>>2023426
>Scavenge

>>2023426
Ey!
This didn't die
Sup op

>Scavenge

>>2023454
>>2023456

>>2023454
>>2023456

>Scavenge

You take a detour, going into a crumbling pre-War restaurant, with an unlit sign reading "Biscuit Boys".

>Roll 1d100 to determine loot.

>Roll 1d100 to dete

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Rolled 95 (1d100)

>>2023492

Rolled 88, 70 = 158 (2d100)

>>2023492

Rolled 14 (1d100)

>>2023492

>>2023501
noice

>>2023516
OP is using roll under iirc, so... no u!

>>2023501
>>2023516
>>2023507

>95

While searching the kitchen for food, you come across a hidden panel hidden in the wall right next to the broken down refrigerator. Hitting the switch on it, you hear something in another room move. You track the source of the sound to the manager's office, where you see a hatch in the floor has opened up, revealing a ladder leading down.

You climb down the ladder and find yourself in a very small bunker. Quickly searching the room, you find some leftover supplies, along with a skeleton holding onto a 10mm Pistol.

<I>
+1 10mm pistol
+11 10mm rounds
+2 Purified Water
+2 Cram


You leave the bunker, and head back out on the road.

As you walk down the road, you check your map...the next stop is Terra Alta, and that's when things are going to get dicey. Terra Alta is on the edge of the cloud layer. TelMo's below the cloud layer, and though the Minutemen have some sort of tech that lets them get rid of the fog in small areas, you're still going to be dealing with the fog and snow on the way in.

>I need to find clothes and a gas mask
>I'll be okay if I move quickly to TelMo

>>2023543
Rules are a bit different for loot tables

>>2023580
>I need to find clothes and a gas mask.

>>2023580
How far away is it? Would tying a piece of cloth around face help us get to the settlement? Do we have any actual idea where to get gas mask at this juncture?

>>2023580
>>I need to find clothes and a gas mask
But if we can't find one we should go anyway, just wrap a bandana around the face or something

>>2023580
>I need to find clothes and a gas mask

>>2023718
>>2023591

You make a decision that you should get a gas mask and some heavier clothes.

You keep walking, taking a stop to rest your feet, and as you stop you hear something approaching...

>Hide
>Investigate
>Run
>Write in

>>2023746
>Hide

>>2023746
>Hide

>>2023746
>>Investigate

>>2023777
>>2023793

>Hide

>Roll 1d100 for sneak check

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Rolled 50 (1d100)

>>2023857

Rolled 35 (1d100)

>>2023857
Let's gooooo!

Rolled 4 (1d100)

>>2023857

>>2023873
>>2023888

>35 out of 31: FAILURE!

You try desperately to hide yourself, only to snap a twig underfoot.

"Halt! Who goes there!" shouts a voice that, judging by the metallic echo, is from somewhere wearing a helmet.

You stand up and you don't believe what you are seeing. It's a knight wearing a full suit...made entirely out of bottlecaps. He's carrying a compound bow with steel cables for strings. He's nocked an arrow with a modified fusion core for a tip.

"Be you friend? Or be you foe?"

>"Friend, definitely friend!"
>"...Are those bottlecaps?"
>Write in

>>2023970
>>"Friend, definitely friend!"

>>2023970
>"Just a lonely traveler. If I have to choose, I'd rather be friends..."

huh, a weirdo

>>2024181
>>2024192

"Friend, definitely friend!" you say. The knight lowers his bow. "Then hail and well met, traveller! I am Norman, Knight of Nuka."

(TBC tomorrow, not feeling well)

>>2024376
Get well OP.

>Nuka? As in... Nuka Cola?

>>2024376
>>2024382

"Nuka? As in Nuka Cola?" you ask. "Verily," says Norman. "Though, as of late, we've been in search of a much greater beverage?"

>"Greater than Nuka Cola? I don't know, that stuff's pretty good."
>"Thank God, I was getting tired of Nuka Cola."
>"Hold up, you're looking for soda? Judging by your armor, I'd assume you had plenty of it."
>Write in

>>2026158

What made you look for another, erm... cause?

What does a... beverage knight... even do, anyway?

>>2026168
"What made you look for another, erm... cause?" you ask.

