Date Friday, November 1st, 2261

  Two months ter.

  Bace again at the Genesis Foundry, I found myself taking a short breather from my workout.

  Man, I've been hard at work these st couple of months and the progress I've made really shows it.

  Pulling up my stats, I couldn't be any happier looking at all the increases my stats have undergone in this short period. Throwing that to the bay mind, I began thinking about the other areas that have experienced improvement.

  Besides, my stats steadily increasing, the robots and I got that firing range built we'd been strug for some time in the mine. With its pletion, I finally put the many ons I manufactured for pops and father-in-w through a multitude of trials to ehat they'll be more than satisfied with this final shipment. Guess Alice, Bel, and I will be having a range day... might as well call gramps and have him e over too. I'm sure he'll enjoy letting off some steam by firing off a bit of lead de.

  Going bay progress, I've been keeping ara close eye on my All Element Core Teique to see if any issues would pop up with it. But nothing has occurred, thus I suppose it's time I impart the magical teique unto Alice as well as all the magical knowledge I've acquired through my magic skill rising. That girl is sure to be more than a little stoked when I give her the news since she has asked more than a few times about how things were ing along, so...

  Adding to the magical stuff that cross neckihat my girl gifted me ended up being something pretty amazing. If it wasn't for me taking the mage css, I doubt I would've discovered its effects until much ter.

  | A Runic Cross Neckce Of Prote |Ability: Bubble ShieldCss: LightWeight: 0.15Value: 100,000,000Item Description: A magical cross of prote from a long dead civilization. This cross is inscribed with magical runes of prote and when the wearer's life is in dahe cross will activate and enclose its wearer in a bubble shield that will protect them from harm. The bubble shield provide a prote of 500 DT for 3 minutes before it is depleted and requires 24 hours to recharge.

  The effects are holy pretty busted. I'm actually half tempted to start pursuing magic right this sed, just so I replicate it and give eae of my family members and friends an item of prote. Aside from that, because of this discovery, it got my creative juices flowing and got me thinking about the possibility of bining magic with teology.

  I already envision myself adding and stag all sorts of entments onto a heavily armored suit of power armor. It would be pretty sick to triy robots with it too. However, as useful as this piece of jewelry is and all those ideas of my sound, my pte is already more than full enough, hence I'll have to dey those projects until ter, unfortunately. heless, I 't wait for that day to e. I will certainly see a huge power up wheime es.

  Moving on from magic to the skill books I've accumuted. So I was going to spend them, but on sed thought, I decided to dey it for a couple of reasons. One, I've been maki progress in all of my skills, generally, so why increase that difficulty even a smidge when it's totally unnecessary. And two, why spend them when I just wait till it's time to depart from the uy. It probably won't make that big of a difference, but every little bit of advantage I eke out wherever I is worth it in my book.

  Other than the progress I've been making alongside Alid her little sister, I've been spending a bit more time retly with my two buddies, Big Tom and the little genius Bob. The two of them both appear to have good characters and with how things are progressing, I've been thinking more and more about adding them to my little group, I got going on over here.

  It would be o have a couple more people to rely on, but since I'm still not 100% sure as of yet, I'll tio monitor ahem out. Hopefully, I add them to my group ahe entity I will establish years down the road.

  That is about all I've aplished these previous two months. The only other thing of some note was I did try to acquire my own means of transportation. However, I haven't had any lu that front thus far, so I'll o put a bit more work into getting mom and dad on board with that idea. That said, it shouldn't take me too much loo make it happen.

  Alright, I've done enough resting and thinking. Time to return to hitting the weights and once I'm finished, I'll give the old man a ring ahat on shipme off and on its way and collect my payment.

  ...

  Phew, that's the st rep of my workout.

  With my extensive all enpassing workout pleted, I hit the showers before moving to the pnning aion area of the facility to check up on the sisters.

  ing in through the door, I asked Alid Bel how they were doing. "How are you guys making out?"

  "I'm doing just fine."

  "Me too." Bel answered happily, clearly enjoying whatever she had been reading about moments prior to me arriving.

  "How'd your training and workout go, Dom?" Aliquired sweetly.

  "Pretty good. I've seen another slight improvement across the board."

  We chit chatted for a bit following that, aually I gave gramps a call.

  "Hey gramps we're going to have lund ter shoot some guns at the retly pleted firing range. You want to join us?"

  "Sure kid, I'll be right over."

  Ending the call quickly with the old wasteeran, I turo my two panions and asked. "Alright, gramps will be here shortly. What do you guys want to eat?"

  "I'll have whatever you feel like having, dear."

