That's the problem with creativity, sometimes you feel inspired, but then you go to write. And there's just nothing there. But just in case that inspiration returned, I at least started with the html code (which is a pain in the wrist to set up in Cho stories).

Today I sold as much as I could at Tenpenny and then Gunny and I teleported to the Chryslus (or whatev) building from where we got up to the Bethesda ruins. After that we ran up to the dairy farm and Old Olney which was empty apart from one lone Deathclaw.

This session gave a lot of loot from foes killed by other foes which was neat. But I still haven't found a spare .44 revolver I could use to repair my Blackhawk with. They sure are rare.

The .44 is rare, this is true. Well, good luck finding one.

Thanks. Didn't find one today either though. The shops down in Rivet City came up short, as did Moira.


Today we have been raiding the north part of the map. Got a good share of Talon armor and Deathclaw hands. We're currently outside one of those towers in the NW containing more Talon, and next session will have them collected as well.

After the recent tour to the north, Gunny and I have now raided Fairfax and is currently at Tenpenny to offload all the goods. A painstaking walk there it was too as both of us were filled to the brim.


Gotta keep working on that next 100K

Just imagine if this were like real-life. Would we even continue to game if we could make that much money? I actually think I would! But not as much.

Linda Hand is just outside of Vegas. She's dawdling a bit... not quite ready to do in yet, and there's always stuff to do.

After doing the game's quests I needed an open-ended one to keep me going. Collecting caps was the best I could come up with


She's not ready to hit the tables yet?

Just completed another run-through of the D.C area which consists of jumping to L. Enfant Plaza to Washington Monument, Takoma Park and Friendship Heights. Lots of loot gathered and then sold at Rivet City where we're currently just outside of.

Friday, 12.07.81, 7:35 AM: Linda Hand is just outside of the Vegas strip, trying to figure out how to get into the place. As she's searching for an entrance, she's come across a rather large settlement full of Sharecroppers. These folks are basically like farmers with guns.

For some reason, they asked Linda to figure out why some of their water supply keeps getting irradiated, maybe because they're too afraid to figure it out for themselves.

Good to be back in New Vegas.

I bet it’s something about her name that just makes her seem like she’d be super helpful. Just a feeling I get.

January has been wandering the Capital Wasteland for the last few days. It has been a long time since I have played FO3. I remembered that I need some points in Repair so I could fix the water pipes in Megaton. But I forgot that I would need at least a 25 in Explosives to disarm the bomb. So Jan was homeless for a long while while I ground her up to the next level, so I could put points in it.

I had also forgotten how your responses (and stats) to Moira determine the outcome of the Wasteland Survival Guide. I had to look it all up again to see how it all worked. I went with the generic response for one so far, the snide remark, and finally the tough option. The Tough book gives you a damage resistance bonus, so I think I will go with that from now on, Jan is very much a defender.

I have been using the Regulator and Compliance Regulator from New Vegas with her. I updated them with the Tesla Cannon projectile. They have been doing insanely more damage than I put in the Geck. I found it was the projectile itself. I had to make a new one, and reduce the Knockback effect on it. I put it to half a 10mm pistol. But they are still doing way more damage than they should. I have the Regulator set to do 12 points of damage, the same as a Laser Pistol. But in the game it says it does 57 damage. Which is just nuts.

Aw, Jan is homeless. Has she been sleeping in the Church of Atom quarters?

Funny thing about Moira Brown is she has a very Midwest accent, rather than a Maryland / mid-Atlantic one. I think I've mentioned this before. Beth should have known the difference!

Khajiit: Yes, Linda Hand does lend her hand quite a lot, or at least she tries to. Some quests in New Vegas are really frickin' tough.

I did some gaming with her yesterday.. Since I'm writing a story with Vicious, I need to have someone who I can just game with. Linda has a bunch of stuff she can sell, and her food supply is getting low. So she might have to head back to Post 181 or Novac soon.

Jan slept in the Bethesda Ruins one night. She slept in Minefield another night. She never actually slept anywhere in Megaton.

