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[survival_101]

1) [Catherine's been pacing by the entrance again, but this time it's not in fear. It's... restlessness. She's been hiding inside for days, but nothing's connected here, she can't go anywhere, do anything. But this is conflicting with agoraphobia. Back and forth she goes, before-]

Oh, fuck it.

[Aaaaand out she goes, shielding her eyes against the

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[cantlearnbreak]

Er, what is a nuke?

[survival_101]

...then that question wasn't meant for you. It's a bomb. Really powerful one.

[cantlearnbreak]

Ah, I'm sorry, then.

That sounds like a terrible idea, though.

[survival_101]

And here's the thing. Where I'm from? Megaton fu-... Megaton exists. They built a village around an unexploded bomb!

[cantlearnbreak]

And they were aware of it? Do you remember why?

[survival_101]

Yeah, that's the thing, they did it on purpose, it's not like the thing just fell right in the middle.

I... think... it was everyone who got turned away from 101? Oh, that's where I was born, Vault 101.

[cantlearnbreak]

That's so horrible.

A vault?

[survival_101]

Well, it's been there for two hundred years, supposedly, so what they lack in intelligence they made up for in dumb luck.

Yeah, it's a... it's... shit how do I explain it... You know basements? Imagine if your entire house was the basement. Then expand it to fit a few hundred people.

[cantlearnbreak]

Ah, I thought that might be what you meant... I wasn't sure, though. Did something bad happen to necessitate it?

[survival_101]

Yeah, those bombs. The same ones some people built a town around. Vault was supposed to protect people inside. Guess it worked.