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You let Cyrus answer those questions while you finish your drink. Damn that’s some good stuff. He takes a much more relaxed stance now, seemingly glad to have the worst behind him.
“I’ll answer that second question first. For one, I couldn’t exactly walk up to you and confess my secrets. I wasn’t sure your exact motivations, and I am still here at the behest of the Salvatores, even if I have ulterior motives. I also wanted to see the capabilities of this infant state. While I admit your intelligence and law enforcement apparatus could use work, you understand the only language the wasteland speaks. Violence. Your coordinated strike on my men and properties speak of an effective central government and a ruler not afraid of taking drastic action. I would also be lying if I said I did not see shades of the Enclave in how the soldiers carry themselves.”
Mr. Long has a look of pride on his face, his smile reminiscent of a grandfather remembering his glory years.
“But I’ve blathered on long enough. The Salvatores are a crime family based in New Reno, specializing in the illegal production and selling of energy weapons. It doesn’t take a genius to see where this expertise came from originally, The Salvatores, all too eager to gain an advantage over the other families, happily welcomed in Enclave stragglers as the NCR and Brotherhood exterminated us. From there, us vagabonds and castaways fell into three groups. Some liked the life of crime and were fully absorbed into the Salvatores, forgetting their past. Others became jaded and bitter and wished to continue the fight against the NCR. These members were forced out and headed East, perhaps out to Chicago or the East Coast. Finally, there formed a third group which I consider a part of. We haven’t forgotten what we fought and died for, but realized that the Enclave in its present form could not survive. What we had done, what the wasteland thought of us….we needed a fresh start. So we bided our time, waiting for, well, you.”
[That answers most of my questions, but it doesn’t actually answer the only one which matters. Why are we here, really?]
Long takes a deep breath, steadying himself.
“My colleagues and I think this is the best chance we have to right the wrongs of the past and build an alternative to the Brotherhood, Legion or NCR. We don’t wish to be interlopers, we just want an opportunity to redeem ourselves.”
And there it is, what remains of the Enclave on the West Coast has asked to move in.
>Any questions you have for Cyrus Long? Will give an option for the ask in another post
