by jondude » Sat Nov 09, 2024 12:55 am
"Sounds good. I'll get Shawn working on your food. Should only be about five minutes or so. Here's your towel in the meantime.", the barkeep says, reaching under the counter and then giving you a towel. It's off white looking things, clearly having been used a lot. But that was no surprise since that was most things in the wasteland. It smelled and felt clean, and that was what mattered. With that said though he steps away, heading toward a door between sets shelves of drink behind him and yells your order through the door to the cook, who you guess is Shawn. From there the bartender goes back to serving some others waiting for drinks at the bar.
With a few minutes to yourself you have a few minutes to check out the the rest of the bar to see if there was anything interesting going on or if there was anyone that catches your eye. At first it isn't all that much, folks playing some friendly games of poker with small sums of caps on the line, more still just hanging around casually at their tables and booths talking and drinking, including a few of your fellows from Devin's recently transformed caravan party. You could probably go play some poker with people if you wanted, maybe make some money, but it might be a decent source of info. Might be one of those things that you might want to wait to get some proper clothes for though, then again your... distracting state of dress might work in your favor.
Just when it all seems to be mundane though you hear some voices to your left, and glance over to see two people tucked in a corner booth that was slightly out of sight when you came in. Inside the booth are what appears to a regular human man, with some rather large googles over his head and what appears to be the tattered outfit of field researcher of some sort. Across from him though was what appeared to be a remarkably busty snake woman, her skin... scales you guess, a mix of bright blue and white. She has no hair to speak of, but her the sides of her head fan out like the hood of a cobra. She was dressed in what appeared to be your standard wasteland scavengers gear.
"Come on Saph. I think I got a solid lead! Please!", The guy says in a pleading tone.
"No Liam! No. Nuh uh, no way!", The snake woman, Saph, replies. She gives Liam, her eyes narrowing as she crosses her arms underneath her impressive chest and shakes her head. "Every time I try to help you we always get way over our head, and just about every time I end up financially and sometimes literally fucked!"
"Yeah but when it does work out, it does work out riiiight? Enough to make up for any unfortunate experiences!"
Saph turns her head away in annoyance, but doesn't seem to be disagreeing. "No.", she says simply.
"Aw come on! This could be big! The first domino in the chain to cracking the great mystery!", Liam says, gesturing his hands around in a rather animated fashion. "If we get into this lab it could be the first step into figuring out why those Vaulters are transforming everyone. Don't you want to to find out why they're doing it. Why they did it to you?"
"Of course I do!", Saph spits back, "But you want to to go into a nuked military base filled with ghouls, super mutants, night stalkers and... who knows what else! And that is just on the surface! I like to think I'm pretty good at what I do but I can't do everything here. If you want to do this, you need to get more then just me to help you, and given where you want to go I imagine that might be difficult. If you find someone willing to put up with your eccentric ass though you know where to find me."
And with that Saph. "Wait, Saph!", Liam calls, but the snake woman just gives him a stern point, silencing him. With that she walks out of the bar, leaving this Liam character alone where he just sighs into his hands in exasperation.
"Here's your food miss. Enjoy!", The bartender says suddenly, dropping a plate of hot food in front of you along with an actually cold Nuka Cola. Before he goes though you ask him if he's heard anything rumor wise as you, and he ponders it for a moment. "Well, a little bit. Newest word around town is that a new group of people got turned into anthros by the mystery vault psychos but uh... I reckon you know all about that one. Other then that there is the usual tensions at Disney. Though you might be interested to hear that there have been some Brotherhood of Steel sightings to the south of Disney. No one is really sure if its actually them or where they are based, but the rumor is they're gearing up to foray into the wild side of Disney trying to get into the castle. Other then that, local farmers, the few we do have, have been complaining about mole rats a lot lately. A lot of extermination notices on the community boards near the gates. Not glamorous, but an easy way to make some money if you're so inclined.", he explains.
Right as he finishes saying that though you get a sudden surprise when a wet tongue briefly slides across your butt. You look over your shoulder, and find yourself looking into the eyes of rather large dog who's breed your not immediately familiar with, though he has a rather regal air to it, and a rather energetic demeanor. He seems quite friendly. "Oy! Kane! You're distracting the lady, stop that! Come here you!", The bartender says. The dog Kane looks at you a few moments longer, but soon goes toward the bartender at his assistance. "Silly dog. Don't you be distracting the customers. Or at least the ones with no pants.", The bartender says, scolding the dog verbally but at the same time giving the dog a scratch behind the ear that he seems to appreciate.
