You can call me Daisy. The voice… She... she's in here.
I knew a fella who used to talk to his gun.
She says her name's Daisy. Daisy, did you see anyone else come by here?
No other humans have come within range of my senses.
She hasn't seen any other people.
Ask your imaginary friend if she saw a machine that looks human.
I smelled a machine that sounded as though it moved on two feet. It passed within sensory
range ninety four minutes ago, and passed out of range eighty one minutes ago.
She can hear you. The android was here an hour and a half ago.
Great, so now Tanner’s got an imaginary friend, and the Storyteller here has EDNA.
Where’s my sidekick?
I dunno Ranger. Do you think it's wise to trust some random brain in a jar that we just
met?
But... she's a dog brain. Dogs don't lie... Right?
I have been informed on numerous occasions that I am a good dog. A good good dog.
See? She's a good dog. Aren’t ya girl?
Bark bark. Woof woof.
*angry beep*
ED-NA says she doesn’t like your new friend.
*angry beep*
Grrrrr.
We’ve wasted enough time. Let's go see if we're right about the android needing bio
med gel for its brain.
*calm beep*
ED-NA says there's no one else in here.
Daisy says she doesn't smell anyone, either.
Spread out and look for the brain goo storage room. And see if
you can find some police headsets so you can hear Daisy.
You know, The Chosen One had to find some bio med gel to help a friend back about forty
years ago. An artificial intelligence that was downloaded into a robobrain.
It called itself “Skynet”. An artificial intelligence computer that managed the Sierra
Army Depot. According to itself, Skynet was conceived and developed through the use of
alien technology. Four years after the Great War, the AI became self-aware, and it waited
patiently for over a century before the Chosen One stumbled across it. Skynet just wished
to travel and learn more about the world, and only needed a body to download into. Some
say it did just that, and joined the Chosen One on their quest to save the Wasteland.
So was Skynet just another cloned brain? Like this android we’re chasing?
No, I heard it used a monkey’s brain. I don't think anyone tried cloning a human brain
until this fiasco.
Wonder why.
Vault City's cloning machine was intended for organ transplants, and replacement limbs.
And Vault City's leaders weren't exactly "Outside the box" thinkers.
Vault City. Now there’s a place I don’t know much about. I was there 'bout twenty
years ago. Their guards didn't like the looks of me, and wouldn't let me past the courtyard.
If it makes you feel better, even The Chosen One wasn't welcome in Vault City. He went
to there because it was built on top of Vault 8. It was one of the "Control Vaults" that
didn't have any intentional flaws. Fully equipped with everything its inhabitants would need
during and after the apocalypse. It opened right on schedule, a few years after the Great
War, and the people who emerged used their Garden of Eden Creation Kit to create the
most advanced and prosperous city in the wasteland back then.
But they weren't big on sharing...
Nope. They viewed the outside world with contempt. People from other communities were allowed
to trade for access to Vault City's medical equipment, and they could even live in the
city-
-If they agreed to become slaves. Vault City called their labor force "Servants" but it
was slavery all the same.
Sounds like they would have loved an evil bastard like The Chosen One.
The Chosen One wasn't there to sell slaves. They knew that The Vault Dweller came from
Vault 13, and hoped that somewhere inside Vault 8 they could learn the location of the
other vaults. But, when they arrived, they ran into a wall of bureaucracy just as solid
as a Vault-tec 'Seal-N-Safe' door.
Sounds a lot like The Brotherhood used to treat outsiders.
At least the Brotherhood didn't make people fill out paperwork for "Day Passes" or run
them through citizenship exams. The Vault City government made The Chosen One jump through
hoops to prove their worth to those pencil pushers. Even then, I bet they ended up engaging
"disreputable" activities to gain their citizenship.
They had long since done away with the Vault-Tec's governing system of an all powerful Overseer.
Vault City had a ruling council... with a "First Citizen" that still acted like an Overseer.
Forty years ago it was First Citizen Joanne Lynette.
Her city was having troubles with radiation contamination from Gecko, a city built around
a nearby damaged nuclear power plant. The Chosen One might have earned their citizenship
the honest way, but Lynette might have just looked the other way after The Chosen One
did her dirty work for her.
So once the Chosen One gained access to Vault 8 did their fancy gadgets point the way to
Vault 13? I find it hard believe that all of them computers you find in the Vaults are
somehow connected.
Funny thing is, Vault 8's central computer didn't actually have the location of Vault
13. But their records did point the way to-
-Vault 15. My great, great, great, great, great grand parents were born there. And information
about Vault 13 is- –strictly classified.
Already been there myself. Back when you was in pigtails little miss.
Pigtails? Do pigs chase their tails too? *sigh* I wish I could chase my tail…
No, Daisy, pigtails is what old hillbillies call having braids in your hair.
When The Chosen One was finished with Vault City, they at least knew where to find Vault
15. And they picked up another new friend along the way- a saloon owner by the name
of John Cassidy.
Cassidy ran the Spitoon - a bar in the Vault City courtyard, and it didn't take much convincing
to get him to close up shop and get out of Vault City. The security force treated outsiders
like inferior savages from wastes, and the only reason he stayed around was that he had
a heart condition that made it too dangerous to wander the wastes alone.
With the rest of The Chosen One's entourage beside him, he felt he could handle anything
in the wasteland. But there were forces secretly at work in California that had been plotting
a takeover for over a hundred years.
Time to die!
*laser gun fire*
But that- is a story for another day…