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[donthitme]

[Gob is very nervous, and very fidgety. He wrings a white rag in his hands -- the one he uses to clean the bar with. How'd he get that here anyway? Ah it doesn't matter.]

I guess I should be grateful. [Even though he says that, his tone is gloomy and solemn.] It's better here than workin' for Moriarty, right? I just hope people treat ghouls here better than they do at home.

[Especially since a lot of people here have crazy super powers. Oh my god he's so nervous..!]

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[iwanttosettheworldonfire]

[Which is always awkward, but it's hard to actually do anything about it.]

You could probably get your own shotgun. They're pretty easy, and the whole short-range big boom makes it a pretty simple one to master.

[donthitme]

[He's an awkward ghoul.]

Do you really think it'd be necessary here?

[Now he's nervous again. Does he need a shotgun here?? Will people try to fight him??]

[iwanttosettheworldonfire]

[Don't ask the lunatic with a small arsenal strapped on. That's just a terrible way to get perspective.]

I mean... I have one. But I have lots of stuff. So.

[She's trying to see the other side of conflict resolution. There is verbally screwing with people, too, but that doesn't seem like his deal either. Hmm.]

[donthitme]

[No, it's really not. Gob just isn't built for much besides tending to bars and getting berated.]

...Maybe I'm better off going back to the saloon.

[Not that he. Has much of a choice in the matter!]

[iwanttosettheworldonfire]

Nah, don't do that. There's cool stuff out here. The place I live now? Super awesome. Like... permanent vacation. Water's safe to drink... there's even plants! And I know it's not helpful for you, but, like, nil radiation.

[donthitme]

[No radiation definitely isn't helpful, but he gets where she's going with the descriptions.]

Sounds nice. I heard there's supposed to be a catch with these places though.

[iwanttosettheworldonfire]

Well, I mean... Kinda? There's scary animals and sometimes things blow up, but overall it's way calmer than home. The raiders here are practically chill, and the monsters are only, like, yao guai levels of problematic. Nothing like as bad as a deathclaw. And inside the city it's usually fine.

[But she tries to think of everybody's needs here.]

I think they have some radioactive stuff at the hospital. They probably wouldn't mind if you stood in front of it or something.

[donthitme]

"Yao guai levels of problematic" isn't exactly a selling point, kid.

[Even if things could be worse. Though Gob is afraid of his own shadow, so one could have said "molerat levels of problematic" and he still might be worried.]

That's uh, good to know.

[iwanttosettheworldonfire]

...Remind me to never take you to deathclaw territory. Yao guai are cuties when they're tame, though. One of the local critters is kinda like them, and a buddy of mine has one. Called an andrewsarchus.

[donthitme]

Should I be worried that I need to remind you? [I mean look at him he's a squishy scared little ghoul. Not everyone can rough it out in the wastes, lone wanderer!] At any rate, I suppose anything can be cute when it's not trying to tear your face off.

[iwanttosettheworldonfire]

That's usually my main requirement. Only exceptions are radroaches and centaurs. Eat too many radroaches to ever find them cute, and centaurs just give me the screaming heebie jeebies. Don't know why that does it and nothing else really does.