>East Coast Remnant

>>4907538
>>Chicago Outpost

>>4907538
western remnant
i just want a classic fallout quest

>>4907538
>>Chicago Outpost

>>4907538
> West Coast Remnant

>>4907538
>West Coast Remnant

Gonna let the vote go for another two hours since this will shape a lot of what goes on at the start of the quest.

>>4907538
>Chicago Outpost

>>4907538
>East Coast Remnant

>>4907538
>Chicago Outpost

>>4907538
>>East Coast Remnant

>>4907538
>>East Coast Remnant

>>4907538
>West Coast Remnant
I love me some good old fashioned Imperialism.

>>4907538
>>West Coast Remnant

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That was dangerously close to a 3 way tie.
However here's the final tally
West Coast: 6
East Coast: 4
Chicago: 4

Alright, next choice, 1 hour to vote on it, after this will be the first proper post of the thread.

Who were your parents?
>Officers - +5 to all leadership rolls, Officer Training, Power armor training
>Scientists - +5 to all knowledge rolls, Scientist Training, Advanced Lab
>Soldiers - +5 to all combat rolls, Soldier training, Power armor training
>Engineers - +5 to all technology rolls, Engineer Training, Advanced Workstation
>Navarro Veterans - ???

To elaborate on what the other bonuses are, Training gives additional options in certain situations,

Power armor training lets you use power armor as soon as you get it,

the lab and workstation give you access to advanced crafting options to start

and Navarro Veterans has additional benefits that are not immediately available but are more powerful and only unlocked after several missions/flags have been activated.

Each region had an equivalent unique option just to keep things interesting, looking forwards to see where we go from here folks.

>>4907728
>Engineers - +5 to all technology rolls, Engineer Training, Advanced Workstation

>>4907728
>Officers - +5 to all leadership rolls, Officer Training, Power armor training
We're pretty stacked when it comes to Combat rolls, something like extra Leadership and Officer training would let us shine real good as a combat specialist. Picking up the Engineering background would be a good alternative so we can get that Advanced Workstation, letting us keep our gear in top condition.

>>4907728
>Navarro Veterans - ???
MYSTERY OPTION MYSTERY OPTION

>>4907728
>>Officers - +5 to all leadership rolls, Officer Training, Power armor training

It's good to be in charge.

>>4907728
>>Navarro Veterans - ???

>>4907728
>>Officers - +5 to all leadership rolls, Officer Training, Power armor training

>>4907728
>>Officers - +5 to all leadership rolls, Officer Training, Power armor training

>>4907728
>Navarro Veterans - ???

>>4907777
gotta go with these quads
+1

>>4907728
>NAvarro Veteran - ????

>>4907728
>Navarro Veterans - ???
The Box! The Box!

Could the Navarro vets be officers?

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>>4907795
Non-Commissioned officers, so they don't have the formal training that the regular officers do because they work for a living.

we're at a tie right now between Officers and Navarro Vets, 5 and 5, with 2 engineers, I'll let the vote run another hour to see we can break the tie, if it's still tied by then I'll roll a d100, 51-100 will be officers, 1-50 will be vets

>>4907728
>>Officers - +5 to all leadership rolls, Officer Training, Power armor training

>>4907728
>Navarro Veterans - ???
Ride's over muty time to die

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A close battle.
Officers- 7
Navarro Vets - 6
Engineers - 1

It would seem you parents were Enclave officers that survived the fall of the Enclave in the west and they raised you as a true blooded 'Murican patriot, the fire your blood boils for revenge against the savages and mutants that stole America's future, perhaps one day you might be able to rekindle the fire of civilization.

Everyone get ready, we're starting now.
Writing.

>>4907851
>Officers
Cringe

>>4907875
Alas it is what it is, part of me can't deny it would have been a lot of fun to do the Navarro Vets, but there's plenty of interesting things to work with here none the less.

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2241 AD-164 years after the apocalypse. The bastion of American power, True American Power, Has fallen. Destroyed by a savage, some tribal called the Chosen one, from some worthless village called Arroyo.

Your Parents escaped the destruction of the Poseidon Energy Oil Rig, they were part of the officer corps of the Enclave, your father was a 1st Lieutenant and your mother his second. Generally speaking many would frown upon this kind of fraternization in a disciplined military, but given the minuscule pure human genetic stock there was to work with exceptions were made.

Though their relationship only really blossomed after they escaped into California proper. Many fled to Navarro fortifying the base there, indeed so did your parents, but they didn't stay long. They set out as part of a mission to establish a new Enclave operational Cell in the nearest city, as well to spread out the now overly centralized command structure of the Enclave seeing as it was recently proven detrimental a decisive strike against a centralized command structure could be.

Your parents were clever, they settled into the small village quite nicely and when the NCR rolled into the area they were none the wiser to them. They gave a heads up to the folks at Navarro and the NCR had hell to pay when they eventually got there, but the price wasn't high enough as they managed to finish off the Chosen ones work.

Or so they thought.

Now without any obvious direct superiors and many officers having Fled East with one Colonel Autumn, your parents were left nominally in charge of a group of remnants numbering about 10 in a small town on the outskirts of Camp Navarro. There wasn't much that they could do in immediate retaliation, so they bided their time, and settled down to plot.

Eventually in 2252 you were born, a healthy baby boy, they decided to name you...
>Write in

the more unabashedly 'Murican it is the better.

>>4907889
Navarro or Camp Navarro was an Enclave military base on the coast of California as well as the last major hold out of the Enclave on the west coast before the New California Republic officially wiped them off the map.

>>4907888
>Abraham Ulysses Reagan

>>4907888
>>Write in
Jack

>>4907888
>Robert B. Grant

>>4907888
Rutherford Jefferson-Jackson IV to the dregs,

Ford, to your friends.

>>4907907
I like it, I'll change to this.

>>4907907
i'll switch to this as well. i like the all the possible nicknames: ford, jeff, jack

>Rutherford Jefferson-Jackson IV

You parents had a flair for the dramatic it would seem.
Writing.

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Rutherford Jefferson-Jackson IV was your name.

A proper American name for a proper true blooded American. You're parents were task masters growing up. Your father, Rutherford Jefferson-Jackson III was particularly unrelenting, but he was also fair. For every mistake there was a consequence, for every triumph a reward. Your mother Margret Jefferson-Jackson was rather overbearing in her expectations for you, how you were, "The Generation that would set things right in America."
you're the eldest of three children, you have a younger brother and sister, and there were about 8 more kids amongst the 8 other enclave remnants in this small town.

You were all 'home schooled' as it were, taught by each of the remnants about your history, and the Enclaves mission, friend and foe. The Energy behind your elders lessons enticed you from a young age, you truly believed in the cause.

You felt it in you a deep burning hatred for the New California Republic, for the Chosen one, you knew if you ever had the opportunity to end either you'd take it right then and there.

But you weren't alone in that, you had a close selection of friends among the others growing up.

Who were they (Pick 3)?

>Robert B. Grant: A hardass hardliner, you pegged him to be a drill sergeant one day.

>Jacob Hartman: A smart mouthed nerd, he always struck you as the kind of man who'd sooner build a vertabird than shoot a gun, the way he tinkered with shit.

>Rosaline Washington: A sneaky little and mischievous little lady, constantly in trouble with the adults for her antics, but surprisingly bright underneath the venire of false ignorance.

>Andrew Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Brother, a bit of a slacker but also a highly talented hunter

>Elizabeth Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Sister, a die hard fanatic, even more so than yourself also something of a try hard.

>Thomas Shepard Rockefeller, A shrewd boy with an eye for money, not bad with a gun or with his words either, would have been a great politician had the world not gone to shit.

>>4907931
>Robert B. Grant: A hardass hardliner, you pegged him to be a drill sergeant one day.
>Jacob Hartman: A smart mouthed nerd, he always struck you as the kind of man who'd sooner build a vertabird than shoot a gun, the way he tinkered with shit.
>Elizabeth Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Sister, a die hard fanatic, even more so than yourself also something of a try hard.

>>4907931
>Robert B. Grant: A hardass hardliner, you pegged him to be a drill sergeant one day.
>Andrew Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Brother, a bit of a slacker but also a highly talented hunter
>Thomas Shepard Rockefeller, A shrewd boy with an eye for money, not bad with a gun or with his words either, would have been a great politician had the world not gone to shit.

>>4907931
>Jacob Hartman: A smart mouthed nerd, he always struck you as the kind of man who'd sooner build a vertabird than shoot a gun, the way he tinkered with shit.
>Thomas Shepard Rockefeller, A shrewd boy with an eye for money, not bad with a gun or with his words either, would have been a great politician had the world not gone to shit.
>Robert B. Grant: A hardass hardliner, you pegged him to be a drill sergeant one day.

>>4907931
>Robert B. Grant: A hardass hardliner, you pegged him to be a drill sergeant one day.

>Elizabeth Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Sister, a die hard fanatic, even more so than yourself also something of a try hard.

>Jacob Hartman: A smart mouthed nerd, he always struck you as the kind of man who'd sooner build a vertabird than shoot a gun, the way he tinkered with shit.

Jock, sister, nerd. Perfect

>>4907931
>>Robert B. Grant: A hardass hardliner, you pegged him to be a drill sergeant one day.
>>Jacob Hartman: A smart mouthed nerd, he always struck you as the kind of man who'd sooner build a vertabird than shoot a gun, the way he tinkered with shit.
>Andrew Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Brother, a bit of a slacker but also a highly talented hunter

a motely crew of polar opposites should make for a fun time

>>4907931
>>Robert B. Grant: A hardass hardliner, you pegged him to be a drill sergeant one day.
>>Jacob Hartman: A smart mouthed nerd, he always struck you as the kind of man who'd sooner build a vertabird than shoot a gun, the way he tinkered with shit.
>>Thomas Shepard Rockefeller, A shrewd boy with an eye for money, not bad with a gun or with his words either, would have been a great politician had the world not gone to shit.