  "And you Bel?"

  "... I'm happy with whatever we make, big brother."

  "Okay, we'll just throw together a smasbord then."

  No one having any clear desire for anything in particur. The three of us proceeded to the kit and got to work on preparing lunch for ourselves and my grandpa John, who will be arriving here soon enough. Opting for dishes that were easy and quiake, we speedily had everything whipped up in no time and not long after that, the old man showed up. So, with everyohered, we sat down and had a pleasant lunch.

  ...

  "That was a fantastic meal. Thanks for that youngins."

  "No problem, gramps. I'm always happy to have you join us. You guys ready to head off to the range, or do we want to take a short break?"

  "No, I'm ready to go shoot some steel." The old man answered.

  Alid Bel looked at each other before responding at the same time. "We're ready as well."

  "Alright the's go have some fun." I said st.

  Leaving the mess we produced from our meal for my ever-increasing number of robots to up, we sped out of the pnning aion area. From there we headed for the armory, where we started gathering the ons we would be testing out at the range. Rapidly preparing everything we would need for this activity, we departed from the armory with a squad of multibots in tow carrying loads of arms.

  Walking through the spacious gray crete halls of the Genesis Foundry, we he giant doors that led into the miunnels. But instead of going through them, we four walked a ways away from them and headed down a newly structed hallway located a couple hundred feet or so aroceeding down that freshly built hall, we came upon our destination a inside.

  What came into view as we entered was a rge and very long shooting rahat was a hundred feet wide and 1,000 meters long. While the group was admiring the sight of the new addon, I had the robots begin ying out the arsenal across the many rge metal tables he shooting stations.

  | A-50 Anti-Material Rifle |Damage: 120DPS: VariableFire rate: Bolt ACapacity: 10Reload: 2.5Weight: 22Css: HeavyAmmo Type: .50 BMGValue: 150,000Attats: 8x ScopeDescription: A rge 50 caliber bolt a anti material rifle built to stop lightly armored vehicles and punch holes in armored targets.

  | AALP-3 Laser Pistol |Damage: 21DPS: VariableWeight: 3.5Css: LightValue: 9,500Description: A ser pistol that was developed and sold across the former uates a few years before atomiihition.

  | AALR-6 Laser Rifle |Damage: 30DPS: VariableFire rate: Semi-AutomaticCapacity: 50Reload: 2.5Weight: 8Css: MediumValue: 25,000Description: The AALR-6 Laser Rifle is a ser rifle developed for military and police use by the Ameri Atomiergy corporation and due to its popurity among those two groups it was then ter sold to the civilian market as well, though it was quite a bit pricier than pared to its ventional ballistic brethren.

  | AAGL-5 Gatling Laser |Damage: 30DPS: 2,000Fire rate: 4,000Weight: 70Css: HeavyValue: 250,000Description: The APGL-5 Gatling Laser is a five barreled gatlihat was designed and manufactured by the Ameri Atomiergy corporation for the U.S. military.

  | AK-108 |Damage: 30DPS: 450Fire rate: 900Capacity: 30, 60, 100Reload: 2.7Weight: 8Css: MediumAmmo Type: 5.56x45mmValue: 17,450Item Description: The AK-108 is an AK style assault rifle developed with a well-banced recoil system in mind to eliminate felt recoil and to allow for trolled accurate, rapid fire. This particur model take all standard 5.55 STANAG magazines.

  | AKM |Damage: 42DPS: 420Fire rate: 600Capacity: 30, 40, 60, 75Reload: 3Weight: 7.5Css: MediumAmmo Type: 7.62x39mmValue: 12,450Item Description: A revolutionary rifle developed in the old world many years ago by the defunct Soviet Union.

  | CA12 bat Shotgun |Damage: 10x8DPS: VariableFire rate: Semi-AutomaticCapacity: 12Reload: 3Weight: 8Css: MediumAmmo Type: 12 Gauge Shotgun ShellValue: 11,650Item Description: A rge capacity 12 gauge shotgun with wood furniture that was designed by the pany Capital Arms as a home defense on but was then ter adopted and used extensively by the U.S. armed forces as well as the various police forces around the U.S. before nuclear Armageddoo it being a very reliable on and having a paratively rger magazio other shotguns on the market.

  | bat Knife |Damage: 15DPS: VariableWeight: 1Css: LightValue: 500Description: A standard 8-inch long hardeeel bat knife.

  | F-60 Fmethrower |Damage: 15 + 8 for 20 sedsDPS: VariableFire rate: 7Capacity: 100Reload: 5.5Weight: 15Css: HeavyAmmo Type: Fmethrower FuelValue: 9,600Item Description: A standard military-issue fmethrower with a small tank of propelnt and fuel attached to the underside of the on. The on also has a port towards the rear of the on that allows the attat of a fuel and propelnt pack.

