DriacKin
Arbiter
Part 5 – The Searchers
We left off last time in front of the gates to the great city of Megaton.
But, before we enter, we’re going to rewind a little…
I don’t remember exactly where, but we found this lab coat somewhere in Vault 101 while we were escaping:
How the hell does wearing a stupid jacket make you a better scientist? How does that make any sense?
This isn’t D&D. You can’t just get away with saying that the item has magically imbued properties.
Can we go on now?
Seriously. Isn’t this is supposed to be a semi-realistic game? The next thing you know, people are gonna start hurling fireballs and casting magic missiles…
Are you finally done whining yet?
Yeah. I feel better now.
Anyway, like the whiny narrator dude mentioned, we left off last time right outside the gates to the mega awesome city of Megaton.
Welcome to Megaton. We see a guy coming our way to greet us.
FACT: Lucas Simms walks around wearing a silly old-west style hat, a silly old-west style trenchcoat, and a silly old-west style sheriff's badge.
What’s with the stupid hat? Who are you trying to be? A Black Clint Eastwood?
He gets fuckin’ mad at us for making fun at his fuckin’ hat.
Dude, calm down. I was just joking around.
Fuckin’ psycho.
So...um…why is this place called Megaton?
Well, back during the war, some damn crackers were flying over this joint and started droppin’ nuclear bombs all over. But one of them bombs didn’t fuckin’ blow up. So, we decided to build our town around it.
The unexploded bomb:
Dude, the bomb is fucking gigantic. I mean, it’s as tall as like 5 people.
Like I said, them crackers be crazy. Don’t know nothing about makin’ guns or bombs or nothin’
But seriously, this thing is at least like 10 times larger than the ones we dropped in Japan. Shouldn’t these things be getting smaller as technology got better?
Umm…isn’t it kinda dangerous to build a town around a bomb?
Damn thing hasn’t gone off in 200 years. Plus, ain’t nobody here smart enough to disarm that thing.
Well… I could put on one of my “+5 ring of bomb defusing” and try to disarm it.
Well, if ya can do it, there’ll be a reward for ya. But, don’t fuck up. Don’t need some cracker comin in and blowin’ up everythin’.
So anyway, what business you got in Megaton?
I’m looking for my daddy. He abandoned me back home, and I’m looking for him. I think he might have come here.
My daddy abandoned me when I was a kid too. Stupid nigga. Anyway, I might’ve seen your daddy. What’s he look like?
:sigh:
Well, the dude seemed like he might’ve been a bit high tho’. I saw him headin’ over to the saloon over there.
OK. I’ll check it out.
That’s fine. Just don’t go makin’ trouble. I’m gonna fuckin’ end ya if ya make any trouble.
OK. But first, we’re gonna go exploring!! I mean, this is the first time I’ve been outta that stupid vault. I wanna see stuff!!
Meet the residents of Megaton:
This is Jenny. She sells food. Other than that, she’s pretty useless.
She also owns this tavern (along with her 2 brothers.) Let’s go inside.
Here’s the first brother, Leo. This is a tavern, so you can buy drinks from him.
And here’s the other brother (Andy). He’s pretty useless.
This place is lame. Let's go somewhere else.
Meet the town doctor.
So doc, know any embarrassing medical secrets about the townfolk that one could blackmail them with?
Please? I’ll keep it a secret, I promise.
FACT: In real life a jet is a type of plane. In Fallout 3, it’s a type of drug.
Wait. You just told a complete stranger about some dude’s confidential medical issues? WTF man?
Don’t worry. I won’t try and blackmail him or anything like that. Promise. :wink:
Obviously, the first thing we do afterwords is go up to Leo and confront him:
Hey dude, I know you’re a druggie. And, if you don’t help me out, I’ll tell everyone else.
Fine. Then I’ll tell your whole family about your “problem”. Let’s see if you still think it no big fucking deal.
Dude, Fallout 3 doesn’t let you tell his family or the sheriff about it. There aren’t any new dialogue options with any of them.
What?!! That’s fucking lame… I guess we’ll just be nice to this guy.
