@Renee - I wasn't totally drunk but I don't know what's the appropriate word for this state in English language, because the translator automatically translates the word as "drunk" but in our language it's not the same. I drank quite a lot but I wasn't really drunk and I didn't have any hangover the following morning.

@SubRosa - you can buy themes for the Tenpenny Suite as well, but I always use mods that enlarge it, it's only one room in the base game + the balcony.

Then I´d say you were "under the influence of alcohol"



-Would you please step out of the car, sir? *hand on gun in holster*

Here in 'Merica we would call that a good buzz. Not drunk, but feeling good. Managing a good buzz is an artform, drink too much and you get drunk, not enough and you start to sober up. Or so I recall from my younger days, when I still imbibed.

Er, Tipsy? Well lubed? Warm? Lit? Stoned? Wasted? Buzzed? Ripped? Intoxicated? Krunk (Kinda drunk)? Inebriated? Hammered? Smashed? High? Pissed? Shitfaced? F'd up? Trashed?

Ha ha ha I like "krunk". Never heard that one before!

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*clika*

Pipboy App ON, Date: 11.19.77, 18:10

It's cho again. Like at this point, who else would it be, right? I am the only one in the world who's got the sort of technology that allows me to speak into my arm, and later have some form of written documentation of what was said. Well of course, I would have been nowhere without Marge. She's the one to implemented the background programming; the "grunt work", if you will. The idea was mine initially, but without her... Break.

Guess where I am? Yeah, you got it. I'm at what's known as The Mall. Here, have a look.



It's where the museums are, where Three Dog wants me to find his [censored] radio dish, or whatever. Centuries ago, this is where a lot of the world's tourists used to frequent, and also where a lot of America's laws and decisions where passed. I can imagine them all, children who aren't covered with soot, carrying toys and candy, or whatever the [censored]. Parents walking around, looking at all the museum stuff, saying "ooooh, this is where President fuddy-duddy stood when he got caught cheating with his intern." Nobody getting shot. Nobody getting killed. Not here, anyways. From what we saw in those video device discs back at Vault 101, The Mall was basically a peaceful, pretty place, with some sort of giant fountain at one end. Cars and buses constantly moving around here. And nobody getting killed, or even hurt. No [censored] caps. No radioactive bullshit. Break.

Well now look at the place; it's really not much better than the Wasteland itself. And there are indeed some super-mutants about, which is why I'm crouched down in hiding, watching them from a distance. Waiting for darkness, so I can move about. But the temptation to [censored] shoot one of those bastards is also there. Yeah, get him with my Winchester rifle BANG! ... Break.

Not really a good idea, though. Because there's more than one of them up there. For all I know there could be dozens of them, all over the damn Mall.

unidentified sounds, Pipboy App cannot decipher

It's dark now, so I moved. *DING* and my Pipboy has informed me that I have discovered the Museum of Technology. Cool. I'd better go. Time for some fun.

*clici* Pipboy app OFF, Date: 11.19.77, 20:45

That describes it the most.

Renee, LoL about the president and the intern. We should be thankful to Cho since he let us know how the Mall looked like before the War.

Have fun with your Night at the Museum, Cho

"A tricycle! For me? Wow!"

Another headache...and more voices. Voices from another world, from another time. Hobo can't recognize these voices but he hears them. He's been hearing them for years. Sometimes he hears the same voices, sometimes new ones appear. Hobo doesn't know what are these voices doing in his head but each time they come, his head hurts. The voices always slowly die down with time but the headache doesn't stop immediately. Sometimes it lasts for minutes or even hours. Sometimes it doesn't pass away even after sleeping. Hobo likes some voices, they make him feel...like he's somewhere else. He feels unexplainable happiness. Not that he's an unhappy person but some voices wake up another happiness inside him. But who's behind these voices? What is their message?

Hobo goes to the toilet and looks at his own reflection in the dusty broken mirror, still hanging above the sink from times before the bombs fell. He sees the man with bedraggled gray hair and thick, messy beard.

"Who are you?" he asks, afraid of the answer.

"I don't know. Just another hobo," answers the reflection.

