Finally, you take out the steady that was bought from the store. God, why did you wait for so long!? You place the tube in your mouth and inhale deeply. All at once, your shaking stops, your vision clears and you feel far better prepared for what comes. Spinning your revolver, you grin and make the motion for people to get ready. You're at the front again, but if you move they might just spot you. Best if you just made the first move. The rocks should grant a blind spot for you to slink away in if they're closer. You see everybody get into position, the sun shining down on the quarry. As it's noon, there are few shadows to worry about, and the increasingly cloudy day makes that less and less of a factor. When the party gets closer, you hear what they're saying.
I'm just saying, Lance, something looks off about the quarry today. Yeah, I think you're right... But we gotta get to Lag, and I'm not walking around because of some fucked scenery. If they do try something, I got my new piece, yeah? A good gun isn't going to stop a sniper.Oh shut up, you're just envious. They're right around the corner. You turn around the rock to stay out of sight, just barely managing to avoid being seen.
(Sneak roll/luck roll). Getting a closer look at these people, they look like they belong to the same group as the drug dealers you dealt with the first time you came here. They're got similar clothing, and one of them is carrying another box in the same style as the one you stole. A re-purposed cabinet, if you had to make a guess. Most people just dump those things in a sack, so those boxes are a good sign.
Isn't this where the last team died?By some outsider or whatever. I heard they chased him outta town and killed him.Really now? Then why aren't we dealing HERE instead of having us go all the way to town? Paranoid, I guess. Maybe they're they're afraid it's trapped? Don't worry, though, I got the eyes of a cazador.The hell is a cazador?It's this bigass bug in Nevada. Could spot a tick from a mile away, and their stings could rot your insides before you realized you had an accident.Alright. Still, something feels bad. I mean, it's the perfect spot for-The man doesn't even get to finish his sentence as a sudden shot echoes through the quarry and part of his head explodes. Brain matter and a fine bloody mist flies against a boulder as you come from behind your cover. With the steady available and your V.A.T.S. ready for use, you fire off two shots of your revolver. You proceed to also hit two people, one of which was the other guy that was talking, guessing from his plasma pistol. The first guy you shot dropped like a rock, yelling in pain, but the plasma pistol guy takes the hit to the shoulder like a champ and starts blasting his pistol wildly. The pistol isn't very accurate, and the projectiles (while far, FAR more dangerous) are thankfully slower than bullets. You manage to reach cover in time, though a small part of said cover is covered in plasma goo. Or converted into it, you're not sure how that works.
FUCK! EVERYBODY SPREAD OUT AND FIND SOME GOD-DAMN COVER! AL, STOP FUCKING WHINING! The plasma guy screams, co-ordinating his band of idiots. Guessing from the grunt of effort, he's also heaving the guy you shot into cover. He's tougher than he looks if he can do that with a bullet in the shoulder. You hear another guy yelp, and then yell out:
STEVE'S DEAD, THEY'VE GOT ALL-OH FUCK! You hear a louder gunshot go off, followed by a yell from Tenderloin. She's down here too, then? You hear the screaming guy, well, scream though, which quickly dissolves into choking noises. Seems like Tenderloin finished the job. After a few more moments, the shooting stops all at once.
That soon?
ARE WE CLEAR!?After a pregnant pause, you hear Ellis yell from the ridge. Most of the people were up there, so communication isn't the easiest at the moment. You'll all nurse the sore throat later.
ALL BUT ONE LOOK DEAD FROM HERE! TENDERLOIN'S BEEN HIT, THOUGH. C-CHIEF!? G-Get over here. you hear tenderloin attempt to yell. Her voice kind of gave out half-way through. Still, she was close enough for you to find her. You find her kneeling on the ground, with her machete against the throat of the guy that got dragged away by the plasma gun user. The owner of said plasma gun has a massive lacerating cut across the neck, but most of the blood is leaking in his jacket. Stabbed in the heart? Whisper is already looting him, so you figure she did that part. Fella didn't even yell...
Tenderloin looks really bad, though. She's covered in a substantial amount of blood, and she's holding one arm over her chest. She's grimacing in pain, and breathing heavy
H-heya chief. D'ya mind looking after this g-guy. I think I'm... Gonna...She falls over without any more words. Unconscious.
Oh shit.
