Richard had finished his meal when his Pip-Boy's alert went off. The text stated that Ronnie had died just then. Richard thought, "What a shame, Ron was a good man, even if he did have a drug problem. Now I have to go and add this to the terminal." Richard then got up from the rest of the group and left to add this information to the archives. As he walked there, he passed by the med bay. By now, Ronnie was covered in a white sheet and was being prepared for the funeral and eventual cremation. Richard then walked to the information archives and added the new information. Richard thought, "Being a apprentice Vault historian can be pretty tough, since you have to record every major event in here, which is often." He then heard the chirch organs playing. Richard thought, "I guess Pastor Paul found out to.", and started working on improving his Pip-Boy's memory.

Steven caught the bible and flipped it to the last opened page. He scanned the page and looked back at Father and smiled. "Thanks Father...but I should tell you, Ron has flat-lined. Caine did it, Im sure of it." He waited for a response.

Paul wasn't surprised, but he did get lost in his mind for a second, "Thank you for telling me that Steven, and I look forward to seeing you on Mass this Sunday" Paul said sounding more like a question than a statement.

Steven put the bible on the organ cover. "Don't worry Father, you will." Steven walked out of the chapel and walked down the hallway mulling over what Father said. He passed the panel Harley had smashed. Steven sighed and repaired the plexi-glass style plastic window. He then repaired all the circuits and continued on his way into the reactor level. He started to run a diagnostic on the water chip and power generators. The chip needed replacing badly, but Steven only had half of a new one built. He patched up the chip and then sat down on the stairs to his apartment and thought for a while.

(OOC: I wholeheartedly ask to be taken out of the story, it's a great story and I love the idea and my character... But personally, I think your taking this too quick, sure my first RP was quick but not 7 pages in 3 days quick! Ah well, take control of Francois, kill him, hurt him, send him off to live his life, I don' care.)

((OOC:Sorry to here that Francois))

James walked over to Lisa when three men burst into the med-bay carrying another man. James helped Lisa out of the room and into the canteen. They sat down. Lisa was crying. Not soon after Max entered along with Caine and they started yelling. James jumped out of his seat just in case it turned ugly, but only watched. He then sat back down with Lisa trying to comfort here.

(OOC:
EpicBigBird, i have private messaged you the date, time and name corrections, please edit your post.
Francois Lachon, "I think your taking this too quick...7 pages in 3 days" I would hardly see a thrieving RP and alot of dedication from it's participants as a problem. If you mean't the ingame time compared to the outgame time, not even 24 hours has passed since this topic has been active which is about 3-4 days so that shouldn't really be a problem either? I understand if you can't keep up and i'm sorry, but there are ways you can catch up. As Reaper did, he caught up the 7 pages in 1 post. As for the story, it's barely even scratched the surface yet. There is SO much more to come and it will only get better. This is your choice though but if you wanna take that back and give it another chance, we would love to have ya, just get more stuck in. )

"I agree Richard... I know not of what will happen to him from here on... We will wait for the doctors report but if he is dead, I'm going to have to notify the Overseer of what I know... Things might turn really ugly for that boy. I just wish he would let us help him..." Max said finishing off his lunch. Steven upped and left and Max asked him quickly, "Hey Steven, when you get a moment do you think you could check on the water purifying unit? I didn't get a chance what with everything that has happened and I really need to go back to see if Ashley is ok..." Steven seemed to achknowledge him and left the room... Then Max registered the sweet sound of Paul's organ. "Oh, i wonder what the occasion is?" Max said as he got up, closely followed by "Anyway, was nice to chat to you Richard. Thanks for standing with me back then, Don't work too hard now." Max let of a smile, and walked out the door towards his and Ashley's quarters greeting people that he met along the way. Max got on with alot of people in the Vault. He was great with advice and had a really good listening ear to those with troubles. He might have been the Vault psychologist... if there wasn't already one, but overall they chose Max. He was more down to earth and the actual Vault Psychologist was rather patranising.

OOC: ((Just curious, but when do the Raiders come into play? We're getting close to the post cap of the topic, only reason I ask.))

