Dallas takes a fork and takes bit of waffle from Nina's plate. He assumed since food wasn't exactly limited ,the woman would have no need to be protective over it. In fact,she slides it over so he can reach better. " you'll always be special to me. And that's what matters. "Dallas tells dustyn sweetly. " we could use more dustyn's rather than..." Dallas trails off when he realizes present company may take exception to his words. He ends up finishing with the vague," opportunists".

Nina slides her tray back towards herself and hungrily stuffs all the food in her mouth. " we can't all be part of a neo Nazi paramilitary outfit,love. And get your own food. Im too opportunistic." She teases back,barely intelligible through the food.

Dallas stammers slightly. He didn't really expect her to eat an entire stack of pancakes in one bite. Well,eat was a strong word. She mainly was in the process of trying to hork them down. " it'd serve you right to choke on that." Dallas teases Nina before acting shocked to dusty Dusty. " sitting on my butt drinking nuka? I wasn't a scribe!" He protests.

" choke on this." Nina replies to dallas,grabbing her crotch. Nina slowly nods to Riley. "Yeah. That's the bot,love. Poor thing is going to be wrecked when I tell him about deneil. Charlie loved hearing people that spoke like him..i think the crazy machine actually believes he isn't american made." Nina says with a half smile. The three of them did have a weird sort of bond over dialect. The amount of times she had to explain Charlie's name to wastelanders... They assumed he was from a literal white church. On the alien topic,Nina tips her glass of juice towards Riley. "People say there is one floating over DC. Too. Like a mothership.but i call bullshit.i i also call bullshit on crabs living in vans,love. C'mon. Where have you EVER seen such a thing?"

Dallas laughs when dustyn brings up iTunes. : even aliens hate iTunes,dust. "

as much as erich likes to think of himself as a love them and leave them type of person,he's actually rather the opposite. even the depths of the vault couldnt change that. the parting with billy was treated with at least the amount of intimacy erich would have given to a very familiar groupie in the early days of atomic war bride." well,i just thought of the queen then grinned and beared it" erich grins and winks at billy. he was well aware of the bear meaning and meant it as it sounded. while he felt a little like an imposter as men were not what he was into,it was still very fun. any port in a storm,right? erich roughly throws a towel at billy before spouting. "here. make yerself presentable before we go out there." he says in his best bronx pimp voice before cracking up. he then bends down and towels billy off. while he didnt meant to mess billy,...things popped out at that vital moment. the vault cleaning crew had a job ahead of them.

nina drinks a drink of orange (?) juice and shakes her head. " you want to go in there and see carnage and/or sex? be my guest,love." nina says while waving her hand dismissively. "i'm waiting until we know for sure. i still got...whatever is going on with erica to deal with. my plate is fucking full." she tells riley almost grumpily. she was not looking forward to the trip to goodneighbor with erica. the vault was awake and moving but erica wasnt here. last night must not have went well. she knew her friend well enough to expect erica would have joined them already.

dallas focuses on his breakfast. they could leave billy as far as he was concerned. billy and this wacky ass vault would be a great mix. but he knew dustyn loved billy so that wasnt an option. "dust...leave the cat alone." dallas says flatly with a wry smile. he knew it was a matter of time before his boyfriend took off after the feline.

ooc: this was written in march 2019. dont know how complete it is. but i saved if for this long,so this is my ending for the fallout thing mr sugar and i did:

Epilogue:
In the end, erich did not stay in vault 81. He hugged Karoliena Good bye for the last time and set off for diamond city. His conscious was at ease knowing Karoliena was safe and would probably live out her natural lifespan. When he arrived in diamond city,erich set about keeping his promise to Joshua. First he performed the easiest task: disposing of the mayor. Perhaps to prove Joshua wrong about him and to validate Joshua and piper's theory about the mayor, erich threw the mayor off the stadium roof, splattering his body on the entrance ramp to diamond city. It was a gory display but the shattered skull's synth component was there for all citizens to see. To this day,diamond city assumes the mayor's program glitched and caused a suicide. Later the same day,while piper was writing the inevitable article about the mayor,erich told her of her boyfriend's fate. The two spent the day drinking and telling Joshua stories. Erich told her every bit of prewar experience and knowledge of Joshua he had. Respectfully, he did not ask piper to confirm the pee rumor. Due to his previous actions and lingering guilt about the Blake debacle, erich did not visit dustyn and Dallas before leaving diamond City . from there,erich met back up again with Erica and Nina in good neighbor. Ruling over vice in such a settlement was a pretty good place to be in. While he never reveled in violence the say erica would, erich could match her sadism when the situation called for it. At far harbor,erich was saved the fate that awaited the harlots. He was chatting up the mariner in the bar and missed going out on the raid. The mariner was surprised to see Erich's circumcised willy. She didn't believe people willingly deformed their children in such a way,nor did she believe Erich was pre war. She assumed he was part of a very warlike tribe and this was some sort of toughness ritual. From this drunken fling,erich and the mariner started a life together. Several years later,erich planned an expedition to Europe. He is presumed lost at sea.



