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...

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Max Strive: In His Quarters
Status: Sleeping

Sarah Strive: In Canteen at the Party
Status: Tidying Up

Ashley Strive: In His Quarters
Status: Sleeping

Jonathan Hunt: In Canteen at the Party
Status: Sleeping on Couch

Sheena: In Canteen at the Party
Status: Sleeping on Couch

Ryan Sammuels: In Med-Bay
Status: In a State of Shock

Harley Andrews: In His Quarters
Status: Sleeping

Kate: In Harley's Quarters
Status: Sleeping

Nikolai Laurence: Last Seen at the Party
Status: Socialising

Caine Deckard: In Christine's Quarters
Status: Questionable

Christine Kendal: In Her Quarters
Status: Questionable

Steven Strive (Blunt): Last Seen Running From the Med-Bay
Status: Paniced

Jessica: Last Seen at the Party
Status: Socialising

Paul McAlly: Last Seen at the Party
Status: Socialising

Richard Warren: In His Quarters
Status: Sleeping

Judith: In Richard's Quarters
Status: Sleeping

James Richards: In Med-Bay
Status: Regaining Consciousness

Lisa Parker: In Her Quarters
Status: Sleeping

Overseer Baldwin: Rarely Leaves His Office
Status: Questionable

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Francois Jermane: Not In Game Anymore
Status: Open For Extermination

Elisha Davidson: Not In Game Anymore
Status: Open For Extermination

Zereth Acranum: Not In Game Anymore
Status: Open For Extermination

Luke Sensus: Not In Game Anymore
Status: Open For Extermination

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Kyle Whitmore: DECEASED
Status: Smashed Skull

Jimmy: DECEASED
Status: Throat Slit

Ronnie Mclain: DECEASED
Status: Concussion/Loss of Blood

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...And So The Story Continues...

?Everyone's vault clock struck midnight symbolising the end of the day and the start of another. The amount of time between the old day ending and the new day starting is incalculable. In less than a millisecond, a Tuesday becomes a Wednesday? the number 24 resets and becomes nothing but a number representing nothing? In a flash what is known becomes unknown and in a flash everything can change?

All of a sudden large explosions shook the vault, comparable to that of an earthquake but how badly you felt it depended on where you were in the vault. Some might have slept through it, others might have had their room shaken up with various things falling over or falling off their shelves? but the unlucky ones had the detonation blow a hole in the wall right next to them, sending dangerously large concrete across the room taking out anything in it's path and filling the room with dust? It was no earthquake, it was highly explosive detonation charges that went off in various locations around the Vault... but the explosions were only the beginning? what followed was nothing short of hell in Vault One-Ten?

Screams could be heard from all around belonging to men, women and children? blood curdling screams, screams cut off half way through from being silenced, resignating screams of pain and suffering, desperate pleas for help, hysterical crying of those scared and panicing? companied with the voices of the unwelcome, laughing, cursing the weak, foul language and humour as gun fire of many varieties rang through the halls? On top of this explosions were still going off and someone had activated the vault alarm, all of this creating a deafening chorus that the vault walls had never experienced before? People covered in dirt with war paint, modelling rags with spikes, chains attached to human skulls brandishing all sorts of weapons from butcher's knives to assault rifles to axes and anything in between and they just kept pouring out of the walls, shouting battle cries, killing, torturing, [censored], eating and breaking anything they could find?

?The vault was a paradise lost turned into survival of the fittest, but with the current vault generation being born seamlessly blindfolded to the reality of anything outside of their four walls, none of them stood a chance and their numbers were dwindling by the second? it was a massacre, especially as the strike happened when three quarters of the vault were in bed and half of them were asleep? It appeared that whoever was trying to get in had burrowed down from the outside to try and get in through the walls as the main vault entrance door was too thick to get through... How long had these monsters been planning this raid? This was now irrelevant? This was no more of a war than a war between wolves and maggots? This was an extermination? Everything that they knew was over?nothing could have prepared any of them for this?

?In a flash what is known becomes unknown and in a flash everything can change?

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Max woke up jumping at the same time as a massive explosion occurred from outside his door of residence? As his mind caught up with himself, his instant reaction was to run into Ashley's room to see if he was ok. He darted out of his bed, slammed the button to open Ashley's door and ran to his bedside.

