Urp. There go those pesky emotions getting in the way of business. It will be interesting to see how this turns out / what happens next.

"Down in the Badlands she was saving the best for last
It only hurts when I laugh"

I really love this part



That's pretty deep. Red Orchid's story seems like it's sort of classy too. I can't really describe why though. It's like I hear this sexy saxophone music play toward the end, or something.

It hasn't happened yet in the history of Caesar's Legion that a free woman would walk in their Mojave base - the Fort. It hasn't happened either that a woman would walk the Fort, making sexual remarks at legionnaires. And it hasn't happened that the Legion's leader, mighty Caesar, would be swindled so easily.

All of the above changed when Red Orchid was invited to the Fort.

Not only was she free, but she was Caesar's honored guest and he had great plans of their future collaboration. As such, legionnaires were ordered to let her through as long as she didn't attack them. Which she didn't, but she made more than just one for-the-Legion-innappropriate comments to several of them. And on the top of that, she helped escape Benny, whom Caesar captured as he was trying to sneak to the Fort, and whom he put at Red Orchid's mercy.

Red Orchid didn't save Benny out of the kindness of her heart but she thought that to let him die on a cross is a too cruel fate to befall anyone. Besides, Benny was a too good lover to be wasted in the wastes. Not to mention that his knowledge about New Vegas might come handy in the future. And since she intended to take over the Lucky 38 in the long run, she needed someone to watch over her and help her realize the plan.

"After that we shall see..." Red Orchid said to Benny as they met again. To confuse the Legion, they escaped from the Fort separate ways but they arranged a meeting at the 188. "If you prove your worth, I might let you live."

"I won't let you down, pussycat." Benny put on the most pleasant smile he was capable of. This time he really meant it. He was well aware of the fact that he better not try and backstab Red Orchid once again.

Is Caesar supposed to be more good or more evil? Also, when RO was charming those men, I wonder if she batted her eyes and swung her hips? Because I think that really might have made some sort of difference.



I just did a brief bit of gaming with Major A. Holl. And I'm pretty sure he just found himself on Mothership Zeta. He was walking north, toward a "radio signal", for a couple days. He was in Minefield for awhile, dealt with Arkansas. Found a building full of ghouls, but one of them was a glowing one, so F that.

He kept on heading north, and saw some sort of structure in the ground, which I now believe was a crashed spaceship. So yeah, he's fighting aliens. I've heard Zeta (If that's where he is) is supposed to be the worst DLC, but I'm actually kind of psyched, because his game so far has been mostly random meandering with not much purpose.

Caesar started out as a good guy. He was a Follower of the Apocalypse - basically the Post Apocalypse version of the Peace Corps. Their members go out and teach people how to farm better, fight disease, etc... Their goal is to use the knowledge of the old world to make people's lives better.

But the tribe Caesar was with was attacked by another, much more vicious tribe. Caesar had to choose between allowing them all to be slaughtered, or to teach to how to kill. He chose the latter, and so he became a warlord. He gradually changed from a hippie to a sociopath, and his original tribe expanded by conquering their neighbors - either co-opting them to Caesar's cause, or literally exterminating them all.

An example of the latter is an NPC from the Lonesome Road dlc named Ulysses and his tribe. His tribe joined Caesar early, and acted as scouts for him as Caesar expanded through Arizona. But Ulysses tribe only knew Arizona. Once Caesar had conquered the last of Arizona, they were no longer useful as scouts. So he had them all crucified.

Caesar is also sexist. So all women in his Legion were automatically reduced to slaves. That is all any woman can ever be under Caesar.

It's fun to bounce back and forth between here and the screenies since, like Renee I'm familiar with these quests or NPCs. Glad to see her back with her Benny Boy Toy after her brief tour with the Legion.

Wow, that's a crazy story, Florens, about Caesar. Thanks for explaining.

Zeta's not so bad to me, it's very action-oriented, you'll see. So if you like that, you're in for a treat.

