Copper, who was watching his wife go, smiled bitterly. "I hope you can forgive Barb, she has been quite eager to meet your fiancé since she found out he would be at the event."

Vera shook her head while she drank cranberry juice. "Don't worry about it Copper, I completely understand that many times work doesn't allow for adequate rest.

Franz sometimes behaves that way too, especially when it's meetings with Lieutenant Graham."

Some time later in a room at the Cabot mansion, Robert House looked at his cards with a confident smile while he smoked a cigar.

"I think this game is a bit boring, don't you think, gentlemen?"

Franz who was drinking some brandy smiled "It seems that you have quite high self-esteem Robert, but what do you want to change?"

Robert House took a wad of bills and looked at it with contempt. "Money is just a piece of paper with no value, even for any of us in this place its only value is showing a bunch of 0s in our bank account.

So let's change the bet."

Robert took a holotape out of his pocket and placed it on the blackjack table. "This holotape contains the most recent programming code for our portable terminals.

With it you can make personalized modifications outside of our control, of course it will only work with civilian equipment."

Jack Cabot scratched his chin and with a signal asked his assistant to bring him an object, for his part Eric Rice, the president of HalluciGen, also asked that they bring him an object from his bodyguard.

The governor, for his part, placed a document on the table that guaranteed unconditional support for any investment in the state, however at that moment they were interrupted by Barb who was let in by one of the guards.

Barb, seeing the blackjack table, smiled because she also wanted to participate with those big bucks. After sitting down, the rules were explained to her, so she bit her lips and decided to place the rights to use shelter 114 on the table.

With that bet for the moment it seemed that Barb as a representative of Vault Tec had placed the best reward, although it only lasted a couple of minutes until Jack Cabot placed a small briefcase on the table.

When he opened it he revealed an alien blaster very similar to the one in Fallout 4 and 76 "This, gentlemen, is an alien weapon that was found in an excavation that I organized in the Middle East, it has an unknown manufacturing date.

But it is a good energy weapon although it currently only has 4 cells of unknown energy that allow 10 shots each, I think it is a good reward for this game."

Everyone nodded silently as it seemed to be an incredible reward, Eric Rice did not feel intimidated and like Cabot he placed a briefcase which he opened with some fanfare.

Which revealed a weapon similar to the Mesmetron that his company produced, however, unlike the weapon sold, the one in the briefcase had the ability to control the minds of its victims by 90%.

Franz, who was interested in betting and not being overshadowed, took out a small metal container from his pants pocket, which he opened, revealing a violet liquid that he placed on the table, drawing the attention of the participants.

"This is a new product from our company Umbrella that will be released to the public in a month, of course this version is much more powerful than the one that will be given on the launch date.

It is called T complex, it is an injectable liquid that can rejuvenate the body to a state equivalent to being 20 years old.

It does not cure age-related diseases but it does allow the body to have much greater energy as well as rejuvenates the physical appearance of those who use it.

I certainly think that anyone who uses it will not have any more problems with aging for a while, if someone in their 50s or 60s uses it we can guarantee that they will not die naturally from age until they are 110 years old.

Unfortunately production of this specific version of Compound T will be limited to only 10 vials per month, as the ingredients are scarce.

But regardless of the winner, next month all of you who are at this table will receive a free bottle, the only condition is that you speak well of the product after you use it."

Robert House and Jack Cabot were quite interested in that liquid, while Barb showed a smile because regardless of the loss of the shelter 114 experiment, the company would possibly gain something more.

With all the bets ready, a game of Blackjack began that completely changed the already alternative world of Fallout.

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