Fallout: The Carolina Blues.

[Earnest Evans]

@Earnest Evans It's doable, especially with clear most of the southern mid-west of raiders. The brotherhood was up further north. Going through Texas and then up would be a perfectly safe route. Also tornadoes would only be a problem some of the year. If you had a car you make the trip in 3 or four weeks outside tornado season.

@Apollosarcher

You know, that makes sense. I guess if I was a character from the west coast, it'd be one who's friendly with Caesar's Legion (to make it through the Southwest route), or one who made a one-way trip in the "off-season" and only had to contend with gigantic dust devils and raiders.

Alright, thanks for helping clear things up. I'm gonna start working on my CS now.

[clanjos]

I thought Texas was Legion turf?

[Suzy Blue]

@clanjos
Legion's fallen apart at this point

[Earnest Evans]

I thought Texas was Legion turf?

@clanjos

The Legion controls most of the American Southwest, possibly including Texas. Though what Raul says in NV suggests they're ambivalent towards traders, I'd probably assume any immigrants from New Vegas or California would be caught and mudstomped in short order. I think my guy will come through Texas on his journey east.

@clanjos
Legion's fallen apart at this point

@Suzy Blue

Even if Caesar and all his little buddies were massacred at The Fort and Hoover Dam, there'd still be a massive power base throughout the Southwest. Worst-case scenario The Legion fractures under the power vacuum and any travelers now have to contend with several massive military groups formed out of the remains of Caesar's Legion, each trying to become the true Legion.

[mattmanganon]

Katty O'Harrington

Name: Katty O'Harrington

Age: 35

Gender: Female

Appearance:


(But with a CPD logo on the front and a white coat)

Home: Tallahassee, Florida

Skills:

Science (An amazing Chemistry, Biology and Physics scientist.)
Pilot (Having spent the former half of her life in an Enclave facility, she was able to make use of the pilot simulators. She is fully versed in piloting a Vertibird)
Repair (She spent 20 years designing weapons for the Enclave, she has worked with the most advanced technology in the former USSA, both pre and post war and knows her way around things)
Speech (She is a talker, not a fighter, although she does carry a weapon, she normally tries to solve problems with her words... And if she needs to fight, she usually leaves it to Grunk)
Medicine (Part of her biology course was learning about the human body. She is a fair doctor)

Background: Born to a scientist father and soldier mother of the Enclave, she was raised to be a scientist, like her father. Her childhood was standard, listening to nothing but the propaganda, being convinced that President Eden was the only man capable of leading America back to greatness. When she was 16, she passed her G.O.A.T. and was classified as a Scientist, as such, she began to learn everything she could about science and technology. She created several new and interesting weapons for the Enclave military, including a new varient of Minigun.

When she was 28, she was put on a project to create new poisons that would only effect radiation creatures. Her patient was a Supermutant that they had captured. After a month of experimentation, she found that he was an innocent creature, reletively intelligent and one that only wanted to go home. It was something that she couldn't bare to torture anymore. She had been taught that everything she did was for the betterment of mankind, but here, face to face with a living, breathing creature, the blood was on her hands and she refused to believe that torturing it would make Mankind any better off for it. She freed him and they escaped north. The going was slow, as they had to make sure that they weren't followed. Along the way, they found a baby Mole-Rat, shortly after eating its parents. Grunk immediately fell in love with it and called it Fluffy. They raised it as a sniffer to help them evade capture.

Now, the three are bogged down in Carolina, with all of the major roads patrolled by Eye-bots, escape is impossible at the moment... They may have no choice but to fight.

Equipment:

Riot Armour (Raided from a police station in Charlotte. Just the kevlar bodyarmour, she wears it under her labcoat)
Medical supplies (Always carries enough medical supplies to keep her and Grunk fit and healthy)
Chinese Pistol (Although she prefers laser weapons, she decided to get a regular bullet weapon to assist in avoiding attention.)
Ol' Painless: A Rifle that has had many owners in it's time. The merchant said he bought it from a man who took it off the corpse of a guy that he saw get ripped into pieces by a Mirelurk after getting it from one of his friends who had been from the Capital region and stole it from The Lone Wanderer's house, but Katty wrote this off as a selling pitch. It has the words "All Hail Dave" and "Ol' Painless" scratched into the butt.

