The duo continued circling around the town to get a better look at it, the places of interest were a police station, fire station, two churches, and the residential district. Neither knew where the supposed radioactive material was located, but judging from Afton's Geigar counter it seemed to be around the Firestation.
It was fortunate they had radiation suits as the rads per second sometimes even rose above ten, and they weren't even close to the building at that time.
Afton and Karl was looking at the fire station from behind a nearby building, a few ghouols were meandering about but didn't seem to have noticed them yet.
"Should we take a look inside the building? We might be able to deal with the radiation if we find the source." Afton asks.
Karl shakes his head, "There'd be no point, the damage is done and even if we stopped the initial source, the radiation would still be present here... Best just earn whatever caps and scavenge what we can before moving on to the next town." he states.
Afton nods, his Pipboy didn't have any questions relating to dealing with the radiation problem, he wasn't all that interested in helping the NCR regain the base anyway... While some had been hospitable to him, he knew they'd kill him if they found out he used to be in the Brotherhood of Steel.
"Let's just start dealing with the ghouls then." he states, finally getting to use his new Perk [Quick Draw]. He glared at a couple nearby ghouls and took a duelist stance, his hand hovering above Lucky.
Once they noticed him he moved, he was like a blur as the revolver left its holster and flashed twice, two shots ringing out.
*BANGBANG!*
The ghouls both dropped dead with bullet wounds now decorating their foreheads, Afton might not look like an old western duelist while wearing a radiation suit, but he could now definitely shoot with the best of 'em.
"Are you holding back, or just improving at a ridiculous pace?" Karl mutters from behind him.
Afton just shrugs and shoves two .357 bullets into Lucky's two vacant slots. "Maybe you're just seeing things? You are pretty old."
"Yeah, and you'll listen to this old man as he knows better." he grumbles, "Get ready, they heard your shots." he says as he readies his own weapon while looking at an alleyway leading to the main street.
Afton equips his other .357 revolver in his other hand and points both at the alleyway, firing as soon as he sees ghouls stumbling through it. "This shit reminds of resident evil... Let's hope this ain't raccoon city." he mutters as he unloads his ammo into the feckless zombies.
It isn't difficult to kill the one's coming through, the duo annihilates around twenty of them before additional ones start crawling out of the nearby buildings... They start backing up as they couldn't know where the next would come from, in the end through zombies were clearly inferior to good old American ingenuity.
They take all of the irradiated dogtags and Afton wraps them up in a radiation suit before placing them back in his satchel, this is to stop it irradiating his other possessions.
The duo continues walking around the town, killing small groups of ghouls. They made sure to constantly keep themselves topped up on Rad X, Afton could check his current radiation level with his Pipboy, he judged that Karl would be at around the same level, so if he needed a Radaway then Karl would too.
They were fine for now though, they'd spent a couple hours in the town and the sky had started dimming, night was slowly approaching and neither wanted to be in the city when finally hit. Before they left though the wanted to check out some of the places of interest.
The Police station wasn't as irradiated at the fire station, so they went ahead and tried to take a look, finding much to their irritation that all the doors had been locked for some reason... Shaking their heads, they next headed to the ruined church, strangely enough finding a sign with "Storage room" written on it placed above a trap door in the far corner. A lantern was set next to it and illuminated it for all to see.
Shrugging their shoulders, the duo entered. Down the ladder, they found themselves on a staircase that lacked any rads... This must've been a pre-war bunker designed to resist radiation.
"For fuck sake! Do one of you idiots know how to make this shit work?!" A voice sounds out. Apparently, someone was down here.
"We're just hired gun's Logan, why the fuck would we know how to hack computers?!"
Karl and Afton walk into the room, the eye-watering orange colour of their radiation suits quickly attracting the men's attention. Both were ready to draw and start firing at the men, but they'd see what their intentions were before acting.
A man wearing what looked like scrap-metal armour sitting behind a monitor immediately stood while placing a hand on a 9mm SMG resting on the table. "Who the fuck are you!?" he exclaims, the other three men preparing to defend themselves as well.
"Just looking around, doing a job on behalf of the NCR." Karl calmly states.
...
They relax after a moment and the man in metal armour kicks his feet up on the table holding the monitor, "Huh, didn't think they wanted anything to do with this god-forsaken place... We're from the Crimson Caravan, name's Logan."
The duo nod and introduce themselves, Afton glances around the room and realises it's a veritable treasure trove, lots of ammunition, chems like Rad X and Radaway, and even food were lying around. The group hadn't looted this place yet, and while the wasteland didn't have many rules, it was still 'first come, first serve'... The only exception to this rule was, 'My gun's bigger than yours, so fuck off'.
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Afton looks to Logan, "What're you here for?"
...
Logan glares at him, "Well that's none of your fuckin' business. You may be from the NCR, but you don't hold authority over us."
