November 4, 2077

I began my duty as a guard today and nothing really happened. I don't know what I was expecting but in the end I just walked around asking people how they were. Hopefully I'll get some excitement.

November 8, 2077

I've forgotten this journal for a while due to the lack of things to write about but I'm sure this counts. I was walking around the Vault reactor when I saw something scurrying across the ground. I quickly took my pistol and walked to where the thing had been but it was gone. I searched around for a while but I found nothing. I convinced myself that it had been a trick of the light but I'm not so sure.

November 11, 2077

Today is Veteran's Day so the Overseer had an assembly in the Main Hall to remember those who died fighting for our country. It was all very sad for me since my cousin Martin had died in the Resource War. There were others who cried too but something that angered me was seeing Geneva just sitting there laughing and joking around with her group of friends.

Not just at this but she's horrible during guard duty we all get paired with a buddy (except for when you're guarding the reactor) and I dread it whenever I get picked with her. She constantly pesters me about questions such as what I do, and what I think of others, etc. Ugh, some people just can't take a hint. Unless she stops I think I know who will be the first to feel a bullet from my gun.

November 15, 2077

Anita and I were paired together and sent to the Kitchens to investigate some strange noises coming from there the previous night. We entered the place and discovered it in disarray. Half eaten food strewn across the floor, pots and pans scattered everywhere but the thing that stood out was a 2 foot large hole in the wall near the air vents.

We reported our findings to the Overseer and she deduced that it must have been either someone's idea of a prank or something is in the Vault… all the guards have been placed on high alert and given 20 extra bullets.

November 17, 2077

The Overseer reminded us that the hole in the Kitchens is still there and asked me to go to the Storage room to get some scrap metal to repair it.

I headed down into Storage put in the pass on the terminal (6743) and went inside. I found all the scrap metal I could possibly need, I took 10 pieces and left. As I was leaving I noticed a door marked as the Armory. I stood there and looked at the door wondering about what lay inside, and then I remembered my current assignment I left and locked the place.

November 18, 2077

Repaired the hole in the kitchens.

November 22, 2077

I was walking around the Vault when I heard a yell coming from the corridor to my right. I immediately ran to where the screams were coming from and found Room #221 where 2 women were in deep argument. When they saw me they burst into yells about what had happened. From what I could gather it seemed like the person who lived in 221 was accusing her neighbor in Room #220 for going into her room and eating her 5 boxes of Sugar Bombs cereal that she had won during the Halloween costume contest.

I called via Pip-Boy and told her to take the 2 to the Overseer so I could search for evidence. I found some Sugar Bombs crumbs strewn all across the floor. It seemed obvious that the cereal had been hidden in the drawer since the crumbs were emanating from there and they lead to Room 220.

I didn't feel the need to investigate any more since it was obvious that the person in Room 220 did indeed eat the Sugar Bombs.

November 26, 2077

The chefs have been working for hours preparing the food for Thanksgiving tomorrow. Us guards are helping out by bringing up the food from Storage.

November 27, 2077

Thanksgiving was certainly a literal blast. Let's start with the bad. We all sat down to eat all the delicious food gathered on the tables at the cafeteria at noon. The Overseer was about to cut the turkey when we heard it: an unhuman hiss. Then suddenly roaches started to come from out of nowhere and they started jumping on the food to eat it. But they weren't regular roaches, I mean they looked like roaches but they were big ass motherfucking roaches! Then they started to attack us the Vault citizens.

The Overseer screamed at us to kill them but none of us had our weapons on us since all guards were due a day off since it was Thanksgiving. I ran to my room to grab my gun hidden in my safe. I opened the safe and ran back to the cafeteria.

Back there it was hell on reality. The Roaches were running around jumping on people and biting them. Lots of people had gotten up on the tables and stood there screaming while the roaches tried to jump on them. Among the people on the tables was my fellow "brave" guard Geneva. I looked around and saw fellow guards Harriet and Anita beating the Roaches with some baseball bats they had probably found. I took out the pistol and aimed for a roach and I fired. BANG! It hit the roach in the head and it fell dead. I had killed it. But there were still many left. I shot some more which proved to be rather difficult as these things had a tendency to stray away from your bullets path. Then I heard more gunshots… but I hadn't fired. I turned and saw all of the guards (except Geneva who was still screaming like a goddamned banshee) armed and ready to kill. With all of our combined help it took us around 5 minutes to clear out the cafeteria.

The Overseer ran back to her office and got on the intercom and told every citizen to get back to their rooms and the guards would accompany them. I was helping people get back to their rooms when I heard a yell coming from Room 220, the same room where the eater of the Sugar Bombs cereal lived. I ran there and gasped. There were 5 of those Roaches gathered on the person who lived there. It was too risky to shoot them so I kicked them away from her and told her to run away. Once she was gone I shot all of the Roaches dead. Then I noticed something under the bed I looked under it and discovered a hole exactly identical to the one in the Kitchens there. I realized that these Roaches were responsible for the hole in the Kitchens and they were the ones who had eaten the Sugar Bombs cereal in Room 221.

Afterwards we blocked off all entrance to the room, gave the person a new room, cooked up new food, ate (this time the guards were armed), and cleaned up any mess left.

Thanksgiving was fun.