So, that's it. You're pussing out because of some consequences to one bad call? One of several, dumbass. Uh-huh, and are we going to gloss over the shit decisions you people made? Are we going to forget my good calls? And you, you ghoul fuck, this kid's the only reason you figured out that you needed to leave a fucking slaughter. By SHOOTING MY FRIEND? he yells, quite outraged.
She did what!? Ellis yells. Oh yeah, you DID keep that a tiny bit under wraps. Shit.
Yeah, she fucking did!Oh fucking stuff it! You want to take revenge on those buzzards, you stick with ME! Or are you going to puss out, leave without money, revenge or ANYTHING? Revenge was YOUR thing. You hired us for a cut of the loot, and it's not fucking worth it anymore. And hey, you know what?He reaches for his pistol.
Don't make this mistake, asshole. You slowly shake your head, staring intently at Ellis. Shaky is looking a tad panicked, already.
You started this. You got three of my men killed, and now you're here insulting us!? I don't need this crap, and you're not a very good shot without your drugs, are you? Ellis... Let's not get fucking hasty. Shaky grabs his friend by the shoulder, but his hand is still by the pistol.
What, are you going to his side as well!? Listen. We leave now, we don't need to risk our lives again. We follow the road for a while, and we put this behind us. Come on.He's not stuttering at all. Looks like he's really serious about this. You didn't even notice that you're caressing your shotgun already, through the shaking. Whisper already had her gun in her hand, but she's not poised for a fight quite yet.
Those drugs are going to run out first, Shakes. He got your leg broken too, in case you forgot.All the more reason not to start this fight. Come on, Ellis.Ellis, get to a decision before these fuckers do. Rotface says, sneering. You'll kill him first, you think to yourself. But...
I can just beat you into the dirt, mano-a-mano if you so desire. Less death, but it's the same "fun" So you can shoot us with our pants down? Forget it, druggie. ...Then what's it going to be?Ellis... Shaky looks at him, and turns to you after that. He can't seem to decide where to stare, but as the only one who's acting smart, he must be seeing the discrepancy between the forces. You've got four people ready to kill, he's got three. And Shaky doesn't look too ready for it. Both parties have their hands on their guns already, it's just a matter on whether or not they'll draw. The night grows ever darker as the standoff continues. You feel a drop of sweat tickling your brow as you keep staring ahead. You catch yourself grinding your teeth, growing ever more nervous.
Come on you bastard.
Try it.
He does.
Hell breaks loose as you drop the ground and grab for your shotgun. Rotface is firing off his machinegun with wild abandon, trying to hit as many of you as possible. Fortunately, you were quick enough to find cover. The biggest advantage to these deserts is the amount of dunes to hide behind in a firefight. The darkness also grants a little cover. By the time you finally freed your shotgun, Rotface is already reloading. As you shift your arm back to a firing position, the pain also informs you that to took a bullet to the shoulder. Son of a bitch, that stings.
You see green flashes of plasma defender fire streak across the desert, followed by a sudden scream of pain.
YOU LITTLE WHORE! You hear Rotface scream, clearly in pain. Looks like Blitz got a hit off. You look over at your little friend, and see that she's shaking and hyperventilating from the situation. It's hard to hear over the sound of fighting, but you're pretty sure she's screaming.
That motherfucker. You blast your shotgun at the ghoul, and somehow manage to miss entirely. Damn shakes... You fire the buckshot straight into the ground. The follow-up shot is more accurate, at least, and guessing from the shout you struck the ghoul. He's still screaming, though. What will it take to kill this fucker? Some return fire from Ellis forces you back down, though, and you start reloading. Suddenly, though, the pistol fire turns quiet.
ELLIS! NOOO!From your left, you see Tenderloin and Shaky were in a fight of their own. Both looks pretty beat up, but Tenderloin has the upper hand. The momentary distraction from Ellis' apparent... death (?) was not wise, though. Tenderloin takes advantage and slashes Shaky across the chest with both machetes, sending him to the ground.
FUCK FUCK FUCK FUCK FUUUUCK! Rotface yells, before firing off another volley of machinegun fire, behind him, for some reason?You then see a streak of plasma launch forward from Blitz' position, just slow enough to see but too fast to dodge.
