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Chapter 3: Making Gains

  Nine years ter.

  Whilst I was rexing on my fy bed with my hands resting behind my head, I started to think of the st nine years.

  Hmm, it's been a minute since I've gone over what I've aplished and man, have I made a ton ress these st nine years. Let me start off by cheg my S.P.E.C.I.A.L. book to see how I've been doing as of te.

  Reag under my pillow, I pulled out my precious S.P.E.C.I.A.L. book that I've held onto for all these years and proceeded to open it. A split sed ter, a holographic s appeared within my vision, dispying my S.P.E.C.I.A.L.s that have progressed a det bit i few years.

  | S.P.E.C.I.A.L. |Strength: 5Perception: 10Endurance: 11Charisma: 5Intelligence: 13Agility: 4Luck: 7

  0 Points Left

  Yeah, not bad, I've made a pretty det gain of 9 S.P.E.C.I.A.L. points over a period of 9 years. Although, most of the gains came from the st few years, but still not too bad overall for not being able to get araining in food portion of those years.

  Now that I've had a look at my increased S.P.E.C.I.A.L.s let me go over what I've aplished and what I'm capable of as well as some of my body's measurements.

  Beginning with my measurements, I now stand at 5 foot 5 inches or 1.65 meters currently and weigh about 150 pounds or around 68 kilograms, give or take. As for my strength, I'm now able to curl 132 pounds and easily dip my own body weight for reps. My bench press is sitting at 224 and I'm back up to doing 50-pound dumbbell shrugs like I was in my previous life.

  I remember before I started going to the gym I had to get permission from dad and oh god did that take forever. But my old man could only withstand my teary-eyed look for so long before he caved eventually and the day that he did, I started going to the vault gym the very day and haven't stopped since.

  Though when I first started hitting the gym, the other vault residents thought I was lost or were asking each other why such a young kid was there. However, they quickly got used to me once I expio a few of them that I just enjoyed exerg alifting on top of seeihere all the time.

  As time went on and I started putting on a det amount of muscle as well as leaning out I became quite the spectacle in the vault dweller gym that I started to draw a few eyes every time I went, especially from some of the younger female residents. There were also a couple of younger guys eyeing me up as well, which reminded me of my previous life when I used to go out to clubs with my buddies and I would get hit o up by the occasional dude.

  I even had an i where a weird 20-something female vault resident tried to grab me inappropriately while I was at the gym ter on in the evening. Where not many people were watg nor paying attention unfortunately for her, I quickly intercepted her hands and shut her down by going off on her and threatening to sick my uncle officer Gomez on her, who has basically bey uncle over these st few years.

  The instant she heard me mention my uncle Gomez, her face turned a bit pale and once I was doelling her off, I let go of her hands before she scurried away quickly, almost fleeing, which I found to be a bit odd. I guess uncle Gomez has a bit of a reputation.

  Returning to my measurements before I got sidetracked, I've made other strength gains besides those across a multitude of other weighted exercises. But I think I've listed enough for now otherwise I'll be c every little thing which isn't really necessary, so tinuing on.

  I wao start hormones or peds to boost my progress but I haven't yet because it could be very problematiany different reasons, though the main one is my body has yet to fully mature. That aside, I have had access to stimpaks thanks to my dad being both a doctor and a researcher and a pretty high up o that.

  So that has been a signifit tributing factor to my gains, along with my rger intake of food to fuel my training and my increased endurahat has accelerated my body's recovery speed massively pared to a normal individual. With my strength pretty much covered at this point, I'll move on to my perceptio.

  Where to begin... I suppose I start there. I feel like the range I detect others has increased a bit, but not too much because I find it to be extremely tedious to train with my currehods. Which is basically me just sitting with my eyes closed while I focus oing the presence of passing vault dwellers going by my home in the hallways right outside of my room.

  Sitting there with my eyes closed for extended periods of time requires a shit load of patieny part that I don't necessarily have for that specific activity most days, hence why I haven't made any substantial progress in it. It's also one of those S.P.E.C.I.A.L.s that progresses at a slower rate, so it has that w against it too.

  Because of those problems, I only ever really find myself training it when I'm rexing at home or before I fall asleep in my bed at night, whi reality isn't really all that much time. I will definitely have to find a better way to train it iure because the way I'm training it right now just isn't all that effective.

