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[findthegeck]

[OOM: There's a new deputy sheriff in town.]

Hey, it's that girl from 'Post-Apocalyptia'. No, the other girl. It's been a while, hasn't it? Not from her perspective, though. But anyway, in she comes muttering to herself. "...shouldn't have made fun of his mother? He shouldn't have sliced off half that girl's - oh, hey

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The brahmin may find it has company soon, of the cheerfully barking sort. Dogmeat needs exercise once in a while that doesn't involve tearing monsters in half with his teeth.

Ellen's not far behind. She doesn't let this dog out of her sight, frankly.

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Bessie is half-startled by the Dogmeat's noise-some approach (the other half is happily preoccupied with a mouthful of grass) and Sativa does her best to calm the hoofbeast when she recognizes Ellen's companion.

"Easy girl, it's just Dogmeat." She may have some jerky about her person for Good Doggies.

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"Dogmeat, leave her be," calls Ellen. The heeler shears off and sits down nearby with a sulky expression, which Ellen, being well behind him, cannot see. "Good dog. Hi, Sativa."

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Aw. Maybe a treat will cheer him up. She digs around in her pockets - ah, there it is - and extracts a wrapped up stick of jerky from which she tears off a piece and tosses it Dogmeat-wards.

"She'll be fine," Sativa says, scratching Bessie's nearest head, nodding at the other woman with a smile. "Ellen. How goes?"

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YAY YAY HOORAY FOOD WOO FOOD. Dogmeat's an enthusiast.

"It's going," Ellen says. "Things are getting kind of tense back home, so I figured I'd come here to try and get them planned out. How about you?"

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"Sounds serious... Me? Still working my southwards. speaking of work..." She pulls the badge out of her pocket to show Ellen. "You are looking at the new deputy sheriff for the town of Redding."

She has authoritah. Fear.

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"Oh, congratulations!" says Ellen. "That's impressive. I don't think Sheriff Simms has a deputy- how big is Redding, anyway? That must keep you busy."

They had some Westerns in the Vault. Ellen got raised with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, among other things.

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"We just happened to be around when Sheriff Marion needed a hand after a Gecko almost took his leg," she replies with a shrug, pocketing the badge.

"It's not much bigger than anywhere else, size-wise. There's the main street and some outlying houses, a couple of saloons - one of which doubles as a funeral parlor - the mining camp, a caravan station... oh, and the Mole Rat Arena. The most I've had my hands full with so far is workers from rival companies with nothing better to than get drunk and in each others faces while the mines are closed."

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"... mole rat arena?" Ellen says a little blankly. "What do they do with them?"

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"They have them fight each other. Jackpot Jane called it a 'primal struggle' ... 'beast on beast' ... 'a display of the raw power of Mother Nature'..." Hey, she's just repeating what the lady said.

"People bet money on them."

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"They're mole rats," says Ellen. "They- big pink ugly things? With teeth as long as my finger? How is that... you know what? Never mind."

She shakes her head ruefully.

"Well, at least it sounds like you're doing the rest of the people in town some good."

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"I don't know either, but really they seemed to get into it."

She nods. "I hope so. There's at least one less piece of crap excuse for humanity no one will have to worry about."

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"Uh-oh," Ellen says. "That sounds like some of those rival companies got out of hand. What happened?"

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"Oh no, those guys were easy enough to take care of," Sativa replies dismissively. "I just ran off everybody involved to cool off in the cells. Their bosses aren't going to like it but hey, as if they were doing anything useful anyway."

Her expression darkens as she explains. "I'm talking about the kind of scum that takes a knife to a girl's face for some remark about their mother."

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"I see," says Ellen. "That's definitely not right."

She's got a few new lines and scars in the face area herself, but they weren't that deep, and she got them stimpak'd immediately. It's not the same at all.

"What happened to the girl? Will she recover?"

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She shakes head. "I don't know, the owner of the saloon where she worked gave her some money and sent her away before I could talk with her - said she'd be no good in that kind of work anymore. She was... part of the 'Full Bed Service'."

It should be pretty clear what that entails.