SubRosa already answered your question in details. By the time FNV takes place, I'd say that Caesar is definitely more evil. However, because of his strict regime there's less crime in his territories than in those led by the NCR which is supposed to represent democracy.

I know that some of you aren't familiar with New Vegas and its quests, but I thank you nonetheless for watching my pics and reading my short stories.

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Benny realized that if he wants to win big and stay alive, he'd better play Red Orchid's game by her rules. He didn't expect that the girl was so ambitious and still dreamed of taking over New Vegas. Benny had a feeling that she has some grand plan in her cute head but she didn't want to share it in details with him. For the time being Red Orchid continued working for Mr. House but Benny was sure that in the future she'll overthrow the tyrant. As a first task. Mr. House sent her to establish friendly (if possible) relations with Boomers, a xenophobic tribe in the northeast that didn't take kindly to outsiders.

"Well, thanks to you, pussycat, Boomers will NEVER again let anyone close to their territory!" panted Benny as they were running away from the Nellis Air Force Base, the territory of the Boomers. Instead of establishing friendly relations on behalf of Mr. House, Red Orchid neutralized the Boomers' leaders, making the tribe even more hostile to strangers.

"We don't want any savages to help us on the way to the top," Red Orchid answered him as they were far enough away from the firing range of Boomers' howitzers.

"Sure, doll, sure. I just didn't know you were capable of getting rid of their leaders just like that."

"There's many things you don't know about me, Benny-boy. But the important thing to remember is that when I whistle, you dance."

I see Ambitious Red is laying down the ground rules for Benny.

Well, I would argue that is because whenever a member of the Legion kidnaps, rapes, robs, tortures, and murders someone it is not a crime. It is just another day that ends in "y". Seeing that there is no one other than the Legion left alive in Arizona, technically that means there is no crime at all under Caesar.

Nit report up above! Looks like you missed a word.

Sounds like Orchid is in charge!

I detest people who think they're above me!



Thanks I'll edit it now.

P.S. I think you'll recognize whom I quoted in the first sentence.

Is taht waht you shall say to reaction?

You know, red orchid's skimpy armor clothing ... it is disappointing to see her lavish in her nudity and "girl power". She should consider her actions more thorowly in the future. Becasue WE want to see strong Hispanic women .

Fallout 4 has a Firelance Event!

Or something like it at least. Elektra was just leaving Finch Farm when she heard something that sounded like an artillery shell passing overhead. She looked up to see an alien spacecraft flying overhead, trailing smoke and going down to the south west of her! It passe out of sight over Boston's skyline, and a few moments later I heard a loud boom that could only be it crashing. I am not sure exactly where it went down yet, but I know the general direction.

Elektra is now hunting Zetans!

ANNOUNCEMENT:



Today my Fallout 3 season started! Same routine as ever so no real need to go into that. Currently on my way up NW to one of the Talon spawn points, don't know if there will be anyone there but we'll see

Give'em hell!

They have had all winter to recoup their numbers. So there should be plenty of good hunting!

@Both - I hope they are plentiful. I happen to have acquired too much minigun ammo

Minigun. Now there's a weapon Khajiit could never get into.

I thought it was too heavy to used too much ammo to haul it around all the time in FO3. I only used it when I happened to run across one. I like it more in F4. It is one of the few guns big enough to look good when you are wearing power armor. Almost everything else looks like a toy in your armored fists. So I usually keep one in storage for those times I decide to take out the armor.

Khajiit feels the same, except he thinks the laser weapons aren't too bad in power armored hands. Come to think of it, if the Assault Rifle was meant to be carried by power armored troops, then its design makes a little more sense. Still hate it though

Wow, that is awesome mirocu. I probably won't get into Fallout myself for awhile, certainly not until the trees outside are fully green and foliated again. Something about seeing trees in full foliage again (summer, basically) that inspires me to return to FO.