Shaking him, he whispered frantically "Ashley! Wake up! Are you ok?! Are you hurt?!" Ashley opened his eyes quickly and said "Yes dad I'm awake! Stop it you are scaring me even more! What was that bang?!" Ashley was really upset. Content that Ashley was ok, Max proceeded to look around at the damage. Various items had fallen off their shelves from the explosion and Ashley's bed side light had fallen onto the floor, lighting up nothing more than the underside of his bed.

Suddenly both their ears tuned in to what was going on outside their room? People were screaming? but other people were laughing? Suddenly they heard someone from outside the door and down the corridor shout "HAHAHA! Awww you fell over! I knew you wouldn't get far? Now say you're sorry for running away from Uncle Dee-No?" Who was this man? He seemed to be threatening a woman who was panting and crying, completely out of breath? "I CAN'T HEAR YOU?!" shouted the man? "aargh,? I'm sorry! I'm sorry just please don't hurt me!!! Please! PLEAA?" and before she could finish her sentence she was cut off with a gun shot? followed by laughter and then another 5 shots? "HAHAAHA! Stupid lil [censored]?" replied the voice of the man followed closely by "alright? NEXT! Hey you! Don't you dare run from me!!!

Whoever this Dee-No character was, he had run off but there were people just like him walking and running passed the door every few seconds. How many of these people were there for gods sake! By now Ashley was starting to cry, but Max had his hand over his mouth so that he wasn't really making any noise "?please be quiet? I will protect you but I don't want them to find us?" Max removed his hand briefly and then said, "Ok?" to which Ashley replied whispering "I'm so scared daddy? I'm so scared!" They sat cowering in the corner, as it sounded like all hell was breaking lose on the other side of the door?

Screaming, laughing, gun shots and explosions never seized. It was all around them? they were trapped and it was only a matter of time before they checked their room? Suddenly something dawned on Max? "Oh my god, SARAH!" he now had been thrown blind into panic and fear. He must find her, but he can't leave the boy? what to do? what to do... he had to think fast?

Caine awoke abruptly to what he thought was his boobytrap going off, soon realizing this explosion was far bigger. He quickly dressed himself and got his blade, cautiously exiting Christine's apartment and looking for the source of the explosion. He suddenly heard screams and gunshots coming from several directions, and started running in the direction of the nearest one.

Out of no where a wild man in a leather dominatrix looking outfit struck Caine upside the head with the butt of a gun, causing him to fall over and grasp his now gushing head wound. "What the [censored]? You son of a [censored]! I'll cut your throat for this!" he yelled at the man, not caring about the rather large looking revolver he was holding in his hand. "Whatcha say punk? I'll blow ya friggen brains out the back of ya skull!" the raider said, pressing the gun against Caine's temple.

Caine felt the animal-like rage he'd come to rely on boil to the surface, causing him to instinctively knock the gun barrel away from his head and jam his switchblade into the raiders groin, instantly flooring the man and causing him to drop his weapon. Caine wasn't finished however, and continued to stab the raider repeatedly in the chest and face area, leaving only a hideous, deformed mess in his wake. He grabbed the .32 and dug through mans pockets, finding 12 more bullets.

It didn't take a genius to figure out what had happened. Foreign-looking men had stormed the vault with firearms, something Caine had already read about in old magazines and saw in pre-war movies. Someone had figured out had to break into Vault 110, and whoever it was deserved a medal. This was Caine's opportunity to experience REAL life, no more of this sheltered BS everyone had grown so accustomed to. He continued running toward the main exit hatch, spotting another group of 9 armed-to-the-teeth raiders. Two of them were holding assault rifles, this would more troublesome then one lone moron with a .32.

After watching the group continue to murder and [censored] the weak inhabitants of the vault, Caine realized something. "Wait... These guys are just doing what I was doing, albeit in a sloppy fashion. Nah, I won't kill them. If the weaklings down here can manage to kill off this new threat, they deserve to live. If not, oh well. Not my problem.", he said as he turned around and started toward the direction of another explosion.

Jonathan and Sheena woke up to the sound of the explosion.

"What was that." she said

"I don't know, lets get out of here."

"Oka-"

They heard gunshots and maniacal laughter coming from outside the door. Jonathan was shocked, he didn't think anyone had that much guns in that section of the vault, so who were they? He got up and called Sheena over. He glanced outside into the corridor and saw dozens of people in there. They were dirty and looked as if they were insane.

"What is it." Sheena said in a worried tone.

"Shhhhh theres some guys out there killing everyone!"

