The currency of choice is bottle caps. [He pulls one out from his pocket to hand to her. It's just a plain, ordinary red bottlecap that says "Nuka Cola" across the top, with a little white swoosh between the two words.] But people are usually willing to trade for other stuff, too.
It's been over two hundred years now since the bombs fell, and people have found ways to get by. And, like, 90% of people have even found ways to get by that don't involve dicking over other people, at least not too much. It's the other 10% you've gotta worry about, because they'll shoot you on sight and loot your corpse. But there's farmers working the land, traders running the caravans and guards hired by the traders. There's scavengers who dig through the ruins of the Old World for valuables.
People have even set up cities--well, we call them cities, but I guess to you they're probably more like villages. There's one that's inside what used to be the baseball stadium, Fenway Park I think they used to call it? Anyway, it survived almost completely intact and those high walls make for awesome security against raiders. There's more opportunity for work in the cities. People set up shops, bars, build houses, hell, they even have a radio DJ. So it's not all bad. But even in the cities rule of law is a little bit more iffy than it was in the Old World. The city governments aren't exactly models of democracy and freedom. But people feel safer there and for a lot of people, that's worth the trade-off.
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It's been over two hundred years now since the bombs fell, and people have found ways to get by. And, like, 90% of people have even found ways to get by that don't involve dicking over other people, at least not too much. It's the other 10% you've gotta worry about, because they'll shoot you on sight and loot your corpse. But there's farmers working the land, traders running the caravans and guards hired by the traders. There's scavengers who dig through the ruins of the Old World for valuables.
People have even set up cities--well, we call them cities, but I guess to you they're probably more like villages. There's one that's inside what used to be the baseball stadium, Fenway Park I think they used to call it? Anyway, it survived almost completely intact and those high walls make for awesome security against raiders. There's more opportunity for work in the cities. People set up shops, bars, build houses, hell, they even have a radio DJ. So it's not all bad. But even in the cities rule of law is a little bit more iffy than it was in the Old World. The city governments aren't exactly models of democracy and freedom. But people feel safer there and for a lot of people, that's worth the trade-off.