TheCheshireKhajiit: I ran out of pics, so the Bad will have to double as the Ugly!


Acadian: Robbie is not overly endowed with brains. So even with his head shot off, they were still untouched...


Renee: I think Hecate has around 5,000 caps. It is not as easy to pile them up Fallout 4, because almost everything is scrapable. So there is a tendency to hold on to all of your loot to use for crafting.


One shot

One target

One kill

Downtown

Brought a sword to a gun fight

Hecate relaxes on the roof

Close up

Money is much harder to come by and hold onto in Fallout games, for sure. I'm about to cheat in Cho's game so he can get a nice stash of caps for instance, easy to do (and explain) through extraneous storylines while messing around in the GECK. But when his game was on Xbox, I don't think he ever had more than 400 caps at a time.

I don't know how mirocu does it, all those hundreds of thousands of caps, without cheating!


Anyway, Downtown Boston looks really great without pollution! I guess that's one advantage of post-war.

Hecate's getting some sun! Dang, she won't take off her body-suit though.

One shot, one kill – someone just got Hecate’d.

Downtown. . . Up on the Roof. . . sounds like good names for songs. . . .

Brought a sword to a gun fight – What a hoot! Well, a bloody hoot but a hoot nevertheless.

Close up – Hecate looks pleased with herself.

Renee: I think Mirocu is richer than Croesus because he has only ever played one character in the game, for about 10 years. It is kind of a long-term investment.

Downtown Boston is just flat out amazing in F4. The load times are insane. But it looks fantastic, and there are so many more places you can go than in the previous games, namely up, up, and up. You can get up on the roofs of many of those buildings, and there is loot and baddies up there. If you have a jetpack you can leap from roof to roof, which is really cool.

Hecate take off her black outfit! Never!


Acadian: She missed them by two centuries, but Hecate definitely believes in the Marine Scout Sniper motto.

Maybe soon we will Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay?



Comics fan

Hecate wears her protection

Is that a portrait of Rader of the Lost Ark behind her?

Bathed in the light of the setting sun

Hecate and Ada

Burning steel

Iron Woman

Sisterhood of Steel

Hecate tries out her experimental gauss rifle

Duck Ada!

Face to face with the Mechanist

Groknak the Barbarian – Jungle of the Bat-Babies!

Bathed in the light is beautiful.

Great action shots of Hecate and her white-clad pal in action.

Acadian: There are other classic Grognak comics in the game, like Lost in the Snows of Lust, or Fatherless Cur! There are ten Grognak comics in the game, each with their own cover. A modder (Elianora) took them and turned them into t-shirts, her Eli's Armor Compendium mod randomly puts them on some people in the game, along with her other modded clothes.


Hecate and Robbie in action

Hecate puts her Walther P99 to use

10mm of fun

An excess of fun

Hecate teams up with Five Oh

Report all Chinese sympathizers

Ick!

Ickier!

Seeing some of Elianora's Ob and Sky mods, I think most anything she touches is magically good.

Robbie suits Hecate better than a Darryl would.

Nasty, bloody work but someone has to do it.

Five-oh = Robocop!

Acadian: Elianora's work is always stellar. I used her trailer home mod the last time I played Hecate.

Hecate + Robocop: "Dead or alive, you're coming with... *bang* ...dead then"


The Queen of Witches

Dunwich borers

The Gloomlands

Mama Deathclaw and her nest

Face off

Hecate returns MamaClaw's egg

The Queen of the Witches

Nice. I really like the sound of that! Because in a way, if we can go up into all those buildings, it's like the game's size increases. We can measure the game's size in square miles, but this won't include all the downtown real estate we can explore, which goes UP as well as north, west, east, & south.

Does anybody have Boston accents in this game? That's one thing that's missing in Fallout 3, nobody has Maryland accents. Moira Brown sounds like she's from the Midwest. She's the most outstanding voice I can think of in that game. But nobody has a Maryland accent. Here are some quick examples. I think because Maryland accents are not as famous as New York or Boston or Midwestern, or maybe they are hard to understand, nobody really notices but us Marylanders. But then that's the thing. Fallout 3 was made in Maryland!!!!

Well heck, maybe our peculiar way of speaking did not survive the war! Only a small portion of us have accetns that extreme. But I'd expect Fallout 4 though, you'd have to get some Bostonese in there to make the game feel more authentic, right?

Anyway.... a witchcraft museum, eh? Yeah I can totally see that, this game being set in New England.

I really like Pic #3 ... gloomy!!!! ..... and same thing with the final picture. Dark silhouette! ... Looks like Hecate did some sort of quest to return a deathclaw egg, eh?

Going back a couple sessions, I think Burning Steel is my fave! Bzzt!!!!!