"Wha-"

Jonathan quickly grabbed her arm and started to run towards the med-bay. "Come on we're going to the med-bay." He tried to run as quietly as possible so he didn't alert the raiders. He was close to the med-bay, really close when heard people coming around the corner. He sprinted as fast as he could to get out of sight and into the med-bay. He made it but they heard him running and were now searching for him. Jonathan took a key out of his pocket. "What are you doing!?" Sheena asked. "Just hide." He opened up a cabinet quickly and took out some stim-paks and a switch-blade he had hidden in there. He quickly ran to where Sheena was and hid. The raiders were checking rooms to find where they heard those footsteps. Luckily or unluckily another vault dweller ran around the corner and the raiders spotted him and proceeded to run after him. Jonathan grabbed a cot and pulled it under the vent.

"We are going into the ventilation system and getting Max and we'll try to find Ryan."

"Okay."

He opened it up with the switchblade and they crawled in there until they reached Max's room. Jonathan opened it up and jumped down.

He foolishly said "Max come on lets get out of here."

He then shut his mouth after remembering that there could be raiders in there.

Something Shook The med-bay, Violently Jerking Ryan out of his Other world. He franticly looked around, breathing heavily, as he tried to remember where he was. Ryan looked towards the door. He saw strange men clad in metal armor running past with guns blazed. One of the girls trying to dance with Ryan began to run past the door. However, when she was halfway across, her leg seemed to give out in a fountain of blood. She clutched it and howled in pain. Instinctively, Ryan began heading towards her. Ryan got to the door and looked out. He came face to face, with a man holding an assault rifle with an amused look on his face.

"Ooh lookie what i got here. You commin to be a hero boy?" The man swung the stock of his rifle at Ryan's face, But Ryan Jumped back, and pulled out a syringe full of med-x. He quickly jumped forward and slammed the needle into the mans arm, and hit the plunger.
The man stumbled back, and at first, started laughing, but that laugh only lasted for about fifteen seconds. It slowly faded, and the man looked down at the needle still hanging out of his arm. He looked at Ryan in fear.

"Wh-what diid you do...." The man collapsed on the floor.

Ryan quickly grabbed the woman by her collar and pulled her into the med bay, where he gave her a quick shot of Med-x. Then he ran back to the door way and grabbed the assault rifle the man dropped. He came back in the room and overturned a table for some cover. The woman next to him looked at him in shock.
"What did you do to him?" She asked
"..He just O.D.'d on Med-x." Ryan said.

Harley was asleep underneath Kate on the couch, until they were both woken by an explosion. Harley and Kate jumped off the couch wondering what was going on, until they heard gunshots and yelling. It definitely wasn't the Vault residents yelling, but there was a bit of screaming that may have been them.

Harley ran to his toolkit and grabbed his massive wrench, the same wrench he had used to smash the electrical panel.

"Kate, stay here until I come back" Harley said to Kate as he went out the door into the corridor to find out what was going on. He ran down to the corner of the corridor and peeked around, seeing a bunch of people who looked like freaks from a freak show.

As the freaks ran past, one of them spotted Harley and split off from the others and headed up the corridor towards Harley. Harley saw him and ran back to the room, told Kate to hide in the corner and he went behind the door and waited for the freak to enter the room. As the freak entered the room he was talking, "I know you went in here, come out and play with me", at which point he had passed Harley and was standing in the center of the room, with Harley behind him.

Harley raised the wrench above his head as he approached the freak, just as he had when he smashed the panel. Just as Harley went down on the guy's head with the wrench, the freak turned his head to face Harley. He manged to say "Oh [censored]" before the wrench had cracked his skull. The freak fell to the ground and went limp, with blood pumping from the huge gash in his head.

Kate screamed as soon as he fell, then jumped up and hugged Harley. She was terrified, but Harley seemed to be ok with the fact he just bludgeoned this freak. One wrench to the head and he was no more than the electrical panel that Harley smashed the previous day.

Harley hugged Kate and dropped to the floor to search the freak. He was carrying a revolver full of bullets with .32 printed on them, a pouch full of bullets, some cigarettes, a combat knife and a few bottlecaps. "Why would he carry bottlecaps?" Harley thought as he took the gun,knife and the bullets.

"Here Kate, take this" he said as he handed her the wrench. He would have given her the knife but he knew she wouldn't stab someone, she probably wouldn't even hit someone with a wrench but it was the most likely of the two options. Harley picked up his toolkit which was on the floor near the door.

