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]

"I agree, let's head back and give them word." Danse looks down at the gauge again; he has ten percent left in the tank and another fusion core in storage somewhere. Just don't ask how he carries all of that stuff he is got with him. But he does take this chance to pop off the helmet of his power armor, and he wipes the sweat from his brow. He follows this with a sigh of relief.

And he steps back and he trudges over towards a hallway. "We did a good job, and here's hoping that's the last of them." It was a long day, and it was an even longer fight. And then they have the long walk back to let the settlers know about their success. But soon the sun is starting to vanish, and Danse looks up towards one of the broken windows.

"That's if we can make it back before the sunsets. Or we can just stay here, and leave in the morning." He stops at the foot of the stairs, and he turns his head around so he is looking at Nora. "Preferably somewhere outside, so we don't have to catch a whiff of rotting ghoul in the morning."

[pistol_packin_mama]

There's definitely not enough daylight left to get back to the Outpost, and the idea of sleeping outside doesn't make Nora leap for joy, especially when all she really wants to do is take a shower and chill by a warm camp fire. She suddenly gets an idea and grabs Danse's power armor clad hand and starts to tug him south.

He easily outweighs her, especially in power armor, but that doesn't stop her from yanking him.

"Better idea. Dunno why I didn't think of it sooner. There's a settlement just south of here. Like literally a few steps that way! It's not exactly paradise but there will be a fire and defense and clean water... beats sleeping next to ghoul central..."