Neither could Raven. Not until he found the Vulcan mod which provides with a much better looking minigun. I also modded it further by reducing the spread and revving it up to fire twice as fast. Now it acts much less like crap

Still wish it was belt-fed though.


I get what you mean. I do have some trouble right now as it's in the very beginning of the season and I'm not quite there yet, if you know what I mean. Still, Lothran has moved down from Bruma so now Anything Goes.


See what I did there?

Second session and I'm already heavily over-encumbered and Gunny is at full capacity


Currently heading towards Canterbury Commons to see if any merchant is there or keep waiting until one shows up.

Today me and Gunny bounced around trying to find traveling merchants. We had collected lots of (heavy) loot and we needed to get rid of it. We finally did, thanks to Crow.

No, not me...


After that it was back to ye ole routine and we're currently in the area around Roosevelt Academy. Lots of fun to be found there

500.000 bottle caps!



Yes indeed! Yesterday I finally reached half a million caps while selling stuff at Tenpenny Tower! Unfortunately I cannot post a picture as proof since imgur has stopped working for me. It simply refuses to upload anything from my computer so you just have to take my word for it

You're already a half-millionaire!

When it comes to pics of money, nobody wants to post them....

mirocu I just discovered this really cool mod called Where did all my money go? It introduces a special symbot programmed to hunt the player-character all over the Wasteland. If it catches you, it will then take all your money. Gone. Just like that.

What do you say? Interested?

I want to but can't


Good to see you again, btw!


Let me quote Dr Evil here:


"Ehm... How about no?"




Still, linky..?

Whoops, sorry, there is no mod which makes a bot to take all your money. I was playing a little joke on you, once again.

So how did Fallout Friday go for Mirocu, mirocu?

Awww, I thought it was cool someone had made such a mod and now I'm told it was all a lie? I am so sad now..


Good, good. Nothing worth writing home about though, or even here.


Runnin', shootin' and lootin'...

Really? This probably wouldn't be that hard to make, I bet I could do it, once I am familiar with the GECK. All you'd need is an Essential bot which walks around slowly, with AI programming to find the Player. And stick this bot somewhere far away, so it takes awhile to find Mirocu. Once it finds and communicates with him, it's got some scripting in there which removes all caps from the Player. And then walks back to wherever it came from, still Essential, and still unkillable.

You're joshing me though, right? You're joking too? I hope so. Because really, I'd feel pretty bad creating something which removes all your caps.

I am trying to think of some concepts for my summer Fallout t00n though, on PC. Major A. Holl was in Mothership Zeta, last I saw, but being with MAH isn't as immmmersive as I thought it would be. I want to make THAT really key player this summer, you know? Somebody who I'll really get captivated by, sort of like the way Cho turned out on Xbox, but whoever I make this time will be female.

Not joking, I thought it sounded like a cool prank!



After all, using the mod is optional

Make Atomic Blonde

Okay, thanks hon. I won't copy this idea per se, but I will use her face for my next Fallout 3 character. I am about to make her (and reveal her name) in a few. But first, a quick update.

Major A. Holl was running around Mothership Zeta, but unfortunately he got clobbered by a bunch of aliens. Oh well. He was really out of his element. Not much he could do in this situation. I don't feel very inspired to continue his game.

So instead, I am going to try an alternate starting mod. Because I aint doing the tutorial again! Hmm .... let's see. This is gonna be fun.

HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY HOLY [censored] I FOUND IT!!!!!

Okay, "Alternate Start - Prostitute" is what it is called. And this is perfect, because my gal's backstory was supposed to include exotic dancer, but being a call girl is not too far of a stretch from this. Ha!

Her name (get ready) is Janet Telia. Perfect name for her.

GAAAAWWWDDD how I love Renee's brain

It's worth putting in a Robobrain...


