FalloutVerse - The Children are the Future by MayflowerPowerHour, literature
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FalloutVerse - The Children are the Future
The flight deck of Rivet City was the perfect place to catch a breath of fresh air. Assuming that the wind was coming from the south. A north wind brought the smells of downtown D.C. with it - burning rubber, atomised concrete, sulphur and rot.
Today, it was the ocean. Salt and sand. A hint of rust from the other boats slipping into the murky waters of the bay. Below, the aircraft carrier groaned as the twisted metal creaked under its own weight. Broken in half by its collision with the river bed, it was a miracle that the entire vessel had not capsized and rolled into the Potomac, another wreck from before the War.
Instead, it was a shelte
Fallout - Wasteland Day Trippers by MayflowerPowerHour, literature
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Fallout - Wasteland Day Trippers
“Isn’t it a lovely day?”
Louis glanced around at the desolation surrounding him and Camil as they trekked deeper into the wilderness. The sky looked burned and palsied. A pale sun shone weakly through a gauzy haze of cirrus. It looked like the upper atmosphere was dying of radiation sickness. Which it probably was.
And he was reasonably sure there were vultures up there. Or whichever irradiated relative of the vulture happened to feed on corpses in the Capital.
Add to that the burnt out car wrecks, the smashed up roads, the shrivelled and blackened trees. Miles of dust and scraggly grass underfoot, and only the occasional
Fallout - Great Balls of Fire by MayflowerPowerHour, literature
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Fallout - Great Balls of Fire
Project Purity produced data in a constant stream that poured from the terminal on a strip of yellowed paper at a rate of about a foot every minute. Doctor Li had hired someone from Rivet City to cut it into manageable chunks whenever it got too long, and this had become a full-time job.
Unfortunately, that paper was all the purifier seemed capable of producing in any great quantity. Louis pored over it searching for some kind of pattern or clue in the lines of numbers and constant string of error reports.
It was just as well the purifier was making so much work for everyone. It meant they were always looking for scientists in Rivet City. A