Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-5543592-20190430180827/@comment-5583506-20190505212221

SkyrimsShillelagh wrote:

"I got cancer." Tanner said. "And I was going to die, for sure.  But then this man--my mentor, the Boss--showed up.  He took me to New York, where we cured it using FEV, and the rest is history." Tanner said, thinking he had covered the later details of his life by now.

"I can get you anywhere within the Steel Palace, or the city.  If someone tries to stop you, just drop my name.  They'll call me and I'll tell them to leave you be." Qin said. "If you want to interview anyone, I can set those up too." "I didn't", Shanks scoffed. "At least not in the end. West-Tek eggheads were looking for veterans to try their latest fancy scientific gimmicks on. I think they wanted to create some kind of 'super soldiers' to help us fight this losing war. So I signed up, I think. Or maybe I was drafted? Either way, I got together with a couple of other military blokes in some dark, cramped place where they injected all matter of shit into us day in and day out. It was good pay, and I must have thought that I was doing it for my country. Some bullshit nationalistic pride or something like that I'd imagine. I must have been dumb as a stump."

He emptied yet another cup of sake.

"But once you start to feel as if your innards are on fire and you can do nothing but to throw up everything you cram down your throat, that's when you know that whatever shit they pumped into you has started to kick back real good. So by the time I wanted to pull out, they made me read the fine print: there was no leaving until they had gotten the results they wanted."

Another cup went down the hatch.

"So at last came that day of reckoning", he grumbled bitterly. "Bombs were raining like cats and dogs all over the good old US of A, and our little vault of scientific shenanigans was sealed off. I don't remember much from thereon after. It's mostly a blur." He then pointed to his canine facial features. "But whatever they wanted to get out of their weird little project, they certainly succeeded."

Almost certainly clean. Evangeline tasted on the statement over and over in her mind and didn't like the sound of it.

"Anyone that springs to mind as we speak?"