บท 91: Sheriff outta town
Afton doesn't decide to offload the rest of the loot, instead electing to try and sell it off at the Mojave Outpost, he'd likely get better prices there than here. "Hope you guys don't mind but, we're going to stay here the night. I need to clean this blood off of me and get some sleep." he states and no one argues with him.
He spots a nice looking couch in the corner and is about to walk over and drop unconscious atop it but is stopped by Johnson, "So Deputy Beagle, since you're back you can become the new Sheriff right?"
"W-what? No... My days in the law are finished, there's no way I'm putting another target on my back." Beagle quickly says.
"But Primm needs a Sheriff! Who'll stop another group of thugs from coming in and taking the town over?" Johnson exclaims, his happiness from earlier slowly fading.
Afton sighs, these people really were useless... But... He checks his Pipboy.
[Find Primm a new Sheriff]
... Atleast there was some EXP as a consolation he supposed. He glanced over to the robot nearby and wondered if he could reprogram it... Shaking his head, even if he did it wouldn't be able to properly defend the town, or even put up a fight against another group of criminals. "Karl, wasn't your friend Meyers a former-sheriff? Couldn't he set up shop here, wasn't like he had anywhere else to go."
Karl looks thoughtful before nodding, "I think he'd gladly take the offer." he looks to Johnson, "When you can, ask the NCR to send a message to Meyers who's currently helping out in the NCRCF. He'll be your new Sheriff."
Afton nods and prepares to fall asleep on that almost irresistable looking couche when time stops just as he's about to reach it... "Fuck!"
[WELCOME TO LEVEL 8]
...
Seems like he'd completed the quest by suggesting Meyers, he'd have thought that maybe the man would have to arrive, but he must've been wrong in that assumption. Whatever the case, he was now given the choice of what to do wit his new skillpoints.
He'd already maxed out Guns and gotten [John Wick Style] from it, so he was curious to see what maxing Speech would do. He put all his points into Speech and raised it to 59.
Next, he was presented with the new Perks he could potentially take.
[Quick Draw] : Makes weapon equipping and holstering 50% faster. This looked rather useless, and if he were playing Fallout he'd not give it a second look... But, in a world were one bullet could mean death, being able to draw as quickly as possible would be as big a boon as a damage increase perk.
[Stonewall] : +5 DT against melee and unarmed attacks and cannot be knocked down during combat. The 5DT was negligible, but being immune to getting knocked down would be ridiculously powerful in the real world.
[Strongback] : +50 Carry Weight. If he had an inventory system then sure, this would be useful... As of now he has to manually carry everything, which makes taking rediculous amounts of weight impossible to take.
These three were the only new Perks he could take, the choice was between the first two as both could potentially be incredible... In the end he decided to take [Stonewall], he imagined a scenario where someone slammed a sledgehammer into his chest and are surprised to see him take it as if it were nothing...
He selected it and confirmed, causing time to start again and allowing him to drop into the couch, passing out almost immediately as he hit its cushions.
The next day he was shaken awake by Karl, he had no idea how long he'd slept but it felt like only a couple hours judging by how tired he was. He waved his hand at the man, mumbling "Five more minutes".
Karl didn't seem to listen to him and slapped him on the cheek, the sudden pain caused Afton's eyes to shoot open, unfortunately awakening him completely.
"Bro... Couldn't you just let me sleep a little longer? It's not like we haven't got time."
Karl shook his head, "The NCR worked through the night and removed the mines, let's get going... They have a bar at the Mojave Outpost, drinks are on me." he states, adjusting his Stenton and walking away, "I'll wait outside."
Afton rubs his eyes and only now realises he'd never cleaned the blood covering him, it'd begun to smell and had completely coagulated... This fortunately made it slightly easier to wipe off, but the stains to the leather were rather noticeable.
He didn't use any water to clean himself, instead just using a dry cloth that he'd occasionally spit on to remove any annoyingly resistant stains.
In the end Afton stood, still with small bloodstains on the leather of his recon armour. The holsters on his hips held Lucky on the right, and his other 357 revolver on the left, along with Eddie's plasma pistol.
On the makeshift badoleer on the front he had the laser pistol and sawed-off shotgun attached to it... His deathclaw leather satchel had many mines, medicine and other supplies held within it. To be honest, if anyone searched him they'd assume he was going to war...
He received grateful nods as he exited the casino, spotting Karl with the huge backpack filled with all the Guns they'd stolen from the criminals. "You alright carrying that Karl? We could split it some." he says.
Karl shakes his head, "This was a typical day back in the rangers, I'll manage. Let's get moving, I wanna reach the Outpost before nightfall." he says, walking towards the NCR outpost. The place had soldiers milling all over the place, crates and other things were slowly being filled with various supplies. Seems like the NCR have no reason to stay here any longer, and were moving shop.