Phew. I'm actually speechless Lopov. I bet the voices are him as a child though. No, actually, they're from some sort of ghost.

I am back to Fallout 3 with my mad scientist/lich Loviatar. I made a mad scientist lair for her north of Springvale, next to the river. Today I did a little bit of exploring in that area. Loviatar found that Raiders make good eating. They have the right touch of corruption to give the meat some spice (she cannot eat regular food, purified water, or even breathe clean air. My plan is that the cannibal perk, dirty water, and blood packs, will be the only way she can eat, drink, and otherwise heal herself). So far it's going good. As long as she is fighting humans, she can heal up her damage by eating them afterwards.

Good lord.

Bold = BWAAHAA! Will this be your first time trying out bombing Megaton?


(and yes, you can buy themes for the Tenpenny Suite - but if you have both Megaton and Tenpenny, they both get the same suite you pick for one, so make sure you have nothing stored in either if you are changing themes.

This will definitely be my fist time blowing up Megaton. If I have the heart (or lack thereof) to go through with it.

Loviatar had a weird encounter yesterday. Thanks to Project ED-E, she has been traveling with an Eyebot companion lately. They came upon a group of slavers and their victims on the way back from Minefield. Loviatar talked to a Slaver and they just said "hi". Then she tried talking to a slave, and he asked her to take his bomb collar off.

Loviatar never tried doing that before, and had no idea if it would kill him or not, so she thought it would be a great idea! She got it off successfully, and the slavers went hostile. A big fight started between them and Loviatar/ED-E. During the fight one of the slaves came running over crouched down, and Loviatar thought he was a slaver at first. So she shot him dead. Ooops.

Then after the fight the slaves were standing around looking warily at Loviatar. She tried talking to them again, and the next one asked her take their collar off. So she tried. Well, it didn't work out so well this time, and his head blew off. The slaves went running, and ED-E started shooting. He gunned down the last slave before he could escape. I thought, wow, this robot is perfect for her!

And then it was dinner time!

A few slavers did end upon the dinner table...

Speaking of which, I did find one issue with trying not to use Stimpacks. There is no way for her heal up crippling injuries. So I have been keeping them just for that. Unless maybe I can mod something like blood packs to do that as well.

Sleeping should heal crippled limbs automatically unless you use some mod. But I guess she can't sleep for every crippled limb.

I use a combination of RI Sleep and Stay Crippled in Combat, the first one disables healing limbs by sleeping and the 2nd one disables healing crippled limbs in combat only, you have to wait for a battle to finish to heal crippled limbs.

IMHO, crippled limbs happen way too often to wait for sleeping. But I did make bloodpacks heal limbs with the hematophage perk. I just tested it out. You cannot go to the status screen with the big paper doll and pick a limb, and heal it like you can a stimpack. But just using a bloodpack normally does automatically causes all crippled limbs to be cured.

Tonight Megaton sleeps with the fishes. Loviatar set the fusion charge. She went to Tenpenny Tower, talked to Burke, pressed the button, and just as I was getting ready to take screenshots, nothing. There was a bright flash, and later some shaking. But no explosion. Burke and Tenpenny talked like it had happened however.

So then I started going through my mods to find out which one was preventing the explosion from happening. Not Fellout, not Fallout 3 Realistic Wasteland Lighting, not Megaton Lighting Overhaul. It turns out it was a little mod I made myself that changed a little part of Megaton, to create a little walkway straight from the player house to the front gate.

So after disabling that, I got my explosion. Yes! Then I reloaded, waited for daylight, and tried it again. I liked it much better in the daytime. So that became my official version. Though I still have the screenshots from the first try.

Afterward I got my first real look at the Tenpenny Suite. I was not impressed. I liked the Megaton house much more. I tried a mod that makes it larger, but it goes too far, and makes it gigantic. I did find another that adds trophies to the vanilla suite for quests you do. I'll see how that works out, and keep her Mad Scientist Lair near Springvale as Loviatar's primary residence.

I just noticed that nuking Megaton does not change the People Killed stat in your Pipboy.