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Had a nice session today. Walked over-encumbered with some Outcasts for awhile before they started to walk back and forth at which point Gunny and I left them. Walked around and eventually Gunny was destroyed (again) near the old school/academy where Muties and Deathclaws reside. Then I was able to fill Gunny with more crap before I repaired him and now I'm ready to run again

Oh no, poor Gunny! .. Even so, I am glad you'll be playing FO3 this summer with Mirocu, mirocu. It's going to be a good summer, methinks.

Well, I will talk about Janet's initial days. I've only gamed with her twice so far. The first time was on Sunday, when I created her. I didn't really game with her much, I just got her face & stats down. The second time I gamed with her (last Tuesday) I really got hooked into her game. I can't really explain it. I guess y'all know what I'm talking about, but there's this *bond* which forms when you've rally got somebody who you're psyched to game with. That's the way Janet's game was. I had to force myself to go to bed basically, because otherwise I would have gamed with her until after midnight.

The Alternate Start - Prostitute mod places her in Tenpenny Tower, perfect place for somebody to go trolling around for johns. Anyway, she won't just sleep with anyone for cash; so far, she's only been hitting up one guy. I forget his name. But he's not as creepy as some of the other male tenants in TT.

She's been sleeping on Susan Lancaster's couch (Blanket mod) which will get old quick. If you've ever had somebody sleeping on your couch, and you're not in your 20s anymore, you know what I'm talking about. Eventually there will be some sort of friction there, because the idea is Janet thought Susan was single, but it turns out Susan has a guy living with her already.

Janet will probably also get in trouble. She's constantly stealing stuff, and even got caught stealing some liquor from some lady's flat. Though the only penalty was getting her stolen things taken away, I get the feeling that if she gets caught again, things could get uglier.

Alright, here is Janet's pilot episode. I don't know if I'll write a whole lot with her. I've spent the last couple weeks slowly messing around in the GECK, which is similar to Oblivion's Construction Set, but a pain in the *** to use since I've got Windows 8.1 on my gaming computer. GECK likes Win7 at best. But I've slowly figured it out.

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PIC

It had taken over a month, but by glory, she had made it. She had crossed a vast part of the Wasteland to arrive at Tenpenny Towers. According to a friend, it would be a great place to settle down. Clear her head for awhile.

There are rooms for sale, places to stay her friend had said. One could get in there easily, if she were a pretty girl like Janet. And once she was in, she'd be in a very safe place, full of lots of guards, and lots of weapons and bombs. All she'd have to do is get there, and show the letter that had been penned.

But then, the reality. Tenpenny Tower was easy for her to get into, probably the note from Susan Lancaster had been convincing, and also because who wants to be that guard who turned down such a pretty face? ...Problem was, Tenpenny did have a place for sale, but this place was on one of the very top floors, and it was very expensive.

"2,500 caps are you kidding me? I came all the way here from West Virginia! You haven't got anything cheaper?"

But Lydia Montague, the lady in charge of running Tenpenny's 'boutique', told her there was no such cheaper place. Tenpenny was so overcrowded with humans as it was, all the cheaper apartments were already taken.

After she spoke to many residents, it was clear to Janet that there was a way to get the expensive suite for free. From what Janet could tell, there was some sort of problem with ghouls. The residents were vague whenever they mentinoed these ghouls, but the idea was "something had to be done" about them. And then maybe once this act was done, maybe Alaistair Tenpenny, the place's ultimate landlord, would reward whoever "took care" of this problem, by giving him or her the Tenpenny Suite Janet had heard about.

She was not really interested in killing ghouls though, if that were what she'd have to do. And it seemed (to her) that this how things were. This is as good as they would get.

Janet Telia, upset and confused, went looking for Susan Lancaster, the 'friend' who'd invited her to this overcrowded dump. She eventually found Susan, moseying endlessly around Tenpenny's lounge and boutique areas. Susan had lied. Though Susan did not mind if Janet crashed at her place, Susan also had a guy who'd been living with her. Janet would have to sleep on one of Susan's couches.

