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âThe Followers of the Apocalypse.â A pause, consideration. âItâs the group that I work for - weâre currently occupying that area, helping out those who need it who come to us.â Admittedly it was a lot of junkies and addicts, and numerous injuries, but they were⌠they were trying, right? If even just some people were helped it was better that sitting around and doing nothing. Almost without a doubt that extra thick cloth had helped to save the leg from significantly more damage than it wouldâve likely otherwise sustained, and Arcade would never dream of demanding the pants to be removed completely - the area was far, far too dangerous still. Still, it was enough for him to get a better look and heâd reach out towards it⌠pausing only for a moment to glance towards the guyâs face, intending to check if it was okay.
If it was, if there was no indication he was going to be stopped, heâd carefully check over the leg - seeking to move it only slightly as he sought to puzzle through all the damage that was likely caused. Fractured, oh without a doubt, but given the man wasnât writhing around screaming he was doubting on a complete break. It was hard to tell - thankfully there were no bones deciding they were going to grossly protrude from his leg to make it blatantly clear. âI have a spare stimpack on me right now. It wonât enough enough to heal the damage completely, but hopefully it will bolster you enough that youâll be able to move better to some degree.â
Even as the good research spoke he moved to fish that out, holding it up to show him. âI can administer it to you, if you arenât able to yourself.â There were many reasons why a person couldnât - he wouldnât judge. âAside from that I can help to splint the leg, but I donât have enough tech on me to be able to tell what degree the boneâs damaged like this. I am willing to help you back to Freeside though - itâs not a far trip, but the wasteland isnât usually kind.â
A sigh, there and gone, even as heâd lean back a bit on his heels. âIf you are looking to go back east might I suggest you go and speak to those at the Crimson Caravan? You may be able to find a merchant there heading back that way.â
   He didnât reject the Doctorâs help, however, he did hiss at the flare up of pain that came with palpating the wounded area. Heâll definitely donate his caps ( and his time if theyâll accept it ) once all of this is over. Itâs rare finding folks as kind as this in these trying times. The least he could do was clean up or help defend the place from raiders. âPlease do. Iâd like to get moving before anymore hungry critters show up.â Cayde is to shaky to properly administer a stimpack, he doesnât trust himself and maybe heâs putting to much trust in the doctor. What else can he do? Theyâre alone and every alternative ends in some kind of death.
   âWhile I have used an unloaded weapon as an improvised splint, Iâve still got rounds and itâd be better to keep it ready just in case we get jumped again.â Use what you got and complain not, thatâs what his Captain taught him. His crew adapted and overcame many challenges before a hoard of feral ghouls finally tore them down. They fought like hell but, in the end, it wasnât enough. Cayde still wasnât sure how heâd gone from point A to here, how that caravan found and picked him up, guess it didnât matter now.
   He used to have a halligan tool, probably dropped it miles back, but that would have been a great thing to have. Heâll make a mental note to find another fire station, check it out if itâs not overrun too. âIf you donât mind, Iâd like to go with you back to the Fort. I want to give my thanks for all the help youâve done. I probably would have died if youâd not been there!â He tries to get up and fails, plopping back down into the dirt with a groan.Â
   A mumbled come on, come on! can be heard during the second attempt. Heâs already a burden a burden enough, he has to try and hobble by himself so Arcade can get away if theyâre attacked again. No sense in dying for a stranger after youâve put yourself into harmâs way once already.
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And with that the giant mutated instinct seemed thankfully done for, lights out. Arcade could breathe a genuine sigh oh relief right there - with that done and out of the way he could focus on what was seemingly more important, though despite his helpfulness there would still maintain a level of wariness that was⌠perhaps understandable. He did not know this man, and it was the true and viable fact that he very well could turn on him at any point⌠though he certainly did hope otherwise.
âHmmm.. could be a number of things, of course. Itâs hard to tell without a better look at it.â Pain wasnât an overly surprising factor - those claws were damn crushing after all. The good Follower moved closer, made sure to maintain his hand well away from his gun to try to show even further that he wasnât a threat, even as he tried to get what of a closer look he might be able too. As durable as that armor was he was lucky it hadnât been in worse shape before itâd met that claw⌠more damage couldâve very well been done.
