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Vauxall Victor; Solo introduction RP
Topic Started: Nov 14 2010, 02:40 AM (157 Views)
Golgotha
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The old gas station was falling apart but after a succesful raid, Eddy had managed to find a bottle of water, old, disgusting water but clean water none the less. He swigged it to quell his ravenous thirst and poured the rest on his dirty face and left the bottle standing up by a wilted cacti to drink up the last drops. He quickly pulled his interest away from the flowering plant and turned around to the dune end ahead of him.

Eddy kicked at the dirt across his shoe and fixed his eye down the sight of his gun, not two hundred feet ahead were three mean looking molerats, they're fangs where tipped with blood and they where huddled around a corpse. He tensed his muscles. Breathed in. And let a short burst explode from the barrel of his MG 42. The beasts looked up just in time to see most of the bullets fly overhead or around their flanks, one or two found their way to their targets but it wasn't good enough. The molerats turned and began to sprint towards their new meal besides one which was limping terribly.

"Shit!" Eddy mouthed to himself, he fired off another burst but the caliberation was now wrong and not a single bullet hit the molerats. He lowered his gun by a few degrees and fired another burst, this time one of the molerats fell, riddled with bullets. This didn't stop his partners however who had made it within one hundred yards, and when your a midget, one molerat is trouble enough.

He was about to lug his gun up and run when he heard a sudden explosion behind him. He rolled away from his gun for a second to see a man standing some feet away with a hunting rifle smoking from it's barrel. A molerat hit the ground leaving just the limping one to try and continue it's assault. Another man armed with just a pistol walked forward carelessly and waited for the thing to come within thirty yards range. He knelt and fired the beretta two times, each shot successfully met it's target and the lumbering molerat tripped and skidded into the dirt.

Eddy looked up wondering if these people where allies or enemies, when he was young his mother had told him that naughty squats where taken away by circuses, although he was a boy at the time, this cautionary tale was not too far from the truth.
"Thanks, I could've been a gonner if you hadn't turned up," Eddy smiled, chest heaving.
"No problem mate, we were just rolling by when our car broke down some eighthundred yards back that way," The man pointed with his finger but it wasn't visible. "Names Jimmy, and this here keen eyed bloke with the pistol would be Maxis," The two men exchanged handshakes with Eddy.
"Say, I worked at a garage, I have some skill with fixing cars and I could have a look at it for you, interested?"
The men looked at each other and nodded, "course there's pay in it for you if you fix it well enough that we can get back to base little man," Maxis said.
Eddy flinched at being called little man but he shrugged it off since he didn't have any money on him at the moment and the chances of him succesfully killing and skinning a decent sized mammal where almost next to none.
Lidie Rider: Level 3 Raider
Age: 25-28
SPECIAL: 6.9.7.4.6.6.3 Condition: [x][x][x][x][x][x][x][x][x][x]

Weapons: Post War Musket (tier 1) Tribal Sword (tier 2) Flash bang x1 snub-nosed revolver x1
Clothing: Basic Raider Armour (tier 2)
Equipment: large hide x2 medium hide x1 psycho x3 gnarled root x1 mapulator 300, secret holotape, pre-war photo, hair gel, x1 bobby pin

Kills 12

Companion: Ghilian Kheroseen.
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The trio walked towards the car which was billowing steam from under the hood, Eddy smiled
"Ah, this would be a Vauxall Victor with a microfusion conversion! All the way from England, I'm suprised it still works, these conversion cars usually didn't stand upto the nuclear fallout."
He looked at the side and noted a poorly sprayed sign across it,
"Who are the Texas rangers? A football team?" Gauss asked with no hint of a joke and the men turned to look at each other with questioning faces.
"Your not from here are you Ed?" Asked Maxi jokingly.
"Why am I missing something?"
"Yeh you are, we're the protectors of the common man, the Rangers, stopping the scourge of raiders from-"
Ed sighed, "I've heard it before, they have them in Washington, they have them in Peoria, come one, get this hood up for me and I'll take a look.

