Lopov, what a poignant little story. Well-written and powerfully compelling. Poor Red.

Poor Red. Rattler sounds as warm as his namesake. I hope you won't be upset when I say that like Deeno, I hope he gets what he deserves...

Poor Red....

Still, I think that the end result was far quicker than the ending my characters have given Red and Shorty. Most of my evil folk love collecting unique weapons and apparel- needless to say Red ends up granting many items to the just cause...




Fantastic! I had one work colleague of mine who played nothing but Oblivion from 2007-2010. And when I say played I mean played- like 5 hours every night. Nothing else. The interesting part is that his second wife was Vietnamese, little English at all, but she would sit there and love to watch him play Oblivion. While he battled the enemies she would point out all the loot containers. There were an amazing team.

I failed to save Red


Other than that it´s business as usual at my end. Ho-hum

Lopov: Yeah, that Rattler guy is horrid! He's a meanie, and I can't wait to see what happens to him. Definitely like the bad guy in a movie.

mALX: I love your description of screaming at your TV set 'cause of the endings in Fallout 3! So awesome! I don't remember Fawkes "ruining" the moment, but maybe it's because I was too shocked by what was going on.

Well, time for another Cho Zenwahn update.

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Pipboy ON, Date: Thursday, 12.31.77, 11:13 AM

Well, I'm back in Megaton. Got a new friend with me. Everybody say hi to Paladin Star Cross.

*picture rasterization mode corrupted, image not saved*

Paladin Star Cross: Um, that's Star Paladin Cross. Anyways, it is well to see you again. Shall we continue?

Sure, Um... we're in Moriarty's place, and I just woke up. Had one heck of a night, let me tell you. Star Paladin Cross is hip to my arm-device, by the way. My Pipboy App®. She knows all about my little secret with the recording app, and all that. Break.

Let's go outside.

Paladin Star Cross: Lead the way.

unidentified sounds .... Pipboy app cannot decipher....

unidentified male voice: Got something to say to me kid?

Good morning asshole? How about that?

unidentified male voice: Look, I don't know who you are, but you got two seconds to get the [censored] out of my face.

Yeah, you can only dream, retard. One of these days it'll be me and you, out in the Wasteland, and I'm better than you, much better. I'll send your remains back to Moriarty in a box someday. You can count on that. Break.

Sorry about that. That guy's a loser though. Anyways, the big news, right here in Megaton, is that my old pal Marge N. Overra has managed to disable the bomb that sits in the middle of town. It's like this huge ordeal here. And get this, half the people in town are pissed about it! ... They're like these worshippers, you know? ... Ha! Speak of the devil.

Marge N. Overra: Cho! Is that you?

Yes it is. Ahh, hugs!

Marge N. Overra: It's so good to see you!

I've heard all about how you're like this bomb expert now. Half the town is pissed. Oh, by the way Marge, this is my new companion, Paladin Star Cross.

Paladin Star Cross: Hee hee, um, he keeps getting that wrong. It's Star Paladin Cross.

Marge N. Overra: Hi! I'm Marge. Me and Cho haven't seen each other in weeks. Just happened to both be in town on the same day.

Yeah, we should do something. Have a little party, or something. Maybe we can go down to the Super Duper Mart. Have you been there lately? You should see what Joe has done with it.

Marge N. Overra: How's the Pipboy App thingie? Still working?

Oh yes, matter of fact I'm recording right now, wanna see?

Marge N. Overra: CHO, what the [censored]? You changed my programming! Oh I see, so if a girl speaks, it makes our text the color pink? What the hell? .. Hey, where are ya going, come back here!

Ahh [censored], I'm in for it now. Women..... you know? Guess I'd better go before my app records something better left out of these chronicles!

*click*

Pipboy App OFF, Thursday, 12.31.77, 12:09 AM

How awesome is that? The app now recognizes female voices and color them in!

@Acadian - Rattler's updates will more or less be sad. Not on his part but on those that'll meet him.

@SubRosa - I'm not upset at all, in fact I'd be surprised if you made the opposite comment, like wishing Rattler all the best. But on the other hand such comments are a confirmation for me that I succeeded in making Rattler not likeable.

@Winter Wolf - the story would be different if two days after Rattler sold Red to slavers, I wouldn't get the notification "Red has died". As I later found out, she was probably killed because I had The Big Trouble In Big Town quest running at the same time and the two somehow clashed. But in a way it was a nice and unexpected twist and made sense that Red committed suicide.