>>4907931
>Robert B. Grant: A hardass hardliner, you pegged him to be a drill sergeant one day.
>Rosaline Washington: A sneaky little and mischievous little lady, constantly in trouble with the adults for her antics, but surprisingly bright underneath the venire of false ignorance.
>Elizabeth Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Sister, a die hard fanatic, even more so than yourself also something of a try hard.

>>4907931
>Andrew Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Brother, a bit of a slacker but also a highly talented hunter
>Robert B. Grant: A hardass hardliner, you pegged him to be a drill sergeant one day.
>Someone else? The eighth mysterious kid. Always wore a trench coat and fedora. Didn't talk much. Can't remember him every talking, actually.

>>4907951
>Someone else? The eighth mysterious kid. Always wore a trench coat and fedora. Didn't talk much. Can't remember him every talking, actually.
I appreciate a meme pick as much as the next guy, but lets save the stranger for his spot in a perk.
I'll take the rest of the vote if you pick an actual third.

>>4907962
The mysterious patriot would be a good variant of the stranger.

>>4907962
I'll change my votes to
>Andrew Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Brother, a bit of a slacker but also a highly talented hunter
>Elizabeth Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Sister, a die hard fanatic, even more so than yourself also something of a try hard.
>Thomas Shepard Rockefeller, A shrewd boy with an eye for money, not bad with a gun or with his words either, would have been a great politician had the world not gone to shit.

>>4907973
Good suggestion, I'll note that down.

>>4907931
>Robert B. Grant: A hardass hardliner, you pegged him to be a drill sergeant one day.
>Jacob Hartman: A smart mouthed nerd, he always struck you as the kind of man who'd sooner build a vertabird than shoot a gun, the way he tinkered with shit.
>Elizabeth Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Sister, a die hard fanatic, even more so than yourself also something of a try hard.

>>4907977
Changing from
>Andrew Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Brother, a bit of a slacker but also a highly talented hunter
>Elizabeth Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Sister, a die hard fanatic, even more so than yourself also something of a try hard.
>Thomas Shepard Rockefeller, A shrewd boy with an eye for money, not bad with a gun or with his words either, would have been a great politician had the world not gone to shit.
to
>Andrew Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Brother, a bit of a slacker but also a highly talented hunter
>Rosaline Washington: A sneaky little and mischievous little lady, constantly in trouble with the adults for her antics, but surprisingly bright underneath the venire of false ignorance.
>Thomas Shepard Rockefeller, A shrewd boy with an eye for money, not bad with a gun or with his words either, would have been a great politician had the world not gone to shit.

One sibling's enough.

Alright here's the tally as is
Robert B. Grant: 9 votes
Jacob Hartman: 7 votes
Elizabeth: 4 votes
Andrew: 4 votes
Thomas Shepard Rockefeller: 4 votes
Rosaline Washington: 2 vote

Alright we're tied for our third by my count, but we're getting Robert and Jacob for sure it would seem.

Lightning round 30 minutes because I got work in the morning, after this vote I'll do the next write up and that'll be the last one for today.

Pick 1
>Andrew Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Brother, a bit of a slacker but also a highly talented hunter
>Elizabeth Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Sister, a die hard fanatic, even more so than yourself also something of a try hard.
>Thomas Shepard Rockefeller, A shrewd boy with an eye for money, not bad with a gun or with his words either, would have been a great politician had the world not gone to shit.

>>4907992
>Elizabeth Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Sister, a die hard fanatic, even more so than yourself also something of a try hard.
Fanatical little sister, how can we not take her on our quest to reclaim America?

>>4907992
>>Thomas Shepard Rockefeller, A shrewd boy with an eye for money, not bad with a gun or with his words either, would have been a great politician had the world not gone to shit.

>>4907992
>Elizabeth Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Sister, a die hard fanatic, even more so than yourself also something of a try hard.

I want to be able to replicate the chris meme.

"YOU HAVE TO FUCK MY SISTER ROBERT, CONTINUE THE JEFFERSON JACKSON BLOODLINE"

>>4907992
>>Elizabeth Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Sister, a die hard fanatic, even more so than yourself also something of a try hard.

>>4907992
>>Thomas Shepard Rockefeller, A shrewd boy with an eye for money, not bad with a gun or with his words either, would have been a great politician had the world not gone to shit.

>>4907992
>>Elizabeth Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Sister, a die hard fanatic, even more so than yourself also something of a try hard.
Eh. We already got some support in the form of Jacob, might as well take the sister.

>>4907992
>Elizabeth Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Sister, a die hard fanatic, even more so than yourself also something of a try hard.

>>4907992
>>Elizabeth Jefferson-Jackson, Your younger Sister, a die hard fanatic, even more so than yourself also something of a try hard.

>>4907992
>>Thomas Shepard Rockefeller, A shrewd boy with an eye for money, not bad with a gun or with his words either, would have been a great politician had the world not gone to shit.
we need money to run a country

Alright calling the vote here
By my count we have:
Elizabeth: 6 votes
Thomas: 4 votes

So we'll go forwards with Elizabeth.
Writing now.

>>4907992
>Thomas Shepard Rockefeller, A shrewd boy with an eye for money, not bad with a gun or with his words either, would have been a great politician had the world not gone to shit.

>>4908046
>>4908033
Oh, missed the vote.

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Robert B. Grant, Jacob Hartman, and Your little sister Elizabeth or as you call her Lizzy, she hates it.

A group of individuals that surprisingly compliments each other well, Jacob keeps the equipment in line, occasionally does logistics, you and Robert co-ordinate the fights and Lizzy just scares the shit out of anything that doesn't die. Seriously she might need some help, but for now she's best focused towards the enemy.

Now if you could actually get everyone to properly work together in the field rather than the war games your parents run. You're about 18 at this point and your group is all itching for some real action, a chance to bring the fight to the NCR proper, but unfortunately you've only had one field mission and it was pure chaos.

It was a simple recon, Head South to San Francisco and see what the Commies are up to. It's a menial task, but every thing that could go wrong did. Whoever the hell Murphy is can rot in hell for those laws of his.

First communication breaks down between Grant and Jacob, as they get into a heated argument over regulations, specifically equipment regulations and maintenance. It's actually rather impressive watching Jacob argue heatedly with the giant as you pinned him to back down the moment Grant raised his voice, but it doesn't really help you get the job done.

Then there was your sister, Constantly attempting to go above and beyond the call of duty, and constantly getting far more attention than necessary drawn to your group.

Thankfully you were able to pull them all together to actually successfully complete the mission, but it definitely showed there was some kinks that needed to be worked out for this well oiled machine to function properly.

Regardless you're back home now, and the world is your oyster.

you may talk to any number of people in these interludes
>Talk to Elizabeth
>Talk to Jacob
>Talk to Robert
>Write in

Pick 1 leisure option
>Head to the gun range
>Study your history
>Spend time with family
>Write in

Your next Mission

Pick 1
>Establish contact with another Enclave Remnant Cell
>Raid a Crimson Caravan convoy
>Sow Dissent against the NCR amongst the 'civilians' of your home town.

This is good night for now America, Warden signing off.
I will see you all tomorrow starting at 3:30PM CST

>>4908117
>Talk to Robert
Seems like a cool dude to kick back and drink a beer or two with.
>Study your history
Knowledge is power.
>Raid a Crimson Caravan convoy
Free shit. What could possibly go wrong? (Everything. Everything can go wrong.)

>>4908117

Talk:
>Talk to Elizabeth
>Talk to Jacob
>Talk to Robert

Leisure:
>Study your history

Mission:
>Establish contact with another Enclave Remnant Cell

Raiding / Sowing dissent might tip our hands a bit early, best to forge alliances and get set-up properly before fucking with the Bear and / or his supply lines.

>>4908117
>>Talk to Robert

He'll be out equivalent to a CSM one day, I can feel it.

>>Study your history

>>Establish contact with another Enclave Remnant Cell

Can't go wrong there I suppose. More lads to link up with.

Anyone opposed to making "auxiliaries" out of raider gangs and the like in the future? Being critically short on manpower means we'll need some mooks who are simply there to die.

>>4908155
From an in character and out of character perspective, I highly doubt the four chucklefucks would even entertain that thought. Especially the sister of ours. She would probably nuke them on sight.

>>4908155
suppporting

>>4908157
I feel like a case could be made that using wasteland trash as meat shields / mobile minefield clearers / distractions / experiment fodder might pass muster if it's sold the right way.

>>4908117
>Talk to Jacob
>Head to the gun range
>Establish contact with another Enclave Remnant Cell

>>4908155
Support.

>>4908155
+1, maybe one day we can find some true patriots our of the savages.

>>4908263
They aren't human. they're vile mutants living on american soil. It'd be like asking a rat to vote, anon

>>4908117

Talk

Is probably a good idea to iron out any problems in the squad and ensure we can work together properly. Also we can see what they think of the next mission, and if they had anything else to talk of.

>>Talk to Elizabeth
>>Talk to Jacob
>>Talk to Robert
>>Write in
Dad, is probably wise to understand how to properly approach other Enclave survivors, if they are from the east or west, chicago or even a few other secret locations destroyed. Maybe a recorded message from the heads of our families ? The other surviving cells, wouldn t know us their childrens but they likely know our fathers and mothers.

