Hjalti

Fallout: New York (Still accepting :D)

Vor nodded in thanks as she accepted the weapon. It was a basic laser pistol, no mods but that could be improved upon, almost assuredly at Sky Citadel. Regardless it was free gun, so it was a win-win. A ghoul was already volunteering to travel with, but Vor Shinse decided to play her cards closer to the chest. She didn't want to commit to anything right away, not to mention that groups like the Brotherhood made her feel uneasy.
They weren't as bad as the Enclave, but they could be just as discriminatory or genocidal when they wanted to be. Five years ago they wouldn't have given this group the time of day unless one of them had tech that needed to be "saved" from them. And as the party leader had said himself, they were still in the business of hunting down and killing synths for no other reason than they were synths. Same dogma, different interpretation.

@Simple Unicycle

Fallout: New York (Still accepting :D)

@Simple Unicycle Sorry, still getting used to tagging people in posts.

Fallout: New York (Still accepting :D)

Vor mused over the response for a moment. What the Brotherhood considered worthwhile tech changed from time to time. She had a few military grade circuit boards, some fission batteries and the like, maybe when she got there she could find someone who needed scrap to patch a wall or a gun or some such thing. She shrugged.

"If you're paying, I'm coming." She replied, taking note of the lowered weapons and tucking her 10mm out of sight. "You wouldn't happen to have a spare sidearm would you? I'm running a little low of ammo and could use the protection."

@Simple Unicycle

Fallout: New York (Still accepting :D)

Vor Shinse had largely kept to herself while the rest of the group had set up camp. A few were moping around, others had set up a watch while she sat with her back to the fire, reloading clips and wondering where the nearest trade settlement would be. She was busy making a mental map of the surrounding area when a Brotherhood scouting party revealed themselves and began asking about the island. By the end of the conversation they were offering sanctuary at the Citadel and talking about accepting ghouls and super mutants into the Chapter. Desperate times, she supposed. And of course everyone seemed to be jumping at the opportunity.

"Next ting you'll tell us you're accepting synths too." She muttered under her breath before looking over at her haul. "So," She spoke up, making sure she could be heard, "The Citadel willing to trade scrap or are your lot still only about the high-end tech stuff?"

BoS caps were as good as any other and the sooner she could offload this haul, the better. Who knows, maybe she could get her hands on some of their precious tech before she left.

Fallout: New York (Still accepting :D)

@Letter Bee So what events are canon?

- The good ending of Fallout 1

- Fallout 2

- Fallout: Brotherhood of Steel

- Fallout: Tactics

- Fallout 3

- Fallout: Van Buren

- The defeat of Caesar's Legion in New Vegas

- The DLC of Fallout 3

- The DLC of New Vegas

- Fallout 4

Gaming Discussion. For, you know... Gamers.

@Kieran Don't. Please don't.

Boop.

Heya. Like the username! Best Friends Zaibatsu reference?

Fallout: New York (Still accepting :D)

@Letter Bee That'd be cool. I just posted my IC response and I can kind of see what you mean. Like Caesar took over the Enclave.

Fallout: New York (Still accepting :D)

It was all nothing more than intimidation tactics, Vor reflected on the raft. They would have killed her in front of the others to instill fear and obedience and hopefully quell any idea of rebellion. She thought back to the gun pointed to her head and remembered how it had made her feel. It didn't scare her, rather it made her angry. She wasn't done. She had far too much left to do before she could die.
And yet some young kid had brought her freedom with his subservience. She had no idea how, apparently he was a charismatic little guy. And of course the Enclave leader had capitalised on that, too. Sexual humiliation to add to the humiliation of defeat, treating people as property.

"Two hundred years of civil rights progress undone in about the same amount of time. Figures." She muttered to herself. Morons, all of them.

Across from her stood some old man dressed in vault dweller attire, gripping his pistol. He'd made some big show of announcing who he was, pointing guns in faces and throwing down knives. Defeat did funny things to people. Some rolled over and became fatalistic, others got real noisy about rising again. The old man seemed to be doing the latter. Ironically it was a more American ideal than the Enclave's.
Vor Shinse, on the other hand, was annoyed. She hadn't been there to fight, she'd been there to trade. She hadn't been defeated because she hadn't actually been defending anything, she'd only wanted to get rid of the attackers that were preventing her from trading her haul. Still, people like that? They bothered her. They might have thought she was going to spread tales of the big, scary Enclave, but she knew what words could do. Tell a certain story the right way and it can have a very different effect on people.

Still, she hoped she'd at least given that sniper a couple of burns to remember her by.

Fallout: New York (Still accepting :D)

@Letter Bee I'm okay with the battle ending, I kind of put that post up with the idea that it would be my last post before the battle ended anyway. Vor Shinse is either about to get shot or make a dive for the water anyway.

Although "changing the faction to be even worse than canon" worries me. That like taking the Nazis and saying "but can we make them worse?" :P

Anyway, I'm off to read the new IC posts.