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บท 92: Mojave Safari
The duo are greeted by Lieutenant Hayes who's ordering people around with a clipboard in his hand, "Hm? Come to visit again you two?" he asks semi-sarcastically.
"Just headed to the Outpost, you relocating?" Karl says.
Hayes nods, "We are, you two have basically done all of our jobs for us... Primm's no-longer a threat and their new Sheriff is arriving soon, the NCRCF has been taken so the Powder Gangers won't be a problem... Really, without you two we'd still be stuck here for who knows how long."
"Where you headed?" Afton asks, wanting to get some information about NCR placements.
"Camp Forlorn Hope, North of Nelson. It'll take us about a week to pack everything up and get the NCRCF completely secured. You're welcome to stop by if you need anything, you can consider yourselves friends of mine for what you've done... Oh, by the way, the Outpost knows you're coming, got some job for you apparently. Don't know whether your interested, but its there." he says.
The duo nod and wave as they leave, its a straight road to the Mojave Outpost. It isn't exactly hard to find where they were going due to the humungous statue off in the distance. It depicts a ranger shaking hands with an NCR soldier.
"What's that statue even for?" Afton asks while glaring at the huge piece of scrap metal off in the distance.
"Hmm, I think its for the Unification of the Desert Rangers and the NCR... Reckon they never woulda agreed to it if they knew how corrupt the NCR was." he mutters.
They continue walking and spot a ruined gas station on the side of the highway, Karl stops Afton and drops the large sack of weapons onto the floor before pulling them both behind a bush.
Afton gives him a peculiar look, "What is it?"
"Vipers." Karl quickly states, the two peeking over and spotting a face so dirty it seemed black, looking around from behind a wall. They seemed to be attempting to ambush travellers, its lucky Karl spotted them otherwise they might've actually had some trouble.
"What are 'Vipers'?" Afton asks, having never heard of that group before.
"Don't know their history, but most are just chem-addicted psychopaths that occasionally popup in the Mojave. They resemble the Fiends and Jackals in their actions but are probably the weakest of the three. Think I prefer them though."
"Prefer them?" Afton parrots in confusion.
Karl nods, "Jackals are cannibals, and Fiend are murdering, raping scum... Vipers just ambush folk and take their supplies, sometimes even let their victims escape with their lives." he explains.
Afton slowly nods, "Yeah, I can see what you mean then... What're we gonna do about these guys?"
"Kill them." he states simply, as if it was obvious.
The duo don't waste anytime, giving the place a wide berth while circling around to scout it out. Once they locate every Viper that was waiting outside they launched their attack. In a couple of seconds, three Vipers were dead, many bullet wounds covering their bodies.
The duo approach and Afton throws down a mine at the steps of the front door of the gas station before retreating.]
*BOOM!*
It explodes and destroys a portion of the wall, as well as killing the unfortunate person who'd stepped out to see what the gunshots were about.
All in all, there were only around seven Vipers which were all easily dispatched. Karl packed up all their weaponry into their backpack and Afton checked around the building and eventually found a skill book tucked away behind a desk... Someone must've dropped it and forgotten it, probably before the war happened?
He touches the Big Book of Science, as well as the Barter skill book he picked up in the Bison Steve Hotel. Both turn to ash and a notification pops up in the corner of his vision.
[+3 Science]
[+3 Barter]
They burn the Viper's bodies and head out again, it wasn't long before they encounter yet another obstacle... An overpass that was completely infested with Giant Ants, they seem to have come from the Dry-lake and set up shop. Afton was sure he'd be able to take on a small colony of them, but this wasn't that... There were hundreds of them, varying from worker ants to soldier ants.
"Go around?" he mutters to Karl who just nods, "Go around."
And so they ignore the colony and circled around, giving it some distance in order to not aggravate the creatures. Sure some unfortunate travellers might stumble into them, but it wasn't the duo's responsibility to solve everyone's problems. Hopefully it'd be an NCR patrol or something...
It was only now that Afton could see just how fucked the Mojave actually was... They'd only been on the road for a couple hours, and they'd already stumbled across an ambush, a colony of irradiated creatures, and now before them was a rest stop with huge grey rad scorpions infesting it!
Karl took one look at them and grabbed him, "We're not fightin' those, we'd need armour piercin' rounds to get through their exoskeletons." he states as they run. Fortunately, the Giant Rad-Scorpions weren't faster than them, allowing them to get outta dodge relatively easily.
The two stopped to catch their breath as they reached the bottom of the hill leading to the Mojave Outpost... They could see a few Giant Ants nearby by they seemed more concerned with tearing apart a pre-war truck than eating them.
"Is travelling the Mojave always going to be like this?" he complains to his partner.
Karl snorts, "No... Not always." he states, cheering Afton up slightly, only to drop him again. "Sometimes you get attacked by Deathclaws, Supermutants, or other insanely strong creatures... Today's been fairly tame to be honest."
Afton was beginning to wonder why he'd been so happy to have been reincarnated in this place...
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