Toshiro the Samurai and Paulson the Cowboy decided to wander the wastes on their own, but Sally, Elliott and Marl decided to stick together as they make their first steps on Earth after many, many years.

The Space Crew about to leave Zeta

First steps

Dogs definitely changed

A mole or a rat?

Blowflies grew in size too

Someone's coming

"No time for locals," they said and moved on.

Hostility detected

A mutated devil?

Sally finished it off *1

Residents of Old Olney

Three versus one

Quite critical

Swapping outfits *2

The Space Crew about to rest

*1 - Sally wields one of the most powerful energy weapon, namely the Captain's sidearm which shoots three bolts at once, increasing its chance of a critical hit. It was Marl's reward to her for her service aboard Zeta. Marl is still a Child at Heart (perk) so he goes along really well with Sally.

Elliott is equipped with an assault rifle while Marl wields the Alien Disintegrator.

*2 - They came upon Medic Power Armor on the dead paladin and Elliott is trained in wearing it so he gave Marl his Winterized Medic Armor.

That is a mutated devil for certain! MarSalEiott are going to Old Olney! Yikes, that place is a real nailbiter.

Strangers in a strange land as Team MarlBoro walks the wastelands. Nice teamwork it seems, and great shots of them in action. I can bet they would be glad to return to their spaceship for a nice hot shower!

I decided to reboot Hecate, with an eye to doing the main quest with her.

Hecate mk II

Let's get that vault door open

Hecate and Amata

Hecate's first step into the Wasteland is a sobering experience

Back in black

In the word´s most literal meaning


These gave me some amazing flashbacks from when I was new to this game


"Ok, no one makes the Star Trek reference and we´ll be good"


Sorry. Wrong thread

Welcome back to Hecate! Her ponytail makes her an instant winner in my book. Sobering love notes from the wastelanders indeed. ‘Back in black’ means Hecate’s got her mojo on again!

Good luck as she embarks on her big adventure.

Hecate looks like she was born with her glasses, they suit her really well.

She wields a powerful rifle, I see.

+9 RADS

Going west

Not invited to the party
The Space Crew came upon the raider initiation ritual but surprisingly, raiders didn't attack immediately when they approached, instead they only waved with their weapons like many bandits in Skyrim do. In the end, the Space Crew left them alone so no blood was shed on that day.

The narrow path leads to...

...the Oasis.

In the morning

Smoking in such place felt like a sin

Elliott feels like at home

Harold the talking tree, God of Oasis

Beneath Oasis, mirelurks were lurking

And their kings as well

Those Raiders do not know how lucky they are!

Team Marl found Cyrodiil!

Poor Harold, I always feel so sorry for him.

9 rads from a small drink of water?

Wow, those raiders really do look like Skybandits.

I was thinking the same thing as SubRosa – that ‘oasis’ quite looks like parts of Cyrodiil! Looks like plenty of stuff for Marl and his spacetrekkers to kill though.

Are these noodles moving?

Annie Ley Oak has also come to visit the Capital Wasteland

Annie is on the lookout for danger

She found it

How did you manage to get Sally off the ship? I've never seen her off the ship, or any dialogue to have her follow! Is she essential? Can she defend herself?

Gaaaaaah!

By the way, I liked your roleplay about noticing the mutations of the animals! That was very cool!







Hecate is back! That is so odd about those signs on the ground, how have I never seen them before? I mean the writing. It must be too dark in my game to read them, maybe I should lighten up my screen some?

These are Awesome - and Hecate looks a bit like Amata! (Maybe that Overseer was more active than anyone realized! Bwaahaa!).

Awesome Shots !!!!

HA! That screen of the trail would have been great for the"Where am I?" thread, lol.

I thought the cute little Sapling Yew would be happy to see Sally - someone her size and age - but if you look at her body language, she is not thrilled at all to have another child in her world, lol.

Gaaaaah! That was Elliott? I thought it was that girl from the Citadel - the daughter of ... er ... I didn't know that was a male, and didn't recognize him as Elliott! (Maybe because he looked so powerful in that power armor, lol).

But ... how did you get both him and Sally following you? Gaaaaaah!

Oh, he shouldn't be drinking that water, lol.

These are great shots !!!!! I love seeing the crew in the Wasteland !!!








