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Bab 246: Overseared

After taking a brief breather and gets back up, glancing around the room and spotting a terminal in the corner... This one at least seemed to be somewhat intact, unlike the others he'd come across. Turning it on, he finds that most of the information on it had been entirely cleansed by whoever last used it... Probably the overseer?

He mentally shrugs, whoever it was didn't want any research from this place to see the light of day. Afton couldn't blame them either, the situation as it was right now was untenable at best, but if someone in a highly-populated area tried to recreate the fungus? That was an extinction-level event waiting to happen.

Everyone on the surface would be forced to wear gasmasks permanently to avoid being infected by the spores, every biologically based organism would become part of the fungus and most likely be inedible. Jungles would spread across the barren wasteland and become factories for spores...

All in all, Afton was fairly sure this place could result in the end of the world... It was somewhat ironic that in the Fallout universe it isn't even nukes that'd end up wiping everyone out.

The terminal wasn't completely useless though, apparently it still had access to the various locks around the Vault. Crew quarters which were probably restricted in an attempt to stop the spread of the fungus. Data backup, which was probably the only thing left of the research the scientists had conducted here, if Afton had to guess it would most likely be at the bottom floor where the fungus first began spreading. And last but not least, Cavern Access...

Cavern access... Nope, Afton had idea what that was used for... Perhaps a large area to grow the fungus? In which case he'd keep it shut, bu-uut, it may very well lead to something that could help him out... He clicks on it but is greeted with the message :

Error! Override engaged at door site.

Hm, he probably needed to find the corpse of the person who had access to it. They'd most likely have a card or some sort of identification on them... Though, that seemed like an impossibility due to the fungus reanimating everyone's corpses.

Shaking his head, he unlocks the other two options and looks at the circle-shaped window that gave a view over the Common Area. It was a large open place with two levels, the first was almost entirely covered with plant life, and Afton dreaded to think about how many Spore Carriers were down there.

The second was composed of tow large balconies that overlooked the lower floor, like wooden roots tangled much of the room, and a thick fog of spores lingered in the air. Afton sighs to himself, "Anja, if you wanna leave and try to warn everyone else about this please then do so... If not then we've got a date with however many creatures are down there." he prods the window with a finger.

Anja looks sheepish when given the choice, she wanted to leave, and it would probably also be the safest choice for herself and everyone else on the surface... But, she felt an obligation to see this through, not to mention towards the man that'd saved her from slavery and potential death under Cook-Cook.

She shakes her head, "I'll stay with you sir."

Afton nods and gives her a thankful smile, "Alright... Before we do anything else though..." he grabs the axe from his bag and steps back from the window before smashing it in one swing.

*CRASH!*

Shards of glass fall to the first floor, causing many of the Spore Carrier hit to rear up and scream at whoever had done that. Of course, they were blind and so dumb that they wouldn't think to check where the glass would have most likely come from.

Afton waves in-front of his face to disperse some of the spores that began flooding into the room. He uses some cloth to filter the air somewhat but ends up in yet another coughing fit. Anja pats his back until he eventually calms done.

He looks over through the shattered window and reaches into his bag, pulling out a couple of grenades that they'd found on the upper floors. Afton was somewhat surprised most of the Spore Carriers hadn't started wandering around in search of the one responsible for the shattered glass, regardless their inattentiveness made them an easier target.

Unclipping them he tosses the grenades to the first floor, making sure to catch everything in the blast radius.

*BOOOM!*

One mighty explosion later and a cloud of dust, spores, and smoke obscured their view to the first floor for a moment. However, once it cleared they could see small areas where the plants the grenades had landed upon were utterly annihilated. Not to mention that most of the visible Spore Carriers had been blown to kingdom come.

[Challange complete : Lord Death V3 1000/1000 kills]

[Challange complete : Abominable V1 50/50 abominations killed]

[Challange complete : Abominable v2 100/100 abominations killed]

[Perk upgraded : Lord Death]

[Lord Death V3] : +4% Damage to all enemies.

[Perk granted : Abominable]

[Abominable V2] : +6% Damage against Abominations.

It was music to Afton's ears when the stream of notifications came in. Apparently there were more than 150 enemies down there, they were very, very lucky he decided to clear some out before rushing down there... Afton doubted that even if they weren't immediately rushed and murdered, that they had enough ammunition to deal with that many.

