OOC: I am sooooo sorry. I was about to put another post to finish that one. At this point I shouldn't be anywhere near you guys. I am so sorry,I was literally starting the second part when I noticed your post. I have a great idea that I hope to influence you guys a bit with. Can you delete that last post. Once again I am sooooo sorry.

Nikolai breathing got heavier and heavier as the shooting stopped and someone stepped foward. The gun was shaking as he pointed it,he had never held a un before in his life and now he was going to die he thought. Nikolai almost cried when he saw that beutiful yellow 110 across the vault security armor.

"Sir! We have a survivor over here!" Soon two more men in vault security armor stood beside the man as he patted him on the shoulder. "Thank god we found somebody alive here,we were starting to think we were too late. The vault security officers were starting to laugh relizing there were at least not alone anymore.

At the end of the hallway two more people came walking towards them. It was a woman wearing security armor,and a man with greying hair wearing a normal vault jumpsuit. Nikolai gasped when he realized he was looking at Overseer Baldwin. Even in this state of panic,he walked dignified with his hands behind his back,scanning everything around him. "Overseer...w-what are you doing here sir?"

He gave Nikolai the look of a general addressing his troops. "I'm protecting the people of this vault of course. You youth have kept this vault safe and operational for years without needing me. It has always been the duty of every Vault 110 Overseer to trust their vault to those who understood it best,but now I am truly intervenning. When these savages stormed the vault,I took it upon myself to reinstate vault security for the first time in nearly 55 years.

Chief Koleman,give this man an approprate firearm,he can barely hold what he has now."
The woman traded her 10mm pistol and police baton for Nikolai assault rifle. Giving him an encouraging pat on the shoulder saying,"dont worry,Ive only used a gun for 18 minutes now,you'll get the hang of it." Nikolai looked at his new weapon and felt confident again.

"Are you going to D Block?" The overseer told him they were on their way to the vault door and give what help they could,thay didn't have the time of munitions to secure or search anymore of the vault. One of the guards interuptted him saying,"Uh,Hoover is checking C and D Block sir the intruders haven't gotten that far sir. He insisted that would be where survivors would most likely be."

Nikolai thanked them and hurried onward hopefully this Hoover person would be helpful,but one thing is for sure he had to get to the armory in C Block before makeing the escape with his parents.

Harley and Kate were moving carefully through the corridors. At each corner, Kate would hide and Harley would check the corner was clear, which so far, most were. Harley tried giving Kate one of the revolvers from his toolbox, but her hands were shaking so much that when he put the gun in her hand, she nearly pulled the trigger by accident and just couldn't hold the gun still. So she kept holding the wrench.

"Where is everyone?" Kate asked as they crept down the corridor, still holding Harley's belt.

"I don't know, maybe they're all dead" Harley said, they hadn't seen any of their friends, only freaks, "or maybe they went to try and get out".

As they were about to check another corner, a voice from Kate and Harley's PIP-Boy's both said:"To all surviving Vault Dwellers, please make your way towards the Vault Door if you wish to live. These invaders are depraved and deadly, and they can't be bargained or reasoned with. Once again, please come to the Vault Door if you want to survive."

"[censored] what the hell is wrong with those pricks? The door? How the [censored] are we gonna get up there?" Harley had no idea how they were going to get up to the door, it was quite a fair way and they would encounter a lot of freaks before they would get there.

Just as Harley asked how they were to get to the door, Kate looked up at the to of the wall, "Vents! We'll use the vents and crawl through them to the entrance"

This is one of the reasons why Harley liked Kate so much. She may have been terrified beyond comprehension, but she was smart when she needed to be. The vents were perfect, they were big enough to crawl through and they went everywhere all over the vault.

But Harley had no idea how they would navigate the vents, unless they could first get to Engineering bay 1 and get the air ventilation schematics, which was pretty much a map of the vest for the engineers to use when doing repairs.

Just as Harley was telling Kate what they needed to do, they heard footsteps from around the corner. Kate quickly hide in a nearby doorway while Harley readied himself for how ever many freaks would pop round the corner and try and kill him. There was only one. Harley held the gun up, pointing at the corner of the wall, waiting.

