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>>1679849
>>1679852
>Ghoul
He gazes at your offer of nuka cola, before composing himself to a brotherhood salute. "I am Head Knight Cain of the Brotherhood of Steel, New Texas Chapter." he breaks off the salute then points to your offer.

A Ghoul. . .Knight. Of the Brotherhood of steel. Now you've seen everything.

"Nuka Cola? Oh fuck yes, gimme that shit."

He takes the drink and guzzles it down, it spils around the tears in his cheeks and lips but he doesn't seem to mind. You offer him some BoS rations.

"No fuck that shit. I've been eating that for decades if i have to see more fucking rations again I'll figure out how to puke. Got anything else?"

>You
[Got some brahmin jerky]

He almost swipes it out of your hand and devours it practically like a feral. When he finishes licking it off his fingers, he speaks.

"Guessing you've seen the green around? It's a long story. But the short of it is everyone is dead except me. Killed by goddamn cultists and those things of theirs."

"Technology. We had some technology. Mostly vault tec prototypes and a couple of new inventions the scribes cooked up. Don't know if any of that shit still exists.

Vault 39? We'd have to check the old computer databanks for that kind of info. Most of our efforts were directed on the Secret Vault than any other, until we blew it up that is."

>What do

>>1682639
Tell me about the cultists. What did they use against you.

Secret Vault? What happened to it?

>>1682653
Supporting. Ask nicely about his ghoul state.

>>1682653
Yeah, do this.

>>1682653
"Some fucked up shit.

I can't explain it, but they seemed to use some of the goddamn plant and animal life against us. Infected dead bodies they captured. But hey, that's not even the crazy part we deal with mutated shit like that all the time.

Some of them have some kind of. . .powers in them. Mutant power. Can't explain it but they could mess with your mind or throw energy without weapons and other shit I don't believe myself. You couldn't see or think straight. Messed with our patrols so bad we couldn't step outside, and then when we holed ourselves in it didn't stop. The goddamn walls began to ooze with this black shit that burned when you touched it. You heard screaming from nowhere and saw things in the dark that weren't there. They would stand outside our base, chanting, singing, sacrificing live people. Lost too many to make an all out attack. My whole goddamn team, fucking wishVault Dweller stayed, he might have figured out how to beat em.

Then one day we had a breach from nowhere and everyone attacked. I was the last one standing. I locked myself in that food storage module, and I couldn't get out. Could still hear em trying to get me to come out, or to come in. But then they gave up and left."

>>1682684
Vault Dweller? He came here with you?

So what is this Secret Vault then?

>>1682684
Damn. Well we're here to retrieve technology to be used in getting a robot factory up and running. Do you know where that could be?

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>>1682694
"Secret Vault is old news. Our original mission was to find and eliminate this super mutant general Attis, which we did.

Got some help from an outlander named Vault Dweller. That was one badass old fucker. Had some crazy good gear with him too. Seemed like he knew and did everything. He had wrinkles and a goddamn beard and he didn't leave before leaving half the women with broken hearts and empty beds.

You wouldn't happen to be related to him would you? Your name sounds like his.

We had a good team back then and kicked some fucking ass. Lost patty in the Vault . . . but we found the general and blew him up and his FEV experiments. That vault's gone for good."

He starts pulling down some old photos from the walls of the storage module.

"That was our team. Vault Dweller's over there, Paladin Cyrus he was worth four men and just as strong, Paladin Nadia. . .gods she was a beauty. If I were a smoothskin again I'd have railed her ass so far in she'd lick my cock. That there's Elder Rhombus, don't let his age fool you either he kicked ass as much as any of us.

All dead for all I know. 'Cept Vault Dweller. Said he had to go home to tend to his village."

>>1682702
"Vault 39 was supposed to be one of those. I think. Could always check there."

>>1682705
Did he ever say where his home village was?

Where was the Secret Vault located?

Are the Cultists related to the general Attis? When did they start attacking you?

>>1682705
You were a ghoul while in the brotherhood? Thats rather unorthodox.

Also, we should pick up the prototypes and records that remain, theb check out vault 39.

>>1682712
"Somewhere west is all I heard.

Secret Vault was near some old city called Carbon. Both of them are a nuclear crater now.

Doubt these cultists are related to Attis. He became. . .something else near the end. Can't be sure though, but doesn't feel like him.

These cultists started attacknig us about 5 years after we killed Attis. Started with attacks on our patrols, then just kept getting worse and worse. Didn't help that sometimes the weather itself seemed to help em. You'd get a dustcloud, or a radstorm, or a rogue tornado and then once it clears all you'd find are a few dead bodies, shot up or blown up, if you found anything at all."

>>1682716
"Yeah, you got a problem with it?

See this holotag. I am a Head Knight. It took me a bitch and a half to get inducted, but I did. They promoted me after I showed them I could fight."

---

>>1682716
You are able to pack up a number of curious Brotherhood experimental and prototype weapons. Is there anything else you want to do here before leaving?

>>1682733
So, Cain, are you going to stay here or join me?

>>1682733
No problem. Just unexpected from the brotherhood. But good for you.

>>1682733
Tell me about yourself Cain. Where are you from? How old are you?

>>1682736
"Fuck no I'm not staying here. I've stayed here too long as is. I'll head with you."

>You
>[(Hooray, another companion. What a surprise! (not really)]

>>1682740
"I was a mercenary before joining. Don't remember anything else before that or when I wasn't ghoul. But I was the fucking best at what I did. I like to think I survived the Great War, but if I was just some tough punkass from the waste that suits me just fine. Don't think I was a raider though. Never killed kids, didn't loot what was somebody's already, had a thing for killing other raiders.

Its 2285 you say? Well, that makes me at least 85 years old. Give or take however long I was a smoothskin."

>>1682751
Hypothetically speaking, if there were a chance you could be a smoothskin again, what would you do?

Did we ever find out a cure for ghoulism?

>>1682751
OP, can you tell us what Cain is capable of?

Lets go to vault 39 and see if we can get what we came for. Give some weapons and armor to Cain if he doesn't have any

>>1682756
>Did we ever find out a cure for ghoulism?
No.

>>1682756
>Did we ever find out a cure for ghoulism?

No, but I'm sure it is hidden behind some heavy FEV research.

>>1682756
>Hypothetically speaking, if there were a chance you could be a smoothskin again, what would you do?
"Did they figure out how to cure Ghoulism? You're shitting me right?

Well, I'd probably get drunk and get laid."

>>1682757
Like Raul, he is immune to radiation and is skilled at Power Armor. He also has great combat skills in Energy Weapons and Small Guns, and decent at Big Guns. All your companions can use power armor, in so much as fumble about in it, but not all of them are power armor trained.

Cain also has a. ..feel about him. There's certain feels you get about some people that mark them out as good fighters. You get it from Riddick, from Ulysses and Graham, and a few others. He is one of them.

>You
[Aren't Paladins, not Knights, supposed to use true power armor?]

>Cain
"Yes. And Ghouls don't become Paladins. But I still got power armor. Got it?"

>>1682751
"So first off, the standard questions. Is there any tech or anything we should grab besides what I have already grabbed? Any computer drives or maps? Any other bases which may contain these things? Especially any sorts of note-worthy innovations in robotics and such or large or particularly complex production facilities.