ANNIE !!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT !!!!!!! Is she in Minefield looking for danger? Good place to find it for a short time, lol.

Urk, moving noodles, lol.

Great shots, and so glad to see Annie here again !!!!!



Hey Lopov, I got a whole bunch of great shots of Joe on the Vegas strip in my email box, and the link brings me to this thread, but ... can't find the screens on here! Where did they go?


Anyway, they were Awesome !!!

Hecate doesn’t look so happy with her bowl of Yaki Soba.

Welcome to Annie Oak Leaf! Great to see her again. She’s got Robbie, a high ponytail and even the best hair color!

A shame to cover that beautiful hair with a helmet. I do confess the raspberry beret is adorable though.

Looks like that the guy next to Hecate wonders if she'll eat worm-looking noodles.

How does Annie manage to hide her hair under the small beret?

Springvale School is dangerous but Annie killed its sadistic headmaster.



Anything's possible with the Sharing and Caring companion mod.



I removed them and switched them with Marl's. I shouldn't mix the two wastelands too much.

Marl underwent a plastic surgery by mods and the console. I installed the Younger Faces mod and the one which gives more options regarding eyes. Then I tweaked his facial structure a little, so now his face seems more unique than before.

Marl

Marl with Poplar's Hood (reward for increasing Harold's growth)

Marl with Marlboro

Elliott found a new home in the Oasis and wasn't too thrilled to wander the Post-War Wasteland so he decided to remain in the Oasis and became a new branchtender.

Captain & First Astronaut left Cyrodiil the next morning

...getting acquainted with more mutated creatures...

...establishing first contact with raiders...

...resting in abandoned barns...

Finally, pics of the famous Firelance encounter:

Explosion above Marl's head

Fallen from the sky

Firelance

First Astronaut gets a new weapon

So cool you actually got pixies of the event!


Like I´ve said I never found Firelance in my game but now I know what it looks like anyway.

I am most def going to get that mod, that is Awesome!


Oh, on the switched screens - Okay, I kept going back to the thread and searching, wondering how I was missing seeing them, lol.

Goodbye Cyrodiil, hello Hammerfell?

Nice to see that Elliot found a home. Whenever I see his name I think of the cute little kid from E.T. Though your Elliot's extraterrestrial encounter has less sharing and caring...

Wow, very cool to see pics of the actual Firelance Event itself! It always happens too fast for me to snap any pictures.

Am I the only one who thinks the alien power cells look like sex toys? Or suppositories?

OMG, that is the very first time ever I've seen anyone actually catch the explosion itself on film! You must have extremely quick reactions!

Seriously, I do picture Elliott becoming a tree-minder, he was most def not a powerful combat ally in my game - but I never saw Sally in combat at all! Does she handle her own or does Marl have to protect her? (and if she can fight, was this enhanced via mods/tweaks/or was she a natural?)

Awesome shots!







Tampons? BWAAHAA!!!

Lopov, more great pix! Congrats to Marl on his makeover. What kind of furry little mutant is that crawling just below his lips? So the Crew is Two now. Marl has kind of a cute little first astronaut traveling with him.

Stealth Girl

Annie is now a big game hunter (and this was at Level 4!)

Hotcate

Shiny Sniper

Anyone up for a game?

Teaming up with the Brotherhood

Stealth Girl is a very cool visual effect.

Wow, looks like she’s pretty deadly, be it by flame thrower or sniper rifle.

That pool table looks like it has seen a few. . . disagreements.

Teaming up with the Brotherhood? I was half expecting to see a dark Tamrielic assassin; instead, I’m treated to Hecate with an Imperial Storm Trooper.

OMG, that first screen !!! I see a mirelurk that is about to be adorning someone's dinner plate! And is that the Shady hat I see on her?

Dear gods, is that a deathclaw? In downtown DC? Oh, I'll bet that is near Dukov's and the Enclave brought it in!

I was going to guess this one was the Bethesda ruins, where that flamer is always waiting around the corner, but then realized she was the flamer instead of the flamee, lol.

Thease are such great shots, it is really making me want to redo these early run throughs!

Annie lurking with the mirelurk!

Wow, she brought down the mutated devil. How did it appear in that area?

She's obviously skilled with a variety of different weapons and armor, from a simple pool cue up to the flamer and any rifles in between.

