It took us several mio get all the loot gathered and onto the hauling bots, but once we did, my robots and I resumed moving along the deteriorated asphalt road again. Seds into tinuing our journey, I had an idea pop into my head as I assing by the super mutant overlord's corpse.

  I wonder how useful having a super mutant overlord on my side would be. I could revive this one here with my Medical Genius perk. If I do, I could for sure see myself getting a lot of use out of this fel, whether that be as a soldier, a worker, or a sparring parthough all three of those things I listed would require me to fix its i aggression and intelligence issues, which shouldn't be all that difficult to resolve given my current abilities.

  That said, to fix its ck of intelligence, I'll definitely o produce or procure some highly advanced equipment since I don't have anything like that on hand right at this time. So I'll have to see if there are any locations nearby that would possibly have the sort of equipment I would need and if there aren't any pces like that nearby, I'll just have to make the tech myself. Adding on to that further, I probably wouldn't get any of that doill I have food produ up and running. I don't think my current food supply could sustain myself, Amata, and a super mutant overlord for very long.

  ... Actually, on sed thought, it's not worth halving my lifespan to resurrect a random super mutant overlord when I just go and capture a live one. Or I could just vert a normal super mutant into an overload although I have no clue how I would go about that.

  Yeah, that's not at all worth it. I'd holy rather serve my lifespan till I find ways of increasing it, whether that is through my system, sce, magic, or some other means. However, even though I won't be reviving this mutant, I at the very least take the body with me to study its physiology ter to see if I 't retrieve anything of value from it.

  "Guys, load this body up as well. We're taking it with us."

  The instant I issued them a new and, my robots ght to work loading the super mutant overlord's corpse into the bed of a hauling bot. When we had finally takehing of value from the sughtered mutant and got it all secured, we tinued our journey north, heading up the deteriorating asphalt road.

  After a not-so-long period ter, my panions and I arrived at the three-way interse we came from when I first ventured out of Vault 101. Immediately upon reag this three-way interse, I paused for a moment and took in the surroundings, looking for any daen seds had passed without me disc anything, so I tinued leading the way forward, this time to the east towards the Jury Street Metro Station. A location that I had a bit of loot stashed in that o be collected from a certain building that was formerly inhabited by raiders.

  Setting off, we progressed forward for the several minutes, passing by more than a few burned-out houses on the way. This went on until we started ing into the viity of the Jury Street Metro Station, and as my robots and I were arriving in the area, I spotted a few people over by the building where my loot was stashed.

  "Hold up for a sed. It looks like we have pany."

  "Roger-" My robots replied in unison.

  Holding where we were, I focused on the people over by the Hank's Electrical Supply store that held my stashed loot stashed inside. What I observed was 3 ghouls fitted iher armor and armed with 2 .32 hunting rifles and a singur sniper rifle that was more likely than not chambered in 7.62x51 trying to gain access to the store.

  What to do... I suppose I'll try to talk to them peacefully first and see why they're attempting to gain access to the building. And if they're friendly enough, I'll see if I 't get some local information out of them. Ghouls have a wealth of knowledge and informatioo how long most of them have been alive for so I might as well gather a bit of intel from them. So if all goes well, I'll send them on their way. But in the event that they aren't reasonable and respond in a manner as such, I'll deal with them the hard way and bury the 3 of them 6 feet under.

  "Alright, you guys hold tight. I'm gonna head over and talk to them."

  As I was stepping forward, I turned back to say o thing. "Oh, and when I get within the viity of them, start making your way over, but keep the formation around the robots that aren't as heavily armored."

  "Aye aye, Boss."

  "Aowledged." The rest of my robots responded.

  Done giving out my orders, I sed out my gatling ser Purge for my AER 29 LMG. Right as I had the ser light mae gun slung against me, I walked over to the 3 ghouls in the least threatening manner I could possible as a massively built guy that stood at 6 foot 6 armored from head to toe in a suit of power armor that was far rger than normal. Probably the rgest suit of power armor currently ien this p.

  Whilst I was making my way over, I kept my firearm slung and made a whistle to alert them to my presence.