Norman looks around, as if about to tell you a secret and wanting no one to hear it. "We are on a quest for a soda that is transcendent in flavor..." he says quietly. "A drink known only as 'Hank's Root Beer'. There's bottles of it scattered throughout the Big Dark, but legend says that somewhere below the cloud layer is a massive stockpile of Hank's."

>"That's a lot of effort to go through for some root beer."
>"So is that why you're out here?"
>Write in

>>2026214
>"So is that why you're out here?"

>>2026214
>"So is that why you're out here?"

>>2026217
>>2026277

"So is that why you're out here?" you ask. Norman shakes his head. "That's not why I'm out here at the moment...our steed has fallen and I was sent to assess the damage."

>"Steed?"
>"Need help?"
>Write in

>>2026292
We? There’s more of you?

Anything I can do to help?

>>2026294
"'Our'? There's more of you?" you ask.

"Yes," answers Norman. "I am just one part of the Knights of Nuka. Most of us are stationed to the southwest, in Boom Town."

"Anything I can do to help?" you ask.

Norman laughs happily. "That would be wonderful! Our steed broke down up the road, and we could use someone to cover us while we make repairs."

>"Sure. Anything to lend a hand."
>"Sorry, not interested."
>Write in

>>2026445
>"Sure. Anything to lend a hand."

>>2026450
Supporting

>>2026445
Alright, I can do that.

>>2026450
>>2026482

"Sure. Anything to lend a hand." you say. "Excellent! To the steed!" proclaims Norman.

He leads you further down the road, where you see the 'steed'- an old Nuka Cola truck, with the wheels replaced with modified Sentry Bot legs. You see more people in bottlecap armor, as well as one in a suit of power armor with a Nuka Cola paint job. The one in the power armor turns looking at you. "Who is this, Norman?" he asks. Norman clears his throat. "This is a friend. He's agreed to cover us while we repair the Steed."

"Very well then," says the man in power armor. You climb up on the 'Steed', scanning the horizon for hostiles.

>Roll 1d10 for Perception

Rolled 9 (1d10)

>>2026553

Rolled 5 (1d10)

>>2026553
Don't know if a 9 is bad or not so

>>2026565
>>2026622
>5 out of 7: Success!

After about a half hour of waiting, you see a trio of raiders approaching.

>Warn the Knights of Nuka
>Start shooting
>Write in
>Do nothing

>>2026652
>Warn the Knights of Nuka
We have company

>>2026659
Support

>>2026652
>Warn them

We're a stealthy sort, it's better if we have them getting everyone's attention before we try shooting things down.

>>2026659
>>2026682
>Warn the Knights of Nuka.

"Hey, we got company!" you yell

"To arms!" cries Norman, drawing his bow. The Knights ready their weapons- more compound bows, along with a few hunting rifles and pistols.

You think you can get a shot of before they see you.

>Roll 1d100, shoot with your rifle
>Roll 1d100 shoot with your pistol
>Write in

Rolled 94 (1d100)

>>2026727
Rifle!

>>2026727
Are they actually attacking?

I'd say get ready but hold fire until they make a hostile move. If they are already moving in weapons drawn though,
>shoot with rifle
and keep the pistol ready for when they close in.

>>2026734
Christ, I think we blew someone's head off.

Rolled 85 (1d100)

>>2026727
right, forgot a roll

>>2026736
Nope. Roll under, remember?

>>2026734
>>2026756

Your shot goes wide and you swear under your breath. You need to get a better gun.

Meanwhile, the Knights fire their bows at the raiders, and when the arrows hit, the fusion core tips explode into mini-mushroom clouds. The knights manage to take down two of the raiders, but the survivor pulls out a frag grenade and lobs it at the truck....

>Jump down, grab the grenade, throw it back.
>Run for it
>Write in

Rolled 96 (1d100)

>>2026772
I didn't say it was an *enemy's* head we blew off.

>Throw grenade!

>>2026772
>Grenade
>Truck engines
>Sentry bot engines

Damn.
>Jump down, grab the grenade, throw it back

with rolls like that... it was nice knowing you guys

>>2026775
>>2026776

>Roll 1d10 for Agility check

Rolled 10 (1d10)

If this were a roll-over quest we'd be fantastic right now.

Rolled 10 (1d10)

>>2026779
>>2026780

No kidding.

