"Moving back to the perks I brought up before, I would like to get clearance for firearm usage."
"For what reason.?"
"Because it would increase my ability to hunt down more mole rats while also making the activity safer for myself. In addition to that, if anything bad were to ever occur to the vault, it would be a pretty useful skill to have in my tool belt that I could use to protect Amata. Not that I think su event would ever occur, but as you know, never say never."
"Hmm, you make a reasonable argument, son-in-w. I like how you utilized Amata in your reasoning to try to vince me, so I'll give you the authorization you're looking for and we call it one of your perks for being my daughter's future husband."
The overseer, who had now bey father-in-w, the on to tell me about quite a few other perks and bes I would receive for being his daughter's partner. After he spent a long time going over ead every perk and be extensively, I asked him if he could help me out with getting a workshop/research facility set up, and he answered that it would be no problem at all to get that put together for me.
With that out of the way, we discussed several other topics before he sent me on my way eventually and as I was walking bae through the gray vault hallways; I decided it wouldn't be such a bad idea to spend some quality time with Amata, so I ged direidway and did just that.
Hours ter I said goodbye to Amata and made my way home through the seemingly endless hallways of the vault and right as I ehe front door I found dad sitting on the couch. My event filled day just about over with, I walked up to the couch my old man was rexing on and plopped down beside him and started talking to him.
The versation began with simple stuff, like how our days went before I eventually steered it in the dire of my e and, ter, my pns to set up a workshop/research facility. Following those topics, we moved onto talking about some of the other perks I got out of it, which he was already well aware of since he's the ohat had a hand iing it all up.
Upon finishing those topics, I got up and told him I had something to show him sihere was o hide it anymore. Thus, we both walked into my room, where I showed him the rest of the equipment I had been holding back from him for some time. When he saw all the explosives I had accumuted, as well as my AER 18 LMG, his jaw practically hit the floor, metaphorically speaking.
Ahh, I really wish I had a modern camera like the ones from my old world right about now. I don't recall him ever making that kind of expression. It's unfortuhat I'm missing out on the opportunity to capture his rea, but it is what it is, I suppose. But I'll definitely have to see about making a det camera when I get all the modern maery needed for its produade ter down the road.
After adding aask to my list of things to do, he recovered and rejoined me ba reality. Right as he had, he asked me why I would hide all this from him and I respohat I didn't think he would agree with me keeping a rge stash of explosives and a ser light mae gun in my bedroom.
"Of course, arent would be okay with their kid sleepio a pile of explosives that would turhing around it into a pile of ash, including you, if it were to go off?" Dad said, somewhat agitated at finding out what I've been h in my stash.
"Well, that's kinda the reason why I didn't tell you, dad. I knew you would overreact even though there's no reason to, since I made sure to make them safe to store and carry around with a spring-loaded cap that covers the arming button."
We went bad forth arguing our positions for a while before I prevailed with better reasoning that he couldn't refute. Though if I was being ho with myself, I only really won the argument because I pulled out the puppy dog eyes.
*Sigh*
"Alright, alright, you win this time, son. You keep the grenades and your ser light mae gun. But please stay away from dabbling with explosives at least and tell me if you're making a neon, so I look it over to see if it's safe and that there are no issues with your design. you do that for me?"
"Sure, I do that, dad. However, I don't think you'll find any faults in my designs because I go over my designs multiple times before I actually start produg or testing them out."
Now that that was settled, I spent a bit more time showing dad some of the things I was w on, probably causing him further stress the more work in progress projects I revealed to him. After doing so for a while, my stomach released a growl, announg it was time for dinner.
Dad was feeling hungry as well, hence we paused the reveal there, both left my room, and proceeded into the kit, where we discussed what we should have for dinner. A few dozen seds ter, we ended up deg to go with spaghetti with red saud some protein drinks to go along with it on the side for me to feed my growing muscles.
*Burrp*
"Ahh, I'm stuffed, how bout you dad?" I said with my stomach just about ready to explode.
"Yeah, I'm filled to the brim, too. That was a mighty good meal." Dad replied while rubbing his belly.
"You go rest on the couch, dad. I'm gonna up and head off to the gym."
"You sure you don't want my help?"
"Nah, I got it."
"Alright, I'll let you up this time." He said before he got up and wandered over to the coud slumped down on it, ready to pass out in a food a.
I spent the few minutes getting everything picked up, ed, and put away, and once I was finished, I sped out of the house to the gym.
An hour ter, I returned home and wished dad a goodnight auro my room to get some mueeded rest. Wheered, I id down on my bed and got fortable. As soon as I found the right position, I opened my Pip-Boy, where I was greeted by the usual freezing of time. A few seds passed when a holographic s popped up within my vision, dispying the perk sele s with a number of new additions.
