Jake looked at Edward relieved, "Oh, you said we have them ahead of us. For some reason I thought I heard you say they were trailing us." Jake said with a laugh. "Jake sheathed his knife. "And as for me being in D.C." Jake said with a sarcastic smile." I've been there more times then I could count. Between Scout missions for the Brotherhood, and Tech searches for the Outcasts, I basically spent the majority of my life in those ruins." Jake said "He looked to the man unholstering the ominous sword in his grasp. "Damn," Jake said taking off his power helmet. "Where'd you get that thing?"

Rice laughed. "Long story. I could tell you now, or if you want to hear it later you can. You're decision."

Jake looked to the man "I'm up for a story," Jake said, "Besides, Alfons seems to be taking his sweet time organzing his gear, so i'm sure we have plenty of time. By the way i didn't catch your name, Mines Jake." Jake said looking to the man as he held his power helmet and polished it with a wet rag.

Nememiah was intrigued. "Go ahead. As Jake said, looks like we're waiting here until Alfons makes the decision to move." He glanced across at the man the others had referred to as Alfons, although Nememiah was yet to speak with him. He seemed to command authority, despite remaining quiet for the time being. Nememiah got the feeling he was planning the journey ahead. He didn't want to disturb him - not yet.

Edward said, "Sorry Jake, being former Brotherhood I should've known you'd have been to the ruins before on patrol." He then pulled out Ol' Painless, removed the scope, and shot five tin cans in rapid succession. He said, "Guess I'm still a good shot even without the scope.

"Alan but you can call me Rice." Rice settled down, ready to recite the story he had told so many times. "There was a group of people I lived with. They were somewhat friendly, although lived underground. They had different rules but allowed me to stay there all I wanted as long as I worked for them. I helped out by cleaning and what not. The leader was Vance, and they called themselves the family. They seemed nice and offered great protection.... until one day. They said they were going out to scav, and I asked if I could join. They refused so I decided to snoop around. Karl was the only one that stayed. He ignored me so I headed up some steps I had never been up before. This was where they slept, so I continued on. The next door was locked, but one door easily opened. I could tell it was the leaders room. He had a cabinet, and I was interested. It was locked so I decided to ask Carl about it. He said he had the keys and that I would have no use for them so he once again ignored me. Then I persuaded him. I told him I needed them to get a book out of a cabinet that was locked. The lazy man allowed me to have them and I opened up the cabinet only to reveal this sword." Rice showed the man his sword at this point. "I was obsessed with it. So I ran, for no apparent reason. Karl tried to stop me, so I killed him. I was so obsessed, and I still have no idea why. I'm never going back there again. Vance is probably very... angry at me." And at that note Rice stopped, content that he had finished his story.

"That's quite a story. And an impressive blade, too. If it bites as hard as it looks it does, enclave troops aren't going to prove too tricky."

Edward said, "Well, that's an interesting story, hopefully we won't run into Vance or the rest of The Family anytime soon." He then sat on a rock and continued, "As for me, I was born in Megaton, but I left around the same time the Lone Wanderer showed up. My parents left the Capital Wasteland back when I was 20, so I don't know whether they're alive or dead. I only came back here because I happened to be close by. My main occupation is that of a scavenger, hacker, and entomologist, so if you need information on something arthropod-related, I'm your man."

"If I find anything like that I'll be sure to tell you." said Rice. The sun was now at its highest peak. It would be a good time to start moving now, but what did he know. "I wish we'd head out. After what happened to Andy last night I'm sure he... wants revenge."

Edward said, "Jericho will probably want the same as well, plus it's starting to get dark." Edward could see the sun starting to set.

"Well your lucky to have such a nice blade," Jake said, "Right now I'm working on combining the components of these two rifles" Jake said holding up His sniper and a laser rifle, "Going to try and make something like a laser sniper, this sniper is already amazing. I found it in a locked cabinet, in an abandoned shack on one of my scout missions. It had a plaque over top of the rifle that said "Victory". So that's what I call it." Jake said as he swapped the ammunition drives of the two weapons.

Jake looked to Ed, "Ha, Jericho could come out and fight if he wanted. I'm in the mood anyways." Jake said with a chuckle.

Edward looked at Jake's rifles and said, "Interesting concept, a laser rifle that can be used as a sniper rifle." He then pulled out Ol' Painless. He said, "I got this weapon when I visited the Republic of Dave, to the far northeast of here. I stole the key for the case holding this weapon and took it for myself, replacing it for a regular so they wouldn't know the difference. Since then I got a detachable scope for it, and it's now my best weapon."

((OOC: I'm off to bed, so won't be back for a while (12 hours?). Feel free to RP me, but nothing too major please. If you move out, take me with you!))

"Thats pretty sly of you," Jake said as he started working more on his weapon," I've been to the Republic of Dave once before," Jake said raising one eyebrow. "Pretty odd place. I found this bobble head there in their "Museum" as they like to call it" Jake said pulling out a bobble head from his pouch. "Pretty, pointless but I like it for some reason." Jake said looking to Edward.

[OOC: Be back in about 20 minutes im gonna take a shower]

Edward said, "You've got a bobblehead too." He then reached into his pocket and produced a bobblehead as well. He said, "I got this when I went inside a Yao Guai Den. Luckily, I'm good with animals so they mostly left me alone." He then asked, "Have you ever been to the Dunwich Building to the southeast of here?"