I decided to go back and start over, since I had not gotten very far. The second time around things went smoother. She disarmed the bomb soon after entering Megaton, and now has a place to stay. Jan just finished clearing out Bethesda. She is now on her way to Minefield for Moira.

It might be that Moira was supposed to sound how she does. I believe she was a caravaneer when she was younger, and later settled down in Megaton. So she might originally be from the Detroit or Cleveland Wastelands.

This. I always just assumed she wasn’t from the CW originally but found her way there. Like Tenpenny and the Russian guy.

Every time you guys say "The CW" I immediately think you are talking about the TV Channel

The Capitol Wasteland: Dare to Defy

They have a good reason to be afraid.




Did she find any leaked info about TES VI?

Yes, it will come sometime after TES V...

Reinstalled 3 today because apparently I have the attention span of a gnat. I hate myself.

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Covered the S-E part of the map today and as usual we were over-encumbered so we sold some off to the merchant by the riverboat and to Moira back in Megaton.

As I also buy stuff when I sell, my pile of caps don't increase as much as they really should. But I like getting stuff back while simultaneously clearing the merchant of their caps.

Over-encumbered. Hmm, what does this term mean?

It's a Bethesda term, meaning I always have to walk instead of run because it annoys me

Unless you are playing Oblivion or Morrowind in which case you won’t be able to even walk, lol

Linda Hand is in Camp McReady. Trying to figure out how to get into the Vegas strip itself. She's found some NCR troops inside this one building, and there's a monorail, which we assume goes in and out of the Strip. But she can't access this monorail. They won't let her use it. So maybe she's going to join NCR just so she can use their stupid train? Hmm.

She doesn't really want to side with anybody. To be continued...

Can’t you get in if you have the caps?

Hmm, is that a hint, Khajiit? Maybe so, maybe not. Gives us some ideas, though. I specifically told Lopov in our private discussions not to give me specific details, but hints are okay. I like figuring stuff out on our own. I think he gets annoyed after awhile though. "Just follow the quest marker" he said last week. Ah, geez.

Oh sorry.
I just assumed you tried to get in through the gate.

It has been so long that I honestly cannot remember. It might be tied to a quest? I know there is an NCR quest where you have to stop someone from bombing the monorail. I do seem to remember riding it once though.

If Linda intends to use the monorail to get to the Strip, she can of course join the NCR, but they must really "love her" to allow her to use it. There are other ways how to use it, but that'd be a too big spoiler.

I'd say ditch the monoraila and go search for the entrance yourself - or follow the quest marker.

Thanks for your attention, everyone. Still have not found a gate into the Vegas strip, however this no longer matters. Linda has become incredibly busy in yesterday's gaming session.

In fact, there is a LOT to do in this game, right? It's surprising and overwhelming, but in good ways. So right now, she has not officially joined NCR, but she is doing some work for them. Lending her hand to rat out some fiends near Vault 3, trying to figure out who is stealing from Camp McCarran, and so on. I mean, it's suddenly a list of nearly a dozen things. I love it!

Camp McCarran is packed with quests, marked and unmarked. It's packed with a handful of interesting characters too. And if you're walking all the time (like me), it takes a really long time to get from one point to another, so you're bound to be in that place for quite a long time - with trips out, like to Vault 3, for instance.

January finally walked into Moriarity's Saloon in Megaton. This is after she fixed the relay dish for Galaxy News Radio. But the scripted event of Gob hitting the radio and complaining that GNR was not working still happened. Even though Three Dog could be clearly heard!

Lol that’s funny! I’m a little surprised BGS didn’t plan for that scenario. They are usually pretty good with details like this.

Speaking of small details, I discovered something the other day that I thought was kinda neat. At your 10th birthday party, after “Old Lady Palmer“ gives you the sweet roll, Andy destroys your cake and then Butch demands you hand over the sweet roll in a call back to Morrowind’s CharGen. I never thought about eating the sweet roll immediately after receiving it until the other day, so I did. Andy proceeded to destroy the cake and Butch still demanded the sweet roll, but I was able to tell him I ate it. He was still mad, saying that he loves her sweet rolls, and then is just like “stay out of my way”. Just a small thing that I thought was kinda neat.