Afton shakes his head, "We're working for the NCR, but we aren't with them... Right now, it's just wastelander to wastelander." he says, tension filling the air.
"If you're not from the NCR then get the fuck out, this place is ours, we find it first. The Crimson Caravan will loot this place clean, and afterwards, you can pick up what's left." he states.
Afton frowns, "The Crimson Caravan wouldn't happen to have provided keys to some of the town's buildings... Would they?"
[Spies Guise is in effect]
One of the hired gun's unconsciously nod, "They migh-"
Logan glares at him, "Shut the fuck up! When McLafferty said keep it covert and her name outta it, she didn't mean spout her secrets to the nearest-... Fuck!" he exclaims, only now realising that he himself had dropped the ball.
"Well, now you know something you shouldn't, you won't be leaving this place." Logan says, grabbing his gun and-
*BANG!*
[John Wick Style is in effect]
Afton had drawn Lucky faster than the other men could blink and fired a shoot through Logan's brain, killing him instantly.
[Scare a humanoid shitless. 4/50]
He looks at the other men who didn't dare reach for their weapons, "Well? You gonna follow your friend? Go ahead, make my day." Afton says, inwardly fanboying at finally getting to use that phrase.
The three remaining men raise their hands above their hands, expressions locked in abject terror. Afton nods in satisfaction, "Now, you lot'll walk outta here, and never speak about this to anyone. 'Specially not whoever McLafferty is, got it?"
They quickly nod and start slowly walking towards the staircase, their hands still above their hands... Afton glances towards Karl and winks.
*BANGBANGBANG!*
Lucky fires out three shots all penetrating the skulls of the unfortunate souls who'd encountered it. The basement goes silent as all enemies were dispatched, Afton tosses out the empty shells and reloads Lucky while turning. "No loose ends, right?"
Karl nods, "Yeah, seems like you're learnin'. Best they didn't leave, gettin' on the wrong side of the Crimson Caravan would spell a lotta trouble... Though, whether getting the opportunity to loot the town was worth killin' those men is up in the air." he says.
"Let's make sure no one knows who killed these guys then... But first let's see if they have anything on them." Afton says and starts rifling through their belongings.
They find a couple 9mm SMG's, Rad X's, Ammo, and a chock-full keyring on Logan. Neither knew why the Crimson Caravan would have access to the locked buildings around the town, but it sounded like the start of some conspiracy.
Afton kicks Logan's corpse outta the way and sits down in front of the terminal he was trying to gain access to. Unlike the hired gun's, he was well enough acquainted with computer technology to hack it.
He took his time in order to go through the code in an attempt to find the password, getting locked out would stop him ever seeing what was held inside it... Well, unless he found where the database was being held and took it apart. That would be difficult though as this world's technology forced computer databases to be about as large as a room depending on how large they were.
In the end he managed to crack the code and was greeted with some updates on the supplies. This was obviously before the town was irradiated... Apparently there used to be radiation suits held in here, which would probably be what Logan was looking for. Unfortunately for them, someone seems to have stolen them and headed up to Nipton-... Oh.
"Er, we seem to have stolen the radiation suits these guys were looking for." he says, causing Karl to start chuckling.
"I almost feel bad for them... Almost."
The fact that the Crimson Caravan knew that Radiation suits would likely be held here only gave credence to his thought that a conspiracy was afoot... Or maybe he was overthinking it? They're traders and may have sold the NCR the radiation suits in the first place.
The duo grab two backpacks from the dead Crimson Caravan mercs and start stuffing them full of the supplies held within here. There was a huge amount to take and so they were stuck grabbing only the most valuable and weight efficient items. Ammunitions, chems, small arms, etc.
Afterwards they dump the four bodies outside of the church where some ghouls would probably devour them, removing any and all evidence of the duo's involvement. The two then proceed to lug the full backpacks back to the NCR encampment.
Sargeant Astor greets them as he sees them come in, giving an inquiring gaze towards the new backpacks they seemed to have. "A profitable trip I take it?"
Afton nods, and reaches into his satchel, "You have no idea." he states as he drops the irradiated dogtags into the man's hand.
He looks down at the almost forty tags and his eyes moisten slightly, "Thank you... Here," he hands off a bag of 400 caps.
"Don't worry about it. If you're still willing to pay we'll continue to deal with the ghouls... There's still quite a lot wandering around." Afton says, not letting the man know they'd probably get rid of them anyway while looting the town.
Sargeant Astor nods, "If you could I'd be grateful, if you need somewhere to stay the night we got a couple free beds in the tent. I don't think anyone would mind you taking them. Oh, your gear is in the tent aswell, no one's touched them.
Afton nods at him, "Thanks."
Just as the duo are about to enter the tent, time freezes and Afton is greeted with an all too familiar notification.
[WELCOME TO LEVEL 13]
[WELCOME TO LEVEL 14]
"Huh, neat."
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