I removed the red bandana from her in the G.E.C.K. before Rattler met her because he has the same bandana and I want his to be unique.

@mirocu - don't worry, Rattler failed to save her too.

@Renee - one reason why I didn't introduce Rattler immediately, was because I wanted him to survive at least the first 20-30 hours. It's a habit I'll keep from now on because in Ben Stevens' case maybe I should have waited a little longer, if I knew he'd die so early, I probably wouldn't write about him. I lose most of my characters in early hours, later on they're harder to bring down. Which means that Rattler might rattle around for a while.

I'm quite sure that the guy calling Cho an asshole, was no other than Jericho.

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2 The fire extinguisher

Cherry was crouching next to a fire extinguisher. Covering her beaten face with her bare hands, she was in a cold sweat despite the morning on that fateful day was warmer than usually. She couldn’t believe her own naivety, her own foolishness. She fell for a trick and now her life was about to come to end any second. She only begged for it to be over quick. Quick and as painless as possible.

Cherry was a whore, and a good one. Months ago on her way to Rivet City as she was about to be savaged by mirelurks, her life was saved by Dukov, an ex-mercenary. In return Dukov demanded for Cherry to stay at his place, a pre-war hotel next to Potomac, and do what she’s been doing the best. Cherry couldn’t complain – in return for her services Dukov kept her safe, sound and high on drugs. But somewhere deep inside her, Cherry still was longing for going to Rivet City to start a new life there. She dreamed of owning a small stall in the Rivet City’s marketplace, selling underwear.

And then he came along – the man with the red bandana who called himself Rattler. Despite he looked crazy, his toughness in some odd way charmed Cherry (she always fell for idiots) and after having fun in the hotel’s toilet while Dukov was fast-asleep upstairs, Rattler sweet-talked her into accompanying him to Rivet City. “I’m going there myself, have some business to do there. Now it’s your chance to leave this fat f*** snoring upstairs for good– take it or leave it, chick, but I won’t be around forever. I’m like a sssssnake…now you see me…and now you don’t! That’s why I’ve been around for so long.”

Cherry took the chance and left Dukov’s place with nothing but her sexy sleepwear, a switchblade and some bottlecaps. Her new freedom didn’t last long, in fact it didn’t last even for one full hour. Now she regretted leaving Dukov like she had never regretted anything before. After beating her, Rattler made her crouch by the fire extinguisher at gunpoint. He put a cigarette in his mouth, wickedly grinning all along: “When my cig runs out of life, Cherry… so will you. Then we’ll see how far you can fly.”

After two most horrible minutes in her life passed, a loud explosion was heard along Potomac, as Rattler sent Cherry on her final fly.

Ewww, now I am hoping a super-mutant turns Rattler into fondue!

Renee – Nice to see that Cho has his own paladin now. Oh, Marge N. Overra –


Lopov – Poor Cherry. Let’s all pass the hat to put a big bounty on Rattler’s head – preferably separated from his body. Grrrr!

Very courageous to write a character like that, Lopov. As we have seen the clientele here at Chorrol have a very strong sense of honor and duty. Oh boy, is Rattler on a course of destruction now!

It is only a question who will get him first.

I love it.


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Renee- Paladin Cross is another companion I have never used. Beth's experimentation with karma results in me missing out on half the companions in the game. Too many grenades to reverse pick pocket and items to steal, you see....

I would love to see a pic of the 'all star marines' as they try to 'right the wrongs' of Megaton and Moriarty's. It is a madhouse there!

Star Paladin Cross is awesome, Wolf. Cho felt comfortable with her the moment he met her. Too bad she eventually got a little too eager during battle, like a lot of Bethesda companions.


This would be too comfortable. I hope he falls into a pit full of yao-guai, deathclaws, and scorpions, and then his evil, smiling face will finally grimace, and Lopov takes a picture of this moment.

Poor Cherry. What would be worse...getting ravaged by a mirelurk, or meeting up with Rattler? I think I'd choose the mirelurk. At least they don't have anything awful to say!

Hangin's too good for him, burnin's too good for him...

@SubRosa - RattFondue (+1 STR, +1 AGI, +++ inclination to kill someone)

@Acadian - looks like your action about bounty reached Regulators as can be read in today's story.

@Winter Wolf - I doubted whether to even write about Rattler. At first I wanted to keep him as my dark secret, only mentioning him occasionally but then I figured out that sharing is better.