Eventually, Janet began to run low on funds, and there was just one way she could earn them back. Problem was, out of all of Tenpenny's residents, only one man in the entire place was interested, and this was the only guy who wasn't too much of a creep. Janet could earn 20 caps a night after having some 'fun' with him in his room. Tenpenny Tower had plenty of food (and alcohol) to steal, and Susan wasn't charging Janet to sleep on her couch. So it wasn't like she couldn't live off of 20 caps a night. But was this as good as it got?

Then, finally. Contact from her brother, Jonny Talia, in the form of a note, delivered by a child messenger. Jonny had also gotten out of West Virginia about a year earlier, and had made tt to the Wasteland. He'd somehow become part of Talon Company. If Janet could make it to Fort Bannister, that would be a much better place for her to be, and with family, at that.

Janet had left Tenpenny Tower, and had managed to make it roughly a quarter mile north, before finding herself with nowhere to sleep on a rainy night except some deserted robot factory. But it was DANGEROUS in there, and even more dangerous outside in the Wasteland. Janet had managed to scavenge some things she could sell, at least: conductors, spare parts, and ammo she'd have no use for. The child messenger had delieverd a 10 millimeter gun with plenty of ammunition to Janet, so anything which wasn't 10 mm could be sold.

She'd gone back to Tenpenny, but the guards would not let her in. Not unless she either (1) took care of that 'ghoul' problem everyone was so worried about, or (2) had 100 caps she could give them. Apparently, there'd also been complaints about Janet, who'd been caught at least twice stealing things from residents.

Could Janet make it to Fort Bannister? She would just have to try.

Another n00b toon with whom to phwn has entered the Capital Wasteland!


-Capital!

Janet Talia is from West Vagina? Who would have guessed!

So Tenpenny Tower was not the land of milk and honey it was promised. But at least Janet can be a spy for Talon Company.

Yes, West Varginia, ah shucks.

She did manage to make it to Fort Bannister. That was really tough. She pretty much had to sneak the entire way. She saw a really huge monster (a yao guai) but it was in the distance. Most of the enemies she fought were rabid dogs and rad-scorps. There were several raiders too, of course. Worst one had a flamethrower on his back!

When she got to Bannister and met her brother I decided to quit gaming for the day. Learned to make an NPC vendor, so Bannister has somebody to buy and sell from. I also learned how to make an NPC follower, complete with all the typical commands (Follow, Wait, Share, You're Fired!, etc.) so she'll have someone to travel with.

She'll be headed to Megaton, where she is to look for a Talon Company defector. This guy ran away from Fort Bannister, stealing an important tactical book in the process. Janet's first task is to find this guy, and take this book back, killing the guy if necessary, though I think I added some Speech checks to make things interesting.

Did you tweak her appearance a little? In the pic in her pilot episode she seems different than in the screenshot thread, she seems prettier with fuller lips. Or maybe it's because the pic is taken with a light source directly in front of it.

Sounds like another interesting Fallout quest is ahead of us / Janet.

Lopov: Yes I did change her appearance. In fact, the actor in that pic up above is not the same as the one who you see in later pics. It's because I made some sort of mistake in her game, and had to start all over again.

I like the second Janet anyways. The second gal looks more shrewd and conning.

Late Summer, Year 2277




"Eh, can I bum a smoke?"

"No. What is this? Get yer own!"

"But then I gotta go all the way back down into the compound. C'mon, just one. I'll get you two when our shift ends."

Begrudgingly, the Talon Company sniper handed over one of his Luckies, and the second sniper began to smoke.

"Anything goin' out here?"

"Hell no. Another quiet day. Seems like everyone's been keeping to himself as of late. No raiders, no Brotherhood. My gun's gettin' kinda rusty."

"What about that lone wanderer guy?"

"Oh yeah. One of our patrols spotted him, out near Jury Station. Asian kid, from Vault 101. Kid's pretty slick though. Got away from us despite some heavy fire, we couldn't take him down. I think he took down one of ours, though."

