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[Kim is taking a break on the side of a route. You can tell because she's under a tree and there's an Espurr draped over her shoulder. Don't mind the pokemon, she's just going to stare at the screen as Kim brings the gear up in focus. Said Espurr will continue to stare throughout the post. Have fun with that. Why no she does not seem to be moving closer...]

This place takes a while to get used to. But I have to admit, the multiple radio stations are a nice perk. Back home we have.....two functional ones at the moment? And I think I have all the songs from the main one memorized. ....I really need to try and find Travis some new music holotapes....

I suppose there's three if you count the Minutemen one. Though it's mostly an alert system and despite being their general I've yet to convince them to play any other filler songs besides that same fiddle music on a loop. There's a few other stations but they're usually pre-war emergency signals that only play in certain areas so I don't think they count.

Anyway. I do have a question though. Does anyone know if there's a station here that has radio dramas? Like plays in radio format? There is one back home that has these old radio programs that I listened to as a kid, and while I know this place won't have the Silver Shroud or anything. I'm open to others. Does this place even have fictional superheros or detectives? I really should check to see if there's a place that sells comics here.

Thanks in advan-

[And she gets interuppted as the staring Espurr tumbles down onto the gear.]

Ack, Mama Murphy. What did I say about leaning too far?

[She picks up the pokemon who 'totally meant to do that' and puts her back on her shoulder.]

Sorry about that.

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So do I.

No, they haven't. I'm from a place comparable to Earth's Europe at the beginning of the nineteen hundreds. Though with different science.

[Lust is rather good at putting things together, and having spent so much time with Boone...]

Do you mean Mr. Boone? We're travel companions. He's told me some about his world.

Yeah, that's him. He's from the West Coast, I'm East Coast. If you know about our world you can probably guess there isn't much travel between them. We've shared some stories ourselves. It might be the same country but there's a lot of differences.

[Stories like, what terrifying animal mutations do you guys have? And, wow all vaults suck.]

The place I'm from, the Boston Commonwealth, got a lot more bombs apparently. Also the coasts have different mutated animals. Though apparently Deathclaws are countrywide. ....much to my disappointment.

I know that it was ravaged by war, and was made close to uninhabitable for a very long time.

Deathclaws?

Yeah. We're more....isolated sections of what once used to be a giant country. I know there's a government over on the west coast but in Boston we have small settlements. Biggest city here- there, was in a former baseball stadium.

Oh, Deathclaws. I have no idea where they came from, or what they came from. Sadly I was lawyer not a biologist, pre-war. But just think giant monster from some horror program. Horns on the head, spikes on the back and fitting the name, really big claws. Also they run really fast because of course they do.

We've got lots of things like that. Honestly I think I've seen only a few animals not mutated. A few dogs, some cats....birds maybe? Those ones are hard to tell.

I see. That would make sense, with what I understand of what happened.

Ah. They sound formidable, to say the least.

Really? I thought there weren't any cats.

It does. It was a bit confusing to wake up to. But it makes sense and in my opinion probably the only decent thing to happen because of the bombs. The last thing we need is to be a large group with power. A lot of the ....comparatively smaller post-war groups have already shown they shouldn't have had the power they did have.

They're terrible and sadly only a small fraction of the worst things out there.

Wait, really? Does the west not have cats. ....wow that sucks. No, we have cats here. I've seen a few in my travels. Also, my home settlement. Sanctuary Hills? We've got a few running around when I got brought here. Had to bait them out of the wilderness with mirelurk meat but they've decided to stay.

All of humanity is always the same, no matter the world and no matter what path it's taken. One way or another, humankind finds some way to wage war until there's nothing left to war for.

I don't think it does. Mr. Boone doesn't think so.

[She shakes her head.]

If there's anything I've learnt from my life it's that, war...war never changes.

Still. People are not humanity. I'm from what most people would consider the worst type of world. And they're probably right, it can be downright horrific and prejudiced and terrible. But there are good people there. Trying to help others. And as long as those people exist....then it's worth it, to keep trying.

My best friend and partner...detective partner back home, once said that if all he had to show for existing was the good that we managed to do in the world then it was enough for him. And this is a guy who gets treated like dirt because some people don't think he's human enough.

People can be stupid.

[She misses Nick a lot.]

Well, we have cats on the east coast. That's strange. I wonder where else they are.

No, it doesn't.

Oh, humanity is people. The handful of outliers don't change the generally accepted whole. Individuals...they only make so much difference, really. Don't misunderstand, I'm not dismissing those who try to better the world. Only I've seen so many try and it never really changes anything.

People simply fear what isn't exactly like them.

We'll have to agree to disagree then. Or maybe our version of change is different. Because I've seen a lot of change recently and maybe in the long run it won't last, or things will get worse. But there are some things that can't go back to exactly the way they were. Not anymore. And I'll take those wins, small as they might be in the grand scheme of things.

[Blowing things up helps with that.]

Yeah, I've had experience with that in a lot of ways. The years change, the fears simply move onto the next target.

[Pre-war it was Communists and anyone who might be Chinese. Post-war it was synths and ghouls.]