Annie found that Deathclaw at the Arlington Memorial. It was part of the random encounter with the Deathclaw, and the Wastelander with the Deathclaw Schematic. Thankfully the Deathclaw was not at full health when Annie got into firing range, or things probably would have ended up with it standing over Annie instead!


Hmmm, for some reason I cannot upload to Imgur right now. The drop down to Add to Album is not appearing. Is anyone else having problems uploading?

Oh, I LOVE that encounter! (Love the Deathclaw gauntlet, and like having it as powerful as possible earliest in game as possible, lol).

Imgur upload is working fine for me, just tested it.

Now it is finally working again.

Hecate in action

Reverse Angle

The receiving end

Relaxing

Wasteland Sunset

Where are the first three pics taken, I don't recognize the location?

Hecate manages to remain clean and have tidy hair in the Wasteland, the scavenger should learn from her example. I hope the beer in question was Heineken.

Nice sunset, nice Hecate.

SubRosa -

Wow, the first three shots really comprise a neat ‘View to a Kill’.

Beautiful pose and shot of Hecate relaxing afterwords.

Wasteland Sunset is very cool – small girl with a big gun!

- - Heh, Hecate understands there's no point to adventuring if you can't look good doing it.

That gunfight was in the lobby of Alexandria Arms. Hecate poked her nose in there after exploring the Arlington Library for Moira.


Exactly!

I remember when I first got there - I was very much on the edge, contrary to now


The sky looks remarkably clear

This group of shots is all awesome, but I absolutely LOVE "Relaxing," that is fantastic! Is that at Grandma Sparkles? Who is the guy? That is a fantastic shot!!!

Got to love Hecate's hair, she looks cool and cosmo even in the Wasteland, lol.

Awesome update !!!

Jumping to the Mojave desert...

Leaving in peace (Joe forgave Great Khans because they accompanied Benny, the man who shot him in the head, and arranged with the NCR to leave them alone)

Walk to Vegas

"O-ho-how!"

Unwelcome welcome

Drug dealer lost his head

Joe from the God

Of implants and plants (this dialogue option appears if your INT is low and instead of asking for implants you ask for plants)

Hearty recommendation

Chilling with the King

New outfit, Joe likes it

Surrounded by three women but Joe has eyes for Julie only

Viva Las Vegas!

Congrats on getting the Khans out of Boulder without anyone getting killed! That is not easy to do.

Joe found Laura Bailey! I mean Julie Farkas. I just love her voice.

Joe is buying plants!

I hope Joe got the Krell Brain Boost. He could use all the help he can get...

Joe makes it to Vegas!

I recognize the Stratosphere. And sure enough, he encounters both a street walker and a drug dealer on the Strip.

I see Mighty Joe is still wielding his rebar club – and to pretty devastating effect.

Plants and implants.

Elvis is in town!

So Joe likes Julie? She does kind of have that finger in the light socket hair thing going. I gather from SubRosa’s comment that Julie is voiced by Lauara Bailey – I like her voicing of Serana in Skyrim.

Nice collection of shots.

Can you please take a pic of Acadian´s home, Lopov? I assume it is present in the game

That might be the Acadian Farmstead in the background

Woot! That's it all right. 'Bout 10 miles south of Vegas in the Black Mountains.

And now well-protected by Mollie the Mad Hatter.

oops, that pic was north of Vegas. South of Vegas would put it somewhere around the NCR Safehouse or the REPCONN Headquarters I think. Annie is on the lookout for it

It's been some time since this happened but IIRC, he had to bribe NCR officers to let Khans go peacefully. There is also a Speech or Barter check but Joe didn't meet the requirements.

It might be that he found his "weapon for life".

Is this a road to Skyrim?

Snow! Helgen must be close.

Except that it's not Helgen but Jacobstown (notice the blue mutant behind Joe)


Is maybe this his manor?

"I'm Joe, not Jimmy."

Sunday Morning Coming Down

Joe dealing with mercs, Lily checking if it's snowing

In the next installment: Joe and Lily's trip through the Cazador-infested pass to Red Rock Canyon!

Wow, those first few shots really do look like the road north into Skyrim!

A log house in the desert?