Other: Has a pet Mole-Rat named "Fluffy" (Named by Grunk, his purpose is to use his advanced sense of smell to detect possible enemies, as well as find food)

Grunk

Name: Grunk

Age: 102

Gender: Male

Appearance:


(Green)

Home: Sacramento, California.

Skills:

Rapid Fire weapons (Being a Supermutant, he isn't terribly intelligent, but he does know how to use a gun, point it and something and hold the trigger until that something is dead. As such, Rapid fire weapons work best for him)
Melee weapons (There isn't a living Supermutant that is not good with a melee weapon.)
Intimidation (Few people are willing to mess with someone that has a Supermutant watching their back.)

Background: Born in California, he and his entire Supermutant family moved west in search of greener pastures, and a place to call home, away from humans. However, in Louisiana, they were attacked by the Enclave, his family was killed and he was captured for experimentation, this was when he met Katty and has been her faithful companion/bodyguard ever since.

Equipment:

Minigun (Nobody knows exactly how Supermutants keep getting their hands on them... But they do... This one was designed by Katty. It was built for a lower rate of fire, but a higher PSI firing mechanism.)
Stop-Sign (A Stop Sign that he fashioned into a crude, yet effective, club.)

Other: He calls everyone Nigel... Except Fluffy, who he loves and pets...

[mattmanganon]

I'm sure they wouldn't be the first to make that journey. In fact, Suzy's character is stated to have done so. I don't think you need to justify it at all. We can assume the trip isn't easy, but it's not impossible. Especially with groups like the Brotherhood and NCR trying to civilize the wasteland. There's a good chance there's some sort of road or system to get people across.

@Gisk

Harold got all the way from California to the Capitol Wasteland... And he was nutty as an Oak...

@Earnest Evans It's doable, especially with clear most of the southern mid-west of raiders. The brotherhood was up further north. Going through Texas and then up would be a perfectly safe route. Also tornadoes would only be a problem some of the year. If you had a car you make the trip in 3 or four weeks outside tornado season.

@Apollosarcher

Yes, but that's assuming that the Roads are all still intact. You have to remember that with the roads almost all in complete disrepair, that most cars will have their suspension turned to swiss cheese after 50 miles offroad... If that... So, taking into account that you will have to constantly stop for parts and maintainance, and most likely having to get new wheels at some point, the trip will most likely be substantially longer. Plus, he needs to know the roads and which way to go.

Here's an idea. Say that they crossed by steed. Bramihn or Horses (If some Dogs survived unmutated, i don't think it's a strech to say that some Horses also)

[TJByrum]

I'm from South Carolina.

Just uh... just throwing that out there.

I might look at this in-depth later on. Just dropping in to let you know you have another interested party.

[Gisk]

I lived in SC as a child.

[Lord Coake]

I'm extremely interested. Plan on writing up an irritable Medical Scientist from the Institute, who managed to grab some highly advanced tech before being run out for 'reasons'. Will have a CS up soon.

[Apollosarcher]

@mattmanganon Three to four weeks is without roads, it would take months on horses. You can get across country now in six days currently it's not a stretch that without roads you could manage it in a month. Plenty of military vehicles laying around unused so off roaders would be easy to acquire.

@Earnest Evans Caesar's legion has turned into hundreds of battling tribes, they bicker and fight over land and such. Without Caesar they are nothing.

[Levythelevy]

Name: Patrick Thompson, Achilles's Protege

Age: 16

Gender: Male

Appearance:


Home:
South Carolina Area

Skills:
Barter
Sneak
Guns
Lockpicking

Background:
Patrick's parents are treasure hunters, they travel around the Carolina's at the first rumor of a store of valuable Pre-War goodies. Patrick grew up traveling from place to place learning how to get into locked storerooms, sneaking past bandits, and arguing with town merchants over the price of goods. Recently, his parents caught wind of a hidden armory in the north and set off to find it. Patrick was sick at the time and was forced to stay back in a small town down south. Patrick recovered, but after a month had gone by his parents had not returned. During that time, Achilles wandered into town. Patrick was impressed with this wanderer and demanded to be taken as his assistant. Achilles refused at first, but Patrick simply began following him in his journeys (leaving a note for his absent parents) and eventually Achilles took him under his wing. Achilles began to teach Patrick how to use a gun to defend himself on their travels and oddjobs.