  | HK416 |Damage: 30DPS: 425Fire rate: 850Capacity: 30, 60, 100Reload: 2.7Weight: 8.5Css: MediumAmmo Type: 5.56x45mmValue: 14,600Item Description: A well built AR-15 style rifle used by many militaries and special operation units across the world years ago.

  | M2 Browning Mae Gun |Damage: 120DPS: 1,200Fire rate: 600Capacity: 100Reload: 6Weight: 84Css: HeavyAmmo Type: .50 BMGValue: 215,000Item Description: A heavy mae gun that's been serving the former U.S. military sihe sed world war.

  | M56 Minigun |Damage: 30DPS: 2,000Fire rate: 4,000Capacity: 500, 1,000Reload: 7Weight: 65Css: HeavyAmmo Type: 5.56x45mmValue: 100,000Attats: Heavy on SlingDescription: A standard military issue 6-barreled 5.56mm gatling gun that excels at taking out and dispatg unarmored targets.

  | M76 Minigun |Damage: 50DPS: 3,333Fire rate: 4,000Capacity: 500, 1,000Reload: 7.5Weight: 80Css: HeavyAmmo Type: 7.62x51mmValue: 149,000Attats: Heavy on SlingDescription: A standard military issue 6-barreled 7.62mm gatling gun that excels at taking out and dispatg unarmored and somewhat armored targets.

  | M9renade |Damage: 100Weight: 1Css: LightValue: 250Item Description: An ordinary and very mentation grehat is mostly green and has a pin that o be pulled to arm it.

  | TBT Sniper Rifle |Damage: 53DPS: VariableFire rate: Semi-AutomaticCapacity: 10Reload: 3Weight: 10Css: MediumAmmo Type: 7.62x51mmValue: 27,000Item Description: A lightweight semi-automatic 7.62x51mm sniper rifle that usually es mounted with a 1-6x magnification scope. The design also features a threaded barrel to allow the mounting of various muzzle devices.

  | Z-2 Psma Rifle |Damage: 65DPS: VariableFire rate: Semi-AutomaticCapacity: 30Reload: 2.5Weight: 8Css: MediumValue: 48,000Description: The Z-2 Psma Rifle was an energy on that was being developed for the military by the Ameri Atomiergy corporation. The new energy on was distributed across the U.S. military shortly before the end came.

  "Okay, Alice, Gramps, you two start. I'll take care of Bel and show her the ropes sihis is her first time."

  "Sure." The old man said before wandering off with an A-50 Anti-Material Rifle in hand.

  "You wao help, Dom?"

  "If you want." I respoo Alice. before she joined Bel and I.

  She and I then introduced her little sister to the world of firearms. She was somewhat scared in the beginning due to the loud hey produced. But she quickly got used to them and holy began to get a little gun crazy with all the firearms she could handle, which were mainly the ohat were stationary on mounts. This impromptu range day went on for the couple of hours, with all four of us having a grand ole time for ourselves letting off steam.

  "Looks like we're out of ammo finally." I ented aloud.

  "It would seem so." Bel followed up, sounding a little sad aed.

  Uh-oh, I think I might've awakened something ihat should've bee buried... I'm sure it'll be fine.

  Whilst I was thinking about Bel's newly gained i in ons, Alice asked her sister in her pleasant voice. "Did you enjoy your time Bel?"

  "Nn, I wish it hadn't ehough."

  "Well, all things must e to an end at some point, especially the fun kind, but we'll have another range day before you know it."

  "Really???" She asked her big sis excitedly with bright expet eyes.

  "Of course."

  "Yay, I 't wait."

  The four of us versed before I sent my three patriots back along with my robots, whoing to deliver the ons to the loading area of the facility while I began handling business. Calling up dad, I informed him that I had everything prepared and once he was told I added my father-in-w Alice's and Bel's dad to the call and gave him the down low. The three of us then arrahe transport of the arms along with the payment and the mihat was taken care of, I got off the phone and rejoined my grandpa John and the two girls who would hold a ton of power in my anization one day.

  Swiftly rejoining them, I asked gramps if he could help me out with persuading my parents into helpi my very own means of transportation.

  "Yeah, that'll be no problem, Dom. I'll talk to them when I bring you three home."

  "Thanks, gramps. I appreciate it."

  The rest of the day ent like it used to be spent previously, when the old mao apany us all the time. It was holy nice having him around again.

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