Rotface's head explodes in a green flash. Like a bomb went off in the centre, the pieces fly in every direction, glowing and melting apart. The chunks melt away into a uniform green goo, and his body follows from the top. First his shoulders glow green, and as more of the mass is "converted", it goes faster. After a short moment, the whole corpse is nothing but goo, leaving behind nothing but his gun.
Jesus, plasma is brutal.
You've won the engagement, at the cost of getting shot. Possibly more than once, if the pain isn't lying to you. God you're tired. Looking over to Tenderloin, you see that Shaky is still alive. He's on his knees and has a machete across his neck, but he's not dead yet. You see Whisper come out of the shadows, clutching her arm and grimacing. Rotface managed to hit her, it seems. Most likely, she's the reason Ellis kicked the bucket all of a sudden. How did she get out of sight like that?
...I want their cut.Sure, whatever, they're not about to complain. Who else is hurt?Couple bruises, and some flesh wounds. Nothing I can't handle.I've got a bullet in the shoulder. Didn't hit anything vital, though.I'll be fine.Blitz?...
Oh shit.
You start shouting her name, desperately looking the dark to where you saw the plasma streaking. You find her behind a dune, unconscious. She was clutching her stomach before passing out, and you can see that she's got three bullets in there. One hell of a gut wound...
This is bad. She needs a stimpak, likely more than one, but you've spent two on the fucking ghoul food. Fortunately, you should have one left. Only...
Where the FUCK is that stimpak!?One of the Blackfingers sheepishly comes out of the darkness, leaving the hidey-hole he and his compatriot were. They didn't want to get involved, huh? He hands you your stimpak, and you quickly administer it to Blitz. She breathes in at the sudden shock of the syringe, but otherwise she takes it well. The Blackfinger quickly pulls out some of his equipment, a plier, duct tape and what looks like some yellowish brick of car cushion. He pushes you aside, and wordlessly gets to work removing the bullet and placing small pieces of cushion inside the wounds. Seems they didn't hit any vital organs, mostly. Lucky lucky lucky. It was a roll of the dice that she could even survive this, but she might be fine.
The Blackfinger, upon finishing adding the absorbing cushion to the wound, places some duct tape over the wounds. That'll seal the wound, sure, and the cushion will help stop the bleeding, but the blackfinger is quick to remind you that she'll most certainly suffer an infection without proper medical care. You need to get her to a doctor, as soon as possible. But first...
Boss? What do I do with Shakes? I don't think he's gonna do anything anymore.You look back at Shaky, who is, indeed, weeping. The fight is just completely out of him, now. You can end it in just a word.
What will be Shaky's fate, and how will you get Blitz to a doctor?
Statistics and inventory.
Combat Stats
HP: 140/215
Limb health: Perfect
Weapons:
Sawed-off 12gauge (2 shots) (requires 0.2 seconds to fire) (Reloading takes 2,5 seconds) (Cannot be aimed with precision, but you can still get a bonus to hit if you take care to aim) (Loses DAMAGE, not chance to hit, beyond three meters. 10 dmg per meter) (Does 70 damage) (70 percent chance to hit
9mm pistol (Nearly busted!) (12 bullets remaining) Requires 0.2 seconds to fire. (Reloading takes 1.5 seconds) (Can be aimed to a specific body part) (Loses accuracy beyond 12 meters) (70 percent chance to hit, not modified for range) (15 DMG)
Varmint Rifle (5 shots) (Requires 0,3 second to fire) (Reloading takes 3 seconds) (Can be aimed with extreme precision) (Effective range is 60 meters, Loses accuracy at 1 percent per meter beyond that) (Does 28 damage per shot) (80 percent chance to hit)
Grenades
2 Pipe bombs
4 frag grenades
Ammo:
1212-gauge shotgun shells
4 20-gauge shotgun shells
42 9mm bullets
11 .22 rounds
Inventory
Box.
Eight empty water bottles
Awkward backpack
Two doses of Jet
Seven leather arm scraps
10 energy cells (relative charge, there's 1 actual cell)
30 microfusion cells (only one cell remaining)
Emergency Shank (unequipped, takes 0.3 seconds to take out. 0.5 seconds to stab something)
Sack of legion gold.