I also did a little thinking today about Loviatar's past. She definitely was alive before the Great War. She was a biochemist working for one of the big labs that was deep in research for the military. The three that come to mind are Big MT, Mariposa, and The Institute.

Since I still have not played FO4, I don't know a whole lot about the Institute. Just that they seem to be big into Artificial Intelligence and robotics. So that does not seem like the place for her. Bit MT seems to have sealed itself off when the nukes started flying, so probably not there too. Mariposa is tantalizing. That is where FEV was developed. When the army garrison found out what was going on there, they were so horrified that they killed the scientists.

That sounds perfect. It was Loviatar's experiments that led the army to mutiny and start killing scientists. She was dying of cancer. While officially on the FEV project, she was in reality following her own agenda to cure herself. She developed her Prometheus Serum in secret, but after the animal testing stage, she naturally needed some humans to try it on. Her compatriots were already secretly using military prisoners as test subjects, so she appropriated a few for herself.

Naturally the results of her early work were horrific (but I think was actually useful for the FEV work, and probably would become the groundwork for the creation of the first Super Mutants by The Master). The Army found out, and the Colonel in charge committed suicide. Captain Roger Maxson took over, determined to get even, and started killing scientists.

With the Army on its way with torches and pitchforks, Loviatar injected herself with her unfinished serum. It reacted with the cancer cells in her system, and they took over. But she did not die. Her serum worked, even if in some unexpected ways. She became immortal. She shot her way out of Mariposa, and escaped into the desert. The nukes were in the air less than a week later. She was buried by the bombs, and by the time she had dug herself out, she found that Maxson and the others had left Mariposa.

She pursued, and picked them off one by one during the nights through ambushes. Killing opportune targets and then escaping into the darkness before the others could come. But when Maxson and the others reached the Lost Hills bunker, she knew her opportunity for vengeance had gone. She could never kill them all in there. So she was forced to withdraw, before their own patrols could find and kill her. Perhaps permanently.

By then she had discovered that her body now fed off corruption. She could only breathe or drink toxic or irradiated air and water. She could only eat other humans. But she was also immune to radiation, diseases, and toxins. In fact, they made her stronger. Her new body seemed perfectly adapted to the newly created wasteland.

I am also thinking that regeneration would be an appropriate power for her. I am going to see if I can make a script that will make that work from a perk. Ha! Turns out that was really easy. I was able to copy the regeneration script from the Solar Powered perk, and just remove the if statements that cause it to only work during the daytime.

Loviatar is an Impersonated Corruption, good backstory with ties to Mariposa and FEV. I figure she must be highly intelligent.

I used this mod to expand Tenpenny's suite in Deeno's game, not that he used it much. It adds a bedroom with a bathroom, and enlarges the main room.

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Hobo spent a few days at Fort Constantine and thoroughly scavenged the place and now he has almost every component required for a Dart Gun except a radscorpion poison gland. He found a well preserved Chinese Assault Rifle and matching 5.56 ammunition among some skeletons on a toilet. Of course he still prefers his hunting rifle but an assault one will come handy at times. While looking for anything else worthy or worthless he listened to CONELRAD, his favorite radio station in the wastes. When it was sleeping time, Hobo went to the former CO's quarters and slept in his bed which he encircled with mines.

Today he's about to leave Fort Constantine and head for the nearby SatCom Array Tower. Hobo doesn't have a goal, he just wanders to wherever he likes. Hobo is a free man. Was he always free? Hobo doesn't know.

So I've been rather addicted to Fallout 4 recently... to the point it's literally been the only game I've been playing!

My current character is called Matty. He used to be in the army before the Nuke, but was pardoned after he accidently shot and killed his little brother (who was also in the army) during the war. This left him with a severe form of PTSD where he finds himself entirely unable to even touch a gun.

He is a Melee fighter, and I am loving the play through! Right now his PTSD is still getting the better of him... but maybe in the future he will be able to use at LEAST a pistol. I'll have to see.

His current companion is Piper, but after helping out the BoS at the Station he has been thinking about them a lot. He's always felt his place is to fight the good fight. Piper, who he has grown to trust, sees them differently.

So yeah, I'll update on here... although would anybody mind if I made a separate 'Fallout 4 where are you now? kind of thread?"

