Let's Play Fallout - VD left, never to return. (Completed)

[Jigawatt]

Top quality RK, loving it.

Re F2 trail fight: if you don't mind a bit of gamyness you could grab a sharpened pole from a sprung trap and drop it about 3 hexes away from Cameron before starting the fight. He a) wastes a turn picking it up and walking back to you and b) will only get 2 attacks per round which won't be as accurate as his punch.

ps check your PM inbox RK47

 

[Wyrmlord]

What about your Fallout 2 LP?

 

[lightbane]

So, where's the update? Please, RK, don't tell me that Skryimjob has trapped you too

 

[Majestic47]

Those are valid accusations.
I've got the update ready tonight. Maybe another 2 update to go then I'm done with LP this year.

 

[RK47]

The Beast

Oh, wow. His robes survived disintegration? Awesome.

This could be useful.

Good thinking, Vince. I think it's best we lay low for a while, been enough blood already on the way in.

It's done. Let us proceed into the belly of the beast.

This information is quite outdated.

Could've saved us the trouble, but who would have thought the Children are the ones making the mutants?

There is nothing left to find here. Let us go deeper into the second floor.

Seems like a research centre of some sort, Vince.

Let's find out more. Know thy enemy.

I am here to check on your progress.

What results are you getting?

Okay, this is a nut house.

Where are they being kept?

The mad doctor points to the door on the other side of the floor.

Seems like this one is quite sane...

You don't understand. I'm here to free you.

Ingrate.

This girl is beyond help. Advice on disabling the force field?

You could try disabling it from the control panel on the wall over there, but the mutants would probably shoot them dead...eh...we don't wanna raise any alarm now, do we?

Hmm. Very well.

This one's not locked.

I think this is where they keep the mental head case. A retardo land of some sort.

Who's Jason?

You just said...never mind.

They're long way gone, Vince. I'm starting to worry when we meeting this master. Is he gonna mess with your brain, too?

My mind is stronger than these sheep.

Their conversation was interrupted by a young girl pacing about in the room.

Stop that!

Excuse me?

There's no cure for retards.

What are you talking about?

Can you show me how?

Sigh.

A classroom of some sort.

Your robo-eye will stick out like a sore thumb. Better not get in there, Vince. Who knows they might brainwash you.

Just a barracks. Let's head down to the third and meet the Overseer of this Vault.

You're assuming there is one?

I think some precautions need to be taken here.

Ewww....

Bio mass covers the surface of the third floor. Ceilings, walls and floors. One wonders what sort of nefarious deeds went about in these halls.

Security Robots. Better not trip the alarm.

Just a lone guard guarding the storage room.

Are you sure this is a good idea?

Oh, ye of little faith...

The storage room is full of rockets, ammunition and other means of destruction, alas my body can only carry so much.

You best not touch this door...

Hm. I can hear the ruckus from behind it. Must be a lot of guards in there.

All I can say is: do not open. Why don't you investigate the control room...I'm sure you can find some safer stuff in there.

The layout is similar to Vault 13. The Overseer's office should be nearby...

How can these people continue to work in this mess?

I think they're brainwashed, Vince.

That door...The Overseer's?

This could get hairy...maybe you should switch to your power armor...

No...not yet.

The hive.

Vince I'm getting some strange reading here..something is...*bzzt*

T-51?

Brian...

UGH! What-was-th-

My mind is a fortress. You shall not break me...*Moves forward.*

GAH! AUUUuGHHHHHHh! Feels like there's a spike in my head...

CHAOS - You cannot best ME!

Huh....from above?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!

Briannnnnnnnnnnnnnnn....

You won't take me....to the Warp..you won't...

Got to recover...have to fight it...T-51....Todd...

There was no response..

...chems...have to take...chems..

Syringes entered my arm...I feel...the darkness lifted from my eyes...as every syringe emptied into my vein. Followed by tabs and tabs of Mentats...

Finally, the cloud parted.

Brian - we are whole again.

Oooh....my head...Todd...what the hell happened...

I wish I hadn't opened my eyes.

 

[laclongquan]

Mhmmmm~ It's nearly the end.

 

[Black]

Ooooh myyyy gooooddd

 

[anus_pounder]

Wait, how is Todd speaking to Brain if he isn't wearing the power armor ? Or does he have a comm system of sorts ?

