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[survival-101.livejournal.com]

1) [Catherine's been pacing by the entrance again, but this time it's not in fear. It's... restlessness. She's been hiding inside for days, but nothing's connected here, she can't go anywhere, do anything. But this is conflicting with agoraphobia. Back and forth she goes, before-]

Oh, fuck it.

[Aaaaand out she goes, shielding her eyes against the sun.]



2) [While out on this journey of hers, she remembers something! And is completely dumbfounded by it.]

Hey. On a scale of "Einstein" to "fucking retarded," how bright would you say building a town next to a nuke sounds?



3) [Was her journey done or just starting? She got everything she needed. Some bottled water, a few snacks, some .44 caliber bullets...

Maybe you're near the habitation border. Maybe you're trying to get a group together. Here comes Catherine! ...and there goes Catherine, crossing the line without so much as blinking. The only noticeable difference is there's now a revolver in her hand.]

Comments

[cantlearnbreak]

Er, what is a nuke?

[survival-101.livejournal.com]

...then that question wasn't meant for you. It's a bomb. Really powerful one.

[cantlearnbreak]

Ah, I'm sorry, then.

That sounds like a terrible idea, though.

[survival-101.livejournal.com]

And here's the thing. Where I'm from? Megaton fu-... Megaton exists. They built a village around an unexploded bomb!

[cantlearnbreak]

And they were aware of it? Do you remember why?

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[lifesmegassweet.livejournal.com]

*Guess who's coming back the other direction!*

Cat-Cat! Hi! Wow, you're going out today?

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[survival-101.livejournal.com]

Tsu. ...no one else seems too bothered going outside, and I'm going stir-crazy with nothing else to do.

Besides, I remembered something. Want to make a little trip and see if I can't build something when I get back.

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[lifesmegassweet.livejournal.com]

Well, I seem to remember it bein' all right, so I just comes and goes as I want.

Ooh, really? Want me to come with? If it's megas heavy, maybe I can help lift it!

It helps to press the post button. *facepalm*

[survival-101.livejournal.com]

Pretty sure I told you about my home. Surface is all irradiated, so it kinda freaks me out to just be walking around out here.

Eh... it is, and don't take this the wrong way, but I'd kinda rather do it myself right now.

[lifesmegassweet.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can see that! Man, that would kinda stink. So whaddaya think of fresh air, then?

Awww... some other time then?

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[normal-anomaly.livejournal.com]

If she's saying what I think she's saying, the level of stupidity transcends every dimension that anything could ever be measured in.

By "nuke," you mean an atomic bomb?

[survival-101.livejournal.com]

One that already fell, at that. Just had the sheer dumb luck to not blow.

[normal-anomaly.livejournal.com]

...Let me put it this way. I don't think you're giving the stupidity of the founders enough credit with your scale.

[survival-101.livejournal.com]

Megaton lasted two hundred years, so they've saved the absolute bottom through dumb luck.

[normal-anomaly.livejournal.com]

Two centuries? Seriously?

Scratch luck, that's a two-hundred-year-old MIRACLE.

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[atomic-overkill.livejournal.com]

Depends. What's a nuke? [It sounds very vaguely familiar, but not being the 21st century history buff her teammates were (not that she remembers her teammates or stuff like that, but the point remains) she doesn't have the immediate connection to it.]

[survival-101.livejournal.com]

Extremely high explosive bomb. Tends to level everything for a mile and leave the area covered in fallout for a century or three.

[atomic-overkill.livejournal.com]

Okay. It isn't the stupidest florging thing I can think about, but it's up there.

[survival-101.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I can't think of what beats it.

[survival-101.livejournal.com]

...florging.

[atomic-overkill.livejournal.com]

[Heard that!] Yeah, florg, floob, grife...I turned in one of those memory marbles and that's all I got out of it. I don't even know what they mean.

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[canthandleacape]

[Doot doot Booster was just hanging out outside the hotel like the jobless bum he kind of is.]

You can probably find someplace that sells shades somewhere around here.

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[survival-101.livejournal.com]

I'll probably get used to it eventually.

...this is normal, right?

[canthandleacape]

Well, I can only speak for myself here, but I'm pretty sure that losing all my memories and getting drafted is pretty unusual.

[survival-101.livejournal.com]

Alright, don't know what a draft is, I meant that. The sun. It's supposed to be this bright, right?