Matty sounds interesting. He certainly has good reason not to like guns. There sure seems to be a lot of people playing FO4 these days, so maybe it should have its own Where Are You Today topic.

Today Loviatar spent her time thoroughly exploring the area between Tenpenny Tower and the ruins of Megaton (which is where her lair is now located). After clearing the Raiders from Fairfax (and having a warm meal... ), she discovered the Brotherhood of Steel Outcasts in Fort Independence.

Loviatar has not forgotten that the Brotherhod of Steel was formed from the very same soldiers who had killed all of her colleagues in Mariposa, in the days before the Great War. So she went on a killing (and feeding) spree. This is the first time any of my characters has gone down into Fort Independence. There was some really good loot in the armory, including a unique energy pistol that looks like an alien blaster. I think that was added by EVE however.

Ha ha ha nice! I am loving your Loviator back-story discoveries.


Yours too, Rhiannae. Welcome to Chorrol, Matty. Enjoy your stay.





Memory loss?

Hobo doesn't know.

Pics or it didn't happen! Is her lair inside actual Megaton ruins?

IIRC, there's a unique Fat Man (or is it a Missile Launcher) inside Fort Independence as well?

Miss Launcher was inside Fort Independence. Now it is a trophy back in the lair.

I wasn't able to find a way into the Megaton Ruins. Otherwise I would have put her lair inside. Instead it is on one of the hills north-east of the main gate.

Today Loviatar had her first Regulator attack. I have never played an evil character before, so it is a first for me as well. I was surprised by how similar the dialogue is between them and the Talon Company assassins who attack good characters.

I also got close enough to the DC Ruins to listen to GNR for the first time. Once again, it was a new experience to hear Three Dog say: "You know her, you hate her. (How could you not?) She's the malignant Marauder who oozed out of Vault 101"

SPEW !!!! OMG, this was a comedy of errors, I've never been able to successfully remove a slave collar yet, even when I had high repair or explosives! That is really funny! Yeah, and now we see what catalyst drove Loviatar to a life of crime and blowing up cities; this incident,







I never knew that healed crippled limbs too, most def makes that perk one I want to give myself (after killing Vance for his coat and sword)







It would have been interesting to see if - when the explosion didn't happen; to go to Megaton and see if it still stood due to your mod; but that you were getting all the credit (and bad karma, did you get your bad karma for doing it?) - and the Tenpenny Suite for blowing it up, but still have it and maybe have use of the megaton house?

Because if you buy themes or items for either your Tenpenny Suite or Megaton house; both houses get the items.

(So you might be able to continue living in Megaton as if nothing happened; but have the game thinking you blew it up.

Really interesting turn of events that would be, lol. The possibilities!

love your backstory for Loviatar and how you were able to intertwine it with known lore of well known characters and places! Also how her abilities suit her backstory!

On the regeneration - I was about to suggest that Moira gives the Player a regenerate limbs perk when I got to the part where you had already solved the problem, lol.

This all sounds great!







This seems just perfect! I might get this one and retexture it, really nice! Thanks for the link, Lopov!

Bloodpacks don't normally do that, even with the hematophage perk. I modded them so they do.





When I went looking to see if there were any mods that did anything with ruined Megaton, I found several that allow you do just what you suggested. You can blow up the bomb and get the Tenpenny Suite, but it doesn't destroy Megaton. Instead Megaton stays exactly how it was. I wanted it blown up though. It suits Loviatar's personality.

I've been just consoling the Tenpenny suite to my character and getting the Megaton suite the regular way this past year (I think since you taught me how, lol). But - like you, I've never blown up Megaton before, even with my one evil character I played on the 360 (to get my bad karma achievements, lol).

It would be interesting to make another evil character and test it out, but like you - if I do, would most def need a modded living quarters somewhere. The Tenpenny suite is not very satisfactory imho.

I do like that mod Lopov posted for it size wise; might combine it with my textures and set-up the balcony for hanging out there and sitting, etc.

Yeah, I think that energy weapon is added by a mod; but there is a unique missile launcher in there, and Alien Ammo; stealth boys; lots of chems in the medical room; and several recon armor sets in the dorm room footlockers.

