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MONTH 2 LOG
WHERE: Vault 66
WHEN: ???? – Day 1, Month 2
WHAT: The second wave of pods open
WARNINGS:Reference to suicide, 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.
This portion of the vault, if possible, is even dirtier and more decrepit than the rest, having been cut off from even the most basic maintenance for an untold period of time. The emergency lighting has been cut off to this area, leaving the whole zone in the dark besides what little light comes through the newly formed passage.
Those willing to venture into the area will find this isolation has allowed a handful of more intimidating creatures than radroaches to establish a home (though there are still roaches, just fewer than are found in the rest of the vault). Several breaches in the metal walls along the hallways open into small tunnels, which the occasional mole rat will venture out of. Though usually only appearing alone or in pairs, these creatures are even hungrier for fresh meat than the radroaches and will attack with their huge, sharp, pointy teeth. If killed, they could supply a decent (if slightly irradiated) source of meat for a while, along with hide to make more reinforced clothing. But taking one down without proper weapons will likely require some teamwork.
There are several important (and often concerning) areas to find in this zone. First are two firmly sealed doors, one at the upper corner of the new area and one at the lower middle. Each door has a very helpful (currently unlit) sign over it: ENTRANCE and OVERSEER, respectively. Next to each is another of the computer terminals characters have grown used to seeing around the vault.
Next are Testing Areas 1, 2, and 3. Each of these testing areas has an observation room with a smaller containment chamber attached to it. The doors to the observation areas can be pulled open with enough effort, allowing entrance to the small room filled with chemistry glassware, lockers, and tables covered in long since rotten scraps of paper and books. The doors to the containment chambers, for the moment, remain sealed shut with yet more computer terminals next to them. These doors look weaker than the ones sealing off the entrance and overseer area, and can possibly be broken down with time and effort. But characters will want to think long and hard before doing that. Each observation room has a bullet proof, reinforced one-way window that allows characters to look into the containment chamber without whatever is in the chamber being able to see them. And the chambers are occupied.
Testing Chamber 1 (WARNING: SUICIDE) contains the corpse of a super mutant splayed on the ground. The walls around it are dented, and its head caked in long dried blood. Anyone with passing medical knowledge can observe the super mutant apparently killed itself through repeated blunt force trauma, banging its own head against the walls and door until death.
Approaching Testing Chamber 2 causes character’s pip-boys to start crackling a warning of increased radiation. Standing in the observation chamber the levels are low enough that it isn’t healthy, but no one is going to die without prolonged exposure. The source of the radiation is clear, inside the chamber is a corroded barrel of radioactive waste. Along with it, a grotesque creature that is very clearly alive, moving around and around its small, enclosed space.
Testing Chamber 3 also crackles with radiation, though the source of this isn’t a barrel. Rather, a walking, emaciated corpse shambles about the containment chamber. Other than the walking corpse bit, there’s two characteristics which stand out: the corpse is glowing an eerie yellow-green with an inner light that pulses as it walks and it’s wearing the torn remains of what is very clearly the same blue and yellow jumpsuit all characters arrived in.
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"All right, I have my stuff too. Been trying to figure out what's going on in this book but I couldn't make heads nor tails of it. Maybe you'd have better luck?" She knew jack about anything related to technology, which was exactly why she approached Saya for help to begin with, after all. "I'll let you flip through it once we get to the reactor room."
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"We should stall before entering so I can get a good idea of what we'll be dealing with before we go in. Better be as ready as we can be right?"
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On the other hand, the book was also keeping Saya's thoughts from venturing too much into what awaited them should they ever breach this bunker and go outside. Was it all a hoax and the world outside is okay? Or is it true and they're walking into a wasteland?
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Saya was nearing the end when Chocolat moved forward, "It's pretty similar to a lot of the stuff I know of regarding tech I'm used to. So that is pretty helpful and the fact I've read so much in my life surely helps."
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She smiled as she looked over to Saya, her relief written all over her face.
"It's nice to know that there is someone here who does know so much. Thanks."
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"No worries! I feel with everyone pulling in their support and knowledge, we can make a group that will survive and thrive! Especially if we can get some variety. I may be a genius, but fighting has never been my forte." That was more Saeko's, Kohta's and Takanagi's thing.
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How can she put this without making herself sound like an absolute idiot?
"I suppose you can say, I never really got anything along the lines of a traditional education."
Long story short- She was all brawn and barely any brains, as much as she'd otherwise like to make herself appear more sophisticated.
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"We all have our specialties and various areas of expertise. That's why there's a place for everyone in perfect teams. We work off each other and that way, we succeed where others trying to do everything themselves fail. So let's go and get this done!"
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With that she pushed herself up, sighing out one last time in hopes to pump herself up.
"Right then! What do you say we get this thing rolling and get some light in this musty dungeon?"
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"Let us!" she followed through as she geared up and tried putting everything in place so she could be ready for repairs. "Ah, power in this place will be a boon big time!" She couldn't wait to get into the terminal information.
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"Honestly, I wondered the same thing. But then again, these things-" she points at their pip-boys. "Are supposed to run forever, so my guess is that they have something similar, or a self recharging energy source."
Her more sinister theory being that they really are being watched and the robots are kept maintained by whatever mastermind is behind this but she's trying not to fuel conspiracies.
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If it gets out or should it break that would mean all of them were in at least a little bit of trouble.
"I heard from Yunlan that there are suits by the reactor that may be able to help, maybe we should stop there before we go in?"
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Nodding at the suggestion, Saya smiled, "Precisely what I'm looking forward to. Going in there unprotected is ill-advised. The less we have to worry about possible poisoning, the better."
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"I really don't know that much about it, or at least I don't think such things existed where I came from."
Maybe... It was hard to tell when matters of life before the vault came into play. For all she knew it could have just been called something different back home.
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"It varies in degrees and exposure... but left untreated it is extremely painful and fatality is almost guaranteed... If you don't die from it, you won't be living an easy life without treatment, that's for sure." Her eyes narrowed as they made their way through their trek.
"Radiation is oddly natural, but the more natural occuring instances are not too dangerous and we actually are around them on day by day. Kind of, hm, I'm sure your world has a sun. A form of more natural radiation damage is sunburns from the prolonged exposure to the sun. There's also a lot of different forms of radiation, some harmless, others deadly like the types produced by nuclear reactors such as this one and the radiation leftover from nuclear attacks like the one mentioned in the video."
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Not too much further, thankfully the conversation seemed to be speeding up their walk, and talk of the reactor and how it worked was interesting considering what it was they were planning to do.
"It almost sounds like forbidden magic. Having something with so much power directly under us."
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"You know, someone once related it to that. Forbidden knowledge with the power of change humanity for the better... And then humanity used it against itself. It's pretty frustrating..." She recalled the dangers of the technology, but also the good progress towards life it helped make.
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Wasn't the whole reason they were in this vault to begin with because of something called a 'nuclear bomb'?
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"People are odd creatures. Really."
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