You got good reasons for suspicion. Hell, I'd probably feel the same way if I didn't already know him.
[ Interesting to hear that the Enclave is still active, and more so to hear that Danse has experience in fending them off out there on the eastern seaboard. Probably didn't mean to rope himself into whatever power was fighting them off, but having already received confirmation from Arcade on Danse's military experience, Len doesn't need to ask. ]
Ain't nobody likes to be lumped in with a faction if they're not trying to be, if they're alone - I suspect it's for similar reasons that you didn't immediately tell me you were Brotherhood. And maybe gettin' a regular uniform from them made you forget that scavenging is the rule of the wasteland. First time I met Arcade I was wearing some Legion armor I picked up off a body south of Vegas, 'cause I'd been robbed blind a few days before.
[ He waves his hand - not so much dismissive, just trying to give some quick context. ]
You probably ain't heard of 'em, bunch of assholes dressed like ancient Romans, but they're one of the biggest threats we got back home. Authoritarian fucks who torture and enslave people, destroy entire tribes and assimilate 'em into their army.
I needed a chest plate and had to use the one I found until I could get enough caps to buy somethin' new. Arcade saw me, and- [ Len actually chuckles. ] Told me "you must've taken a wrong turn somewhere around the Colorado. Fascists and slavers aren't welcome in Freeside. It's right there in the name."
[ Which is to say that anyone who fronts an entire conversation with vocal criticism of a known and reviled faction definitely isn't conducting eugenics on the side. ]
Maybe the truck is his. Maybe this place is just screwing with people in all manner of ways. I know what the Enclave's done - I've seen it myself, north of the Strip. Towns shredded apart from their weapons systems. But the last stronghold they had on the west coast was wiped off the face of the earth by the NCR in 2246, so the math ain't mathing. Unless we're entertaining the possibility that he's just really old and looks good for his age.
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[ Interesting to hear that the Enclave is still active, and more so to hear that Danse has experience in fending them off out there on the eastern seaboard. Probably didn't mean to rope himself into whatever power was fighting them off, but having already received confirmation from Arcade on Danse's military experience, Len doesn't need to ask. ]
Ain't nobody likes to be lumped in with a faction if they're not trying to be, if they're alone - I suspect it's for similar reasons that you didn't immediately tell me you were Brotherhood. And maybe gettin' a regular uniform from them made you forget that scavenging is the rule of the wasteland. First time I met Arcade I was wearing some Legion armor I picked up off a body south of Vegas, 'cause I'd been robbed blind a few days before.
[ He waves his hand - not so much dismissive, just trying to give some quick context. ]
You probably ain't heard of 'em, bunch of assholes dressed like ancient Romans, but they're one of the biggest threats we got back home. Authoritarian fucks who torture and enslave people, destroy entire tribes and assimilate 'em into their army.
I needed a chest plate and had to use the one I found until I could get enough caps to buy somethin' new. Arcade saw me, and- [ Len actually chuckles. ] Told me "you must've taken a wrong turn somewhere around the Colorado. Fascists and slavers aren't welcome in Freeside. It's right there in the name."
[ Which is to say that anyone who fronts an entire conversation with vocal criticism of a known and reviled faction definitely isn't conducting eugenics on the side. ]
Maybe the truck is his. Maybe this place is just screwing with people in all manner of ways. I know what the Enclave's done - I've seen it myself, north of the Strip. Towns shredded apart from their weapons systems. But the last stronghold they had on the west coast was wiped off the face of the earth by the NCR in 2246, so the math ain't mathing. Unless we're entertaining the possibility that he's just really old and looks good for his age.