@Renee - if Rattler ever gets killed, be sure that I'll capture the final look on his face.

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3 There's a man goin' 'round takin' lives...

“… and he decides who to kill and who to enslave. He calls himself Rattler and you’ll easily recognize him by the bright red bandana on his head. We have information that he’s been regularly dealing with slavers from Paradise Falls so stay close to that area and you should run into him. Our branch from up north says he’s extremely dangerous and shouldn’t be underestimated but they’re probably exaggerating like always. I mean, what could one lone raider do against us, right boys? Now go and bring me his dirty head, worth one thousand caps. I'd prefer it with the bandana still on.”

But what at first seemed like just another job, turned out to be much more complicated. The first party of Regulators sent after Rattler was found savaged a distance west of Minefield, under a water tower. Those that found them said, that every single limb was cut off from their bodies and their remains were scattered all over the place.

The second party sent after the bloodthirsty raider never returned either. Their remains were found scattered all over the Northwest Seneca Station but this time…this time there was something else. From the marks on one of the Regulators it was obvious that Rattler feasted on him. His fellows could only hope that it happened when he was already dead. And to admit his deed, there was an inscription written in blood on a nearby wall, saying – t a sss t y !

Looks like the hunters are underestimating their prey. It also seems that Rattler may have been taking foe-eating lessssons from SubRosa's Loviatar!

I thought that screen was reminiscent of Loviatar too!








BWAAHAA! I didn't know you were writing little background stories to go with your pictures, this is Awesome!








BWAAHAA! She is hard to keep, even if you do get her. And the gods forbid you should bring her on a mission with you where you have to steal something,

Like others have said, this might have been Loviatar's handiwork!

I am just extremely worried that there are now two cannibals haunting the DC wasteland.

Andale is now expanding....

One has to learn from the best.

I doubt that just because they have similar tastes, that'd stop Rattler from trying them.

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4 Mr. Rattler

“Have you seen that dirty man in our tower? Who could let such a disgusting rat in?”

“I saw him, and he’s horrid! Does he even bathe? Filthy animal! He looks more vicious than a vicious dog! We’ll have to talk to chief Gustavo about that!”

Rattler’s arrival stirred up unrest among snobby residents of Tenpenny Tower – none of them understood what was this foul-smelling, greasy-haired, psycho-looking wastelander doing amongst them?!
But when news about ghouls that wanted to move to Tenpenny Tower being exterminated thanks to the dirty wastelander, they began to revere him.

“Would you like some more whiskey oh, Mr. Rattler?”

“Oh it’s you Mr. Rattler. Such a pleasure. If it weren’t for you, we’d all be dead by now.”

“Mr. Rattler, care to join me for dinner?”

Their reactions amused Rattler but he couldn’t care less about them. He didn’t kill ghouls out of the kindness of his heart but because he simply felt like killing some ghouls and Chief Gustavo offered quite some caps as a reward. But the real reason behind his arrival to Tenpenny Tower was strictly business – he came for Susan Lancaster to enslave her again. She’s been enslaved before but managed to slit a throat of her captor and escape from Paradise Falls. She found safe shelter at Tenpenny Tower where she’s been working as a whore. More professional than Cherry but a whore nonetheless. She charged Rattler one hundred caps for her services but while counting her payment, he hit her with Mesmetron and while Susan was completely obedient, he put a slave collar around her neck, tightening it hard, barely allowing her to breathe. Then he took all her bed-earned caps, made her strip to her underwear and with some friendly words about her head going to explode soon unless she runs, sent her back to Paradise Falls.

Satisfied, Rattler grabbed some more whiskey bottles from Susan’s room and left Tenpenny Tower, heading back to the slavers compound as well.

First impressions are often accurate - so it was with the residents of Tenpenny Tower. Poor Susan - working girl can't even make a living without getting enslaved. . . again.

'Mr Rattler.' That term now haunts my sleep at night.

Evil is always at its worst when it is polite and courteous. It is at that moment you feel the need to run.

Fast.

Unfortunately Susan was just a little too slow.

Underlined: The farm from Walking Dead game comes to mind *shudder*



R.I.P
Susan

Aw, poor Susan!!!

I know right? Such a creepy, awful demon that guy is. I love the part when the residents all do an about-face though, treating him with respect, just like the dimwitted tower-dwellers they are.