S-shit man! I-I didn't shoot her. C-come on! You got me once, I-I swear! You don't have to kill me!Sure I don't. You sneer at him, pointing your revolver at his head. Just a little while later, the rest of the people get down. Nubsy is the first to rush to Tenderloin.
Ah, man. Looks like Tenderloin got hit with a shotgun. SOMEBODY FIND WHAT KIND?Without a word spokes, somebody throws the double-barreled shotgun from one of the dead men nearby, too busy scavenging to even answer. You've half a mind to check who it is so you can keep them on the shitlist. That's just disrespectful to both you, Tenderloin and the gun that was thrown. You instead elect to inspect the gun. A Joceline O/U 12G, good model. the over-under design makes it more accurate, less spread. It's a powerful piece of equipment, it's a miracle Tenderloin's chest wasn't just blasted open like a bloatfly against a sledgehammer. Still, she looks BAD
Twelve-gauge. A Joceline.I don't know that weapon, but I do know twelve-gauge is bad fucking news... She's losing a shitload of blood, who's got bandages!? We don't HAVE any bandages! We've got some tarp, but that's it.Damn it. That material's worthless, it won't absorb the blood... Start stripping the corpses, we'll make do with cloth. The less leather the better!Nubsy rapidly begins to undress Tenderloin, blushing as he does. You don't really see why, as you tear the shirt off the guy begging for his life. You take his weapon away and tell Whisper to take care of him, if she's too fucking busy to help. She and the new prisoner walk away together, Whisper using her blade to guide the man.
You do what you can to help out, and even do the bandaging as Nubsy doesn't want to touch Tenderloin's breasts without her express permission for some reason? Who cares? everybody has a chest....
Most of the buckshot went in her upper chest, and Nubsy suspects that her right lung is peppered with buckshot. Bandaging it up like this will slow the bleeding, but she's going to need a
real doctor if she's going to survive.
Damn it all...
You need to get a doctor from somewhere, one with proper tools. You know at least one doctor, even if he IS high as a fucking kite most of the time, but he's right in the lair of the beast. You'd have to sneak Tenderloin into the city if you want the doc to use his tools. If you bring the doctor here, you'd need to make sure he has ALL his equipment to operate on Tenderloin.
Tenderloin is going to die very quick, you don't have long. If only you had a stimpak...
Looting is being done by the rest of the party. You're a bit too distracted to check up on them...
Statistics and inventory.
Combat Stats
HP: 140/215
Limb health: Perfect
Weapons: .357 revolver (Six shots) (requires 0.3 second to fire, 0.7 to cock the hammer for the next shot) (reloading takes 0.7 seconds per bullet) (Can be "aimed" for a bonus to hit and allowing you to hit specific parts of the body) (Loses accuracy beyond 10 meters, by 5 percent per meter) (60 percent chance to hit, not modified for range) (does 36 damage)
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 (kind of alright) (13 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
Ammo:
28 .357 bullets
25 12-gauge shotgun shells
4 20-gauge shotgun shells
97 9mm bullets
39 .22 rounds
Inventory
Tough raider outfit (2 DT) (Light armor) (equipped)
Box.
Eight empty water bottles
Awkward backpack
Two doses of Jet
Seven leather arm scraps
Two units of Nuts and Bolts
Emergency Shank (unequipped, takes 0.3 seconds to take out. 0.5 seconds to stab something)
Sack of legion gold.
664 caps
S.P.E.C.I.A.L.
STRENGTH 7
PERCEPTION 5
ENDURANCE 6
CHARISMA 7
INTELLIGENCE 4
AGILITY 5
LUCK 6
Barter: 35
Energy Weapons: 15
Explosives: 15
Guns:38
Lockpick: 30
Medicine:13
Melee weapons: 19
Repair: 35
Science: 13
Sneak:35
Speech:25
Survival: 27
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.
Tanooki Perks
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:
9mm pistol. Magazine is 12 bullets. 13 with the chambered round.
Silenced 10mm pistol (12 shots, 13 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 (5 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
Quest log
Revenge!
1 Gather a posse.
2 Bleed the town
Addiction status: Sated and ready for action!
EXP 'till next Level-up: 305/600 (armed opponent: 20XP) (melee opponent: 10XP) (Vicious Dog: 15 XP) (Ghoul: 10XP)
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