First sorry about being gone for so long, especially with no job I should be able to crank these of quickly. But an mixture of being annoyed at the game crashing when I try to film a playthrough to reference for the story and being lazy has apparently set me back some. Also I'm contemplating posting other stories I had started or want to start, maybe doing that will push me to work on them.
Disclaimer: I do not own fallout 3 or anything else I reference or use concepts from, the only exception being Mordecai.
It's called Super Duper Mart 'cause it's Huge
"Hey your those strays for the vault, haven't seen anyone from there in years." A woman wearing a pale blue jumpsuit said with entirely too much enthusiasm. "Good to meet you! I'm Moira Brown a researcher and inventor but that doesn't seem to pay too well so I run Craterside Supply also." Before either had a chance to reply the woman now known as Moira continued. "Say, I'm working on a book and it would be great to have the foreword from an actual vault dweller. Just tell me about living underground, or what it was like to come out here for the first time, or you know what ever strikes your fancy."
Amata suddenly smirked and started to speak as Mordecai had to resist face palming as whatever she was about to say would be ridiculous, funny sure but still ridiculous. "I was sent as an ambassador from the utopia of Vault 101. Bow before my glory!"
"Oh of course your majesty, please accept this as Megaton's gift to you," Moira stops here to take the armored vault suit off the wall and hand it to Amata who simply pushes it into Kai's pack. "Might I suggest going incognito? Some people may not take kindly to your position. Oh what about him?" Moira asks pointing her thumb in Mordecai's general direction.
"He is my bodyguard and personal assistant."
Mordecai cut in here with a simple explanation, "Basically I get to do all the heavy lifting and computer hacking, naturally I have the most combat experience as well."
Moira nods in understanding, "well naturally, can't expect someone of her standing to do everything herself. Your job is very important and should be respected as such." She stopped here seeming to be in thought before continuing, "So what can I help you with?"
"We have some things that are taking up valuable space and we don't need." Mordecai said in a monotone as he stepped toward the counter and laid the sell bag on it.
"Alright let's see what we have here." Moira said as she started laying the stuff out on the counter mumbling every so often, either commenting on quality or value. "Alright so a carton of cigarettes, 7 bundles of prewar money, 5 10mm pistols, 2 .32 revolvers, and a Chinese pistol. That comes out to 186 caps, I'd prefer to swap for some of my stock though."
"Alright, what do you have?" Mordecai asked before having his arm grabbed and being led around and shown what she had available. After a bit they were back at the counter with Amata unloading Mordecai's arm load of stuff so that they could check the balance of sell and buy. In the end they wound up with 40 rounds of 5.56 ammo, 35 12 gauge shells, and 6 caps. Slipping it into his pack Mordecai gave a slight nod to Moira before turning to walk out the door.
"Before you go would you be interested in a job? I need some help with a book I'm writing, see it's going to be a wasteland survival guide and I need an assistant to research things for me. Wouldn't want the readers to get hurt because the information was wrong, that would just make them yell... at me... with really mean words." Moira said the last part with a pout that could make you want to hug her and not let go, you know like a sad dog begging for attention or a cat looking innocent while sitting in the middle of the mess it just made. The type of thing that makes you stop and go aww.
"This book could help alot of people, right? So I guess we can help." Amata replied with a slight nod, not noticing the look in Mordecai's eyes. It seems knowing what this research entailed made him not want to be part of it.
"Great! Now I think the first chapter should be about day-to-day dangers. You know stuff like where is and isn't safe to find food, the effects of radiation, and profiting from dangerous things like landmines. There are two more chapters but I'd like to get the research in the right order so I don't loose any of it. So which do you want to do first?"
Mordecai sighed before speaking, "We'll go for the food first." while thinking, 'at least that way the super duper mart will get emptied out and I can start turning it into a base right away.'
"Well food and medicine, there's an old super duper mart a bit north-east of here, you should be able to get there, search, and get back in one day if you don't wait too long before heading out."
