Victorian Commonwealth: A Raider's Journey, *Warning!* Contains Raiders doing Raider type things! Options

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Editor's Note: This publication is copied from a journal found by a traveling merchant on the road somewhere in The Commonwealth. It details the experience of Victoria, a young Raider woman. The original writings were full of profanity and described behavior of a rather savage nature. We have cleaned up the language and left out certain unsavory details of behavior we deemed too violent, sexual, and sometimes both simultaneously. Still, if you desire to read the original text as it was written, please PM me and I will send you a copy. Despite the author's objectional morals, we found the adventure described in this journal quite riveting. We, the publishers, believe that releasing the entries in a serial format would be most desirable, therefore, we will release the first two entries and then follow up with the rest at semi regular intervals. We hope you enjoy the story. Thank you.
-The Editor




Victoria's Scout Log



October 22, 2287

Finally! After months on the move, we arrived on the outskirts of Boston. Liams Own seems like such a long time ago, and we've done a lot of messed up crap on our trip east south east, but as Trixie likes to say, "that's how you survive in The Commonwealth". It's almost funny. We ended up just like the Raiders that burnt out Liams Own. Not that there's many of us left now. Of the 16 that escaped Liams Own together, only me, Trixie, Orson, Bagger, Trash, and Orson's dog, Jo, made it to the outskirts of Boston.

We arrived at an old power line tower on a hill northwest of the city just before full dark. Trash wants to celebrate and is already passing around something foul in an inhaler. Tomorrow Trixie wants me to go on a scouting mission to see if there are any easy targets to raid or structures to make a base of operations it of nearby. Maybe I'll even find some more blue paint for my face! My supply is running low. Man, sometimes I wish I had never seen that blue painted warrior woman in that Grognak comic. I love the look, but finding the paint is hard! Anyway, time to go party! Victoria out.

October 23, 2287

Woke up this morning after our little "celebration" last night and holy crap! I had myself one really weird dream! In it a man was looking into a mirror, his wife standing over his shoulder, and they were having a conversation. Something about a veteran's hall, whatever that is. Everything was really friggin' clean, and the couple looked like they were from the old days, you know, before the bombs fell. I can still see their faces so clearly! Then suddenly the woman walks in front of the mirror and her face transformed into mine! What the hell?! First and last time I do whatever that was in Trash's inhaler! Crap gives you weird dreams! Sometimes I wonder how she functions, being high on that crap all the time like she is.
After shooting the breeze with the crew, I made my way down the hill and crossed the little stream at its base. Found several cool things:
- Big structure built up on a power line tower surrounded by farmland to the southeast of our hill top camp. Maybe a good place for the crew to "check out" later, but I was looking for a place we wouldn't have to fight for while we gather our strength. Kept my distance for now.

- Slightly north of that, a water tower, and oddly enough, it had 4 canisters of purified water and an aid kit at its base and a half buried trunk nearby full of goodies!

- Old Red Rocket building just north of the water tower. Had a friendly dog there that helped me kill some molerats that ambushed us. He's my dog now, I guess. Gave him some roasted molerat for a job well done.

The building itself has a workshop, weapon and armor bench, barbecue spit, and a Chem production station (boy, Trash is gonna love that!). Threw my sleeping bag down in what was the office, rearranged the storage furniture, and I'm calling it home for now. Hell, it has everything we need!

- Pre War settlement on a lake called "Sanctuary Hills" to the northeast of the Red Rocket building. Didn't explore fully because of a robot hanging around the north side of the area. May come back with the crew later as it has potential to be an excellent base.

- Small encampment of 3 Raiders and a dog northeast of Red Rocket. They were all asleep so I tossed a molotov from a rock formation on the south side of the camp that took out two of them. Then I relocated to another rock formation on the north side of the camp and killed the last jerk and his dog with my bolt action rifle. Looted the corpses and returned to Red Rocket.

Well, when I returned to Red Rocket it was dark so I'm hitting the hay now. This PipBoy Trixie took off that Vault dweller we wasted on the road is really helping me with my scouting missions! Very pleased with its performance! This dog is also very smart! In addition to mauling people on command, he can find and pick stuff up! Very useful mutt! Tomorrow I'll head back to our camp under the power line tower and report my findings to Trixie. Hopefully they don't all get wasted tonight. This area seems peaceful, but trouble could pop up at any moment. Victoria out.

