First Annual Pod Day

[nolandmod]

WHO: Everyone
WHERE: Vault 66
WHEN: ???? - Day 1
WHAT: The first pods open
WARNINGS:TBD

AWAKENING

 

 

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:

 

Watch on YouTube

 

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.

 

 

RAD ROACH RIOT

 

 

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.

 

GENERAL EXPLORING

 

Whether you help with the Battle of the Kitchen or not, the rest of the vault awaits. This includes two other robots floating around the medical wing and water/air control systems, as well as more radroaches wandering around the many corpses/blood splatter patterns to be discovered and potentially cleaned up.

OOC NOTES

To talk to a specific NPC one-on-one, leave a comment on their thread below. Note an exception is Louis in Radroach Riot, he will pop up on his own in threads related to him.

Looking for loot in a specific area? Looking for a specific item/kinds of item in general? Ask here and we’ll let you know.

If you have any OOC questions, please leave a comment here!

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NPCS

[nolandmod]

LOUIS

[nolandmod]

Louis is the cook/rec room Mr. Handy, there to help you acclimate to your new domestic skill set. He will assist in anything from food prep, to recipe ideas, to how to sew to repair your clothing. Louis is pleased to be helpful, but a little shy. He will also harbor slights and insults for a long time, so if you don't want burnt coffee for the rest of your vault stay, show a little courtesy. He can be found in the rec area.

[justoutrunyou]

A day or two after first meeting Louis (And helping him with his roach problems) Sandy approaches him with her arms full of clothes, some dresses, suits, hats and bonnets, and doctor's coats.

"Hey Louis! I found some clothes that I think might be cool to wear...if we washed and stitched them. Do you think you could help me fix them up?"

Not all of these outfits are going to fit of course...and Sandy never really thought of herself as one for girly dresses, but maybe the others would like having some more options then just Vault suits.

[nolandmod]

Louis makes a few mechanical noises that could be interpreted as thinking as he looks over the option. He turns his optics towards here jump suit, then back to the battered up clothes.

"Cher is, ah, certain she wants to switch to those? Not much the latest fashion, I'm sure."

[justoutrunyou]

“I mean...”

Ok he had a point. This stuff was out of date way before she was born in her world. Apparently it was here too.

“Is there some secret closet of the latest fashion around here? I mean I’m not an expert like you. I barely passed home ec when they tried to teach me sewing in school.”

[nolandmod]

Being a robot, Louis can't much beam at being called an expert, but his hover flame does get a little larger with pride as he considers her request.

"Well, suppose there's no wrong in a little learning. Won't much harm the world to use those for practice."

He floats over to a corner of the rec room, reaching his claw to open a drawer.

"Been some time since I've had a call for sewing. We'll need to find the mending bits, needles and such."

[justoutrunyou]

"That makes sense. Maybe we can find them...do you remember the people who were here before? Maybe they left some needles or something in their rooms? Or we could go check the room I found this stuff in."

She hadn't thought to bring supplies for sewing, having hoped the Louis would know where it all was in the first place.

[nolandmod]

Louis' arms droop for a moment as he focuses on searching his memory- then he does a bit of a jerk before moving forward, opening another drawer.

"No, no, they will be here. I simply haven't- I can't rightly recall last time I had need of them."

After a minute or so he starts pulling out supplies, but seems to have completely forgotten she asked about the people before.

CHARLOTTE

[nolandmod]

Charlotte is the designated medical Mr. Handy. She can provide basic first aid, but it may not be wise to trust her with more advanced tasks like surgery or setting bones (she has a rotating saw for one of her hands, to clarify. So amputations she's all for.). Charlotte, however, has full confidence in her abilities and will cheerfully and enthusiastically try to convince residence to let her give pretty much anything the old college try. She can get sentimental about repeat patients and may end up checking in on some of her favorites at night. With or without permission. She can be found in the medical wing.

DAY NUMBER 3 AFTER POD OPENING

[dewitts]

Elizabeth finds supplies in the medical wing but she recognizes none of the syringes or names on bottles. No information to be read about them. There are two options. Inject syringes into a captured robot to monitor the results (like what was done to her time and again) or ask the robot floating around. Or both.

Given how little she trusts the vault, she may go with both options to be safe. She finds the robot in the medical wing with a saw for a hand. These robots seem to talk unlike the robotic creations living in both Colombia and Rapture. She approaches with caution because again: saw for a hand.

"Can you help me?"

[nolandmod]

"Of course, darling!"

That saw starts spinning with delight as Charlotte turns her optic sensors away from the corner of the medical wing she was 'tidying' (moving junk from one side of a desk to another) and towards Elizabeth. For some reason, the robot speaks with a heavy southern accent.

"What's the problem? Headaches, foot pains?" She lowers her voice slightly, sympathy dripping from the next words, "lady troubles?"

