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[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

Dr. McCoy checked her in yesterday, so Ellen's in one of the beds towards the back, Dogmeat curled up at her feet. At least somebody in this scenario currently has hair.

The personal dosimeter she's wearing would appear to indicate that it's safe to approach.



[OOC: visiting post. Have at!]

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[two-to-the-head.livejournal.com]

A woman in leather armor and a cowboy hat comes in, followed by a battered-looking Enclave robot (http://images.wikia.com/fallout/images/6/65/ED-E-trailer.jpg). "Hi Ellen," Corazon says. "ED-E and I came along for a visit. ED-E, say hi."

The robot emits an electronic chirp.

"I got you a souvenir," Corazon says, reaching into a pouch on her belt. She pulls out a button - the kind you pin on - with the double-headed bear of the New California Republic on it and the words 'NCR and Proud.'

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Ellen blinks, lifting her head a moment; then she blinks some more and raises a hand. "Hi, ED-E," she murmurs. "Wow. You weren't kidding about the modifications."

She reaches for the button and eyes it curiously. "Huh," she says. "Must be a different species from yao guai. Ours only have the one head."

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"I've never seen a two-headed bear for real either," Corazon says. "I've seen the old California state flag, though, and the bear on that had just one head. I don't know why the NCR had to slap another head on there.

"Speaking of weird creatures...I ran into something." Corazon scratches her head. "It looked kinda human, but it was seven feet tall and muscly and bald. And kind of dusty blue, I think, although it was dark so it was hard to tell. It also used a Stealth boy. I killed it, but it's not like I could drag the body back with me," she says apologetically. "Ever heard of anything like that?"

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Ellen blinks a few times. "The skin color's weird," she says, "but... sounds like a supermutant. Eight feet of muscle in seven feet of skin, kind of look? They're like that."

She starts to reach up to scratch her nose, then drops her hand; Dr. McCoy warned her against that.

"Never seen one use a Stealth Boy... Star Paladin Cross said the ones on our coast're different from West Coast mutants, though. Yours... they might be smarter."

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"Star Paladin Cross - sounds like Brotherhood to me. And he's right, the Super Mutants in the Master's Army were as smart as humans. But they're gone now. Well, mostly."

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"She is," says Ellen. "Protected my dad when I was just a baby... she's third highest rank in the Capital area now. Came east from California with Elder Lyons, she said."

"Might be a leftover. You never know. One that survived..." A thought strikes her, and she winces. "Might be another FEV source, somewhere. Like Vault 87."

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"What's FEV?" Corazon asks. "I mean, I get that it's probably what makes people into Super Mutants, but what is it specifically?"

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John walks in, carrying a portable video player from Bar (it's lap-sized, in case Ellen wants to use it later, and has what Bar had listed as the 'standard selection' of videos downloaded. He's...not sure exactly what the standard selection is, for his designation 'for Ellen,' but he assumes they should hopefully work).

"Hey," he says, after giving a quick glance to her dosimeter, "how are you feeling?"

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"Like something that came out of a yao guai," Ellen says, and considering what's left of her hair between the radiation and some unseen person who came around with a razor, she kinda looks it. "But I'm awake, that's something. Hi, John."

[plays_chess]

"I have no idea what that is," John admits with an awkward laugh, rubbing the back of his neck. He sits down in the chair next to her. "Radiation?" he tilts his head at the dosimeter, worried.

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"Bear," says Ellen. "Big, mutant, really fast bear. They eat things but they don't always chew."

Then she exhales, a puff that'd blow hair out of her eyes if there were any there to actually blow; someone took the precaution of a buzz cut a while back. "Yeah. We... got to Dad's purifier. Things went wrong."

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John doesn't swear, but that's less because the situation doesn't deserve it and more because for a moment he can't even bring up those words.


His mouth thins, and he drops his gaze for a couple seconds before looking back up at her. "How wrong did they go?"

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"Well," Ellen says, "the place was completely full of Enclave soldiers and fortifications. We dealt with that, that wasn't- wasn't the problem. We... I talked their commander into pulling out, him and his guards."

She's still remembering the look on Autumn's face. The Enclave is at the very height of its power...

"They- they'd been trying to- they'd tried to activate the purifier. Something they did, something Dad did, I don't know... but something had set off this climb in radiation levels inside. If it didn't get activated and start venting, it would've exploded. And then it'd just blow the rads all over the area."

[vance_prime]

An hour or so after Ellen checks in, she's approached by a familiar figure who saw her stumble in earlier.

"Hey."

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Ellen's got Dogmeat curled up on the bed next to her- the infirmary staff can complain all they want, but this is a homicidally protective dog- and an issue of Grognak the Barbarian, from which she looks up and smiles.

"Oh, hey..."

[vance_prime]

"How're you doing?"

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"Better, I think," says Ellen. "Dr. McCoy got me some more medicines. I think I was out a long while, before coming here." She indicates the dosimeter badge. "This would have gone black if I were still hot, he said."

[vance_prime]

"Ohhhgood." Alyx visibly relaxes.

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"And I don't think I lost all my hair," Ellen says, indicating her scalp. "That feels like stubble. I think there was shaving. So... it might not be that bad. I mean, Colonel Autumn still had his hair when I saw him."

[basic_powers]

She'll be visited by a small familiar blonde boy in a dark blue hooded sweatshirt with an odd sort of yellow bat silouhette over the chest, carrying a bunny that...

...well Ellen probably won't remember it. Tyler's going to put it onto the bed near her hands and pull up a chair.

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Dogmeat spots Tyler first and looks up. The motion draws Ellen's attention; she glances over and smiles a little.

"Hey."

[basic_powers]

"Hey." Tyler's going to look at Ellen's face worriedly before reaching out a hand to pet Dogmeat. "...what happened, and did the doctor say...when you'd be.."

She's been shaved, and she looks like someone who just yelled at Suzie.

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The heeler's tail wags; he does his best to lick Tyler's hand.

"Dad's purifier," Ellen says. "We fought the Enclave out of it, but it was damaged. It started overloading.... had to go in and turn it on so it could release the radiation without exploding."

[basic_powers]

Tyler just looks horribly alarmed.

"But.....why you?!?"

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"Fawkes's fingers were too big to work the keyboard," Ellen says. "Super mutants're immune to radiation, but he wouldn't have been able to type it in time. He'd hit two or three keys at once if he tried."