"Follow me, stay close to me. Um, actually better yet, hold onto the back of my belt and don't let go" Harley told Kate what to do so they wouldn't be separated. If she held onto the back of his belt, he could shield her with his body and make sure she was always behind him and he wouldn't have to check, as he could feel her holding his belt.

Harley held the gun in his right hand and his toolkit in his left as they walked out the door into the corridor. Kate was so scared she had trouble moving at first, but Harley reinforced her courage by promising that he wouldn't let anything happen to her. And when he made a promise, he made it his business to keep it, especially if it was a promise to Kate.

They continued to move down the corridor, gun at the ready.

((OOC: What direction are we from the Capital Wasteland?))

Richard and Judith were woken up by a large explosion. The duo looked outside and saw men and women in outlandish outfits killing and [censored] every Vault dweller they saw, irregardless of age or gender. Richard said, "We have to leave the Vault, those psychos don't seem keen on leaving anyone of us alive if we stay here.." Judith said, "I didn't think we'd ever need these, but..." She then pulled out a holodisk out of her pocket, loaded it on her Pip-Boy and then gave it to Richard to load unto his. Richard looked on his Pip-Boy and saw that this modification had made his Pip-Boy show a 3-D map, plus a map of the vents. Richard said, "This is brillliant Judith,!", and hugged her before jamming the Vault door so the Raiders couldn't get in. At the same time, he lifted Judith into the Vault before climbling into the vent himself.

Instead of going in the direction of the Vault door, the duo decided to go to the Information Archives forst to get anything that could help them survive. Once inside, they moved a bookshelf in front of the door and tried to get every book they could carry on the greater D.C. area, as well as basic survival books to add to the science and history books Richard and Judith had taken earlier. After that, Richard ran up to the mainframe Vault computer, got it's data on a backup disk, and then wiped it clean, preventing the Raiders from getting any more information on the Vault. Judith then said, "Let's get out of here.", and the two climbed back into the vent, moving in the direction of the Vault door.

OOC: I'm thinking north north east of DC, sort of above Old Olney direction...

The ventilation panel fell down infront of Max and Ashley with a large bang making them jump. Jonathan jumped down. Max and Ashley looked up to see Sheena looking down at them. Max and Ashley stood up and Max whispered loudly, "Jonathan! Am I glad to see you! Is anyone else with you?" Max was still in his underwear and so was Ashley. They hadn't been awake long before Jonathan came through the vent...

"Come on Ashley, we need to get ready, quickly now..." Max said quickly getting Ashley changed and then getting changed himself. While they were getting ready Jonathan was filling him in on what he knew... Max helped Ashley put on his Vault 110 jumpsuit and a jacket over the top, to make sure if they were to some how escape that he wouldnt be cold, and Max put on a vest and his Vault 110 Utility Jumpsuit. He grabbed his tool belt along with his father's wrench and put it in a ringlet hanging off his belt. It was all he had and he never knew if it would come in handy or not, but it was worth it just in case. Max did Ashley's shoes up followed by his own and they were ready to go.

Max helped Jonathan into the vent, then Jonathan reached down and Max passed him Ashley. Then Max moved a chair closer to the vent so that he could stand on it, and Jonathan helped pull him through. The 4 of them were now trecking through the Vault 110 ventilation system.

"What about the others, we can't just leave them here?!" Max asked pausing for a moment... "I need to find Sarah and Steven..."

Max, Jonathan, Ashley, and Sheena were crawling through the vents when Max said. "What about the others, we can't just leave them here?!"

"I know and I'm trying to find Ryan. Where was the last time you saw them?" Then Sheena spoke up.

"I think we should check the med-bay again, He is a doctor after all."

"Okay i'll go there you stay with Max."

"Bu-"

"You'll be safer with him."

Jonathan began going back towards the med-bay.



OOC: Strive you can take control of her.

"...ok Jonathan... we will be going to the canteen to find Sarah... be safe... we WILL see you again, you can count on it..." and with that Jonathan nodded and went off in the direction of the Med-Bay. Max turned to Sheena and Ashley and said "I need to find Sarah and Steven. We must head in the direction of the canteen. That is the last place I saw her... Try not to make a sound, and try not to worry yourselves... i know it will be hard, but we need to be strong..."

Ashley and Sheena nodded, they both looked really scared but Sheena turned to Ashley and whispered, "Don't worry, everything will be ok. Your father would never let anything happen to you" Ashley said "ok" and together they all crawled towards the canteen, looking through ventilation grates as they went. to see if they saw anyone that knew...