Caine shrugged and walked back into his apartment, taking the nitroglycerin he placed above his door frame as a boobytrap and placing it in his closet. He climbed into bed and finished off the bottle of Jameson he'd been carrying around all day, getting sufficiently drunk off it.

When he passed out he often dreamed of his mother, which is one of the main reasons he drank so much in the first place. When he slept normally he only had dreams about the people he hurt, the lives he destroyed, but when he was drunk he often dreamed of better times. In this dream he saw his mother, smiling as he approached her. As he got closer he saw she was crying, and he instantly knew why. The live he'd created for himself was not the one she wanted for him, and that hurt more then anything.

Caine realized he was a little boy again, and his mother embraced him as he wept as well. He hadn't cried since the day his mother died 9 years ago, but sure enough he was crying now. Large tears were staining his pillow, he was fully awake now. "M-Mommy..." he whispered before falling back asleep. If this was an epiphany, perhaps he'd try to change... But if it was mere torture due to a combination of alcohol and years of holding his feelings in, things were about to get far, far worse in the vault.

OOC: Post edited. Thanks Mate!

Ryan sighed. and looked up at Dr. Hunt.

"I'll...go inform max." He stood, and left the med-bay, just as the church organs began to play.
Father Paul sure did have a talent there. Ryan rounded the next corner to run smack dab into Max himself.
"Hello dr. How is Ronnie?" max asked in a worried tone.
Ryan didn't know what to say. he took a breath, and looked into max's eyes.
"...Ronald is in a better place now Max."

(OOC: Urgh you are kidding? Theres a post cap? Well I guess when the post cap kicks in i will work on a summary as a refresher incorporating all characters like a "Previous On Vault One-Ten..." kinda thing and we carry on in another thread. What is the cap? Just so i can get ready... what's the point in a cap anyway... P.S: Raiders isn't too far off )

Max took in what Ryan said, looking through him for a few seconds and then looked to the floor helplessly... "God damnit... Well I guess I have no choice but to file a report and talk with the Overseer about further action..." Max said, he then looked back up again and said to Ryan, "...You know how this goes Ryan, you've been here before... I need you and Jonathan to print and prepare the report documentation with a quote from both of you signed and dated... I will be in my quarters filling out the appropriate paperwork that i'm going to pick up on the way back..." Max started to walk off when he turned around and said "...Thanks for trying doctor..." and carried on down the hall...

OOC: ((Well the cap is 10 pages, so we have a few more to go if you wanna wrap this up properly.))

Caine suddenly awoke from his dream, his heart beating a mile a minute and sweating profusely. He walked over to his dresser and picked up the picture of his mother, looking at it thoughtfully.

All of a sudden he threw the picture against a nearby wall, causing the glass to shatter and the frame to break apart. "I don't need her anymore... I don't need anyone. I'll show everyone down here whose boss, and I'll show them in a big [censored] way!" he yelled, putting a white t-shirt on and grabbing his leather jacket.

Caine ran down to an old storage room the maintenance men rarely ever used anymore, finding the door unlocked. He spotted what he was looking for on the northern wall, a large vent that was since taken out of commission.

He began kicking the metal frame several times, bending it and eventually breaking it apart. He quickly crouched down and climbed inside, retrieving his lighter and using it to navigate the dark, confined air shafts.

Eventually Caine came to a space with a ladder, leading up to the level that had the cafeteria and Med Bay on it. Caine climbed up and continued crawling toward his target. A few moments later he was there, peering through a air vent at the people inside the Med Bay.

"Well, well. Occupied as always... Soon as they leave I'll jump down and give Jimmy an overdose of Med-X.. As for Kyle, I'll just smother him with a pillow...", he thought to himself, now intent on killing both boys to send the message that Caine Deckard was the guy everyone should fear, including the Overseer himself.

Harley woke up again, finally. He was once again feeling better and got up off the bed. As he stood up, the wrench he had under his leg fell onto the floor, with a bit of noise.