  And if I could start increasing my perception stat, it should increase the range I detect different things by a det amount. So if I improve the range on my pseudo perception field enough, it should prevent me from walking into any dangerous situations out in the wastend where there are plenty of dangers located around every er. That sort of ability would be incredibly useful.

  Okay, that's enough about perception onto enduranow.

  This one I'm not really all that surprised about going up because I've been grinding my balls off. As a result of it increasing, I noticed my body has undergone a few ges since my endurance had gone up to 11. ges like my body being tougher, my overall stamina basically doubling, and my sleep being halved.

  I've also noticed my pores have basically bee so small that a normal person 't really see them, and my skio be more durable as well as more beautiful. Or at least that's what the older women arouell me while going on about how they wished they had skin as nice as mine.

  When this increase happened and I eventually noticed these ges, I decided to perform a few tests on my body to test out its new durability. What I discovered from these tests was that my skin's durability had increased so much that a knife barely cause any real damage to it.

  heless, that was only to a point and the sed I surpassed that point and applied enough pressure, the kill pierced my skin. However, unlike before, it met a ton of resistance from the yers underh. Upon disc that, I applied more pressure to the knife, causing it to sli deeper but only a slight bit more. After that, it just stopped cutting any further no matter how much strength I exerted, which was nice sihat was the point where I started to bleed.

  That new durability of mine will certainly be very useful in the days to e. Being able t off kacks certainly does sound nice. And since my body's ability to stop damage is already this strong, I only imagine how much stro will be once my enduraarts increasing rapidly when I begin using hormones, peds, etc.

  tinuing on down the list. Well, there's not really anything to say regarding charisma. Maybe it'll go up 1 by the time I leave the vault, or maybe not.

  So I'll just tio Intelligence, which has improved somewhat since I've been sug up as muowledge as possible by helping dad with his research, providing medical treatment to our fellow vault dwellers, and making visits to the vault library nearly every day of the week.

  The library they have down here in vault 101 is something else. That pce is absolutely gargantuan and has the rgest assortment of books I've seen that cover innumerable topics. Ranging from general robotics to how to run and build nuclear power pnts to stuff as basic as ing radioactive water and turning it into purified drinking water. But those are only a few of the topics I've read about and explored so far.

  And seeing how I've only mao gh a third of the library at this time, I still got plenty left to learn and absorb.

  Due to that all-enpassiion, I've been able to learn a ton from my daily trips bad forth.

  Because of all that time I spent in the library, it has given me some new ideas and influenced my pns. Such as ging my initial pns to leave the vault early to take trol of the RobCo facility to the east so I build up a robot army. And ohink I have a det amount of robots, I'm going to make a move on the VSS Facility that houses a rge untouched armory with a set of T-51 Power Armor and a suit of ese Stealth Armor.

  Both of which would do wonders frading my bat capabilities, and if I leave the vault early enough, I could get to and loot the VSS Facility way before the outcasts leave the brotherhood of steel to form their own fa and take over the facility. Which would be one less problem for me to have to deal with iure.

  I could also try reverse engineering the ese Stealth Armor teology to be used on power armor in jun with stealth boy teology. Having access to that sort of tech should allow me to take over Raven Rock, the military instaltion I very much desire because it possesses a majority of the manufacturing facilities I want. Those being its robot, vertibird, on, and stly its power armor manufacturing facilities that created the notorious bck devil power armor.

  So if I want to make sure everything ght, having stealth power armor will probably be a necessary requirement if I want to gain trol of Raven Rock safely, especially if it's occupied when I depart from the vault. And if I had to guess if it is or isn't, I would put my money on that it is occupied. Therefore, I'll have to make just about every preparation I to ehe facility ends up in my trol without going boom, thanks to eden.

  Once I make Raven Rock mine iure, it's basically gg, I'll basically have the ability to make myself a nearly unstoppable for the wastend, or at least against the fas I know of here oh. As for the Zetans, that's a whole ory. They could easily wipe me off the map with any one of the death rays mounted underh their spaceships. Therefore, I'll definitely have to figure out how I'm going to deal with them iure.

  I think that's enough about all that for now si's a bit too far out into the future at this time to make any pns with any actual substance. But as I'm getting closer to being capable of taking over and making Raven Rock my own, I revisit and modify my pns as o make it a reality.

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