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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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Awakening
Rushing down the hall and peering around she spotted someone attempting to look casual? Maybe she was just not getting it but she had to give the guy credit. When she had just woken up she was on the verge of tears for at least half an hour.
She waved quietly to see if he would notice and then entered the room slowly clad in a tattered sea green summer dress with some novice repair stitches and a mismatched fedora.
"Sup?"
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"Hey, kiddo," he said, and scrubbed a hand through his hair. It feels like a wreck, but he's just peeled himself out of some kind of creepy cryogenic pod. A bad hair day isn't the worst of his problems right now.
The fact that she's got different clothing on, honestly, is a plus. He essays a smile.
"So! Where are we? That little intro video didn't help me out much."
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"This is the pod room...and you're in The Vault. That's...honestly the best I got so far. We've been awake for a few weeks now and haven't found out much more." She confessed moving closer now that he seemed OK.
She may or may not have had a few nightmares where the people in the remaining pods came out as goopy black monsters with massive fangs and tongues. But he didn't need to know that.
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"The Vault, huh? Well, that's a start. Thanks."
Flashing her a smile, he adds, "I'm Zhao Yunlan. You just woke up a few weeks ago, huh? How many of you are there?"
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"There's six of us. Five girls and one guy...who's a jerk. So you're our first not jerk guy. Probably."
Then after a moment she added "And three robots. Only one of them is a jerk and he's not so bad."
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"That's a pretty small group, though. You think the rest of these pods are going to open up if we give them a few more weeks?"
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"Best we can tell there were people here before we woke up and none of them made me. We kinda...moved their bones into one of the spare rooms." She shrugged playing off how it was one of the most morbid things she's ever done.
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A kid having to help with moving skeletal remains -- that was a hell of a thing, wasn't it? With so few people awake, it was no wonder she'd had to help, but it still wasn't the kind of thing that should be put on her.
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"We haven't been able to figure that out. I keep trying to ask the robots but they don't...or can't answer."
"The rest of the place is pretty trashed but we've got a couple of nice things. Like one of those old fashioned music players playing old fashioned music. And a pool table, just be careful with the sticks. A lot of them are broken."
She chose not to mention they had been sharpened into weapons for dealing with roaches.
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No surprise that the robots won't answer, he thinks; they might have records if they record video, but that's something very different from internalizing events and being able to explain them. Robots can't do that sort of thing.
At least, he supposes, they can't in 2018. But he hadn't thought they had cryogenic pods in 2018 either.
"--ugh," he mutters, and scrubs a hand over his chin. "Lin Jing should be here."
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"It's better then nothing." she concludes before letting him soak it in.
"Who's Lin? Do they like music like that?"
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"Lin Jing's a friend of mine. Engineer type, good with all that techie bulls-- stuff."
Lin Jing had been a friend, possibly. How long had it been? Was his whole world gone to dust and ashes somewhere outside this shitty little bunker?
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"You can swear if you want. I'm not your mom." she shot back a small smile as they moved into the rusty and dirty halls.
"No one who's woken up yet has had anyone else from their world wake up either. But Chocolat is pretty sure her boyfriend's in one of the pods. I hope she's right."
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He glanced back over his shoulder at the room's door, and then away, resolute. "Eh, it would be nice to see some of them again, but I'm thinking I won't hold my breath. This whole situation feels..." He waved a hand in the air. "Off kilter! Who's Chocolat?"
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"Chocolat's pretty cool, red hair, big eyes and smile." She looked thoughtful "Maybe we should get everyone together in the main room for like...intros and stuff."
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"We're a team-- right?"
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"We're trying to be. Even Jiro is helpful if you ask, we just don't really know what's going on yet. But with more people maybe we'll figure it out faster."
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With his team, it would've gone faster. But he'd manage. He'd managed back in the Bronze Age just fine, hadn't he?
Ahead of them, the corridor divides, branching to the right and dead-ending up ahead after a flickering sign that reads REC ROOM.
"--This way?" He points to the right. "Where are we heading, anyway?"
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She tugged on the skirt to show off the places where she'd mended it.
Up some stairs and they emerged on another level, one that looked marginally cleaner.
"The girls dorms are that way." she pointed and then turned a corner leading him into the Rec Room.
"This is where we spend most of our time if we're not trying to find a way out or avoiding everyone."
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The Rec Room turned out to be -- well, not terrible, he thought, glancing around. Large. Still dirty, still stained, but it was clear someone'd made efforts to clean things up in here.
For just a few weeks' work, it wasn't bad at all. There was a pool table -- he'd have to see if anyone knew how to play, as he'd barely learned enough to get by at drinking parties -- and the jukebox in the corner was playing a staticky jazz standard.
"I can tell you've put some work into the place," he commented, turning in a slow circle to take in the room before he turned back towards Sandy. "You said the girls' dorms... I'm guessing there's guys' dorms somewhere else?"
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"I mean Louis helps a lot." she gestured to the robot busying himself in the kitchen and ignoring the humans.
"Yeah the boys dorms are like down that hall some more, left and then right. I can show you if you want. We all just kinda picked whatever rooms we wanted. I don't even know if Jiro sleeps in the boys dorms or if he just grabbed a spare room on our side."
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Every time he felt like he was getting a grip on this place, something new knocked it loose.
"So-- Louis cleans? Or cooks? And if there's enough room that it wouldn't be weird, seems like it'd make more sense for us all to stick to the same area. Especially with how few of us there are."
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"He also doesn't like Nick, the maintenance robot. He's kinda a slacker and doesn't like to do his job so someone like Louis who works hard you know?"
Then back at her normal volume.
"He's good at coffee too! I didn't even like Coffee until I got here."
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In a more normal tone, he added, "Good to know there's somebody around here who can handle cooking, though! My skills top out at instant noodle."
And Shen Wei wasn't going to be cooking for him anymore. He cleared his throat, glancing away to try to hide the spasm of grief twisting his features. What was done was done.
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"I was pretty good at Macaroni and cheese with hot dogs but Louis is way better."
Which is to say she's almost gotten used to the idea of eating nearly spoiled things and roach meat. She caught a glance at that expression and frowned.
"You OK? Need some water or something?"
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