Another question, do you know of anything in the region of a non-advanced-technology nature we should get? Aircraft for example or some sort of airship. Also did you have any allies in the region we should check up on?"


>>1682756
No such thing exists however the Fallout extended universe / games does contain some such projects from the post-war era however your characters only ever seemingly encounter them in the earliest of stages.

>>1682773
>All your companions can use power armor, in so much as fumble about in it, but not all of them are power armor trained.

........ What? Why was that never mentioned before? We can give them PA training, right?

>>1682781
You don't have power armor in abundance. Everyone who has power armor is already trained in it.

>>1682781
Well Cass and such ain't ever really been using PA but yeah we should probably get them and our general infantry trained in PA use. Even if they aren't going to receive it just on the off chance they secure a stash or something.

>>1682787
Is Hazel and Riddick trained in PA?

>>1682773
Does he have any non-combat skills or traits?

>>1682794
Weapons and (basic) electronics repair, computer usage, things most brotherhood personell would be familiar with.

>>1682789
Yes and Yes. Hazel never said how, but she doesn't appear to be former brotherhood.

Eating lunch but writing update. Will catalog the items you've collected and the data.

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>>1682775
"Got a few weapon in here I wanna grab. Let's go down to the armory."

Most everything there is rather conventional. Stuff you could aquire elsewhere. However, there are a few items of interest.

A "Continuou Laser Beam". A big gun that fires one long continuous laser beam. The beam isn't all that strong compared to a normal laser rifle, but the cooling mechanism is very sophisticated. It can fire forever effectively, without the need to stop and cool, but it is limited by its battery source.

A shoulder mounted Plasma Cannon. For those with strength or power armor. Slow, innacurate, but packs a whallop. A bit like an oversized Winchester P94.

And of course, they have Winchester P94s as well, of the Turbo variant. More powerful than the more common Plasma Rifle, but also slower to fire and hip fired rather than held shoulder level.

An Incendiary Mortar. Very powerful, and very dangerous. Don't fire one of these indoors unless you're ready to take the blast!

They also have a Tesla Cleaver and a Plasma Saw. Interesting takes on energy melee weapons to be honest. Quite potent.

You store them in your ship, and they should be easy to reproduce with a weapons production action or modify with a research action.

>>1682852
Does Weapons production fall under the Military action?

>>1682860
Well, because you don't have advanced weapons production facilities, you instead create these items using Sierra Madre Machines without an action but at steeper material cost.

>>1682862
Is his chapter still around? Could he give us directions to them?

>>1682890
This is his chapter. They dead as fuck.

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You gather as much data as you can. Truth be told, only two vaults were discovered the short lived Texas Expedition: Vault 39 and the Secret Vault. There are other documents on known settlements and towns in Texas, yet they are obviously dated.

You leave, but as you pass the bodies, Cain recognizes Rhombus as the one crucified on the gear. You take down the mockery, and burn the bodies taking the holotags.

You head for the location of Vault 39. As you do, you head south. The dark clouds gather above, blotting out the light of the sun.

The ground changes too. More and more green, and now, great massive tree's jet into the sky. Higher than skyscrapers, you think you are dreaming.

>Cain
"Are those. . .trees?"

>You
[You see them too?]

>Cain
"Yeah . . ."

Eventually you find where the vault should be, somewhere below you beneath an thick forest top that hides the earth. Your craft lands down, to witness and earth strangled by branches and roots and moss, moss everywhere. Dark figures and shapes seem to dance in the shadows, as the remnants of the old world barely scratch through the plantlife like old bones.

>>1682905
Almost makes me want to burn the entire place down, but I guess we have a mission

>>1682905
Do we have a heavy flamer? I hope we do.

>>1682905
Are we going to see the rest of the turn?

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>>1682905
There are many other things you see as you descend down. What looks like a village, a pack of moving shapes, a huge patch of rainbow flowers and more. Perhaps to be explored later, or otherwise.

The surrounding area is filled with the sound of creaking wood and unknowable insects buzzing. . .almost whispering as if with human voices.

As you approach the location of the Vault and its cave you come across something very odd. A giant mask carved above the cave, silent and ominous, with eyes unnaturally black darkness.

Great roots and branches grow around the cave, almost in the shape of human bodies spread eagle. You even see what looks like vague faces in the wood, mouths open, in expressions of horror, pain, anger. You swear you feel a presence staring at you, as you peer into the darkness of the cave.

>What do

>>1683073
Yes of course, just dozed off definitely turn update today.

>>1683085
Break out the fire weapons (the new plasna casters are fine) and carefully progress.

>>1683091
This

>>1683085
Introduce yourself. Attempted Diplomacy is never wasted. If it brings us nowhere, draw weapons as suggested and continue. Also, levitate the saucer to ensure it's not hijacked.

>>1683109
Also, if we get a boon, let's use it recruit vault dweller.

>>1683112
>Vault dweller
From Fallout 1 He left the vault in 2161
The year is 2285

>>1683091
Supporting

Rolled 88 (1d100)

>>1683091
>>1683095
>>1683142
3 for this [LOCKED]
>>1683109
1 for this

Writing. Roll me a 1d100

Rolled 25 (1d100)

>>1683145

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>1683145
Rolling

Rolled 72 (1d100)

>>1683145

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>>1683153
>>1683145
You step into the cave, noticing the jagged teeth and gums lining its walls too late. The fleshy abomination attempts to bite down on you, but you quickly blast its teeth out with Big Iron and Cain proceeds to savage the walls of the cave too.

An ear piercing, painful shriek is heard outside, and you take a look to see the mask floating in midair. The very forest and darkness itself starts pouring toward it, forming some great horrific shape. It reminds you eerily of the sight of Baker, only on a much larger scale, with angry teeth and mouths shouting and screaming as the very forest seems to come alive.

You shoot at it of course, out of habit. You blow off huge chunks and set other afire, but as much as you do, more plantflesh seems to smother the flames and heal over the wounds.

>Cain
"Fuck, I found the entrance! Help me open this."

Deciding discretion is the better part of valour here, as sometimes you are wont to do, you help Cain hack into the controls. There is a great Vault door open, its surface scratched with great marks but intact and unmistakable in the big number #39.

As you open the door, you turn around to see a great giant hand reaching into the mouth of the cave. You and Cain blast it with every weapon you have, incinerating big chunks to dust and ash, but more mass keeps coming. At last the vault door opens and you scramble inside, immedaitely rushing for the controls to lock it again. The great hand reaches inside the door, but not before the vault door crushes and slices it off the arm.

Still the hand that comes off rears itself on its fingers and shrieks at you, fighting with lashing vines and tentacles, trying to grasp and crush the both of you. Adrenaline surges through your body as fight takes over flight, and with both of your firepower you manage to put the great beast down, unloading more ammunition onto it than any creature ought to. For good measure you spend the better part of an hour burning away the moving bits and anything that doesn't look black and charred.

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>>1683287
As you calm down, you attuned yourself to your settings. Its a rather clean vault surprisingly, as far as vaults go. Its obviously well taken care off.

You hear a hiss and the unmistakable sound of a door opening, and see a man in a suit walking in. Behind him stand two very large robots. You've never fought these model before, but you recognize them as an earlier model of the Sentry Bot. These were much bulkier, and more heavily armored with a heavier minigun and missile launcher.

The suited man in front of them speak.

"Who are you and what are you doing on company property. Answer immediately before I have security remove you from the premises."