Leisure
>Study your history

Mission
>Establish contact with another Enclave Remnant Cell

>>4908155
Maybe for use them as slaves and soldier slaves. It depends on how we explain this idea to our fellows and what words we use for it.
For example, let s say after a battle with a raider gang, we have manage to win and a dozen surrenders.

"The wastelands trash we captured, isn t wort to be killed by our weapons and for the crimes they have done, death would be a relief. A way for them to escape unpunished from America justice."
"I say no to giving them an escape, they should pay for what they have done. Be working until they die as slaves, or for harvest their organs, or to be send ahead of us in battle for clear mines fields or soften up our foes in suicide charges. Even letting them die here in the sun with their arteries open by our knives, without supplies or clothes is better than wasting cells or ammo for kill them."

>>4908117
>Talk to Jacob
>Head to the gun range
>Establish contact with another Enclave Remnant Cell

>>4908117
>Talk to Elizabeth
>Spend time with family
>Sow Dissent against the NCR amongst the 'civilians' of your home town.

>>4908117
>Talk to robert
>Study your history
>Establish contact with another remnant cell

>>4908117
>Talk to Robert
>Talk to Jacob
>Talk to Elizabeth

>>4908276
>Is probably a good idea to iron out any problems in the squad and ensure we can work together properly
Agreed, we have to make sure we nip any problems in the bud before they can take root long term. We can't have our team cohesion disintegrating in the field like it did on our first mission, that's how we end up dying before we can Make America Great Again.

>Pick 1 leisure option
>Study your history

>Your next Mission
>Establish contact with another Enclave Remnant Cell
Our largest hurdle is our lack of manpower, we need to start gathering a few of the regional cells (if there are any) before we do anything else of note. Raiding a Caravan sounds like a good second option, but I fear it might have too much of a regional impact to be good for us right now (We're deep in NCR home territory, a raided Caravan will draw attention of the local authorities).

>>4908155
>Anyone opposed to making "auxiliaries" out of raider gangs and the like in the future?
I can't see us in character make an argument for such auxiliaries that will stick with the rest of our faction. We've picked the genocidal faction so any attempt at diplomacy with "less than pure" humams would result in failure due to our diplomatic malus and internal resistance. If we however can gather a large enough Cohort we might be able to intimidate or just straight up force smaller raider clans to do suicidal attacks against enemy positions for us.

Alright, got off work early today.
Counting this votes was certainly something I'll need to consider that a bit more thoroughly when deciding options in the future probably just going to split them into separate segments, I'll take suggestions on this, but here's what my vote count stands at currently.

13 total votes
Robert got 9 votes total
Jacob got 6 votes total
Elizabeth got 5 votes total

Talking with dad got 1

While not on the vote I will give some insight into Ford's though process in the update on the concept of raider auxiliaries since it would seem there's some degree of debate on the viability both from a character perspective and a faction perspective.

For Leisure time
Studying your history got 9 votes
Heading to the gun range got 3 votes
spending time with family got 1 vote

and the mission is a resounding victory for Contacting another Enclave remnant cell.


So final outcome:
You will talk with Robert and Jacob (Jacob had half rounded down votes out of total).

After which you will go gather your books and records and study what you can about the history of the Enclave and America.

Then you will get ready for your next mission which will be to Contact another Enclave Remnant Cell.

Also as a heads up from about 6PM-10PM CST updates will be more sporadic.
Writing

>>4908591
>I can't see us in character make an argument for such auxiliaries that will stick with the rest of our faction.

In character, my thoughts about it are that we have miniscule manpower vs the established factions around us, making use of slave labor or penal battalions wouldn't be such a bad thing on account of current circumstances. I'm not really interested in diplomancing them, just using them.

>>4908752
That's the one argument I could see holding water, though it'd be extremely limited in scope due to our own faction size making it very hard to keep large penal battalions in check with force.

>>4908778
Could always just find proxy wars through caps and tech

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[For reference in case anyone's keeping track the current year is 2070, 7 years before Fallout 3 and the first battle of hoover dam, and 11 years before new vegas, you are currently 18]

You've found growing up that Robert is a fantastic sounding board surpisingly critical, but also stubborn as a brahmain bull when he's made up his mind. So you decide to head over to talk to him first after about a days rest.

You can usually find him in one of two places, either the library or the gym, today he's at the library. He seems to be sitting at one of the terminals reading a series of log entries made by some expidition. He notices you approach, "Rutherford." he says curtly, you sigh.

"How many years have we known each other Grant?" you reply?
He thinks on it, "14 years." he replies simply.

"Then call me Ford, you're more than worthy of it." you say with a smile

"Ah worthy am I?" he chuckles, "I prefer to say Rutherford, consider it a sign of respect."
"Fair enough, well placed too... What exactly are you reading?" you ask curiosity somewhat peaked.

He turns back to the terminal, "A series of scouting logs salvaged from Navarro back in the 2140's, informations not up to date, but it helps to give some wider insight into our predecessors work." He leans forwards, "Take a look at this one in particular."

You lean over his hulking shoulder as he continues, "Vault locations, details of inhabitants, variations on genetic mutation via inbreeding and population viablity and purity, testing parameters, et cetra."

[continued]

You nod, "Yes, all important things to consider when cracking one of those open, it's not exactly like there were many control vaults, need to make sure that the stock is still good."

He leans back, "I understand that, it's why I'm looking these over, because we won't have the details they did, we'll have to do it all by eye." he looks over to you, "Which frankly makes the task all the more tedious."
You shake your head, "Nonsense, you know I have an eye for telling the pure from the mutant."

He sighs, "I highly doubt its as honed as you think it is, not like there's many test cases here surrounded by these wastelanders."
You scoff, "Besides the point, you'll see it when we eventually get back to knocking on those vault doors."

Though it does bring up an interesting question, one about population viability, and numbers, should probably discuss this with Jacob at some point.

On the topic of Jacob, you put your hand on Grant's shoulder, "We didn't really have a good place to discuss it out in the field, but you want to tell me why you and Jacob got into an argument over regulations of all things?"
Grant leans his head back, "Because he's so damn laziee faire about them, its going to get himself and all of us killed one of these times."

You decide to pull up a chair, "I don't think the 'unsanctioned' modifications he makes to his guns are going to get us killed, if anything it helps us kill what we need to"

He shakes his head, "Sure for the guns, but how far does it go before it's the high explosives, what about when we have proper equipment and then suddenly it malfunctions because he decided on a hunch or some erroneous calculation that whatever methodology he's concocted leads to it all blowing up? The man likes to think he's a living calculator, but we've all seen what happens when he fucks up."

You give a half nod to that, there was one time during a class on engine maintenance, not that we have many cars still useful though, where he decided to tamper with his, everything seemed fine, passed inspection but his changes caught his car on fire, it did nearly kill the instructor.

Was a month of latrine duty for him, deserving, but horrible fate.

You shrug however, "He's grown since then, but I'll talk with him none the less, in the mean while I think you should have a little more confidence in the capabilities of your squad, you got big shoulders man, but you should try to carry everyone."

He shakes his head going back to the logs.
You stand up and go off to find Jacob

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You already know where he's going to be.

The same place he always is, he's in the workshop.

You wonder what it is this time he's tinkering on, though those thoughts are quickly drowned out by the sound of an angle grinder hitting steel, you cringe at the noise before back up and remembering to pick up some noise protection before heading back in.

You find Jacob messing with some scrap applying it to a frame, polishing off the rust, looks like he's trying to make some sort of scrap metal armor? Regardless he hasn't noticed you approaching yet so you wait for him to set the grinder down and admire his work, which takes a few minutes, and then you tap him on the shoulder to which he jumps slightly before leaning back taking a deep breath and turning around.

"Fucking hell Ford you scared the shit out of me. Didn't your mother ever teach you to not sneak up on someone with an angle grinder?" he says finally turning around.

You laugh, "No I think that lesson was specifically how to kill someone from behind if they have an angle grinder, something to do with choking them out with the power cord I think."
He raises an eyebrow, "Right... well anyways you got something you want to talk about I take it?"

You nod, "Yeah two things really, first I want your opinion on the current population viability of the enclave."

He gives you a quizzical look before shrugging, "You want actual numbers or a rough guess because I'm not a geneticist, You'ld have to go hunt down Adrianna if you want to talk about that."

You roll your eyes, and shake your head, "I'd prefer not talking with her thanks. Give me your best estimation."

He nods before spinning around and grabbing some sheet paper he had off to the side and a pencil and starting to do some rough calculations.
It takes about 10 minutes before he's done, "Well, lets assume the most optimistic scenario right? That we can get together something like 1000 breeding pairs of pure stock human,all of them genetically distinct up to third cousins I think?" he says before putting the pencil to his lips, "We'll go with third cousins. Then yeah we'd be viable, 2 thousand at just post industrial population growth would work just fine, not the best best case, but probably about that many Remnants left I figure spread across the continent."

You nod, "And the worst case?"

He laughs, "Oh we're either gonna need gene editing technology or clones, because if it's even like 20 times what we have here we're gonna start running into some serious recessive gene issues, possibly evolutionarily malignant mutations."

Well shit, you had never really thought that hard on the matter until now, but there's a serious chance that pure humans might die out within a few generations if something drastic isn't done.

How does that make you feel.

>There can be no compromise on the matter, we'll just need to get as many pure humans as we can together.