A freak emerged from around the bend, one lone freak. Before he could look at the gun pointed at his head, Harley had pulled the trigger. The bullet flew into the freaks head causing him to nearly do a backflip, he landed on the floor with a thud and a loud crack when his head came in contact with the floor.

Harley quickly replaced the bullet in the gun and searched the freak. He had no weapons, only a metal lighter and few of those bottlecaps, which he threw into his toolbox. He went to the doorway to get Kate and they went around the corner and headed towards the Engineering Department.

BRIEF CHARACTER UPDATE:

Occasionally I will post Brief character updates allowing everyone who is taking part and those who are reading to see exactly where all the characters in play are and what they are doing; to help the game flow, to avoid confusion and also for reference purposes...

(If you want to join the game or you want your character removed from the game, please contact me with a private message)

Max Strive: At Vault Entrance
Status: Waiting

Sarah Strive: At Vault Entrance
Status: Waiting

Ashley Strive: At Vault Entrance
Status: Waiting

Jonathan Hunt: Going to Vault Door
Status: Running

Sheena: At Vault Entrance
Status: Waiting

Ryan Sammuels: In Med-Bay
Status: Defending

Girl: In Med-Bay
Status: Defending

Harley Andrews: Heading to Engineering Department
Status: With Kate

Kate: Heading to Engineering Department
Status: With Harley

Nikolai Laurence: Heading to Block C Armoury
Status: Finding His Parents

Caine Deckard: At Vault Entrance
Status: Waiting

Christine Kendal: At Vault Entrance
Status: Waiting

Steven Strive (Blunt): At Vault Entrance
Status: Waiting

Jessica: At Vault Entrance
Status: Waiting

Paul McAlly: At Vault Entrance
Status: Waiting

Richard Warren: At Vault Entrance
Status: Waiting

Judith: At Vault Entrance
Status: Waiting

James Richards: At Vault Entrance
Status: Waiting

Lisa Parker: At Vault Entrance
Status: Waiting

Brizo: At Vault Entrance
Status: Waiting

Isaac Isiniji: At Vault Entrance
Status: Waiting

Overseer Baldwin: Searching for Survivors
Status: Last Stand

Vault Security 1+2: Searching for Survivors
Status: Last Stand

Hoover: Searching for Survivors in Block C + D
Status: Last Stand

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Kyle Whitmore: DECEASED
Status: Smashed Skull

Jimmy: DECEASED
Status: Throat Slit

Ronnie Mclain: DECEASED
Status: Concussion/Loss of Blood

Francois Jermane: DECEASED
Status: Torture

Elisha Davidson: DECEASED
Status: Torture

Zereth Acranum: DECEASED
Status: Hanging from Ceiling

Luke Sensus: DECEASED
Status: Decapitated

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Steven was on top of the door trying to open the damn thing. It hadn't been open in over 200 years, it didn't seem like it was going to start now...

Max was lying on his back with his head and hands stuck inside the control panel trying to repair the damage done...

Maybe the door was never supposed to open...

Caine, Isaac and James were guarding the entrance door and if anyone tried to attack them, they were on it; looting weapons and supplies and distributing them to the group, not to mention they were building up quite a collection of bottle cap's which to all was completely obscene... why would anyone carry round bottle caps? People put it down to keeping tabs on how much everyone had drunk... maybe a competition?

The rest were staying out of sight, scared, waiting for either the raiders to break through or the entrance to open, whichever came first...

Richard and Judith had sent out a message to all Vault Dwellers with an update they made to their pip-boys. The message said that there was hope and there were survivors at the entrance and for anyone still alive to meet them there. The group would stay as long as they could but they couldn't hold the raiders off for long, they were outskilled and outnumbered...

If anyone was going to meet them they needed to meet them now...

...All of a sudden, the group heard, "MAX IS THAT YOU?! HELP US! HEL..." coming from around the corner followed by a scream of pain and a handful of gun shots... then there was silence...

