Scrap & Build Ourselves

"Still alive? Good. I have a job for you." Independent blog for Raider, Derek Ralis inside all of us is hope fear love but for some there is an all consuming darkness an evil that cannot be contained a person's compulsion to kill isn't written all over their face it's in their mind that's where I go. dare to join me?

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Wrong place at the Wrong Time [Jai|Ralis]

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At the question Jai, if possible, sunk even further down. "Lab accident." That was pretty cryptic, right? He could have been working there and just… accidents happen. It technically had been an accident, he just hadn’t worked there. And he really wanted the subject off of him right now. 

"Look, I… appreciate the chat and not killing me right away, but I’d rather know how to… you know, keep on wandering.” 

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"I see." Lab accident. That could mean a lot of things, but Ralis could make a few guesses about what that could mean. Hell, for all he knew, the kid was just at the start of a slow ghoulification process.. had the lab incident involved heavy amounts of radiation (something that wouldn't surprise him in the slightest). 

Ralis smiled. Sly, not malicious, but not kind either. "There are more dangerous things out there, little lab rat, than me." but then this kid had not crossed him. If he wanted to be the most dangerous man around, he most certainly could be. By his standards that is. "I think you'd benefit from that knowledge instead of running from it, but by all means.. you are free to go. Be careful, won't you? Would be a shame if you found yourself in an even darker place."

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Wrong place at the Wrong Time [Jai|Ralis]

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So he could lie and just shrug it off or actually make himself seem useful. In his experience raiders… wouldn’t really keep a useless person around. But coming of as someone that could be used, wasn’t a brilliant idea either. But it’d buy him time at least. 

"I’m not sure. My memory’s shit after a recent accident, it’s all fragments. I just know I’ve been surrounded by a lot of scientists." 

He couldn’t recall who they had been. If one had been a relative or not. It didn’t matter anyway, because he didn’t know where they were and if they were family, they either thought he was long dead and he didn’t want to drag trouble to them anyway. 

Jai still sunk down in the chair as if it could possible save him from this uncomfortable situation, before reaching out to type something on the terminal; merely to open a menu. He wanted to ask what this… one would to do him, but it felt like a threatening question on its own, that he didn’t really want a bad answer to. 

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A fragmented memory was it? Must have been quite an accident to rattle the kid's brain as it did. Remind him of another useful employee that had a memory problem, but memory wasn't required to be particularly useful or interesting, and this kid was definitely both.

Even more interesting was the fact that he was surrounded by scientists. That indicated he wasn't a scientist himself, but a project of theirs. Otherwise he'd have been more personal about those 'scientists' around him.

"That's a shame, and dare I ask what kind of accident knocked your brain around?" Learning was his favorite hobby.

Ralis watched as the man's fingers ran across the terminal's keyboard. He was a much faster typer than Ralis himself. Actually, he was quite slow about it, using one or two fingers to hit keys one at a time. 

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"Right. I’ll just go hug my flowers then." 

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"That's the spirit. See, you're getting the hang of it." A smirk.

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"Of course you think it’s boring, you’re not the one who was melded with a plant.”

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"So you're a freak in a sea of other freaks. You may as well embrace that little talent of yours."

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Takedown!

  I break through

What you view

Just to counteract

Kamikaze crash dive when I fight back

  Whatcha gonna do?

Whatcha gonna say?

When I wipe the smile right off of your face

  Right now

Break out

Takedown

  I wanna take you down

I wanna take you out

I wanna be the one to break your dignity

  And all your empty pride

Will rot the hole inside

But you’d make a beautiful suicide

  Don't speak,

Doublethink

Who you push around

You're mistaken

If you’re thinking that I'll back down

  Whatcha gonna do?

Whatcha gonna say?

When I give back all the hate you made

  Right now

Break out

Takedown

  I wanna take you down

I wanna take you out

I wanna be the one to break your dignity

  And all your empty pride

Will rot the hole inside

But you'd make a beautiful suicide

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Wrong place at the Wrong Time [Jai|Ralis]

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How the hell did he end up in messes like this? As if the last months hadn’t been a pain in the ass already; now he was barely back on his feet in freedom and… Jai ran his hands over his face, before tugging his hood further down and flexing his fingers back and forth as he stepped over to the terminal. 

At least he knew this type of game, as he quickly inspected the terminal, checking its inside, as well as replacing an old chip in it with one of his own that he had scavenged elsewhere. It took him about five minutes to get it running properly as well as unlocked, and it only took that long because he was being watched. 

"Open sesame?" He did take pride in his skill, but now that he had stopped working on it, he retorted back to sitting like a bag in the chair, with the occasional frantic gaze to the side. 

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Impressive. So the kid had some a talent, and one that was actually useful as well. Terminals were surprisingly more common than one might think, especially in what was once a populated city (at least Ralis could assume the city was quite populated before the Great War). 

"Where did you learn to do that?"

He didn't look like much of a fighter. To be honest, Ralis wasn't sure this kid could fight his way out of a paper bag, and not everyone was the fighting type. He could name a few people that had .. other skills that didn't involve well timed punches, but there weren't many places to learn tech, unless you were a vault kid, or knew someone who already knew. The kid still looked fairly young (he imagined probably younger than him, but he wasn't entirely sure).

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Wrong place at the Wrong Time [Jai|Ralis]

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"Spider webs that I got out from by having a bright mind. I hack computers and so far I’ve yet to find one that I haven’t been able to unlock." It’s how he had escaped in the first place. It wasn’t idle bragging or lying; he was good at it, damn good. He kinda wished his confident words matched his body language though; the twitching didn’t exactly boost people’s belief in him. Which could be good in situations like these. 

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"Is that so? Show me." He hadn't answered Ralis other question, but he was much more interested in his proclaimed talents. He waved his hand over towards the nearest terminal. There were a lot of them in the abandoned building. So if one blew up, or malfunctioned... well, it was no lose on his end.

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Wrong place at the Wrong Time [Jai|Ralis]

Where exactly had he ended up? Nowhere nice, but anything would beat Big Mountain. He scratched his sleeve frantically, looking around. 

"I’ve been in a pretty fucked up spider’s web already," he said, moving his scratching to right below his throat. “Buut, I’d rather you didn’t prove otherwise. I got some useful skills, if it means I won’t get shot in the head.”

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"Is that so? Tell me then. What kind of spider webs have you gotten into?" Everyone claimed to be useful when in a possibly dire situation. That was part of survival. You either lied through your teeth, and hoped that whatever you had agreed to worked.. or you were actually good at your claim. He got a lot of the first. "What kind of skills?"

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”Can I give you a little piece of advice?”

"Depends. Will the advice cost me anything?"

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"That depends, what are you willing to give to survive?" He smirked, but leaned forward closer to the stranger's face. "When you wander, you should make sure not to fall into the spider's web." Or smack dab in the middle of a raider encampment.

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Little Thing

Send "Little thing" and my character will tell you something asa child.

Flitter bit into her bottom lip; eyes narrowed at the stranger. They were different, even for an Other. Gut stirred; instincts told her to walk away while she went unnoticed.

As she turned lightly on her heel; she frowned at the thought of the reaction from her friends. As her imagination drove her to think the worse, she immediately strode over to the stranger and prodded a stud on his jacket, “…’isard?”

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"And what have we here?" Ralis looked down towards the child, an eyebrow raised at her bold nature. Fascinating. Of course, children were brave, not subjected to what most consider evil. The monsters.

"That depends. Do lizards and snakes scare you?"