Richard and Judith were still crawling through the vents when they saw Max, Sheena, and Ashley not too far from them. Richard tried to get their attention by knocking on the metal.

Paul was awoken by the explosion, but he quickly dismissed it. Then he heard it. That sound, That horrible sound, the shots, and screams, and laughter. He saw people running past the church door. Some made it some were shot dead. He walked out side and saw a man in tattered clothes yelling at a vault resident. Paul couldn't make out what he was saying, but he knew it was bad. "Hey you, stop doing that." Paul commanded. The man did not hesitate to pull his gun at Paul, and fire. The bullet hit Paul right near the heart. Paul fell backwards thinking Oh well this is it.

Then after a few moments he noticed there wasn't much pain. He looked down and grabbed at his chest. There was no blood, What in the name of hell he thought. Then he tried to feel where the bullet was , but there was something in the way. He pulled it out, It was his bible. Thank you God, he thought. The bullet went through all of the pages but was stopped at the hardcover end. He grabbed the bible, ran up to the man, and tapped him on the shoulder. Right when he turned around Paul hit the man in the face with the bible. The man staggered back yelling, "What the [censored]!"
Paul then grabbed the girl and started running. By the time they had almost reached the corner, the man was back up shooting and running, yelling, "You, [censored] you're going to pay for this!"
Paul thought, Oh God Please don't let him kill us.

Max heard a faint tapping sound... he looked to his left and saw Judith and Richard who were also in the ventilation system. The 2 groups slowly merged together and when close enough Max whispered, "It's great to see you alive and well... both of you... Maybe it be best if we stick together? Where are you going?"

Richard filled the group in on the modifications they had made to their pip-boy showing a 3D map of the vault and everything inside, including the ventilation system. "This truely is amazing, you are a geneous Judith" Max said with a smile. "So where are you headed?" Max asked to which Richard explained that they were going for the Vault Entrance...

"Yes, we are outnumbered, the vault is lost to us all... We must get out of here... but I must find Sarah and Steven and I must try and help as many people out as possible." Max couldn't leave good people behind to be torched, [censored] or worse... "We would be a stronger force if we were to find some weapons and stick together but I understand if you do not wish to come with me... but you must understand, i can't leave my family here..." Max waited for a decision to be made but everyone agreed...

"We need to get out of this Vent" Max said, looking through one of the grates... it looked all clear so he opened it and everyone climbed out now in one of the corridors...

Paul was running as fast as he could, and holding a girl. He had given himself some room between him them and the raider, but he was still on their trail. His legs were hurting, and he was cursing whoever was raiding the Vault. He looked up and saw Max, Ashley, and Sheena. Then he noticed Judith and Richard. Out of breath he managed to get out, "There's one really pissed off raider right behind us,"

Richard said, "Of course we'll help you." At that moment Paul showed up said that a Raider was right behind them. Richard said, "[censored], I don't even have a weapon to use."

Harley led Kate down the corridor, easing towards the corner, not knowing what would face them. Just before the corner there was utility closet, so Harley decided that Kate should hide inside until he has made sure the way was clear for them to continue.

"Kate, hide in there for just a sec, ok?"

"Ok, make sure you come back, and don't be too long, and be careful" she replied with a soft, scared, shaky voice, she was almost crying. She hugged him then went into the small alcove and closed the door, while Harley continued to the corner.

Approaching the corner he could hear footsteps, loud footsteps and they were coming fast. Then he heard voices, a loud husky voice said "keep going straight".

He had to ambushed them. he could stand where he was and if they didn't notice him, they would run straight passed. And Harley had a plan. He was going to jump into the corridor behind them after they pass, and then he could shoot them all in the back before they even know what was happening.

He stood against the wall as they got closer. And then they ran right past. Now was his chance. He ran behind them and raised the gun, and aimed it at their backs.

*Bang*bang*bang*

Three shots, three backs, three dead freaks.

Harley was amazed at how easy it was. They where dead and they never even knew it. He ran over to their bodies to search them. He found two more .32 revolvers and heaps of bullets, all of which he put in his toolkit. He took a Leather Jacket off one of the freaks for Kate to wear, any protection is good. And some mighty fine round sunglasses he took for himself.

It seemed odd that these guys were also carrying bottlecaps. Harley realized there must be a reason for this so he took them and put them in his toolkit. His toolkit had heaps of stuff in it now; tools, combat knife, bottlecaps, bullets and two revolvers.

