บท 61: Level'ing up in the world
Tommy sneers at his response, "Might need you to have a look at my own gun." he states, giving Afton a glimpse of his dirty, rusty .357 revolver.
"Now, now, we can talk on this later, right now we've got a job to do." Karl says, drawing everyone's attention to him. "No Caravans will be comin' through from New Vegas due to the Deathclaws, so we'll need to start getting creative. We'll set up camp near Sloan and wait for the NCR resupply team and ambush them. No point in keeping the Miners around if the NCR ain't gonna get rid of the pests." he explains.
"Sounds good to me." Tommy says, downing a shot of whisky in one go before sliding it back to the barman and standing up. "Well? We're not gonna sit here drinking all day, let's go kill some grunts."
Everyone nods and Afton's given a backpack with a small number of supplies to carry, he was new to the gang so he didn't argue against being given the load. They left the prison and headed back in the direction they came from, veering off the road and onto the taller rocky ledges at the side which gave them a good view of anyone who'd pass by.
Afton hadn't been paying attention while he was walking and ended up stamping on something that broke under his foot. Looking down, he could see the broken pieces of what looked like an eggshell, aswell as the blood-covered corpse of the eggs not-yet-formed inhabitant.
Karl looks over to see what was holding him and his eyes widened, "Shit, Gecko nest! Get your guns out, we're about to have guests." he says, pulling out his .44 magnum.
Afton could hear the thuds of many small feet, they were moving quickly and it was slightly unnerving to not know where they were coming from. He heard a growl behind him and rapidly turned, pointing his Laser pistol at the offending sound and shooting a red beam at the dog-sized lizard with red eyes and grey scales.
It'd been running at him on two legs with its forearms raised baring its claws, its mouth was wide open showing many sharp teeth. The red beam stuck it in the face and caused it to flinch in pain, it ended up leaping past Afton and off of the rocky ridge they were standing on.
He glanced down and saw it land heavily with a thud, its two legs bending at odd angles as it gave out enraged and pained snarls. While he was distracted with that though, another Gecko ran up and was about to clamp its jaws onto his leg.
Afton had heard it and tried to point his gun at it, but wasn't fast enough... His eyes focussed on the creature as its jaws slowly began to shut on his leg... When suddenly time seemed to freeze.
All sound ceased immediately as the attacking Gecko's head started flashing an amber colour, Afton glanced around and saw that everyone wasn't moving, Karl as just kicked a Gecko in the face while blowing another's head off, the blood splatter was frozen mid-air.
Suddenly a thought flashed through Afton's mind, he knew what this was... VATS!
The bottom right of his vision he could see the number of action points he had, and when he focussed on the Gecko in-front of him he could select particular things he wanted to target... Unlike in the game, he could choose very specific things like eyes, mouth, or throat.
He chooses to fire the maximum amount of shots into the Gecko's head, the chance was almost at one hundred percent success rate due to how close it was. With that he confirmed the selection and he felt his body start moving on its own.
Unfortunately, before he was able to get the first shot off the Gecko managed to clamp down on his leg, though, the pain he was dreading didn't appear. He simply stood there in a perfect shooting stance and shot two times into its skull, disintegrating a large portion of its head.
Once it was dead VATS released its grip on him and he could finally feel where the Gecko had bitten him. It'd bit down on one of the reinforced metal bits of his recon armour, so it hadn't breached his skin, but the pressure applied to his leg still hurt a good amount.
He ignored the pain though as there were more enemies still surrounding them. He focussed on an enemy again and dropped into VATS, allowing him to survey the scene while time was frozen. This wasn't its intended use, but it was still incredibly broken... Being able to freeze time and come up with a plan during combat would make him an incredibly hard person to fight.
He selects the nearest Gecko and uses the rest of his action points on it, unloaded three red beams into it. One misses but the rest strike true, burning a deep hole where one of its eyes used to be.
A smaller one charges him but Afton just kicks it under its jaws as hard as he can, his lessons with Veronica hadn't been in vain, and the satisfying *Crack* of the creature's neck-breaking had him grinning slightly.
The group continued to shoot the small colony of Gecko's until none remained. Reggie was the only person who'd gotten injured as one had come from behind and taken a bite out of his thigh, his jeans not giving much resistance against the Gecko's teeth.
Afton slowly walked over and was about to start looking at the wound when time froze yet again. He was about to start complaining but the sight before him had his mouth unconsciously closed...
