#except then they dont bc its like. recountings of shit that happened like a 100+ years ago

[corvidexoskeleton]

@rockshortage​ Ngl, that's extremely funny

As you said yourself, I'm not sure that would work, but it is hilarious to think about. Like, she stumbles across the house early on during her work with the minutemen, before she thinks to confront the new raider gang amassing out west. So she decides to head out and see what she can find, and while there's a surprising amount of the actual house left, it's still very much trashed. But it's weird, though, because clearly no one has tried to build it back up or live there, but there's definitely signs of activity. Maybe not recent actively, but activity nonetheless

So she goes down into the basement, and things are messy, as expected, but it's all wrong. It's not as dusty or filthy as she expected, it looks like someone has cleaned it up. And her things aren't where they should be, either. A lot of it is stuffed into a corner or a closet, pushed out of the way, but there's a lot of new stuff, too, stuff she's never seen before. There's clothes, handmade equipment, tools, parts, and a lot of journals, so she figures that someone just decided to squat there for a while. But it doesn't look like they've been there in a while, so who's to fucking say how long they've been gone

So she decides to flip through some of the journals to get a clue, and whether or not she should be worried about the person coming back, and surprise surprise, everything is in german. Which, when she thinks about it, is kind of weird, because what are the chances of someone in the commonwealth being able to speak a language that’s primarily spoken in a completely different part of the world? Maybe they’re descended from people who speak it? Or maybe the journals are way older than they look? Maybe the person squatting in her house was a ghoul? Who knows

But she keeps an eye on the place in case they do show back up. And if she happens to come across either someone who can speak it, or something that would help her translate them, then she’ll see if she can when she gets a chance, because who the fuck thought they could just get away with squatting in her house? And how the hell did they manage to get the fucking basement open, anyways? The lock wasn’t broken, so maybe they just guessed the combination? And the fact that they didn’t just... throw all of her shit out or trash the place is doubly confusing, so maybe the weird journals will yield some answers