[ Perks ]
Perk Points Left: 2
Level 2 Perks
| Ambidextrous | Requirements Level 2, Perception 8: Gain the ability to use both of your hands as if they were your dominant hand.
| Junk Rounds | Requirements Level 2: You craft ammo using junk. It doesn't make any sense, but it works, somehow.
Level 4 Perks
| ibal | Requirements Level 4: Wheing, human corpses regaih rapidly.
| Child At Heart | Requirements Level 4, Charisma 4: You get along remarkably well with children.
| prehension | Requirements Level 4, Intelligence 4: Gain 1 additional skill point every time you read a new skill book.
| Entomologist | Requirements Level 4, Intelligence 4, Sce 40: Deal +50% more damage to is and receive a rge amount of knowledge pertaining to that group anisms.
| Iron Fist | Requirements Level 4, Strength 4: The hardness of your fists increase and deal +5 unarmed damage.
| Rad Child | Requirements Level 4, Survival 7ee 2 HP a sed per 200 rads accumuted.
| Run 'n Gun | Requirements Level 4, Gun or Energy ons 45: Halves on spread when walking or running.
| Sdrel | Requirements Level 4, Charisma 4: Barter +5, Speech +5, and a 5% dist when trading.
| Travel Light | Requirements Level 4, Survival 45: While wearing light armor or no armor, your max speed is increased by 10%.
Level 6 Perks
| Bloody Mess | Requirements Level 6: +5% Overall damage and your eend to die more violently.
| Demolition Expert | (Ranks 5) Requirements Level 6, Explosives 50: +20% Damage with explosives.
| Ferocious Loyalty | Requirements Level 6, Charisma 6: When you drop below 50% health, panions gain 50% DR and e to your defense.
| Fortune Finder | Requirements Level 6, Luck 5: Stumble across signifitly more wealth and things you sider of value.
| Gunslinger | Requirements Level 6, +25% accuracy when using one-handed ons.
| Hand Loader | Requirements Level 6, Repair 70: You gain knowledge of all ammo crafting recipes.
| Lead Belly | Requirements Level 6, Endurance 5: -50% Radiation taken from food and water sources.
| Mad Bomber | Requirements Level 6, Repair 45, Explosives 45: Gain knowledge of certain explosive recipes along with increasing the radius of all explosives by 50%.
| Shotgun Surgeon | Requirements Level 6, Guns 45: When using shotguns, regardless of ammunition used, you ignore an additional 10 points of a target's DT.
| The Professional | Requirements Level 6, Sneak 70: Your sneak attacks with all ranged ons infli additional 20% more damage.
| Toughness | Requirements Level 6, Endurance 5: +3 DT
| Vigint Recycler | Requirements Level 6, Sce 70: Waste no material when recyg anything.
Nice I got 2 level ups this time to spend, as expected, for killing 50-mole rats. Hopefully, my guess about my stats going up with bat is correct, otherwise I don't know why sneak went up there. Maybe they just increase at random... That's enough specution about that. Let's see what new perks I have to choose from and which of them would be best to pick right now, given my current situation.
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They're not bad but I've been saying I'm gonna pick Junk Rounds for a while now and then never do, so I'll select that one first and look over the remaining choices once more... Ambidextrous would be pretty useful for a ton of different things from crafting to bat to any other task or activity that requires hand manipution... Yeah, I'll go with that.
My choices made, I firmed my perk sele and a split sed ter, the holographic s ged to show the skill distribution s.
[ Skills ]
Skill Points Left: 37
Barter: 31Energy ons: 50Explosives: 37Guns: 42Lockpick: 36Medie: 52Melee ons: 50Repair: 57Sce: 56Sneak: 42Speech: 47Survival: 34Unarmed: 40
Damn, I got a lot of skill points to spend and my skills went up by a handful of points as well. So I suppose my skills do, in fact, increase at an accelerated rate with bat. Although it doesn't seem to be random, I guess that means my stealth skill must've just been sitting on the precipice of an increase.
Now that I know my skills increase at an accelerated rate because of bat, I wonder how bat will affect my S.P.E.C.I.A.L.s, if at all. I'll definitely have to keep a close eye on my stats at all times, going forward to see if it has any effe them.
With that mystery resolved, I sed my skills again and didn't notiything else, so I moved on to see what I should i my skill points in. After giving it a bit of thought, I decided to split my skill points between repair and sce for various reasons. Though mainly because those two skills will help me with craftier gear and equipment, which will, in turn, improve my ability to survive the dangers of the wastend.
