Steel Waste

*Knock, knock*

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*Knock, knock*

Eddie scowls at the door and drops tosses teh empty jet to the floor with the rest, "Who the fuck is it?" he calls out in irritation.

The door opens with Karl and Afton walking in, the two bodyguards sitting around sit up slightly to be ready for an attack should it come. Eddie gestures at Scrambler who seemed like he was about to start firing shots any minute, the man was a short fuse that lit spontaneously and randomly.

"Oh, so it's you two... I don't see Tommy so..." he starts, his voice trailing off suggestively.

"Tommy and his gang decided that they didn't want to come back with us, they'd just raided a caravan and saw it fit that they keep all of the spoils, ignoring your tax." Karl explains.

Eddie shrugs, "So they're dead then? I'd say good job but they were technically still Powder Gangers. Whatever, doesn't matter now."

"So, we gettin' paid for this or what?" Karl asks abruptly.

"Why would I pay you to deal with your former posse?" Eddie muttered with a weird expression.

"Because we had to take down the whole gang with just the two of us, add the fact we brought this." he gestures at Afton and he drops five bloody Powder Ganger jackets as well as some supplies the NCR had handed them. "I thnk some caps are in order."

Eddie chuckles, "Fine, a hundred each... No more than that, we're fucked on food and water but I'll not be ripped off by my own gang." he states.

Karl slowly nods, "One last thing Eddie. One of the men in the caravan had ties with the NCR, I managed to... Persuade them to answer some questions, the last NCR caravan to Sloan was destroyed, so they're sending a larger one with more men. That's not all though, it apparently has triple the supplies we found last time."

Eddie's eyes widen greedily, "That could sort us out for a while, you sure they were telling the truth?"

Karl nods, "The man was given the choice between watching his wife die or answering... The torture softened him up... I killed them both afterwards anyway." he admits with a hard look.

"When's this happening?"

"I don't know exactly, but Sloan will be receiving their supplies by tonight or tomorrow morning... Setting up an ambush today is the best choice, plant some traps, get into position, etc." Karl goes over a quick plan and the others nod.

"I want you to go with the group Karl, you're one of the best we have, we can't afford to fail this." Eddie asks, Afton struggling not to be affected by this.

Karl shakes his head, "I'm old and tired, just been walking for a couple of days with minimal sleep. You'll be fine without me, I've already given you the info. Now, are we done? I wanna drink." he huffs.

"Fine, piss off and get your drink. Scrambler, grab some men and set up an ambush for that caravan. Bring a lot of guns, you're gonna need it." Eddie states as he tosses a bag of caps at Karl and Afton.

The duo leave and Afton sends a relieved glance at Karl, the plan had worked unexpectedly well. Karl had managed to portray the strength of the 'NCR caravan' so that Eddie would be forced to send many Powder Gangers with the best weaponry to seize it.

This would no doubt be a huge boon during the upcoming siege, especially since one of the guys leaving would be Scrambler... Afton had heard stories about him, and had no wish to see the man in action.

Karl left to start drinking at the bar and await the signal, Afton knew he couldn't just walk over and plant a bomb in broad daylight, he'd need to wait until nightfall to do it. The courtyard of the prison always had a few people wandering about, playing caravan or other card games while eating or drinking. Their attitudes would make you rethink whether they were in a supply crisis...

So, until that time he'd do what he usually does in the NCRCF... Sit in his designated office and wait for patients to need his services. Fortunately, there didn't seem to be anyone injured today, which left him alone to go over the plan in his head.

Glancing over to the medical supplies, he decides to steal all the stimpacks they had, he shoved the ten syringes into his Deathclaw leather satchel. Taking another look he figures that if he's going to steal the stimpacks, he might as well take the other things as well.

[10 stimpacks acquired] +30 Hit Points

[5 Radaway acquired] : -50 Radiation

[7 Med X acquired] : +25 Damage Resistance for 4 min

[6 Rad X acquired] : 25% Rad. Res. for 4 min.

[2 Jet acquired] : +15 Action Points for 4 minutes

[3 Psycho acquired] : +25% Damage for 4 minutes

[1 Rebound acquired] : Regenerates +5 Action Points per second for 1 minute

[1 Fixer acquired] : Permanently removes addiction

[2 Antivenom acquired] : Cures animal and arthropod poisons.

[1 Mentats acquired] : +2 Intelligence for 4 minutes, +2 Perception for 4 minutes, +1 Charisma for 4 minutes

[2 Buffout acquired] : +60 Max Hit Points for, 4min +3 Endurance for 4min, +2 Strength for 4min

Quite the haul, but similarly pretty terrifying when you consider these were all the medical supplies the Powder Gangers have... They had around a hundred members so this was really the minimum you could have before people started dying due to injuries...

Afton could also notice the obvious lack of addictive Chems, with how much Jet Eddie was going through he was surprised to find two... Oh well, he didn't intend to use Chems unless the circumstances were incredibly dire, he had no idea what effect they'd have on him as he'd never done them before. Obviously, he could see their effects with the Pipboy but that wasn't what he was referring to.

Once he was out of this place and in a safe area he'd sell them off for some extra caps though, maybe he could buy himself a better Energy weapon than this piece of shit laser pistol. If he couldn't then he'd just go with ballistics until something dropped into his arms.