Quest Four: Pip-Boy Acquired

[littlemiss101]

 [Seriously Mae is starting to hate this place. Messing with her mind all the time. She can't find a fail safe anywhere and she's homesick for the wasteland. THE WASTELAND. There is something wrong when you wish you were running away from a super-mutant camp. So she's not expecting much for today either. And then she see's the box by the mailbox. With her name on it.

And inside.. .....Pip-Boy Yes. Today you can find Mae:


A. Sitting on the lawn as she puts her Pip-Boy on her arm and starts to examine it.

B. She's sitting in the park. And while she was smiling before, now there are tears running down her face as she listens to a recording of some kind. There's a man's voice coming from the thing on her arm.]

"-I thought about it for a long time, but in the end I decided it was best for you not to know. So many things could have gone wrong and there's really no telling how the overseer will react when he finds out.-"

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[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[Oh hey, look who's not in a tree yet. Though Crowe approaches her cautiously, looking worried.]

...Mae?

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

[But squirrel boy...and when she hears him, she quickly shuts the recording off and wipes her eyes.]

....hey Crowe...

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm sorry, I-I just wanted to make sure you were okay.

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

I'm....fine.

Just listening to some of the holotapes I have on here.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's... that's the thing Lark had, too. [It was strange to see it again.]

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

Yeah?

[Holds it up so he can see it.]

We get them when we're ten.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

[He looks it over.] They do all kinds of things, right? All sorts of readings?

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

Yeah. There's the radiation counter down there and this is my overall health.

[Starts pointing out things on the main screen.]

It also keeps track of everything you have with you and you can use it to store notes and holotapes. As well as set an alarm and make to do lists.

It picks up radio signals. Has maps of the area as you explore it. And you can use it as a flashlight too.

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Wow, that's pretty impressive! Even this can't track radiation or my health. [He fishes his iPhone from his pocket.]

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

What's that?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

Ah, it's called an iPhone. Does phone, video, photos, text, plays music, and there's a ton of things you can do with them besides. I didn't have it very long before I got to Mayfield so there's not a lot on it. And I can't use any of the phone or text, of course. But it came to me with music from home, and this.

[He opens up the photo album. Inside are pictures he took around his home and at school, of his friends and family.]

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

Oh wow.



If it's a phone doesn't it have to be connected to something?

[perfektsymmetry.livejournal.com]

They do so wirelessly through signals from towers and satellites. Same with everything it does, really. So I can't do much unless I already had it on here. But it's good all the same. [He'll turn on the music now, starting up a song.] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5CUHHGlQg0)

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

[Walking up to her from the porch, Mike peers at Mae and her new toy]

"What's up Mae?"

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

[So much grinning as she holds up her arm.]

I got my Pip-Boy back.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Congrats!"

[wait for it... The gerbil is getting up to speed.... Look at that wheel go!]

"What's a pip boy?"

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

Everyone in the vault get's one. It does all sorts of things. It monitors your health and radiation levels. Keeps track of everything you have with you. You can use it to store notes and holotapes. It picks up radio signals. Has maps of the area as you explore it. And you can use it as a flashlight too.

I've had it since I was ten.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Oh! So its like Skeets... Wait... Does it talk back and complain if you're going to do something stupid?"

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

Nope. That's Charon's job. The Pip-Boy's pretty quiet. Unless the radio's on.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Well, that's kinda cool. I guess the town's starting another wave of passive aggressive give backs for dicking us around."

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

Seems like it.

Doesn't make up for messing with my head. But it's nice to have something from home back.

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Nothing makes up for that. Mind control is dirty."

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

It really is.

Did you get anything back?

[boostedfailure.livejournal.com]

"Not yet, but the mail is slow, and all I really did was spill my guts to..... Someone."

[littlemiss101.livejournal.com]

Someone?