Just like Susan, today's story introduces another character to be sympathized with...

5 A bumblebee

“Come with me, Bumble, and I’ll take ya on an adventure of your life. It’ll be…unf******forgettable.”

Bumble was only six years old and in her eyes every stranger was kind – even Rattler. Promising to take her on an adventure, the dirty raider lured her out of Little Lamplight where his slaver friend Crazy Minnie was waiting in ambush to put an explosive collar around Bumble’s neck.

“Don’t bumble now,” scornfully remarked Rattler as Minnie was tightening the collar. “It might go off and then your adventure will be over.”

Eulogy Jones, the leader of Paradise Falls, already had a buyer for the little girl. Rattler was watching her as she was leaving Little Lamplight with Crazy Minnie holding her hand, knowing that Bumble will curse him soon. If she doesn’t yet know how to curse, she’ll learn. If what he had heard about Bumble’s future owner was true, then the little one won’t live long. Not that he cared.

Rattler’s deeds didn’t go unnoticed at Paradise Falls and if most slavers steered clear of him before, they now considered him a living legend. The pirate of the wastes, the ultimate defiler. Not only was he able to enslave some of the most wanted people of the Capital Wasteland, he had no qualms about enslaving children, had left a horde of dead Regulators behind him, and had no restraints about eating people – dead or alive.

It was better to be on Rattler’s good side.

Eeep! And exactly which side would that be?
Does Rattler even have a good side?

Aww, poor little Bumble.

Cripes, Lopov.

GAAAAAH, not Bumble !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I didn't think about this until now.


Yikes, Renee.

To Rattler every living being is just 'meat', and he has no qualms about enslaving anyone.

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6 The No Town

By the morning all residents of the Big Town were gone.

Dusty’s corpse was shred to pieces by a ripper that Rattler took from some Outcast he killed earlier.

Flash’s throat was cut and he was lying dead in the town’s club house.

Bittercup was lying in a rusty bathtub, stark naked. And dead.

Kimba faced the same fate, except that she was lying in what used to be a basement of the town’s clinic.

Timebomb was sprawled on an operating table, an expression of agony and pain on his face. Rattler was eating him alive until he couldn’t listen to his shrieks anymore and finished him off.

The only survivor was Pappy. He was running to Paradise Falls, an explosive collar tightly clenched around his neck, allowing him to breathe just barely. “You’re worth 250 caps to me, meat,” Rattler said while putting his collar on. “Better don’t get lost or get any stupid ideas. Else you’ll end up like Timebomb. In my stomach! Grrrr...owl!”

Pappy was running as fast as he could but just as he was about to cross the bridge leading out of the town, he felt pain in his left knee as Rattler hit him with a shotgun. Despite the pain, Pappy stood up but knew that his leg was definitely broken.

“Don’t worry, I won’t kill you,” said Rattler as he was getting closer to Pappy, reloading the shotgun. “I figured you want some company to Paradise Falls, eh? Besides, I’m goin’ to protect you from muties. I don’t want my 250 caps to die on the way to the paradise. Now get runnin’…”

Many years later, while Pappy was a free man again, he still kept having nightmares about limping to Paradise Falls, with the bloody raider walking right behind, threatening to kill him if he didn’t hurry up. Back then, Pappy thought of intentionally not standing up again so Rattler would shoot him and end the agony but now he was happy he persisted. Though he’s been enslaved for many years, he later managed to find peace in his life. One thing puzzled him, though – in his lifetime he never found out what had happened to Rattler. Some claimed he died but nobody could say for sure. Others said he traveled west and never returned to the Capital Wasteland. There were also stories that he became a leader of some prominent raider faction north in the Commonwealth. “If he’s still alive, he must be pretty damned old by now,” thought Pappy, getting close to sixty himself. “I doubt he’s still around…but maybe he is…maybe the old snake is still rattling somewhere…”

That night he had nightmares again.

Rattler is definitely the stuff of nightmares!

Eaten alive by the Rattler! Hmm, does this mean that Rattler's bloody tale is coming to an end? Perhaps because there are no more victims?

I really have nothing new to tell as I just keep on doing what I´m doing; runnin´, gunnin´, shootin´, lootin´ and sellin´.

And Gunny keeps being my trusty robot in arms. I can´t for the life of me remember how I managed without him, he not only helps with the enemies but he also carries so much loot!