The very moment I had all my skill points dumped betweeh of them, I finalized my skill distribution. Following that, the holographic s rapidly ged again for the third time in this brief period, now dispying my new and improved stats.
Pip-Boy
Name: Harold Todd WoodsAge: 10Height: 5,5 (i and inches)Race: HumanLevel: 6Experience Points: 405/950Total Experience Points Earned: 2,905Experiee: 175%Health: 510 | Formu: Base of 90 + (Endurance x 30) + (Level# x 10) |Carry Weight: 146.5/210 | Formu: (150 + Strength x 10) |
Resistances:Armor: Body Damage Threshold 12, Armor Damage Threshold 41, Total Damage Threshold 53Poisoance: 55% | Formu: (Endurance - 1) x 5 |Radiatioance: 24% | Formu: (Endurance x 2) |
| S.P.E.C.I.A.L. |Strength: 6Perception: 10Endurance: 12Charisma: 5Intelligence: 13Agility: 5Luck: 7
| Skills |Barter: 31Energy ons: 50Explosives: 37Guns: 42Lockpick: 36Medie: 52Melee ons: 50Repair: 75Sce: 75Sneak: 42Speech: 47Survival: 34Unarmed: 40
Traits: |Gifted|, |Sex Appeal|, |Skilled|, |Take Another Rank 1|
Perks: |Ambidextrous|, |Daddy's Boy Rank 1|, |Educated|, |Human Superputer|, |Junk Rounds|, |Monstrous Physique|, |Swift Learner|
Mutations:
Gear: |12G Laser Pistol|, |Bck Alty|, |Bck Hardened Metal Armor|, 2x |bat Knife|, |Guillotine|, 10x |MFC Grenade |,|War Belt|
Loot: AER 18 LMG, 1 Big Book Of Sce, 1 Kid's Baseball Cap, 50 MFC Grenade, 194 Microfusion Breeder Cells 50 Microfusion Cells, 75 Duct Tape, 130 Scrap Eleics, 250 Scrap Metal, 5 Serrated Spear, 1 SPECIAL Book, 25 Wlue, 869 Other Misc. Junk.
Quests: 0 Ready to turn in, Many in progress, 2 pleted
Quests In Progress:
| Surpass Your Human Physical Limits | Objectives: Reach a value of 11 in every S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Rewards: New Perk?, 10,000 exp, and 10 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. points.
| Save dad | Objectives: Prevent the death of your father, James Watson Woods. Rewards: New Perk? and 5,000 exp.
| Mole Rat Exterminator | Objectives: Kill 100 mole rats. Rewards: 1,000 exp.
| Seeker Of Knowledge | Objectives: tio hoover up all knowledge in the vault library till there is nothi. Rewards: 3 Intelligence Points and 2,500 exp.
| Take Over The RobCo Facility | Objectives: Clear out all hostile forces a up shop. Rewards: Perk RobCo Certified, 5 Sce Points, 2,000 exp.
| Take Over Raven Rock | Objectives: …
| Orbital …
As I was browsing through my stats, I saw another ge that I didn't expect to see.
Ohh, would you look at that two of my S.P.E.C.I.A.L.s increased as well. I guess I really have my answer regarding bat affeg my stats now. heless, I'll still be keeping an eye oo see if anything else has an effe them other than training and bat.
After disc that, I tinued looking over my stats and was more than pleased with what I've gained from today's events, those being the increase in two of my S.P.E.C.I.A.L.s, five extra skill points, on top of the couple of level ups I earned.
Those are some pretty substantial gains for such a short trip into the old vault mines. I wish I could go ba there tomorrow to get some more leveling done, but that probably wouldn't be the wisest idea seeing how I just stirred them up. So I'll let the mole rats settle down for a det while before I return and tinue hunting them down and aggravating them, since I 't exactly face off a rge mole rat hoard by myself just yet if things were to go south.
As soon as I fihat thought, I gave my stats o look over and closed out of my Pip-Boy s, resuming time a few seds ter. And the instant it had, I was met with an overwhelming flood of information and knowledge regarding repair and sce.
It took a few dozen minutes, but I eventually awoke from my stupor in my bed and started staring at the ceiling of my room while I went over all the new information I obtained from both my repair and sce skills increasing all the to 75.
Once I processed all the information, I started thinking about several different ideas and revising my pns. After some time, an idea came to me as I started to drift off into sleep that had a good ce of helping me push my perception to 11. This sudden idea of mine would require multiple pitg maes, a few operators, or possibly some turret-targeting modules to get it all w the way I wa to.
As I was finalizing this idea in my head, my eyelids closed shut and I was out like a light zzz…
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