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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บท 63: Brah, gimme a min.
The group doesn't immediately move after eliminating all the Gecko's, Karl has them skin the creatures, gut them, and harvest any edible parts.
It's fortunate that Afton levelled up his survival otherwise he'd have no idea how to skin an animal. His 30 points in survival actually forced into his mind what the most nutrition part of the creature would be. As such, he cut the liver and hearts out separately. These actually contained less radiation than the rest of their bodies, which made them for prime eating material.
The group continued on their way and eventually reached their camp on a ridge, another burnt-out campfire sat there, this wasn't the first time they'd used this spot for an ambush. Karl started up the fire and immediately started grilling some Gecko over it.
You couldn't go easy on the meat of the creatures out here, you need to almost burn them to kill any parasites that may be inhabiting their flesh. Not to mention the high levels of mutation can often lead to new and peculiar diseases.
"Any idea when the NCR caravan is going to come through?" Afton asks as he chews on the slightly charred Gecko heart.
Karl shrugs, "Tonight or early tomorrow morning, NCR think we wouldn't notice them at those times..." he says after finishing Gecko leg and standing up, "Toss me your bag son."
Afton tosses the backpack to Karl as the man rifles through it and finds some sort of cord? No, looking at it closer it resembles the fuses that top sticks of dynamite... Huh.
Karl has Afton hold it as he starts to unfurl it while walking down the ridge, he started to wonder how they had so much but realises that they'd most likely gotten it from the miners in Sloan, they couldn't very well light the dynamite and chuck it where it needed to be.
The man continues this until he reaches the middle of the road, pulling out three sticks of dynamite and tying their fuses together before stuffing them into one of the cracks in the road. He follows this up by kicking dirt over them and the black fuse that was clearly visible.
He did a good enough job as you'd definitely not notice it unless you knew about it beforehand. Afton was pretty impressed to be honest, he hadn't expected any of the Powder Gangers to be this... Professional.
Once Karl gets back he looks at the group, "The fuse'll take about a minute to reach the payload, if you spot the caravan make sure to light it early, taking out their brahmin will prevent them from runnin', as well as securing whatever they have on 'em." he explains.
"Sounds like a plan, hear bang, and shoot 'em up." Tommy confirms cockily.
And so the waiting began, everyone was given shifts to keep watch during the night, couldn't attack an NCR caravan without being fully rested after all. Plus, they didn't know when it'd actually be coming, for all they knew they'd be waiting an extra few days due to some delay.
It was the dead of night and they'd killed the campfire to prevent being spotted, Afton had put his blue NCRCF jacket over his recon armour as the temperature had dropped quite a lot.
His watch was almost over when he spotted some movement down the road, a caravan. They didn't have any lights as they knew they were walking through Powder Ganger territory, unfortunately for them that wouldn't be enough.
He quickly woke everyone up and gestured towards it, using VATS to target everyone and count their numbers... Eight people, seven looked to be ordinary grunt soldiers wearing something similar to what you'd see the American army wearing in the middle east, or at least, that's what Afton thought.
Each had had similar-looking rifles in their hands and were walking either side of the two brahmin that had huge packs strapped to them.
The one remaining person was wearing dirty almost block metal upper body armour with a similar colour helmet. It only protected his shoulders as his arms were vulnerable from his biceps to his hands.
He had some sort of revolver strapped to his hip and lead the brahmin, probably the guy who owned them... Afton looked to Karl who nodded, he lit the fuse when he judged the group with be over the trap, letting the fuse fall to the floor as it sparked to life.
Fortunately, it'd continued burning even while smothered by dirt, the NCR wouldn't see this coming.
"Get rid of the one in combat armour first, probably the most dangerous one of their group... Other than that, stay in cover while the grunts waste their ammo like they were trained to do." he says almost mockingly.
"I'm itching to kill these fuckers, come on, walk faster you pricks." Tommy says as he cocks the hammer on his .357 revolver.
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...
The group continue to wait, the man in combat armour had just stepped directly under where they'd buried the dynamite...
*BOOM!*
An explosion erupts and killed the one in combat armour almost instantly, his legs flying off in different directions as the armour that was to protect him turned to shrapnel and penetrated his body.
The brahmin closest to him had one of its legs blown off, it gave a loud squeel as it fell to the floor, uselessly trying to get up to run by failing miserably.
The one behind it wasn't all that injured, just a few cuts from shrapnel, it turned to but a *Bang!* rung out through the area, Karl was standing on the ridge and had just fired his .44 Magnum, hitting the brahmin in the leg and causing it to fall to the floor with the other.
The NCR grunts who'd been knocked over by the shockwave quickly shook off their surprise and started firing their rifles at Karl who dipped back into cover.
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