That's what I'm up to right now with Major A. Holl. He's in Farragut West Metro, hunting mole rats and ghouls. He's stalking up on a rat right now, smoking a ciggie.

The tunnels look really "smooth" on PC, the game looks really good. On Xbox, the tunnels look a lot grittier, which is also cool in a way.

@SubRosa - Rattler made it to my dreams too but that was when I created him. It wasn't a pleasant dream.

@Acadian - so far he wasn't close to dying so his tale doesn't seem to end that soon. Chances are, though, that he'll depart the Capital Wasteland on his own in the future because he doesn't like staying in one place for too long. We'll see.

7 The game

“Now we’re goin’ to play a game,” said Rattler. Jenny didn’t dare to look him in his dirty face. “Rules of this game are very simple. I’ve played it before with other wastelanders. All of them understood it so you’ll understand it too.” He wiped his mouth on the back of his right hand. “All you need to do…is run! Run! Run! Run!” He went to pick up the minigun which belonged to one of Jenny’s Super Mutant captors. “You’ll run and I’ll come after you. With this,” he said and knocked on the minigun. “If you outrun me…you live. If you don’t…you die. Simple.”

Back when Rattler stormed the ruined church where Jenny was captured by Super Mutants, she thought that the nightmare is over. But when she saw the red bandana on his head, she remembered hearing stories about the Beast from the North as some wastelanders called him – Jenny didn’t believe he really existed but now she doubted no more.

“I’d start running, little one,” grinned Rattler while reloading the minigun. “I’d start running like NOW!” Jenny stood up and began running – she knew it was in vain but it was her last chance. She was never a good runner and after days of being tied up, she barely felt her limbs. Stumbling, she made it out of the church and by the time she made it past a pair of ruined cars outside, she already heard sinister laughter and hurrying footsteps behind her.

She heard the deafening sound as Rattler’s minigun began to sing its deadly song, a moment later she felt unbearable pain in her back, then she fell to her knees and then she didn’t feel anything. Anything at all.

Grrr!

Poor Jenny.

As I've said, Rattler would make a good evil boss. Maybe you could sell him to Bethesda.

Poor Jenny!

Rattler is the kind of guy my character goes after

Dude, Cho Zenwahn would soooo waste a guy like Rattler.

Everyone with a soul would soooo waste a guy like Rattler!

Oops. Sorry if we´re bashing your character, Lopov. But he kinda deserves it, wouldn´t you say?

Lopov doesn't mind, mirocu. Matter of fact, I think we're encouraged to bash the guy.



*click*

Pipboy App ON: Date: Saturday, 01.02.78, 12:24 AM

Hey I'm back here, and I'm with Star Paladin Cross. Finally got your name right.

Star Paladin Cross: Thank you.

Some crazy [censored] just went down. Okay, let me explain. Break.

I'm walking along near Megaton, minding my own business, when I get this alert from my Pipboy. It's a radio transmission from Amata. Now, I haven't seen or spoken to her, or anyone else in Vault 101 for weeks now. Amata is one of the people me and dad left behind. So this is crazy right? I get this automated message from her, saying to stop by. Break.

So we stop by, and I wasn't too surprised nobody wanted to see me back. Oh, I saw Officer Mack, we saw Officer Taylor, and Officer Wilkins, we saw the whole gang. They were alll "happy" to see me back. Even the Overseer. Yeah, the Overseer. Apparently he was not dead. Well..."was" is an appropriate word here. Because now they're all dead. Break.

That's right, they all had to die. Wasn't my fault, either, I was playing it cool. Asking questions, tasting that perfect, non-radioactive water they've got down here. Well all I want to know is "how is Amata doing?" Because quite frankly I miss her. Maybe she might even want to come back outside with us. Well, I hate to say this but one of the officers attacked me first, HE attacked ME first. I was playing cool. But I had no choice, but to attack. And you know what? [censored] 'em. I'm so sick of this bull [censored]. Break.

The Overseer wouldn't let her leave, or anybody else leave. Well, let me back up a moment. Apparently there's been some sort of *unidentified word* down here. Vault 101 split in half, psychologically. Amata and a gang of others, including Butch the tunnel snake guy, have holed up somewhere down here, and are calling themselves "rebels". They want out of here, apparently, but that [censored] Overseer wouldn't let this happen. Yeah, crazy, right? Break.

Marge programmed this new "sleep" mode into my Pipboy App, so that I don't have to keep turning it on and off. I'll put it to sleep while I look for Amata.

