บท 164: Punishment
"-do either of you feel any remorse for what you have done!?"
Saint James does his best to try and spit at Afton, but the spittle doesn't travel far enough to hit him.
"Please, please, please DON'T KILL ME! I PROMISE I'LL DO BETTER! PLEASE!"
Afton just shakes his head, "I'd apologise for this, but then I'd be lying." he states as he picks up one of the ropes attached to Saint James lower half. It's tied tightly around his waist while his upper body is completely secured to the lampost.
He ties the length of rope around the back of Dirt-Bird and starts it up, "This won't amount to the same pain you've inflicted on others, but its enough for you to understand what you've done." he states as he starts slowly accelerating Dirt-Bird in the opposite direction, the rope immediately being pulled taut.
Saint James only now seemed to realise what was happening, he grunts in pain as he continues cursing at Afton, though he quietens down as each curse causes the bike's wheels to churn just a little bit harder.
The crowd watches with rapt attention as the tug of war between Saint James's lower and upper body progress. Most had never even seen a working vehicle before this, let alone seeing it used as a torture device.
Afton continues slowly adding pressure until Saint James is screaming in agony, with one last twist of the accelerator a crack rings through the area, this sound is followed by tearing.
The crack had been Saint James's spine dislocating, his upper body finally losing the tug of war. The rope was so tight that it bored into the man's sides as flesh began tearing.
Soon enough, Afton's bike was moving forwards, pulling along with it Saint James's lower half. Blood and other fluids pool underneath him onto the road as his legs are dragged away from his body. A large portion of his spine and other vital organs are dragged with them, the man would definitely die within a few seconds.
Afton stops the vehicle and walks over to Saint James, sitting on his heels next to him. "Bad luck you sick bastard, maybe in your next life you won't run into me again. Or maybe you could avoid all of this by being a decent human being.
Saint James isn't even strong enough to curse Afton one last time before the light in his eyes fade. Afton didn't pity the man who'd eventually have to clean this body up, because he certainly wasn't going to do it.
[Scare a humanoid shitless. 50/50]
[Perk unlocked! : Unnerving Presence]
[Unnerving Presence] : Enemies are more likely to fear you, chance for enemies to flee at the sight of you.
Afton raises a brow at the notification, only then turning around to notice the horrified looks on most of the crowd. Yeah, he'd forgotten that while most of them had experienced hardships, few had truly seen pure unadulterated violence and gore.
Though, how often would you see a man literally torn in half? If Afton wasn't currently being run by adrenaline, rage, and guilt at not being able to save those that'd been kidnapped he'd probably have vomited by now.
The new Perk did return some composure to himself, he looked over it and nodded. Inspiring fear in his enemies was what he wanted. He only hoped it wouldn't extend to potential friends and allies as well.
Shaking his head, he looks over to Dermot who seems to have pissed his pants. "So Dermot, you're next?"
"NOOO! PLEASE! JUST SHOOT ME! DON'T DO ME LIKE THAT!" he screams in terror as Afton approaches.
Afton lowers himself to Dermots eye level and shrugs, "Stop screaming. This is your punishment so take it like a man... Even if your cock and the rest of your lower body is about to be removed..." Afton shakes his head, "Youknow, I'm slightly less angry after killing your partner"
"-Then you'll let me liv-"
Afton cuts him off, "But I'm still FUCKING PISSED!" he abruptly stands up, picking up the rope and tying the new one onto Dirt-Bird before turning to the crowd. "THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO SLAVERS, PEDOPHILES, AND MURDERERS UNDER MY WATCH!" he shouts, causing the crowd to tremble as he hops onto Dirt-Bird.
Dermot continues to beg for his life as Afton starts up the engine and starts accelerating. Though, as Dermot wasn't as disgusting as Saint James, he decides to get this over with quickly.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" he screams as Dirt-Bird brutally pulled his body apart. His organs making contact with the fresh air as blood pools beneath him.
Afton stops Dirt-Bird and looks back at Dermot, the man's lifeless eyes staring back at him.
[Due to your brutal actions before a large group of people, you've been given a title! : Executioner of the Wastes]
[Titles are earned by inspiring fear, confidence, happiness, or any other emotion in a large group of people. Each has effects depending on what they were originally earned for.]
[Executioner of the Wastes] : Fame increases by 100% for actions committed in the name of justice.
Afton was surprised to see this, titles weren't a thing in Fallout 3 and he'd never heard about such a mechanic in any of the future games... Perhaps it just wasn't mentioned?... Regardless, this only meant that he could gain further power by becoming notorious at something.
Back in Novac people called him the fastest draw in the Mojave, but perhaps it wasn't specific enough to gain a title? Or maybe he needed a large enough group of people to witness it in action? Shaking his head, he could figure this out later.
He stands back on Dirt-Bird to address the crowd, "Let this be known, any rapist, murderers, slavers, or pedophiles will receive the same fate as these two!" he states simply before sitting on Dirt-Bird and looking at Karl and Boone. "Too much?"
Karl shrugs, "Nah, those fuckers deserved it."
Boone nods in agreement, he wasn't one for mercy, and seeing someone who entirely went against his principles get brutally executed wasn't the worst thing.