[Renee]

Dang. Sorry. Missed this one earlier.

Wow, so they really have walking frag mines? In the sense that you saw one strapped to some dog? Damn.

Yes, that Tenpines Bluff settlement is really sad! Lol.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Dang. Sorry. Missed this one earlier.

Wow, so they really have walking frag mines? In the sense that you saw one strapped to some dog? Damn.

Yes, that Tenpines Bluff settlement is really sad! Lol.

Yeah, it's legit crazy! Someone put a mine on a molerat!

Under Victoria's supervision, Tenpines shall be transformed into a fortress of dread!

[SubRosa]

There are at least two places with mine-garbed molerats. Olivia is one. There is another in a ruined parking garage in downtown Boston, where a scavenger has semi-tamed them and uses them as guards.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

October 30th, 2287

Spent today working on Tenpines. Demolished the shack and ruined house and started constructing a tower near the site of the ruined house. I also tossed the settler bodies into a nearby ditch. Food for crows, haha! Maybe they'll eat that and leave the friggin' tatos alone. Tomorrow I'll finish building.

Had an unwanted visit from a trader today. Guy named Lucas Miller and his two caravan guards and pack brahmin surprised me while I was working on my tower. Luckily I had changed into something with pockets for work so I wasn't in my Raider gear. I put on my "friendly face" and greeted them cheerfully and browsed his wares. Nothing worth spending the caps on. After chatting a bit I went back to working on my settlement, all the while hoping they didn't notice the two dead folks in the ditch nearby. When they were rested up, they went back the way they came. Jerks didn't even offer to help me, can you believe that crap?! If they come back, they're dead.

Victoria out.

[Acadian]

Victoria's getting very domestic, building her house, feeding mirocu the crows and even entertaining houseguests and not killing them (this visit).

[SubRosa]

Victoria is following the old Celtic tradition of leaving the dead unburied after a battle, as a sacrifice to The Morrigan.

Vicky did not buy any ballistic fiber from Lucas? I think he is the only merchant who sells shipments of it.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Victoria is following the old Celtic tradition of leaving the dead unburied after a battle, as a sacrifice to The Morrigan.

Vicky did not buy any ballistic fiber from Lucas? I think he is the only merchant who sells shipments of it.

Nope. No Ballistic Fiber. Didn't have the funds. Also, Nukapedia says KL-E-0 in Goodneighbor sells the fiber shipment.

Victoria's getting very domestic, building her house, feeding mirocu the crows and even entertaining houseguests and not killing them (this visit).

This was going to be a two date post, but she ended up providing a lot more food for the crows on Halloween so Khajiit thought that entry should be by itself.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Sep 15 2017, 11:30 PM

[Lopov]

"Spent today working on Tenpines."

By this Victoria mostly means ditching the former settlers, right?

Lucas Miller looks like hails from Skyrim. He and his crew better not return to Tenpines Bluff...

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

"Spent today working on Tenpines."

By this Victoria mostly means ditching the former settlers, right?

Lol, no she did that the day before! She literally spent a few minutes setting stuff up then had to do a lot of waiting to simulate build time, because building is an instantaneous thing in Fallout4. She took 2 days setting up Tenpines.

[Lopov]

What happened to Victoria?

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

What happened to Victoria?

Sorry, been busy with other things. Khajiit actually does have another entry ready to go. Will post it later.

*update*
Welp, the entry somehow got deleted so it's going to be quite a while before it gets up. Sorry.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Oct 7 2017, 08:45 PM

[Renee]

Victoria out. For awhile.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Khajiit doesn't know what happened to it. He opened up the note on his phone and only the last paragraph was left.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

October 31st, 2287

The old folks used to say that October 31st is something called Halloween. Before the war that ended society as people knew it, kids used to dress up in costumes and go from house to house extorting candy from the owners in exchange for not playing pranks on them. The old folks also said that even older folks thought that Halloween was a time when the border between our world and the realm of the dead thinned, allowing for spirits to visit the living. I hope that bunch over in the mass grave over there don't come calling, haha... ha...