He returned to the utility alcove and opened it. Harley got a real shock when he opened the door to find Kate nearly belting him over the head with the wrench.

"Whoa! Slow down there slugger" he said to the frightened Kate "Here take this jacket"

"Thanks, you should have knocked and said who you were, I thought you might be one of those people" Kate said, waiving the wrench demonstrating that she could have hurt him by accident.

"Nice sunglasses Harley, they really look good on you" Kate commented as they left the alcove.

"Thanks, I quite like them" Harley replied "hopefully we can find another pair for you, then we'd look like a great pair.

"I wonder what happened to everyone else" Kate said, starting to worry about their friends "I hope they're alright".


Kate put the jacket on and grabbed his belt again as they went down the corridor and around the corner.

Caine continued toward the source of one exposion, pausing as he came to Christine Kendall's room and heard screams. He saw a raider about to have his way with the girl, and decided to draw his .32 and level it on the raiders head. He walked right up to him and placed the revolver to his temple, saying this in a cold, ruthless tone:

"Hey there. I'm gonna let you in on a little secret my friend. Not all vault dwellers are wimpy push overs made for easy pickin's for dirty trash like yourself." Before the raider could respond Caine pulled the trigger, causing globs of brain and skull fragments to shoot out the other side of his head.

Christine stopped screaming and reached out for Caine to embrace her. Caine simply turned away and nodded toward a ventilation shaft, instructing her to use that to escape. After Chris climbed inside of it and Caine left the room and continued down the hallway, encountering a single raider carrying a combat shotgun. Luckily the raider had his back turned, and Caine quickly drew on the man and fired 3 bullets, 2 of them finding their mark in the fools spine.

He fell over motionless, although still alive. Caine glared down at the man with the eyes of a murderous beast, lifting his boot high above the raiders head and pausing. After letting the paralyzed raider soak in every moment of terror, Caine brought his boot down with unnerving speed, causing blood, gore and bone to fly every which way. Caine picked up the raiders shotgun only to find it empty, then tossing the weapon and sprinting to the end of the corridor.

There he found what he was looking for, a vent leading deep into the vaults crematorium, a place where they burned the corpses of deceased vault dwellers as well as garbage. It was also the lowest point in the vault Caine knew about, so it was his best assuming that's where the invading force came in from. He kicked in the grate and got on his belly, squeezing inside the claustrophobic space and working his way toward the drop-off point. He eventually came to it and fell to the lower level, hearing two more of the invaders conversing about the days pillage.

Raider 1: "Man, these vault jobs are easy-peazy. They're all a bunch of pussies just waitin' to be popped!"

Raider 2: "Ha, I know whatchu mean man. I swear the amount of food alone we found in this dump?! We won't have to eat radroach meat for weeks, maybe even months!"

Caine managed to make it to another grate, this one just over the crematorium. He kicked in it and found it was a longer fall then he anticipated, spraining his ankle as he connected with the hard floor. The two raiders heard the racket and began walking over to him, weapons readied.

The resourceful young man thought on his feet and grabbed a scalpel from a nearby tray and threw it in another direction, causing the raiders to turn their backs. In that moment Caine managed to get to his feet and support his weight on metal slab they used for transporting the corpses, firing off the remaining 3 rounds he had in the revolvers cylinder.

2 rounds hit one of them in the neck and thy, downing him instantly. One hit the other raider in the right arm and caused him to drop his hunting rifle. Caine tried to reload fast enough to finish the second one off, but failed as the bastard managed to escape. If Caine didn't find a spot the outsiders were coming in from soon, he'd be cut down by the surviving invaders buddies.

Jonathan was still crawling in the vents on his way back to the med-bay. He spotted the opening and sped up. Jonathan peered into the hole and saw Ryan with a woman in there. He jumped down from where he was and walked up to Ryan. "Lets get out of here!"

Steven was in the water purifier room replacing the old chip with a new, but crudely constructed one. The boom shook the whole room, causing plaster and a sheet of metal to fall from the roof. Steven shot up and saw this, but the shock waves caused a pipe to fall loose and clock Steven on the head.

About ten minutes later, Steven sat back up. his vision was blurry, but he knew he a man was standing over him. "Good, your awake." A raider stood over him, a pistol in hand. Steven's eyes focused just in time to see the raider rise his Beretta 9mm to Steven's face. "I'm going to enjoy thi-" He was stopped mid-sentence as Steven grabbed a piece of pipe and smashed the raider's hand. "Aghh, you son of a [censored]!" Steven stood up and dropped the now bent piece of pipe. The raider drew a combat knife. Steven now had two choices. Use the pistol at his feet, or kick it away and have an honorable fight.