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บท 165: Bad news bears
Not long after Afton's rather gory spectacle, the group return to the Aerotech Office Park, a solemn silence shrouding them as they do. All knew those that'd been kidnapped were most likely dead or had met an even worse fate, it was slightly disheartening to think that they weren't able to save a single person... Atleast those responsible got what they deserved though.
After parking they walked towards Captain Parker who was sat in his usual spot. "Captain."
He turns and nods towards them, "Did you manage to find anything?"
Afton sighs and hands Dermot's ledger to him, Captain Parker looks at it and his expression immediately breaks. He looked enraged, as if he was about to arm himself and sprint headfirst towards the Fiends. "Those... I... Who did this?" is all he can ask after failing to compose himself.
"Dermot and Saint James were responsible, picking out people depending on the Fiends fetishes and kidnapping them... You won't have to worry about them though, we've already dealt with them." Afton says wit ha satisfied glint in his eye.
"Did they suffer?" Parker asks, obviously referring to the perpetrators.
A brief nod gave him all the knowledge he needed to know on the subject.
The man pays them all he can, though, the amount is rather insignificant for what they'd done. A pittance of 500 caps to split between each other. Afton wasn't bothered though, he didn't do this particular job for the caps anyway.
Captain Parker looks embarrassed at the amount he was able to pay but doesn't attempt to speak on it, "Thank you for your help, without you those two freaks might've harmed more innocent people. I'll make sure this doesn't happen again." he states with certainty.
Afton's about to bid his farewell but as soon as he pockets the caps time stops... "Hmm, was wondering if this'd actually level me up." he mutters to himself as he looks at the notification.
[WELCOME TO LEVEL 23]
[WELCOME TO LEVEL 24]
Shrugging to himself, he quickly deposits all his points into the Sneak skill, raising it to 83 points before moving onto the Perks screen.
Again, quite boring as there were no new Perks from what he could see... Was the system running out of things to give him or something?
Regardless, he just scrolls through all the old Perks he can now get due to his advanced skill levels and picks out one.
[Living Anatomy] : Shows health and other information on any target. +5% bonus to damage against humans and non-feral ghouls. It would be interesting to get, not just because it gave all his weapons a flat 5% increase, but because it could potentially give him some useful info.
The only other thing he could think to take would be [Intense Training]... He wanted to see the effects of getting a stat to max first though, he had an abundance of levels to put into his stat points.
Shaking his head, he eventually decides to just grab [Living Anatomy] just to see if its useful. He takes a look at his Pipboy to see his status before confirming his selection.
Afton Parker
Title : [Executioner of the Wastes]
Level : 24
S.P.E.C.I.A.L :
Strength : 8
Perception : 7
Endurance : 7
Charisma : 4
Intelligence : 6
Agility : 9
Luck : 4
Skills :
Barter : 21
Energy Weapons : 55
Explosives : 23
Guns : 100
Lockpick : 10
Medicine : 100
Melee Weapons : 100
Repair : 100
Science : 50
Sneak : 82
Speech : 100
Survival : 30
Unarmed : 33
Perks :
[Trigger Discipline], [Heavy Handed], [Rapid Reload], [Torture Techniques], [Educated], [John Wick Style], [Toughness], [Stonewall], [Sniper], [Bug Stomper], [Lord Death v1], [Spies Guise], [Quick Draw], [Adamantium Skeleton], [Ranger Tactics], [Ranger Targeting], [Ranger Awareness], [Mechanicus], [Jury Rigging], [SuperHot Block], [Solar Powered], [Miracle Maker], [Unnerving Presence], [Living Anatomy]
Companion Perks :
[Old Wisdom]
[Spotter]
He maintains his expression as time resumes, barely twitching a brow at the pain of having knowledge of multiple spec ops drilled into his mind. He gives a small wave to Captain Parker as he leaves the Aerotech Office Park, sitting on his bike as his companions walk up and look to him to see what they should do next.
"So, I'm guessing neither or you have any problems with setting our sights on the Fiends, right?" Afton throws the question out there, by now he knew the personalities of Karl and Boone, both would be more than willing to volunteer for the job, let along et paid for it.
Karl crosses his arms and nods, "Before seeing that ledger I thought they were just pests, but now I know someone needs to deal with 'em. The NCR is too busy with the Legion to put up a proper fight, so that just leaves us."
"Wouldn't surprise me if the Legion had a hand in the Fiends, matches their MO, using smaller tribes to fight for them, supplying them with minimal resources before launching their own assault." Boone adds.
Karl nods and continues to explain for Afton, "They may look like simple barbarian simpletons, but they probably have spies in every corner of the Mojave. Their members are simply too suited for that kind of work, brainwashed to be completely and utterly loyal to Caesar they aren't at risk of being compromised by enemy forces."
"Regardless, if the Fiends are in cahoots with the Legion we'll deal with them anyway. For now though I want to visit Doctor Usanagi to see about those implants. Afterwards checking in New Vegas to see if Tamia and my friend is around..." he cycles through the various things he wants to get done. It wasn't like the Fiends were going to go anywhere.
Karl shrugs at him, "Yeah, it's getting late anyway, best get that done before we find a place to camp for the night."
Just before they're about to leave though, Afton notices a group of strange-looking people approaching them.
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