 

[Black]

Todd is in Brian/Vince's brain. He never existed. Side effect of losing all his friends and drug abuse.

 

[Muro]

Since the LP aims at realism, realism-related questions arise:

• 1. How can Brian communicate with Todd while not wearing the T-51b? Was not the microphone and the speaker in the armor's helmet?
  
  2. It is implied Brian is still carrying the T-51b with him. How is it possible to keep it hidden under that robe?

Answers:

• 1. Todd has been a delusion all along, and Brian is gone far enough to not notice anything wrong with being able to talk with his imaginary companion without the necessary logical mediator.
  
  2. it isn't possible. He has left the armor behind when he changed to the robes and his decreasing contact with the world outside of his mind (as pointed out in the answer to question 1) makes him not notice such things.

This explanation is further supported with the last four pictures of the LP. The text accompanying the 4th to last pic says "Syringes entered my arm...I feel...the darkness lifted from my eyes...as every syringe emptied into my vein", and yet, in the 3rd and 2nd to last pic, we can clearly see neither the number of Brain's stimpacs nor the amount of his hit points changed at all. Brian has lost it completely and barely maintains any link with reality at all.

Perhaps the link has been lost altogether already. Let's consider the situation he has found himself in. A lost vault, walls covered in flesh, mutated lunatics with alleged psychic powers, a hall filled with crawling organic matter, the living dead, shooting bones and a machine-flesh abomination only the sickest of minds could imagine. Chances are Brian is actually lying barely conscious, tortured by the merciless sun of the wasteland somewhere between the Boneyard and the Cathedral, suffering from severe dehydration and trauma and losing the last of his wits before death finally releases him from his torment.

May sweet death take you soon, Brian Mitsoda. The outside world has been harsh on you and made you suffer enough. You deserve your rest.

 

[RK47]

The Fatal Flaw

Music: Master's Lair

My eyes...they hurt so...

But it's unmistakable...that...'thing'. It's alive. Melded onto the Overseer's usual console chair. How...could it be?

Are you...are you Richard Grey?

Its voice spoke in three different tones: calm, male voice; an aggressive, impatient male, and a female...it alternates between the three. The voices echo in my mind...it's so hard to think, even with five doses of mentats and my crippled eye is going to make it hard for me to nail this guy. How the hell did I get here anyway?

If you can prove to me that your Unity is the best course for humanity, then I will help you.

I can't know you represent the best future, unless you prove it to me.

So tell me.

I'm just buying time. Hopefully, I can find a flaw in his reasoning and...

That race being the mutants, of course.

You mean to change all the others into mutants, as well?

Wait...if that happens. Then...I've got it!

You've got a problem with your master plan.

Vree's research! If what she says is true...then...

I happen to know that your mutants are sterile.

You may not believe me, but have you talked to any of your mutants about this?

The creature spend several moments barking into the intercom, speaking with his scientists on the ground.

He's getting agitated, I better come up with something fast.

Wait, did you think to ask a female mutant? (Is there even any female...for that matter?)

Bingo. He looks...defeated. Sad, even.

I'm sorry, your race is doomed. If you insist on changing the whole wasteland, I'm afraid you're dooming the entire mankind to extinction.

I'm sorry this isn't an option for you. Your race will die out after this generation. There is no need to fight...

Wait...Richard..

A klaxon sounded in the room.

What have you done?

The speakers slightly muffled by the gooey biomass crackled to life: Time to Self Destruct: 240 seconds.

Not again! Farewell...it's been nice knowing you.

I punched the Stealthboy Unit on and make my way to the elevator.

This is exactly like V-13 lay out. Now if I just....

Brian. Not yet. You should rescue the ones on the second floor as well.

Who...who are - hey, where's Todd?

If you haven't realized, you are not wearing the power armor.

Get out of my head.

Like it or not...I'm you. Just realize that I've done my part. Now go to the second level and free the prisoners.

Fine.

This shouldn't be too hard..if I just hit the button here....and....

Quick, follow me...

To my horror, the prisoners exploded, barely metres out of their cells.

GODS! What the fuck just happened?

It appears the masters malevolent programming has a kill switch...I'm amazed we survived the ordeal...how did you do it, Brian?