994 caps
Viable deathclaw egg (plus backpack) (at camp)
Super tool kit (unavailable)
Crowbar
Three sharpened bear traps
Caltrops (about enough to spread five areas)
Sack of gunpowder
Canister of ball bearings (one kilo)
Sheet metal.
S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
STRENGTH 7 -1 (Shakes!)
PERCEPTION 5 -1 (Shakes!)
ENDURANCE 6
CHARISMA 7
INTELLIGENCE 4
AGILITY 5 -2 (Shakes!)
LUCK 6
Barter: 40
Energy Weapons: 15
Explosives: 15
Guns:45
Lockpick: 31
Medicine:20
Melee weapons: 19
Repair: 35
Science: 13
Sneak:35
Speech:30
Survival: 30
Unarmed: 19
PerksLevel-up perks
Iron Stomach: Your extended life as an outcast left you with a strong stomach. Radiation and general filth does not affect you nearly as much
Weird Wasteland: Maybe it's that blow to the head, but things seem a little more loopy and funny. Some things seem to happen that shouldn't. Well, it's nothing bad, at least.
Cold as Ice: You're not exactly the pinnacle of romance, and why would you be? You easily see through people trying to manipulate you, but you suffer a -15 to all convincing checks.
Big Dog: Stature doesn't matter when you can bark like a true master. Whenever you need to incentivise a collection of people towards violence, you gain +15 to it (note: this is both a convincing check and a BUFF check. People love some motivation!). Also, you have some new dialogue to reflect this big dog 'tude.
On the move!:You suffer much less for moving and shooting at the same time. Accuracy loss is reduced by 75%.
Hand loader: You figured out how to make hand loads, meaning you are able to make your own bullets and have them be better than normal bullets. Also gives a boost to gun maintenance (+5)
Tanooki Perks
Furious Loyalty: Whenever somebody you value is in trouble, you gain +10 to all rolls related to saving them
Party membersTenderloin: Wields two machetes.
Heavy Machetes: Onehanded. Takes 0.2 seconds to swing from a readied position, almost a full second to swing again. Does 25 damage on a successful strike. Dual-wielding allows for attacks to be twice as fast, although the basic swing will not speed up.
10mm submachine gun. (0 shots, empty magazine!) (fully automatic, fires at 15 rounds per second.)(reloading takes 4 seconds (Insufficient Guns skill!)) (can be aimed with precision) (burst causes 5 rolls to be done for damage, with an accuracy debuff of 2 percent per shot) (Effective range is 14 meters, loses acc by 5 percent per meter beyond that) (15 dmg per shot) (70 percent base chance to hit.)
Status: Healthy.
Blitz:
Plasma defender. "Magazine" is 15 shots (15 shots remaining) (30 energy cell charge per 15 shots) (reloading takes 3 seconds) (effective range is 30 meters, 10 percent less acc per meter beyond that) (does 45 damage per shot) (60 percent chance to hit)
9mm pistol. Magazine is 12 bullets. 13 with the chambered round. (empty)
Silenced 10mm pistol (0 shots, 13 max with the chambered round) (requires 0.2 seconds to fire, ) (reload time is 3 seconds) (effective range is 40 meters, loses accuracy at 5 percent per meter beyond that) (Does 22 damage per shot) (70 percent chance to hit)
Varmint Rifle (4 shots) (Requires 1 second to fire) (Reloading takes 7 seconds) (Can be aimed with extreme precision) (Effective range is 60 meters, Loses accuracy at 1 percent per meter beyond that) (Does 28 damage per shot) (80 percent chance to hit) (Blitz' chance is 70 percent)
Status: Healthy.
Dog
Teeth: Shiny white things in its mouth.
Status: Healthy
Cheese Pizza
Protectron (holds most of your stuff)
Weapon: NaN, no combot protocol.
Quest log
Revenge!
1 Gather a posse.
2 Bleed the town
Addiction status: You're shaking horrifically bad. Aiming and most actions will suffer. You've got a massive headache.
EXP: 230/1000 (Beartrap disarm/place: 5 EXP) (ghoul: 10XP) (Ghoul horde: 100 XP) (Ellis: 40 XP) (Rotface:60XP)
Sometimes, Big Dog isn't the perfect solution. It's not really made for calming people down.