Looks clear, sir.
Yeah, looks like.
Something buried there. Might wanna dig in.
Yeah, thanks. I'll do just that.
Some sap gloves, bullets and ...a camera?
A camera that improves Outdoor activity. How nice. Check out the shrine, boss.
Some kind of meme, maybe?
Whatever it is, it's just dumb. I can't believe this is an official content. What are we supposed to find in here?
Says we're inspired. What the heck does it mean?
Oh well, time to move on people. Seems that's all there to is to this 'shrine.'
Okay, let's return to the Citadel.
Hey, there's General Vargas training a new team.
Probably our replacements if we ever bite the dust.
Not with me around you guys won't. Rangers are always on the look out for new recruits anyway. The gangs out there, are bigger than us - and Vargas won't be around forever.
Yeah, don't wanna end up like the Brotherhood of Steel.
No, siree.
The Brotherhood of what-now?
Eh, ignore them, it's just a fictional order of post-apoc Paladins who stockpiled pre-War tech and stay hidden in bunkers instead of integrating in the new world. They went extinct because of that.
I... see.
AVERT YOUR PITIFUL STARES, WOMAN!
C'mon, Bro. No chance of that happening here. We're the Brotherhood of Steve, remember?
Cuz you are a piece of me...
I wish... I didn't neeeeed
Chasing relentlessly~
Still finding I dunno why!
If our love's tragedy,
Why are you my remedy?
If our love's insanity,
Why are you my clarity?
Sounds like a popular hit back then.
Kinda.. heh. Let's report back to Vargas.
You think it was more than just a robot, sir?
I don't know. Honestly, Ace fought plenty of robots in his time, and they never gave him any trouble, so I'm wondering if this was something new - something worse. And if it is, we better find out. Listen, if you brought a part of that thing back with you, give it to me and I'll show it to the techs in Armory.
We got the leg here.
Nicely done, recruits. I'll hand this off to our researcher, Captain Mercaptain. She'll be a pig in shit with tech like to play with.
What a name.
And here are the pages recovered off Ace's log book.
Excellent work. Let me have a look. Hmmm. Not much here is there... Let's see... "Fell in with a Snake Squeezins seller..." Uh-huh. Okay. "Getting that feeling of being followed..." Damn, tells a sad story, doesn't it? Guess what came out of the dark was that damn killer robot.
I'm guessing the best lead is finding the last guy who met Ace?
Yep. Find this salesman in Rail Nomads. Maybe he knows more. Like where the rest of the log book is.
I find it strange that the General thinks we can even find the rest of the log book proper in the wastelands.
Just go along with it lah, it's not like we're hunting a platinum chip or the elder scrolls.
Alright troops, let's trade our salvage for something nice.
Gonna hunt something big eh?
Was kinda hoping it won't come to that, but those sticks of dynamites look reliable enough in a pinch.
You bet, take care now.
Leveled up some more too, looks like we're making good progress.
I'm kinda annoyed the General is still not letting us into the Citadel, what's in there? A bunch of imbalanced weapons of some kind?
I'm more mystified why Angela can't just go inside and fetch us some high grade supplies. She's a veteran for fuck's sake.
What would Sawyer do?
Sigh, no point in whining guys. That's just how the game works.
Nice gun you have there.
Hey uh... can you make an exception for us just this once? We're on an important mission from the General over there. We really need those supplies.
Nice try, recruits, but it won't get you through this door. I like your sass, though. Tell you what, I know you wanna get inside so you can get your hands on the good stuff in the Armory. Well, I got a little toy that might just tide you over. Interested?
I dunno man, he's black and he obviously has bigger dick than all four of us combined...
I'm gonna pretend I never heard this conversation if you struck any deal with this guy.
Guise, chill. I didn't install any LoversLab mod.
Pretty sure that's a promise we can keep.
Great. Here you go. Treat her good and she'll do the same to you.
Phew. For the moment I thought we might regret playing an all-male party.
Lemme see that gun.
Fuck's sake, this is no pistol. It's an effing shotgun. I'll keep it.
Go ahead. Help yourself.
Alright, folks. Decision time - where to go first?
I really want to get to Rail Nomads and find that salesman first, but I suppose you guys are too green to survive the northern wastes.
Eh? Why not?
Well, it's because of that-
It doesn't look like a good symbol to travel through.
Where's RadX when you need one.
You guys won't make it without a rad suit. So it's either Highpool or Ag Center first.
Eh, I think I'll go explore first.
Yeah, could be worth having good experience out there, a few scraps here and there. Just make sure you have enough water to return to an oasis.
Yeah okay.
God that was just too easy. It's almost like we're not even past the noob zone.
Kinda felt bored after one-shotting so many crap. But I doubt HP buffer is gonna make the game that much interesting.
Not doing it would be more harmful IMO. No kills, no loot. No loot, no scraps. No scraps, no upgrade. No kills, no EXP.
Terrible shit.
Quiet. I'm picking up something on the radio.
Shit sure sounds heavy in that direction.
Just a bunch of raiders. How close are we to Highpool anyway?
You boys are way off if you want to head to Highpool.
If anyone can hear this, come at once! Don't know how long we can--
Radio cut off. Jeez, reminds me of The Old Republic. Maximum cliche.
Ugh. We're getting nowhere anyway. Water supply's getting low. Let's double back to the oasis and break south.
Aye, Commander.
Y'know, why can't you just pick a destination and have the auto-nav work our journey pathfinding?
I kinda want to, but it gives an illusion of railroaded gameplay.
Good point.
What are you nerds whining about again?
Uh, nothing just trying to look for fun before hitting Highpool.
Fun, huh? Being a Ranger is not fun and games, boys. We're here to protect the weak. We didn't start being Rangers cause we wanted to have fun.
Let's rape her guys.
Up ahead, I see oasis.
Nice work. Gentlemen, let's refill our canteen for a while and make camp for an hour.
An hour later...
Now I kinda miss Fallout traveling.
Yeah, pathfinding is shit man. Avoiding yellow circles, getting hit by these random encounters... trash mobs like holy warring Slavics Pagan in CK2 for demesne.
Sir! Incoming transmission!
What the fuck?
We copy.
Roger that. Listen, Echo One, I have no-one else in the area and no further intel at this time. I'm afraid it's gonna have to be your decision which call to respond to first. Whichever one you chose, get there ASAP. Both situations are emergencies and both sounded like they were deteriorating rapidly. Copy?
Kinda coincidence isn't it?
Indeed. I don't like this one bit. It's like somoene's monitoring our transmissions and trying to stop our little radio experiment before it starts. Keep an eye out and good luck.
Vargas sounds worried. He's right though, we're stretched this. This team won't be able to get to both city in time.
So where do we go first? Raiders are wrecking Highpool, while some kind of plant is raping Ag Center.
It's your call, Commander.
Dealing with humanoid threat seems like the easier and predictable of the two. Highpool, IMO.
Slicing vegetables seems kinda easy. If we let the Raiders take over Highpool, it might be harder to dislodge them afterwards.
So it's on me, huh? Well... Let me think about it.