The two men obliged after a second of consideration after the dismissal of one of the most powerful groups in Texas, this man was either clueless, stupid or had no reason to care, they thought.
"Ah, see look here's your problem, I know that microfusion cells are hard to come by but you can't run on empty on these things, if you do too many times you are gonna run into problems with the fuel convertor, oh and the chassis is mucked up, I can fix it, probably with a little help from some of the materials in the gas station but it's gonna take a little time, I might need your help as well guys,"
Ed spoke like a professor at a lecture, he kicked himself, one of the reasons why he was kicked out of Macomb, people don't like a know-it-all.
Lidie Rider: Level 3 Raider
Age: 25-28
SPECIAL: 6.9.7.4.6.6.3 Condition: [x][x][x][x][x][x][x][x][x][x]

Weapons: Post War Musket (tier 1) Tribal Sword (tier 2) Flash bang x1 snub-nosed revolver x1
Clothing: Basic Raider Armour (tier 2)
Equipment: large hide x2 medium hide x1 psycho x3 gnarled root x1 mapulator 300, secret holotape, pre-war photo, hair gel, x1 bobby pin

Kills 12

Companion: Ghilian Kheroseen.
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After an hour of scavenging Ed had found a suitably sized length of metal that would serve to fix the chassis, his size allowed him to pop underneath the car and the front was fixed quickly leaving the microfusion convertor. Although there were spare cells in the boot the convertor was old and needed proper repair, Ed grabbed one of the car guides from under the dashboard but the writing was old and faded, also, Eddy was barely literate and most of it was gibberish squiggles to him anyway.
"Any idea guys?" Asked the midget while scratching his bandana covered head.
"No, your the techy, shouldn't you know how to fix this?" Replied Maxis forcefully.
"Hey, these conversion contraptions are nasty pieces of work, even a pre war mechanic would have a hard time working this out, my suggestion is try to scavnge some petrol, lubricate them fuel cells with it and then make the best of both," Ed took one more look under the hood and then slammed it down
"Perhaps the gas station might have a little?"
"You kidding Eddy, them stations where defunct before the war, no petrol since 2061 remember!" Jimmy cried out with a look of hoplessness for the midget spread across his face.
"Yeh but that doesn't mean there was none left. Just because petrol became worthless as nuclear cars became increasingly popular, doesn't mean that they didn't have any left, it just means that there's less reasons for people to scav it all," Ed stared triumphantly towards the building and the two men smiled.
"Could be right...no harm in looking I s'pose," Maxis sighed.

It was lucky they did look too, for sure enough a canister of dirty, slimy oil was found, battered and hidden under a pile of waste and rubble. To be fair, this was not unlikely, with owners of small time petrol station owners hoarding small amounts of petrol before they converted their stores to fusion stations, perhaps to sell on the black market later on, perhaps to barter in a new, darker world, the motives are unknown and different.

"Ok let's see if this works," Maxis smiled, crossing his fingers.
Lidie Rider: Level 3 Raider
Age: 25-28
SPECIAL: 6.9.7.4.6.6.3 Condition: [x][x][x][x][x][x][x][x][x][x]

Weapons: Post War Musket (tier 1) Tribal Sword (tier 2) Flash bang x1 snub-nosed revolver x1
Clothing: Basic Raider Armour (tier 2)
Equipment: large hide x2 medium hide x1 psycho x3 gnarled root x1 mapulator 300, secret holotape, pre-war photo, hair gel, x1 bobby pin

Kills 12

Companion: Ghilian Kheroseen.
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The lubricated rods slipped into the converter effortlessly and when the car switched on, a cloud of billowing steam erupted from within but quickly subsided and the apparently 'familiar' rumbling began to show that it was 'working.'
"Y'know, if the car is making that noise regularly, you need to get a new car!" Ed smiled broadly.
"Do you know how hard they are to find in working condition? We're not Brotherhood, we don't have APC's just lying around, although I'm sure we could grab one from them..." Maxis joked.
Jimmy clambered into the drivers seat and crunched the gear stick forward without using the clutch, Ed clasped his eyes and his ears almost at once.
"I suppose this is goodbye Eddy Gauss!" Maxis spoke, "We'll see you round, if you ever get stuck, we're wandering the area." At this he climbed into the car and was about to drive off but he turned and leant out the window.
"Sorry mate, nearly forgot your pay..."
Lidie Rider: Level 3 Raider
Age: 25-28
SPECIAL: 6.9.7.4.6.6.3 Condition: [x][x][x][x][x][x][x][x][x][x]

Weapons: Post War Musket (tier 1) Tribal Sword (tier 2) Flash bang x1 snub-nosed revolver x1
Clothing: Basic Raider Armour (tier 2)
Equipment: large hide x2 medium hide x1 psycho x3 gnarled root x1 mapulator 300, secret holotape, pre-war photo, hair gel, x1 bobby pin

Kills 12

Companion: Ghilian Kheroseen.
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This was a solid middle ground piece. Nothing really jumped out at me, but I can't find any huge faults either.

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