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Good? Evil? The Wastes only accepts survival.; (solo)
Topic Started: Aug 26 2009, 08:50 PM (303 Views)
Orion The Free
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Orion had left Bucket Town a couple of hours ago, it was still fairly bright out and the sun would not go down for several more hours. He had left Bucket Town, not to travel somewhere else, but to clear his head and have some time to think to himself. His little rooftop would have been fine if were not for Milo and his insecent questioning, that and the fact that anywhere else in town was full with people talking about the recent caravan and the "signbacks" that may or may not be headed this may, or for that matter, may or may not have exsisted at all. They could have been invented as a marketing move. Although, that wouldn't have accounted for the wouded guards...

Orion surveyed the area around him. He saw nothing more than dirt, rocks, and the occasional shrubbery. Behind him in the distance was Bucket Town. He saw something in front of him that was very unusual rock formation: a small series of rock pillars in the distance. Orion had not seen a formation like that anywhere else in the infinte wasteland that was the world. He decided to take a closer look.
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"What's that you see? A wasteland? No. What I see is the most beautiful thing in the world. I see a new beginning, a clean slate for humanity. A time to forget our past and begin again."
Orion "The Free" Keagan
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Orion The Free
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As Orion walked toward the strange formation he couldn't stop thinking about what had happened earlier. When he was standing back on that roof, he could have sworn he heard a voice call his name, it was just a whisper on the edge of hearing, but he heard it all the same. Maybe his hard life was catching up with him, maybe the radiation sickness he fought with never was truely gone, or maybe he was just going crazy. But still... he couldn't shake the feeling it was something else. He just couldn't remember what. He had noticed that to. Even though he didn't like to think about the past and didn't refer to it often, he still noticed when he couldn't remember it. It had seemedd that overtime he had lost his memory of how he had came to Bucket Town and what had happened in the past month before that. He felt lost and confused, two of the worst things to have happen to you out here, they could get you killed.

Orion was jerked out his concentration by a flicker of motion in his periphial vision. He snapped his attention to his left, raising his crossbow if whatever was there was hostile. However, he turned and saw that there wasn't anything there.

Orion look away from the empty space to see that he was a lot closer to the formation that he would have expected. He estimated that he was only about 100-150 feet away from it. Suddenly he heard a woman's scream come from somewhere near the formation, Orion to off at a dead run towards the rocks, hoping to get there in time.
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"What's that you see? A wasteland? No. What I see is the most beautiful thing in the world. I see a new beginning, a clean slate for humanity. A time to forget our past and begin again."
Orion "The Free" Keagan
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As Orion ran across the hard packed earth he grew closer to the rock formations, within seconds he was within 50 feet of them. He could now see thta they were in fact not rock formations, but old wooden posts, possibly from an old building from before the war. He grew closer still. When he was about 10 feet away Orion saw the source of the noise: slightly beyond the remains there was a small camp. There was an old torn tent and a burned out campfire. He saw that there was a woman and a child, standing over them was a burly man.

The man was screaming and cursing at the woman and held a knife in the air as to stab her with it. Orion saw the danger that the woman was in, he raised his crossbow and aimed for the man's chest. He fired.

The man dropped like a rock, as many would int he situation. The bolt had lodged itself in the man's mid chest. The woman let out a scream as the man fell bleeding to the ground. She turned to see Orion standing as the bottom of his duster whipped in the wind. Her eyes grew wide as her mind finally grasped what had happened. She let go of the child and threw herself over the body of the man he had just slain and she began crying.

At first Orion was perplexed by the situation, then his mind grasped what had actually happened. While the man was probably going to beat this woman, he wouldn't have killed her. Orion had killed this small family's only chance for survival out in the wastes, while the man was cruel and dangerous, he could survive out in the wastes.

"Why?" was all the woman could say, over and over again she asked why, not at Orion, at least not directly. Orion looked upon the situation and saw what he had done. There was nothing he could do for them now. Orion turned and walked away from the ruins and back toward Bucket Town, he wondered if he had really done the right thing. "Right thing, now that's a laugh. Good? Evil? The wastes only accept survival."

((Done now.))
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Orion "The Free" Keagan
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Well, it was Zila's bright idea to enter me as a candidate for Moderator Selection, and he told me I could grade this thread as a test. So, I'm grading this thread. Enjoy :D

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Well, you didn't necessarily outright loot anything on the way over, but it was a great piece of writing and I can't let you go back to Bucket-Town empty handed after heartlessly murdering a drunken man (just kidding).

So no positive/negative karma boost, because you thought you were doing the right thing but just screwed up. However, we'll just say you popped into a busted truck somewhere along the way back, eh?

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Rewards
- 1x Can of Baked Beans
- 1x Small Flask of Whiskey
Darrel Cohen, the smooth-talking "Gentleman Thief" (Level 3)

Evan Laramie, the down-home gunslinger (Level 1)
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Locked. See Radkings post for rewards.
Eli "Slim" Ambrose
SPECIAL: 3, 9, 2, 7, 9, 3, 7
Level: 5
Bucket town reputation: -175
Equipment
Weaponry: Molotov, Cherry bombs, Combat Knife, Laser pistol, Tack Mines, Smoke grenades, Syringes.
Armor:Post-war suit Tattered leather jacket
Inventory
Homemade shotgun, Gumballs, Bedspread
Mentats x3, Psycho x2, Jet x1, Wiskey x2, vodka
4 1/2 x Hides, 15 LSB dollars
Appearance
Caucasian
Very tall, lanky, and slim, jet black hair in a greased into a subdued pompadore style. Dark eyes and a cleanshaven face. Brown Windowpane suit.

Kelly "Featherweight" Capozzi
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