Two for one!

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1) [It's early afternoon, and crashing sounds are coming out of room 319. The door is wide open, but it may not be patently obvious what's going on - Catherine bought herself some tools after remembering her aptitude for making repairs and is taking apart her Pip-Boy to make a few upgrades. Also she is swearing loudly.]

Fucking goddamn it all to hell, I knew I should've bought a flashlight!



2) [Later in the evening, Catherine remembered some more - though what, she's not saying immediately. She's taken to pacing the first and third floors, taking the stairs, walking around, but freezing up at doors before scurrying backwards.]

Outside. Outside. Oh god oh god oh god I'm really outside...

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But no one here did. I'm pretty sure that if outside the buildings was dangerous, we would have been told about it like we were everything else. Why would they hide something like that? Also, it doesn't even look like it would be radioactive outside. Not with all the healthy plants and pets.

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Because I don't know how you damn surface dwellers live! And it's not radioactive, huh? It's not?

[Flippin' the Pip-Boy open, hitting a small switch, and now there's a steady ticking noise.]

Explain that! Explain the Geiger counter going fucking crazy!

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...How can I explain something when I don't know what that is?

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...a Geiger counter. It measures radioactivity in an area?

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It...WHAT?!

[Ruby grabs the counter in an attempt to read it as well as quickly asks questions..]

How bad is it? Are we in danger right here? How do you even read this thing?!

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Hey give me my arm back! I don't know! It's hovering at the middle here! I don't know what that means! You're the surface dweller, you tell me!

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But I've never been in a place that was radioactive before! Just places where outside was safe

...I don't want to start glowing green!!!

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...what? There's nowhere outside that's safe! It's all supposed to be like this!

Well, neither do I! I mean, maybe we won't! We've been here a while and we're both fine, right? Right?

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But if that was true then why aren't I deathly ill or something? I'm pretty positive I played outdoors a lot when I was a little kid.

I feel fine, but how would I know if I don't show symptoms until it's too late?!

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I don't know, I don't know, I don't-

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What is it? Is something wrong?

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It's me.

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What do you mean?

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I mean it's me, it's me, I'm the radioactive one.

I was... chased out? Why? What did I do?

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Wait, what?

[And he's torn between inching away and to not be rude.]

....Well, you feel okay, right? I'm sure if you were really bad off the lab guys would've done something for you.

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[It's okay, she's doing the inching away herself, going right back to muttering to herself in an oblivious fashion.]