"[censored]."

The snipers halted their discussion, and began doing their job: scanning the horizon for anybody foolish enough to come near Fort Bannister. But there was just nobody out there. Nothing to do. It looked like a minor dust storm was happening in the south. That was all.

"Hey, you check out that dame's been staying here lately?" asked the sniper who'd bummed a cigarette from his pal.

"The blonde?"

"Oh yeah. That blonde. She's hot!"

"Yeah? Well don't get your panties all twisted. That's Jonny Talia's sister."

"So?"

"So she's off-limits, buster. Unless you want a busted nose and a week in lockup."

"Well I don't care. She's hot! Just wait till I turn on the old Durst-meister charm a-ha-ha-ha! ... What's she doin' here anyway?"

"Jonny invited her here from whatever vault they both came from, some vault in West Virginia. She may look like a flooz, but apparently she's got some brains in that pretty head. She can get into places, gather intelligence, hunt down wanted assholes. Stuff like that."

"Heh, that's hot!"

In the distance, the dust storm (or whatever it was) seemed to be getting closer. The two men continued their conversation.

"She can shoot, too. Well, that's no real surprise, coming from West Virginia, for a gal to be able to shoot. But apparently she's pretty good. Refuses to use auto-loaders. She's more of a covert sniper, I suppose. Like you or me, except she can actually sneak around and stuff."

"Man, that sounds hot. I bet she's like a doorknob, we all can get a turn."

"Yeah, well that's not all. Get this. Supposedly, she came here to Maryland on a motorcycle."

"A motorcycle?"

"Yep, just like some of the trash you see out there in the Wasteland. Rumor is she somehow fixed one of them up herself. Rode it all the way to Tenpenny Tower from her vault West Virginia. Then it broke down, or something. So she had to walk the rest of the way here."

"That's... that's really hot!"

"You don't listen, man. She's Jonny's sister. You can't go messin' around with the sarge's sister. But that's okay. You're still clueless about the way things are around here. Jonny will-- uh...Jonny will...."

"What the [censored] is that? Is that a Vertibird?"

From the distance, the dust storm grew and grew, and an incredible roaring noise was coming toward them from the south.

"Is that was I think it is?"

"Heh, it's her! Look at that!"

"Now that's hot!"

The second man finally agreed with his cigarette-mooching workmate.


(see pics thread)

It's not a storm, it's not a vertibird, it's Janet on a motorcycle!

Of guns and bullets

Ozzy liked what every raider did – drugs, sex & killing. What set him apart from other raiders was that Ozzy knew how to read and he also liked reading. His favorite magazine was Guns and bullets because particularly from these magazines Ozzy learned to handle his Chinese pistol and also learned that before the bombs fell and destroyed most of the living world, there was some sort of movement called “the police” which was responsible for hunting down criminals. Fortunately they were gone when the bombs fell.

At least that’s what Ozzy thought until his last day of life in October 2277 when the police came for him. Ozzy couldn’t believe his own bloodshot eyes – the man that shot his buddy Buddy looked just like a policeman from Guns and bullets except that he was a ghoul. Ozzy didn’t know whether he’s hallucinating because of too much jet but he sure killed Buddy, so Ozzy quickly grabbed his Chinese pistol and rapidly shot at the policeman.

Though he staggered, two well-aimed hits from Barlow’s modified police pistol were enough to bring Ozzy down. As he lay dead, PP picked up Guns and bullets magazine next to Ozzy’s corpse. It was his favorite magazine from before the war and right from this particular magazine PP Barlow learned to better handle his pistol and got inspired to hunt down criminals.

Ha ha! "some sort of movement called 'the police'".



Oh my gosh that is hilarious! Poor Ozzy!

Well it's too bad Ozzy was hostile toward the police; he could have shared his magazine with PP.

The Police are the boogeymen of the Raiders! They probably tell campfire tales of how The Police show up in the middle of the night to kill Raiders. Just like Barlow did!