Goldie is exploring the metro system.
(So far the service is lousy - the trains are not on time, she can't find a valid ticket
anywhere and when she went to complain, the staff was dead. She'll write to their boss about this lacking service, see if she don't!
)
Ahem, back to the regularly scheduled program.
As usual in the metro, there are ferals down there.
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http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260915603.jpg... Luckily, they're too big a target to miss.
Going up to the surface again, she encountered a group of Brootherhood soldiers. A bit warily, she http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260915654.jpg when they wanted help in reinforcing their besieged comrades.
Even though they encountered a ehemoth, http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260915702.jpg and hardly needed her help at all.
Afterwards, http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260915732.jpg to come into the GNR building to rest and recover.
She didn't really need it but accepted anyway, although she felt a bit uneasy.
Inside, http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260915774.jpg told her that a recon armour was primarily made to be worn under a T-45d armour, not on its own.
As thanks for her help, they offered to equip her with some high quality combat armour instead.
Still a bit uneasy but not about to look a gift horse in the mouth, http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260915807.jpg.
"That's much better!"
Even so, Goldie decided to shift into a jumpsuit and jacket instead, though she packed and stashed the combat armour in a secure spot for future use.
Heading towards the Jefferson memorial, she encountered http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/images/10386-1-1260915336.jpg a nest of super mutants.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260915851.jpg she discovered that the super mutants had made a lair in the memorial as well.
Thus, she http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260915926.jpg http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260915988.jpg http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260916052.jpg http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260916086.jpg.
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Elsewhere, on a clifftop near Megaton, http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260916240.jpg heralded the arrival of http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260916301.jpg.
Her designation is Paradox, a scholar-soldier of the Alexandria L-space library who travels throughout the dimensions to observe, record and research the various worlds and realms.
Scarcely five minutes had passed however, before Paradox was attacked by a native.
Since there are a lot of dangers in the time/space dimensions, the Alexandria scholar-soldiers are equipped to deal with most of them.
She returned the fire and, not knowing the strength of the native, used a full-powered blast. http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260916384.jpg
The native had friends though, and they didn't take kindly to their comrade being blasted into low orbit so she was http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260916463.jpg http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260916570.jpg.
A few hours later, she encountered an animal. http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260916616.jpg
A bit frustrated, Paradox couldn't help but vent a bit.
"I'm a damn researcher! I just want to talk! Why does everyone and everything here attack me!? What kind of world is this anyway?!"
Exploring a ruin nearby she deduced that it had been some kind of center for education. Albeit using very primitive techniques.
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260916674.jpg With some kind of chalk. How quaint."
Going to explore the interior, she hesitated before going in. http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260916754.jpg
"James, configuration C-6."
With a few quiet clicks, the arm cannon retracted itself into the "skin" of her suit, leaving a normal, gloved hand.
The sight and smell inside http://www.fallout3nexus.com/imageshare/images/36532-1260916828.jpg.
The air was thick with the smell of blood and guts with an undertone of urine and feces. Aside from some skeletons there was also mutilated bodies nailed to the wall and hanging from chains in the ceiling. Inside a cage, a filthy, naked young female was sobbing quietly, her wrists tied together and shackled to the bars.
"How
barbaric!"
Hearing a scuff from a shoe or boot nearby, Paradox turned towards the sound with a grim expression.
A few commands through her combat implant extracted her energy sword from her suit and then she moved in search of the person who had made the sound.
It wasn't long before she met the person.
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