"Your going to die, dike head." Steven said softly as he kicked the pistol under the sheet of metal on the floor, pinning the pistol hard to the ground. He watched the raider and slowly walked to his toolkit. The raider watched in confusion and interest as Steven kept his eyes locked on while he bent over and grabbed his good old wrench. He held it tightly and waited. "Your move."

The raider wasn't impressed. "Not smart, vault-boy." He rushed Steven, blade raised. Steven swung his wrench hard, letting the scene of last night fuel his muscles. He broke the raider's forearm, and the raider screamed, switching the knife in his hands. They backed away from each other and circled in the empty space. Steven then rushed up and caught the raider's shoulder plate, while the raider slashed Steven in the belly, causing a bleeding scratch. His work made him not realize pain much, as his hand always got burnt or caught in gears or something, but Steven felt the blade slice his skin. Steven got even more angry. He grabbed the raider's wrist, twisting it in an awkward fashion. Steven punched the raiders face repeatedly, wrench reinforcing his already iron-hard fist. Steven let the raider fall to the ground, broken wrist, arm and nose. Steven walked over to the metal plate and picked it up, retrieving the pistol.

The pistol's mechanism clicked as Steven pulled the slide back. Steven walked over to the raider. "My move." The hammer slid forward, setting off the percussion cap and respectively, the powder, causing the bullet to spin out the barrel at over 1500 feet per second. The bullet easily jammed itself through the raider's skull. The raider dropped limp. Steven then had only one thought. Where are Max and Jessica?

He knew Max could handle himself, so he looked for Jessica. He wandered around, collecting over 40 nine millimeter bullets, and a few bottle caps, since they seemed important. He found Jessica tied to her bed, in fear she looked up to a shirtless raider. Steven didn't think, just acted. No one was going to hurt his Jess. He ran up behind the raider, and before he could turn around, the grip of an M1911 was swimming in grey matter. He then cut Jessica loose with the combat knife he picked up from the first raider and searched the second one while Jessica recuperated. She stood up and kissed Steven's cheek. She then looked down and saw blood stained on Steven's wife-beater. "Steven, your hurt!" she exclaimed.

"I know."

"Have you seen a doctor yet??"

"Not yet. We can worry about that later, but right now we need to find Max." He said as he put a switchblade from the dead raider in her hand and rushed off. Eventually, his wandering produced more bottle caps, and Max. He ran as fast as he could towards the man. "Max!" he said as he slammed into his foster parent, hugging him tightly, glad Max was okay.

Paul and a girl ran up to Max, Ashley, Sheena, Richard and Judith who were standing in the middle of the hall pretty much weaponless... They were easy prey for any of these psychotic invaders... Paul warned them of an approaching Raider so they all readied them self for the worst and stood waiting as the footsteps were getting closer... and closer...

None other than Steven and Jessica ran round the corner, Steven launching himself at Max and giving him a big hug... "Awww, Steven i'm so glad you are ok! I was on my way to find you... damn it's so good to see you both..." Max said happily. Ashley ran up to the pair and shouted "Big brother! You are ok!" also joining in on the hug...

"Look it's not safe for us to be here, we must arm ourselves and stick very tightly together." Max said to all of them... Someone had to take charge if they were going to survive otherwise it would be chaos... "Coupled with Judith and Richard's customied Pip-Boys that can show us the way to the exit, and mine and Steven's engineering experience, we should be able to get the vault door open and get out of here..."

Max continued... "...but i cannot leave without Sarah... I also must get as many people out of this vault as i can... my conscience will eat me alive... i cannot leave them here knowing what these people will do to them... are we all together on this? Weapons for self defense, then rescue mission for Sarah and others?"

Max waited for a response...

Steven twirled the pistol around on his finger. "I got that covered." He was a surprisingly good shot, letting his anger control the gun. Jessica held up the switchblade and grinned. Steven looked at Ashley and lowered himself to Ashley's height. "We're going to be okay little bro, but we need to be really, reaaalllly quiet while we look for auntie Sarah, okay?" He stood back up after rustling Ash's hair. "I think I heard her in the canteen, but I could be wrong." He started over but doubled over, he looked at his stomach, he was bleeding more than before. It must have ripped a bit. he took off his shirt and wrapped it around the wound. He turned to Max, shooting him a grimacing smile. "Knife fight."

