Urist's Journal, Day 3 of Operation: Evac, Tenpenny Tower
We left during the night. It was probably around 4 A.M. or so, when we started walking down the highway. While we were walking, I noticed that the slaver that joined us yesterday had left while we were sleeping. Apparently, the Outcast had a fight with her when they were on lookout and she probably left because of that. It doesn't matter really...just wish I could've taken her ammo or something.
I decided it was time to ask the Outcast his name. He said it was Zane. When I turned to look ahead of me, I saw something weird.
We had a fierce fight, but we managed to kill two of those things. Alyx got beat up pretty bad though. Zane said those were Night Ghouls- a breed of ghouls that live outside, but only appear during nighttime.
When we got off the highway we found three trucks all in a circle- sort of like one of those colonists' camps way back when. It was spraypainted. Alyx told me that that color of spraypaint is usually used by raiders. We snuck around the trucks to find three raiders sleeping sound in a truck.
Sneaking inside of it, I picked their pockets and stole their ammo. Then, I ran outside with the rest of my team to a safe distance and started shooting.
Nobody got out.
We were back on the road again. I was looking for a radio station- to find out where these transmissions are coming from and so I can send some back. So far, I've found nothing of the sort. I did find a ghoul cannibal town though!
With them all laying dead before us, we looted their houses and left. The things I saw there were gruesome..I don't wanna talk about it.
The road led us straight to a waste dump. It was heavily irradiated, and had the Giant Ants to show for it. After grabbing some ant meat, we looted the dump office and continued down the trail.
Unfortunately, the road eventually disappeared, and we had to trek across the wasteland without a guiding path. We ended up at a fort. The inhabitants? Talon Company. They immediately started shooting and I thought we were all going to lose our lives there. Fortunately, I had a little something up my sleeve.
We managed to kill off all the guards outside of the fort, and got us some sweet new gadgets to show for it! Alyx suggested we raid the base, but I decided to leave. It was way too dangerous around here. There was a road leading up to the fort, so we walked down that. We ended up arriving at some traintracks to meet a merchant.
I traded a bit with the merchant. He had some outrageous prices, but he had a guard so I couldn't threaten him like the last scavenger. He offered to repair my weapons for free if I gave him some power armor, so I gave him some that I looted off an enclave trooper. I asked him what the traintracks led to, and he said that it was a huge raider compound. The merchant told me they had a huge monster caged in there, that could probably wipe out a city! I thanked him and left towards a chapel in the distance.
As I neared it, a wastelander jumped out while on fire! I jumped back and he fell dead. A raider came around the corner, but Zane was too quick. He was behind the raider, and the Outcast set him ablaze. The battle was over quickly. In the distance, I could see a tower that was so tall it pierced the heavens. I told my team that was the destination: Tenpenny Tower.
We didn't make it far before we saw two wastelanders setting up mines. When I asked them what they were for, they ran off. Suddenly, a huge bear-wolflike creature jumped from the bushes and ran after them. They ran towards the mines, and one jumped across. The other wasn't as lucky. The wastelander cried out for his fallen partner, before running and hiding inside a truck. We took the opportunity to fire on the beast. After it was dead, I took the meat on it's corpse. It looked disgusting, but as my father always said:
'When you eat the flesh of the beast, you gain it's strength. When you eat the heart of the beast, you get it's courage. When you eat the eyes of the beast, you gain it's perception. When you eat the brains of the beast, you get food poisoning.' We helped the wastelander out of the truck and asked him to join us. He accepted. I think his name was Hodgins or something. Then, we saw this thing.
I call it a Giecko. It's like a gecko, but radiation made it huge and let's it stand on two feet. It could probably even talk if it wanted to. Nearby, we found two slavers travelling to Tenpenny Tower too. We let them join us for the time being. They were constantly bickering, I wanted to get rid of them asap. Not to mention one of them had an eyepatch.
While we were travelling, the tower was getting closer and closer. We happened upon a large robot factory. In the parking lot, we saw an old man being followed by three robots. When I asked if I could buy one, he said that he could sell me Sergeant RL-3, top notch Mister Gutsy! I really wanted a robot, so I asked how much. 1000 caps. I had 400 caps, Zane had 150 caps, Alyx had 150 caps, the bickering slavers offered me 200 caps after giving them a load of meat, and Hodgins gave me 200 caps for the help with that monster. Sergeant RL-3 was mine!! I stored some of my useless junk I've been collecting with him and then went back on the path to Tenpenny Tower.
There it was...Tenpenny Tower. It was quite beautiful actually; it was huge and wasn't effected by the bombs. When we arrived at the gates, a ghoul was talking on the intercom. It didn't look like the Night Ghouls we've been seeing...I don't know. Zane wanted to blow it's brains out, but Alyx argued that they are people just like us. Suitable for slavery, of course. When the ghoul left, I asked if I could come inside. The guard answered that I couldn't. To put it bluntly, of course. I offered him 100 caps, and he instantly agreed and let me in.
I've never seen anything so beautiful. The inside of the tower, I mean.
