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New California Dreaming - Part XXIV The story continues... ---------- NEW CALIFORNIA DREAMING - PART XXIV Paradise Falls – Columbia Commonwealth – July 2277 ‘So I’m really hoping that thing there isn’t one of those “Behemoths” you were talking about before’ Coyle remarked to Doc...

Extremely unlikely. The NCR has maybe ten percent at most of the population of California before the war, they just couldn't use up the quantity of metal that could be salvaged from the wreckage of the old cities. Look at it this way, Los Angeles City Hall alone contains eight thousand tons...

There should really be an abundance of steel logically what with all the old cars, girders etc etc they could just salvage from cities flattened in the Great War. As for the uniform material cotton is grown in California so that could be it (it's a thirsty crop though which might help...

The story continues... ---------- NEW CALIFORNIA DREAMING - PART XXIII Germantown – Columbia Commonwealth – July 2277 At point-blank range a long burst of 10mm from the MP9 in Coyle’s right hand turned the head of the super-mutant it was pressed against into a bloody mush of brains...

The story continues... ---------- NEW CALIFORNIA DREAMING - PART XXII Wheaton Armoury – Columbia Commonwealth – July 2277 ‘Exactly how many unexploded atomic bombs are scattered around here anyway?’ Coyle wanted to know as Doc Hoff told him about the next location his caravan passed...

The story continues ---------- NEW CALIFORNIA DREAMING - PART XXI Canterbury Commons – Columbia Commonwealth – July 2277 ‘The way I figure it, tagging along with the trade caravans is the safest way to travel around and meet people’ Coyle told Allison and Dreamer as they looked...

It's not finished, I've just been back writing one of my other stories for the last few weeks. And it is already over 100,000 words long you know. :wink: I've got to say that "better than the FO3 storyline" is damning with faint praise. :P

Re: Hah In a world of fission batteries and fusion cells, the sign having it's own internal power-source isn't exactly difficult to imagine. Still looks bloody silly though. :P

The story continues... ---------- NEW CALIFORNIA DREAMING - PART XX Canterbury Commons – Columbia Commonwealth – July 2277 Coyle woke up lying on his side on a bed in an unfamiliar room facing the window and there was a naked girl spooning up to his back. It was in fact the same...

The story continues... ---------- NEW CALIFORNIA DREAMING - PART XIX Friendship Heights Station – Columbia Commonwealth – June 2277 Back before the DC trading network began its slow implosion quite a lot of business had passed through Friendship Heights on its way to Canterbury...

The story continues... --------- NEW CALIFORNIA DREAMING - PART XVIII Metro Central Station – Columbia Commonwealth – June 2277 Coyle stepped over the body of the last of the feral ghouls which had screeched and attacked as soon as they spotted the three interlopers in their...

No, but maybe this should: PLEASE NOTE THIS WORKS BEST IF YOU IMAGINE IT'S BEING SUNG ON THE STAGE OF THE ACES IN NEW VEGAS BY AN NCR COP, A TRIBAL, A RANGER, A POWDER GANGER AND A LEGION CENTURION... Where can you find pleasure Search the wastes for treasure Discard most technology...

The annoying thing to me is that they could have put in an explanation but didn't. That, along with many other annoyances which needed addressing, is one of the reasons I started writing New California Dreaming. Let's take DC for example. The reason why it's like the way it is is because the...

The story continues... ---------- NEW CALIFORNIA DREAMING -PART XVII Museum of American History – Columbia Commonwealth – June 2277 ‘Okay, I can totally see the ironic humour of it’ Coyle conceded, picking up his beer again from the bar, ‘but I still think that if you’re trying to...

The story continues... --------- NEW CALIFORNIA DREAMING - PART XVI Seward Square District – Columbia Commonwealth – June 2277 ‘I think I’m detecting a theme here’ Coyle remarked as they found yet another unit insignia painted on a wall. The crossed swords over a lucky four-leaf...