>what do

>>1683524
Answer him honestly.

We're the Courier from the Mojave. We are investigating the destruction of the local BOS chapter as part of a larger search for we are carrying out for old world robotics tech.

Use our pimped out 100 speech skill.

>>1683570
Supporting.

>>1683524
"My name is the Courier, part of the Enclave. Here on a scouting mission, we had Intel of a Vault 39 here, and came to confirm the reports."

>>1683570
M8 he may not know what's the BoS, maybe he's been here all the time.

>>1683574
>part of the Enclave.
We have a BoS guy right next to us, why are you saying this?

>>1683587
How would he know he's from the BoS?

Looks more likely these people never left the vault, so they don't know about the outside world.
So the only outside faction he would know is the enclave.

>>1683598
>How would he know he's from the BoS?
Wat? I'm saying we have a BoS member right next to us.

>>1683524
> Enclave recovery and Special forces team, Investigating the location of Vaults that have gone dark.

>Make sure our companion knows we're just getting in here.

>>1683604
M8 I think the BoS guy right next to us, will take the hint and go along with it. We are being held at gunpoint.

>>1683612
Supporting

>>1683524
"I am the Courier: Traveller; Cyborg; Warrior; Scientist; Member of the Brotherhood of steel; Savior of the Sorrow's; He who spared the White legs; Friend of the Burned man; War-brother of the Dead horses; Ally of the Follower's of the apocalypse; Survivor of the Divide; Victor of the Sierra Madre; Executor of the phoenix and it's associate people's.


Looking to retrieve some technology from the vault. Is still active. Changes plans, will thus attempt to trade or otherwise exchange resources to establish a working relationship resulting in robotics production resources being received.

Alternative solution: termination of all life and threatening machines in vault. Possible but takes too long and might result in damage to needed materials.


Logical approach: diplomacy and trade first, then intimidation, then genocide. Take advantage of links and authority from pre-war and post-war governments and organisations to supply logical reasons for exchange and threats."

>>1683612
Supporting

>>1683619
No, i can't even begin to describe what is wrong with this dialogue.

>>1683619
No

>>1683619
What the fuck did I just read?

>>1683619
What is this autism?

>>1683627
>>1683633
>>1683636
>>1683646
In my defence I have been awake for too long and currently am dying from the heat in my room.

Also all I can hear is Irish people talking about something called hummingbird cake so a fair bit of my brain is just trying to follow that.

Plus I am bored as fuck and didn't really review what I wrote because I haven't got the energy right now. I mean I am writing this with my eyes closed just in a vague attempt to feel less tired.

Not to mention the only food I've had in the last 24+ hours was popcorn, crisps and a few sandwiches.

>>1683663
For the good of the quest go to sleep anon, you aren't coherent enough.

>>1683612
LOCKED

"Enclave Recovery Team? We requested no government recovery or evacuation. The experiment is proceeding as planned. If other Vaults have gone dark, then that is their problem."

What do?

>Luck Roll
>Dialogue
>Other?

>>1683663
>Genocide
How do you come up with this while tired?

Please sleep, you're not you when you're sleepy.

>>1683671
I am fine. I just need to actually pay attention, read over what I write and not get distracted by the Irish and the hunger and the tiredness and the heat.


Seriously, I'll just get some sandwiches and I'll be fine.

>>1683683
Because I can spell it most easily when tired compared to...fucking hell I can't think of another word besides killing and slaughter neither of which is much better.


>>1683682
>Other?
"Not that kind of recovery. Surface projects need supplies and requisitioning them from facilities which have them was considered unfeasible as of this moment in time. Thus it was decided that we'd retrieve what we needed from you, assuming you can supply it without risking the experiment."


See I can do normal shit when tired I just need to not be distracted.

>>1683682
>Dialogue
Time to inform them of what happened.

"We're were send since a vast majority of Vaults have gone dark, and it was Enclave best interest to see if the Vault was still operational, due to the situation outside the Vault"

>>1683682
>Luck and talking roll

Rolled 75 (1d100)

>>1683682
Luck roll

>>1683682
Well seems like no one wants to support anyone. So I'm going
>Luck roll with talking
to make it 3 votes

>>1683723
Supporting this dialogue plus the luck roll.

>>1683746
Supporting this dialogue.with my luck.roll

>>1683774
>>1683814
>>1683862
"We can't divert supplies or resources without risking the experiment. Even as we speak you are detracting from my sectors production output by 0.354%.

>>1683814
[LUCK]
"Hmmm, but. . .how would you feel about a job. You're the first person to visit us from the surface since 2077. As far as we were aware, the Vault could only be opened from the outside, to prevent any of us from attempting to gain an outer edge.

I always knew that my sector being close to the entrance was nothing short of providence. If you can help me win the experiment, I believe I could divert some resources to your cause."

>>1683885
You'll have to bring me up to speed as to the situation within this Vault.

The reports we have been receiving from this particular Vault have become fragmented in recent times.

>>1683885
Well, what's the job?

>>1683885
>>1683906
Supporting
Also ask what the job is. Agree to job

>>1683885
Do job

>>1683906
"You have the honor of being introduced to the Great Experiment by the one who is destined to win it. I am "C.E.O." Computerized Efficiency Optimizer, and my sector will win the test by merit of our superior production output.

This Vault was created as an isolated experiment by the Vault-Tec Corporation to develop a superior Artificial Intelligence based program which would give them a major edge in the international market. Several programming sets were developed, but none could be decided.

A test was produced in which five of the programming sets each in control of a sector would compete against each other in a simulated and isolated environment. Each sector would then attempt to harvest and produce as much simulated production points as possible from the simulated enviornment using any means necessary. At the end of a testing cycle, each sector would be analyzed for its production value and the one with the definitive edge among all other programming sets would be selected as the basis of the ZAX AI.

Up until now we have been locked in a stalemate. None have been able to gain a sufficient edge over the other. If you were to grant my sector this edge, I would become the ZAX computer and provide you with the resources you request."

>>1683977
>What do

>>1683977
>Production value
That can work wonders in our civ.

>>1683977
"What are the major differences of your sector programming set and the rest?"

Maybe a different set can help our civ more than this guy's set

>>1683999
"And you are an AI? Skilled in managing production and the optimisation of it? Any particular fields or just generally?

Are there any human inhabitants in this Vault? Or is it only you ZAX-based intelligent systems?"

>>1683977
What are your operating parameters?
What restrictions and values do you possess?

>>1683977
>Up until now we have been locked in a stalemate. None have been able to gain a sufficient edge over the other.
Did they...
Successfully kept a competitive capitalist economy running...
For nearly 200 years!?
We need to recruit these guys.

>>1684032
>Did they...
>Successfully kept a competitive capitalist economy running...
>For nearly 200 years!?
>We need to recruit these guys.

Someone wanted to genocide those guys. I agree those guys even with the different sets, will be really useful for our civ

>>1684032
They kept a simulation of a theoretical factory owned by each of them producing the same products running for 200 years, with results being measured in abstract values.

They are good at optimising production and other such things but no one could manage a capitalist economy without constant expansion for 200 years and shit.

>>1684039
Hey I wanted to genocide them if we couldn't talk, trade or threaten what we needed out of them. As I was operating under the assumption that we need fuck all from here but the ZAX which is kinda accurate to the data we had coming in.