Small things are always in flux. But overall...mankind makes the same mistakes, over and over again, even with centuries between. And in the name of god or science or progress, one group will try and destroy the others because they look different or speak different or worship a different god. Again and again, over and over, until perhaps one day there will be no more gods and no more humans at all.

So have we both. Not all of us were human before we came to this place.

Maybe. I'm not sure if I even believe in gods But no more humans....I can see that happening. Honestly, it's why I'm hoping we stay as smaller settlements for a good long while. There may be wars. There may be conflicts, and terrible things but they won't be on the scale of what it was like before the bombs went off. The ability simply isn't there.

Really? I didn't know this place could do that. Change people into humans I mean. Does it do that to everyone who isn't normally human?

You'd be surprised. Amestris was just one small power, yet so many others fell to it and it became an empire...
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Yes, it does. Though in my case, it isn't as though you could have been able to tell the difference. I look the same.

Oh if they rebuild, but that hasn't happened in the past two hundred years. I think the wars and conflicts that pop up is actually stopping that from happening, ironically.

Yeah? Where I'm from there's a few that wouldn't change much either. Gen-3 synths look exactly like humans. Ghouls, other synths, robots and super mutants on the other hand....if any of them show up here....

Thanks for the heads up though. I have a few friends and family members that might be a bit freaked out if they show up here and were suddenly human.

It took a millennium for civilizations to grow in the beginning. I imagine it would take much the same for it to happen again.

Yes. I'm what's called a...synthetic human. A 'perfect copy' made by science, with a few...additions, we'll say. Superior strength and speed, no need for sleep, regeneration...

But there's really no difference beyond those, despite what humans say. And all of us who find ourselves human here require an adjustment period. It's not an easy thing.

[Even for those of them with vague memories of humanity.]

That's what I'm hoping for.

[Mostly because she's hoping it'll give them time to change.]

Huh, well you don't have to convince me. I've known enough synths to know the place that made them liked to lie to make themselves feel better about the whole, enslavement thing they had going on before the rebellion happened.

[Also her son is a synth and she will literally kill anyone who tries to hurt him. And then there's the rest of the non humans in her group of misfits. Do not hurt Kim's friends is probably something a lot of people in the commonwealth should know by now.]

Yeah, I can imagine it would be.

Perhaps your world will break the mold.

Synths?

[The way the woman says the word...]

It would be nice if we managed to break something other then ourselves for once.

[It's the wasteland/pre-war America, you get a dark sense of humour.]

Synthetic humans. They used to be called androids. They were built by a place underground called the Institute. We have robots too but they're not as human looking as synths and they were made before the war. Still even a lot of them are more human then certain humans I've met.

[Codsworth is family. And Curie even before she became a synth was part of the team.]

Unfortunately for the Institute their synths kept escaping which really went against their whole, these things have no free will policy, and really don't mind doing whatever we tell them. So they kept saying they were broken. They were wrong of course, they just didn't care or had managed to convince themselves that anything they did in the name of science must be good.

The guy I mentioned before, the one that people didn't treat well all the time because he wasn't human looking enough? Nick Valentine, probably one of the best people I know, and he's a synth. It's just a bit more obvious with him. Luckily, he's also one of the most sarcastic people I know so anyone who says anything gets it back tenfold.

[He's also one of the most insecure, self doubting people she knows but she and Ellie have been working on that.]

I...see.

[It looks as though Lust intends - or wants - to say more, but she bites her tongue. She doesn't know this woman.]

There are always too many humans eager to play at being god.

Yeah....yeah there really are.

[She doesn't know what the woman intended to say, but she can agree with that.]

Sorry, that was a lot to drop on someone. My world is....a mess. In more ways then the radiation.

No. Your world really isn't that much different from many others.

[She smiles slightly. A bit sad.]

I wish that was surprising. But people are people everywhere I suppose.

Even if small details change. Honestly when I came here I was ...worried it would be more like pre-war America. I was even asking people if the government took away pokemon for weapons once you trained them enough.

Apparently not, but still I can't help but wonder when the other shoe will drop.

[Kim is an optimist in the wasteland but pre-war she would have laughed you out of the room if you'd called her that. Here, it's a mix of confusion and the remains of pre-war paranoia.]

No, this world is far kinder than most. There's a rather sinister organization that may try and steal your leveled or rare Pokemon, but they rarely manage to cause real trouble.

Though sometimes...

And of course this place has it's upsets, some of them quite disruptive, but...we come together and fix whatever needs fixing, one way or another.

Yeah, I've been warned about the weird non-lethal raider type of group out here. I guess killing people for their pokemon won't work here.

[And probably the only reason she believes what sounds like a cross between the Gunners, the Institute and raiders aren't just killing people to get what they want.]

.....Can I ask what some of the upsets have been? It's good to hear that people have been working together to fix things though.

Things that are...difficult to explain, really. Usually side effects of the behavior of very, very rare and powerful Pokemon. They have great influence over this world. Even their moods can effect it, sometimes, it seems.

And once I think the world broke, but we cleaned it all up and that certainly hasn't happened again. No one was hurt, it was simply...like some great tremor went through the universe, and it upset the land. And the Pokemon.

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