[dewitts]

Elizabeth winces at the sound of the saw. It reminds her of the sound of the drill from the machines beneath rapture. It's the cause of her second to last death. She is already regretting asking except it's fascinating too. She's never seen a robot like this one. Songbird couldn't manage words. He protected more like an animal bonded to her than with any form of intelligence. This one has words. It has a personality as awkward and strange as the personality might be.

"I'm afraid it's nothing like that. Sorry to disappoint." She lifts up a hand and then picks up a syringe with red liquid in it. "I found these syringes and bottles. Do you know what they do?"

[nolandmod]

Charlotte looks, as much as a floating three-eyed robot can, devastated at the news. But she rallies the best she can, even if the saw arm remains droopy.

"Medication, hun. You don't need all that if you're in tip-top health. Unless there's something else the matter? I've got an x-ray machine right over here."

[dewitts]

Elizabeth should have known it wouldn't be so easy. She doesn't know if she can trust any answers she received but she hoped for answers at least. Her hand remains on the syringe with the sharp point at its end. There's a child in the vault. If she is hurt, Elizabeth will need to know what they have to heal her.

"But what does this specifically do? Would I need it for pain? Would I need it to prevent infection? If I was bleeding from a deep wound, what would you do?"

She is hoping the robot doesn't mention the saw.

NICK

[nolandmod]

Nick is the repair Mr. Handy. The state of the vault may give you a glimpse into how dedicated Nick has been about his job. While he's more than happy to shoot the shit, when things need to be fixed he always has some reason why it can't be done right now. Need a new part. Or his optical input needs adjusting. There's a thousand reasons. It takes a strong hand to get Nick to do much of anything, much to the annoyance of the other Mr. Handy's in the vault. He can be mostly found in the reactor level, not that it does much good.

[loveyoudarling]

Chocolat had heard that there was a third Mr.Handy about somewhere but had never really seen it around. So it was with a bit of surprise that she happened to suddenly run across it when she made her way down to the rector level for the first time. She had initially come down here to search for anything that she could use as a weapon, but this was a pleasant surprise in it's own right.

"Why hello there," She started off polite, amiable even, in her tone. "And what might your name be?"

[nolandmod]

She startles him. One would think with sensors and everything that a robot wouldn't be easy to accidentally sneak up on, but she's managed it on this one. Nick drops the deck of cards that had been in his claw, the lot of them fluttering to the ground in an accidental round of fifty two card pick up.

"Where the hell'd you all come from?"

[loveyoudarling]

Oh she most certainly had her ways with sneaking about, but it was actually completely unintentional this time around. But instead of taking note of this Mr.Robot's surprisingly gruff tone she simply kept up her friendly demeanor.

"Well, the hall of course. Was just exploring when I heard some rustling in here. Quite a nifty little hang out spot you've got going on. You always hanging out here by yourself?"

[nolandmod]

"I- someti- not always!"

It's been...a while since Nick has made small talk. He's rather confused if this is going to end in more yelling at him or not, so he'll opt to stick with the defensive answers.


"Who's asking, anyway?"

[loveyoudarling]

"Oh? me? I suppose I'm no one special. Just a girl who recently woke up," She was more interested in what was going on here than talking about herself. After all, she was trying to figure her way around the place! "You must be pretty bored these days. I mean, I know you guys are here to help us out and stuff, but it's been a really long time, right? I'm surprised you're all able to keep functional with how badly wrecked with age the rest of the place is."

Day 1 after rescuing Louis from the roaches

[justoutrunyou]

After discussing the problem of the rad roaches with Louis, Sandy decided it might do to find whoever Nick was.

It took some time since Sandy was nervous exploring on her own, but eventually she spotted another robot...it was a different one yes? And hoped this was her guy.

"Excuse me? I'm looking for Nick?"

[nolandmod]

"Who's asking?"

A question that only some bot happened to named Nick would ask, especially that defensively, but he's trying. He turns his optics towards the new- tiny- intruder.

[justoutrunyou]

"Oh uh...sorry. Sandy. Sandy Marko. And Louis told me you might be able to tell me about the roaches?"

[nolandmod]

The optics shutter and open, one after the other, as Nick seems to be thinking on his 'feet' about what to say to that, and what tumbles out is pretty defensive.

"There's a bunch of them. We're underground, there's bugs. Louis' gotta get we can't change that. No one else's ever complained, it's just his problem."

[justoutrunyou]

"Oh...well yeah I mean. I figured they were gonna be hard to deal with." She admitted "But a couple of us wanted to like...try and contain them. Maybe keep them in a room or something so they don't bother Louis and he doesn't bother you."

Jiro might not still want her help honestly but there's precious little for Sandy to distract herself with down here.

"I was just wondering if there was like a nest...or something."