Adam laid out his guns in front of Jay for him to inspect, sans the sonic emitter one, that one he was holding onto for now.
"Rob another raider base?" He laughed while looking them over.
"No, but I'll be honest I'd rather have dealt with raiders, this was awful."
"Oh yeah?" Jay asked while he continued to look at the guns and engage in conversation without looking at Adam at all.
"It was a vault full of, without exaggeration, horrors." Jay whistled softly.
"Well hopefully we can make sure that your trip through the haunted house is going to make you a bit of caps eh?" He sets down the gun and examines the next one. "Unfortunately these guns aren't in pristine condition, surprising for a vault, I thought they were all sterile."
"Others might be, but this one was lived in so it's no surprise the guns aren't in the best of condition. There was this weird algae growing everywhere." Jay nodded and then put down the gun and looked at Adam.
"Well all I'm saying is that you won't get premium prices for these, but they are in more than good enough condition to be worth a healthy price, plus you got a number of them…" He paused again while he did some simple calculations. "How about 70 each for all 15, so that comes to 1050 caps?" Adam considered for a moment before countering.
"How about 80 for each?"
"So 1200 caps?" Jay confirmed.
"Uh… yes." Adam said after actually doing the math himself for a moment. It was now Jay's turn to look at the rifles and consider. 80 caps wasn't too much but these rifles were stock and mass produced for vault use, low caliber, and without any attachments so they were very bare bones, they would simply be good for filling out his stock no doubt.
Jay scratched the back of his neck and then nodded.
"Alright I can do that." As he began to reach for the slips to pay Adam but Adam stopped him.
"Actually, I was wondering if you might sell me something specific if you have it in stock."
"Oh? What is it? If I don't have it I can request it from a caravan, might take some time but your credit is good here so I don't mind placing the order."
"A magnetic holster for this." He said as he produced the laser pistol, boxy as ever and held it out for Jay to see. "It's getting really inconvenient to reach to the pocket of my backpack every time I need to use it and it has fallen out of the pocket more than once, a magnetic holster seems to be the best for this thing." Jay stopped to consider for a moment and then nodded and walked to the back room and produced a thin piece of metal.
"Can I see the gun for a moment?"
"Sure." Adam said as he handed it over. Jay sized the pistol up against the metal for a moment and then handed the pistol back.
"I can make one for you." He said confidently.
"Wait, really?"
"Yessir." Jay grinned. "It's going to cost you though. I'd say… 150 caps for the custom holster, of course I'll make sure its fitted properly and everything, even go so far as to collab with Olivia." Adam nodded.
"Fantastic, I'll do that then." He smiled and Jay took out the 1050 caps he was originally going to give him but now with the promise of a custom holster.
"Don't spend it all in one place." He said jokingly to Adam as he handed the papers over.
"You're not my mom." Adam said back, jokingly.
"Good thing too! I'd be a helicopter mom!" Jay said with a boisterous laugh.
"See you Jay." Adam said as he turned back to Deccanus and left the store smiling.
The last stop was Lune's shop, this was usually his routine. Lune bought everything so anything he couldn't sell elsewhere came to her. He was quite unsure if she had a system or not but she always seemed to have the caps to buy his stuff so it worked out. He would love to patronize Olivia more often but he truly doesn't come across armor enough to sell to her. Or, far more common, armor was too bulky and between one piece of armor or 3 guns he would go with the guns every time, it was just math.
Once in the shop Lune spotted him.
"Ah, welcome back Adam." She offered a half smile.
"Good to see you, Lune." He said as he and Deccanus dropped everything off on her counter.
"Who's the new guy?" She said as she gestured with her thumb to Deccanus.
"Oh, this is Deccanus, my new partner."
"Legion?" She said with a raised eyebrow as she examined Deccanus. Adam was a bit shocked to have Deccanus be recognized and even Deccanus looked a bit shocked.
"You know of my Legion?" He asked quickly. She just scoffed.
"Know of them? I guess you can say that." She said with a deep frown and then pulled the collar of her shirt down a bit revealing a brand. The sort you would stick on a cow to mark its owner. This brand was in the vague shape of a bull. "You try anything here, you fucking slaver, I promise I will kill you." She said with vitriol. Deccanus went silent and looked down a bit, perhaps sad or guilty, or perhaps at a lack of words to respond with.
"I um… didn't know Lune… I can send him out of the store if you-" Adam began, trying to make the situation calmer again and show he didn't mean to offend her but she cut him off.
"Nah, I don't care. I don't ask where my suppliers got their goods, their past history, or even… who their former employers were." She said while staring daggers at Deccanus. "But if he so much as steps out of line I'm going to rip off his balls and feed them to him." She said before sighing and then completely disengaging with Deccanus and looking at Adam again.
"Give me a minute to sort through all your things. You always bring me so much stuff." She said with a soft laugh, like she was not just threatening to turn Deccanus into a Eunuch a moment ago, now pretending he wasn't here. "Not that I'm complaining mind you, it's just a fact." She shrugged and got to work.
Adam turned to look at Deccanus now, who was still looking a bit cowed, he didn't look sorry for her, but he did appear guilty, he was staring at the ground with a wistful look in his eyes. Adam thought of saying something to him but wasn't sure what so he kept his mouth shut.
"I can give you 1457 for the lot." She said after going through everything.
"Wow, that much?" Adam asked, shocked.
"What you want less?" She grinned. "Lab stuff like this is hard to come by, most of the stuff I get is basically unusable and plenty of science nerds around Midway I promise. This stuff looks like it needs cleaning but it should be good to sell immediately, not to mention everything else here. Food always sells." She said as she picked up one of the cans of food as she spoke.
"Well you will get no argument from me." Adam smiled. "You have a deal."
"Wonderful, give me a moment and I'll get your caps."
She began to move the rest of the things off the counter, then Adam looked back at the items in her shop for a moment.
"Can I get the bobblehead too?" He asked after looking at it for a moment.
"What the Vault Boy?" She asked, confused. She then shrugged. "It's yours, take him." She said flippantly.
"Okay, just cut down 100 caps from the total then." She stopped what she was doing and then looked at Adam like he was an idiot.
"No, stupid. Take it. As in, it's yours, get it out of my shop, I don't want it." She said to him point blank before returning to counting.
"I was told by the Mr. Handy that it was 100 caps." He asked.
"Well yes, that's what it would sell for, they are collectors items after all." She said as she handed over the caps. "But that thing has been sitting there for over 3 years, I never found a buyer, at this point, I don't give a shit." She shrugged.
"But aren't you losing out on a sale by not charging me?" Adam asked, confused.
"Look do you want the fucking thing or not? I'm giving it to you as a freebie, stop making me repeat myself." She said, shooting Adam a look. Adam put his hands up in mock surrender.
"Yes Ma'am." He chuckled. "It was a pleasure as always, Lune." He smiled.
"Same here, keep coming back, you are too good a supplier to let slip away." She said and then turned around to organize all her new goods, not even glancing at Deccanus again after her initial threats to him.
"Come on, Deccanus. Let's go." Adam said to him as he began to leave, Deccanus too began to leave, following close behind.