[WELCOME TO LEVEL 2]
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บท 62: A level playing field
[WELCOME TO LEVEL 2]
Before him was a screen showing all of his skills, he had 13 skill points to spend and struggled to restrain his excitement. It was similar to the feeling you got when you level up in the game, times ten.
The idea of improving your body, knowledge, and anything else with a click of a button almost had him recklessly spam his points into a random skill. Fortunately, he was able to restrain himself and actually contemplate what he needed to level up.
His skills were all relatively fine right now, however, when he thought about what was important in Fallout 3, there was a few things that were better than others. In the game ballistic weapons were separated into two groups, Small Guns and Big Guns. Obviously which one upgraded what depended on the size of the weapon you wished to use.
That wasn't the case here though, Guns was a singular skill encompassing every ballistic weapon available. He was tempted to start putting points into it as he didn't think he'd find many powerful Energy Weapons outside of the Brotherhood of Steel.
As of now he was proficient enough to use most Energy Weapons if it came down to it, so he didn't know if he wanted to start putting points into it or not... There were other important skills the he probably needed to level, most would consider lockpicking as useless, but in the game there were many, many things that could be opened with it.
He had no idea if that'd actually apply to real life as you could usually just shoot the locks off of containers and doors, barring some highly advanced ones like the Brotherhood was using for the bunker.
Speech was also important, but he reckoned he could get by with it being a low level for now... Though, he'd level it when he got the chance.
He sighed to himself and raised his Guns and Speech both to 35 before confirming it. As this was level 2 he'd be allowed to pick a Perk, you were allowed to pick these every other level, so the next would be level 4.
Due to this being level 2 there were only a few Perk available for him to pick.
[Confirmed Bachelor] : +10% damage to the same sex and unique dialogue options with certain characters. Afton grimaced slightly at this, it implied that he was homosexual and would be able to take advantage of people using his sexuality... It looked good at first as most enemies he'd encounter would be male, but the fear of the Perk affecting his sexuality made him reject it outright.
[Hunter] : In combat, you do 75% more critical damage against animals and mutated animals. He was able to pick this Pekr due to his survival skill being at 30 points. It looked good, but Afton could remember the fact that most dangerous creatures were considered Abominations, not Mutated creatures.
[Intense Training] : You can put a single point into any of your SPECIAL attributes. This, was an incredible Perk, one he was going to make use of at higher levels when there weren't more important Perks to pick.
[Lady Killer] : +10% damage to the opposite sex and unique dialogue options with certain characters. Heh, nice. Afton couldn't help but want this Perk, but rationally it'd do nothing but help his potential sexual encounters, something that wasn't all that important right now...
[Rapid Reload] : All of your weapon reloads are 25% faster than normal. This, was good. Being able to reload faster in the game was amazing, and he wondered how good it'd be in real life where every second counted. This'd be his Perk of choice if nothing else came up.
[Retention] : Skill magazines last for 3 real-time minutes. This was utter garbage, no point in even considering it. The skill boost you received from magazines was nice, but you'd usually only need it for things that were just out of your reach, no need to increase the duration.
[Swift Learner] : You gain an additional 10% whenever experience points are earned. Afton shook his head at this one, some people would find value in it, but Afton was more akin to a power gamer than anything else. Wasting a Perk point to level up faster was the height of waste in his opinion.
In the end, he decided to go with [Rapid Reload] as it'd likely be the best choice. It would be good now when he was relatively weak, and in the future when he's more powerful.
With that, he clicked confirm and time resumed. He almost tripped over himself as he was mid-stride walking towards Reggie to check on his injury.
"You drunk or something? Or did you get a little bite like Reggie here?" Tommy mocks after seeing Afton almost trip.
Afton shakes his head, "I'm a trained medic, show me the bite and I'll see if I can do anything about it." he says, surprising the rest of the group.
"Huh, only person who knows anything about medicine in Hannigan, and to be honest I don't trust anything the man says. You got any other tricks up your sleeves kid?" Tommy asks, not having thought Afton would be so talented.
Afton shakes his head and opens the backpack filled with the small number of supplies, taking out some some-what clean gauze and dousing it some high-purity alcohol. He cleaned Reggie's wound and packed the gauze on it before wrapping it up to prevent infection.
Reggie didn't react all that much to the stinging pain having Alcohol applied to a wound brought, and just nodding gratefully at Afton after he'd finished fixing him up. "Thanks Doc."
"Don't mention it, try not to get dirt in the wound and replace the bandages in a couple days, should be good as new." Afton instructs just like how he'd been taught.
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