  The moment they heard my whistle, the 2 ghouls with the .32 hunting rifles stopped messing with the door and turned around rapidly in my dire, since I was the in of the sound. And while they rapidly turned around at their fastest possible speed, which was slow in my eyes, they both grabbed their .32 hunting rifles and poihem right at me.

  As for the 1 ghoul armed with the sniper rifle, he was inally looking off in the northern dire. But as soon as he heard my whistle, he also swiftly turowards me with his sniper rifle gripped and aimed at me in his deteriorating and rotting ghoulified hands.

  As the 3 ghouls were taking aim at me, I made a pg gesture towards them. "I don't mean you guys any harm, so you stop aiming your ons at me? I just want to talk to you 3 gentlemen for a moment."

  A few seds went by as they tensely scrutinized me and the nearby surroundings.

  "O-okay, but don't make sudden movements or I'll take your head off smooth skin." The ghoul wielding the sniper rifle said in a raspy, somewhat aggressive voice that was messed up with a bit of a stutter at the beginning of his response.

  Before I asked my question, I observed them for half a sed and noticed their bodies were shaking ever so slightly. I guess my pg gesture didn't work too well. Who could've ever expected this to happen, definitely not me. Well, I've paused for long enough, time to ask them a few questions.

  "So what are you guys doing out here in this area, and why are y to gain access to that building behind you?"

  "What does it look like we're doing? We're looking for food, water, and to sge what we from this dipidated store to sell off to one of the traveling merts." The ghoul with the sniper rifle, who I presumed to be the leading ghoul at this point, said in a much less aggressive tone of voice, although still just as raspy as previously.

  "Well, I kind of had the doors welded shut on that store to keep the pce secure aer anyone from attempting to loot it. So I could e back at a ter date to pick up the stuff I'd left behind after killing a bunch of raiders." I informed them as my robots began nearing my location.

  Before any of them could respond, I added. "Though if you guys are in need, how about I make you guys an offer?"

  "And what could you offer us, smooth skin, mhm?" The leading ghoul asked, a bit skeptical.

  "How about a det amount of food, water, and a handful of explosives that could help you out when you guys are in a bit of a pinch? Or if you don't want to keep them for yourselves, you could just trade them to whatever traveling mert or trader you e across for a pretty det amount of caps, so what do you guys think?"

  "That's quite the offer, smooth skin, but I know there's nothing free out here in the wastend, so what do you want iurn?" The leading ghoul asked in what I thought was a somewhat frieone of voice, but still just as skeptical as moments ago.

  "First off, that building behind you guys is mine, so that won't be included in this deal. As for what I want, I'm ied in information and if you 3 don't mind, I have some questions that I would like to ask the 3 of you as well. All 3 of yhouls that have likely been alive since before the great war. So if that's the case, the 3 of you must have a wealth of knowledge that you've accumuted over each of your lifetimes. Am I right?" I answered after thinking over what I wanted iurn for a brief moment.

  The moment they each processed what I wanted iurn for the resources I was willing to give them, they gave each other a certain look and turned back my way with. "You've got yourself a deal, smooth skin. However, we would like to see the goods first, since we don't see you carrying anything like that." The leading ghoul said.

  "That's no problem. The stuff I offered will be arriving shortly." I replied and as they were processing what I had just said, they were able to hear the sound of my robots entering the area seds ter.

  Shortly thereafter, all my robots pulled into the area around us and as they did, the 3 ghouls looked a bit astonished and about ready to piss themselves, from what I could tell. From that point, their expressions ged again tned looks as if this was the end of the road for them.

  "Why the long look, guys?" I asked, knowing full well why they had the looks they did.

  "Well, we're fucked, are we not? Why wouldn't we be upset?" One of the houls said in a depressed tone and the same raspy voice the leading ghoul had.

  "Yeah, this isn't a trap or anything. These are just my robots that I take out with me whenever I'm heading somewhere in the wastend. They are the ones carrying the supplies I offered before, so I apologize if my robots made you think otherwise." I told them, trying to reassure them that I still meant them no harm.

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