Max got out from the Control Panel and said "Isaac you take over with the control panel. Caine, James, come with me. We need to see who's out there...

Max grabbed his hunting rifle, loaded it and him, Caine and James headed down the corridor very slowly... when they rounded the corner they saw two dead bodies on the floor...

It was the corpses of Francois Jermane and his girlfriend Elisha Davidson... they were bruised and cut all over and their jumpsuits were torn to shreds... it appeared they had had one hell of a bad time trying to escape and they were just about to make it to safety but died on the last stretch...

Whoever did this had ran off... maybe to get reinforcements?

Then Max tuned in to what sounded like someone gasping for air... Max signalled Caine and James to follow him and they went further down the next corridor and walked through the door at the end...

They looked around and saw one dead body on the floor but it had been dead for a while. His head was seperate from his body... it was the body of Luke Sensus, troublesome young lad... but the breatheing was louder than ever... It appears he too nearly made it out...

Then something dripped on to Caine's head... Caine reached up to touch and see what it was that had just landed on him and looked at it... it was blood... they all looked up and what they saw repulsed them...

it was the bartender, 17 year old Zereth Acranum hanging from the ceiling by chains, with hooks through his hands, legs and neck... he was still alive but barely... Caine took it upon himself to put him out of his misery as there was nothing they could have done to help him... it was for the best...

The group looked at each other... whoever these invaders were they weren't human... they all headed back to the vault door...

Richard decided to add an addenum to Judith's message. He said, "If you havent figured this out already, your best bet will be the vents. Just be careful, the invaders are everywhere. They may even be close enough to hear this message." He then said to Judith, "The next modifiaction we're making is a keyboard, if we survive whatever number of those psycotic thugs that end up zeroing in on this message."

Shortly afterwards, they heard screams and found Francois and Elisha's dead bodies, as well as Luke's body on the floor, the head missing. They looked up and saw Zereth hanging from hooks on the ceiling. After Caine put Zereth out of his misery, Richard threw up on the floor. Being a Vault 110 Dweller, death by accident was a regular occurance, but the sheer cruelty of the invaders was something else entirely.

Guys, just to let you know I am reading these threads I have a couple of points to make.

1. Watch the bad language and do not attempt to censor words yourself. Just type the words you wish to use and let the forum censor do its job, just don't end up with lots of [censored] tags.

2. Whatever the rating of Fallout is, the forums are rated as 13+ and as such descriptions of scenes that include excessive blood and gore are not permitted. I don't want to spoil your fun but you do need to tone it down a bit.

OOC: cool, i'm all over it...

*goes back and edits a few things*

thanks for the heads up

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When Max got back to the Main Vault Door, he signalled that Caine and James should guard the door again and carried on trying to get the vault door open...

A few minutes later the whole room lit up, and the console for the door booted up. "Steven, I think we have something. Are you nearly done up there?"

Max turned around and shouted to the group, "See everyone? We are almost out. Everyone will be just fine" Max said with a grin...

Everyone felt so happy. They felt so trapped and they just wanted to get out... they weren't sure what was on the other side but they knew it had to be better than death... or was it...

OOC: Edited again


Isaac stared in excitement as he watched lights all around him, followed by the siren of the door opening, but it didn't open fully. "[censored]" thought Issac as he ran his hand through the now sweat drenched hair of his. The door was pulled opened alright, but when it was being rolled to fully open it, the door jammed. Isaac instinctively ran over to the door and began trying to push it open. Useless...

Richard and Judith looked on as the sirens sounded and the door started to open. Judith said to Richard, "Remember when we were here talking about getting to explore the outside. Well, it looks like we're going to do so really soon." Richard just said, "I know, it's the beginning of an adventure."

Jonathan was almost at the door. He saw bodies two on the floor and one hanging. Damn! He ran over and checked for any signs of life, there were none. He turned the corner and was just in time to see the vault door beginning to open. "Hey guys I made it! But Ryan stayed behind." He looked at the floor. "What are we going to do, Wait or go?"

