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Ruby Rose's Journal, entry two.

The city of Vale, once a city I called home. Now a desolate wasteland. It was heart wrenching to say the least, to walk these barren streets. To listen to the quiet where there was once people and cars. Birds and insects. All of it was empty. Nothing but the wind, the dust, the debris blowing in the breeze. It was like the city was howling in pain. I found charred remains, silhouettes burned against the wall. It was like walking through a graveyard, only without the respect buried death brings. A madman ended this world but it wasn't even his fault. We dragged ourselves into this war. It was our own meddling and politics that ruined everything. It led to madmen to take command. It was a daisy chain of bad events.

I tried to think about how this happened. Of the resource wars over failing dust mines. Of corporate meddling, government espionage, rising tensions between kingdoms. I'd want to say we were played against one another by some unknown enemy. How great would that be. Then none of us would be at fault. It would certainly be the easy answer. An ancient evil awoke and ruined everything. I wanted that to be true. Then I'd have an enemy to fight. All I have to fight right now is radiation sickness and starvation. Food? Where would I find food? Everything's scorched earth. That's a problem for later.

I decided I'd try to find Weiss first, I at least knew where she was before the missile hit. She was at Schnee Tower. Newly constructed during the economic boom that preceded the recessions and collapsing markets before the war broke out. This was before the mines started failing. The tower was still standing, despite the blast and falling warships. It survived, she might have too. I know the tower had it's own vault, not quite in the Vault-Tec sense, but certainly in the banking variety. If she made it to her vault, she had a chance.

She might even have saved a few of her employees. If we can rally survivors, we could probably lead them to the vaults. They'd have to let us in. I feel a lot better about my current predicament now. If Weiss was here, I could find the others easy. There's nothing we can't accomplish together.

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