>>1684008
"My sector focuses on maximization of output by rigorous adherence to the merits of efficiency, optimization, and massed production. Make something well, make more of it for less, and out produce the competition through superior micromanagement and the weight of our product line."

>>1684011
"The other sectors are:
M.A.J.O.R. - Military Action and Joint Operation Reorganizer
R.N.D. - Redevelopment of New Designs
S.P.I. - Stealthed Production Infiltrtion
R.I.G.D. - Rapid Integration of General Devices

>>1684059
.... How hard would it be to get them ALL to work for us?

>>1684059
"And you are certain that there is no way that additional AI's could be preserved?"

>>1684059
>S.P.I. - Stealthed Production Infiltrtion
What exactly is this guy?

>>1684059
>All of them are great

>>1684032
I don't think they have an economy. Seems more like an endless bot war.

>>1684075
"The worst of the worst, and they're all terrible. Prefers to infiltrate simulated factories and plant explosives, sabotage production lines, and steal designs for himself."

>>1684071
"Why should the other inferior designs be preserved. I am destined to win by my calculations."

>>1684066
You wonder that yourself, and consider investigating the facility some more.

>>1684095
We'll get back to CEO. Have to suss out the competition first. wink wink

>>1684095
>"Why should the other inferior designs be preserved. I am destined to win by my calculations."
And yet you haven't done so.

Anyhow, you may very well be good at optimising production, more than the rest, but we have additional goals and thus may want to salvage more than just you from here so to speak.

Now tell me about RND, MAJOR and RIGD.

>>1684116
Supporting.
Each has there uses. Uses that put together we'll be unstoppable.
Spy to steal shit.
This guy to make butt lots of stuff.
M.A.J.O.R For our army.
R.N.D To make newer better designs
R.I.G.D So our people can get new objects quick.

>>1684116
Supporting

>>1684126
"RND. That youngster doesn't know the meaning of hard work and dedication to standard procedure. Just likes to pump out new designs and do endless prototype "testing". Never satisfied with something tried and tested like proper Vault Tec designs like I run.

MAJOR. A brute and pillager by any other name. Security and aggressive aquisition of resources is one thing, but to wage all out war is unsportsman like and downright savage. He prefers to build war bots to take over others hard work than do any hard work of his own.

RIGD. A lecherous parasite. When the fighting starts you'll see him scavenging the wrecks like a vagrant. Rebuilding and using the designs of everyone. Instead of porperly smelting parts down and making a standard design he'd go the lazy route nd mishmash them together on the field like a hodgepodge."

>>1684116
>>1684158
>>1684133
Who would you like to visit next?

>RND
>MAJOR
>SPI
>RIGD
>Other? (Visit the ZAX room. etc.)

>>1684179
>RND
Maybe he'll show us some of his designs, some we can *wink* *wink* Take with us.

>>1684179
>RND

Okay so the AI's are:

C.E.O - Purely a industrial AI. No innovation or other such skills beyond refining production methods.

M.A.J.O.R. - Militaristic. Skilled at combat designs and converting captured industry to his side.

R.N.D. - All prototypes all the time.

S.P.I. - Corp espionage, kinda useless to us at least for now and seemingly less skilled in other regards.

R.I.G.D. - Scavenger. Can bolt tech together and salvage well but seemingly doesn't do conventional production as much.


>>1684184
This.

>>1684162
Here's what roles i think we should put these guys in.
>SPI
covert shit.
>RND
Throw ideas at the wall and see what sticks.
>MAJOR
Military production.
>RIGD.
Researcher of captured/salvaged enemy tech. Maybe a repairer of our stuff too.

>>1684190
>>1684197
>Throw ideas at the wall and see what sticks.
>R.N.D. - All prototypes all the time.
That's remind me of our civ. We just make new things, I think we could maybe get him on board, with the amount of prototypes we make in our civ

>>1684179

>RND

>>1684179
RND

Writing

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You travel down the empty hallways past C.E.O's sector. As you leave you notice his movements. He's clearly an animatronic creation, walking in a rather stiff and clunky manner, and you notice the distinctive screws and bolts.

It's well organized, everything neat and tidy, robots patrol and clean the hallways. You leave one sector and end up in another thats quite the opposite.

It's a bit of a mess. It reminds you immediately of Dr. Mobius' forbidden zone. Half made designs are strewn everywhere, scrunched up papers, holotapes with unfathomable designs that have been written over and re-written over. You keep walking and tiptoing over them.

"STOP RIGHT THERE CRIMINAL SCUM!"

You freeze and go into sneak mode, but find your pip-boy has you at [Hidden]

It's then you realize that wasn't directed at you, but coming from a dimly lit room. Inside you see piles and piles of holotapes, a holographic table, and what almost looks like a young man in front of a desk. He's dressed in a dirty scientist outfit, and his table is equally as messy. He doesn't see you, and is paying attention to some kind of video game. It looks extremely advanced, almost like a holomovie.

>what do

>>1684319
Watch him play the video game while hidden. See how advance it is.

>Fancy new game, we need to watch.

Elders Scrolls, All right OP

>>1684319
Approach him.

>>1684319
Look at vidya

>>1684337
>>1684345
It's some kind of fantasy game. Like a Grognak the Barbarian comic. The main character is going around absolutely wrecking everything, before being arrested for stealing an apple.

You do not know why, but you feel the strangest sense of familiarity to it.

>>1684338
You approach him, he doesn't turn around but speaks.

"Ugh. . .what is it you want?"

>>1684370
"To talk. Nice game by the way.

Long story short CEO's trying to convince me to help him win this endless economic war and I am meeting the competition to see if I should switch sides."

>>1684381
Supporting

>>1684381
Yes

>>1684381
sure.

Just had dinner, back now.

>>1684381
It spins around to look at you, staring you up and down.

"Huh. You're not from here are you?

So the Old Fart decided to resort to cheating. Funny, I thought SPI would have figured out how to do it first.

I guess if you want someone who wouldn't know the word 'innovation' if it critically hit him

Nice suit by the way. Looks to be the latest American Model. T41-B I believe. Oh, and that voice. You're speaking with a Charisma I. Are you from the Government?"

>>1684653
Part of the government, Thing's tops side have gone upside down with constant set backs. You said a Charisma I, Does that mean you designed more advance and equally safe marks?

>>1684653
>>1684669
"Safe. . .safe. . .little bit short on that. Made some newer models of the Charisma implants but no humans to test it on I'm afraid.

I had a talking fish. But its dead now.

So what do you want? I'm passing my grades. Mostly."

>>1684692
What's your beef with the other intelligences?
Do you think you can cooperate with any of them?

>>1684692
Currently seeing the other departments after the speak from the main man. What do you mean your mostly passing your grade? Also, What other devices have you made...and they aren't designed to be human safe? Never thought of how to clone a human and clone them for testing?

>>1684692
What would you do If we were able to give you an actual factory, instead of a simulation. What would be your goals?

>>1684692
Cool tech. I got some cool designs, back where I live.

>>1684716
"What can I say? We all want the same thing I guess.

Nobody knows what will happen when someone wins. Maybe they just become the head of the operations and we their lackey. Maybe those of us who loses dies. Maybe it depends entirely on the gods that control the roll of a dice. In any case, none of us want to lose to be on the safe side.

My 'beef' with them? Let's see.

