Chapter 260 - Unrequested Changes

He continues examining his body, eventually noticing that he had another set of surgical scars in the middle of his back, on top of his spine. Perhaps the Spores had managed to infect the spinal fluids?... All his theories were going nowhere though due to the fact he was still clearly infected.

His new arm and the black veins showed that he was still infested with the things... He looks at his status to try and see if something had changed.​​

Afton Parker

Title : [Executioner of the Wastes], [Free Sheriff], [Fiend's Fiend]

Level : 39

S.P.E.C.I.A.L :

Strength : 9

Perception : 8

Endurance : 8

Charisma : 4

Intelligence : 6

Agility : 10

Luck : 4

Skills :

Barter : 21

Energy Weapons : 100

Explosives : 84

Guns : 100

Lockpick : 10

Medicine : 100

Melee Weapons : 100

Repair : 100

Science : 100

Sneak : 100

Speech : 100

Survival : 30

Unarmed : 100

Mutations :

[Beauveria mordicana symbioticca] : A mutated strain of a very deadly and infectious fungus. Makes possessor immune to all diseases and poisons, grants +1 End, grants regenerative abilities.

[Beauveria mordicana armamini] : Your right arm has regrown and become stronger than before! +4 DT against damage dealt towards the arm and +20% resistance against being crippled.

Perks :

[Trigger Discipline], [Heavy Handed], [Rapid Reload], [Torture Techniques], [Educated], [John Wick Style], [Toughness], [Stonewall], [Sniper], [Bug Stomper], [Lord Death v3], [Spies Guise], [Quick Draw], [Adamantium Skeleton], [Ranger Tactics], [Ranger Targeting], [Ranger Awareness], [Mechanicus], [Jury Rigging], [SuperHot Block], [Solar Powered], [Miracle Maker], [Unnerving Presence], [Living Anatomy], [Agility Implant], [Masterful Movement], [Blur], [Uncivilized Weapon], [Rad Absorbtion], [Tough Guy], [Nuclear Friendly], [Explorer], [Eureka!], [Atomic!], [Grit], [Alertness], [Abominable v2], [Fight the Power!]

Companion Perks :

[Old Wisdom]

[Spotter]

[Persistent Escapee]

Afton skims through the status so fast he almost misses the new feature... Mutations. [Beauveria mordicana symbioticca]? He had no idea how a new strain had been created, nor if it was natural or artificial. He didn't believe himself lucky enough for the fungus that was tearing his body apart to suddenly mutate and become symbiotic. No, an outside influence must've occurred.

Honestly, he didn't know what to think about it... For one, he was now definitely superhuman, he even had a new arm to prove it...

He paces around the room for a couple minutes, wringing his mind of what he should do... He decides, before anything that he should test the toughness of his new limb.

He pulls out a dagger from the storage unit and taps the bark-side of his arm with the face of the knife. He can feel it, meaning the bark had some kind of sensory organ connected to it... He tries to make a light cut into it, but finds the bark is tough enough to resist it... It reminded him of the roots that'd been in Vault 22 and how tough they had been.

He stabs into his arm harder this time, managing to pierce the tip of the blade through the bark, drawing a drop of thick, vicious, black blood. It hurt, but not as much as he'd expect.

Again, he tries the same on the underside of the arm where the green leather-like skin was. Again, it was significantly more difficult to cut into it, add his new level of endurance and [Toughness] Perk and Afton found that he'd become pretty durable.

He stops the self-harm for a moment and watches as the wounds close themselves before his vary eyes. Though, this was something Afton was still wary about... The fungus had regrown his arm and made it more plant-like... Would that mean any damage he takes would allow the fungus to claim more and more of his body?

He shakes his head, the system didn't detail any effect like that, so unless he had proof of it he'd stay silent on the matter.

Having finished gawking at himself, he stretches his body and put his clothes back on, afterwards layering the recon armour on over that. He decides not to take all of his equipment from here, the place itself looks pretty safe, and he'd prefer to not lug around all his gear if he didn't need to.

He slings his Anti-Material rifle over his shoulder, holsters That Gun, Lucky, and places the Fallen Ranger Sequoia in his Deathclaw leather bag just in case he needed it... He was still unsure whether or not this was an NCR medical facility or not.

He packs some medical and survival supplies as well, making sure to be prepared for anything that may happen... To be honest, he was somewhat giddy to have two hands again... Now he'd be able to kick ass and chew bubblegum without reloading like, well, a cripple.

He leaves the bedroom but his determination to find out where he is was immediately sidetracked by the pieces of advanced technology dotted about. There was a holographic map on the wall detailing some sort of facility he'd never heard of.

In the middle of the room was a large map, though he wasn't really sure what it was trying to communicate. At the side was an Auto-Doc, one of the most advanced pieces of tech you could find in the Wasteland.

In the next room he saw some kind of farm? Troughs of dirt with nothing growing in them were laid around the place, as if someone had forgotten to plant anything. Shaking his head, he returns to the main room and spots three exits... One leading to the balcony, one to someplace called the Think Tank, and the last leading to the Big MT...

Deciding to see what the region he was currently in looked like he headed to the balcony. The many flights of stairs were somewhat annoying, but he eventually reached the top... And what he saw definitely surprised him.

The balcony itself was surrounded by an energy field, probably to prevent someone from jumping off. But that simple fact that such advanced, never-seen-before technology was used in such a way baffled him.

Shaking his head and deciding to question it later, he looked over the balcony on the region below... He was currently at the highest point around and saw that the facility he'd seen on the map was huge.

The whole place was inside some kind of huge crater, but that wasn't the only thing that caught his eye... No, that would be the mechanical looking pylons that surrounded the facility. They almost looked like security measures of a prison, attempting to keep things in, and other things out.