.... Errr, yeah, so I got my tower built here at Tenpines, which is a wonder given how many distractions I've had today. It started this morning when I was interrupted from my work by a few Raiders who decided to attack. The dog took the brunt of their attention while I was working on the porch of the tower but wasn't seriously hurt. I quickly dealt with them and added their bodies to the corpse pile in that ditch. Then I got back to work.

A little bit later I took a break to hunt a radstag that wandered into the area. Hey what can I say, food can become scarce out here so you should take some game when an opportunity arises. After killing the deer, I returned to Tenpines, and guess who I found sitting with his back to me. Yep, that's right, Lucas Miller returned while I was off hunting. Strange thing was, his guards were no where around. Seizing the opportunity, I crept up behind him, and buried my sword in his neck. Another corpse for the pile.

With that bit of business concluded, I got back to work on my tower. I was working on the interior when I heard voices outside so I peeped around the door and saw that Miller's frickin' guards and the brahmin came back looking for their boss. So many distractions! I tossed a molotov at the closest guard but it landed a bit too far behind them only doing minimal damage. The dog then attacked them and I opened up with my bolt action, while the brahmin hauled ass over the hill to the west. After the guards fell, I chased down the brahmin and put it down in a large washout on the other side of the hill. The washout was so large that I decided to move the bodies that were stacking up in that ditch by the tower to there, and so I did after I finished work on the tower.

Well, it's been a long couple of days but I finally have a nice outpost to camp out at in this part of the Commonwealth. Thanks again Garvey! Ha! Anyway, I guess tomorrow I'll go check out that plane wreck over by that ruined overpass and see what's over there, but for now it's time for sleep. The tower is going to be a big improvement to sleeping in the open.

Victoria out.

[Renee]

Yeah totally. I like how Vic included her thoughts on special days of the past, such as Halloween. Makes total sense.

She's got herself a decent little hideaway there, at least for a night or two. Looks as if it were built for a flood plain though, since it's on stilts.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

Yeah totally. I like how Vic included her thoughts on special days of the past, such as Halloween. Makes total sense.

She's got herself a decent little hideaway there, at least for a night or two. Looks as if it were built for a flood plain though, since it's on stilts.

It's easy to forget that Victoria came from a civilized yet backwater settlement. The old folks there would have told stories of the good ol' days.

Lol, Khajiit should have included a pic of the view from the tower. Tenpines is on a high bluff (its original settlement name is Tenpines Bluff) that looks over the area. This one built the shack on stilts to give a commanding view of the area, like a watch tower.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Oct 16 2017, 03:47 PM

[Lopov]

I really like her makeshift shack.

Woe to anyone that approaches the Tenpines Bluff.

[SubRosa]

The corpse pile is getting full! Loviatar says it is a shame to let such good meat go to waste...

Vicky killed Lucas? But he is a convenient way to sell loot and get caps. Even Loviatar left the traveling merchants alive after blowing up Megaton. They made life easier.

Something tells me that Victoria is still going to need a bigger ditch...

That looks like one of those swamp houses built on stilts.

[TheCheshireKhajiit]

The corpse pile is getting full! Loviatar says it is a shame to let such good meat go to waste...

Vicky killed Lucas? But he is a convenient way to sell loot and get caps. Even Loviatar left the traveling merchants alive after blowing up Megaton. They made life easier.

Something tells me that Victoria is still going to need a bigger ditch...

That looks like one of those swamp houses built on stilts.

Yes, Victoria killed Lucas and his people. Raiders raid and take what others have by intimidation, or failing that, violence. Only what Lucas and Co. had wasn't what he normally sells, just what they were wearing and fighting with and little else. Even the brahmin only had some meat, hide, and a couple of items of random junk.

Also, the original entry for Oct. 31st. had a cannibalizm comment in it. A shame it got erased.

This post has been edited by TheCheshireKhajiit: Oct 17 2017, 10:57 PM

[Kane]

Has the alternate start mod been causing any issues? I want to give it a shot, but am worried it will wonk out my game.