Heading out the door they go to their house first to make sure they are properly equipped and drop off extra stuff before heading out of Megaton and taking a detour around the side of Megaton towards the south. Amata asked where they where going and Mordecai's reply was , "Free loot Amata, free loot." Using the sawed-off Mordecai quickly dispatched the three molerats that got in the way before getting to the rock. Looking around he found the crack and dug out the hidden contents, a sniper rifle with sling, a paper note, a stealthboy, 2 stimpacks, and 2 clips (10 rounds). Kai tossed the note, put one stimpack in his pocket, handed the other to Amata and loaded the rifle with one clip setting the other in his pocket. He tossed the stealthboy in his pack and slung the sniper rifle over his back before standing. "Alrighty let's get going." The trip was fairly uneventful until they eventually noticed the building in the distance.
Getting to the super duper mart they stopped creeping along the edge to make sure no one was outside. Heading over to the right door they carefully slipped inside Mordecai in the lead with his sniper rifle in hand. Mordecai waited as Amata climbed over the ledge into the "kitchen" area, once she was over he moved closer then rolled himself over it and onto his feet (AN: I hope you all know what I meant cause I'm not sure how to explain it). Crouching behind the other ledge Kai took a shot but missed the guard who shouted at another and they both came through the aisles charging towards the kitchen. A second shot from Kai took down one while a quick three shot spray from Amata's assault rifle took the other. A quick sweep through the aisle's unearthed one more that Amata took care of before checking the bathrooms finding the forth. As they came pack out they had to duck quick as shots came at them from two directions. Amata was hit in the leg and pushed herself towards the shelves for cover as Kai rolled forward to get a better shot. He took out the fifth but had put him in the second line of fire and he took a shot to the arm before adjusting his aim and hitting the sixth one. A short time later he had dug the bullet out and used a stimpack before digging Amata's out as well. Standing while Amata used a stimpack he spoke, "If the game is still right a raiding party will be coming back soon."
As if on que a voice came over the intercom, "We're back open up the storage... wait a minute something ain't right here." As the raider pauses Mordecai lifts himself on top of the shelf staying low and crawling slightly to put them in his sight. Four of them standing by the intercom with a couple large crates that looked like were taking straight of a pack brahmin's back. "Alright whoever did this come out here where I can see ya, I won't hurt ya." The raider let a sadistic chuckle before adding in a low tone, "much."
"Sorry to disappoint you but I'm not stupid." Amata yelled back from between some shelves using how close they were as partial cover.
"Just a bitch? Go get her, the one that brings her to me gets her after I'm done." That was all it took for the other three to scatter.
Mordecai used the scope to follow one turning slightly until the raider was just out of sight of the one standing by the intercom. Taking the shot he put his clip's last bullet in the woman's temple, before swapping the empty clip for the full one. Swinging the rifle back so it was resting on it's strap again before reaching into his boot and pulling out one of the combat knives. The sound of shots made it sound like Amata had hit one, so he dropped off the shelf and tossed the knife while moving forward, sending it into the raider's arm causing him to cry out and turn directly into the path of the roundhouse kick that followed. Mordecai crouched beside the raider retrieving the combat knife and cleaning it on the raider's pant leg before putting it away. Standing he listened to the sound of Amata finishing the other raider. Looking down at the last one he spoke quietly, "Perhaps in the next life you'll think with the right head, yea?" Kai stomped on the raider's throat crushing the larnyx before turning to go find Amata.
A couple hours later they had one caravan crate filled with all the food and medicine, while the other one was in the back room with all the ammo boxes and metal boxes that had good loot. "We'll leave that stuff here and turn this place into a base eventually."
"A base? What for?"
