Voice Log 1 | Let There Be Light!

[loveyoudarling]

Hope you're all happy... Seems it took a bit of reading... And a lot of force, but--[Urp!] But... It seems the lights are on again. Hopefully this can help open some of the other... doors.

Anyway. I'm going to take a nap.

Woke up feeling shitty. Wonder if it's because of all that 'nuclear-poison' stuff that people keep going on about. Maybe... Maybe just puke my entire stomach up... that sounds nice...

Comments

Text? What is it even?

[loveyoudarling]

[Still going to ignore you shaming her sense of fashion.]

no not yet. though its appreciated. whats an emoji/ can it help with how im feeling right now/

[Huh. Why won't pressing the question mark button make a question mark happen? This new fangled writing on these Pip-Boy's sure are weird.]

Re: Text? What is it even?

[wildguardian]

[Still not going to stop objecting to her idea of fashion, although he'll lay off for now.]

totally useless for how your feeling right now!! but they help express feelings. basically like little pictures of faces and fruit and shit.

seriously you need to get to the doctor.

[If there's anything the doctor robot can do. So far as he knows, there isn't much that can repair radiation damage, but then so far as he knows you can't freeze people for centuries either -- so he's not going to say anything discouraging.

But he's nervous.]

[loveyoudarling]

too sick. cant stand up, sleeps good though so ill just lay here. learst able to hold down the nausea unlike saya. cant you just, you know, draw the pictures/ what makes a drawing different from an emoji/

[wildguardian]

simple! i cant draw!

where are you guys at?

[loveyoudarling]

don't know about saya but i'm in my room. been in here since i started feeling sick. only stand from my bed to spew chunks. how do you manage to get the questionmark button to work/////

[wildguardian]

shift key! hold it down then press that button & you get the ?

hey i'm gonna swing by, ok? if nothing else i can bring you the trash can to puke in. has anybody said anything about medicine or whatever yet?

[loveyoudarling]

shift key. that's this button in the corner right? ??????????? OH I i I mean I think I have it! Oh! It get's the little explanation point thingy too! So that's how this form of writing works! Sandy mentioned the robot in the infirmary may be able to help. But I'm not so sure how I'm going to make it all the way down there. I haven't been able to stand much the less make it to the other side of my room.

[wildguardian]

yeah you got it! nice, nice.

how about i swing by and lend you a shoulder to lean on? between the two of us i think we can get you down there.

[loveyoudarling]

You'd really do that? Didn't expect to run into someone so chivalrous in a place like this.

[This guy is the absolute polar opposite of the only other guy they all seem to be trapped with. What a nice change.]

[wildguardian]

of course i would. it's not chivalry! we're all in this together, after all.

be there in a few.

[loveyoudarling]

Thanks.

[It was all she had to say, at least for now. But for the time until he arrived she was just going to continue to rest and keep on with the other conversations she was already having.]

[wildguardian]

[It won't take too long for Yunlan to find Chocolat's room; he'd asked a helpful robot. He raps his knuckles against the door.]

How are you doing in there? Mind if I come in?

[loveyoudarling]

[Chocolat's area was as plain as any of the rest in the women's dorming hall. What few books and trinkets she had collected during her time exploring the vault were mostly put away save for her clubs and helmet, which she had placed on the floor beside her bed. She had been lying on the bottom bunk, lying on her back with her arm draped over her face.]

Mnngh, yeah, yeah... come on over. Make yourself at... at home..

[Her voice was weak, and she waved her other hand in a barely managed effort to flag him over.]

Feel free to grab the chair by the computer desk.

[wildguardian]

Nope! We're getting you straight to the doctor, sis.

[Sitting down would just slow down his momentum! Instead, he's heading over to the bunk -- wow, she keeps her space much cleaner than he does his own, but that's a low bar -- and crouching beside her.]

C'mon. Think you can sit up if I give you a hand?

[loveyoudarling]

Doctor? We have... A doctor?

[Her breath shuddered as she spoke. Slowly pushing herself up with her elbows in hopes to try and rise from her spot in the bed.]

I... I think, just, really dizzy is all. Kind of hot?

[It took her a second more, but she finally lifted one of her arms out to grab Yunlan's hand. It was sweaty and hot, her grip still solid but no where near as firm as she normally would have had it.]