....Does it matter, oh yuck, some of their parts are on me....gods...I'm outta here!

Fucking robes slowing me down!

Still over 3 minutes left....looks like I'm in some kind of Vault...

Up..up...

Oh, man....did I?

Of course.

Huff....just a little more...why are there dead people on the streets. What did I do?!

Expediting progress. Clearly these fools are beyond saving, now get clear, Brian. We will need several blocks of safe distance...

Don't have to tell me twice!

Exhausted and barely escaping from ground zero, I sought refuge at the Followers of Apocalypse's compound. Unfortunately, there was none to be found...

Hopefully, the rest of the communities up north are spared from their menace.

Meanwhile...

High Elder, detonation confirmed at the Boneyard. I've sent some of our recon over to investigate it further.

I can already tell what it was.

Elder?

It's our promising initiate..Bro..err, what's his name, again?

No matter how I tried, I could not get the TODD unit back online. The Power Armor remains operational, no fusion leakage was found, the suit is nothing more than an armor now. Days after escaping ground zero, I make my way north, back to the Brotherhood bunker.

Look what the cat dragged in. Well done, Ryans. That's your name isn't it? I assume you were behind the mushroom cloud at the Cathedral?

Indirectly, perhaps. And my name's not Ryans, sir.

Heh. Whatever....why aren't you wearing your T-51B? Did it get damaged?

Sort of...anyway. I am returning this unit. I won't be needing it where I'm going.

Initiate, it is yours to keep.

I insist..Maybe you can fix it up and get the TODD unit back for future recruits.

Both Mathia and the High Elder gave each other a quizzical look.

Initiate, have you done some self-modification of your T-51b unit of some kind?

No.

Well, what's this 'todd' thing that got damaged?

It's ...uh...a virtual intelligence..It...talks. Don't all suits used to have one?

The High Elder rubbed his chin and gave me a blank look.

Son, I've been around longer than you, and my old man didn't even know such thing existed. Maybe it's...just a figment of your imagination...

But...

Oh, no...no buts. It's okay. It's done no harm. You don't want this armor? Fine, we'll take it back. Just one thing before you leave though, what IS your name, Initiate? Don't want to get the Scribes' to misspell it.

Just call us...er...me...Vault Dweller.

Mmmm. That'll do. Now buzz off kid, we've got some wasteland patrol and rebuilding to plan. You take care of yourself, now.

Thank you, Elder Maxson, for all your help.

 

[anus_pounder]

Thats one empty wasteland though, without the followers and the Hub. At least the NCR survived. NCR

 

[Hellraiser]

The Vault Dweller has brought incline to the wasteland at the cost of his sanity. Hi sacrifice shall not be forgotten.

 

[Black]

Well, what happened to you?

 

[Muro]

Thats one empty wasteland though, without the followers and the Hub.

If memory serves, good (and canon) endings for the Followers and the Hub are inaccessible due to bugs, so one can only get either the bad ones or none at all, unless an appropriate unofficial patch is applied.

 

[Wyrmlord]

What did you think about the game after finishing it again after a long time, RK47?

 

[lightbane]

And so, it's done.

Just remember to show the "violent" ending. If you don't remember how it was done, press "A" once the talking stops to force combat mode, you'll know what to do.

There's no cure for retards.

The irony is killing me.

The first line is awesome.

 

[RK47]

What about me?

Hell, of course I made it back to the Vault alive. And that's...that.

What is?

What are you so worried about, come on!

Well, they can't stay in the Vault forever, Overseer. I think you should give them a choice. Stay or...

You can't be serious.

I'm sorry, Brian. You can say your goodbyes on the intercom panel over there....but the door won't open.

I wasn't planning to stay. But...not like this. You...

How can he do this? What gave him the right?

Brian, please. Don't make this any more diffi-

*Difficult?* Do you even know the meaning of that word? You, who sat on the overseer console for all the weeks, months...I spent out there...looking for the chip AND killing the mutants?! Risking *MY* life for the *entire* Vault *AND* the rest of the wasteland. I've met strangers who are more helpful than you. And the best of of a generation? With what? You can't even farm. We're just living on hand outs! They deserve a choice. *All* of them!

Before I know it, my left hand is already on his throat, gripping it tightly.