"Yeah, my Outcast squad went there." Jake groaned, "Way too many ferals for my liking. We went deep into that place. There were a bunch of holotapes about a kid looking for his father. It turns out, he had turned into a Ghoul. Not a feral just an unfriendly ghoul, we ended up having to kill him. I kinda' felt bad for him. While we were there my squadmate had found another bobblehead in a room." Jake put on his helmet saying "Whats up with these bobbleheads anyway?"

Edward said, "Who knows, they make good collectables though. I went there too, but that must've been after your squad was there because that Ghoul was dead, though the Feral population was still pretty high. That obelisk at the bottom sure is creepy though, there's just something about it that just attracts Feral Ghouls from all over."

"Yea that thing was pretty strange. I guess it must've attracted new ferals, because my squad went there, we basicly licked that place clean of any ferals." Jake said as he unscrewed a central chamber in his rifle."Hey, did I tell you about my trip to megaton?" Jake asked Edward.

Edward cleaned Ol' Painless and said, "No, enlighten me."

Name: Taylor
Alias: Doctor T
Age: 24
Race: Caucasion
Gender: Male
Tag Skills: Small Guns, Medicine, and Speech
Perks: Animal Friend, Scoundrel, Chem Resistant, and Chemist
Weapons: Hunting Rifle, Combat Knife
Armor/Clothing: Wasteland Doctor Fatigues

Appearence: Cornsilk colored hair, close to the unsettler style. His eyes are his most extrodinary feature, a piercing gray-blue, but more kind than anything else, however hardened by the wastes.

Unique Weapon: Syringe Gun, fires a syringe with a cocktail of chems. Can fire either lethal or non-lethal darts. The plunger is sensitive enough so that once it comes in contact, it pushes it contents out.

Taylor walked through the wasteland, cupping his hands around his eyes to look at the sun. He scowled at it before turning back to the ground, making sure he didn't foolishly trip over a rock. He drew closer to Megaton as he walked, the hunting rifle on his back seeming much heavier than he had thought it was when he set out from his home, or clinic as he liked to call it, which was located closer to the Capital, and even Rivet City. The headwrap he wore no longer helped to shield him from the sun, the fabric being worn thin by the radioactive rays, so he stashed it in his pocket and continued walking. Soon, he made out the turbine from some airplane which stood atop Megaton. He stopped for a minute and looked at it before he approached it. Outside, instead of noticing the caravan or the protectron deputy, his eyes settled on the man lying on the ground. Doctor T walked over to him and crouched down.

"You alright sir?" He asked, taking in the man's appearence. He was old and disheveled, and he appeared sick to Taylor.

"Water," The old man rasped, almost barking it at the doctor "I need water."

Taylor reached back to his belt, which held a few bottles of water, along with some buffout bottles. "Will any water do?" The traveler asked him "Purified water can be hard to come by."

The man shook his head, gasping, and rasped again "No, i need purified water. I just throw the irradiated stuff right back up."

Taylor nodded and pulled out a bottle of purified water and handed it to him "Here, just don't drink it all now. Save some for later, alright?"

The old man nodded as he peered at the water, sparkling as the sun shined through it. "Whatever you say doc."

Taylor sighed and handed the water to him. He didn't have to turn to know the man was chugging the water. Whenever someone got the water, they downed it. Never enough purified water. Taylor walked through the sheet-metal doors into Megaton, heading for the Brass Lantern, hoping he could rent a room there.

Jake took a deep breath and began his story.

"Well it all started with my Outcast squad. My captain said there was a man here who had some strange looking trinkets. So we decided to come and see what he had. On the way here there was a man who had just found a plasma rifle and was picking it up, but my captain ordered him to give him the rifle. The man refused which resulted in my captain grabbing and restraining him. I told him to knock it off and that we should just go. But instead he punched the wastelander. Now I hate it when innocent people are hurt, so i went over and tackled my captain giving the man a chance to run. But my idiotic squad mate ended up shooting him, and killing him. So it ended with me Punching my squadmate and breaking my captain's arm, and then three super mutants came and hauled them off somewhere. So thats how I ended up in Megaton, and I ended up fighting Jericho because he was the one who had the tech I wanted. So I asked him for the tech, he refused and ended up pointing a gun at me. so thats how it all happened." Jake took a deep breath. "Aww man" Jake said in a dissapointed voice. "My squadmate had a bobblehead, I should've gotten it before the super mutants took him. That would've been nice to have. The fight between my squad actually happened right down their next to that rock." Jake said pointing behind Edward. "You can see the blood on the sand." Jake looked at the man who walked into Megaton. "Another tourist." Jake said.

Edward said, "Strange, all the Brotherhood Outcasts I've met were arrogant, bigoted [censored]s, but you're a pretty cool guy. Now lets see if Alfons is done planning."

[OOC: He was just on like 5 minutes ago and now hes offline and now hes back]

Edward walked over to Alfons, but he still looked like he was deep in thought, so he left him alone. He then said, "So how'd you join the Outcasts anyway? You seem more like you'd fit in with Lyon's Brotherhood, well, before they cleared out and left with only a residual force at the Purifer."

"Well my squad basicaly nuked an Enclave mobile base, without permission, so my squad and I were exiled." Jake laughed and looked to Alfons, "Jeez hurry it up Alf' i'm about ready to off and leave myself!" Jake said to Alfons.