"ok that's good, so you guys are covered... as for the rest of us, we will just have to take it really slow and really careful. Look for anything you can find to defend yourself... ok let's move... remember, slowly and quietly..." Max was at the front with his wrench next to Steven with his Beretta and they were leading the way to the canteen...

Caine managed to get a hold of the fallen raiders rifle and load it up with the rest of his .32 caliber ammo, then limping back to the steel operating table and crouching behind it. Just as he predicted the wounded raider came back with a buddy, now shot full of psycho and armed with a .223 caliber pistol. "C'mon out you little vault dweller [censored]! I'ma shoot you full 'a so many holes ya friends will be callin' you Swiss Cheese!" Caine managed to spot the wounded raiders new sidekick in a reflection on the table in front of him, a jet-freak armed with a 10 millimeter sub-machine gun.

The two raiders began to make their way toward Caine's position when he popped up and fired off a round toward the raider he shot earlier, hitting him in the left eye socket and taking a good chunk of his face off in the process. The raider with the SMG began firing off a clip in every direction other then Caine's, apparently a fan of the "Spray and Pray" method of gun fighting.

Caine quickly slid the bolt back on the hunting rifle and discarded the spent shell, popping back up and firing a round into the psycho's chest. Caine quickly reloaded once more and fired a round into the raiders mouth, blowing off the backside of his head. He ran up to the corpses and grabbed the .223 pistol as well as 3 revolver speed loaders, each with 5 rounds in them. He left the Crematorium and turned the corner, finding that the coast was surprisingly clear.

"Obviously these chumps aren't organized... 3 guards for an entire level of the vault? Pshh, I may make it outta here alive just yet." Caine continued limping down the corridor before he found no obvious entry points, cursing under his breath. "Damn... All of that for nothin'... Well, I did get this sweet, sweet gun." He then begin climbing the staircase leading up to the floor with the Med Bay located on it, his ankle started to hurt worse the more he was forced to walk on it.

Two more raiders were just breaking into the room of an elderly woman Caine robbed on occasion. "Tough [censored]." he said while walking past the scene. He finally made it to the Med Bay with minimal confrontation considering the invading force was more interested in [censored] and pillaging at this point. Finding it vacant other then the two stinking corpses of the saps he murdered earlier, he shot the lock off the drug cabinet and stole some Med-X as well as 5 stimpaks, shooting the former up quickly.

He stored the stimpaks in his jacket pocket for later and began to search for any vault survivors. He didn't particularly like the idea of working with the wimps considering how uppity and moral they were, but having them around would provide good distractions for the raiders while Caine picked them off. Eventually he decided to check the cafeteria, if anyone in the vault was half as smart as him they'd be fortifying that spot and picking these crazy bastards off.

James heard the explosion and looked at the door. He then watched Ryan and the scene that unfolded. He grabbed a scalpel and ran off in the direction of his room. Surprisingly, he made it without incident. "they must of not come this far into the vault" He thought, before grabbing his BB gun and the ammo that was in the shoe cleaner container. Exiting the room, he spotted a raider to the right, but was holding no weapon. James fired at him but the bullets did no damage. He looked at the pellets and decided they would be better used as a projectile. He then threw them at him, confusing the raider. Before he realized why James would do that, James ran up to him and smashed his head with his BB gun, breaking the gun. He ran off in the direction of Lisa's room.

((i'm going to add to this in 10 minbut I have to go.))

Steven looked up and grimaced again, falling over. he got back to hie feet and kept going, hoping he would come across a med-kit or one of the docs.

OOC: ((Actually the M1911 only fires .45 ACP and .38 Super rounds.))

Caine instinctively drew his pistol as he spotted Max and his group, leveling the guns sights on Max's head and shouting over the gunfire to get the groups attention. "Hey squares, whaddya say to teaming up against these wild freaks? The alternative is me smoking you right here and now!" he said while smirking.

All of a sudden a raider came up from behind Caine out of no where, a steel pipe in hand. Caine quickly dropped to a kneeling position and took a deep breath, remaining calm even though the raider was cocking back his right arm for a hard strike toward Caine's temple in that moment.

Caine fired off a round, his .223 caliber pistol tearing half of the mans face off and downing him instantly. Caine was absolutely covered in the freaks blood, wiping chunks of flesh off of his face with his sleeve before returning focus to the group and aiming at Max again.