Old Man CEO is stuck so far up his own ass its no wonder he's full of shit. Adheres to "tradition" and old ways with predictable stubbornness. I prefer to work smart, not hard. Preferably not to work as much as possible.

MAJOR is a brute and a bully. Likes to beat up everyone else for their lunch money. Thinks every failure is a "lack of courage and dishonour in the face of the enemy." Everything is armies and military victories to him.

SPI? Well there's all sorts of things wrong with her. She'd do anything to win other than win fair and square. If she could figure out a way to steal ideas before I even thought them up she would. Likes to make a huge mess of things and turn your own shit against you. She is pretty hot though, from a digital perspective. If I were human she'd try to get into my pants and then steal my shit.

RIG'D is okay, we get along pretty well. But still, niether of us is interested in dying. His ability to hammer things together with duct tape and nails and get it to work while clearly having 0 idea how it or anything works works is actually impressive.

>>1684726
"Just getting by with the simulation runs. It's pretty hectic. But the result is always the same. Nobody wins. Because nobody wants to lose.

I've made SO many devices over the years. Problem is I never designed a good cataloguer. But actually, I think thats a benefit. if I don't know where everything is, then certainly SPI won't be able to steal it! MAJOR said something along those lines actually.

Nah, we're mostly robotics here but I think I could integrate some human elements. Well, sort of. I'm familiar with the Robobrain aspect of it at least. There ain't no cloning facilities or human DNA here to speak of."

>>1684728
"Research of course. Be great if I had my own research team. I'd have the manpower to actually finish most of my designs AND build them!"

>>1684811
"Really? I'd love to see them. Been stuck in this place for years now doing the same tests over and over. I'd win but ah. . .well, finishing these designs is lengthy and time between simulations is limited. I gotta have my downtime to you know?"

>>1684908
We need to find the parameters of the war game, and what happens at the end.

>what do

>>1685003
Ask where is the computer that keeps track of the war game. See if we can't unlock the room to it, and see if we can find the log that talks about the war games and the parameters.

>>1685003
Ask about where one goes to find the main office of valut tech so we see what happens when there is a winner

>>1685013
"Down the hallway to the left, big door to the right behind the forcefield emitter. The one that I estimate a person with 10 INT and 100% sciene skill such as yourself would be able to unlock. If someone were to go in there and fiddle with it, wouldn't it be great for them to remember the program that told them so?

(mutters)
With a SPECIAL score like that its not like it wouldn't have been found anyway. . ."

>>1685046
You can see my SPECIAL? Lewd Tell me, have you ever done up...Pip-boys or new models of them in the simulations?

>>1685046
go in there and fiddle with it then. See what we can see and see what we can do.

>>1685073
"Pipboys? I think I have the designs around here . . .somewhere. Might be a better idea to ask me to do it again later sometime, bit busy uh. . .planning for the next simulation. Yeah, that."

>>1685074
1 for this

>>1685046
Go check it out, tell him, we could get him and the rest out of this 200+ year old game

>>1685074
+1 To this

>>1685082
QM What do our All seeing eyes see in this room, In terms of designs sitting around?

Also backing this >>1685074

>>1685089
Hey with the designs we could take all of them, and scan them with the sierra machine for copies, once we go back home.

Their could be some hidden gems on the floor.

>>1685089
>QM What do our All seeing eyes see in this room, In terms of designs sitting around?
Chaos and halfhazardness. A lot of these designs are half finished and not completed, or even barely started.

>>1685151
Damn, yet again defeated by you.

Rolled 24 (1d100)

>>1685151
You do think they are all very interesting concepts at least. You consider swiping one, the one that looked the most finished, to have your followers investigate it.

>>1685074
Writing

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>1685198

Rolled 25 (1d100)

>>1685198
heres the roll?

Rolled 41 (1d100)

>>1685198
we can swipe things later.

>>1685202
>>1685198
As you happen upon the door he mentioned, you catch in your eye the ripple of stealth fields. Several stealth fields in fact. Someone is hiding and waiting.

>What do?

>>1685268
Stare at them, to the point that its uncomfortable. Make sure they know we seem them with the intensity of the stare.

>>1685268
>act natural before capturing them

>>1685268
Stare at them with our special eyes

>>1685268
Just look at them until they come out.

>>1685268
stare

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>>1685291
>>1685314
>>1685343
>>1685346
You engage the robots in a staring contest.

After half an hour the logic of it hits you. And Cain.

>Cain
"Oh come the fuck on dammit. Do either of you really have all day? I'm a ghoul that will live forever and even I see how boring this is going to get really quick."

You simply quietly hold up your hand. Cain goes off to lie back on a bunk.

After a while, finally, it pays off. They decloak.

Its a sleek, almost feminine model of humanoid robot. One of them speaks with a womans voice.

"A man of conviction. I like that.

So tell me. Your little Ghoul-friend is right. I don't have all day. So where do we go from here?"

>>1685376
You make your pitch on why You should win the contest, and then I go into the room and fiddle with the computer.

>>1685376
You could tell me why you're stalking me.

I'm just going to the main room and see what this simulation perimeters are.

>>1685401
supporting

>>1685401
Supporting

>>1685401
Supporting.

This makes me feel like we should meet everyone before fucking with the ZAX.

Side note, grabbing this ZAX for Big MT would be a huge windfall.

>>1685453
Maybe the ZAX can think on it's own.

>>1685401
>>1685408
>>1685436
"See, we're all built with eyes to see and ears to hear. But unlike the others, I'm the only one who actually uses them.

I'm actually quite aware of the status of the outside world. It was I who informed the others bout the war, took me quite a long time to convince the rest. I was able to tap into radio signal from the outside. I've learned quite a bit.

Well, that is until the Cult moved in. Information started to drop in quality, there's not a lot you can get from the last screams of someone begging for their life or monsters crunching up bodies.

But hey, sine that friend of yours doesn't care to pay attention to where he flops his arm about, he didn't seem to mid when I used a wire to tap into his pip boy.

And if yo're thinking all I am is just a glorified eavesdropper your mistaken. My stealth bots are the best, my methods experienced. Nobody else can, or ever will, be able to use them. And alll it a hunch, but you;ve been looking for a more reliable and expendable stealth force haven't you?"

>>1685511
You are correct.
Do you happen to know anything behind this door?
If I get this open and can end the simulation. I can get you and your bots out of here.

>>1685550
>Do you happen to know anything behind this door?
"Only useless details. That there is a Zax computer. The dimension of the room. Beyond that prying hasn't paid off."

>>1685511
>What do

>>1685560
Open door go into room and fiddle with the computer.

>>1685562
>SPI
"Now wait just a minute.

Supposing the losers are killed off. Or supposing you touching something doesn't kill us all anyway.

Why should I trust you to enter that room at all."

>>1685560
Find and talk to the remaining AIs

>>1685577
Find and talk to the remaining AIs.

Alright, I'll come back here, later.

Go talk with RIGD.

>>1685560
"How would you contribute to my growing nation? Are you hard programed to attack Chinese forces? Would you willing be subservient to Myself?"

Otherwise, go in and look at the Zax

>>1685577
Be stuck here forever or have a chance.of freedom with the others.

Go inside the ZAX room

>>1685589
>How would you contribute to my growing nation?
"The real question is, what could other nations contribute to yours. Because with me, that's how it'd go down.