After a brief stay in vault 81 to recuperate,Erica and Nina returned to good neighbor. Erica was a slightly changed woman. She and by extension ,the harlots now left most wastelanders alone. After Rueben's death,she thought maybe there was innocence in the world and she should stop trying to snuff it out. She hadn't gone soft however. A customer once spit on the lobby floor of her brothel, she forced his friends to either beat him to death then and there or they would all be shot. But the typical farmer or trader was safe now. So...progress? With erica semi reined in now, Nina took back the helm of the harlots ship. Under her lead,the harlots cloned and enhanced the memory den's technology and offered sex unbound by the limitations of reality. Only the wealthiest customers could try this and most were instantly hooked. In weeks most users would be penniless and working in the "normal" areas of the brothel. It was a win win for the harlots.
A few years later erica and nina gathered their gang and set back off into the wastes. So began the great purge of atom. The harlots had a goal after their experiences with Blake: the absolute destruction of the children of atom. The harlots would pounce on children of atom settlements and execute the entire populace. Acres of land were filled with the crucified cult members. Their crusade encompassed Boston,D.C. Virginia,and eventually Maine. It was in the coastal forests of Maine that the harlots met their match. Ill prepared for the radiation they would encounter there, the harlots succumbed to radiation sickness. Their numbers dwindled until the gang started turning on each other. Erica and Nina escaped into the surrounding cranberry bogs. This is where Nina sangria perished from the radiation. Erica remained in the bog after giving her best friend a Viking funeral. Erica lost track of the days.but she didn't die.instead,she turned ghoul. She now faced an eternity of loneliness.

For about ten years,vault 81 continued under the direction of Cassie and Karoliena summers. The two kept things running smoothly so that eris summers could continue with making a working G.E.C.K. , with such an item vault 81 would change the Commonwealth and bring lush greenery and pure water back to the people. Eris had drastically miscalculated the radiation absorbing matrix. The moment it was turned on,the bootleg G.E.C.K instantly vaporized all organic material in the vault. From people to bacteria. Everything was gone. The G.E.C.K's initial EMP burst fried the vault's electronics. In a very short time the reactor melted down and the vault imploded. If anyone was left during the vault's last moments,they would have seen two Synth components where Karoliena and Cassie stood. Unbeknownst to each other,they were both synths. The real Karoliena had been replaced fairly recently. While the real Cassie had been replaced years ago.





current non canon bit:





the pair are fairly well known to segments of the crowd. they were a semi popular act in stardom.



music hits and eris and takara walk down the ramp. takara wears a tight and low cut suit jacket and skirt while eris sports the military jacket in the photo and a red plaid skirt."
Watashitachiha Nihon kara koko ni kite, haisha ni kore ga dono yō ni okonawa rerubeki ka o shimeshimasu. (we are here from japan to show you losers how this should be done.)" eris says into the mic as the stride to the middle of the ramp and stop. to the japanese words,the crowd replies with the usual,and obnoxious "what" chant.
"Nani?" takara replies.
"what?" the crowd keeps going.
"nani?" takara says,now with a large smirk on her face.
"WHAT?" the crowd yells.
"NANI?!" takara screams into the mic before clearing her throat. "oh. you guys dont know what i am saying. you'd think with all the hana uzaki body pillows that reside in your crispy beds,you would." takara says in her most patronizing while turning her head and pouting.
the crowd boos her with pretty intense heat. takara is naturally rather haughty and is instantly unlikable.

eris flips her hair and holds her hand up to shush takara. "i've kicked ass through japan and the united kingdom. i dont expect things to be much different here.. if i am being honest." she states and checks her nails before continuing. "so.." she just finishes with a bored shrug.




ooc: i dont think anyone is using rachel mcadams. i am near certain lyn z isnt being used.