Equipment:
Roving Trader Outfit- Patrick is constantly picking up pieces of scrap or interesting pre-war goods so the number of pockets is perfect for carrying all his goods.
Varmint Rifle- A common rifle with plentiful ammo.
Stimpack x2
Pork n Beans x3
Bobby Pin x10- One is Patricks favorite hidden in his sock that he calls "Lucky Joe"

Other: Patrick has a harmonica in excellent condition. It was his first real treasure and he has taught himself to play. He takes care of it constantly usually absentmindedly cleaning when he has some downtime.

[Earnest Evans]

Secundus Albus

Name: Secundus Albus

Age: 30

Gender: Male

Hider

Appearance]

Home: Arizona

Skills:

• Basic first aid and herbology
• Legion-standard hand-to-hand combat skills
• Tailoring at a professional level
• Basic survival skills
• Fluent in Latin and English
• Four years of education on pre-war history. Primary focus on the Byzantine Empire and late Germanic tribes.
• Discipline
• Literacy, both reading and writing
• Skilled at rudimentary weapon manufacturing, maintenance, and usage (includes simple firearms)

Background: Born in one of the dozens of villages spread throughout Legion territory, Albus was raised from birth to be an auxiliary soldier of Caesar's Legion. As he grew up, he learned everything Caesar had made policy to be learned: skills necessary to live on one's own, skills necessary to aid your fellow soldiers, and skills necessary to not make the mistakes of the proud, fattened hogs of the West. The way things were going, Caesar's Legion was primed to eradicate the men of the West.

When, against all odds, the NCR won the battle of Hoover Dam, and successfully assassinated both Caesar and his most-trusted confidants, the internal structure of The Legion collapsed into several warring nation-states. Clusters of villages rallied under the charismatic force of those who used to be Centurions, and so a massive civil war erupted across the American Southwest that rendered much of the land nearly impossible to traverse for fear of being attacked. Those who had previously rid the land of Raiders now banded together into massive tribes, raiding and assaulting their enemies with little mercy.

Albus was one of the many smaller villages who fled for safer grounds when the great civil war erupted. Together with his instructor, his mother, and his three brothers, he fled northeast. Though his family and friends decided to settle down somewhere in what used to be Kentucky, Albus moved along on his own, eventually reaching South Carolina in one piece. Currently, Albus is staying temporarily in a podunk shantytown way off on the coast, darning socks and hunting Mirelurks with the local boys.

Equipment:

• One slightly dinged-up .357 lever-action rifle, given to him by his father.
• One canteen, currently filled with water.
• One pouch, filled with emergency rations. Enough for two days.
• One baggy of trail mix, for Heather.
• Fifty .357 magnum rounds, loose, bought from local scrap dealer.
• One machete. Has a smiley face carved into the pommel and a crude guard made of wrapped cloth.
• One road map. Covers both the Carolinas and Georgia.
• One boning knife, for fish and small animals.
• One tin drinking cup. Has multiple coffee stains.
• One crude tank-top and pants, self-made.
• One rucksack, stolen off an unknown corpse.
• One straight razor, well-kept.
• One iron saucepan, for boiling and cooking.
• One ladle, wooden. Previously owned by mother.
• One sewing kit. Previously owned by father.
• Fifty bottle caps. Branded "Bawlz Energy Drink".
• One pair of binoculars. One lens has been destroyed.
• Three Legion denarii. Two silver, one gold.
• Pair of shoes. Intermittently houses a growing colony of foot fungus and several large insects.

Other: Albus has one pet: an old wild pig that he managed to coerce into following him through regular bribery of dried meat. The pig's name is Heather.
Heather is astonishingly intelligent, and frustratingly willful. Heather will go nearly anywhere Albus will go, and has saved Albus's skin more than once.
Albus holds contempt for people affiliated with the NCR or the current Brotherhood of Steel. He feels that they haven't faced any real hardships and are instead growing fat off the backs of the workers beneath them.

[Apollosarcher]

OOC is up! Please post all character under the character tabs. If there's anything special your character might know I'll let you know as most of you come from pretty different parts of the wastes.

[Lord Coake]

Here's the doc!

Name: Dr. Mathias Johnson

Age: 52, but with the physical body equal to a 27 year old, thanks to Institute medical technology

Gender: Male

Appearance:


Home: The Commonwealth, more specifically The Institute. He left after certain events ruined his reputation. His departure involved a lot of gunfire, screaming, and maybe a burning building or two.

