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First Annual Pod Day
WHERE: Vault 66
WHEN: ???? - Day 1
WHAT: The first pods open
WARNINGS:TBD
You awake laying on your back in an, admittedly comfortable, pod. You can't move anything but your eyes, can't even feel your body yet. How you got here or why is a blank. You may have been in the middle of your day, asleep, or even- for what you remember- should be dead. Then a screen directly in front of your face flickers to life and in crisp, black and white displays: DON'T PANIC. The following video then plays:
The screen flickers again and reads: CONGRATULATIONS ON PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE! WELCOME TO VAULT LIFE, CITIZEN. WELCOME TO YEAR: [ERROR]. YOUR PERSONAL BELONGINGS ARE LOCATED IN [FILE CORRUPTED. SEE SYSTEM ADMINISTRATOR]. ENJOY YOUR STAY AND THANK YOU FROM YOUR FRIENDS AT VAULT-TEC.
The pod then unseals and you are able to, unstably at first, climb out of the pod. Your body may feel foreign for a moment- perhaps entirely foreign if you suddenly find yourself a human, ghoul, or super mutant for the first time. But whatever your form, you have two items on: a bright blue jumpsuit with the number 66 in yellow on the back, and a mechanical device known as a Pip-boy sealed onto your arm. If you click on the buttons it takes you to an instruction screen.
You look around to find yourself in a room of other pods. Some are just opening, other people looking as confused as you climbing out. Others remain closed with the status of 'STASIS' on the screens attached to the pods. The rest of the room is less than impressive. Computer systems that seem out of place compared to the technology level of the pods are scattered across the room, apparently running the chambers. Trying to access them, even for the most talented hacker, will simply result in SEE OVERSEER being displayed. There is large metal door leading to the rest of the vault, a lever on the wall next to it that will cause it to open.
Welcome, dweller, to vault 66.
Outside of the pod room, the rest of the vault is limping along on an emergency power supply. The air is stale from lackluster recycling and deep shadows occupy the corners of rooms and edges of hallways as only the pale maintenance lighting flickers from the ceiling. The pip-boy flashlight helps, but can still only light up a small area, casting anything outside of it into even darker shadows.
In those shadows there is skittering. The noise isn't too noticeable when there are groups of people, but get down to one or two and it's impossible to ignore. Venture into an empty room and you’ll spot a small number, maybe even just one, loitering in what, until today, had more or less been their sole domain: radroaches. Giant, mutated cockroaches that have a hunger for fresh food (like say, new vault dwellers) when it’s available.
The majority of roaches, however, seem to have a destination in mind, mostly ignoring characters unless blocked or directly bothered. This hoard, gathering from all over the vault, all move through the shadows and vents to the kitchen. If a character is unthreatening enough, they can follow the trail unmolested by the creatures.
In the kitchen itself is a whole different matter. Even from down the hall, characters can hear a masculine, slightly French-accented voice exclaim:
“Mais! Get out, out you nasty things!”
After a moment, a burst of flame can be seen through the door, followed by the new yet distinctive sound of mandibles ripping at metal. Those that decide to enter will see over a dozen roaches trying to take down a lone, floating robot. Despite the robot occasionally hitting them with a blast of fire from a small flame-throwing on one of its arms, the roaches appear to be winning.
The source of the fight can be seen behind the robot: a counter full of various kinds of packaged foods, some of them newly opened. One roach has managed to make it to the prize, ripping into a things of what seems to be apples with its mandibles.
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As for the robot bit she looked thoughtful, "I mean no? I asked him about the people before us but he kinda...glitched or something. Like he couldn't hear me and just kept on talking about other stuff." She explained "He's really happy to have people to take care of, and he seems to think we're all better off in here then we would be back home."
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"I believe there may be something in his programming that stops him from sharing certain information with the dwellers of the vault." Not that she knew much about robotic programming, but it surely seemed a safe bet. "If anyone's familiar with robotics, perhaps we could convince them to tinker about a bit, but that seems unlikely amongst our lot." There were a handful of ways that Peggy could think of using Louis in a fight, both offensively and defensively, but that wasn't the same as extracting information out of him. "The fact that he believes we're better off in here certainly means he's going to be in no hurry to help us get out."
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The part about Louis was what she focused on though "I guess we can ask the others." She tapped the device on her arm "I think we can send messages with these things to like...all the other humans? I haven't really tried it yet but maybe we should start?"
"We just gotta be careful we don't hurt him. Louis has been the nicest one since I woke up." Though she hadn't spent a lot of time with the nurse yet.
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Peggy reached out, then, and gently patted Sandy's hand in a way that was more meant to comfort her than it was to patronize her. Having spent a good chunk of her life being talked down to, Peggy found that she didn't care for it, and unless she was interrogating someone, she wasn't going to talk down to anyone either. "I hesitate to make promises or guarantees, because we're in uncertain times, but we will do our best to ensure that nothing happens to Louis."
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"Is that normal? That's probably normal." she showed it to Peggy before shrugging. Peggy might be able to tell that yes, Sandy's heart rate is normal.
Then suddenly Peggy patted her and it kind of froze Sandy in her tracks. She wasn't used to that sort of familiarity from any adult that wasn't her mother. She blinked and then smiled as Peggy made what sounded like a reasonable promise.
"Our best is all we can do right?"
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She did notice Sandy's freezing up, though, and immediately pulled her hand back. "I apologize for that," she said. "I was merely trying to be reassuring. I ought to have asked if it was okay, first."
She took a few steps across the room, then, only to investigate their surroundings a little bit further. "Let us hope our best is enough in these circumstances." The only thing she doesn't want to be is another skeleton added to the collection that these walls already contained.
We can probably trail off here for now :D
Probably a lack of social circles back home but oh well. Her social circle was very small and tight now.
Thinking about what waited for them beyond the walls of the Vault Sandy nodded before resuming her search for useful items.
"Well if it isn't, at least we'll know we tried."
Then again, so had these skeletons right?