Ruby looked around. It was ... breathtaking. Frightening, still, yet somehow less than she had expected. They hadn't been immediately set upon by mutants or monsters. No doubt there were plenty, but Ruby wasn't going to question that little bit of luck. "What about the station?" she suggested. "I remember ..." What she remembered was all from bright, breezy posters and movies showing clean, efficient and comfortable transport from modern hubs that held coffee shops and all manner of comveniences. But while these had probably all gone (probably - Ruby couldn't quite shake it), there were also underpasses between platforms and maybe these would still be roofed over and dry. "I think I remember that they had some lower level rooms, maybe they would be shelter for a night?"
John looked around covering his eyes before he exited the vault with his hand he squinted as his eyes slowly adjusted. As he slowly took in the sights around him, It was new to him the outside like everyone else. John took a moment to look around and looked at Darwin. "Darwin with your tools can you detect high level radiation from afar. If so it maybe good to have you near the front when we begin traveling to a destination we decide to warn of any possible health risks." John suggested as he began trying to look afar for the best place to head first. "Maybe to that city over to the east, That might be a good place to start heading to might find something or possibly someone alive there." John said adding his ideas to the group.
"If I wanted to stay in a sheltered location I'd have stayed down in the tomb, I need to find the closest city." Oliver's mind was taken away from Ruby when he heard John speaking of a city to the east. "What city, one from before the war? Mark it down on my Pip-Boy 3000 and we can set off." Oliver held out his arm waiting for John to mark it on his Pip-Boy 3000.
Tony shielded his eyes from the sun's harsh rays of light. He felt like he was on fire, but the fire wasn't particularly hot. It was a warm sensation. No doubt what he was feeling was the Sun's heat as the Vault Tec info videos informed. It was an odd sensation, and yet at the same time, it was pleasant. After waiting for awhile for his eyes to adjust to the Sun's light on his eyes, Tony kept his eyes squinted until it felt comfortable to open them a bit more. @dx144 "Doubt any of those pre-war maps are going to lead us to any actual cities now." He answered Oliver, "hell, for all we know, the whole place could just be one huge crater. If anything Ruby is right, anything located underground are going to be the places that weren't affected by the blasts as much, and may provide the best shelter for the night. Wouldn't be surprised if there are any of those bastards holding out in their though. On second thought, those dip shits are probably rolling in their own feces somewhere as we speak." He rubbed the bottom of his chin and began to think a bit. "If we did happen to run into any groups of people out here that aren't murderous psychopaths then we can offer them fresh water and supplies for shelter. Can't expect fresh water to be something that's easy to come by in this irradiated shit hole. As long as the water chip for the Vault works, we should be able to keep a fresh source of water going for a long time."
"Yeah, you're probably right but even then those bastards might have come from the city area, meaning we go there and we can take out the Raider's home just as they did to ours. I doubt these savages can even speak English let alone understand the concept of trading." Oliver still held his arm out still wanting to know where the city was once located.
"Ollie, we don't even know how many of them could be there, or even if they are holed up there in the first place. And even if we did find their home, there could be an army of them waiting for us, and they could have kept actual weapons stashed. We don't exactly have enough equipment or the people to wipe out a potential cities worth of them. I hate to say it, but we have to take this with a bit of patience." He looked away from Oliver for a moment. His own bloodlust could have surpassed Oliver's need for vengeance, but he was smart enough to realize that they didn't have the resources or manpower at their disposal to make such an attack anything but a suicide run. "We need to stick together, there's strength in numbers. We'll have our vengeance in due time. Right now, we need to focus on purely our own survival out here. I'm not going to lead Aggy like a lamb to the slaughter."
"Every minute we wait..." Oliver's mind stung again with the memories. A few moments later Oliver spoke up finishing his sentence. "Fine then Tony, you're in the right again. Get me a bigger gun, a lot of ammo and I'll kill anything that lives in this accursed Wasteland." Oliver went back into silence and retracted his arm and tried to suppress his mind.
"well we could see if there are any radio frequencies going on that we can folow" as she spoke selina looked at her pip boy "if we did we could proberly use it to triangulate the location of the closest signal and then if we are lucky we could also find out if anyone broadcasting would be able to disclose where the raiders came from"
Caroline, being uncharismatic (stat joke yo), kept silent and to herself. She had lot of thinking to do. Everything was thrown upside down, inside out, ripped apart and smashed together. Nothing made sense, nothing felt right anymore. Their peaceful life was in chaos now. Leaving the Vault? Seeking revenge? Living on the outside world? While others carried the bodies, gathered equipment and argued, Caroline assisted them, but on autocontrol, her mind doing feverish soul-searching. When she finally snaps out of it, she finds herself standing at the Vaults doorway, staring into apocalyptic wasteland. The light burns her, the air burns her, the smells burn her, every stimulus burn her. The sensory overload is whelming. Had the Vault always been so stale? Was this real life? She had made up her mind, following others, but that it would be this powerful experience? So exciting? Somewhere deep in her mind intro of Gonark the Barbarian plays out.
Like many a vault escapee before her, Agnes stared into the sky, her pupils shrinking as the sun stared back. "So bright..." She lowered her head, averting her gaze to the ground. It took a moment before she could see again, but even the earth seemed to reflect light... and heat. "So hot..." It was amazing, this world outside. Agnes had been convinced that she would die in the same vault she had been born in, and that the earth had become nothing but a sun-scorched wasteland. The signs of civilisation left from what she thought to be before the war were already more than she'd expected. She'd tuned out the others talking, and just turned around to look, taking in this brave new world. "Wow... this is amazing..." Yes, there was fear, but it was quickly subsumed by her just being stunned at these surroundings and their natural beauty, imperfection, compared to the vault's clean cut sterility.