>Perhaps there can be some compromise? You think you remember in the history books something that the Spanish Empire used called the Encomienda system? Might be necessary if things don't pan out

>Purity of thought matters more to you than Purity of blood, it's the ideals of the Enclave, of America that must survive, if that means tolerating a few wastelanders to wipe out the ghouls and the super mutants and their ilk than so be it.

>Write in

>>4908862
>Purity of thought matters more to you than Purity of blood, it's the ideals of the Enclave, of America that must survive, if that means tolerating a few wastelanders to wipe out the ghouls and the super mutants and their ilk than so be it.
The idea of breeding with muties (URGH) is the absolute last resort besides just dying out but using wastelanders as a means to an end will be a good idea.

>>4908862
>>There can be no compromise on the matter, we'll just need to get as many pure humans as we can together.

>>4908862
>Perhaps there can be some compromise? You think you remember in the history books something that the Spanish Empire used called the Encomienda system? Might be necessary if things don't pan out

>>4908862
>Perhaps there can be some compromise? You think you remember in the history books something that the Spanish Empire used called the Encomienda system? Might be necessary if things don't pan out

>>4908862
>Write in
>This is distubring news. Maintaining the Purity of Humanity under a worst case scenario might not be possible with our limited numbers, and should it come down to that we must seek other alternatives. Having Humanity survive with the least risk of genetical instability would be priority if we can not maintain complete Purity. As such, the easiest solution would then be to screen select numbers of Wastelanders to find those who would be the least likely to jeapordize our Purity and include them in the fold.
>However, this is for the moment only a simple back-up plan. Until we can establish contact with as many surviving Enclave Remnants as possible, so that we make known all variables, we should strive to remain as pure as possible. When we have an accurate headcount of all remaining Pure Humans is the time when we can make take a solid stance on this issue.

>>4908912
changing my vote to this

>>4908912
Supporting this

>>4908862
>There can be no compromise on the matter, we'll just need to get as many pure humans as we can together.

>This is distubring news. Maintaining the Purity of Humanity under a worst case scenario might not be possible with our limited numbers, and should it come down to that we must seek other alternatives. Having Humanity survive with the least risk of genetical instability would be priority if we can not maintain complete Purity. As such, the easiest solution would then be to screen select numbers of Wastelanders to find those who would be the least likely to jeapordize our Purity and include them in the fold.
>However, this is for the moment only a simple back-up plan. Until we can establish contact with as many surviving Enclave Remnants as possible, so that we make known all variables, we should strive to remain as pure as possible. When we have an accurate headcount of all remaining Pure Humans is the time when we can make take a solid stance on this issue.
[4 votes to no compromises 2, some compramises 1 and purity of thoughts 1]

You grimace, still best to put somethings out of mind for the time being.

You reply to Jacob, "How can you laugh at the matter? It's an existential issue with our entire mission."

He shrugs, "If you can't laugh at the potential of failure then there's no hope, at least that's the way I see it. Besides the worst of it would happen in a few generations and if all goes to plan we'll have back in our hands the proper tools to counteract the worst if it comes."

He seems quite optimistic about the matter, but you're not so certain, there's no point betting on best cases after all.

You sigh, "Well thank you for the number crunch anyways Jacob, there's the other matter I need to talk to you about."

He leans back and relaxes in his chair, "Yeah and what's that?"

You look him in the eyes, "I think we need to talk about that outburst in the last mission."

He shakes his head, "Look I sure as shit didn't start that debacle, it's not my fault that Grant's got a stick up his ass a mile long giving him a stiffy for regulations."
You frown, he rolls his eyes, "Alright, sorry out of line there. Seriously though, we won't get anywhere sticking to outdated regulations about tactics and firearms that we barely have any of left, if we're going to do what we're setting out to do in the long run we need to innovate even more now than ever and that's for every field."

[Continued]

You can see the logic in that, but there's always the danger of backfire, "I don't blame you for that out look, but perhaps you should consider those regulations exist for a reason, and maybe if you want to do something different, you should try making that way regulation."

He shakes his head again, "It's not about different in the moment, codifying it then will just make people like Grant argue about the new one when it needs to be changed the next time. Flexibility Ford, that's what we need."

You just stare at him, "Like I said I appreciate the thought process, but people need things to fall back on, not everyone's mind is searching for the optimal solution and sometimes good enough is good enough."
He frowns, "Until it gets you killed."

Christ they may both be your friends but they are stubborn as hell.

You roll your shoulders and lean on a nearby wall, "Ok, I can see this is going no where fast, we'll table this for now, but I want to make it clear for the coming mission, you're to let me know if you've got an idea first before you try it, I want to avoid petty bickering in the field and in front of other remnants, makes us look weak."

he sighs, "Sure thing boss, are we done here?"

You nod, "Yeah we're done here, and watch the attitude in the field too, we're friend at home, not at work."

With that you leave, you're going to relish being able to relax after all this bullshit.

[Continued]

>>4908778
Explosive slave collars? Besides being better trained, equipped, and organized is a force multiplier on our end.

>Study your history

You head back to your house and head down to the basement. Back when your family first moved here, the Enclave still had the resources to set up a lot of their prewar tech and post war innovations even with the loss of the Poseidon Oil Rig.

down here there's a secret door that leads to a small bunker with what records they could back up and salvage from Navarro, a lot of the history books and Enclave records that you've studied in the past were from here, you father liked to come down here and pull stuff out of this bunker for his lessons constantly.

Now you mostly come down here to be by yourself and immerse yourself in your history.
Stories of America before the war, of the pinnacle of humanity, and the horrors of what was lost, the brave Enclave that did everything they could to preserve the American ideal.

You sigh looking through the records on file, and decide to go through an old favorite, "The New American Dream, by Dick Richardson Senior" Second to last... well for now anyway president.

As you're reading it you begin to wonder about the state of government and the right to rule, obviously being some of the only pure blooded Americans left you have the right to rule, but the population problem creeps to the back of your mind again, Can we truly return to a democracy with so few of us left in the worst case and in the best case can we provide for ourselves properly in such a situation? Is there a better way forwards or an interim that'll put the future of America in it's brightest spot?

What does Ford think is the way forwards for America?

>Write in.

[How's everyone enjoying everything, anyone got any thoughts on what little there is or suggestions thus far? Personally I've been enjoying writing all of this]

>>4908966
>>Write in.

Democracy is dead, the American Empire must rise from the ashes.

>>4908966
>Write in
America is the land of the free. It is a bastion of democracy. We won't let ourselves fall and think like god damn commies.

>>4908966
It s a pretty cool quest, and I like what we are doing so far.

//
>Write - In

The reestablishment of American democracy is a difficult task. For long the enclave couldn t properly re-apply it, being in a state of all out war across the homeland against abominations, barbarians and deranged men.

Still all of our people enjoyed good lives, albeit martial ones, a necessity at first, and now a part of our culture.
For the moment, a new system could be given as the dream cannot be realized
now. A council of 13 chosen men voted by all adults, for their skills, military background and devotion to the cause. This men will take upon themselves the mantle to lead our community, be at peace or war, and deliberate important decisions.

This council members will be called Protectors (if anyone as a better name drop it). As their duty is to protect our families, and to kill our foes.

Each of this 13 men will receive even an honourific american title in addition to the one of Protector.

>>4908987
supporting

>>4908966
>Write in

>Long have the ancient texts of the Old World helped inspire your actions and steel your belief in the reconstitution of American Society, as brought forth by the Delcaration of Independence from the Empire Britannica almost six centuries ago. Many a times during crisis of faith in your God-given task have you retreated to your family bunker to seek gudiance from the Founding Fathers, and you've found yourself quite attached to a certain passage within the original Declaration.
>"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
>Having lived your life underneath the boot of the ursurpers of the New California Republic, you have seen the worst of the worst that the old system of Governance could bring forth. Cruelty, Corruption and Self-Servance run deep within the political elite of the False Republic. Any attempted change from within the system to counteract this decay, bogged down in political red-tape until forgotten by the public. Any who would stand against it's progress driven out of the Political Sphere, or worse, killed in thinly veiled accidents or mysteriosly disappearing without a trace.
>You and your Comrades are not here to bring back the Old Order with all it's flaws and failures. Instead you are the Torch Bearers who will set alight this rotting corpse of what used to be. And from the ashes of what once was shall rise a New America, one free from the corrupt bureaucracy and bloated govermental systems that existed in it's dying breath and that now spreads eastwards in it's zombified remains. You shall be it's Guardians and it's Protectors, a nation where the core tenants are Liberty, Integrity and Freedom of the Individual, where the State exists to serve as a neccessary evil to provide the stability and security of society, and to the individuals who make up that society.
>This is what you are: America's New Dawn.

>tl;dr - Heavy-Handed Jeffersonian Democracy

>>4908998
Sound okay

>>4908959
Ah yes, I did forget that Slave Collars exist in Fallout. That should help with the issue, though I'd perfer to use only as little penal troops as possible. Quantity has a Quality all of it's own, and I'd rather we keep the possibility of a large scale slave revolt to the absolute minimum.

>>4909046
Tbh crushing slave revolts does sound kind of fun

>>4908966
>Write in.
>BTFO BoS
>BTFO NCR
>BTFO retarded tribals playing Rome
>Get more geneticists to fix mutation problems in unpure humans
>Acquire more Power Armor
>Win
simple as

Alright I'm able to write again
Here's the current tally

>>4908984 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgxZr6LLS34 (Democracy is dead) 1 vote

>>4908987 America is the land of the free. It is a bastion of democracy. We won't let ourselves fall and think like god damn commies.2 votes

>>4908988 The Council of 13 2 votes

>>4909037 Harsh Jeffersonian Democracy 1 vote

>>4909107 Enclav'FC 1 vote

Looks like we have a tie between the Council of the Republic, and Holding on to the core tenants of American democracy

I'll let the vote run for another 30 minutes and see if anything changes after this update if not I'll roll, 1-50 Council, 51-100 American Democracy

Rolled 55 (1d100)

Alright here comes the tie breaker.