"Harley sir, your health is satisfactory and you may leave the medical bay" the med bay robot said as Harley picked up the wrench.

He walked over to his toolkit of the floor, opened it and dropped the wrench in, closed it and picked it up. He walked out of the medical bay and headed down the corridor towards his quarters. As he turned the corner, Kate ran into him, causing the toolkit to fly out of his hand and hit the floor, exploding open, sending the tools to fly out over the floor.

"Oh, dear, I'm so sorry Harley" Kate said "I'm sorry, I was coming to see you, to see how you're feeling"

"I'm much better now, thanks Kate" Harley replied, he was hoping he'd see her soon.

Together they picked up the tools and went to put the toolkit in Harley's quarters, talking about what happened to Harley's hand. They put the tools away and Kate suggested they go grab a drink in her room, so they went to Kate's room, had a drink and talked about what they had been up to. It turns out Kate didn't attend the party, she was reading a book, as Harley was angry that he missed it and couldn't see her. They talked about the book she was reading, it was a romance novel.
They had a few more drinks and talked for the rest of the night.

(OOC: The post cap is about 200 posts. I believe the cap is there to keep things manageable.)

Richard walked out of the information archives and went to the library again. After he read a book on the pre-war fauna of the greater Washington D.C. area, he decided to go take a walk along the Vault's corridors. After walking for a while he found himself in front of the Vault's door. Rchard looked around and saw Judith looking at the Vault door as vwell. Richard walked over to her and said, "Hey Judith. What are you doing here?" Judith answered, "I could ask the same of you." Richard answered, "True."

Judith looked away as if she was in her own mind at the moment, then said, "Richard, do you ever wonder about the world must be like behind that door." Richard said, "Sometimes I feel as if there's a whole world put there waiting to explore. Unfortunately, I don't think we'll ever see it, this Vault seems slated to stay closed indefinitely." Judith said, "I know, but it's a nice thought isn't it." "Yeah", Richard agreed. He then said, " Do you want to come help me make some modifications to my Pip-Boy. I was thinking of creating more storage, among other things." Judith said, "Sure.", and the duo left to go to the Information Archives to work in privacy.

"Yes of course." Ryan said and bid farewell to Max.
He headed back to the med-bay slowly. He always took losing a patient hard. When he finally got back, he informed John of what Max wanted us to do, began typing up his report.

After tinkering for hours, Richard and Judith were able to make two new improvements to their Pip-Boy's. The first was an increase in the amount of memory their Pip-Boy's could hold, but the second was even more extraordinary. Using scrap metal and leftovers lying around, the duo modified their Pip-Boy's to not only recieve messages, but broadcast them as well. However, the effective range of the Pip-Boy's was short range, meaning that it was localized to a mile radius. Richard said, "We did it. We did it!", and hugged Judith, only for the two to break off awkwardly while blushing a few seconds later. Richard said, "Let's keep the aftermarket additions between us for the moment, alright." Then they left for the library, where they read books and talked before falling asleep where they were.

OOC: Ok so I would just like to make a few things known that seemed to be getting confused at the moment, to set some people's minds at ease and to set in stone a few things that people may have been questioning... I don't know what everyone was expecting when they joined this RP but It wasn't going to be short. We have only just scratched the surface of the story, there is so much more to come, it's going to be so epic. We have been character building really well and I am happy with everyones response, sadly we've had to lose someone due to the fast paced RPing. If anyone is unhappy with anything please let me know and we can sort it, but I see it as a dedicated group of people who really enjoy a good story and want to get stuck in and make it their own. I know sometimes there might be alot to catch up on, but hopefully it should be a good read! Everyone is introducing new characters and everyone is really building up a flair for this particular RP and remember, what you put in is what you get out. It's your story, make events, make characters part of your stories, share ideas, create obstacles, etc... We will obviously be going over into the next thread when we cap 200, and maybe even to the next. I can't say right now if there will be a significant change in the transition from one thread to the next, so don't think big plot twist at 200, just carry on as you will and take the story as it comes. I won't let this die any time soon, so please, get comfortable, and have a good time

OOC: P.S: If you like the story and are interested in joining, or know someone who might want to take part, it's not too late. Private message me, as i said. There's plenty more to come, and plenty more joining opportunities later on in the RP.