As the show wrapped up and we go backstage people are clapping and cheering for the masked man debut. He takes the hood and mask off to show Chris Harris Jr underneath the suit. Chris has always been into wrestling so when he was young he got on the road with his father working the indie sets and bars before finally getting his break at the ring of honor three years ago. While he was in the ring of honor wrestling school he learned from some of the best to do it, watching matches from guys like CM Punk Kevin Owens, and AJ styles. Chris was pretty lean and didn't have a lot of muscle on him so he worked on quick strikes, high flying moves, and how to take a hit and sell well. "Good Job, out there you really didn't hold any punches did you?" One of the guys asked, "I wanted it to be as real and hard without the thing bending and messing up you know." Chris said with a little grin. "I'm just glad that Hunter likes the storyline that I pitched to him," "I think he just wants to see that you are like on your feet. There are a few people that we listen to creatively but just know that it isn't always like that." William said coming from the corner "We are going to have you show up again next week with the mask and you going to layout Finn so get some reps in and know what you are going to do when we start taping." "Yes sir!"

"shit yeah. " erich says in disgust,flicking the blood off of his hands. he helped lift the buck on the horse. he wasnt so much a getting his hands dirty sort of gent as he was grifting the faithful. but,he was a good shot when it came to hunting,not so much when the prey fired back. "those who ask shall forever dwell in the house of the lord." erich cackles sarcastically. he was always quick with a religious themed quote. any one that knew the man,knew better. he was as lecherous as they came and was full to the gills on drink and opium. "blakes an asshole,but sometimes one needs to make a scene before they make an exit." he says in his near whiny southern drawl. like most,he didnt care for blake. but he could appreciate his methods at times.

"we should be eating him." mariko says flatly. "he knew the plan but was a fucking hot head." she says distastefully before slinging the rifle over her back. mariko was cold as ice and had no patience for people who were unprofessional. she wouldve been on the first boat back to japan if she could. it was to the point where she couldnt join the rest of the gang in town. the larger towns werent that bad,but the smaller frontier towns? she'd shoot someone the moment they disrespected her. the americans could burn for all she cared. they spoke a good game,but didnt live up to it. something was wrong when a gang out outlaws lived up to the supposed ideals of america than the respectable citizens did. their group had all kinds and nobody was treated as an inferior.

nina pokes a stick into the fire and watches the embers rise. she glances from scott to mercedes. "so murder and robbery is fine,but this gets your concern,love?!" nina laughs warmly. she was pretty open to what she was. by this time,it probably was blatantly obvious what she got up to. men,women,it didnt matter to nina. still,she wasnt going to confirm or deny scott's suspicions. maybe dusty and dallas werent ready for people to know. though, she could tell right off what they were with each other. "perhaps,i mean back there doesnt exactly work like..like,well. you know. im not about to be crude. you're a man of the world. sometimes you can drill all you want,but there is no oil and you gotta bring your own,love."

"yeah. i dont think anyone would miss him. but...the more billy has blake around,the less i have to do. i aint too keen on getting shot at." erich chuckles before taking out a bottle and drinking from it. it was a bottle of cheap red wine that he used for communion and other things. it also worked wonders for getting one nice and plastered. putting the bottle back in one of the holsters that would normally carry a pistol,erich pats the deer corpse sadly. "yeah. we could be in a town,swindling rubes,drinking whiskey and eating pork. venison is probably my least favorite meat. but,i guess its better than god damned carrots." erich also wasnt above stealing some cattle if the opportunity rose. he mainly kept out of the particulars of the different people in their group. the war was over,but he still sort of got the gist that some didnt like his southern roots.

mariko smirks and produces her hunting knife. it was more than likely a young boy's knife as it was smaller and slightly less robust than to be expected. "wouldnt be the first time i pictured him while turning animals into steak. i dont trust him as far as i could throw him. but..." she shrugs defeated. more than likely,blake was here to stay. even in a group of murderers and thieves,blake gave off vibes she didnt like. if anyone was the sort to try to sneak into her tent at night,she felt it would be blake. "im frankly surprised you havent decked him." mariko states,getting on her own horse.

"yet." erich grins at joshua and mariko before drinking again.


nina glances from scott to mercedes before laughing. " shit,scott. you have lived a sheltered life,havent you? you arent taking erich...er,father erich's sermons to heart,are you? " she asks,tilting her head to the side. nina was never a lady of the night,but she knew more than her share back in whitechapel. working in the homes of wealthy merchants,she wasnt much higher on the social scale. she also had her suspicions of other people in the camp. it didnt really matter to her. mercedes was correct. it was beautiful in its way. they could all be killed tomorrow. may as well find love where you can.

dallas pats dustyn's bare bottom before kissing him and picking his trousers up from a low hanging branch. "dust. i'll follow your plan,but i am really doubting we are fooling anyone. we can only spend a long time collecting firewood so many times before people start to talk. i'll try throwing them off by saying something rude about mercedes' butt?" he suggests with a smile. he felt she was probably the least likely of the women to kill him in his sleep.

