apply to do these and unless you find a completely working Auto-Doc this operation will have an incredibly high mortality chance. Each skull regardless of quality will make you unable to have your head crippled. This bionic skull is completely undetectable and even fixes your appearance and features, making you look more beautiful. It gives you +1 CHA.

>Flare compensating eyes:
With these eyes, you will never be blinded by flashlights or flashbang grenades. It will make your scleras be slightly reddish and your irises completely white.

>Low light eyes:
With these eyes, you will be able to see in darkness. It will make your scleras be pitch black and your irises a bright neon green.

>Glowing eyes:
These cyber-eyes can be activated at will to emit a high power and low heat light, acting as a flashlight while not affecting your vision. Your eyes will have white irises but otherwise, look normal while they are deactivated and then be glowing orbs when the light has been turned on.

>Scope Eyes:
These eyes allow you to activate a zoom at any time to better focus on important details or better aim at enemies. Your eyes will be exchanged with cameral like lenses, giving you a slightly inhuman look.

> High-Quality bionic Eyes:
These implants are one of the most solicited ones, even by people who don't have their vision damaged or impaired. Being blind in the Post-Nuclear America equals to being defenseless and dead so it isn't so weird to find these Bionic Eyes in the possession of people who have them just in case. People with Bionic eyes will still be affected by the temporal blindness that for example, a Stun Grenade can inflict or weather effects of fog. These stunning eyes are small pieces of art. They appear like real human eyes but the irises beautifully glow and slowly shift in color. They give better vision than real eyes, giving people +1 PER and CHA.