(IIRC).






BWAAHAA! Now THIS makes me want to try an evil character,

Loviatar blew off Uncle Leo's head today. He was dead already though. It was at the Raider house between Arefu and Big Town. I think it is called Kaelyn's Bed and Breakfast. Loviatar was shooting it out with the Raiders down by the nearby bridge, and one crouched down behind a dead Super Mutant. Loviatar took a shot at the Raider, and took off the Mutant's head. It was only after the battle was over that she discovered it was Uncle Leo. I guess the Raiders must have killed him before Loviatar came along.

GAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!! Poor Uncle Leo, lol. But, at least she wasn't the actual one that killed him.

I heard a new one from Three Dog today:

Question time, kids. You know what a Reaver is? It's a killer, a liar, a monster. In other words, it's that bitch from Vault 101. Check it out.

I never imagined how much fun an evil character could be!

SPEW !!! That is hilarious !!!!

I had another first yesterday. While exploring the wastes, Loviatar ran across some people that she thought were scavengers at first, since they were dressed in the trader and wasterlander outfits (not raider gear). But they all attacked immediately, and yelled something about it being vengeance for Megaton. They were Megaton Refugees!

Of course Loviatar killed and ate them...

And today Loviatar caught up with Moira again at her new home in Underworld. I had already tried talking her out of the Wasteland Survival Guide and failed the speech check. No matter how many times I tried again, it never gave the option for the speech check again. Then I read up on the Wikia that you can only try to talk her out of it one time per chapter.

So Loviatar had to finish the first chapter - get irradiated. Normally that is easy. Just stand in the radioactive water beside the bomb in Megaton, or some other water source. But Loviatar is completely immune to radiation, so she cannot get irradiated. Doh! In the end I had to use the console to complete that quest, and with it the first chapter of the Survival Guide. Then I was able to crush Moira's dreams and talk her out of writing her book.

So now Loviatar is officially a Dream Crusher as well as a cannibal and murderer. Got to love this game!

I have only done the blow up Megaton once but I can remember the kickback you get from doing it. That is quite fun. I love the wiki- hostile with no exceptions!



Loviatar is barking up one crazy tree there! Sound like she should visit a certain Novac resident. Lol.

You might want to add a full on ghoul mod and give into that inhuman desire. Evil characters are so much fun and it is cool to hear that you are enjoying the new moments in the game. One day Beth will allow us to join factions and have a proper experience. Alas, one day....

A created a ghoul mod years ago. I used it to play Medusa, my sniper who explored all the DC ruins.

Loviatar has been exploring to the north east today. At Canterbury Commons she had a front row seat for a battle between The AntAgonizer and The Mechanist. Unlike most of my other games, this time the ants won - destroying all of the robots with one ant left standing. Afterward Loviatar talked to the Mayor, and offered to solve Canterbury's problems, for a price.

She followed the Mechanist back to his forge, and decommissioned him permanently. From there she went to the AntAgonizer's Lair, and after killing her way through all of the ants, faced off with the Supervillainess herself. Only to have her demand that Loviatar turn over the Mechanist's armor. Loviatar played along and did so, and in return The AntAgonizer gave her a poisoned kitchen knife, and left town to spread her hive elsewhere.

That worked out well. Loviatar went back to collect her caps from Mayor Roe, and decided to invest in the caravans. With Megaton being a smouldering crater, the caravan traders are her primary means of selling her loot. Thankfully they still show up in front of the Megaton Ruins, which makes it easy for her to find them, since her lair is nearby.

Finally, Loviatar headed farther north to the Republic of Dave. The Former Republic of Dave that is, as she declared it forfeit, being the Ambassador of the Wasteland. Much killing ensued, and now Loviatar has Dave's special key. Though she doesn't know what it opens, yet...

Medusa looks amazing. A ghoul sniper is a scary thought.

It is hard to say who is more insane- the robots/ghouls or the Republic of Dave. Good to hear that violence and killing won the day.

Did you grab the Bobblehead? How many has Loviatar found so far?