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Max arrived home and opened the door to find Ashley sat on the bed glaring at him... "Heeeey son, how's my big boy doing?" Max said with a smile walking up to Ashley and then crouching infront of him with his hands on his son's knees."..." Ashley kinda looked just to the left of his face. "Hey, you mad at me?" Max asked. "...no..." Ashley replied, to which Max said "Come on, talk to your old man..."

Ashley looked back at Max with sad eyes and said "...I just really wanted you to get me from school today... there was this boy waiting outside for me afterwards and he said he was going to beat me up... and you weren't there..." Max got up slightly shocked and sat down next to Ashley and put his arm round him "awwww, Ashley... I'm so sorry... His he bullying you? Did he beat you up?" Ashley kind of lent into him and said "No, because i waited inside the classroom till he went home..." "Hmm, i'm going to have a word with Mrs Tibbit about this, It's horrible being bullied at school. But you did the right thing to tell me and don't worry, he won't touch you. You will be just fine, i will make sure of it"

With that Ashley purked up a bit and said "Really? I knew you could fix it, you're like Super Dad" with a massive grin. Max laughed, "Hahaha, naw don't be silly. I don't have super powers! Not like those comic's you read." to which Ashley kind of slumped down and said "oh really, none at all?" Ashley looked really disappointed... "Oh well I do have one power..." Max said. Ashley was sat on the floor infront of him and looked up really intrigued, "Oh yeah?! What is it?" Subtly Max started coming towards him with an evil look in his eye and said... "The power...to......MAKE YOU LAUGH!!!" and jumped on him tickling him so hard that Ashley thought he was going to be sick. Ashley was rolling around on the floor in hysterics and then Max stopped and got up and said "see! told ya so!" with a smile.

Ashley recovered and then asked his dad, "Where are you going?" to which Max replied, "I need to go to my office and write a letter to the Overseer." "How comes?" said Ashley. "Because we have a bully aswell." Ashley was confused, "Grown ups get bullied too?" to which Max replied, "Yep they sure do. He used to be a nice man, now he bullies people all the time. Bullying is not allowed in the vault and I don't want him to bully anyone else..." and on that note, he walked into his office, sat down, turned on his lamp, and started the paper work...

Nikolai was so excited about the new component in his pip-boy. His job would at long last be easier. With this,he only needed to put a few drops of water in the anolysis port and his pip-boy would display any harmful impurties in the water. Now instead of spending hours of cross-referencing water samples for every individual impurity,Nikolai would know about any bacterial,fungal,and chemical contamination in the hydroponics system.
With that out of the way,Nikolai was off to library,to get those files of pre-war agriculture from Richard.

Richard woke up a few hours later, and felt something on his shoulder. Apparently, Judith had leaned on him while they were sleeping. After Richard woke her up, they parted ways as Judith had to continue her work as a Pip- Boy technician. At the same time she left, Nikolai came in and asked for some files on pre-war agriculture. Richard said, "Sure, just let me go and get them for you." Richard went into the back and came out a few seconds later with the files Nikolai needed. Richard said, "Here you go.", and handed the files to Nikolai.

Nikolai looked at the holo-tape with excitement. "Oh man,can you believe growing plants out of the ground? Can you imagine ground"!? Nikolai chuckeled after kicking the steel floor with the tip of foot. "Well anyway,thanks Richard,those files on composting you gave me last time really got me closer to making soil. Plus now that I got some sand and gravel from when they removed the floor plateing,its going to be just like the real stuff when I put it together!"
Nikolai got out of the library with a huge grin on his face,today he was going to make the first potted plant in vault history,something he hoped Richard would put down in the vault archives.

Steven sat upright and looked down at his Pipboy. 5:13 pm. He cursed under his breath and started for the canteen. On his way his Pipboy beeped twice, the new announcement tone. He looked down to his wrist. A new message said "Confidential: Temporary Termination notice" From the Overseer. Steven furrowed his brow and opened up the the message.