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American Democracy wins, I'll throw in a dash of harsh Jeffersonianism because the two mesh pretty well together.

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You set "The New American Dream" to the side and search through the records to dig up a copy of the constitution of the United states. This right here, the article your family and organization have fought so hard to preserve. You couldn't allow yourself to be swayed by desperation, it is your intrinsic duty as one of the last true citizens of the Republic to defend the Democracy of America.
It will be hard, it will be difficult as hell, but the republic will have the fire of civilization breathed into again by pure American hands, or you will die trying.

You steel your resolve and read over this sanctified document once more before standing up once more confirming your long term objectives.

But there were more immediate matters at hand. You were given the bare basics of what your next mission would be, To make contact with another Enclave Remnant cell. It would seem that your parents had managed to track one down, but it was a fair distance away in Redding.

You've got a few days to prepare though.

You start with prepping your field kit, getting your medical gear, your Reinforced Leather armor, and your main weapon [you may presume that you have a reasonable number of drugs of all types with you, you have 2 doctors bags specifically, you also have 1000 caps]

>Weapon
Pick 1
>Assault Rifle +5 to all combat checks (can't be concealed, no need to scavenge for ammo)

>Laser Rifle +10 to combat checks (can't be concealed, has 9 rounds of combat worth of ammo before scavenging or trading)

>Side arm
Pick 1
>That gun +3 to all combat checks (can be concealed)

>3 Pulse Grenade (Automatically disables robotic enemies)

You then run over what all your team mates will be bringing with themselves

Grant - Combat Shotgun (+10 to combat checks at close range, +3 to combat checks at all other ranges), 3 grenades (on success automatically critically wounds an enemy)

Jacob - Plasma Rifle (+15 to combat checks, crit fail range increased to 90-100, has 6 rounds of combat worth of ammo), 1 plasma grenade (on success automatically ends a fight with less than 5 enemies)

Elizabeth - Flamer (+15 to combat checks, only useable at short range), Ripper (+5 to melee combat checks)

After all that's done you resume relaxing until the day comes that you have to set out.

>>4909263
You also have 12 stim packs

>Assault Rifle
>That Gun
Rather just have pure consistency.

>>4909263
>>Assault Rifle +5 to all combat checks (can't be concealed, no need to scavenge for ammo)
as god as my witness GUNS ARE BETTER

>That gun +3 to all combat checks (can be concealed)

>>4909263
>>Laser Rifle +10 to combat checks (can't be concealed, has 9 rounds of combat worth of ammo before scavenging or trading)
.>That gun +3 to all combat checks (can be concealed)

>>4909299
igrore the name was playing a game of risk

>>4909263
>Laser Rifle +10 to combat checks (can't be concealed, has 9 rounds of combat worth of ammo before scavenging or trading)


>That gun +3 to all combat checks (can be concealed)

>>4909263
>>Assault Rifle +5 to all combat checks (can't be concealed, no need to scavenge for ammo)

>>That gun +3 to all combat checks (can be concealed)

>>4909263
>>Assault Rifle +5 to all combat checks (can't be concealed, no need to scavenge for ammo)
>That gun +3 to all combat checks (can be concealed)

Getting a post in before starting work, expect sporadic updates until noon.

Here's the Tally
Weapon:
Assault Rifle 6 votes
Laser Rifle 2 votes
Side arm:
That gun unanimous.

Alrighty.
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They day finally comes and you're sent off with little ceremony and your full orders.
Establish contact with the Enclave Remnant Cell in Redding and determine the chain of command amongst them and whether they can be subsumed by our own cell.

As your father put it Redding's minning industry is everything we could hope in terms of industrial resources, if we can establish dominance in that town then we can when the time is right strip the NCR of important strategic and civilian resources and use them for ourselves.

Still we need to get in contact first before we can determine how viable that is.

You've got a day or two to figure out how exactly you want to get into contact with them before arriving, if there's one thing you'll give the NCR it's that the roads are clear and relatively safe.

How will you attempt to contact the Redding Cell?

[Names in brackets like this represents the character who suggests the idea]

>Broadcast a signal with encrypted for enclave communications with a location for a meeting
[Jacob]

>Integrate yourself into Redding as travelers, you'll know them on sight
[Elizabeth]

>Find the group with the most access to advanced technology and start there
[Grant]

>Write in?

>>4909671
>Broadcast a signal with encrypted for enclave communications with a location for a meeting
[Jacob]

>>4909671
>>Broadcast a signal with encrypted for enclave communications with a location for a meeting
support

remind me did ideological purity win over DNA purity?

>>4909787
This is Warden phone posting

Pragmatic dna purity write in won the most support.

Basically if the worst comes to worst and theres not enough pure humans left than you'll look for the wastelanders with the least genetic variances for breeding stock.

Otherwise keep it as pure as is possible until we have a proper census of pure humans.

There's plenty of time for reevaluating this stance as well bare in mind Ford's only 18 and mostly sheltered in an insular community, he's a die hard enclave supporter but that can manifest itself in a myriad of ways.

>>4909809
ok, that makes sense, just as long as we have the option to, don't want this to end up as inbred as the hapsburgs

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>>4909819
Come on now are you telling me this isn't the peak of humanity?

>>4909821
lmao

>>4909671
>Integrate yourself into Redding as travelers, you'll know them on sight

>>4909821
Considering that he actually spent most of his time hunting and survived something like 4 potentially fatal diseases in his infancy, yes.

He was never unable to unleash his true potential, because no one let him do so.

>>4909671
>>Broadcast a signal with encrypted for enclave communications with a location for a meeting

If possible, maybe mention a few different meeting points, with the correct spot correlating to some piece of American history trivia.

Sort of like a "If the last legitimate President of the nation was Dick Richardson, head to X location. If the last legitimate president was Wendell Peterson (An NCR guy), head to X (wrong location).

Just a little contingency in case the signal gets intercepted or the cell is full of degenerates that lack knowledge of their true heritage.

Alright
Broadcast a signal encrypted for enclave communications with a location for a meeting has 3 votes
Integrate yourself into Redding as Travelers has 1 vote

Time for the first real roll of the session folks.

Base DV 70 Average difficulty Technology roll
Jacob, Mr. Fixerupper +10
>>4909896 Suggestion +5
DV 85 Best of 3, roll under.
Link you roll to this post.

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>4909922
I'm gonna fucking blow it lads, lets go!

Rolled 2 (1d100)

>>4909922
Time to make America proud.

Rolled 28 (1d100)

>>4909922

All successes
>>4909935
>2
So damn close to a crit for the first roll.
Still good auspices.
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>>4909935
>2
Yo holy shit the cell has managed to take control of the whole town

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Each of your companions give you a suggestion on how to best approach the situation, but personally you're going to have to go with Jacob on this one, Best to establish communication without having ever entered the city.

Yes there is some risk that the NCR could be listening in, we don't know what frequencies are compramised which are not, but there's ways of handling that.

Like encrypting the co-ordinates as a series of questions that only those with Enclave records or personnel would be able to answer correctly.

You lean make the suggestion to Jacob who just laughs, "Leave it to you to bring history into a cypher, should work, gonna be a bit funky to implement."

And with that you set up camp and he gets to work, getting the radio equipment out and composing the message, broadcasting on the relevant Enclave channels.

It doesn't take long for you to receive a message back with a confirmation, but also an addendum.

"Request for meeting place to be changed to Van Graff Manor"

You pause for a second, there's a lot of implications in that request.

How do you respond
>Request Denied, meet at first proposed location
>Elaborate, have you infiltrated the Van Graffs or are you the Van Graffs?
>Request Accepted, we'll meet you there
>Write in

>>4909956
>>Request Accepted, we'll meet you there

I'm tempted to pick elaborate to get some answers, but given that this may not be a secure line it'd be best to keep confidential information passing over the wire to a minimum.

However, if we know where Van Graff Manor is, I would prefer setting up some form of command post / recon point nearby before accepting their request.

That way, we can keep an eye on them if they're setting up some kind of trap.

>>4909956
>Elaborate, have you infiltrated the Van Graffs or are you the Van Graffs?

>>4909956
>>Elaborate, have you infiltrated the Van Graffs or are you the Van Graffs?
>>Request Accepted, we'll meet you there

Accept either way, but the clarification will be very useful.

>>4909956
>Request Accepted, we'll meet you there.
>Discretion preferred, would appreciate directions for less than obvious approaches to the Mansion

This is first and foremost a clandestine operation, a group of no-name travellers show up and waltz straight into the Van Graff mansion is going to raise a ruckus with the locals. Rumors travel fast, I don't want NCR to start looking funny at us or at the Van Graffs at this point (they're probably looking funny at the Van Graffs already, but they have the cash to make 'em look the other direction). Being let in through a backdoor or a secret escape tunnel is preferable in such a case to leave as little of a mark as possible.

But also holy fucking shit this is big! If the Cell is either working as mercenaries for the Van Graff or are intermingling with them we've hit the fucking Jackpot right out of the gate. If we're suave enough we can secure a weapons trade for the Enclave Remnants that gives us access to basically unlimited Heavy Plasma Weaponry. Shit's gonna get real fucking fast here.

