After that we split, Piper went back to Diamond city with those "strange body parts" of Kellog in a ice box and I said her that I would go to my house take some stuff. I lied, I intended to go to the police station near college square, to see if I still can join that brotherhood of steel, and learn more about then. By what I saw, they cold be the real kidnapers of my boy, or at least the best chance I have to find him.
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Making my way downtown... |
In my way, I found a woman selling a "Brahmin" a two headed cow. I bought one and asked her to send it to my home, maybe people there had some use. After that I kinda felt stupid, there is no guarantee she would deliver, and there is not thing like consumer rights court to ensure that these days. Thinking better, it would be very stupid to make such acquisition from a random person you met in a road even before the bombs... I think the radiation is frying my brain.
All the thing was actually surreal, I just finish the deal and a giant deathclaw emerged from the woods just to be killed by a barrage of laser by a group of BoS personel in power armor. After that I needed drink something, so I went to Trudy restaurant. And there something just threw me back to my era... Her son, now more clean of drugs tryied to make a pass at me. It was nasty, and I was not interested at all, I declined and when I turned back he gave me a sound slap in the butt. I was angry and Trudy did nothing pretending she saw anything. And thinking I risked my life for them.
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That slap echoed through all commonwealth |
After that I made my way to the police station. I asked Danse if I still can join. I expected at least some joking about changing my mind after seeing their airship, but no, he was full professional and kinda honored that I decided to accept his proposal. He presented me to the other members of his squad and said he can only gave me the title of initiate. The other guy from the squad, Rhys, acted hostile towards me while Haylen was very positive. Danse told me they will stay in the station for some time and I should help the squad with their missions until he call me by radio to go to their airship meet their commander and recieve proper equipment.
I went to ask Rhys about what I could help and he confronted me about my objectives. I decided to be true with him and said about my abducted baby. He admited that was reasonable but he still untrustly towards me. He asked me to prove myself cleaning the ghouls from college square. Haylen was more receptive, she asked me how Rhys was treating me and I feel she did that part from preocupation and part for "worries" about something else. Like, she was very bad to hidden her emotions towards Rhys, I did not needed much time to notice that (and later by talk I confirmed that), and not like she was jealous or something, but we all fell kinda worry when our platonic lover knows someone new. In her case I think she should move from that stupid guy, and also that she had not worry... He definetly does not like me.
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That slap in the butt still worst this one in the ego |
Then I decided go to Diamond City and see what Piper discovered with Valentine. I arrived there on evening, Piper was in Valentine office, she was actually trying discover things about me! Damn Paparazzi! We talked about the events in Fort Hagen, and how I killed our main clue about where my son could be. Then we talked about the strange dispositive in Kellogs brain and Valentine come with an idea, go to a place called memory den in Goodneighboor and see if they can use their tech to read the dispositive. It was the best we had and it was worth to try.
I followed Nick to this goodneighboor, hoping the name was not ironic. We had to fight some raiders in the way and damn, I am getting good at shooting, at the same time I feel myself more... ruthless? I guess my maternal instincts is making more agressive, no time for those who want be between me and my son.
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Headshot |
And yes Goodneighboor was a ironic name, from outside the city looked like a mix of brothel and drug alley. From inside the city looked like outside. The people are nice, but the vibes not much. As soon I entered the city a goon tryied to extort me some money, then the Mayor appeared and... just killed him in my front. Geez, such brutality!
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Never needed that before the bombs, never intend to need that after, I can make robots to do this... |
We then proceed to memory Den. The place was actually the old Gordon's Olympia Theatre, and inside they put some VR machines. For what I understood they were using those machines to make people revive their old memories. Was actually an interesting concept and kinda tempting, revive the life I had before the bomb, but I have more important things to do: pursue the location of my son, before he become just a fragment of the past.
Downstairs, in the underground there was a Lady with labcoat, Valentine explained her what we need to do and she first refused, but when she discovered that could bring a clue of the location of the institute she agreed to help us. After some try and error we ended in a system where Valentine would emulate the enviroment to the Kellogs implant work and I would navigate in his memories like an VR simulation. It sound incredible even for what I saw in robco, and I saw a lot.
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I hade enter naked in thos experimental ones and Dr Amari put electrodes even in my ass. |
I saw some of his past memories, his childhood living with an abusive drunk father. The family he tried to create and the murder of his wife and daughter, he meeting the meeting of institute and so. This made more understanding of his character but not of his acts. If he really felt the pain of losing a spouse and kid, why did he did the same with me? There is no excuse.
From all memories that survived in that fragment I was cursed with the one of the day I saw him first time. I had t saw, again, he killing my husband and helping the abduction of my kid from his own eyes. I also saw him looking at me and fell his horny feelings towards my body in that day... that revolted so bad that I almost waked from the simulation because my hearthbeet rised astronomically. If, as after I learned , Dr Amari did not injected me a superstimpack I could even die.
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He looked me, like someone look a snack in a supermarket shelf |
Then I got a memory of his life in diamond city. He was with a 10 years boy... m-my son! I felt like it was shawn... not just a motherly feeling, but also he looked like his father in young, but... there was something of... something artificial... I could not say why. The rest of the simulation I just went passive... we ended getting two more clues to find the institute, they use a teleportation, and there was a runaway scientist of them hidding in a place called glowing sea. I existed the simulation dizzy and almost faint, Dr Amari helped me. I told her what I got, she advised me the glowing sea is a giant radiactive hellscape. I told her I will find a way to search the man in that place, but actually I had no clue what to do.
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Not mentioning the pain on chest, ass, I had cramps too... |
Bewildered I headed for the Goodneighboor trading area. I found an assaultron that referred to her as a woman (and I agree) and a ghoul who I had some conversetion of old times. I bought from them a top and new pants. Nick went back to diamond city, and I decided to go home to thing better about all this information I have. Also I noticed that was already morning and therefore...
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Finally fully dressed! |