>>2026780
>>2026782
...I'm gonna let you guys take a Mulligan. What are the odds of that?

Rolled 7 (1d10)

>>2026822
If we get two more 10s I say we switch back to rollover because that'd be a sign of something absolutely insane. Also, dubs confirm mulligan is a good idea.

Rolled 2, 9, 9, 3, 4, 3, 10, 7, 6, 9, 7, 2, 5, 6, 6, 1, 3, 1, 6, 1 = 100 (20d10)

Test run. Please disregard.

Rolled 4 (1d10)

>>2026822

Alright, what's the worst that could happen?
Blowing up in a cloud of hot ions, that's what.

>>2026839
>4

You dive off the side of the Steed, finding the grenade and chucking it over your shoulder back at the raider that threw it. There's the sound of an explosion and shrapnel tearing flesh.

The Knights cheer, having narrowly avoided a fiery death.

"Excellent work, friend!" cheers Norman. "You have done a great service to the Knights of Nuka this day!"

The Knight in the power armor approaches you. "Norman's right. Without your courage and quick thinking, we would've lost several Knights and the Steed. If there's anyway we can repay you..."

<I>
>+200 Karma
>You are now Liked by the Knights of Nuka!

>"Well, I'm pretty shoddily armed for the Big Dark...I could use some weapons."
>"I'm heading up to TelMo. I could use a ride."
>"I know it'd be asking a lot for a suit of Power Armor, but maybe you could teach me how to use Power Armor?" (NOTE: There won't be an opportunity to get Power Armor for a rather long time)
>Write in

>>2026890
>"I know it'd be asking a lot for a suit of Power Armor, but maybe you could teach me how to use Power Armor?" (NOTE: There won't be an opportunity to get Power Armor for a rather long time)

Tempting, but I am hesitant. It really is quite a big thing to ask off the bat... maybe if MC could frame it as a jest.

Anyway it could bite us in the ass since we don't have training for it, it will attract attention and we're going to be dependant on fusion cores.

>>2026900
Nevermind, I'm dumb, blind and illiterate, and also suck dicks.

>"I'm heading up to TelMo. I could use a ride."
getting through the cloud to civilization is our most immediate concern.

>>2026890
>I'm heading up to TelMo. I could use a ride.

>>2026909
>>2027008

"I'm heading up to TelMo. I could use a ride." you say. Norman chuckles. "A modest request!" he says happily. "We'd be happy to oblige!"

.----

You spend the next day riding with the Knights of Nuka, talking with Norman on the way.

"So, what's your story?" he asks.

>Tell him the truth
>Make something up
>Write in

>>2027100
>Tell him the truth
"retired raider", looking for a new life.

>>2027107
>Tell him the truth.

"I'm...an ex-raider." you admit. "But the other raiders turned on me and left me for dead, so I decided I needed to leave that life behind...but now I'm not so sure what to do with myself..."

Norman gives you a pat on the back. "Well, I hope you find your way in life." he says.

(Gonna warp it up tomorrow, feeling tired.)

>>2027304
(Whoops, must've been more tired than I thought...overslept.)

The Knights double check the doors on the Steed when they begin going under the cloud layer. You shiver, feeling the cold seeping in, and your PipBoy still clicks slowly. Norman seems to huddle up. "Dreadfully cold." he mutters.

After enduring the cold, you eventually hear your PipBoy go quiet. "We're getting close to TelMo." says Norman. Indeed, it's only a few minutes later when the Steed comes to a stop. The back door of the truck opens up, revealing the settlement of TelMo. Fog condensers line the road leading in, protecting TelMo from the mist.

"Here you go," says Norman. "Once again, thank you for saving our Steed."

>"It's no big deal."
>"Hey, if I find some of that Hank's Root Beer, I'll let you know."
>Write in.

>>2028444
No worries, will keep an eye out for drinks

>>2028444
>"Hey, if I find some of that Hank's Root Beer, I'll let you know."

>>2028514
>>2028522

"Hey, if I find some of that Hank's Root Beer, I'll let you know." you say as you get off the Steed.

You take a deep breath and walk towards the gate, wondering what you'll find in TelMo

<I>
>Quest Completed: Dear Hearts And Gentle People
>+250 XP


(I think that' a good place to wrap up.)