âWhile Iâm grateful for the offer thereâs no need for that. If youâre still feeling charitable next time you head to Freeside feel free to stop by the Old Mormon Fort and donate to them, if you can. They can certainly use what help people are willing to provide these days.â Once Arcade was close enough, if there wasnât any viable efforts to stop him, he knelt down to try to see the extend of the damage, but there still lingered the definite issue of limited visibility. No blood yet as far as he could see at least, so there was that marginal amount promising.. maybe. âAre you okay with this armor being moved out of the way? Iâd like to see how much that claw did⌠and I do have some medical supplies on me. If it can be treated here Iâll do what I can to help.â
Maybe it wasnât much⌠but perhaps it was something.
   âWhatâs at the fort? I was going to make a stop in Freeside to rest.â Cayde said, doing his best to roll up the thick fabric of his turnout gear pants. It was meant to be resistant to fire, heavy, definitely not shorts material or the like. If he really wanted to get at the wound, heâd have to pull them off and thereâs no way he was going to do that out here. Being caught unprepared with your pants up is much better than without and this former firefighter isnât going to make a fool out of himself again!
   âYou see, Iâm not from around here in the slightest.â He still didnât know how he traveled so many states without dying. Chock it up to good luck on the staying alive bit and bad luck on having disappeared from his home. Ever since he started picking around in the Mojave, lifeâs been hell. Every part about him screamed hopelessly lost foreigner whoâs going to die because of the wildlife and not some kind of human incident. âI woke up with a caravan months ago and theyâve long since moved on. Said something about going to California. Iâd rather go back east!â
   If he took the bullets out and secured his rifle to the fractured leg, it could act as a splint if there wasnât any other suitable material. Itâd leave him more defenseless that way but being mobile is better than sitting around waiting for death. Cayde didnât expect this guy to waste a stimpack on him, let alone something thatâll heal naturally ( with any luck ) and wonât get worse.
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                        ( y o u  d o  c a r e  )
                         you care so much,
                      you feel as though you will
                          bleed to death
                        with the p a i n of it
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Wooo got a little busy there. Iâm back and Iâll be getting to any replies I owe. Sorry about that!
Edit: oh... it doesnât appear that i have any. D:
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Just some firefighter with a mask lookinâ up
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@courier-smile continued [x]
   Whether the firefighter noticed the looks he was being given, his face showed no sign. He was wrapped up in the poor excuse of a White Russian and a tattered journal. It wasnât too outlandish to think that the Bucket Brigades of olden times could be reestablished right? The local fire department had roughly five actual certified ( ha, as if that mattered anymore ) personnel and two pitiful volunteers with no working trucks combined with damaged tools.Â
   When her voice reaches his ears, he looks up in surprise and clears his throat. Hopefully he wasnât in her spot and she didnât have some thug waiting for a queue. Last time he stepped onto the strip somebody chased him away because they didnât like the sound of his voice.
   âOh, Iâm uh.. usually up the road a little ways.â
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   â  hey, hey donât fuckin shoot !  â betsyâs quick to come out of the shadows, sheâs just passing through for greener pastures and this is the greenest sheâs gotten. she doesnât let go of the grip on her bat though, and her eyes look wild. her smileâs friendly enough but thereâs an odd look that goes hand in hand with raiders. â not from âround here, mind helpinâ a lost lady out? â // @extiinguiished: sc.
