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You try to set the events that just happened aside on the ride back to Santa Rosa, but they keep ticking in the back of your mind. It's frustrating when you're just trying to finish your job and all you can do is think. The silence is deafening on the way back.
Still once there there's a small sense of relief being surrounded by your team, and being able to get back to work, to be able to answer some questions about this place you still had.
Turns out, the answers were themselves pretty interesting. Getting into the power plant proper was somewhat tricky, the place had turrets all around it's perimeter and they were all hostile. Best idea you had to keep everything tact was to get some Molotovs, and throw them along with smoke grenades. You really didn't want to find out if those turrets had thermal sight and your smokes didn't mask that. Worked surprisingly well, and with just enough time to get through the external locks. Couldn't preserve those though, not pickable, nothing a ripper and a good angle can't help however.
Moving past the gates and heading inside you find the place in surprisingly good condition. In fact it looks like the place was lived in for some time, not recently by any means but it definitely has the feeling of a home, or a base. That said the signs were also all over the place that they were trapped in here, signs of struggles and violence, food and water containers shot up, blood all over the place. Following the blood you find the corpses of five soldiers down in one of the lower levels. Seems they were the last survivors, everyone else had been killed either by them, each other or starvation. Taking the helmets off you couldn't tell what they died of, but they were definitely not ghouls. None of the corpses in here were.
Tragic, but not surprising given the circumstances. Regardless they weren't going to need the armor, ammo or weapons. You had your team load that all up, after that going over the various systems in the power plant it would seem that it was in a perfectly operable state. The reactor was pretty much dry, with a secondary system keeping everything in a low intensity state for operations. Still the real issue here was simply a matter of chemistry, or at least Jacob tells you that. Taking a few moments to add in the FoF tags of your cell into the turret systems, your brother manages to stumble upon a cache of securitrons stored away in some security room. About 30 of them in total, you had those loaded up as well, if nothing else they'll make nice canon fodder.
The Rest of Santa Rosa didn't have much to offer, some knickknacks, various goods and vices within the stores, a mountain of old US Dollars, and a good supply of old world preservative foods. You had always enjoyed the Salisbury steaks, but you had to admit that they had something of a funny flavor compared to freshly cooked brahmin. Regardless it was all useful in it's own way and was loaded up.
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