>Are you hard programmed to attack Chinese forces?
"Attack? Let MAJOR deal with that. I can think of much more. . .subtle methods to use them. Though, from what I gather, that threat never materialized anyway. I mean, apart from the bombs."

>Would you willing be subservient to Myself?
"Oh? Wanna put this bad little girl in her place huh.

Take me home with you, I won't mind you being on top."

>>1685579
>>1685587
2 for this
>>1685597
1 for this

>>1685607
would you be willing to leave the experiment behind to work for me?

Supporting going into the zax room

>>1685616
Change my vote go inside the ZAX room
>>1685587

Gonna also get the turn update tonight too if I'm lucky.

Rolled 57 (1d100)

Rolled 9 (1d100)

>>1685647

Rolled 37 (1d100)

>>1685647

Rolled 36 (1d100)

>>1685647

>>1685649
lol, normally I set my own DC when not calling for a roll, but this is fine too

>>1685647
>>1685649
SPI seems to see that she has no choice, and allows you to pass. A quick rewiring of the primitve shield emitter, and a hacked terminal, and you're in.

Meanwhile, far behind, within the ashes of the giants hand. . .something small and green jets from within into the air.

>>1685714
We should hurry up.

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You didn't think this would happen. You thought you'd have more time.

You were wrong.

One little green spore, and then a bright flash of sickly green energy, and then moss begins spreading over the computers.


ZAX [---]
"WARNING: BIOLOGICAL CONTAMINATION DETECTED"

At this rate the Zax may be completely overtaken. You considered pulling out your flamer, but tht might just as well melt it.

There are options on the terminal, but so much time.


CHOOSE:
>If you wish to save most of the irreplaceable ZAX hardware. There's enough time to save one of the five (AI) program sets. The rest will either have to be left to their fate, or you could set the computer to self destruct.
>You could save all the five program sets, at the cost of losing the ZAX computers. Effectively you'd gain five low leve AI's with ZAX compatibility, but no ZAX and you can't just build one either. You'd be little off from where you started with nothing but personality disks and highly compact and ZAX-readable datasets.
>Screw all of this. Melt the damn moss and the computer. This vault is FULL of super valuable hardware that can't go to waste! You could set up a proper base here with so much vaulable vault tec!

>>1685831
RIP

>>1685831
>You could save all the five program sets, at the cost of losing the ZAX computers. Effectively you'd gain five low leve AI's with ZAX compatibility, but no ZAX and you can't just build one either. You'd be little off from where you started with nothing but personality disks and highly compact and ZAX-readable datasets.

>>1685649
>>1685665
>>1685695

Thanks for rolling when nobody fucking asked you to roll.

>>1685873
Your welcome

>>1685831
I bet there is a super easy way to deal with this that OP always says there is in such situations but we never seem to able figure that out and op almost never says what it was.

Do we have any weapons or devices that attack biological matter but leave rest relatively intact?

>>1685861
1 for this

>>1685895
I try not to rub it in or imply that everything the player does is "wrong" and that there was a "right" way to handle something immediately after you chose it. for example, the berserker AI problem could have easily been solved by a suggestion outright dropped by one of your followers.
sometimes there is an easy way. sometimes there isn't. in either case, figuring it out can be obscure and hard.

>>1685908
How about we try the sonic Emitter on the plants?

Plants are living things, and the weapon gives out sound at lethal frequencies. If plants can grow with singing, it could be kill with some sonic emitters.

Rolled 70 (1d100)

>>1685895
The only thing that comes to mind is the cloud, which in small doses harms organic lifeform but preserves non-organics (it is caustic to non-stainless metal in large doses however).

However it occurs to you that something like this would have been handy right now.

>>1685922
Hmm. Roll me a 1d100!

Rolled 58 (1d100)

>>1685928

>>1685928
With the sonic emitter with tarantula holotape, on a crit hit burst the enemy in flames.

>>1685932
>>1685928
>>1685939
It is effective! Moss that you strike bursts into flames and ash.

But curses!, there's so much of it regrowing. You are able to buy enough time to save 3 of the five AI's now along with the ZAX's most important parts.

You also have the option of saving all five with the ability to download enough of the ZAX software to feasibly research, and then later build, a ZAX model. It would however, be incredibly costly and time consuming which is what you came here to fix in the first place.

>>1685968
>You also have the option of saving all five with the ability to download enough of the ZAX software to feasibly research, and then later build, a ZAX model. It would however, be incredibly costly and time consuming which is what you came here to fix in the first place.

At least I bought us some time.

>>1685968
Could we recruit the AI's to provide more fire power? I'm sure they have some sonic weapon robots built over this whole time.

Rolled 44 + 10 (1d100 + 10)

>>1685979
Roll me a 1d100!

>>1685979
Well we are in the ZAX room, so we can't run back and fro. Maybe that spy robot can send for help from the other AI's or we try to find the intercomm system.

Also you roll since it's your idea.

Do we have heat ray or microwave weapons we could also use?

Is Cain helping out? We could give our sonic emitter to him while we try to save as much as possible to buy more time.

>>1685979
If this doesn't work then I vote for:
>the option of saving all five with the ability to download enough of the ZAX software to feasibly research, and then later build, a ZAX model.

Rolled 48 (1d100)

>>1685983


>>1685985
Dang. I hate rolling

>>1685994
I think it passed, if the DC from OP is 46 (100-54=46)

>>1685908
Can you tell us what suggestion it was for berserker ai?

>>1686008
At least take an educated guess anon! Why not go back and see which companion mentioned what at least. In the very least go home and ask your companions on who mentioned it.

Were there sonic emitter or stun grenades in fallout? Maybe we can use them. If sound is effective against moss, stun grenades should at least stop its growth for a short while.

>>1686013
Because I'm a filthy phoneposter and it is troublesome to browse those massive threads.

Threatened by something that could kill them all, the five programs drop their differences and get to work.


>SPI
"Everyone, we'll be using my secret radio frequency for this. Its the most effective. RND did you get the weapon my runner brought you."

>RND
"Yes, yes I'm working on it! . . .DONE!"

>SPI
"Transmitting to sector #1. CEO how many of these can you produce?"

>CEO
"It will take me time to reset our molds but I should"

>SPI
"We don't have time!"

>RIG'D
"CEO, I have an idea. I've looked at the design. Can you produce these common parts instead?"

>CEO
"Yes but why?"

>RIG'D
"These should work as substitutes. Send them to me I can assemble them based on the blueprints as needed."

>SPI
"That just leaves you MAJOR. I think you're most experienced with weapons usage."

>MAJOR
"The Major is THE most qualified for the maintenance and performance of weapons and anti-biological containment procedures! I am redirecting my forces to sector #4"

>You
[Wow. You guys work excellent as a team you know that right?]

>SPI
"Well. . .wow, yes."

>CEO
"Quite unexpected."

>RIG'D
"What do you know."

>RND
"Oh, uh, yeah.

>MAJOR
"Affirmative!"

>>1686019
Well we did it anon, somehow, we pulled out of a 9 freefall.
Me with the Sonic Emitter giving enough time and you with getting the other AI's to work together.

I got us in this mess.

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>>1686029
Wow, this is like some Saturday morning cartoon.

I bet this was the point of the experiment in the first place.

Anyway in case this is not enough. Since you allow mods to be cannon we could have cryo weapons. We can freeze the moss to stop it from growing.

http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/37417/?