   âThen donât try to sneak up on people!â He hissed, lowering his rifle only slightly away from the womanâs head. Lurking in the shadows around he was a terrible idea considering how active the feral ghouls were. Just over the hill it was the scorched that came into play, replacing the mindless withering monsters. âYouâre in a ghoul nest and I guarantee they will see you before you see them.â Cayde added, wary of damn near anyone not bearing a Responder patch. A settler could very well rob you blind after having been saved from the jaws of Death. âWhere are you trying to go?â
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âHave you ever eaten raw fish?â ( courier-smile, aka -1 int courier )
Stranded Sentence Prompts / @courier-smile
   The firefighter whoâd been raised under odd circumstances appeared to frown for a moment. Since being stranded at age ten and learning nothing outside of what his job would have been if the bombs hadnât of fallen, he didnât have a proper answer. If sheâd of asked him to calculate the PSI for two attack lines and a five inch supply line on draft and not a hydrant, he could explain that in a heartbeat. As far as cooking went, the basics told him to grill or roast every kind of meat first.
   âI think youâre supposed to cook it first, so uh⌠no.â
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âAre you okay?â
âCan you hear me?â
âIs he alive?âÂ
âAre they breathing?â
âAre you hurt?â
âCan you move it?âÂ
âYouâre bleeding.â
âOh my god, donât look.â
âCan you get up?â
âThe plane crashed.â
âThe boat sunk.â
âNo one knows where we are.â
âNo one is coming for us.â
âTheyâll send help soon.â
Someone will come looking.â
âWe have to find shelter.âÂ
âWe have to try and get off of the island.â
âHave you ever eaten raw fish?â
âCan you start a fire?âÂ
âWe donât know whatâs in there.â
âDid you hear that?â
âIâm not a boar expert.â
âWhat if this is like, that cannibal island? You know, the one full of cannibals?â
âGuess weâll find out soon enough.â
âYouâve lost too much blood.â
âThey arenât going to make it.â
âWe arenât going to make it.â
âGo on without me.â
âYouâre really sunburned.â
âWeâll have to see what we can salvage from the wreckage.â
âDo you have any family?â
âWhy were you on the plane anyways?â
âWait, whatâs your name again?â
âHave you slept at all?â
âYou ever try and crack a coconut with your bare hands?â
âBad time to suggest a message in a bottle, isnât it?â
âOh my god, what the hell is that?â
â⌠What the fuck was that?âÂ
âWeâre not alone.â
âThereâs someone else out there.â
âGet behind me.â
âGrab the knife.â
âGood god.â
âI think I see someone!â
âIs that a plane?âÂ
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âPlease, please donât.â ( courier-smile )
Isolation Sentence Prompts / @courier-smile
   A river of red, distant screams, and falling debris made for a terrible symphony played in the wasteland day in and day out. The Mojave was no different than any other radioactive expanse within the desolate remains of the United States. It saw just as much bloodshed between the few survivors of a once proud nation that couldnât afford to lose what little souls remained in its burning embrace.
   Standing with a shoulder braced against a door riddled with bullet holes, the firefighter turned lone protector spat a mixture of blood and spit onto the ground. Near him was a woman whoâd seemingly shower up out of the blue and got caught in the age old battle of raiders against anyone (and anything) that got in their.Â
   Cayde was bleeding profusely, aching, and struggling to remain upright in the face of Death itself. He shoved his final stimpack into Catoriâs hands and waved her off.
   âIâll have to stay to keep them busy. Iâm not going to make it very far like this and the settlement to the south needs to know thereâs raiders coming for them. Just get out of here and warn them please, I beg of you!â
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              â raider-spikes, scorch-blisters, those green crystal thingies lodged in their skin. â she shudders at the thought. avery had examined one of these scorched post-mortem in a hazmat suit and their skinned burned hours after death. it was like their body was a coal mine thatâd just been struck ablaze and it wholly unnerving. seeing the tough firebreather stutter is an unusual experience, but thereâs no laugh or smile on averyâs face. thereâs a reassuring look, and a glance to his wound. â itâs vodka, and some other things weâre not going to talk about. iâm gonna give you some med-x but believe me itâs not gonna touch it. â sheâd had this procedure once, nearly made her black out from the agony. â after a few minutes, iâm gonna hit that leg with a stimpak and it should ease up in thirty seconds.  â
  her head shakes as she puts on gloves.Â
          â these are going to be the longest three minutes of your life. â she gives a few moments for the med-x to take effect as she shoots it in just above the wound, after that the procedure began. sheâd made it as quick as possible, but some things are better off not rushed.