Stop it! Do you see now? Do you see how the wasteland changed you?

I didn't know I still had the Power Fist on my right arm, but I drew my right arm back anyway for the punch.

No, you just prefer to bury your head in the sand than admitting that you're wrong!

NO! Bria- help! Secu-

FUCK you.

The blow knocked half of his left torso away....turning his left arm and leg...lungs maybe...into useless chunks of flesh on the cavern floor. I was numb.

Brian...ack....help...

I can't.

Gah...

You'll kill all of us...

How can you be so sure?

Hackkk-cough--secur-

He's dead. The irreversible outcome. There's no going back for me now...but it never is what I want. I never wanted to return to the Vault...what I want...is something else. I walked over to the intercom. And drew a deep breath before speaking.

Skyrim - Majestic Town 3

Hi. This is Brian. Most of you may know me. I got the water chip back months ago. And now...I'm leaving the Vault - for good. And I would like to extend the offer to the rest of the Vault to join up with me. Not immediately, of course. It's a big decision to make. You have clothes to pack, supplies to prepare...Well, I'll be waiting. Due east of here, about a week - there's a village of Shady Sands. That's where I'm headed to learn how to farm and build a new village of my - our own. I know you are all afraid. I too, am afraid when I stepped out the first time. But the alternative is to live the rest of your life totally dependent on this Vault. And hoping another Brian will come and fetch a new water chip if it breaks down. So...yeah...come out...and learn something new. If you don't like it, you can always return. No strings attached. And don't even think of asking the Overseer for permission...this is *your* choice. Not his or mine to make. I think...I've spoken enough. I'll...miss you all...I'll...be waiting...I...uh...Annie...I still love you.

I let go of the transmit button, wiped the tears from my eyes and walked away from the huge number 13, for the final time.

Thanks for letting me out, Overseer.

Did I...did I do the right thing?

Aww...it doesn't matter...if they never come, I'll stick to Shady Sands...

Aradesh won't mind.

Days later...

Well, this ..doesn't look like Shady Sands.

Khans! Still butthurt over the assbeating I gave to your boss, huh? Well, up yours!

COME! Who wants to go to hell?!

Get in line!

Nice pistol. Come get me!

I'll just wait this corner right here...

Surprise, fag.

Ahhahhhhahahha. Oh gawd, did you see that, Todd...he totally....totally...heh....oh, that's right. Todd's...not here anymore.

WELL THAT'S JUST DANDY!

LET'S PLAY POST NUCLEAR WARFARE!

Ow. Ow. Ow. I should...be heading to Shady Sands now...

 

[RK47]

What did you think about the game after finishing it again after a long time, RK47?

Fallout 3 totally missed the mark. I think New Vegas tried to correct that, but still somewhat failed due to the derptastic engine and super small community in the wasteland.

I still can't get over why they won't just make Fallout 2.5 instead of fucking Fallout Tactics. I remembered installing the pirated copy, full of excitement of Fallout universe...this time with TACTICS!

One hour later, I couldn't even muster the motivation to boot it up.

Fallout
+ Love the time limit. It makes you think. What you should be doing next, without a goddamn quest pointer ever. It just shows how lame open world is when time has no consequence. Bethesda made some gains with exploration and world design, but still need to pick up more campaign design tips from the original Fallout. Lots of surprises, and multiple approaches in a somewhat semi-sandbox.

In fact, Fallout 2 was definitely weaker because there is very, very little sense of urgency and the whole 'witch doctor' dream sequence that killed the atmosphere. My young mind was easily distracted back then and I just spent the whole game hoarding caps and not actually caring about the GECK or my village. Hence Fallout is still better than the sequel. And that's why I never finished Fallout 2. I didn't care enough.

 

[RK47]

Epilogue

 

[anus_pounder]

: x

 

[Brother None]

Another awesome LP, RK

 

[Jaedar]

Loved the LP.

 

[Stereotypical Villain]

Your cock feels good in my mouth, RK

Sycophants.

Boring, banal, shit and with copious amounts of Vince-related fanboyism.

I disapprove, fall down a well and die... and while you're down in that well: get Timmy's BB gun.

 

[spekkio]

Not bad, but Andyman's FF7 LP is still 'the best RPG LP' on Dex.