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edit- I was reading around on Reddit and came across a post of someone who has built a colosseum in Fallout 4. Amazing how it takes the public to add the things I want in my Beth games. I am still waiting for pit fighting in Skyrim.

Check it out

Hobo hears a song playing.

It's a happy song, sung by a man and a woman, and they call each other "my sunshine". But as Hobo looks around himself, he's alone in a dilapidated barn, there isn't any radio around. He only hears the song in his mind. But Hobo knows there was once a radio in this barn. If he closes his eyes, he can even see it playing while a strong man is feeding some animals similar to Brahmin except that they have one head less.

Hobo opens his eyes and he's alone again. But the song keeps on playing. Hobo likes it so he lits a cigarette and joins the man and the woman singing "You are my sunshine".

At least the voices in his head keep Hobo company.

Loviatar came across a crashed spaceship today. That means one thing. Mothership Zeta. She woke in a cell with another prisoner, who suggested that they pretend to fight in order to get the guards to come in and stop them. Loviatar didn't pretend. Once they aliens came in, she killed everyone, cellmate included. Then she ate them all. This is what happens when her dander gets up.

She came across a child shortly after, and left her alive. Loviatar had a feeling that she might gag on the innocence. Or at least get the runs. Turns out it was a good decision, as the kid knows a lot about the spaceship, and has been very useful. Now it is time to chew bubblegum and kick alien ass. And Loviatar is all out of bubblegum...

Since Loviatar didn't want to write a Wasteland Survival Guide, she could try the Wasteland Raw Meat Guide - from ghouls to aliens and everything in between. The White Glove Society from the Mojave would definitely appreciate it.

That's certainly an interesting take on why Loviatar spared Sally! Kudos!

I feel very, very scared for those aliens. It is like the aliens vs predator thing.

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I was playing Chalice yesterday and had a thought about the game. Nuka Cola (which has sat around for 200 years) always gives us hit point return every time that we drink it. It would make far more sense if some of the bottles were tainted and actually took hp away. Say, a 50-50 chance of plus 20 hp or minus 20 hp.

Imagine how awesome would that be. Fighting a raider with a missile launcher. You get hit and are low on heath. Take a drink and you kill yourself.

But I guess it is like the raise the difficulty and increase the bullet sponge. Oh dear Beth, why?

Loviatar could write The Irradiated Chef, or The Radiation Gourmet! Have you heard the Gourmet is in the Wasteland? I'm gathering these kidneys to impress her...

Loviatar ate Mothership Zeta tonight. She left the other humans alive though. Sally was the most useful - with her knowledge of alien hardware and ability to fit into small places. Loviatar expects she might make for a good apprentice in the future. She'll have to warm up another dose of the Prometheus Serum for when Sally reaches adulthood. After all, there are always two, a Master and an Apprentice...

BWAAHAA!!!! That is so funny, I did not know anyone but Moira survived! It may be worth it to try an evil playthrough just to experience this stuff, lol.

And I wondered if they put extra dialogue in for low intelligence characters in Fallout 3 like they did in New Vegas? I'd like to try being a dumb and evil character just once too,


Not using Misa for that though, will have to make a new character with a Renee name,

Yes! Here Here!











This is Awesome, could you go into ghoul areas and not get attacked while playing this character?







Oh wait, if you blow up Megaton you can't go into Rivet City and trade? Urk!







How funny that they made it in an irradiated swamp!

In the ghoul mod I made, Feral Ghouls were friendly to the player character. That made going through the metros a lot easier.

You can go into Rivet City and trade just fine after blowing up Megaton. It doesn't really change anything, except Megaton of course, and your alignment. Rivet City is just a long way to walk from Megaton every time you want to sell things.

Hobo sounds a little like the homeless hoboes one finds in cities, lol. If I had a song stuck in my head, I'd much rather it be some Metallica song.







BWAAHAA! Good looking guy in that vid, lol. (not the ghoul, )






Bold = no, "The Rad Gourmet." Sounds better, lol.











Oh, okay.

Yes, it is a long walk. I make use of the random wandering merchants more often than I make it to Rivet City.

Oh, that is Awesome that the feral ghouls are friendly !!!