   The longest three minutes of his life were absolutely agonizing as expected from what Avery had explained. Not even the initial shock of being shot and the constant pain thereafter could compare, never mind any previous broken bones. He could have sworn his teeth were going to tear through the pillow and crack themselves when the rush hit him like a runaway freight train going full speed. Bone white knuckles had to grip the sides of the bed to keep himself steady, to avoid kicking his legs out while his upper body recoiled in pain.
   Several pops in his spine were definitely indicative of the arch it was approaching. Blazing mines and overwhelming heat have never made him sweat this quickly before.
   The strained sound alone was a testament to the torture Med-X couldnât even begin to dull. It was like the syringe had been filled with water or simply not injected at all. Why bother? Though, if his brain could piece together thoughts properly, Cayde didnât want to imagine what it might feel like without some kind of pain killer struggling to keep up.
   Red faced, tears rolling down his face, there could be no attempt at bravado or concealment to uphold the reputation that firebreathers were invincible. Not that he cared, most of them didnât, but it was still a spine shuddering display of weakness. When he could take no more, his body collapsed back onto the bed with heavy breaths expanding his chest.
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    it always cracked her up when volunteers thatâd been shot at tried to be modest, to get avery to look away or were god forbid embarrassed. she understood why, but it wasnât exactly common anymore. with the old world dead, the old wold sense of modesty shouldâve gone with it. itâs one of a few things avery had to drill into her volunteers, the bullets and infections arenât going to wait until youâre all neatly undressed and covered to start infecting. â itâs fifty - fifty on who was using it then, â avery sounds disappointed, but itâs really frustration. sheâs going to treat it like itâs a scorched bullet though which means this injury is going to sting even worse than it already had. â thereâs a pillow to your left, youâre gonna wanna bite it as hard as you fucking can becauseâŚÂ itâs clean, but i donât trust anything out there. â not with radiation, not with how quickly things can set. she grabs a bottle of vodka, mixes in a beaker with something else.
  they called it a scorched shot, because it was a liquid straight in the wound. itâd go quick, itâd hurt like hellfire but it nothing else cleaned it out so well. â you ever had a scorched shot before? â
   âYates swears he saw something rusty running away with your typical raider spikes but nobody else could confirm.â Now, this firebreather was modest to a point and wasnât all that worried about looks or rosy cheeks. If he had to get undressed to care for an injury or to quickly remove contaminated clothing, he would. Outside of that, however, he tended to be easily embarrassed and shy. No matter how desolate the world might be, Cayde preferred to be fully dressed and sober with an exit should the tables turn on him.
   As he reached for the pillow and raised an eyebrow at the bottle of vodka, something in the pit of his stomach squirmed with nervous energy. âN-no?â He answered truthfully with the word indicating he sort of wanted to know what that entailed, and yet, was likely afraid of the answer. A heavy swallow did little to dislodge the lump forming within his throat and it only added to the growing discomfort. For a moment he clutched the pillow against his chest in a child-like gesture, top teeth biting into lower lip with the most laser-focused gaze imaginable.
   âIâm not going to like this am I?â
           Not at all Lieutenant MacDermott, not at all.
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âThis place looks abandoned.â
Isolation Sentence Prompts
   Peering through the shadows cast within the small home, there wasnât a living thing to be seen other than Mother Nature herself. Weeds and small insects not mutated to the extreme were all that appeared call this place their own. That isnât to say a radroach wasnât upstairs or a bloatfly out back but, for now, they werenât in any immediate danger.
   âI agree but let me take a look upstairs first.â The mask of breather had been cleaned incredibly well allowing others to view his expressions rather easily. He bore a look of concern, not unheard of and certainly warranted. With a hunting rifle raised, Cayde climbed the stairs only to squeal in alarm as an unsteady chair fort came toppling down. It had deposited a skeleton upon his back and that is all Avery would see as he raced outside flailing his arms in an attempt to get it off.
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