Nothing like boots on the ground.

[dansemachine]

Who: Paladin Danse & Nora
Where: Sanctuary Hills
Summary: After Danse speaks to Nora about helping her with her duties as a Minuteman.


What: Danse is ready at the crack of dawn, and seeing he was not the best sleeper, he was well ready long before hand. And with a good supply of fusion cell ammo for his laser rifle, and his X-01 power armor that is always well maintained, Danse was just waiting to hear where it is both he and Nora would go. And like a good soldier he is standing there besides his defense post keeping watch over the settlers who have long since retired for the night.

It is a peaceful night without a drop of neither rain nor one of the famous radioactive storms that blew in from the Glowing Sea. And as he waits, Danse looses himself to the twangy sound of Johnny Cash singing about those Folsom Prison Blues that play on his radio. And as quiet and normally unnerving a night like this is, Danse seems to welcome in. He can allow himself sometime with his own thoughts, and allow himself to try to figure out everything that has happened to him since his banishment from The Brotherhood of Steel. And if he is to keep his sanity, Danse needs not only to keep his mind busy but also to try to figure out this new life as a synth out.

So there, he stands without his helmet on at the Sanctuary Sign like he promised. "Now watch this be a day where Garvey doesn't have work for her to do." He mutters aloud to himself, and he cracks the knuckles of his power armor.

Comments

[dansemachine]

It isn't the sound of an exploding grenade that gets Danse; it is the pitter-patter creepy ghoulish feet that send shivers down his spine. And there are plenty of the shambling undead to make Danse's skin crawl.

And Danse as continues to make sure nothing comes up from behind Nora's flank, the growling and pitter-patter of ghoul feet can be heard from above them in one of the rooms. "I think it might be far better than constantly coming to the same place over and again." He doesn't want to admit, but this is something that can make even the most veteran soldier become lax and find themselves overwhelmed and in trouble.

[pistol_packin_mama]

"I'll let you be the one to bring it up with Preston once we get back to Sanctuary." Nora turns to smile at Danse, but it's at that moment that a ghoul from the floor above decides to slither through a gap in the floorboards and drop onto Nora all flailing and growls.

This sudden drop also causes the floor below Nora to give way. On the plus side, the pile of rotting ghoul corpses breaks her fall. On the not so plus side, she seems to suffer some radiation damage from her new ghoul cuddle fellow. She manages to put a bullet in it's head and tries to gather her senses.

[dansemachine]

"I'm not sure, how my standings are with Preston," Danse charges in the direction of where the fell collapsed, and he peers down into the hole where Nora fell along with the ghoul. His geiger counter is picking up the high levels of radiation, and he goes to carefully jump down into the pile.

"This is absolutely disgusting," Danse cringes from under the helmet as he steps on the bodies of the fallen ghouls. He still clutches his rifle in his hands, and he goes to check on Nora.

"You okay." He firmly asks her, as he offers out a metal hand to pull her out from the horrors and of course to get her out before she takes in too many rads. He has some rad away, but the stuff isn't without its drawbacks. The last thing he wants to see is Nora end up getting sick in the process. But he still breaks out the syringe, and he offers it out to her.

[pistol_packin_mama]

Hey. He should try laying in a pile of ghoul corpses and goo when he hasn't got power armor to protect him from the rot - oh, the stench is going to linger. At least the rotting pile of flesh saved Nora from injuring herself to severely. She'll have a few bruises in the morning, but nothing she can't handle.

"Ugh. Yeah. I'm good. Nothing a shower won't fix." She grabs hold of his offered hand, yanking herself up onto her feet. It never ceases to amaze her just how much the metal hand of his power armor dwarfs her small, delicate hand.

"Save the rad away for later. We still gotta finish clearing this place out and I reckon I'm going to suck down a few more rads before we're done."

[dansemachine]

He is damn careful with making sure; he doesn't hurt Nora when he helps her up from the pile.

Danse has been there, done that, and he's been swarmed by ghouls before and nothing ruins a day other than a glowing one. And somewhere in the pile of rotting ghoul, the faint glow of the highly radioactive ghoul can be seen struggling to get up. "Let's get going before that down there crawls up from the pile of his dead friends."

And they are both going to need a shower; Danse isn't exactly going to let that ghoul continue to hang out in what might be a new settlement.

[pistol_packin_mama]

She's tougher than she looks, Danse. Good job too since most things in the Commonwealth want to kill, maim or eat her. She should probably wear her power armor more than she does, but even the most finely tuned set is still clunky and much harder than just walking. Plus, trying to get ghoul goo out of the hydraulics is never fun.

"A glowing one? Thought today was going too easy..." They've come this far, might as well make glowing juice out of the bastard before they leave. Feral ghouls are bad. Glowing ones... Ugh. Nora hates them.

She slips a frag mine from her pack and slides it into the pile of rotting corpses. It'll be bye bye ghouly if it crawls up over it. "We might want to get back..."

[dansemachine]

Oh, he's well aware that Nora is tougher than nails, but Danse is still hardwired to look out for those under his command. And she's not the only one whom the Commonwealth wants to devour. And with his time well spent in The Capital Wastes, Danse took his fair share of lumps to the head and was Super Mutant Enemy number one outside of the mysterious vault dweller from vault 101.

"Either that or I need to get my Geiger counter fixed, but I know that cloud of glowing radioactive gas from anywhere." Danse doesn't hesitate to step back from the pile, and the last thing he wants to do is getting caught in the middle of the blast from the mine.

"You don't have to tell me."

The ghoul continues to shuffle from the pile; a cloud of radioactive horror swarming around its glowing decayed body fills the room around them. It begins to shamble towards the two, and it has no idea that Nora placed a mine in its way. It shambles forward, growling and spitting up until it steps on the mine. And with a big explosion, and ghoul corpses flying in a number of directions the tougher than normal ghoul is crippled. It isn't dead, but Danse won't waste time when it comes to putting a laser bolt in to its head.