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Arcade. ([personal profile] sicvitaest) wrote in [community profile] entranceway2016-12-20 02:19 pm

001 Video

I don’t remember asking for a vacation. Call me cynical, but really just call me Arcade, there has to be a catch. Cui bono?

Wouldn’t it be nice if this was all just a happy circumstance that we’ve turned up in a place that didn’t want something from us? Rad-free food, no deathclaws chasing you down, no drugged up fiends. This is Heaven. Or close to it.

[The video finally focuses, and the man behind the rambling comes into view. He looks like he hasn't slept in a few days. Partially because he found a library with every book his heart desired.

The device he’d received looked much like a pip-boy, though he wasn’t familiar with one personally. The courier had one and would let Arcade watch old holotapes on it from time to time. This recording function was entirely new to him. The fact that you could project yourself onto other devices live was completely fascinating to the doctor.]


I’d like to know more about the inhabitants. [He adjusts his glasses] What information have you been fed and what part of it is actually truth?
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[personal profile] nascensibility 2017-01-06 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[Parts of this story are familiar to her, but Evelyn has to wonder if he's assumed that everyone in residence knows the intricate realpolitik of his world or if he's simply the sort of person to volunteer information about his associations and activities. New Vegas is only known to Evelyn because of her intimate conversations with Dan, the Legion and the NCR still shadowy entities because she can't really know their intentions without knowing them.

He ran off some time after.
]

Yes, that sounds like him.

[With a wide world in front of him and no tether it stands to reason he'd wander again. Circumstances are different here.]

I'm glad you've come here, as awful a thing as that might be to say - but I'm certain Dan will be happy for the company of someone he knows, and I can assure you that the living arrangements are much better than whatever you might find in the Mojave.