Lily does indeed seem confused. Is she some sort of mutant? (I don't play Fallout)

A neat shot with the sunlight streaming into the room.

Lilly is a Super-Mutant. The ones on the West Coast like her have blue skin, the ones on the East Coast have yellow skin. Otherwise they look the same. Like all Super-Muties, she was human once. The Forced Evolutionary Virus (or FEV) is what turned her and the others into mutants. Most mutants lose their minds in the process, and become incredibly violent. Lilly seems to remember a little bit of her human self - she was a grandmother in a Vault. She thinks the player is her grandson Jimmy. As super-muities go, she is actually one of the saner ones...

Joe walked through Cyrodiil to get to Skyrim. Sounds like he is headed to Hammerfell next.

I see Joe picked up a K9 Companion. Did he get him a new brain?

Lilly is hilarious looking up at the sky "It's a bird, it's a plane, no its Super-Mutant!"

"Take two stimpacks and call me in the morning Dr Lesko."

At the races

Hecate and Red fighting their way out of the Germantown Police HQ

Leaving Germantown with Red and Shorty in tow

Mess with Big Town, and you will be in big trouble

SubRosa, thanks for explaining some about the mutants.


Two stimpacks – Hecate looks so clinical there. That look / pose really suit her. Great shot.

At the races looks like a photo finish!

Red looks pretty competent, shooting over Hecate’s shoulder instead of into her back. What more from a follower can you ask?

And looks like she’s picked up another tagalong?

Woot! Firefight in Big Town!

It was a ski-resort before the war, called Mount Charleston.

Yes, he did, from Violet's dog Violetta because it was the closest.

Love the pic with Dr. Lesko.

Looks like that molerats were quite tie in the race.

I'm not used to seeing Red in anything else than her red outfit.

Great pic of the Big Townies actually doing something useful, they usually hide in houses in my game, probably because I never choose an option to get help from them.

"I know a shortcut to Red Rock Canyon, Jimmy. But it'll be dangerous."

"We'll manage, grandma."

"Your friend, grandma?"

"I don't have a clue about explosives..."

"...but how difficult can it be..."

"...to throw a simple grenade?"

"You only pissed them off, Jimmy. Now stand aside and let grandma handle them."

"Red Rocks! Red! Rocks!"

"Here we are."

Silly me! Mount Charleston is indeed an area less than an hour’s drive northwest of Las Vegas that is nearly 7000 feet above sea level (Vegas is 2000 feet, my mountain is 3000 feet). As such, it is indeed woodsy and boasts mild summer temps and snow most of the winter.

What a beautiful series of shots as Jimmy Joe and Grandma Lily navigate those canyons to their destination, dispatching foes along the way. I do love the desert.

Looks like Jimmy and Grandma are making some progress! Good thing granny is there to swat them pesky flies!

I always expect to find U2 playing at Red Rocks.


Hecate vs Behemoth

Hecate has the nuclear advantage

It is the Good

vs the Bad and the Ugly put together

Ground Zero

Mushroom Cloud

Double Whammy

Hecate repairs the GNR radio relay

DC sunrise

Fantastic shots of the fight with Behemoth, this one seems to die in your every game.

Hecate in high heels!

A really beautiful sunrise from the highest point of the Capital Wasteland.

--

Marl's game is FUBAR and I don't have time nor desire to try and fix it. So here comes Ally "Gator" and I'll be staying with her for a while, I don't plan to create new characters in FO3 this year.

Ally "Gator" comes to the Capital Wasteland via the Rockland car tunnel in the southwest

Ally's face was more or less chosen by the randomizer, when I saw a smile on her face and kind eyes, I didn't need to tweak her much more. Hair is chosen by me, though.

Vicious no more

At this point I realized that her skin has odd coloration in sunlight, it looks greenish-gray so...

...Ally got a new, darker skin and seems to like it.

Beware, it's the baby carriage trap!

"Castle" Dunwich

Ciggie before goin' in

Creepy place

Creepy residents

He stepped on Ally's mine

And he too

Ally owns Dunwich

Little man with Big Hammer

Back outside

Ally is a bombshell! I love the green hair. Did she come up from Florida? Now she has the nice Equatorial tan to go with her name.

Love how the Nuka Quantum glows in the dark room.

I think if I owned Dunwich, I would sell!

It's hammer time!