"I'll take your word for it. You know them better than I do," says Ellen.
She nods at Voodoo's comment. "This is an in-and-out survey mission to get as much of the grounds mapped out as physically possible," she says. "I'll be wearing my father's old Pip-Boy so I don't have to stop to do any of the mapping. As nice as it would be to have things to bring back, that's not the mission objective, so I'm going to be traveling quickly- makes it easier to avoid the robots and any security emplacements on the buildings. About the only places I'm likely to stop, assuming they've still got structural integrity and the robots aren't too close on my tail, are here in the corporate offices and here in R&D. RobCo's plant in the Capital Wasteland still had a semi-viable mainframe that we were able to pull data off, so the Order of the Quill sent me with a couple of hardware widgets to attach in the event that any of the central computers still had power. The widgets can transmit to our terminal here, so I only need enough time in those areas to persuade a terminal to activate and accept the widget before moving on."
Rustling through some more papers, she comes up with another set of sketches. "Our contact from the alien ship gave us as much as she could in terms of robot specs. Turned out very handy, no pun intended. Unfortunately she was an accounting executive, rather than a manufacturing one, but... well, she knew most of the products. Including the robobrains, which... can I ask you a favor? If there's more than one kind of 'bot closing on my position, and one of them is a robobrain, put the robobrain down first. As hard as you can. And note how many of them you kill if you can manage it, I'd appreciate tha."
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She nods at Voodoo's comment. "This is an in-and-out survey mission to get as much of the grounds mapped out as physically possible," she says. "I'll be wearing my father's old Pip-Boy so I don't have to stop to do any of the mapping. As nice as it would be to have things to bring back, that's not the mission objective, so I'm going to be traveling quickly- makes it easier to avoid the robots and any security emplacements on the buildings. About the only places I'm likely to stop, assuming they've still got structural integrity and the robots aren't too close on my tail, are here in the corporate offices and here in R&D. RobCo's plant in the Capital Wasteland still had a semi-viable mainframe that we were able to pull data off, so the Order of the Quill sent me with a couple of hardware widgets to attach in the event that any of the central computers still had power. The widgets can transmit to our terminal here, so I only need enough time in those areas to persuade a terminal to activate and accept the widget before moving on."
Rustling through some more papers, she comes up with another set of sketches. "Our contact from the alien ship gave us as much as she could in terms of robot specs. Turned out very handy, no pun intended. Unfortunately she was an accounting executive, rather than a manufacturing one, but... well, she knew most of the products. Including the robobrains, which... can I ask you a favor? If there's more than one kind of 'bot closing on my position, and one of them is a robobrain, put the robobrain down first. As hard as you can. And note how many of them you kill if you can manage it, I'd appreciate tha."