Yeah most everybody speaks with that Boston brogue (and don’t you know they couldn’t resist a “Paak the caaa in the yaad” joke). As for the Witchcraft Museum, it’s just outside of Salem, so yeah. Salem is a named location in F4.

I smiled at your linking of Hecate and witchcraft.

Helping mama deathclaw is it?

Ya know, I can't really remember a Maryland accent from my time there. My Pittsburgh accent slipping through at times was more prominent than anything I recall hearing in MD.

You won't hear extreme Maryland accents (Bal'mer instead of Baltimore, for instance) until you frequent the working class, and then it's hit-or-miss whether you'll hear one. It's not like New York or Boston, where their accent spans broadly across all classes: policemen, lawyers, judges, even politicians will have them! But my premise is: If you don't include Boston accents in a game that's supposed to be in Boston, people will definitely notice!

I have no idea what a Pittsburgh accent sounds like. Ah okay. It's sort of like a mix between Jersey (Joisey) and Maryland. Interesting!

I do remember people saying "warsh" instead of wash and "ool" instead of oil.

Pittsburgh accent is so bad. I've almost got it filtered out completely, but sometimes I can't help it.

Y’all need to come down here to Khajiit’s neck of the woods if you want bad accents

Man Khajiit hopes they do a Fallout set in and around NOLA one day!

Renee: Fallout 4 does have authentic Boston accents. I listen to a radio show that airs in both Detroit and Boston, and the Boston callers sound exactly like many people in Fallout 4. Sometimes when they say where they are from, like Quincy, I find myself thinking: "He must have escaped the Quincy Massacre with Preston."

There is a RL Witchcraft Museum in Salem, though it is more about the Witch Trials than it is about actual Witchcraft. The one in the game is just a copy of that.


TheCheshireKhajiit: The Abernathys immediately jump to mind when it is time to Paak the caar in the yaaad.


Acadian: I smiled when I saw the museum. Hecate is the Queen of Witches after all.

There is a quest about a stolen Deathclaw egg that starts in the Museum of Witchcraft. Some mercenaries stole the egg, only to find themselves pursued by a Deathclaw. By the time you come along it is munching on the last of the mercs. It is really creepy the first time you do it. You have to fight the Deathclaw. But once you get the egg you can choose to return it to its mother, or complete the merc's contract and take it to their employer. I have always returned it to MamaClaw.


Don't lose your head over a game of checkers

Moon over The Commonwealth

Going to Nuka World

Hecate Smash!

The bear chair

Nuka Town USA

^
Love the one co-staring Luna! Also, I’m not really sure what’s going on in “The Bear Chair”, but it is delightfully creepy!

Ah, thanks for the mama deathclaw explanation. I expect Buffy would make the same choice Hecate did.

Skellie checkers: “Heads I lose, tails you win.”

Where is the second moon? Oh. . . nvm.

Going to nuka world as a walking tank!

Hecate is not a woman to be trifled with!

"Hecate Smash" needs more shirt-ripping.

Aww, how neat.

Ha! I can just imagine what must have happened over that checkers game.

Luv the Moon pic too, like you knew I would.

Power armor cracks me up in FO4. I recently did some reading about power armor, as I was trying to learn which armor would be the best for Cho's followers. So it's interesting because the armor in FO4 is so big that an ordinary person wouldn't be able to stand up in a PA suit. I had no idea they're actually powered by something. They're supposed to be nuclear-powered, right?

Power Armor in the lore is supposed to be like a one manned vehicle that the US developed to break through Chinese forces. In Fallout4, Power Armor is much more than something you wear, and being more like a vehicle, it needs fuel/energy to function and this is supplied by little batteries called “Fusion Cores”.

TheCheshireKhajiit: I use an HD retexture of the moon, and a size increaser. So she really pops in the night sky.

The bear chair is technically a gorilla chair. But there is a big stuffed bear right behind it. There is also a feral ghoul chair, that is literally made from a ghoul.


Acadian: Deathclaws are definitely the top of the food chain in Fallout. I try to avoid them just because they are also my favorite critter. So I would rather not have to kill them. Sometimes Hecate will come across a Deathclaw in the distance fighting other creatures, like giant radscorpions. She will use her sniper rifle to pick off the scorpions at long range. Then use a stealth boy to disappear before the Deathclaw can notice her.


ghastley: She Hulk Smash!


Renee: Power Armor in the Fallout world is basically a high-tech replacement for tanks. Which is what it will end up being in the real world too. It was really underwhelming in Fallout 3 and New Vegas. It is just another kind of armor in those games. But F4 really gets the idea of it being a vehicle, as Khajiit said, rather than simply clothing with some steel plates and circuitry. It uses fusion cores, which are nuclear batteries.