>>4909995

>>4909969
I'll swap to this.

The Van Graffs would be excellent proxies to work through if we can get them onboard.

>>4909956
>>Request Accepted, we'll meet you there

No need for elaboration, its possible the communications may be compromised. Personally, I advocate scoping the place out first and only one team member actually going in.

>>4909956
>>Request Accepted, we'll meet you there.
>>Discretion preferred, would appreciate directions for less than obvious approaches to the Mansion

Fair warning folks if I disappear for a while it's because the weather got me or my internet.

I'm looking outside and it ain't looking good.

I'll call the vote in 15 minutes

>>4909956
>Request Accepted, we'll meet you there
Eh, fuck it.

Total votes 8
Accepted got 7 votes
Elaborate got 2 votes

I'm going to count the discretion and scoping votes as addendums to accepted as there's no reason not to do both.

So you'll be sending a forward scout and asking for a discrete approach vector over radio

Who will you send as your scout?

Bare in mind that Grant and Jacob have maluses to most of their non specialized rolls

>Ford
>Elizabeth
>Grant
>Jacob

>>4910036
>Ford
Elizabeth will literally just burn people she runs across and the other two have maluses to that sort of shit. We're better off just doing it ourselves.

>>4910036
just looked and we have no face, we have a -10 on all non intimidation speech rolls same for Elzabeth, and the other two have a -5 and -10 respectively

so fuck it, Ford it is

>ford

>>4910036
>>Ford

>Grant
He'll stick to protocol and not do anything dumb.

>>4910036
>Elizabeth

>>4910036
>Grant
The man might be a walking fucking mountain, but he follows orders to the letter. If we tell him to be all sneaky breeki like, he'll get it done.

>>4910042
>we have a -10 on all non intimidation speech rolls same for Elizabeth, and the other two have a -5 and -10 respectively
Do note that these Maluses are in effect against Wastelanders only. Against Enclave Remnants and Vault Dwellers we get no malus to conversation.

>>4910042
Technically Elizabeth is a type of face, just one solely effective in intimidation.

>>4910040
She has some discretion, perhaps I should have elaborated a bit better with purifier and her fanaticism, but that's strictly aimed at Ghouls, Super mutants and their ilk.

The rest of the wastelanders she'll have no qualms with ending, but she doesn't need to be restrained from doing so, not that she's good at dealing with them socially after all she has effectively a -30 to non intimidation with them do to terrifying presence and prejudice.

Really the dedicated Face option was Rockefeller, but there'll be chances to get the other companions in your squad later provided you do well on missions..... or other means.

Alright here's the tally
Ford has 4 votes
Grant has 2 votes
Elizabeth has 1 vote

So Ford will go ahead to scout, while the rest of the group holds camp

Who will Ford leave in nominal command while he scouts?
>Grant
>Jacob
>Elizabeth

regardless give me two d100s one per post link the roll to this post
First one is a Stealth roll for Ford

DV 50 challenging
No modifiers

the second will be a Leadership roll for the person left in charge (personnel leadership)

DV 70 average difficulty

Grant has a -15, but he'll do everything by the books, if he succeeds you'll come back to an orderly camp

Jacob has a -15 but if he succeeds he'll have helped to advance the objective of the mission

Elizabeth has no malus to leadership, but succeed or fail she will attempt to one up you while you're gone.

>>4910062
both sets are best of 3 and roll under.

Rolled 23, 76 = 99 (2d100)

>>4910062
>>Grant

Rolled 54, 55 = 109 (2d100)

>>4910062
>>Grant

Rolled 57, 80 = 137 (2d100)

>>4910062
>Grant
He's our boy, he'll get things done

Rolled 93, 21 = 114 (2d100)

>>4910062
>Grant
Man is built like a brick shithouse. he can't possibly do anything do bad.

>>4910067
Fantastic time to explain ties
Ties are a pass with complications, I.E. Grant will keep the camp orderly but his relationship with Jacob sours due to the personality conflict in the field and the lack of Fords presence.

Looks like we have 23 for the stealth roll and 55 for the leadership, both pass, though Grant has complications while holding camp.

Writing.

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While you have to admit that your group isn't exactly the stealthiest or best negotiators out there, your brother and Rockefeller being better in each respectively, you're no slouch yourself.

You turn to Jacob, "Tell them we accept, but ask for a discrete approach vector, when we receive those co-ordinates I'll go scout it out." you then turn to the rest of the group, "While I'm gone Grant's in charge of the squad."

Jacob suppresses a groan and Elizabeth looks up from her ripper that she was toying with and just has a disappointed look on her face.

You roll your eyes, "Need I remind you all that we're professional soldiers regardless of our age? Start acting like it. Grant hold the camp and await my further orders when I'm gone."

He nods and salutes, "Sir, yes sir."

Jacob quietly mimes the motion mocking Grant's overt formality out of sight of both of you when the radio pings again with an approach vector.

You nod and head off to that direction

______

As soon as Rutherford leaves out of ear shot Jacob has an epiphany, "You know Grant I think I have a great Idea on how to help the LT while he's out scouting."

Grant sighs, "Alright..."

Jacob nods, "It's simple, I'll try and tap the other cells communications that way we know exactly what they're doing."

Grant shakes his head, "You can't be serious, you'd tap friendly communications?"

Jacob gives him a dry look, "We don't know they're friendly."

Grant says flatly, "They're Enclave"

Jacob replies incredulously, "And?"

Grant says exasperated "That means we're on the same side."

Jacob laughs, "I'm still not seeing why we shouldn't"

Grant slams his foot down, "Damn it Jacob we're not tapping allied forces and that's final."

Jacob throws his hands up in the air, "Your loss boss, alright where's the book say I need to be hmm?"

and so the bickering continued

_________
[continued]

You take a long route around Redding to a nearby ridge over looking the town and pull out some binoculars.

You spy through them the co-ordinates of the Van Graffs manor, a surprisingly modern and well kept building, though you suppose if you had the wealth and resources of the Van Graffs it wouldn't be to hard to do.

The place is surrounded with mercenaries all of them in combat armor carrying energy weapons. Jesus Christ that's a lot of mercs... You had heard of the Van Graffs effectively waging war with the NCR before but you sort of took it as some sort of corporate business vendetta with the government not a literal military conflict.

Your put the binoculars down and pull away from the ledge of the ridge and move to a different position just to make sure you're not an easy target.

settling down to the next spot you look through the binoculars at the given approach vector, there seems to be two of the same mercs weapons slack, and a man in what looks to be some kind of advanced combat armor standing next to a bolder, they don't seem especially alert so you figure it's not an ambush, probably an escort of sorts..

What do you do?
>Head back and gather the group to meet up at the site
>Stay a while and make absolutely sure they're not planning anything (how long?)
>Radio back to base camp and say you're going to make contact for the group to hold for a little longer
>write in?

>>4910098
>>Head back and gather the group to meet up at the site

>>4910098
>Head back and gather the group to meet up at the site
It doesn't look like an ambush, so there shouldn't be any reason not to approach.

Also we're going to have to smack Jacob and Grant around when we finish this Mission, again. There are times for bickering and disagreements, but it is not during a fucking field op. If these two idiots can't get that through their thick skulls, we'll have to see about a transfer of one of them to another group. At least our sister didn't voice any complaints, she's a good soldier.

>>4910098
>>Head back and gather the group to meet up at the site

>>4910098
>Radio back to base camp and say you're going to make contact for the group to hold for a little longer

Alright 4 votes

Head back and gather the group to meet up at the site has 3 votes

radio back to base camp and say you're going to make contact has 1 vote

Writing

>>4910098
>>Radio back to base camp and say you're going to make contact for the group to hold for a little longer

That way if it is an ambush we're not all caught up

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You decide to head back and gather your squad before going to the meeting location.

When you get back you find the camp exactly as you left it, though everyone seems to be in their own corners, which you expected for Elizabeth, she's not exactly a people person.

But you though you had made your thoughts clear on Jacob and Grant's bickering, so you sincerely hope that this cold atmosphere isn't what you think it is.

You head over to Grant, "Report."

Grant was tending to his equipment and nods, "Everything is Status quo, nothing important happened."

You raise an eyebrow at him, "Right... just so we're clear there was no interpersonal conflicts while I was gone, correct?"

Grant sighs, "There was a disagreement between myself and Jacob regarding tapping the other cells communications, the matter was settled."

You shake your head, "And did you?"

He shakes his head, "No, we can't just tap into allied coms without permission."

You nod, "By the book, alright well pack up your gear we're heading to the meeting site, everything looks clear, but be on guard there's a lot of well equipped mercenaries at that manor."

You then head over to Jacob, "So care to explain what exactly happened while I was gone?"

He nods, "Grant and I had a disagreement over how to be useful and then nothing happened we all sat in our corners sulking, well I mean your sister broods more than she sulks, but don't let her know I said that."

You roll your eyes, "Alright, as soon as we're either settled in here or done with this mission which ever comes first, all three of use, Grant, you and I are gonna have a talk about this needless headbutting got it?"

He grimaces, "Yes, sir."

you nod, "Good, get ready to head out."

You turn to your sister who was already packing up as soon as she saw Grant doing it, "How are you holding up?" you say.

"Bored out of my mind, but that's not necessarily a bad thing." she replies.

"Bored is good, don't let it dull your senses though."

She laughs, "Please between those two arguing like an old married couple the only thing I can do to get any peace is to sharpen my senses and focus on literally anything else."

You smile, "Alright get ready to head out."

She nods and continues to pack.