" see? That's one thing I only have to worry about when I'm out with you guys. Give me enough time,I could probably get us a good sized ranch off one of the idiots.": Erich says with a laugh. He was always up for some hijinx,but was more concerned with personal safety than joshua.

"My god.." Mariko interrupts. "They don't even have to be alive to get a name! Or in one piece. I swear I saw him talking to a half a squirrel the other day. It had been crossing a rail and didn't make it." Mariko says, with far more amusement than dislike. They all seemed to humor Lincoln. If anyone truly wanted turkey,they'd have turkey. Messing with Lincoln would bring a world of hell on someone.

Erich pulls himself onto his own horse. It was most likely he never really learned how to ride a horse. His horse merely seemed to follow the others. On his own,he would walk everywhere or ride in a wagon. " He'd cry to billy before I could swing. The weasely little bastard that he is." Erich spats as the horse sort of meanders in a circle.

" You got one of those goofy white robes in your tent,love?" Nina teases. "Probably fit right in. In case you're as blind as Micah, you're surrounded by misfits and outcasts. Probably even been some mixing of the races." She giggles after making a gasp. their group being headed by a non white man got feathers in a rustle out there as well as women being seen as near equals. Two men having sex with each other probably was just assumed. "Now be a dear and get mommy a beer." Nina giggles before having Scott's arm on her. she didn't move or really mind. She just sat and looked up at him," aww,I'm backdoor only and it seems you are just flat against that sort of thing." She jokes before squeezing and giving Scott's hand a kiss. "How's that beer situation coming?" Shd asks with a wide smile


"Be a damned shame for the bank robbers to think less of us." Dallas jokes. He understood though. He assumed people knew but most didn't say anything. If the group hadn't abandoned he and Dustyn yet,they probably wouldn't anyway. "Oh she doesn't do that anymore, dust. Be nice!" Dallas playfully scolds dustyn. "Besides,I couldn't afford it if she did. I've been.....doing my hair with you and missed out on some jobs." Dallas replies, kicking the empty tin with his toe.

Nina perks her head up at billy's voice and instinctively catches mercedes. Nina hadn't seen mercedes DO anything. She was always just sort of around. Nina was fairly certain Mercedes wasn't having sex with people in the camp either. She just sort of was there. Nina smiles to herself in thought. Mercedes was the camp lookout. Someone had to stay in the camp,right? Nina fans Mercedes with her hand. "She can't go like this. Just look at the state of her, love." She exclaims to billy. " I could use some fresh air. I'm sure Erica can be convinced to go too." She replies with a nod. Nina wasn't around just to look pretty in the camp. Also, someone needed to hold Erica's leash. The two couldn't really be separated.

"stuff will fucking kill you." nina agrees,unscrewing the cap of the beer. being proudly english,beer wasnt drinking. this american shit sure as hell wasnt. but she she humored the drunken man. nina takes a long drink of beer and smirks in anticipation for the joke she was to make. " i guess that makes those lads a bit stronger than the rest of you boys. " she says while using another drink of beer to stifle her laughter. "if its even true,love. nobody knows. pomade makes great candles,maybe the read a lot in the dark. pretty sure dallas is the bookish type." she says with a shrug.

nina continues fanning mercedes as the poor woman exhausts herself speaking. " oh for sure. you get off your feet right now and into bed. try to find a northern breeze to cool you down." she says far more seriously than anyone should say that to mercedes. nina settles on mercedes' purpose being morale...also,who knows? maybe one day she would save all their asses....and nina enjoyed looking at her.


nina wasnt about to make her displeasure known. blake was sleazy and she didnt appreciate the way he treated some the of the less...vigorous members of the group. but he could be good to have around if things got out of hand. "yes. yes it is,love." nina says pleasantly with an exaggerated wink. she didnt say much of the snub to riley,but nina assumed billy had reasons for giving blake the money. she knew she didnt want to hold it. the less responsibility,the better. plus the silly dresses that were all the fashion nowadays had zero pockets. "erica,get your ass out here,we're heading out,love!" nina called over towards the tents and wagons that made up the camp.