"Dear Mr. Blunt,

As you are aware, you are turning sixteen in a week. Unfortunately, we cannot keep you as a paid repairman as you do not have any registered biological or foster parents. Because of this, you will not be able to log any reports after June 10, 2076. You will be re-instated once I have confirmation of you finding foster care.

Thank you for your co-operation,
The Overseer"

Steven swore loudly and closed the message. He headed over to Max's apartment. Maybe he could help...either way it was worth a shot. He heard Ashly laughing inside, so he tapped the door with his wrench. Max opened the door, and Steven started before he could say anything. "Hey Max, sorry to come at such a time, but I have something important to ask you."

"No no, it's fine, do not trouble yourself. Come in come in..." Max beckoned so Steven walked in and Max activated the switch to close the door behind him. "Please, sit" Max said showing him his sofa's seperated by a small table. "Would you like a cup of herbal tea? The Herbs are fresh from the Hydroponics Lab, Nikolai made them specially for me. It's an English thing" Max said kind of rubbing his head and chuckling... Steven didn't seem to be buying it... "oh...*ahem*... Sorry, please, tell me whats wrong?" Steven sat down, and Max sat opposite him...

"Listen, I know this is sudden, but you know how my birthday is in a week right?" Max nodded. "Well I have to take my G.O.A.T., and the Overseer said he was going to keep me as manitenence, but I can't take my GOAT without parental permission. don't have parents, and you're close to family for me, and I knwo you already have a kid, but could you see about the paperwork...to adopt me? I can help around! Take Ash to school and, and fix stuff, and, and, ahhh...." Steven stopped and looked up at Max to wait for a response.

OOC: WOW that was weird to type XD

Paul had cleaned up his sheet paper and was relaxed a little. His mind had raced with answers to the Caine problem. He decided that as chaplain, it wasn't his place to help him. He needed to relax. So he started to take a walk around the Vault. Ahh, he thought I wonder what it would have been like to take a walk surrounded by trees, in a forest alone. But he knew those days were gone, and he would never see a forest in his life. He started whistling to get his mind off.

"Steven, of course I will adopt you" Max gave off a heart felt smile and continued, "As chief engineer, I have always considered you a son to me, and my finest apprentice. I don't think there is a machine in the world that you couldn't fix with enough time."

Steven looked a little upset and bewildered from having to ask such a forward, future dependant question. Maybe he was scared of the answer that Max would give, or maybe it got him thinking about his parents. This was a big thing for Steven so Max went and sat next to him. "Hey come here..." Max opened his arms to embrace Steven with a hug...

"If it mean's that much to you and this is truely what you want, I will go and see the Overseer about it right after I have finished writing my report on Caine. That way I can see him about two problems at the same time." Max waited for a response...

Jonathan was in the canteen after doing all the necessary paperwork. Damn you Caine. He ordered some whiskey and sat drinking watching people pass by. He remembered when he was a kid, when he was growing up. His father was also a vault doctor and his mother was the nurse, that was all before they re-programed Rob to be the assistant. His father would take him to school and would always give him a kiss on the head. His mother would then pick him up after school and they would walk holding hands until they reached their room. When he was sitting in bed he and his parents would talk about everything that happened in school, the girls he liked and those sort of things.

When he was fifteen he became a rebel somewhat and disobeyed his parents and caused trouble though nothing on the scale of Caine. When he took the goat and became the vault doctor he was quite happy though he didn't show it to anyone. He helped his father somewhat but was still a rebel. A few months passed and Jonathan's father died after a plate from the roof fell and crushed him. His mother slowly wen't insane due to a problem in her brain a few months later. Jonathan resolved to be good from now on and to be as good a doctor as his father was. He eventually surpassed his father in terms of skill though he doesn't want to admit it.

Jonathan went back to reality and took another shot of whiskey. He walked up to the jukebox and started up I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire and sat back down remembering old times.