Those things weren't like humans in that one shot to the head would definitely kill them (With the obvious exception of Tamia), no he wouldn't even be surprised if those things could regenerate. After all, plants could regrow from their roots alone!

"Come on, let's clear the rest of them up... Just one more floor and we can get out of this shit-hole."


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Bab 247: Limited Capacity

And so the duo headed made their way down to the infested common areas... Neither knew how many had survived the explosion earlier so both were constantly on high alert in-case any creature tried to attack them.

Sure enough, there were many Spore Carriers still left, all of which stayed hidden until the last second. Afton himself had received a few scratches from a couple close calls. It takes them an hour or two to check every nook and cranny before they were confident to move on or search the area for information.

In one room that had pool tables pushed to the side Afton spotted some kind of UV light shining on some plants... It was peculiar due to the fact that these plants didn't seem to need sunlight or any assistance to grow. Additionally, the UV lights displayed all the hidden spores in the air, causing Afton to scowl as he realises that even if the spores weren't thick enough to be visible, they were still there.

At the end of the room was a terminal that seemed to actually be operational... He doesn't even need to hack it to gain access, some else had apparently already down that and edited the contents.

They replaced the trivia games on it and added some sort of expedition and research logs. Said person was the one who used the UV lights to check which areas were most full of the spores, and they even managed to discover that the spores were travelling from the lower floors to the ones above through the ventilation ducts.

Further logs don't really have any other information of interest, aside from the fact that they are very aware of the danger the fungus could present to the outside world, or, more specifically the NCR.

At this point, Afton was confident the person who created these entries was Keely, from what he'd heard she was a scientist in her own right, so it made sense that she'd logged everything just in case something happened to her.

Unfortunately, even with the new revelation on UV lights, it didn't really change anything on how they were supposed to navigate this place. Afton was thankful that Boone's [Spotter] Perk gave them some advantage against the Spore Carriers as when he was focussing on areas that they might be their bodies lit up in dim red light that was only visible to himself.

One day later :

Afton sighs as he sits on the pool table, he and Anja had cleared the majority of the common area, but without setting fire to anything he wouldn't dare be reckless. Currently he was scraping some meat from a can, he was sure it probably wasn't good to eat as two hundred years is quite a long time, but he found he didn't care at this point. He needed sustenance if he was going to get to the bottom floor and find a cure.

The symptoms of the infection had slowly been getting worse... Now, he found himself forced into a spluttering cough at random times, this caused a lot of trouble for them when they were hunting Spore Carriers, as the creatures were blind and navigated via sound.

His skin was crabby and slowly losing colour, and his veins were slowly darkening from their usual dark blue colour to black. The most noticeable change would be his almost constantly bloodshot eyes, Anja had noted it a few times as it'd apparently scared her a few times.

It wasn't all bad news though, he'd found a keycard presumably for the cavern access in the upper floors, so if the research he was searching for wasn't on the fifth floor then it must be there... Hopefully.

Better yet, while they were scavenging they found some sort of laser rifle prototype? From his inspection, it was markedly more powerful than other laser rifles, though it did use two microfusion cells to fire, but with a bit of tweaking Afton was sure he could get it to one... He wasn't sure what he could do about the green laser it fired though, that was bound to draw attention if he tried to use it. Here uses his inventory to check it and compare with a regular Laser rifle.

AER14 Prototype/Laser rifle

Strength req : 3/3

DMG : 35/22

Crit dmg : 35/22

Crit mult : x2/x1.5

AP : 20/18

Weight : 8.5/8

Value : 15000/800

It was strong, and Afton was definitely going to try and replicate it in a more efficient manner. He stows it away in his backpack that was getting heavier and heavier... He had three sets of combat armour and a whole litany of other thing stored in it, he was beginning to wonder if he should leave it behind and pick it up later... But eventually shakes his head, no way was he going to risk having it stolen, even down here.

He clears his throat for the Nth time and looks to Anja, "I think its time we go to the bottom floor, if we leave it any longer even if there is a cure I might not be able to create it in time."

Anja nods in agreement, having seen his condition get progressively worse the more hours go by. It may be selfish to say, but she was glad she was somehow immune to it... It looked incredibly painful after all, and who knew what the fungus was doing within Afton's body at this very moment.

Without further adieu they suit up and start heading for the fifth floor, one ominously named 'Pest Control'... Obviously whatever function the floor had tried to serve had failed, judging by the state of the rest of the vault.


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