To Utopia, Hell...

[Carthrat]

"Why, through the helpful citizenship of this town, of course," replies Mei-Ling, innocently. "I've never met people more willing to help a stranger."

[Dracos]

The old man sighed a bit a bit, and began to delve into the basics of what a computer is and how to use it.

A couple of hours later, he left her, a little befuddled but having possibly grasped the basics of these strange mechanical devices, to her research.

Dracos

[Dracos]

Re: Darx/Ryder

The temperature, while cold, is not so terrible that it gives them much more than a shiver.

Perhaps though they would be served well to do something besides sit in the desert sands all day.

Dracos

[Carthrat]

Mei-Ling stares at the screen, pondering over exactly what she wants to attempt to look up.

It *seemed* easy.. after a while. But it wasn't natural. As a tool to store information, Mei-Ling felt it wasn't as accessible as a book, where whatever you needed could be accessed by a turn of a page.

With this thing, there was so much.. clicking, and it felt harder to concentrate.

Not to worry. Mei-Ling starts (attempting) to look up information on local history and geography, discerning whatever she can find about the area.

[Dracos]

Starting on local history, she found that from this computer it was mostly secured.  What it did tell is about the exodus from the vault in 2038, ressurrecting the city on the surface with the usage of a GeCK (which was a secured link).  From there, they had discovered that the geography had been seriously altered from the expected records, as if during the exodus from the underground vault, the world had shifted, changing itself, despite the fact that earlier scanning had shown little sign of this.  From here, Vault City had been formed under the leadership of the former vault commander, President Val Sinc (A link here).  Vault City has since been expanding and slowly researching this new face of the world.  Strangely, they've found a number of smaller and larger cities around that do not appear to be vault oriented.

Dracos

[Carthrat]

Mei-Ling bravely decides to multitask, and tries opening.. multiple windows.

It was like having a desk, with paper strewn all over it.

She looks up information on this President person, as well as attempting to locate links on the other nearby cities.

[Dracos]

Ryder/Darx;

You hear the howl of wolves in the distance.

Dracos

[Dexie Oblivion]

Darx looks towards the sound of the howling and growls.

"Great.....just what we need, wolves."

He looks back to Ryda. "You in fighting condition, girl?"

[RyderHakubi]

Nodding as she stands up, Ryda unholsters her gun and twirls it a bit.

"Yeah, I'm ready..."

[Shukuen]

"Sorry," Leets sheepishly whispered, "Forgot about what this place was like."

"I'm checking up on the boss' intercity businesses while I'm travelling."

[Dracos]

In the distance, they could see maybe a half dozen wolves.

Dracos

[Olvelsper]

"Fine, fine. I'll leave it here. I need to check out some things here, so I may as well get myself an extended passport while you work on it. When should I check in on the progress?" Jan asked the engineer.

[Dexie Oblivion]

Darx draws his sword, his devillish grin returning to his face as he unfurls his wings.

"How many do you think you can take, girl?"

[Dracos]

Re: Mei-ling

Opening simply the 'nearby' cities bit gave a map of the local area with several names strewn about it, along with zoom in for more detail, divided into quadrants using Vault City as a center.

To the west, there is New Reno, and some scattered forests and villages preceeding a large desert and a larger city on the other side.  Continuing west of there is a massive mountain chain, listed as unknown.  A bit south of New Reno, New Brunswick can be seen before the map cuts off at a massive 'estimated' area behind a misty barrier.

Continuing around to the south east, running along the misty barrier, there's a large mountain far to the east, with a large city a ways to the north of the mountain.

Moving inland from that point and heading closer to directly east is a series of valleys complete with a large castle and city in the center.  Heading further east is another large city alongside an ocean.

Moving towards the north east, there exists a tremendous forest on the map, followed by what seems to be another large city bordering the ocean.

West of this city, nearly straight north is a larger village followed by relatively barren plains before another city is noted along the edge of north ocean.

Notably, the majority of these are unlabeled, as if they had not actually made real contact with the cities to find out.  The scales are a bit odd, but the farthest of these could be months of travel by foot.

Val Sinc's profile was fairly...bombastically propagandistic.  It detailed her long leadership of the vault and her guidance over the formation of the city.  The woman herself was apparently in her late sixties, thin and with a pretty fierce glare if the picture used was any indication.

Dracos

[Dracos]

Re: Darx

The wolves slowly started moving in, large with grim purpose as they surrounded the cocky duo.

Dracos