Most of the time I don't use PA with my characters. But I will break it out for especially difficult quests. Hecate wore her T-60 Tesla suit to Nuka World because the very beginning has some insane battles with Raiders. There are three gangs you have to wipe out. Each of them has a lair in an interior cell, that is packed with a few dozen Raiders each. So it winds up being a very close up fight with little or no cover against a horde of baddies. Even with the power armor it is extremely difficult. Hecate used something like 20 grenades in one of those battles.

Fallout 3 is pretty limited in power armor choices. The Brotherhood uses T-45s, so those are the most numerous. I think there are only two suits of T-51s in the game. One is the Shoot 'Em In the Head quest that a ghoul in Underworld gives you. It is locked up in an old military base in the north west of the map. The other is from Operation Anchorage. So T-45 is the easiest to get. Just follow an Outcast patrol around, and after a while you will be sure to pick up some suits that are no longer being used...


River of Quantum

Nuka Lurk, Lopov-style

Nuka Queen

Nuka Hunter

The Far Darter

Settin' for a spell

Close encounters of the Nuka kind

Hecate has a new suit of armor

Heh, Hecate looks sassy in River of Quantum.

Wow, those nuka lurk things are. . . well in the word of Arnald in the Predator, 'You are one ugly muth. . . .' !

Gosh, NukaCola-powered power armor?

Are you sure that's Hecate?

Yes, that's what I gathered in my reading. Earlier examples of power armor are supposed to be not as developed. Or they were experiments that did not work. Whereas in Fallout 4, they seem to have examples which are more developed.

I gave Cho's followers some power armor, but I'm not sure if they're T-45 suits or not. I'll check next time I'm gaming with Cho. Whenever it stops raining in Maryland, that is....

Yikes, those Nuka creatures look horrid.

Lotsa Lopov shots in this batch! I wonder where that guy is.... seems like he fell off the side of the Slovenian earth....

What kind of armor is that in the final pic?

Acadian: It's not a river of chocolate, but Hecate makes the best of what the wasteland has to offer.

They also have Sugar Bombs cereal power armor, Abraxo Cleaner armor, and Vim cola armor. Everyone wants their own armor!


ghastley: That's definitely Hecate. Though of course she got back in black as soon as she could.


Renee: The Nukalurks are in FO3 as well. Go to the Nuka Cola Bottle Plant on the western side of the DC ruins.

Lopov must be making lots of Lopov shots with his new job. He said it involved a lot of traveling. I think he might have joined the Avengers...

That is T-51 Power Armor in the last pic. That suit has a Nuka Cola paint job. There are a lot of specialty paint jobs like that for the T-51s in Fallout 4.


C'mon join the joyride

You gotta know when to hold 'em

Take your protein pills, and put your helmet on

There's a starman waiting in the sky

And I think it's gonna be a long long time, 'till touch down brings me round again to find

Sweet dreams and flying machines in pieces on the ground

Tall Cool One

Take Me Away



*extra for anyone who recognizes the titles*

Heh, I chuckle everytime I see that ‘armor that ate Hecate’.

Wow, those gamblers are playing for high stakes!

Cool theme with your song titles. I only really recognized three of them.

Love Nuka World. They did a great job with the world building part of it.

The master and the apprentice.

Kane: Which toon character is yours? The one in the power armor, or the one without?




C'mon join the joyride = not sure of artist. Foghat maybe? And then that would be Free Ride, I think, if the artist is right. If it's not Foghat, maybe it's Bay City Rollers? Don't know song name, if so. .... EDIT NO no no... answer is Rick Derringer / Free Ride, final answer!

You gotta know when to hold 'em = Kenny Rogers. Don't know song title name without cheating. Lopov would. He's into old American country, oddly. ......EDIT: ooh!! I think this song is called The Gambler!

Take your protein pills = David Bowie. Um ... Is the song Ziggy Stardust ... NO ... Space Oddity?

Starman waiting in the sky ... no idea.

And I think it's gonna be a long time = Elton John / Rocket Man. (love this song ever since I was a kid!)

Sweet Dreams = no idea.

Tall Cool One = Robert Plant. That one's a real toughie. At first I'm thinking Zeppelin, but then I remember Plant had his own solo career after LZ disbanded.

Take me Away = no idea, but what a psychadelic pic! In general all these are psychadelic, man!

@Renee, the lady on the right, without the armor. She is my current PC, Isabella. On the left is Paladin Danse of the BoS.

At least that armor that ate her also came with a cool bottle of nuka to wash it down!




The apprentice is awfully tall!





C'mon Join the Joyride is from Roxette - Joyride

You got The Gambler right, and Space Oddity (Ground Control to Major Tom)

Starman is by David Bowie as well

Of course you got Elton. I am sure (hope) everyone over 30 knows that.

Sweet Dreams and Flying Machines is from James Taylor - Fire and Rain

Of course Robert Plant with Tall Cool One. I was so excited when that song first came out. It was the first time in his solo career that he acknowledged his Led Zeppelin work.