"For protection and centralized location of course." Kai responded as he continued toward the door with Amata the crate held between them. It was awhile later that they finally reached Megaton and discovered that Moira had just received a food shipment so they loaded their reward in the crate (Crate contains: 6 dirty water, 4 stimpacks, 3 bottles of vodka, 4 blamco mac and cheese, 5 dandy boy apples, 2 salisbury steak, junk food, 16 nuka cola, 2 buffout, 4 jet, 2 mentats, 2 med-x, rad-x, blood pack, beer, bottle of scotch, 2 rad away, psycho, 3 nuka cola quantum, 3 iguana bits, Food Sanitizer) and headed to their house. Setting the crate down Amata mentioned something about taking a walk so Mordecai decided to practice with his combat knives while she was gone.
It was some time later when the door opened to a moaning sound and looking over Mordecai watched Amata stumble in and drop a bag, looking to be in pain. Standing up and walking over he speaks, "so you went and got irradiated for the resident eccentric?" Pausing here for the affirmative sound of pain before continuing, "Hurts doesn't it? Your lucky you didn't lose too much hair thats fairly common with radiation." Stopping there he picks her up bridal style and starts up the stairs. "Come on your taking a nap for now and when you wake up we'll see about getting you some food if your system will handle it." With that said he laid her down on the bed and took her pipboy off her arm, "I'm gonna borrow this for a bit perform some maintenance then add an upgrade."
Watching him head downstairs Amata didn't bother to reply she just closed her eyes and tried to sleep. Setting the pipboys in the middle of the floor he moved to the footlocker and dug his phone, toolkit, net book, and hard drive out of it bringing them over to the pipboys. "Wadsworth is there a terminal around here?"
"Here you go sir, please try not to damage it. It is the one that contains my programming backups."
"Ah yes thank you." Mordecai replied as he took the terminal from Wadsworth. Sitting down he looked through some tools to make sure he had all the ones he needed and went to work.
Deciding to take the netbook case apart first he takes the parts out and lays them into one of three piles, scraps, pipboy 1, and pipboy 2. Piles P1 and P2 each get a stick of ram and a processor, P1 also getting the netbooks bluetooth adapter. Looking at the netbook Kai grabs his tools and uses a precision knife to cut a section of seven keys off the keyboard (five for section tabs and 2 more as up and down arrows) then repeats this for another seven setting one set in each pipboy pile. Leaving the rest in the scrap pile Kai moves on to the phone setting all but the bluetooth adapter into the scrap pile while it went to the P2 pile.
Plugging the harddrive into the terminal Kai accesses the drive and finds that it is the case he had put two laptop sized solid states into. Happy about this he clones the full first drive onto the empty second then disconnects it from the terminal. As Kai take them out of the case and adds one to each pipboy pile he remembers all the media and games that was on that drive, not only would he get to enjoy his files but so would Amata. Tossing the case onto the scrap pile he opens the pipboys and starts attaching the internal parts onto their parts. It took roughly thirty minutes before Kai plugged the first one into the terminal and started working on programming, first he checked the stats section and made sure everything worked there, inadvertently discovering that stats were displayed because the pipboy could scan the user's body but could also scan nearby items to show contmination levels. Digging deeper into the info displayed Kai found what looked to be a disabled protocol called biometric lock, remembering hearing about that in the other world where Fallout was just a game series he decided being the only one able to remove it would be a good thing so he re-enabled it before moving onto inventory and seeing it was just built to remind you of everything you were carrying (AN: this is how I'll have it work unless a majority want to see the atomization/scanned into the pipboy system alot of others seem to use, in that case I would then need recomendations for ways for Amata and Mordecai to discover this).
Finally getting to Data where most of the work would be Kai started with Local and World maps combining them into one tab called maps. Using the tab this left over Kai created a Media viewer that linked to the added drive calling it Media obviously. Checking the Radio tab he added a subsection that use the bluetooth adapters to function as a two-way radio between the two. Looking at what should have been the quests he noted it was called Requests and was just a glorified to-do list where whatever people asked you to do was listed (AN: same function just more realistic than calling it quest and only lists things people specifically ask for). Getting to the Notes tab he reworked it so it would automatically make an internal copy of any holodisk inserted (AN: the game already does this with everything including paper notes, I decided to do this as a way of making quick copies incase the original needs to be left behind or someone else wants it, paper notes are just paper notes though.). Moving onto the buttons Kai rerouted the glove's dial to use the buttons instead so he could ditch the annoying glove.
