#ask-fallout-frank

In this nightmare Ri Young-hyun hadbeen put in charge of forming relations with a small settlement inthe wastelands. It was in an out of the way place and was consideredby many of the factions of the wastelands to be of little worth.Though it did have one advantage and that it had been a coal miningtown in it’s heyday before the great war. Even some other partyofficials had told her that they believed that the mine containeduranium that had was unmined due to the deposit not being found untiljust before the warheads were launched. So in all this presented arare opportunity that could not be missed. Of course the majority ofthe produce would go to the town but this could a chance to introducea form of socialist state that could be self sufficient, the tradethat could be brought was an added bonus. There was concerns that thenearby Cathedral might have some manner of tombs that might bedisturbed by the mining process as this was to be undertaken by thepeople of the village for their own benefit then they should know howto handle it. Most of this came from pre-war spy reports that hadmade their way by various means to Korea.

Ri Young-hyun arrived at the town wereshe had a meeting with some of the towns leaders. Though as soon asshe entered the town it became clear that she was not welcome thelocals gave her dirty looks and when she tried to speak to any ofthem she did not get much response. The meeting with the heads of thesettlement went even worse. In the meeting they told her thatsettlement mines were not to be disturbed the reason they did notexplain only that she would not understand. Young-hyun found herselfwondering around town in the hopes of getting some insight into thepeople here. She ended up in the bar where she was only reluctantlygiven a drink. Here she spoke of the small mindedness of the leadersand the possibilities  that relations could offer. They sneer at heroffers and talk some even behaved aggressively.

This all seemedpointless and as she was about to live to maybe it was necessary toprocure some kind of gift of friendship from her home to bring themon to their side. Before she was able to go any further she wasapproached by a man who told her that he needed to speak with her atonce and it concerned the state of the settlement. She was hesitantto trust this man but decided that it was her one shot of finding outmore. It became clear that this was a legion man she would say maybeFrumentarii, he spoke of how he had been sent to this town onCaesar’s orders andhas been watching the town with interest. Though he fears that he hadbeen found out at this. Of all of this Young-hyun was sceptical if hewas one of the Legion why would he speak to her and a Frumentariiwould surely be able to slip out unnoticed. More became apparent whenhe spoke of the inhabitants who seem to be watch who enter closelythen of their profligate degeneracy and dark rituals. The last parthe would not expand on, only that it would be wise not go out atnight.

Young-hyun could not decide if this had any truth of this wasa Legion tactic to stop the settlement making relations with outsidepowers whether this was because they sort to plunder this town orabsorb it but on the other hand the idea of rituals so dark that eventhe Legion who are know for their brutality would shudder it wasgrizzly thought. She made her scepticism clear saying that it soundedlike her was creating a form of exaggerated tale to ward off anydiplomats from the town that the Legion seem to have claimed. Hebrushed off the claim telling her that she didn’t believe thesituation she was free to investigate it herself and see the truth ofthe matter. He then added that he heard reports of her efforts inother settlements and how ineffective they had been. Korea he saidwas wasting it’s efforts here as no settlement would side with them.Though he did add that if she found a way for them to both leaveunharmed he could bring good word of the Koreans in his report. Aworking relationship between Korean and the Legion would be far morepractical than between profligate states that had the baggage frombefore Mars cleansed the world whereas the Legion had no such ties.

Young-hyun gave this seriousconsideration but decided to investigate the town from a distance shefound a disused doctors office on a hill overlooking the town andspent the night there. When night struck the air was filled withstrange noses and the sounds of seagulls. Then as she looked out fromone of the windows she could see torches moving along the seafront.She brought out a pair of binoculars and looked closer there shecould see crowds of villages with torches. As she looked closer shecould see they were taking a sacrifice with them who they left tiedto a rock. As they left she saw something move from the Cathedral atfirst it she didn’t think much of it and kept her eyes on the victimbut it became clear that there was a great deal of movement comingfrom the grounds of the Cathedral. So she looked and saw mass groupsof shadows moving from the old grounds. Then she saw they were notsimply moving or floating they riding these shadowy figures wereriding black stallions and riding towards the victim. The more shelooked at them the more she observed, they seemed to be the shadowyfigures of knights but these were the most ghastly knights ever seenand they way the moved it was almost like they were in slow motionbut at the same time covered the same ground that riders would atfull speed. She had enough at this point and closed the blinds beforethe deed could be done.

