Raphael hit the dirt as soon as he heard the first shot ring out across the wastes. He had ducked into a crater a little bit to the left of Jordan, and already had his recharger rifle out. "Well, shit! So much for a stroll in the backwoods!" He peeked his head over the top of his crater to get a view of his assailants, and nearly took a bullet for his trouble. "FUCKING HELL!" What assholes! They almost took Raphael's head off. Raphael, still ducked into the crater, rested his rifle on the top of it and let out a hail of plasma. Raphael felt a wave of satisfaction as one of the bandits yelped in surprise, one of Raphael's bolts hitting just a few inches from his foot. Raphael yelled out with glee, "I can stay here ALL day! This little boomstick of mine doesn't NEED ammo!", and waited for the whirring of his rifle to tell him it's charged up.

The recharger rifle's cell fully recharged, Raphael got ready to send down another volley of plasma when he heard Dylan shout out something about radscorpions. "Scorps!? Fuck!" He sweeped his his eyes across the landscape for stingers, rifle ready to fire. "This is just god damn GREAT" Raphael thought to himself. "First these raider asshats, and now radscorpions. What next? A deathclaw pack?" While keeping an eye out for the scorpions, Raphael focused on the sounds around him, trying to detect any scuffling, footsteps, or gunshots.