"coming!" erica said brightly as she snapped the book she was reading shut. no clue what it was,as it was written in japanese. but the pictures? well,there would be a lot of things in the future based off what was there. lots of squid doing things they shouldnt. erica sort of just appeared next to nina. "we'll keep our ears and eyes open." she assures billy at the prospect of finding new scores.

nina politely declines blakes offer with a shake of her head. "i dont want to be poked by a saddle horn." she laughs and puts her jacket on. it covered the holsters that hung outside her dress. erica flips the sawed off shotgun open and loads the two shells in it. she checks to ensure her pistol is in its place as well. these trips were never just in and out. there was always trouble.

ooc: looked this up. the screw cap was made in the 1870's.

without looking,nina grabs erica's hand which was going towards the machete. blaked loved to rile people up and erica was easy to rile. the woman had a fuse shorter than she was. the captured hand attempted to wriggle free but nina could easily overpower erica. erica was less than 5 foot tall and weighed all of 100 lbs. toughness could only take her so far. "china was building cities while your ancestors were still passing around their own dung." erica snaps and climbs into the wagon,making a show of kicking the random things that were on the floor. she wasnt about to get into the differences between japan and china. wasnt worth it. nina sits beside erica and throws a leg over erica's lap to hold her down and keep the weapons out of reach.
"for your sake,i'll keep an eye on her ,love." nina says brightly while erica stews.

"oh,riley,you know i'm all about the in and out." erica calls out,getting a bottle of moonshine ready to drink. riley was professional and erica respected that. before blake,she was the loose cannon of the group. but she saw it as adding fun. this asshole just added sand to underpants. out of respect for billy she wouldnt do much in retaliation to blake. but if it came down to it? this was one Chinese woman who'd look the other way if a lawman took aim at blake.

the group rode into camp and they could smell the wood on the fire before even arriving. there was some hickory in the fire and should really make the deer taste better. mariko gave a little nod to shay. she didnt care for kids but wasnt rude to them...unless need be. she definitely had told a st denis kid he was ugly as an alligator's dick. erich,however,was pretty good with kids. in spite of,or maybe because of his constantly intoxicated state. "yeah.hes a big bastard. it took all three of us to lift it onto the horse. you can thank joshua for shooting it. i was just there to keep he and mariko company.

Nina's leg jerks up as Erica tries to retrieve the shotgun. Nina's leg presses back down and saves blake's life. To soothe the wound of having to stop Erica, nina uncorks the bottle for Erica and hands it to her. Erica wanted to fire back her own flavor of the insult,but Riley and Nina happened to share a race with him. She loses her urge to humor blake after a few drinks and merely responds half-heartedly with, "you'll understand a bullet." Riley was keeping order, so that was good enough for Erica. If he wanted to run interception between herself and blake, more power to him.

Erica glares at the back of blake's head as they ride along. She fumes but eventually starts giggling since nina keeps poking her ribs with a finger "c'mon,love. We're going to eat all the chocolate we can find." She offers. Petty theft was more fun the. Intergang violence and would take Erica's mind off things. "We're fine, mr hamilton!" The two answer in unison to Riley's concern. They were certainly better off than he was,sitting so close to blake.

"Hmm, backwards savages" nina muses softly at Blake's words. She makes a silly face at Erica and it makes the pair giggle like school children.

The smell of the scene hit them before the sight. The unmistakable smell decay and the metallic odor of a lot of blood. " Guh." Nina says,looking away from the body while wincing. "Poor bastard. Riley,I don't think we should tell anyone. Don't know about you,love. But I know of a few people in this wagon who would be looked at as prime suspects."
Erica is silent. she agrees with Nina and had far less concern with the well being of people she didn't know.

Mariko hope off her horse and and starts putting on her well worn and rather smelly leather apron. Being the late 1800s, rubber aprons were decades off and the leather only repelled so much blood and other substances from animals. She was capable of Cooking,in fact she was pretty good at it. Not as good as her sister, but she really wasn't as good as the camp cook. A cook who couldn't stomach processing animals. She swipes her tools a few times on the sharpening steel and starts removing the skin of the deer .

Erich doesn't answer immediately. Both shay and his father were sort of out of place here. But it took all kinds, correct? "Let's ask your dad first. He have something in mind. " Erich answers for the chance that dustyn wants to be the one to teach shay. He didn't see dustyn ever being a killer. But, shay learning to shoot was a good idea. Erich was a pretty good shot.