"Well the door is jammed" Max replied, "We are trying our best to get it open but now it's only a matter of time before we get out of here... let's hope anyone who is coming with us get's to us before we get the door open because once the door is open there is no reason why we should stick around and be lambs to the slaughter..."

Max added, "...and for all we know, there might not be anymore survivors..."

Caine stood in front of the massive cog-like door and lit up his last smoke, frowning as he stared into the empty pack of cigarettes. "Who cares about survivors? I just hope some cartons of cigs survived the bombs." he said half serious.

He noticed no one was watching their backs, heading back to the door way and drawing his .223. "Lucky you slumps got a true blue gunslinger on your team, any one of the psychos could sneak up and turn you into a shiskabab of vault dwellers if it wasn't for my impeccable vigilance." he said in between taking drags off his cigarette.

Ryan studdied the girl laying in front of him. A quick splint might get her moving.

Ryan grabbed a crutch and broke off the top, and grabbed some bandages. He took the bottom of the crutch and gently placed it on her leg, and wrapped it up, creating a makeshift splint.

Ryan crawled up and took the girls face in his hands, making her look him in the eyes.
"Do you think you can move?" Ryan asked in a lowered voice.

The girl looked down at her leg, and back up at Ryan. Her chest was heaving, and tears were filling her eyes. She began to shake her head no.
"No, listen to me...We have to go now. The rest of the vault is going to open that door, and were going to be left alone. We have to move!" Ryan hissed.

"Give me another shot of Med-x." She wispered.

Ryan shook his head.
"It will put you to sleep. I already gave you some...You will just have to deal with it." Ryan said, and stood up, and threw togather all the medical supplies he could carry in one bag, then helped the girl up, and gave her some support. Togather, they hobbled over to the ventalation system. Ryan climbed in first, and then slowly, pulled The girl in.

"Stay close to me, and dont make a sound." Ryan wispered, and began wandering through the vents.


It was impossible to know how much time had passed. It felt like they had been wandering the Vents for hours, guiding themselves by short peeks through the vents, and by voices. Finally, Ryan Recognized some voices. Noise carries a long way in a metal tube. He slowly, crept along until the voices were nearly right below them. He looked down and saw Max.

Ryan let out a sigh of relief.

"Thank god." He said.

Ryan tapped on the metal to get their attention, without a hail of bullets coming their way.

"Max! Its Ryan! Were comming down." Ryan said, and kicked in the vents, creating a hole to climb through.

Ryan slowly let the girl down before jumping down himself. He looked around the room. He was surprised at how many survived.

"Am i needed anywhere Max?" Ryan asked, motioning to the bag full of meds.

Richard thought about broadcasting what Max had said, but decided not to because it could attract more Raiders. Richard then leaned against the Vault wall and said to Judith, "What do you the outside will look like 200 years after a nuclear war?" Judith said, "I don't know, but we'll find out soon enough." At that moment, Ryan and a girl he didn't recognize came through a vent. Richard said, "Good to see you've survived Dr. Ryan, and you've brought a friend." He then turned to Max and said, "How far are you guys with the door?"

"Aaaah, so good to see you Ryan. I was really hoping we wouldn't have to leave without you..." Max said to Ryan helping them out of the vent... "The door is nearly open we just need to..." and with that Steven had fixed the door and it slowly grinded open with a horrible metal scraping sound, slightly shaking the ground beneath them from the size...

Everyone felt a sudden rush of hope flow through them as they smelt a very weird, but somewhat satisfying smell? They were breathing air from the outside world and all though it tasted quite dirty, they could breathe a hell of a lot better... They could see a beacon of hope that was in the form of streams of daylight beaming down at the end of the dark tunnel. Everyone looked at each other and without a moment's thought, they all ran for the sun light?

?The light was getting brighter and brighter? too bright for everyone to see anything, they were all blind and all covered their eyes with their arms and slowed down to a slow walk trying to adjust but it just wasn't happening?

