Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5543592-20170421205142/@comment-5543592-20170503223932

"Turn that off!" Abel shouted, thinking it was coming from within the building, but his voice drowned out as the noise grew louder. It was like a massive bubblebee had taken flight somewhere in the city.

The noise grew so loud it was deafening, making people having to shout over it to be heard. One of the desks began to rattle, and a mug near the edge fell of and shattered, spilling coffee out onto the floor.

Abruptly, it began to fade a tad, like someone had tuned it back, enough to make speech audible again.

"Chief!  You'd better hear this." The comm officer said, turning around in his chair, pulling his headset off and turning up the volume on the radio so that it could be heard throughout the entire room.

A voice spoke from the radio. The speaker's tone was deep and clear, giving him a menacing a quality that made each world he said sound threatening:

“Citizens of the Royal Wasteland. I am Elder Christian Brosch, senior officer and commander of the Brotherhood of Steel. The noise that currently fills your ears and rattles your bones is the  multi-cylindered engine of our recently constructed flying warship, armed with explosive ordnance and .50 caliber machine guns. It is currently en route to Seattle."

No one spoke, Abel looked around in silence at the various Causers, who were all shocked at this news.

“Long have we existed alongside you. We have not been at peace, but neither have we been your enemies. Today that ends. Transgressions against us, taken by your beloved Cause, have gone too far. Your ‘protectors’ ambushed one of our outposts and murdered several Brotherhood operatives unprovoked. This act of senseless violence is unacceptable and will not be tolerated. We will respond with quick and rapid force, until the threat the Cause or any other dissidents pose is eliminated. To those that would seek to undermine our mission—do not, or retribution will be swift and terrible. In the coming days, when you are seeking answers and wonder with whom the blame lies, look to the Cause, for it because of their hubris you will suffer. The Brotherhood does not know mercy.”

Not a single soul moved.

"What the hell was that?  Attacking their outpost?" Abel wondered aloud, he turned, looking to the Outsiders. "You guys know anything about this?"

He wasn't accusing them, but was so genuinely miffed he was just asking the question for the sake of asking.

The Outsiders, of course, had a pretty good idea of who attacked that outpost.