Once everyone is ready you head out to the co-ordinates you were given and meet up with the group outside near the bolder

The man in the advanced combat armor holds up his hand, "Halt, What's the pass code?"

"Sic Semper Ullamcorper"

He laughs, "Shit you didn't have to say it in Latin, who are you trying to impress the Legion? Thus always to bears indeed, welcome we've been expecting some one to make contact with us for a while now... well more hoping."

He turns around and gives the bolder a light tap with his foot and then lifts it up and the bolder slides back revealing a secret passage way, "Follow me."

Is there anything you'd like to ask him before you go to the Manor properly?

>Yes (Write in)
>No (skip to the manor)

>>4910162
>What's your situation been, we are still playing catch up in the intel department so a sitrep would be welcome

>>4910162
>No (skip to the manor)
Lets see exactly how deep our new friends are ingrained with the Van Graffs.

>>4910164
Support

>>4910164
+1

yes (all questions counted because none are really exclusive) 4 votes
no 1 vote

looks like we're asking for a sit rep and if there's anything specific beyond that, that we should personally know.

writing

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You head down the stairwell with the man your group trailing behind and the two mercs flanking the man.

He continues forwards, "I don't believe we've properly introduced ourselves to each other." he doesn't turn around, "I'm Clyde Anderson."

You respond formally, "Rutherford Jefferson-Jackson IV"

He stops for a sec as if trying to recall something, "That is a mouthful." and keeps going.

You continue, "What's your situation been? We've been playing catch up in the intel department so a sitrep would be welcome."

He laughs, "Our situation?" he blows some air out of his mouth, "Pretty great actually. With our ties to the Van Graffs we've got Redding in the palm of our hands, well hypothetically at least, the matriarch of the family is a force to be reckoned with, but we've been slowly wooing her working as her most 'trusted' mercenaries."

He stops and leans against a wall for a bit, "Unfortunately that's required most of our number and our effort over the years. we're down to about 10 able bodies here, but we're all veterans in our own right, one of the old bosses managed to have a kid with the matriarch, but he died before he could raise the boy."

Your face scrunches and he reacts, "What's with that look? Oh your groups a bunch of the purists aren't you? Look sometimes you got to play the game with the savages. Think of it this way, we were making the perfect puppet to replace the matriarch with. Just happened to not quite work out this time."

You shake your head, "That's besides the point for now" you stop the conversation because you can feel the lasers your sister is attempting to drill into this mans skull with her eyes, "Is there anything specific we should know going into this?"

Clyde thinks for a moment, "Nothing that I ain't already said, though I take it you want a more formal meeting with the commanding officer of our group?"

You nod

He nods back, "Well the follow me, Captain Nelson will be glad to have a chat with you."

And with that he leads you to the end of the tunnel which after the pull of a switch opens up into a rather fancy almost Victorian style manor and leads you down the hallway to the left and into a large room with a full strategic set up, holographic table with projections of redding and the area around it and a man in the middle dressed head to heel in advanced tesla power armor, the Enclave symbol scratched off likely as part of the cover, though seeing it makes you scowl slightly.

You can't imagine your sister is doing much better.

How do you approach Captain Cutting?
>By the books, he is a higher ranking officer than you are
>Be formal but make your distaste for his tactics clear
>Complete the mission and get out of here, you'd prefer not to let them taint your mind with their impure strategies.
>Write in?

>>4910279
How do you approach captain Nelson not cutting.
Guess I missed fixing that part of the rough draft woops.

>>4910279
>>By the books, he is a higher ranking officer than you are

While it may not be ideal what they are doing, it is certainly pragmatic.

>>4910279
>>By the books, he is a higher ranking officer than you are

We can save the less polite stuff for later, once our position is solidified. For now, play nice.

>>4910279
>By the books, he is a higher ranking officer than you are
Might as well go with the motions.

>>4910279
>>By the books, he is a higher ranking officer than you are
>you don't like the tactics used, but objectively it was a sound plan, till it went tits up, but that is besides the point

By the books is unanimous by the looks of it.

Alright folks, roll me 1d100 best of 3 link this post this is for first impressions.

DV 70 Average difficulty speech roll
+5 for proper deference
+5 for contact procedure.
Final DV 80

Rolled 77 (1d100)

>>4910333

Rolled 93 (1d100)

>>4910333

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>4910333

Rolled 100 (1d100)

>>4910333

oh dear fucking god, the dice they hate tonight

>>4910344
thank fucking god the 100 was the fourth roll and not the third.

>>4910342
You're lucky that was the 4th roll.
>>4910335
77 is a success, but by the skin of your teeth, suffice it to say you make a good impression.

Writing

>>4910346
thank god

>>4910342
jfc where are these rolls when higher is better

>>4910348
You ever go to play a Warhammer Tabletop game and your just constantly rolling like 90s and just explode?
I've been there.
I swear dice know which end of the halfway mark they're supposed to land on and actively attempt to avoid it digital or physical.

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You close your eyes take a breath and center yourself before stepping forwards and saluting this man in the Tesla Armor, "Captain Nelson Sir!"

He nods, "At ease."

you drop into a more relaxed stance, "I am 2nd Lieutenant Rutherford Jefferson-Jackson IV, I've come from a cell stationed near Navarro to establish formal communications between our cells."

The bug eyes of the power armor stair at you for an uncomfortable amount of time, "You're a bit young to be an officer Lieutenant." is all he says

You nod, "Needs must sir."

He nods back, "Needs must indeed. Who is your superior officer?"

You reply quickly, "Captain Rutherford Jefferson-Jackson III"

He stops for a minute, "Captain?" he thinks on it for a minute, "He was a 1st Lieutenant last I recall who promoted him?"

You blink, "You knew my father?"

He nods, "Yes we served in the same division, we weren't much more than acquaintances however, back to the question, who promoted him?"

You catch your bearings, "He gave himself a field promotion when communications had fully broken down to insure he could have a proper chain of command at his outpost."

He looks away for a moment the back to you, "I suppose that's in the past, he was always a capable man from what I could gather, and it's not like I'm in a position to criticize I did the same thing when Captain Cutting died some years ago, very well then."

He waves one of the men in the room over, "Go fetch our the most up to date status report on Van Graff dealings, and our recon reports on NCR activity in the area." he looks over to you, "These should help to get you and Captain Jefferson-Jackson up to date on the goings on here in Redding. It's good to know that we're not alone in the fight out there Lieutenant. You're welcome to stay as our guests here, we've already discussed it with Tiaret Van Graff."

You look at him, "How much does she know?"

He looks down at the table, "Almost certainly more than she lets on, but I don't think she really cares, our goals align regarding the NCR and that's all that really seems to matter here, but I wouldn't expect any explicit support from them any time soon."

You nod.

How do you respond to this situation?
>Stay the night and head home
>Ask for an meeting with the Matriarch of the Van Graff family
>See if Captain Nelson needs any help with his work here.
>Write in?

>>4910365
>See if Captain Nelson needs any help with his work here.
SIDEQUEST TIME SIDEQUEST TIME SIDEQUEST TIME SIDEQUES-

>>4910365
>>See if Captain Nelson needs any help with his work here.

If not,
>>Stay the night and head home

>>4910365
>See if Captain Nelson needs any help with his work here.
>Write in?
Talk about goals and what he thinks should be the future of the Enclave.

>>4910370
Support. We need to work together if we can.

>>4910365
>>See if Captain Nelson needs any help with his work here.

>>4910365
>>4910370
This is good. Adding on to this, ask him if he's got any leads on other cells nearby we could attempt to contact.

Well that was quick.
We'll ask Captain Nelson if he needs any help with his work here.
and I'll throw in these suggestions
>>4910370
>>4910381
as well.

Writing

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The man comes back with the documents and hands them off to you and you then hand them off to Jacob, turning back to face Captain Nelson, "I think we'll take you up on that offer, however we'd also like to know if you have any issues that you'd require help resolving."

Nelson thinks on this for a moment, "Yes there is a particular issue I think you all would be able to handle quite nicely since we're personally short on men here, I'll consider it a favor rather than an order since it helps build cover for both of us here."

He points at the map of Redding, "This factory here is owned by the Van Graff's but the NCR unofficially sent an 'aggitator' there, and by aggitator I mean a communist, because he's stirred up the workers and now they want to of all things here in the wasteland Unionize."

your face contorts in disgust, and he snorts, "Yeah I figured that'd be your reaction, Deal with the Aggitator and the striking workers however, its better if they come out of it alive as an example, but there's always more warm bodies and the point is made anyways."

You nod, "A few more questions before I accept, though their tangential to the matter."

He shrugs, "We're being open here, go ahead Lieutenant."

You continue, "Captain Nelson if you don't mind me asking how do you envision the future for the Enclave?"

He laughs, "That's a rather big minded question, and frankly if it weren't for our state I'd say it's above my paygrade." he sighs, "As it is now the future of the Enclave is a day by day struggle, we can think about lofty goals and big plans all we want, but we're not fighting a conventional war anymore, the time for that is long since gone, what we're fighting is a guerrilla action against an occupying force, and frankly the only way we win this is by rallying the Wastelanders against the NCR government. I'm not saying this as a champion of those gene divergents out there I'm saying this out of cold hard pragmatism, we don't have the time, resources or men to do it any other way. However once that's done and we have our place on top then we can start talking about what the future of the Enclave is Lieutenant and that's the only time it'll be a question worth asking."

You nod, you can see the logic in that perspective, but that mentality has seemed to seep down and widen amongst his men if Clyde is anything to go by from your short conversation, the way he said 'purist' rubbed you wrong and if you didn't know any better you'd guess he might have sympathies for the wasters.

