RP related: Milliways foo

[camwyn]

Okay, so, I've finished all the Fallout 3 canon for Ellen. Theoretically there's some historical stuff in Point Lookout that was never touched on, but I have no intention of sending Ellen back there for anything, let alone exploring what used to be an internment camp for Chinese-Americans prior to the Resource Wars going atomic. I know that at some point I had wanted to send her north and eventually visit Ronto, and I still do, but I'd like to hold out until we know for certain whether Fallout 4 takes place in the Commonwealth or not so I know whether I can get away with the mental image I've had of the place.

(Specifically, it involves the major excuse for the ridiculously human androids they build at the Institute being a severe lack of men. Not of manpower, of men- the postwar world still has plenty of prewar robots that work and can do heavy work, but the Institute builds androids that can pass for human for years at a time, in numbers big enough that they have a reclamation bureau to run down the ones that try to escape. I like to think this is driven by the majority of the Institute's people being women, because a screwed-up post-nuke female-dominated MIT isn't the kind of thing we normally see.)

In the meantime I should probably draw up a State of the Wasteland post to keep things straight. I do know that I've largely dealt with the Deathclaw Sanctuary and that the remains of the Library of Congress have been found, but that except for a very particular segment of the Library those ruins are insanely dangerous and the Brotherhood will be excavating them at a painfully slow pace. I've gotten Ellen respectably married to a Scribe who's quite happy to work in the lab while she goes out and either serves as a chaplain or blows things up in horrifying ways or both. I have no intention of saddling her with a kid just yet, as that would feel like a copout in the what-do-I-do-with-my-female-character-now sense you get from a lot of storylines.

I think I'd like to see what I can do with the most horribly discombobulated community in the history of ever, the poor bastards being thawed out three and four at a time and sent down to Earth from Mothership Zeta. We are talking about people who've been snatched up from Earth and put in cold storage since sometime before 1562 (see Toshiro Kago's entry in the Fallout wiki). Unless they were kidnapped from Tel Aviv in December of 2053, when the timeline says a terrorist nuclear device destroyed the city, there is almost certainly no way that they will be going back to a world that's anything other than an unprecedented nightmare for them. The aliens kidnapped people from a lot of places- again, see Toshiro's entry- so there's no particular guarantee that anyone thawed out will necessarily speak English. Well, okay, you can find something like twenty or thirty recordings from captives on the ship and of those recordings maybe two aren't in English, but still... these are people being told 'everyone you love is dead of either old age or the atom bomb, everything you ever knew perished in fire, and while we can theoretically put you down anywhere along this alien ship's orbit the only place we can guarantee that you'll be given any kind of a reasonable reception is in the middle of a wasteland populated by giant scorpions and people who don't get why you're breaking down and hiding under the bed at the least little thing'.

I millicanoned that these people have been returned in small groups to an area outside Canterbury Commons and have been encouraged to build a little bit of a community on the region, and that they have been given supplies from the alien ship to get started plus a small herd of desert-adapted sheep courtesy of Doc Scurlock. They get regular visits from traders and Brotherhood of Steel/Rivet City water caravans, and they have access to radio, but that's a lot to deal with. I need to do something with them. And with, I think, the kids who used to be Little Lamplight; they live in the Springvale School now, where Fawkes has a job as a guardsman and is working on studying enough to become a formal teacher.

And I definitely need to do more with the facilities out towards Evergreen Mills. The Brotherhood's had those caves for some time now, and set up camp in them pretty solidly ever since I figured they had to have a water supply to support that many raiders. People from outside the Wasteland are going to want to be jerks about that kind of thing, so there's plenty of opportunity for throwing down with raiders there, and maybe for heading westward or wherever in order to get a look at other stuff surrounding the Wasteland.

If anyone's actually read this far and is interested, feel free to let me know.

Thanks.

Comments

[themightyspazz]

I'm interested. Got specifics in mind?

[camwyn]

Nothing yet. However, I'm plenty happy to spawn off NPCs to escort people from the Bar on whatever missions they might undertake, should it be necessary. I'll let you know as soon as I have something particular in mind.

(Although one of these days I'm going to do that giant scorpion mass migration I've always kind of wanted.)

[ceitfianna]

Just reading through, I wonder if Sam could maybe help with the Library of Congress or some of the rebuilding aspects as that's part of what he does.

William was happy to help the lost cowboy and could aid those from his era, Charles would be very useful too in that situation since he's a calming force.

[genarti]

I'm interested! Not instantly inspired to any given thing -- although Thor remains available to play translator if at any point that'd be useful -- but interested in a general way.