Vault 66

The group rides the elevator up and out of the Vault and into the muck of the mire that sits a good hundred feet above it. The gear shaped platform characters stand on is (now that the swamp was accidentally drained a bit into the Vault) located in the center of a mud patch a few inches above water level. As far as the eye can see, there is nothing but mud, radioactive water, and near-dead trees sagging under moss. The characters are also not the only living things in the swamp. Scattered around there are small clumps of giant eggs, and in the distance a few more mirelurks can been seen trudging their way through the water on the hunt. They don’t seem to have noticed the characters yet, and it’s up to the individual parties whether they choose to hunt or sneak around the creatures.

Those that check their pip-boys once the reach the surface are in for a bit of a surprise. There’s a new radio station: No Land Radio. In between the songs, an apparently alive disc jockey makes comments about just played songs and advertisements for weapons, robots, and food. Somewhere, there’s a city. The signal is a bit scratchy, suggesting characters are on the very edge of the signal radius.

[[OOC: Individual starters for each group will be posted below. Feel free to RP about any point of the journey in the sub-thread. When mod input is wanted in the scene, just add MOD to the title of the comment! Please direct OOC questions to this month’s OOC post here.]]

WHO: Zhao Yunlan and Saya Takagi and a special NPC to start, anyone else after
WHERE: Overseer's Office, vault 66
WHEN: A few days after the reactor is repaired
WHAT: The door to the office is opened
WARNINGS: Violence
OOC NOTE: The log starts being open to those that put in the plot request, after the initial confrontation is done anyone can tag in (Zhao Yunlan and Saya Takagi are also free to invite people into the initial confrontation scene if they like). Please address questions to the monthly ooc post.

The sign reading Overseer Office lit up along with the rest of the testing facility when the reactor was repaired, sending some of the mole rats scattering and casting the shadows away. But it takes a little extra effort, some hacking and then physical prying, to get the door to open. From the first inch the door opens after hacking the terminal a large, circular desk with a built-in computer terminal is visible in the center of the room, and lockers and TV screens can be seen on the walls. It’s a slow process to fully open the door, the heavy thing only moving an inch or so at a time, but it’s doable. And once it’s open enough for an adult human to slip through-

There’s a hail of plasma blasts gunfire coming through the opening at Zhao Yunlan and Saya Takagi (and anyone else there with them). A different looking than normal robot can be seen hovering in the office, firing from the weapon that occupies one of its ‘hands.' Luckily, the firing seems more to keep people out of the room than kill, but who knows if that will change should anyone try to enter.

Will out heroes fight or flee? Get back up from other dwellers or try to talk the robot down? We’ll soon see.