Actually Crim, forget private chat. I'd just hit a writer's block, that's all. Barbara: They were, but the funny thing is you as a working class citizen never thought about it like that. Two things kept us going against our morals working on that project. One was the hope that if this stuff worked that nuclear war could be avoided and two we hoped that with our paychecks we could eventually buy our way into somewhere safe.
"But...it didn't. The foundations for the project would later be used by the Enclave almost forty years ago when they almost wiped out all mutated life in America." Damien looked at Barbara. "I know of this because....forget it, that's a long story." "Can't really say that I would have blamed the pre-war world. The last part of the Resource Wars was a war of survival, only one was going to survive. America had plenty of good and honest people, it was just corrupted by the tyrannical dreams of evil men. The threat of violence alone is a deterrent to prevent this, I just can't believe that it came to nuclear war."
Barbara: one didn't have to survive though, both could've if they'd pooled together their resources and worked together rather than selfishly going at each other's throats. If the world wasn't like this then we could've pooled together some of the greatest scientific minds from all over to help create things that would've helped the human race grow. (hey Crim, if I made Damien in fallout NV, how would you best build him? Referring to his SPECIAL and skill sets)
(In my own fanon and in roleplays, Damien is ridiculously powerful. In the game due to limitations and so forth, Intelligence and Charisma would be 7 while that last point would go to Strength. I'll go into detail in a message.) "The world was fighting over oil, wasn't it?" Damien asked Barbara. "One invention that could had ultimately saved the human race is synthetic oil, created through the smallest traces of saltwater and minerals. If calm minds prevailed, and global research was focused solely onto that, then this would have been a very different future. The OSI are busy fighting against themselves to see the answer to a major problem they suffer from. It's looking at them in the face, and they are idiots not to realise it." "It's something that has been in my head for a while, and my sister thought about the ideas to make it work. Imagine the old roads and highways, transport between California and Vegas is possible again. Old gas stations see activity again, all that sort of stuff. It's possible, if we take the Mojave."
Barbara: Oil would only be a temporary solution, synthetic or not. You need to think renewable energies and stuff like solar power, hydrogen fuel cells and windmills.
"I suppose. New Vegas has Helios One and Hoover Dam, so that's electricity and water all sorted out. Synthetic Oil might be temporary, but it's still a temporary solution until we discover a replacement." Damien told Barbara.
Barbara: yeah. That and I'm unaware of if you can refine synthetic oil for use in petrol or diesel engines. If you can, good. If you can't, meh it'd only a minor setback. In any case... (Do you mind If I just message you a condensed version of the story?)
Alright! Drumroll please for the condensed story of how Barbara became immortal (basically) and tried to overthrow the old world U. S government! (Note: there 're a few elements that are different from what I said about in the RP) The story is that Barbara started working for the government's super soldier and later on a bio-chem/biological weapons programme. During the time in the super soldier programme she found files that revealed the tests were being performed unethically on prisoners of war and people abducted from all over the now resource war torn world including protesters who'd campaigned against the resource war. Horrified by what she'd seen she'd chose to take it to her superiors however her superiors already knew about this, so as not to risk her going rouge and releasing the information to the public they made her a test subject in the super soldier experiments. The government told any family and friends she had that she'd been involved in a freak accident at work and that she'd been killed, so the family wouldn't raise questions regarding Barbara's whereabouts.
(Time-skip to next morning? Going to properly introduce Jack and his little associate, who is the Harley Quinn to his Joker.)
(sure, after all I can go through the rest of the story with you another time if you want) The next morning, the gang ready themselves for the attack on the base. Abbey took on the role of an anti-materiel gunner by taking position on a hill which overlooked the compound. With a perfect line of sight and a very powerful gauss rifle in tow, she had the means to destroy buildings and other large assets. Jenny set up shop in a similar fashion but as more of a sniper who was a fair distance closer to the battlefield. She loaded up her custom hunting rifle with hollow point rounds, with a few armor piercing rounds on standby for foes with harder heads. Will and Barbara were with Taylor and Edward on the ground getting ready to attack the compound with full force.
Damien was acting as a Sniper with Abbey, being fortunate enough to have his silenced Sniper Rifle at such a good vantage point. While looking through his scope, he noticed something occurring in the middle of town. Surrounded by around six other goons was a women in red and black revealing clothing with white face paint and blond hair, holding an enormous super sledge in her hand. On the ground was what appeared to be a single goon, who actually looked like a deserter to Jack's criminal empire, on his knees and pleading for his life. These cries for mercy fell on deaf ears, as the woman gripped her super sledge, took a swing like a baseball bat and smashed it into the head of the traitor, causing his head to explode on impact violently. Once down; she laughed like a maniac as the rest of her goons went around patrolling the town. Damien then held his finger to his ear to radio everybody on the ground. "I want her alive, we might squeeze something out of her." Damien told the group. "I'm going to work myself downwards and join up with the ground force. Me and Abbey can't stay in the one place as Snipers, Jack will tear us apart. That is...if he's around." Once the dust settled, the ground force and snipers got themselves ready to attack. All they needed was the right time.
(I can assume they're talking on some kind of radio) Jenny: want who alive? :/ Will: a description would be nice of who we're not killing here.
(Yep. Damien and Edward have their earpieces, I'm going along with the idea that your group can receive the frequency through a pipboy.) "You can't see her? The woman with the Super Sledge, the one that just executed that person over there. From where I can see you guys, she's well within your point of view" Damien replied before noticing something about the woman. Before walking back to the abandoned hotel that acted as a fortress, the woman took a flare gun and shot it into the air for a reason. As the bright light went high into the sky, the goons got together and were placed on high alert. "Look's like going in quiet is gone, they must have realised that something isn't right." Damien messaged the group. "When your ready..."
(well I was thinking about like the old style army radio things that look like a box with the speaker and mouth thing sticking out of the bottom) Jenny: alright then. Will, can you go up front? Will: Sure. Me and mercy should make short work of most of the foot soldiers. Abbey: (over the radio) I'll take the first shot. I have my eyes on a truck that'll make a massive mess and hopefully distract them so you can start the assault.
Damien looked down the sights of his rifle, watching the foot soldiers in their patrol before Abbey took down the first foot solider with a solid shot to the head. Damien then followed up not long after with a precise shot to one of the goons. The signal of sniper fire echoed across the landscape signalled the attack. Abbey shot a round that turned the truck into a giant frag grenade, ripping anything nearby to shreds. Taylor then took her Plasma Rifle and shot anyone that tried to advance against them, while Edward ricochet bullets of walls that killed more people then the bullets he had. Pretty soon, they all began to advance quickly up the streets. Damien then nudged Abbey to follow him down their positions and rejoin the ground force, since Jack would had obliterated them if they remained idle.
Abbey then loaded up her gauss rifle with explosive rounds and overcharged MF cells and turned her attention to destroying any cover the enemy might be using. With the setup Abbey had, she could very easily punch a man sized hole in the side of a building or destroy a concrete bollard. Jenny, Edward, and Taylor took cover behind Will, picking off anyone who managed to avoid the barrage of grenades that will was firing from mercy. While all that was happening, Barbara flanked around and attacked from behind the enemy forces using high explosives and her assault carbine Barbara: (over the radio) I have the clown girl in my sights. I'll take her out and bring her to the campsite we made last night.