Finally Take Me Away is a song about aliens by Blue Oyster Cult

Tis funny you should say that, 'cuz I actually did shrink Isabella down a little bit. player.setscale .93, I think.

Really hoping a height slider makes it into BGS’s next game.

She's back (The woman behind the mask)

Another rainy night

Eat the rich

I got my eyes on you

Big iron

In the dark


Once again, all the titles are song titles. Who can guess the artists?

Eat the Rich is Aerosmith. The Birthday Massacre has a song called In the Dark but Khajiit suspects this isn’t the song you had in mind.

Big Iron was a song from New Vegas but this one can’t remember the artist. The others Khajiit doesn’t know.

Welcome back to Loviatar (gulp).

Her eyes are really cool!

Wow, Robbie's got some thighs on him.

0/6 on the song titles.

:lol; Yeah exactly.


I'm also stumped on the song titles. "I got my eyes on you" and "In the dark" are both ringing bells, but ... dang.

TheCheshireKhajiit: Got those two right!


Acadian: I love those red eyes. It is the best part of playing Loviatar. Especially given that other aspects of her personality are less than... savory.

Robbie spent the last two centuries eating McDonalds!


Renee: Those were the actual song titles (except I changed the gender on the first). They are:

Alice Cooper - He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask)

Queensryche - Another Rainy Night

Eat The Rich is an Aerosmith song and a Motorhead song

I Got My Eyes On You is a Frampton song and a George Thorogood song and a Drake song (and others)

Marty Robbins did Big Iron, made infamous by Fallout New Vegas

Billy Squier did In The Dark, so did a bunch of other people.





Relaxing

Cooking the neighbors

Relaxing at the spa

Lopov (I would use this as a desktop, but it is too creepy)

Happy landings

Just a few days in, and 84 corpses eaten

Yes, see I knew Billy Squier "In the Dark", but that's a song I haven't heard in years. That's why it was ringing a bell.

Aw, she's bathing in toxic waste! I'm guessing she doesn't need any Abraxo, huh?

Yes that Lopov shot would be too scary for a desktop shot. f

Final pic = um ... yuck.

Khajiit would totally use “Lopov” as a desktop

Relaxing – Wow, Lovie beats the Nuka Girl as a pinup!

How sweet. Inviting the neighbors over to dinner.

Toxic spa!

Lopov – Yikes!

Well you know what they say about any landing you can walk away from. . . .

Look at that corpse eaten count! How does she maintain her girlish figure?

Renee: I have not heard it in ages too. But I have always had a good memory for songs. When I listen to a song, I can remember back to when I used to hear it, decades before, and it brings up all those old emotions from that time.

Lovie might scrub with some plutonium to get that healthy clean glow!


TheCheshireKhajiit: I would probably have nightmares of Loviatar eating me if that was my desktop!


Acadian: Loviatar is still in pretty good shape for a 200 year old. Her secret is the diet.

I think the neighbors were more savory than sweet...

Lovie does a lot of cardio to keep in shape. And Mutant Yoga...



I decided to go back to playing another character, who is a bit more appealing

Sunset Medusa

That is one big roomba

What a lovely day

Medusa is packing a Browning Hi-Power for pests

And an Mk14 for the bigger critters

Medusa! Will she use freezing weapons (turning folks to stone, yada yada)?

Welcome back to Medusa! Did you say appealing or just peeling?

Ahah, so is a Roomba a Robbie with fat legs and gunz?

Oh, and is Medusa related to Officer Barlowe?

TheCheshireKhajiit: Freezing weapons are Killer Frost's territory. Medusa's shtick was always combat armor and an M-14 (from the days of Fallout 3). I don't really like the M-14 mods in Fallout 4 that much. The scopes are way too big in first person, taking up half the screen. So I changed her up a bit to use an Mk14 instead. But that is just an updated M-14 after all.


Acadian: I think Medusa is both appealing and peeling! She even has a nose! I am not sure why, the mod is supposed to remove that, like with other ghouls.

This roomba kills more than just dirt!

They might be related! I never really did develop her backstory much. She might be a pre-war ghoul.


Serious Medusa

Springing into action

Face to face

What a lovely day

'Merica!

"A ghoul, a super-mutant, and a deathclaw walk into a bar..."

Springing into action is a fabulous action shot! Love the 'What a lovely day' on Medusa's chest.

Acadian: The action pic was just a nice bit of timing.

The Lovely Day tag really fits Medusa well. I suspect that she and sarcasm are old friends...




Meeting the neighbors

Block party

Serve up a few more

Take a load off

In the doghouse

Unstoppable

Ahh, a quiet day in the life of Medusa. Does she have that dog as a companion? Medusa's eyes are amazing!

Laughing at last session's pics, and their 'meet the new neighbors' theme.

What happens if somebody needs to borrow a cup of sugar?