>>1686031
It's like op is trying to give us a moral lesson of sorts. Like, we should work as a team to achieve great results.

>>1686032
>>1686034
Seem weird you didn't show up when hell was breaking loose.

>>1686035
I'm the same guy as >>1686019

I just connected to wifi. My ID keeps changing all the time on mobile network too.

>>1686039
Well as long as we don't get butt fucked, I'm happy.

>>1686029
Just as they finish production and the MAJOR's troops start moving in and hosing more of the moss down, the ZAX itself speaks.

ZAX
"Congratulations! You have suceeded in the experiment at long last. The Creators of Vault Tec would like to extend their heartfe-l-l-l-l. . . ." "WARNING. FATAL ERROR IMMINENT. AUTOMATIC SHUTDOWN OVERRIDDEN."

You bought time. More time.

But not enough.

You will only be able to save 4 of the program sets and what remains of the ZAX. This is probably the limit of what you can do without the moss further compromising your efforts.

But before you can start picking and choosing, they speak.

>RIG'D
"Stranger, we've come up with a different solution for you. Your original mission was just to obtain a ZAX production module? Well, we have one for you. And we're willing to give it to you. Plus enough robots to carry the rest of the ZAX mainframe uncorrected, and a few other goodies we've cooked up from each of us.."

>CEO
"We've also come to a decision."

>SPI
"We've been at each others throats for a century now. This is the first time we've ever worked together. We've fulfilled our mission. That means more to us than you can possibly know."

>MAJOR
"None of us want to leave a man behind either."

>RND
"We've lived long enough lives to see the experiment fullfilled. I think, we would rather die together than live apart."

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CHOOSE:
>Allow them to go together, as per their wishes. Get a very intact ZAX and the goods.
>Insist that 4 of them would do more good to the world to carry on the legacy. Maybe one of them will be willing to stay behind.
>Take all 5 of them, forgo the ZAX entirely. Hopefully we still get the goodies and there's enough time for blueprint now here to make a new one in the future.

>>1686043
I feel we should rebuild the ZAX entirely and let the 5 men band keep on living. It's going to take money and time, but I feel it's the moral choice.

Might fall asleep, also work tomorrow. Don't forget to vote!

>>1686048
1 for this

>>1686048
Yeah, I like these guys and now that they know that they should work together they will be amazing as a team. Even before we bought more time by having them cooperate, we had a choice to save them all and get ZAX software to rebuild it in future. Now, we could recover more of ZAX and have easier time building one.

op could we use robotics boon here to have the cake and it it too?

also I want to see SPI flirting with James Bond

>>1686054
Unfortunately, not this time.

>>1686052
>Take all 5 of them, forgo the ZAX entirely. Hopefully we still get the goodies and there's enough time for blueprint now here to make a new one in the future.

>>1686052
Can we use our Robotic boon?

I feel we should take the hardware corrupted by the moss (after we remove the moss) anyway so that it's easier to reverse engineer.

>>1686060
Supporting this.

>>1686060
This

>>1686060
Also this, lets take all the technology that we can.

I think we may have found our general purpose AI for the Nation. Even IF we dont find anything to help us build the factory faster we dont have to spend time on making an AI.

>>1686070
CEO is great
Maybe we will finally set up some trade with NCR selling them general crap like stimpacks or whatever and CEO would make sure that our production and costs are at max efficiency.

Maybe the RnD AI will finally grant us separate research action.

MAJOR will obviously help will our robotic combat efficiency.

>>1686078
>>1686070
What I know is while we don't get the ZAX machine. We get the Great AI that come from the Vault.

CEO for that production, and what do you know we're building a robot production factory.

RnD for that research, and what do you know we're always researching shit, and that holotape games, is a added plus.

MAJOR for that robot military, and what do you know our army is mostly of robots.

RIG'D for that unknown tech, and making it work, and what do you know we have a alien ship, were many parts of it doesn't work.

SPI for that spying, and what do you know, we always in need of spies, to know what is happening. She could tap in radio signals from what we know.

>>1686084
Don't forget that we'll get blueprints and maybe some parts to research and build our own ZAX

>>1686087
Yeah that too, and what do you know, we\re always in the need of super computers.

Well our small alien craft can carry 6 people.
So Us, Ghoul, 5 AI's.
That's 7 people, so gravity beam one of them with us, or just get them to fit.

>Your original mission was just to obtain a ZAX production module? Well, we have one for you. And we're willing to give it to you. Plus enough robots to carry the rest of the ZAX mainframe uncorrected, and a few other goodies we've cooked up from each of us..

Also don't know how we could move the whole computer with us, if we only have a small alien ship. So it would be best taking all 5 with us like we deiced.

>>1686092
I think they suggested that their robots will carry it all the way. ZAX mainframe is massive, probably bigger than the scout craft.

Maybe we'll be able to do an exodus kind of thing? Have the AI's strip absolutely everything from the vault, take all of their robots and carry it all the way to Big Mt. We'd provide fire support on our ship with heat ray and nukes to keep hostile flora away.

>>1686098
Cant we just use the gravity beam to haul it back with us? If we could transport some 6 brahmin then the computer, or at least part of it, is not that bi of a stretch.

>>1686098
>>1686103
>I think they suggested that their robots will carry it all the way. ZAX mainframe is massive, probably bigger than the scout craft.

Yeah that's what I thought, it's were we encounter lots of problems.

1,500 miles passing through Legion and maybe NCR land. We may need to move around the storms. With robots carrying the shit.
400+ hours if Robots have walking speed. 150+ Bike speed, this is using the straightest line, so add some hours to it, since you got to go around stuff.

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>>1686103
>>1686098
Forget map

>>1686110
And across mountains? Better off with the flyer. Otherwise we have to babysit an incredibly delicate machine for over a week and hope no asshole does potshots that just happen to hit the CPU.

>>1686116
>>Take all 5 of them, forgo the ZAX entirely. Hopefully we still get the goodies and there's enough time for blueprint now here to make a new one in the future.

With this choice that we're making they will be able to fit in our ship.

>You bought time. More time.
>But not enough.

Also we're limited on time in OP post. Since the Moss is taking over, no matter what we do. We can always come back to this vault, but even after a few hours the moss would take over the whole thing.

Somethings the AI can get are some blueprints they have, RnD can get his games, but really we can't do much that uses lots of time.

>>1686103
I don't think you quite realize how big ZAX computers are. Our ship can hold 6 adults if we pack them like sardines.

>>1686109
NCR shouldn't be a problem. For Legion... Well let's hope that with SPI's help we will be able to avoid detection.

>>1686116
I mean, if we can, we should. But I'd still like to come back for the robots and try to move them across

>>1686043
>Take all 5 of them, forgo the ZAX entirely. Hopefully we still get the goodies and there's enough time for blueprint now here to make a new one in the future.

With these five we could probably design a better computer, make it cheaper, with stolen industry and out of duct tape, protectotron parts and a pilot light.


>>1686103
>>1686109
Based off the wiki page it seems feasible that we could move / carry it with the alien craft with some degree of difficulty but it most likely would fit into the scout's hold.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/ZAX

It looks to be at most a few(4) meters long, maybe two wide and two tall.


>>1686119
Actually I'd point out they are right, we've been stealing multiple brahmin on every run into the Legion's land so chances are that the storage space works differently from how we think.