Pipboy App Sleep Mode ON


... Stay tuned for Part II of Return to Vault 101!

It's trouble on the homefront! I get the feeling that Amata won't be too happy to see her dad's killer. Although it looks like with just a few bullets, Cho has made her the new Overseer of the vault!

This is one of the most interesting quests, IMHO. But it only really works well when you can remember the tangled web of familial relations between all involved, especially the Tunnel Snakes and their fathers/brothers. I made a post about it a while ago, when Hecate recently did the quest and I finally was able to remember who was who.

Rattler deserves all the bashing and I'm not upset, not at all, in fact such comments are a proof that Rattler's personality is depicted "well".

@Renee - Cho is back home! Not that much remained of his home, right? Like SubRosa, I also like this quest a lot. My first character Ronny managed to convince the Overseer to ... (I don't recall it anymore but it was a peaceful solution). Billy Bob, on the other hand, already killed the Overseer when escaping the vault, and the new Overseer (ex-officer Mack) couldn't be reasoned with at all, so B.B. killed him as well. I think that this quest has the most possible outcomes of all FO3 quests though some choices during the tutorial affect choices during this quest.

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Today we got a lot of rain in our country, and the smell of wet weather mixed with soil reminded me of a character I created in the summer of 2015 - Ally Gator. Maybe some of you still remember her, she got quite a lot of positive comments regarding her makeshift mini-nuke bra-armor. To sum up - Ally Gator is a drifter from Louisiana who came to the Capital Wasteland in search of possible love and new adventures. As it turned out, she found plenty of both. Though she didn't stay in the Capital Wasteland for long, she helped the Outcasts complete the Operation Anchorage simulation, and afterwards she continued east where she came upon the ferry Duchess Gambit that took her to swamps of Point Lookout. There she played a major role in local events - she ended the years-long personal battle between two pre-war scientists, and most importantly, met Nadine, the love of her life. After taking over the Duchess Gambit, Nadine as a ferryman and Ally as a guard, the girls continued transporting passengers back and forth between the Capital Wasteland and Point Lookout, and they also made a contract with several wasteland merchants to sell them Punga fruits, plants unique only to Point Lookout. When tidying up her cabin on Duchess Gambit, Ally found a cursed book Krivbeknih, and remembered a promise she gave to missionary Marcella - to forever destroy the cursed book in halls of Dunwich. As such, the girls sailed back to the Capital Wasteland, where Ally is already walking towards the Dunwich to fulfill her promise.

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Pics in the screenshot thread.

Ally Gator! She was a lot of fun. I loved her Creole background.

Link to that post please?

Here is all is:


I have also been trying to pay attention to the names of everyone in the Vault, and looking them up on the Wikia. Its a tangled web of familial relationships. We all know about Butch's mother because saving her from the roaches is one of the first things you do. But this time out I finally figured out that you end up killing the family members of the other two Tunnel Snakes during the breakout. Paul Hannon jr. is a Tunnel Snake, and his father is the Security Chief you run into on the Atrium second level. Wally Mack is the third Tunnel Snake, and his brother is Stevie Mack - the guy torturing Amata. Their father is Allen Mack - the guy with the red ballcap you see through the glass on the second floor of the Atrium where you fight Security Chief Hannon. He's pounding on the glass saying its all your father's fault. If you kill the Overseer in the tutorial, Allen Mack becomes the new Overseer.

Renee - I want a Pipboy Pipgirl in Tamriel!!!

Lopov - I remember Ally and that she was great fun! Heading over to see her screenshots now.

Lopov: I don't remember much about Ally, but man am I glad to meet her.

Acadian: Pipgirl? Buffy don't need no steenkin' Pipgirl.



I thought so too. Not only are we reminded of all the interactions between the 101 dwellers, but there's also just a lot of information to take in, a lot of stuff to think about during this quest, and there are multiple outcomes too. In fact, I did this quest twice, because the first time I did it, the outcome wasn't what Cho would have wanted at all. So I did it again (a rarity, I am usually a "live with it" kind of gamer) because I felt he did not get all the information he possibly could, to make an informed decision.

The first time I did this quest, nobody got in Cho's face at all. No one tried to pick a fight, but the overall outcome was not what Cho would have wanted. The second time we did this quest, the end result was about 50% what we would have wanted, because this time one of the guards attacked Cho, for no apparent reason. And so I lived with that, this time. Close enough.