The next morning soon came in the dreamand she had made up her mind to leave right at this instance. Shespent the early morning scouting out a escape route and this came inthe form of one of the reports which mentioned an old forest trackthat could be used to bring supplies from this town to some of theneighbouring settlements if there was ever a guerrilla resistancemovement in the US. That mourning she and the  Frumentarii leftthrough via this track and walk for what seemed like miles. There wasno way she fort that the town inhabitants or the phantom Knightscould have know where they are or even catch up with them if theydid. They had walked a long and had reached a small settlement but itwas soon becoming night time and there was no one else about. Therewas noting to do but to stay the night in one of the ruined housesand then go their separate ways.

Inthis nightmare Ri Young-hyun in some wastelands ruin seeking anyuseful information that might be contained within. Though fromlooking around the winding paths of the building it became clear thatanything of use had been strippedout. She was about to give up when she found a door that waslocked and untouched. She managed to break in and it seemed that shewas now in a crypt. She didn't ask herself what a crypt would bedoing in an American government ruin but instead decided to press onahead. As she pressed on she entered a large room with medicalequipment and shelves of books.

While she was trying to discern whatcondition they were in she found her self under attack from a ghoul.The strange thing was it had not ran at her it was just there as ifit had teleported behind her. She destroyed it but then more appearedmaterialising from nowhere and attacking. It them became clear whatshe had to do and she ran out of the building then as far away aspossible. She arrived back in the temporary house she was staying inwhich was now a large old house. As she was writing these events upin a log she noticed that the building had a basement, something shehad not noticed before which was strange since she had explored theentire building. She had to know what was down there in case itpossessed some unknown danger. She entered and noticed that room wasflooded and there was a hole in the other end of the room.

As she waded through the water the roomseemed to become darker. At last she reached the hole and as sheentered it she was back in the crypt. She armed form more attacks andthere at the end of one of the levels of the crypt was a hole likethe one in the basement. She struggled and her way to the entrancefighting what ever came behind her.

Reaching it she entered hoping that itwould lead back to her house but instead she found herself in a vastdesert wasteland they sky of which was dark and smog filled, onlyfeature was the skulls of bizarre animals which could not be named byman. Then something worse happened she began to disappear as if thedarkness of the place was engulfing her. Before she disappearedcompletely she bolted awake. Did this dream represent one of hergreatest fears about the wastelands that she could die in someobscure ruin and no one would know that she had even entered it?

I hate the American leaders who hadbeen trying to destroy our way of life for decades and started thenuclear conflict. As for individuals who are around in this era Icould not name anyone one as such. America is gone and the powerstructures that have emerged are too beset with their only factionalwarfare to be too much of problem to us. I could so that either theEnclave and NCR could be seen as the bigger threat as they representa return to form the old American modus operandi though again they donot seem to be in position to take full control and are too busy withtheir own problems to pose a threat to us. There has been some peopleI have had a from of rivalry with such Tommy from Vault 101, Hacknessand Colonel Autumn though I can’t say that I outright hated any ofthem.

My best friend is my twin sister RiYoung-hee, not only did we grow up together but we also sharedhobbies and similar carrier paths though she has taken a moremilitary research side where I have done more in intelligence. Thoughthis has allowed the both of us to balance each others weaknesses andstrengths thus work together in an effective way. This is my longestrunning friendship that has lasted since I could talk. Outside of myfamily there are colleagues back in Korea who I have closefriendships with but I shall not go into that. There have beenindividuals in the wasteland who I have had who have had closefriendships with the most notable being Vladimir  Krukov a KGB agentserving in the wastelands in what I believe was a similar mission tomyself. We had a good work relationship and a bit a more intimate oneas well.

An interesting relic perhaps it fromsome kind of political rally or owned by a very patriotic citizen,much like Frank. She wasn’t sure of how this was meant to covert her,the American flag had great reverence to him but to her it was theflag of the old hated enemy. Still that didn’t mean she would rejectthe gift it would make an interesting piece in a museum back home asfor what she had seen miniature flags such as this one were not socommon place.

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