Saving a backup of the programming to the terminal then setting it to write to the pipboy he cut the hole in the case to make sure the keys would fit while waiting. Once it was done Kai unplugged it and plugged it the second one repeating the process with it. Once both were done he put the cases on making sure everything fit right then testing the buttons Kai tossed the gloves in the scrap pile and continued testing the new programming. Once he was satisfied that everything worked Kai put one on his arm and stood up. Taking the scrap pile and putting it in a metal box in the corner that was the designated parts box. Turning the terminal off he picked it up and put it back where it was before then moved the toolkit to the footlocker. Satisfied that everything was put away he picked up the second pipboy and went to check on Amata so she could put it back on.
A couple weeks passed with Mordecai and Amata taking it relatively easy aside from working on their skills and cleaning up the super duper mart. During the time they rested Mordecai introduced Amata to his original world's culture and entertainment through the files he had. Eventually though it was decided that they needed to get back on track and so they headed towards Craterside Supply almost running into people on the way. Leaning closer to Amata he spoke, "Ya know with all the time we've been here I'm just now realizing how big Megaton is. It's like god installed an expansion mod or something."
"I see what you mean this place is so much bigger than those pictures in your files." (AN: This was done to allow for more villagers as one viewer pointed out it would make sense considering how many nameless raiders there are that the villages should have more people to. With the space in Megaton the only sensible way to expand the population was to expand the town. For a visual reference go check out the Expanding Megaton Mod.)
A quick discussion with Moira about a ghost town and some landmines and they were heading north. The travel was uneventful until about half way through and encountered a walled in area that had a ton of cars. "This is the scrapyard, most of the times I played the game I'd go right past this place. I wonder if Dogmeat is here still?"
"Well if he is we're giving him a new name." It seems she found it a weird name too.
"Of course." Mordecai replied with a slight chuckle as they looked around the piles of cars to see if there were any raiders. Sneaking through the pile they approached what was apparently the scrapyard's office only to hear gunshots and growling. "Well that answers that question." Mordecai said as he approached the noises while pulling out the sawed-off. Seeing the closest one had his back turned he snuck closer before turning the head into chunks. Meanwhile Amata had unloaded a three round burst into the chest of another and Dogmeat had ripped the throat out of the third. After sympathizing with Dogmeat and telling him about Kai's missing father they asked him to come with them. Assuming the tail wagging was a yes they headed into the office to rest for a few hours before continuing.
Ok so that's it for this chapter, don't forget to review. As a special treat I have stat updates for Mordecai and Amata.
