[ϫ] — In a poisoned corner of Salem’s edge, gun fire sparked. If there had ever been a place closer to hell, the Commonwealth had yet to show it to him. He didn’t believe in the gruesome past, men were frightened and jealous of their adversaries, and that’s all the witch trials had amounted to. And still, the Museum here played tirelessly to the witch burnings, spitting fire at the rouge adventurers that thought it’s crippled walls were safe.
They weren’t. It was still a hell hole.
The light he got was meager, dulling flicks from his pip-boy switch because something decided his means of vision was hindering to them. He wished his gun was that of some war-old cartoon, where it popped with a bang and lit up for a second. It could have helped, against the slow occasional blink of white tinted glare that his wrist gadget gave him. Then again, it made the time seem something reminiscent of an old horror movie, things he’d watched at drive-ins through motor screens.
With every brightened click, there’s something chasing him. Wretched bodies hissing and scrabbling for his limbs in shriveling hunger. He tried so hard to go off by ear instead of just sight, blasting shots into the dark at decrepit creatures out for his blood. As if rabid Ghouls weren’t the bane of him enough during the daytime.
The butt of his gun bashed, kissing the skull of a dying man torn ragged by rad waste. Blood spat, it stuck to his uniform, but honestly he couldn’t tell how crimson he was at this point..
And then he had to fucking fall over something in the scrabble, he fell roughly onto what felt somewhat like the crest of an arm into a shoulder joint, probably one of the models that had its neck slid through tangled rope as some kind of morbid little nod to how death existed in every century. But he kept his focus, even from the floor.
His rifle gave blunt bangs of it’s hard-shell bullets.
He could be a dead man too.