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[camwyn]

Going to be flying on Saturday. It's been too long since I was last in the right-hand seat for my liking. (Helicopters put the primary pilot on the right and the copilot on the left. It's the other way around for fixed-wing craft.)

On the Fallout 4 front, last night I read the doctor's terminal entries on board the Prydwen, and now I understand why he asked me one particular question during my initial exam. The words 'pustules', 'groin', and 'Ghoul species' probably should not go together.

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[rymenhild]

The Prydwen??? Is that really its name, and are there any other Arthurian references in play? Tell me more!

[camwyn]

Prydwen, yes. It's an airship built by the Brotherhood of Steel, who were my favorite faction in Fallout 3 and a faction I could at least sympathize with in Fallout New Vegas, but who have gone through several changes of leadership and are now under the control of the last living descendant of their founder. Which would not be such a bad thing except that Elder Arthur Maxson is a charismatic fanatic who believes he's got a DESTINY and wants to purge every single synth, supermutant, and ghoul from the Commonwealth and basically has 9/10 of the Brotherhood following him with the devotion of two-day-old Pernese dragons.

That's about the only other Arthurian reference I can think of. I mean, the Brotherhood's been all knights and paladins since the beginning, when it wasn't scribes and initiates. And while there are a few swords in the game they're unrelated to the Brotherhood or Arthur; one of them's called the Shishkebab (it sets things you hit on fire) and most of the others were originally the property of officers of the Chinese army. Nobody's got Arthurian names other than the Elder, and he doesn't have a wife, a lady love, or a weirdly close friend making googly eyes at his nonexistent wife. No indication of him having a group of especially close officers dedicated to his ideals, either, alas.

ETA: Oh, and the Prydwen is permanently anchored at alternate-universe Logan Airport ("Boston Airport" in the game, in much the same way MIT is "Commonwealth Institute of Technology"). No sign of it sailing off to any islands anywhere.