Skills:
Medicine(He was the head of the Institute's medical facilities before his incident)
Science(While not as well trained as his medical skills, he's still quite adept at using advanced and pre-war tech)
Repair(He's handy to have around tools, and given the proper ones, can fix just about anything.)
Survival(His medical knowledge can also come in handy when needing to find edible materials, or when making some. He's still primarily trained with medicines, however)
Guns(While not the best sharpshooter, he knows his way around a firearm. Unlike most scientists, he never cared for using energy weapons)

Background: Born to two scientists in The Institute, Mathias has always lived around advanced tech. Unlike most children there, however, he also enjoyed escaping out into the wider Commonwealth, visiting places such as Diamond City, and even once taking a trip to the Capital Wasteland. He loved learning about the wasteland and its inhabitants, and seeing the effects the radiation and other pollutants had on them, and all the other life. He learned to appreciate medicine and its uses, while also seeing how medical science can be used to cause pain and suffering. He would become a very established medical doctor of the Institute, developing things like cybernetic limbs, a cure for diseases like Cancer and Aids, and even a treatment to provide temporary immunity to even the most harmful of radiations with a single dose. However, he had a large skeleton hidden in his closet, so to speak. Word got out of secret experiments he performed on captured raiders in hidden complexes deep under the Institute, some even involving captured strains of the Forced Evolutionary Virus, obtained from the Capital Wasteland. This wreaked havoc with his reputation, leading to the Institute violently removing him from the Commonwealth. He began to travel south, first to the Capital Wasteland, and once his reputation reached him there, further south again. Eventually he arrived in the Carolinas, setting up a medical camp in the wastes with what tech he was able to scavenge from the Institute, and the wastes.

Equipment: He wears various scraps of semi-protective clothing, such as his brown trench coat. He carries a .45 pistol on his side, a combat survival knife in his boot sheath, and a hunting rifle on his back. The rifle takes standard .308 rounds, but has also been jury-rigged to accept auto-inject stimpaks and Med-X as viable ammo, meant for firing into allies for a quick heal or assist. He also keeps a backpack full of pre-war and Institute-level medical and chemistry equipment, a large pouch full of stimpaks, Med-X, and other chems, a smaller pouch filled with around 1500-2000 caps, another pouch filled with ammo for his two guns, and a special Institute-developed Mk XIII Auto-Doc, featuring hover technology for easier transport, an armored casing for combat protection, and a self-defense flamer and buzz saw. Around his neck, generally hidden from view, is a special glass vial with a yellow-orange liquid inside, which when asked is said to hold "A last-resort experiment."

Other: He has a pet dog named "Max", who got his name from one of Mathias' favorite pre-war movie series, where a man wanders a wasteland similar to the current one, only in the movies, the cars actually work. He also has a pre-war quarter he keeps on his person at all times, which he will absentmindedly twirl between his fingers at times.

[Apollosarcher]

Also as a side note I've put in a few of the settlements in the area, mostly North Carolina as the Southern state is currently relocating further towards the North due to Super Mutant raids. If you have any ideas for smaller settlements PM me.

[Lord Coake]

And as a general note, a person looking to travel east from the west coast, could potentially have gone north through Canada, although that's said to be heavily Enclave territory, at least in one F3 terminal.

[ClocktowerEchos]

Still any more room for another person?

I was thinking of using a pre-war Chinese spec-ops who got himself cryo'd as the bombs dropped

[Apollosarcher]

@ClocktowerEchos I'd be fine with that, but rather than cyro maybe he just comes from a group of sleeper cell Chinese hidden in the states? Like a cell of Chinese communists who formed there own town and try to spread there philosophies?

[ClocktowerEchos]

@ApollosarcherHmm... I'll admit I'm sorta mixed on that idea, but I'll roll with it. Expect a full CS when I wake up tomorrow as its late where I am and I'm having a hard time finding good pictures.

On another note, where would be a good place for him and his sleeper cell to be? DC?

[Earnest Evans]

@ApollosarcherHmm... I'll admit I'm sorta mixed on that idea, but I'll roll with it. Expect a full CS when I wake up tomorrow as its late where I am and I'm having a hard time finding good pictures.

On another note, where would be a good place for him and his sleeper cell to be? DC?

@ClocktowerEchos

I'd probably put it somewhat closer to where the game is set. A place that would be more susceptible to Chinese infiltration. North Carolina and Georgia are good options, considering their histories with the United States.