At the birthday party it's also possible to overhear the Overseer talking to some other guy, as he leaves the party and heads to his quarters. I don't remember anymore, what they're talking about, but he says sth like how he doesn't like you / the player and that he came to the party only because Amata likes you.

Yeah he is talking to a security officer. The officer cheerfully asks him if he had a good time, and the Oveerseer responds that he “only went because Amata is friends with the brat”. He then tells the officer (in an annoyed tone) to give the party a little more time and go and break it up and get everyone back to work.

All of that made me laugh, almost the entire tutorial I was laughing! Especially during the GOAT and also the whole Tunnel Snake thing.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=S0ximxe4XtU

Ha ha ha "We're the Tunnel Snakes! And we rule!"

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Saturday, 12.15.81, 11:37 AM

Minimum Temperature: 36.9 °F
Maximum Temperature: 62.1 °F

Linda is back in Novac, because so far she hasn't found anywhere else to get her gear repaired, and she hasn't got time to search the gigantic Camp McCarran complex. Time is of the essence (well....), if Vault 9 is to be plundered.

I don't remember it anymore in the details, but there's also a subtle hint before the final tutorial quest, that James came to the vault later, and that the player was born outside. I think that it happens during a dialogue with some NPC at the birthday party.

I think I remember that dialogue between the Overseer and the security guard. But I am not sure. I have done the tutorial so many times that I probably have. But most of it was so long ago that it is kind of a blur.

I do recall there is a point in the tutorial where you can say to Dad something like "But everyone is born in the Vault, aren't they?" I forget the exact line, or his reply however. I think he says something like: "That is what the Overseer tells us."

Also at the 10th birthday party, “Old Lady Palmer” almost lets slip that you and James came to the Vault from the outside but she catches herself before she does. She says something like “10 years old. My my. I can remember when your daddy came and... Oh listen to me ramble!”. She then quickly changes the subject to the sweet roll she baked for you.

Nice, all sorts of remembrances here. Does anything in Fallout 3's tutorial reference stuff found in FO1 or FO2's tutorials (if they had tutorials, that is)?

I never played F1 or F2, so I can’t say.

FO1 does not really have a tutorial, at least not as we know them. You get a small cutscene of the Overseer telling you to get the water chip, and then you are kicked out into a cave system filled with rats. You fight your way through the rats, and then emerge into the game world. There really was not anything special to it. Unless I am misremembering. It has been a very long time since I played it. I cannot even remember Fallout 2 at all.

SubRosa is right, FO1 doesn't have a tutorial of any kind. Those rats can be difficult if chosen skills are mostly intelligence / science-oriented.

FO2 has a sort of tutorial. The game starts off in Arroyo, a small settlement, and the PC is one of the tribals. You must undergo some sort of a rite and at the end you're rewarded with a Vault 13 suit. You have to kill some ants during that trial and avoid / disable some traps IIRC. After it's over, you're back to your home village and you can leave.

Today I spent some time in Megaton. Didn't do a whole much besides selling food to Jenny and scrap metal to Walther. We are approaching October and with that it's time to once again think about Point Lookout. I was seriously over-powered at last year's hunt and I plan to repeat that this year

Monday, 12.17.81, 4:33 PM -- Linda Hand is about to leave for Vault 9, but then checks her supplies. Oops. She needs some supplies. Better head to Camp McCarran first. There's supposed to be a trader in there. Maybe she can find him.

A really interesting little side plot has been going on between Linda and Veronica. Since V is a devout member of the Brotherhood, there's no way Linda can bring her into NCR territory. But Linda can still use Veronica for information here and there. V knows all kinds of things about NCR territory, as well as other factions and organizations. It's like having your own intelligence unit.

Isn’t it part of her personal quest that you have to take her to see the NCR and other factions?

Teamwork!