Fallout, Second Life

Eve remained silent for a moment as she seemed to process the question.

"Me?" She asked after a moment, a bit surprised. "I know I'm an assaultron, handsome, but I'm just a bartender now. Besides, don't you have your own partner?" She asked, curious. Though judging by her synthesized tone she sounded interested, just feeling Adam out.

"I know, and I do." Adam said back quickly. "But you've already expressed to me that you were getting tired of bartending and were itching to get back out there again."

"That is true." She said as her mechanical claw gently tapped her chin.

"And what I'm planning on doing, I'm going to need as many hands as possible."

"Oh?" She said as she leaned in. "What are you planning on doing?" Adam leaned in too and then spoke more quietly, making sure no one would overhear him.

"I'm planning on raiding the Federal Ration Stockpile downtown." Adam smirked. She leaned back, her body language telling Adam she was shocked.

"That certainly is a big plan. I've heard that the place is positively crawling with super mutants." Adam nodded.

"I heard the same thing, but I also heard it hasn't been touched in a very long time, not since the mutants moved in. Even if it was raided in the past I'm positive it will still have more than enough to make a trip worth it."

"Even so it will take a lot of manpower to get control of the interior of the building, and even then it will take multiple trips to get everything out. I'm not sure how one extra hand would help." She questioned, still trying to understand Adam's plan.

"Actually it would be 7 hands, including myself." He grinned.

"7? Well it does sound like you are putting together a little team." She paused to think. "When would you be leaving?"

"In a few days, not tomorrow, I need at least one day to rest, and then the day after I might take the day to prepare the plan with everyone, not sure yet, especially since we need to make one extra stop before we raid it, but within a few days."

"Well I might need to clear my schedule but I think I can swing it~"

"Awesome." Adam smiled brightly. "To tell you the truth I had been considering asking you to join me for a while now but a lot was happening and there was never a good time. If Deccanus hadn't asked to join I was going to see if you would."

"Shame you didn't ask me first~ I might've said yes." She teased.

"Well I am asking now." Adam chuckled. "Pleasure to be working with you." Eve pulled out a bottle of wine and poured a glass for Adam worth his 15 caps.

"To new partnerships." She grinned, raising Adam's glass herself before passing it off.

"To new opportunities." Adam chuckled and then took a sip of the wine. "And don't worry, I plan to split the income fairly, though you may be surprised how few of our posse will actually need a cut, circumstances being what they are."

"Fair enough." She said before she leaned on the counter. "Now, tell me what you have been up to in the meantime." Adam smiled.

"Sure, though I have to keep some of it secret, the nature of the job and all."

"Of course." She nodded in understanding.

"Well then, let me tell you about my trip to The Pier."

Adam then spent the next bit giving Eve the abridged version of what he was up to while he was away. Cutting out some sensitive information that might be something the two leaders might want kept quiet, though she got some of the extra gritty details.

"Sounds like you had quite an adventure~" She said as she poured Adam his second glass of wine, him paying another 15 caps for the refill.

"Certainly. It was interesting to see how others lived, in fact, up until I left, I had only ever seen Naper and Midway. Seeing The Pier and Renaissance was quite a culture shock I tell you."

"Oh I bet." Eve hummed in amusement. "They live very different lives over there."

"Actually it got me thinking about what other settlements there are out there, if there are any."

"Oh there are." Eve interjected quickly. "Quite a few actually." She added casually.

"Oh?" Adam returned, interested. "Like what?" Eve paused to think for a moment.

"Well you know the four you mentioned so I won't talk about those. But there is The Highrise, an old skyscraper that was turned into a home for a former group of nomads. Not too much to say about them, I'm afraid. They live much like the people here at Midway, just all in one building. Then there's The Raft, a collection of boats all strung together with bridges spanning a great area. At the center is a massive oil tanker that the majority of people live on. It's actually a farming community, if you believe that, fishing too, obviously, but it's quite interesting. However since Famine rolled in with the horde of ghouls it has been out of contact, reaching it by land is impossible at the moment for anyone other than ghouls and I've heard they pulled up their bridges from land onto their boats for safety. You can still reach it by boat but from what I heard they have stopped accepting outsiders for the time being. I don't know the full story but it sounds like they have something going on there." She shrugged.

"Then there's Hell." She said with a playful and knowing tone.

"Hell?" Adam said back, confused and surprised.

"Yes, you heard me right~ Hell." She said with a teasing flirty tone. "It's an old subway tunnel that has been completely converted to a settlement but…" She paused as she thought of how to explain this. "It's not like any settlement anywhere else in Chicago, it's a raider den, full of the people that wouldn't even be allowed here, in Midway."

"So a wretched hive of scum and villainy?" Adam said with a joking tone as he sipped at his wine again.

"More or less to the point.~" She let out a soft mechanical laugh. "Anyway it's not the kind of place you would want to visit, the only reason it exists is to give a place for the raiders in the wastes a place to offload their stolen goods and meet like minded fellows. It's dangerous even for me. Not that it would be a problem, but the best way to avoid getting hurt in a place like that is to simply not go." Adam nodded in understanding.

"Then there is The Dukedom." She continued. "However, it's gone now, so I've heard. Ever since those Pestilence freaks moved into the area the Dukedom fell to them and now serves as their HQ. No one goes in or out from that area without being a cult member, so who knows if the old Duke is even still alive." She paused again thinking of more places.

"Then there's Camelot, you know, like from Arthurian Legend?" She said with an amused and sarcastic tone.

"Base for the knights, I'd imagine."

"Exactly~ Well anyway it's not very big and mostly serves as a base for them, but everyone knows about it so it was worth mentioning." She shrugged. "And there are even more, I bet. But I'm not as well traveled as I used to be, I only learn what people say within the bar. I suppose that's one of the reasons I accepted your offer to go with you. I'm desperate for some action~." She said with a flirty tone, despite talking about combat. Adam just chuckled.

"Well I'm glad I have the opportunity to bring you along." Adam grinned. She let out another soft laugh.

"Well just know there are more settlements, certainly, but I believe that is most of the notable ones. Any others would either be very new or no bigger than Naper, Chicago is a big place after all, no way to know exactly how many rats are hiding~" She said with an almost menacing tone when speaking about the random people who might be scattered throughout the ruins of Chicago. But Adam chose to pay it no mind.

"You are a veritable well of information, you know that?" Adam smiled.

"Being a bartender has its perks~" She hummed. She then leaned in and placed a metal claw prong softly on Adam's hand that was resting on the counter. "Now, let me tell you exactly where I live so you can come over anytime your little heart desires~ Whether you want to grab me for your little group meeting before the journey or you are looking for some fun~" She said with the flirtiest tone she had used the entire night.