What's you're opinion on Nelson's vision for the Enclave?
>Very pragmatic, but it dodges the question ultimately.
>He might be trying realpolitik, but we're nothing without our convictions.
>Write in?

Regardless you continue with your questions, "Do you have any potential leads on other cells we can get in contact with?"

He looks up for a moment, "I think there's a cell in New Reno, and a Cell in New Vegas, but the one in New Vegas went dark years ago.

[Continue]

"... So good luck with that, I've personally be trying for a while now to convince the matriarch to expand her business down there, but there's always something that gets in the way of matters, I don't think it's conspiracy, just terrible luck really." he finishes

You nod, useful information to work with, though New Vegas is a damn long ways away, might not even be worth it if they've gone dark.

He gets handed a clipboard with some documents on it, "Any other questions?"

you shake your head, "None that spring to mind."

He nods, "So about that strike breaking, you down for it?"

Well are you?
>YES! Fucking Commies
>Yes.
>No, seems beneath us.
>Write in?

>>4910408
>>4910413
>Write-in
There's wisdom in focusing on the here and now instead of focusing on the immaterial. However, we better keep an eye on him to make sure his pragmatic usage of wastelanders doesn't taint him into sympathizing with them too hard with them.
>YES! Fucking Commies
COMMIES? COMMIES?! REEEE-

>>4910413
>>We can save the hardline stuff until the time is right, but it's important to never forget our imperative.

>>YES! Fucking Commies

>>4910408
>>He might be trying realpolitik, but we're nothing without our convictions.
>>4910413
>>YES! Fucking Commies

>>4910413
>Very pragmatic, but it dodges the question ultimately.
>No, seems beneath us.

>>4910408
>>Very pragmatic, but it dodges the question ultimately.
>Yes.

>>4910408
>>Write in?
there are times that we need to do bad things to make good prevail and this is one of them
>>Write in?
yes we need some intel to get the bigger picture

Lot of opinions floating around regarding Nelsons views, it's a little difficult to figure out how to count the vote do to the similarity on the write ins so I'll ask you three
>>4910417
>>4910418
>>4910423
>>4910447
are you all agreeing to on the same principle just with different semantics?

As for the side quest
YES! Fucking Commies wins with 4 votes
1 vote for just yes
1 vote for no, seems beneath us.
1 vote for more intel (I'll work it in since it's a logical thing to ask for)

Regardless of the answer to my first question I will start writing, the answer will mostly just help me keep track of an internal slider I have for Ford's leanings.

>>4910449
>Very pragmatic, but it dodges the question ultimately.

it captures the spirit well, we don't agree, but we don't disagree

>>4910449
Pretty much, yeah.

>>4910449
Basically.

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You smile, "It would be my honor to bring these fucking commies to heel."

He laughs, "Wonderful."

You hold up a hand, "I'll need some more information first however so I can best deal with these strikers."

He nods, "Reports say the strike has a picket line comprised of about 20 people and the agitator for a total of 21 potential hostiles, being that we're in Redding and that even with the NCR's laws in place Redding is still something of a frontier city, enjoys a special place in the NCR as well due to its gold mines, though you'd figure with how the NCR-Brotherhood war is going that status might change if the NCR decides to take drastic measures, point being most of them are carrying side arms, pistols and the like. I can loan you two sets of power armor if you've got anyone in your group that can use it, they've been scrubbed of symbols and it'll keep up the image of our merc group being the strong arm of the Van Graffs."

He points out to the display of the factory, "Alternatively if you don't want to go out in the power armor I suggest bringing some force multipliers with you and planting them in strategic locations to scare the hell out of them. Or blow them up, whichever strikes your fancy."

He looks back at you, "That's about all I've got on the strikers, try not to hurt anyone trying to run the picket line, in fact actually you might be able to rally them to break the line themselves, If the workers put down the strike then it'll send a strong message."

He continues, "As for the Agitator if you want to go that route you can find him resting at this hotel here, but fair warning he's got a covert escort of NCR soldiers so killing him isn't quite so simple as kicking in the door."

So what's your plan of action?

>Keep it nice and simple, go out in the power armor and break this strike the good old fashion way. With Violence
>A little subtly goes a long way, a few explosives here, a few there, and a well placed gunshot is all you'll need
>Get the workers to put the strike down, should be a good long term solution and sends a clear message to the NCR that such tactics don't work.
>Just kill the agitator, who cares if he has an escort, they're NCR.
>Write in.

>>4910466
>>Get the workers to put the strike down, should be a good long term solution and sends a clear message to the NCR that such tactics don't work.
if that fails go to plan B

>Keep it nice and simple, go out in the power armor and break this strike the good old fashion way. With Violence

>>4910469
This.

>>4910466
>>Get the workers to put the strike down, should be a good long term solution and sends a clear message to the NCR that such tactics don't work.

We have a malus when it comes to speech checks with the impure, correct? But does the hatred of communism override our rightful prejudice?

We're wearing the power armor either way right?

>>4910480
To all non INTIIMIDATION speech checks. We could potentially just spook the shit out of them.

>>4910482
we need a face man, this -10 for all speech is gonna fuck us long term

>>4910480
As a situational modifier perhaps, depends on how exactly you decide to present your firery hatred for communism, if it's good enough it can override the inherent -10.

and as >>4910482 put you're only at a disadvantage when you're not trying to intimidate them, you could very well just threaten the workers who aren't striking into fighting the workers that are, in which case Elizabeth would be fantastic for that, but there are other repercussions to such solutions.

as for the power armor given that your plan B seems to be violence I think that's reasonable to assume provided the vote wins.

Vote will keep going for another 30 minutes

>>4910469
this is the part guys

Seems like the consensus is to head out there in power armor and attempt to convince workers to put the strike down and if they don't agree then you'll just have to do it yourself.

Writing

>Be striker
>holding picket line with 20 of my buddies
>workers come out of factory
>Finally! our comrades have seen the light
>One of the older workers walks forward
>"It's time for you hooligans quit all that racket and get back to work!"
>respond with communistic ramblings
>worker not impressed by my rhetoric
>"As much as I'd like to talk philosophy with you," *points thumb behind him* "my friend ain't so patient"
>behind the workers is a dude in power armor
>pitch black
>freaky bug eyes
>is lovingly stroking a flamethrower

You crack your knuckles, "Everyone here except him" you finger Jacob, "Can use Power Armor, I'll take one suit and I'll give the other to Elizabeth." not that she needs the help to be intimidating, but she is also the closest range fighter of the group and Grant doesn't need the protection for these rats, and Jacob should be able to handle himself as long as he keeps to cover.

You dawn the Power Armor and head down to the factory where the strike is being held, a man with a megaphone is shouting out a chant and demands as a group of twenty or so workers hold pickets with various demands on them, "Better pay, better hours, better conditions!"

You shake your head, the first steps to communism.

There's a sizeable group of workers that seem like they want to go into the factory, but every time one of them tries to break the picket line they link up arms and make a wall in front of the workers entrance.

"Come on damn it I've got a family to feed!"

"Shut up Scav! You'll be better able to feed them when we get what we're ask for, help us!"

"I don't want any trouble!"

and so on.

You step up to the workers not striking

They look at you, some with wide eyes of awe, others with fear.
What do you say?
>Are you just going to let these Communists walk all over you? You've got a right to work! (Rally them)
>I'm going to give you all one opportunity here to earn your jobs and your lives, prove your inaction isn't sympathy, go prove your loyalty or suffer the consequences (Intimidate them)
>Write in (state your intention in the parentheses)

>>4910510
>>Are you just going to let these Communists walk all over you? You've got a right to work! (Rally them)

>>4910510
>>Are you just going to let these Communists walk all over you? You've got a right to work! (Rally them)

>>4910510
>>Are you just going to let these Communists walk all over you? You've got a right to work! (Rally them)
LISTEN HERE. EVERY MINUTE THEY SPEND BLOCKING YOUR RIGHT TO WORK AND SPOUTING THEIR COMMUNIST DRIVEL, THAT'S A MINUTE YOU COULD'VE BEEN USING FOR WORK. YOU HAVE FAMILIES THAT NEED TO BE FED, DON'T YOU? DO YOU WANT THEM PREVENT YOU FROM KEEPING YOUR FAMILY FED AND SAFE? IN THIS HELLISH WASTELAND? THEY ARE WASTING YOUR TIME AND THREATENING YOUR QUALITY OF LIFE!

>>4910520
support

>>4910520
+1

Looks like rallying them wins unanimously and we'll be going down this line of thought with the write in.

roll me 1d100 Best of 3, link roll to this post
DV 50 challenging speech test
-10 prejudiced
+5 write in
+5 Channeling prejudice towards the communist wastelanders
+10 power armored Awe
Roll under 60

will right the result when I wake up.

Rolled 12 (1d100)

>>4910536

Rolled 30 (1d100)

>>4910536

>>4910539
>>4910538
oh no

Rolled 40 (1d100)

>>4910536

>>4910540
anon it's roll under this is good

>>4910540
Its roll under anon those are passes.
Could still fail on a 100 for the 3rd roll

of course the post goes up after the third roll.
All right I'm going to sleep for real now. Good night America.

>>4910543
>>4910544
oh ok

>>4910545
Might want to pick up a tripcode in-case your ID changes.

If you don't know how, just add ##secretpassword after your name, with the secretpassword part replaced with a different phrase.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>4910536

>>4910564
bruh

>>4910510
I wonder how happy we are to use power armor again. Equipment in general is lacking this days.