Dude, I don’t think that’ll work. I mean, this guy’s an addict. You don’t just give it up immediately. This is a slow process. Takes time...
See? Told ya it would work.
WTF man? WTF?
Whatever. Let’s just head over to his drug stash. We’ll smoke it all ourselves.
Sounds good to me. Lets go.
We loot Leo’s stash. I found it interesting that not only did Leo leave us his drugs, he gave us some money as well. (Bottle caps are currency in Fallout)
While we’re at the water purification plant, we meet this guy.
Hey dude. You wouldn’t happen to have any really contrived missions for us, would you?
And you want us to fix them for you. Yay!
FACT: There are 3 broken pipes scattered across the city that we have to fix:
Here’s the first one. We press ‘E’ to try and fix the pipe.
Looks like we can’t fix it. Our Repair skill isn’t high enough yet.
Don’t worry. We can just equip our “+5 jacket of pipe fixing”
And, that pushes our repair skill over 30, so…
…now we can fix the first pipe.
and the second one…
…and here’s the last one.
I wish I had a “pipe joint” right now.
We go back to Walter to get our reward.
He gives us 200 bottle caps as a reward.
Moar Quest?
Yay!! Another Fetch Quest!!
Anyway, we haven’t met everyone in town yet. Let’s explore some more.
Meet Billy Creel, the town’s pedophile. He lives with Maggie...
...who’s looks like she’s about 7 years old. Billy takes care of her real well. :wink:
Meet Mr. Cromwell. He’s the leader of the local cult, The Children of Atom.
They worship that big bomb in the middle of town that never exploded.
Here’s what they believe:
What the hell? Aren’t there any normal people around here?
Well, we haven’t met everyone yet. Let’s head over to that store over there. Let’s meet the owner.
We go here next time.
I’m gonna stop here, since this update is getting a bit long. Next time, we get to meet Moira Brown (the store owner), bang a ho, and find out some more info about Daddy Neeson.
The next update should come fairly soon. I’m mostly done with it already.
We left off last time in front of the gates to the great city of Megaton.
But, before we enter, we’re going to rewind a little…
I don’t remember exactly where, but we found this lab coat somewhere in Vault 101 while we were escaping:
Welcome to Megaton. We see a guy coming our way to greet us.
FACT: Lucas Simms walks around wearing a silly old-west style hat, a silly old-west style trenchcoat, and a silly old-west style sheriff's badge.
He gets fuckin’ mad at us for making fun at his fuckin’ hat.
The unexploded bomb:
Meet the residents of Megaton:
This is Jenny. She sells food. Other than that, she’s pretty useless.
She also owns this tavern (along with her 2 brothers.) Let’s go inside.
Here’s the first brother, Leo. This is a tavern, so you can buy drinks from him.
And here’s the other brother (Andy). He’s pretty useless.
Meet the town doctor.
FACT: In real life a jet is a type of plane. In Fallout 3, it’s a type of drug.
Obviously, the first thing we do afterwords is go up to Leo and confront him:
We loot Leo’s stash. I found it interesting that not only did Leo leave us his drugs, he gave us some money as well. (Bottle caps are currency in Fallout)
While we’re at the water purification plant, we meet this guy.
FACT: There are 3 broken pipes scattered across the city that we have to fix:
Here’s the first one. We press ‘E’ to try and fix the pipe.
And, that pushes our repair skill over 30, so…
…now we can fix the first pipe.
and the second one…
…and here’s the last one.
I wish I had a “pipe joint” right now.
We go back to Walter to get our reward.
He gives us 200 bottle caps as a reward.
Meet Billy Creel, the town’s pedophile. He lives with Maggie...
...who’s looks like she’s about 7 years old. Billy takes care of her real well. :wink:
Meet Mr. Cromwell. He’s the leader of the local cult, The Children of Atom.
They worship that big bomb in the middle of town that never exploded.
Here’s what they believe:
We go here next time.
I’m gonna stop here, since this update is getting a bit long. Next time, we get to meet Moira Brown (the store owner), bang a ho, and find out some more info about Daddy Neeson.
The next update should come fairly soon. I’m mostly done with it already.