Stats
Name: Mordecai Campbell( More-d-ka-i )
Nickname: Kai ( ka-i )
Age: 19 (Mentally 44 because of 25 years in the original world)
Race: Caucasian, skin is tanned
Hair Style: Bedraggled but long
Hair Color: Black with red streaks
Facial Hair: slight beard
Psn Resistance: 20 %
Rad Resistance: 8 %
Rad Levels: 65 (estimate based on irradiated food consumption)
Rad Poisoning?: No
Limb damage?:
Limb crippled?:
Barter - Novice
Big Guns - None
Energy Weapons - None
Explosives - Novice
Lockpick - Rookie Locksmith (Average)
Medicine - Field Medic (Average)
Melee - Advanced (Specialty: Blades)
Repair - Veteran DIYer (Advanced Level)
Science - Computer Technician (Advanced Level)
Small Guns - Average
Stealth - Average
Speech - Novice
Survival - Outdoorsman
Thrown - Average *
Traps - Average
Unarmed - Martial Artist
* Blade Specialty has made him learn about shuriken and throwing knives
Equipment:
Headwear: Vault Security Helmet
Eyewear:
Body: Crimson Wolf Garb + Vault Security Armor
Belt:
Pack: S.O.C Sling Backpack (Black)
Feet: The boots from CWG
Hands:
Neckwear:
Pipboy 3000
Weapons: Sawed-off Shotgun (0 shots, in a makeshift leg sheath), Sniper Rifle (clip has 5 shots, slung across back), 10 mm pistol (clip has 12 shots, tucked into side of belt), 2 combat knives (one tucked in each boot)
Inventory: (Between pack and cargo pants I estimate being able to carry about 30lbs. of stuff)
In the S.O.C Sling Backpack: 2 frag grenades, crowbar, 20 shotgun shells, stealth boy
In pocket on hoodie: Keys on keyring (AN: any keys grabbed eventually get added to this with the other world ones, so if he picks a key up and you don't see it listed that's why), House Key
In Pants pockets: 7 bobbypins, screwdriver, 4 stimpacks, 2 10mm clips (24 shots), 6 shotgun shells, one sniper rifle clip (0 .308 rounds)
Traits:
Crimson Wolf Skill Set – the memories and skills of your original life have been added to the ones from this life, giving you a wider variety of skills and knowledge to works with. Advanced Computer repair and programming, artistic talent, strategist, moderate firearm skill, DIY enthusiast, survival training, blade expert, freerunner, martial artist, average stealth training, average lockpicking skill.
Fictional Weapon Fanatic – in your original life you studied the weapons of your favorite fictional characters, commiting the designs to memory, figuring out what you'd need to make them and if they could be used as actual weapons.
Perks:
None yet
Notes:
Crimson Wolf Garb - this outfit is a Crimson Wolf Custom Design and consists or a pair of black cargo pants with a custom added red flame pattern on the legs (similar to Jin's pants in Tekken 4), a black tight fitting long sleeve shirt made of three layers one a thermal material to regulate temperature, the second a kevlar weave for abit of protection, and the outer layer an underarmor brand shirt sewn on to hide the other two. Over this shirt is a red with black trim sleeveless hoodie. The hood is customized to help shade the face and hide the eyes similar to the ones in Assassins Creed, the inside was also customized to hold a mp3 player. Finishing it off are a pair of custom black boots, made to be sturdy and comfortable.
Stats
Name: Amata Almodovar ( A-ma-ta )
Age: 19
Race: Hispanic
Hair Style: Wendy the Welder
Hair Color: Black
Psn Resistance: 20 %
Rad Resistance: 8 %
Rad Levels: 65 (estimate based on irradiated food consumption)
Rad Poisoning?: No
Limb damage?:
Limb crippled?:
Barter - Average
Big Guns - None
Energy Weapons - None
Explosives - None
Lockpick - Locksmith (Advanced)
Medicine - None
Melee - Novice
Repair - None
Science - Novice
Small Guns - Average
Stealth - Average
Speech - Advanced
Survival - Boyscout (Novice)
Thrown - Average
Traps - Novice
Unarmed - Brawler (Novice)
Equipment:
Headwear: Vault Security Helmet
Eyewear:
Body: Vault Jumpsuit + Vault Security Armor
Belt: vault issued belt
Pack:
Feet: Vault issued boots
Hands:
Neckwear:
Pipboy 3000
Weapons: 10 mm pistol (clip has 12 bullets), Assault Rifle (clip has 10 shots)
Inventory:
Pockets: 2 10mm clips (24 rounds), 7 bobby pins, screwdriver, 5.56 clip (24 shots), 40 5.56 rounds, 4 stimpacks
Traits:
Previous Life: Master Thief - The innate skill shown for stealth and lockpicking in someone who shouldn't have reason to use them let alone be good at them can only be explained as skills retained from a previous life.
(This second trait is undecided, please feel free to recommend something)
Perks:
None yet
Notes: