บท 117: Broken but fixable
After the talk with Jeannie Karl and Afton were finally able to rent a room. They even got a discount due to the heavy praise Karl was laying on the woman... He didn't think the old man was still in the "romance" game, but apparently not.
The next day Afton stepped outside of his motel room, it was placed on the second floor and overlooked the opposite houses next to the huge green dinosaur. People were already up and about, milling around to attend to their respective duties.
Having nothing better to do he immediately headed for Ada Straus's tent to make sure she wasn't treating anyone. Fortunately, it seems that no one had needed her services so early in the morning.
"Ah, partner, how're you doing!" she says with a stupid smile on her face.
"You remember what I said yesterday right?"
She nods, "Your the doc and I'm the pretty nurse... Until you leave at least."
He raises a brow at the weird way she'd put it but shakes his head, "Alright, I've got other things I need to do so just call me if someone turns up." he says, giving a small wave before leaving.
The trader Karl had spoken to yesterday had already left, he woulda wanted to buy some extra stuff to help him with this experiment he wanted to try out, but it's too late for that now, isn't it. Instead he headed behind the motel, between the back of the motel and some residential buildings were the ruined remains of a variety of vehicles.
A few cars, trucks, and motorbikes greeted his eyes as he walked over and examined them. They were strange to say the least looking old fashioned yet futuristic... Obviously, he was basing his judgment on his old world's aesthetic. Due to the pre-war fuel crises most petrol engines were scrapped and replaced with reactor cores, these were usually bulkier than a regular engine but didn't need to be refuelled, nor maintained.
The only negatives to having them were the fact that if the casing of the reactor was cracked, and the safety's failed it'd go up like a nuclear explosive. This ended up adding extra bulk to the vehicles due to the extra protection giving to the reactor, the government couldn't very well have nuclear blasts going off whenever there was a car crash, could they?
Afton walked up and examined a ruined car, someone seemed to have scavenged bits and pieces from it, but the reactor core was all there... Many spiderweb-like cracks could be seen littering it, it wasn't breached, but if he started messing around with it he might just irradiate the whole of Novac.
Regardless, it wasn't the car that interested him right now. He turned his attention towards the nearby motorbike. It was a relatively long vehicle with dirty grey metal covering it. Its tires were completely deflated and seem to have been slightly melted, whether it was from the sun or something else was anyone's guess.
Its lights were all smashed in and the bulbs stolen, wing mirrors were missing and the reactor core was heavily damaged... Like, a few good strikes away from completely cracking the casing. This wasn't really a problem though, if what he was trying to do would work, everything would work out fine in the end.
He glances over to the nearby car and intones in his mind, "Jury Rigging".
*Ping*
[Jury Rigging is in effect]
As soon as the notification pops up he spots something peculiar... The car's reactor core looked to be... Melting? No, that wasn't right. It seemed to be changing shape... Afton wasn't sure if he should let the phenomenon continue or not, the Perk seemed to be causing this so he'd let it go for a while longer to see what it was doing.
After a couple minutes the melting reactor core had finally finished it transformation... It'd shrunk and become almost identically similar to the motorbike's engine... The only difference being that it seemed brand new
Did [Jury Rigging] just create a brand new engine for the motorbike? That's fucking overpowered! Quickly he examined it all over to check if it was suitable, and found that it did indeed look brand factory new.
Afton didn't waste any time and quickly pulled out his tools from his Deathclaw leather satchel, going over to remove the damaged engine from the bike to allow room for the new one. His tools weren't really suited to mechanics, but his high skill level in Repair almost made him able to do it with his bare hands.
After a couple minutes, he dumps the damaged reactor on the floor and lifted the other into its place, connecting all the wires, tubes, and other necessary things together before taking a step back.
He nods to himself, "Nice. This still isn't close to being usable though." in his old world engine fans helped cool the engine... But here and now where the engine was literally a nuclear reactor, the cooling fans were way more advanced. This, in addition to the engines, made it terribly difficult to fix vehicles. Most were irreparably damaged due to the great war, and even if that hadn't destroyed them all, time would've dealt the final blow.
This wasn't a problem for Afton anymore though! Again he finds a car wreckage and uses [Jury Rigging] to collect the brand new part that'd appeared, using these parts to slowly repair the motorbike.
In the end, he had only managed to repair thirty percent of it before the day was done. He was rather unfamiliar with vehicle repair so connective all the vital systems together, even with brand new parts proved to be incredibly difficult. He knew the theory, but lacked the experience to quickly pull it off...
What Afton didn't know was that it'd usually take a professional mechanic a week to fully repair a vehicle in the same manner he had. His [Mechanicus] Perk had allowed some of the stray wiring to sliver towards each other and connect on their own, momentarily confusion the teen before he saw spotted the notification.
[Mechanicus is in effect]
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บท 118: Nerves = Grated
It was the next day and before Afton was able to get his hands dirty repairing the motorbike his aid was needed over in the medical tent... Now that he had a project to work on he was rather miffed that he'd agreed to help the town... He couldn't really refuse now though.
Fortunately he'd made sure to lock up the motorbike tighter than a safe, the brand new vehicle parts that he'd "created" would probably be worth a shit ton of caps. Definitely enough to convince any usually good man to pick it up and sprint for the hills.
He'd locked access to the bike's internals with pieces of thick metal that he'd scavenged. If someone wanted to get access to the expensive parts they'd either need a plasma welder or a controlled explosive... All of which would allow him to run over and kill the poor bastard who'd made the attempt.
The bike still needed replacement axle, wheel, and tire. So he wasn't able to drag it into view on the tent, even with his 8 points in strength the reactor core and heavy frame made it impossible to lift on his own.
Over in the medical tent Afton was greeted by Ada giving advice to a young adult who'd somehow injured their knee.
"Now, the best way to help your knee heal is lots of squats. A hundred deep, weighted squats a day would have you feeling as good as-"
*Smack*
Afton slaps Ada in the back of her head before she can corrupt the boys mind any further, "Ignore everything and anything you may have said to do. Squats are literally the worst thing you could do right now... Anyway, what's the problem?"
The boy gestures to his knee and shrugs, "I was working the farm when a stepped into a pothole, twisted it good... Hurts whenever I move it."
Afton slowly nods and pulls their jeans up to get a better look, there wasn't any visible bruising yet but a part of it was slightly swollen. He gets the man to move his knee around a bit to see his range of movement and eventually determines that its just a knee sprain, not "great" but not debilitating.
"You've injured your ACL, not much can be done about it except rest. You'll need to be careful on it for at least two to three weeks... If the pain gets too much then use painkillers."
"Er, what's an ACL?" the patient stutters out.
"Anterior cruciate ligament, keeps your knee joint stable and helps with movement. Terribly painful if its injured though. As I said, best you rest with minimal activity if you want to get better faster."
"Do... Do I have to pay for this?"
Afton gives a 'kind' smile to the boy and shakes his head, "Nah, I didn't have to do anything. The painkillers won't be free if you want them though.
The boy limps off and Afton looks to Ada, "I still have no idea how you believe you're qualified for this, do you even know what a ligament is?"
She shrugs, "No, but I'm learning, a ligament is on your legs right!?"
...
Afton shakes his head and sighs, "No, that's not even close to being true. If that's all then I've got something else to attend to-"
As he's saying this a few people approach the tent, all either holding a limb, sniffling pitifully, or coughing exaggeratedly. "Sir, could you help us?"
Oh for fuck sake, I just want to get back to fixing my bike! The thought runs through his mind but he puts on a fake smile for them, "Of course, take a seat... What seems to be the problem."
In the end, Afton has to spend four hours treating people. At first he was greeted with actual patients, people who'd injured themselves. But gradually the injured gave way to the idiots.
"Doc, my back hurts, my feet are numb, my thoughts are fuzzy, and I think my cock is about to fall off."
...
"And what do you want me to do about it?" Afton growls out, having heard this exact set of symptoms for the third time in a row now.
"Ah, I can't afford proper treatment but if you would be willing to give me some chems then-"
"I refuse, now fuck off back under the rock you crawled out from under!" he exclaims, sending them running away.
These pieces of shit had started bothering him after he'd given free chems to a child who was having an incredibly bad allergic reaction to something. He couldn't identify what he was and the boy's parents couldn't afford treatment so he offered the chems that's reduce the reaction for free.
Course, word of his "selflessness" got around quickly and he'd been greeted by a constant stream of people trying to take advantage of him. Someone had even somehow gotten the exact symptoms that'd require the use of some rather strong chems. Of course, this also made it very, very easy to distinguish the ailed from the mentally deficient junkies.
After all was said and done Afton had made around 400 caps from the treatments. The day had been terribly busy and all he wanted to do was get back to his other project. Waving to Ada he left and headed straight for... WHERE THE FUCK IS HIS BIKE!?! He'd only started fixing it up yesterday! Was it that unlucky that someone would instantly try to steal it!?
He rapidly looks around to see if anyone was nearby but doesn't spot anyone... Instead, he sees drag marks in the dirt leading somewhere. Must be around four people at a minimum to drag the bike like that, he pulls out Lucky from its holster, not that four people would be a problem... It was just helpful to know how many graves he'd need to dig.
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