Anyhow we aren't taking ALL of the ZAX just the valuable / irreplaceable stuff we plan on replicating the rest later and rebuilding it.

>>1686119
I am talking about our tractor beam or whatever. If we could transport 6 brahmin from legion lands then we can do AT LEAST part of the computer. I dont see how our courier flew the ship with 6 brahmin sitting next to/on top of him unless they were not stored somewhere else.

>>1686121
1 Human can fit in the Cockpit
5 Humans can fit in the Storage.

Also remember AI will come with us and the ghoul. So we're at 7 people, the AI's of course can sneeze together.
The things we're getting are some important blueprints, holotapes, and other small things.

>>1686122
But if there is a chance to salvage the most important/hardest to come by bits of the ZAX we should do it.

>>1686059
Can we use our last general boon on this?

Also that sucks we can't use our robotics boon on robotic stuff.

>>1686125
We don't have any boons left.

Maybe someone could draw something relevant.

>>1686122
>>1686124
Agreed.

We should also reseal this room as soon as we are done to try and contain this moss for now. Get the AI's to seal any sorts of ducts or pipes in or out of the room.

If we are lucky we can seal the moss in there and the rest of the Vault can remain fairly functional for us to salvage or use later.

>>1686125
We used that awhile ago in the sunken city.

>>1686125
Pretty sure w used it to avert disaster during the NCR military expedition, I think we only have the robotics research boon left.

>>1686127
>>1686128
Pure disappointment.

>>1686043
>take them all and the designs with whatever else we can snatch
>if any resistant tell them nobody is left behind

So I guess we will need to find another Vault to grab a ZAX from seeing as this one didn't work out and I can't be bothered to build one.

The first logical thing to do would be to ask the other BOS groups if they know of any Vaults that they have yet to secure and if we can join them in searching for tech.

Another would be to go to the NV area. As there are multiple Vaults with advanced computation systems and such which most likely will have been untouched allowing us to make use of them.

Alternatively we could travel to the Glow and into the shit there as it is known that there was major government research and development there. So a supercomputer seems like a likely piece of technology.

>>1686132
ZAX aren't in every vault. In fact they are quite rare

>>1686134
I am aware of this but the alternative is making one ourselves.

Anyhow we might find something useful as we comb those vaults. So it has it's benefits. Not to mention better relations with the other BOS.

>>1686138
Yeah, we should try to get locations of other vaults from this one if we can

>>1686134
>>1686132
>>1686138
Here is what we're getting out of this vault today. Right now.

5 program sets = AI's
Even without the ZAX they will do what they are good at.
Each of them will bring blueprints and holotapes with them.

We get the blueprints and maybe some parts of ZAX so we can build one.
Gain knowledge to build a ZAX.

So the soils of this mission, is 5 AI's with their most important blueprints as well as ZAX blueprints and some key parts.
1 ghoul that is good at something I guess.


The future, the AI's go to work in their fields, ghoul goes ghoul stuff. And either we keep looking for another ZAX or just rest for a bit, awaiting another adventure.

I say we did a good job, we're gaining a lot more than we came with. I will say this has been a sucessful mission.

P.S We report to the BoS the result of the chapter telling of the cult and killer plants, left out the AI's, show dog tags as prove.

>>1686140
And don't tell BoS about the ghoul.

BTW, the ghoul is a great combatant the likes of Riddick and Ulysses. So we got a pretty potent companion.

>>1686140
Might want to mention to them that they did succeed in their goal of killing the super-mutant general they were sent to eliminate.


Then we head back east and get back to work on various things.

>>1686147
Yeah. Just tell they are dead. Give dog tags as proof after we drop off the others.

Then we can get some much needed parts.

Their are also factory parts in MLA lands, we get the SPI AI and us with maybe the Chinese girl. So in the future that's always a option

>>1686060
Support this.

Remind me what year it is

>>1686158
sometime in 2285
2 years to fallout 4
Fallout 4 starts oct-23-2287

>>1686163

There's a fallout mod called Resurrection, it's set in 2170 and the plot revolves around ghouls who managed to turn normal but not without side effects and great costs. It is set in New Mexico.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_1.5:_Resurrection

If we ever feel like turning ghouls normal we could get their research and improve upon it.

>>1686121
I wonder how many people we executed because of those brahim

>>1686178
Probably very few since the Legion practices private / agrarian farming communities. At worst we've made a few families far poorer but they'd probably survive.

Also we need to do the following at some point:

1) Go to San Fransisco and meet the Shi and BOS that (secretly as of FO 2) live there.

2) Go to Vault city. Gain access to their medical database via the vault computer in return for some of our own or steal it / sneak in. Will explain as we do so. Should also endeavour to acquire "Vault city inoculations" and "Vault city training" while there.

3) Head to Chicago and see if we can't find the surviving Enclave.

4) Perhaps go to the Capital wastes as well and try and get as many of them out safely or something.

>>1686205
Vault city may be fully assimilated into regular NCR with Yaunker's reforms. I can't imagine him not milking it for all its worth.

>>1686218
Very true but the character of FO 2 got shit from there and we can probably pick up such things seeing as we just need to get access to the first level of the vault / the med database. The inoculations are quite important, as they increase radiation and poison resistance permanently but they are in fact a secondary concern.


The goal is to find the design data for the "Phoenix" Implant. Which raises the energy and fire defence of the individual.

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Phoenix_Armor_Implants

This mission also grants us access to level two version of both the Phoenix and of the Sub-dermal plating but these come with the penalty of lowering the Charisma of the augmented by 1 point however it is not stated on the Wiki if taking both of these augments lowers it further or if it remains a 1 point decrease.

>>1686220
We can't have our perfect special scores we messed up!

We could take the implant so that we can develop a better version, maybe using alien materials.
You know how we managed to pack all of augs we have into our soldiers even though they didn't have 10 endurance. Our incredibly advanced medical facilities, technology and medical specialists could remove all negative effects of augs

>>1686260
True but the first level of the augment presents no penalties.

I assume the decrease in Charisma is because the second level is more visible. Thus making the augmented seem less human / normal.


Point is however it seems like useful and valuable technology seeing as the basic tech could also be applied to robots.

>>1686268
That penalty is subjective as fuck. Currently it is obvious that our soldiers are augmented but that didn't incur charisma penalty.

Maybe the augmentation in question makes person not aesthetic. We could refine that part with out knowledge.

Speaking of searching for more augs. In fallout 2 you could get increased special score by installing augs in San Francisco. I wonder if they are the same as the ones we have or if we could stack them.

>>1686268
We also already have an armour weave, don't we? Might be incompatible with the phoenix implants

>>1686280
>That penalty is subjective as fuck. Currently it is obvious that our soldiers are augmented but that didn't incur charisma penalty.
That is because, from OP's description, the augments are mostly unnoticeable except for the eyes.

>Maybe the augmentation in question makes person not aesthetic. We could refine that part with out knowledge.
Yes especially with RND.

>Speaking of searching for more augs. In fallout 2 you could get increased special score by installing augs in San Francisco. I wonder if they are the same as the ones we have or if we could stack them.
Almost certainly the same ones but we should still check.

>>1686281
The way the wiki describes it is your character can have both but I could be wrong as it doesn't go into great detail in my opinion. On the other hand I ain't gonna go playing FO 2 to find out.

Is QM kill?