As they emerged out of the cave, everyone felt so warm? the first contact with sunlight? No one could see anything and they all just stood there blind, letting the rays of sun beat down on their body? Some people took off their tops, as they loved the weird sensation of the sun on their skin? Still blind, they just held their eyes closed instead of using their hands to shield the sun while they took their clothes off?

Max's eyes were adjusting fast and what he thought was really weird was that moments ago his pip-boy was showing the time as 00:47am but yet the sun was at its highest point in the sky? Could the vault engineers really have put the clock's forward or backward 12 hours? It was the only explanation? but why would they do this? Was it some kind of test? To see how they would or how long they would survive in the outside world with a reverse body clock?... This got Max wondering what else was a test in the Vault? Although when they all started to adjust to the sun and were actually able to see anything, everyone's hearts sank and they all became weak with the image that their eyes were born with of the outside world?

?They were surrounded by people? lots of people? better dressed than the last but similar? no war paint? were they mercenaries? So many guns? big guns?Then they saw other Vault dwellers and other various people in rags shackled in chains to the left of them being beaten and whipped?

The people who attacked the vault must have attacked it for the shelter, food and play toys that they chose to keep, but struck a bargain with some kind of slavers to guarantee a higher rate of success, that whatever tried to escape they could keep for their own?

"Drop your weapons or we will kill you all" ?The Escapees were outnumbered badly? then one of the "slavers" stepped forward with a massive grin and an AK47 leaning against his shoulder and said in a very dirty, seedy voice?

"Welcome To The Wasteland?"

OOC: ((Just a thought, but "Welcome to the Wasteland." seems a bit more fitting.))

Caine glared at the slavers and began to grasp the butt of his revolver, noticing the group ready their guns as he did. He stopped and dropped his hand to the side, looking at Max with an amused look in his eyes. "Well, well. Max the prodigal leader has gotten us into a fine situation now, hasn't he?" He then crossed his arms and waited for whatever came next, pissed that they got caught with their pants down but tickled by the new brand of cluster-[censored] they were in.

Isaac slowly stepped forward, as not to startle the slavers, he went over to Max.

"What are we gonna do now?" he said in a quiet voice while gripping his now concealed Nambu.

Jonathan ran out of the vault door. He was finally out of the vault and into a new world. While his eyes were adjusting he thought of everything that could be out there. The sun felt marvelous on his skin. The air was different but that all changed when he heard that dreadful voice. "Drop your weapons or we will kill you all"

Jonathan dropped his rifle onto the ground but kept his pistol at the back of his belt just in case everyone attacked these new assailants. He quietly whispered to Max. "Should we attack them or surrender. We have enough people." He then thought for a moment. "Never mind I said anything I don't want anyone to die.

Steven gripped his Berreta, and pulled it out. Immedietly, he threw it to the side. A slaver still shot him in the leg. Steven fell down in the ground and gripped his wounded leg. The blood dripped through his fingers, and stained the dusty ground. Jessica dropped to her knees and tried to help Steven up. He got up, but leaned on Jessica for support while he gripped his leg.

After getting initially blinded by the sunlight and meeting the slavers, Richard muttered, "Ah [censored], out of the frying pan and into the fire." The choices didn't look good, either torture and death by Raiders or lifelong misery as a slave. Richard thought, "Judith and I escape our home turned deathtrap only to end up as slaves. I can only hope someone has a plan to get us out of this."

James left the vault, blinded by the sunlight. Lisa walked behind him. When the slavers came he motioned her to get behind him, he dropped his rifle to his side. "So Caine, can you shoot us out of this?

"Probably. I'm interested in seein' how it goes. If you all end up as slaves, manual or otherwise, I'll just enjoy life in the "Wasteland" that much better. As for these guys? They seem like my type. Look out for numero uno and no one else. I assume that's how they've survived out here, what with the psycho's inside the vault callin' this place home."

Caine paused for a second and looked the group of slavers up and down, pointing at them and then to the slaves. "Tell me somethin', would you rather be the guys with the guns, or the slaves in the shackles? I know how your gonna answer being a full-blooded goody-two shoes, but I know the real answer. The one your heart of hearts would choose."

