[/img]"https://bookwyrmnick.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/dudeman_avatar.png" style="max-width:30%;float:left;margin:0 18px;" style="avatar] The best way to stay alive in the wasteland was to win fights before they even started. If you looked like enough of a badass, you could intimidate most people into surrendering without having to kill anyone. You could take what you wanted off them, and your reputation would spread. It conserved resources, and you had less chance of losing a fight and getting killed.
That was why Hannes spent more than was strictly necessary to make sure he always had cigars on hand. Anyone who could light up a fat stogie in this wasteland had to be someone you didn't want to mess with, right? Besides, he never did like the flavor of cigarettes.
It was also why he carried a sniper rifle across his back. Guns weren't exactly rare, but they were uncommon enough, especially big guns like his. The fact that he only had four bullets for it was something no one needed to know. .408 ammo was very hard to come by, but since it was the only ammo he needed, he could usually trade the excess he took off raiders and marauders for the single clip of .408 a trader might have.
At the moment, though, he was a bit hard up for 'cash'. That was why he was currently lurking just outside of Vegas, perched in a convenient rocky hilltop, back against a flat rock, rifle perched on another rock, aimed at the city. He watched through the scope at the comings and goings through the gates below, looking for someone who looked like a good target. People won big and lost big in Vegas all the time. Sometimes he got to the lucky winners first to relieve them of their winnings. Sometimes marauders got to them first, but Hannes could rob the robbers just as easily as he robbed the civilians.
He leaned back and rolled his shoulders, taking a swig from his hip flask. He'd been here for the better part of a day, and his shoulders were getting stiff. It wasn't that much trouble, though. He'd camped out looking for a target for three days at a time, before. He wasn't in any kind of rush.
That was why Hannes spent more than was strictly necessary to make sure he always had cigars on hand. Anyone who could light up a fat stogie in this wasteland had to be someone you didn't want to mess with, right? Besides, he never did like the flavor of cigarettes.
It was also why he carried a sniper rifle across his back. Guns weren't exactly rare, but they were uncommon enough, especially big guns like his. The fact that he only had four bullets for it was something no one needed to know. .408 ammo was very hard to come by, but since it was the only ammo he needed, he could usually trade the excess he took off raiders and marauders for the single clip of .408 a trader might have.
At the moment, though, he was a bit hard up for 'cash'. That was why he was currently lurking just outside of Vegas, perched in a convenient rocky hilltop, back against a flat rock, rifle perched on another rock, aimed at the city. He watched through the scope at the comings and goings through the gates below, looking for someone who looked like a good target. People won big and lost big in Vegas all the time. Sometimes he got to the lucky winners first to relieve them of their winnings. Sometimes marauders got to them first, but Hannes could rob the robbers just as easily as he robbed the civilians.
He leaned back and rolled his shoulders, taking a swig from his hip flask. He'd been here for the better part of a day, and his shoulders were getting stiff. It wasn't that much trouble, though. He'd camped out looking for a target for three days at a time, before. He wasn't in any kind of rush.
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