[wildguardian]

We've got a robot in the clinic room, anyway.

[That's definitely a fever. Is that one of the symptoms of radiation poisoning? Fuck if he knows; he'll just go with that diagnosis until somebody who knows better says otherwise. His grip is just as firm as always, and he tugs, trying to get her closer to the edge of the bed and sitting up.]

Okay, so next step! Getting your legs over the side of the bed! After that, you just drape your arm over my shoulders and we can do this thing. On the count of three.

One, two... three!

[loveyoudarling]

Ungh!

[The motion of being lifted was sudden, and the color in her face almost immediately faded to a pale greenish color. Urging back the sudden nausea she felt as she felt her small frame suddenly lifted over Yunlan's shoulders.]

Care-- Carful I-- ahhn...

[You know what? Never mind. Yelling at him was only making her feel sicker.]

[wildguardian]

[She went limp -- no, okay, she wasn't going to be able to walk at all, was she? Yunlan shifted her weight into his arms, quietly relieved that she wasn't any taller. Honestly it was a bit of a strain as it was.]

How's that? Let me know if you're gonna puke so I can get my feet out of the way.

[The grin he cast her was meant to be reassuring, but he doubted he'd managed to scrub all the worry out of it. Let's see-- he remembered seeing a sign for the infirmary in that direction....]

[loveyoudarling]

[Thankfully Yunlan was dealing with a tiny 5'2" assassin instead of the body type that the occupation would usually require. Not that Chocolat wouldn't argue by saying how it wasn't how you were built but what you could do that makes a true fighter.]

Ngggnmpf...

[That was most of what she could muster out in reply though. Her way of giving a vague agreement to what he said.]

Surprised... When we first met you seemed to not be too thrilled with me... Yet of all people you're the one pulling m'body to the nurses office. Heh...

[wildguardian]

Sure! I mean, you're reckless and just a bit bloodthirsty for my taste, plus you could wear shirts more often.

[Because severe radiation poisoning is the right situation to give constructive criticism, right?]

But it's not like you're gonna learn any better if I leave you to lie around puking on yourself.

[loveyoudarling]

In places like this... You gotta be t'live...

[She wasn't going to more into it. She was far too sick to go into her reasoning or explanations. And really it seemed silly to explain her wardrobe choices now of all times. He'll just have to deal with her not acknowledging it yet again.]

With how well you fight, thought you understood such things.

[wildguardian]

[He sighs, shoulders sagging a little at her comment.]

Sure, sometimes you get hurt trying for a peaceful solution. And sometimes peaceful solutions don't work.

But that doesn't mean they aren't always worth trying for. The people on the other side of your weapon are people too. The worst thing you can do is to forget that.

[loveyoudarling]

So many people out there don't deserve the life given to them.

[It was blunt and unintentionally sounded horrible, but she meant what she had said to a degree. She had seen too much cruelty in her short young life to think otherwise.]

'N they won't-- And they won't take any peaceful solution as an answer.

[Her voice sounded a little weaker as she said that, as if she were dozing off a little. But in reality her mind was going back to a time when all she had going for her was that very thirst for blood.]

[wildguardian]

Some people won't take peaceful solutions. Hell, I'm a cop, I'd have been out of a job if nobody ever wanted to hurt anyone else, you know?

[Sure, "don't deserve the life they have" might sound horrible, but he's seen enough to make it relatable, too. Some people do terrible things. Some people hurt others wherever they go.]

But everybody deserves a chance.

[His tone's wry -- even self-deprecating. There are a lot of people he might not want to give a chance, even people who, if he hadn't given them a chance, would've done less harm. But he still believes what he's saying.]

I guess I'm a useless idealist, huh?

[loveyoudarling]

Heh, you think?

[Even in her state the comment had managed to get a wry chuckle out of her. She had seen the worst of the world for as long as she could remember, so she had forgotten how idealistic some people could be. It's true that there were plenty of good people in the world, and people who would comply to peaceful methods, but those people were the types to be walked all over by those who abused their power.]

Jus -means, despite what you were professionally, you lived a pretty good life. Could still see the good in the world.

Kinda jealous actually. ♥