Someone needed to do something? Max had led them here and got them into this mess, and he had to get them out of it? In the short space of time that he had, he juggled the options? Surrender and become slavers, tortured and beaten for life? Grab their guns and try and fight but the slavers had superior numbers so it was only a matter of time before they all got killed? Or take their chances with some sort of plan? Max remembered the frag grenades picked up off one of the invaders in the canteen...

He turned around to the rest of the group and whispered, "I'm sorry I got you into this situation?" Max looked really sad when he said that... He felt so guilty for this mess... but there was only one thing to do... try and get them out of it... "When I say "NOW" you run for the gap in the rocks over to our left? I don't know where we are going to go but it cannot end like this?" Max pulled the frag grenades out and showed them to the rest of the group?

Max took a deep breath and then said, "See you on the other side?" He pulled one of the pins out, turning and throwing it into the centre of the group of slavers. One of the slaver's shouted "A GRENADE! MOVE!" to which Max then shouted "NOW!"

The slaver's separated concentrating on getting out of the grenade blast radius while the group ran as fast as they could towards the gap in the rocks?

Max had two more grenades, so he pulled the pin of the second one and just as the first exploded he threw another into where the group had shifted. The slavers were even more spread out now from the scare of two grenades, which disorientated them with the loud noise, explosion of dirt and clouds of dust that they were now engulfed in?

The group seemed quite far away from the slavers by now, all of which had darted down the gap in the rocks and once everyone was clear, Max threw is third and final grenade as the second one went off, causing more dust and more cover for their retreat. This one he threw a little closer to the gap in the rocks behind him so they couldn't get close enough just yet to run after them?

Taking a seemingly longer time than the first two to go off, which worked to their advantage, the third one went off and by then they were definitely being covered by the rock faces that were building up around them so no snipers could get them, and the grenades and smoke cover would have delayed them long enough to get a decent head start?

From here on Max was lost for a plan? Everyone was running? They were going to have to use inspiration of what they found along the way to help them in their escape? assuming the slavers actually followed them? Max assumed they would, I don't think the slavers would let a crop like this escape their grasp?

Caine followed Max's lead after he heard Max shout "NOW!" he ran in Max's direction, breaking away from the group after the third grenade was thrown. He continued sprinting at full speed for another 15 minutes before stopping to catch his breath, now far enough away that he couldn't see the group of raiders nor the vault group.

"Good, finally I can explore this place the way I want to." he said. Caine continued walking through the desolate Wasteland for another 30-45 minutes before spotting a broken up concrete road, immediately feeling his luck had changed. "A road... Roads lead to towns, if there are any towns left that is."

Caine began walking down the road at a fast pace, increasing his speed as he spotted a dark structure roughly 3 miles away. Eventually he was running as fast as he could, feeling the sliver of hope he felt when spotting the road develop into full blown optimism. He finally stopped to catch his breath again after reaching a makeshift fort, snipers sticking their rifles out of the destroyed windows as they spotted him.

Unknown Female Sniper: "Hey you with the leather jacket and lame jumpsuit, state your business with the Temple of the Union or be shot down!"

Caine glared up at the woman and replied in an irritated tone: "Water... Water dammit..." he said, following up with a more elaborate sentence. "Alright, cool your jets... I just came from Vault 110 from the uhh...northish direction. Right now I'm just seekin' some shelter and some water."

The woman seemed frown as she realized he wasn't a threat, lowering her rifle and replying to the young man. "Hannibal says we have to let guys like you in. Keep your weapons checked and your manners in check, I'm commin' down to unlock the gate."

James heard Max's plan. When he yelled now, James grabbed his rifle, then ran horizontally firing off a few rounds at the general direction of the slavers. James turned to check on Lisa, who was running behind him. "Alright, good." James thought, turning to her. "Keep running, keep your head down, and no matter what, don't look back." James fell behind making sure she was ok. James was in the front of the group somewhat, so he fell back more to make sure no one fell and they didn't get lost, but kept his eye on Lisa.