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Fallout Series: lore discussion
Posted on 7/9/15 at 11:48 am
Posted on 7/9/15 at 11:48 am
So a few months ago I started playing Fallout 3 and really started reading some of the lore in anticipation for Fallout 4. I had absolutely no idea this game series went so deep and had so much twisted shite in it. Especially the stories behind all of the vaults.
My personal favorite has to be the story of Vault 77 where one man was locked in a vault with only a crate full of puppets.
My personal favorite has to be the story of Vault 77 where one man was locked in a vault with only a crate full of puppets.
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This vault was constructed in a small cave but it's not known when the construction of Vault 77 began. The purpose of Vault 77 in the vault experiments was to be populated by only one man and a crate full of puppets labeled "P13X U.S. GOVERNMENT ISSUE PUPPET RATION", as a study of the human condition in near-complete isolation, with a crate of puppets modeled after living beings as sole company. The vault door was designed to close automatically when the only Vault 77 dweller entered, and only to reopen months later.
The Vault 77 dweller, later known as the Puppet Man, entered the vault on 23rd October, 2077 when the Great War began. At the one hour mark, he was pounding on the vault door and shouting to anyone who might be listening that they had forgotten all the other vault dwellers. By March 23rd, 2078, he had been reduced to sitting in front of the vault door and sobbing. On February 4th, 2079, he discovered and began to inspect the crate of puppets. By February 23, he had begun to act out simple scenes with these puppets, and by March 30th, 2079, he had created full roles and histories for them, the dog puppet being named "Reverend Hound" and serving as both sheriff and part-time reverend, and another grandmother puppet which he named "Grandma". He celebrated the birthday of the "King" with "Grandma" on this day.
But before going to bed, a Vault Boy puppet that he'd missed earlier began to talk to him (probably a side effect of his isolation and a descent into insanity), which the other puppets did not. One morning in 2079, the "King" was found dead, its head torn off in an act of "regicide." When the Puppet Man confronted the most likely suspect, the Vault Boy puppet told him that they had, in fact, done it together and must flee before "Reverend Hound" came for them. The Puppet Man, accompanied by the Vault Boy puppet, opened the vault door (which was no longer locked) only to find a giant radscorpion holding up a car in each claw. Faced with this, he decided to "sleep on it" before proceeding. By December 2079, the Puppet Man had managed to leave Vault 77 along with the Vault Boy puppet and a giant ant which he takes as a mount in the wasteland. Vault 77 was thereafter abandoned.
This post was edited on 7/9/15 at 11:49 am
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Posted on 7/9/15 at 12:10 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Need giant ant mounts
Posted on 7/9/15 at 12:13 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Vault 77 has one of, it not the, best lore stories behind it. Only one that could come close is the Vault where it was all women except one male 
Tang for days, weeks, months, years, decades... but eventually those cycles would do you in.
Tang for days, weeks, months, years, decades... but eventually those cycles would do you in.
Posted on 7/9/15 at 12:39 pm to drewnbrla
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Tang for days, weeks, months, years, decades... but eventually those cycles would do you in.
Eventually one of those women would have gone crazy and killed him. No doubt in my mind.
I also like how it's Vault 69.
Posted on 7/9/15 at 12:50 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Vault 68 is located in Texas. College Station to be exact...
Posted on 7/9/15 at 1:29 pm to NCrawler
Posted on 7/9/15 at 1:54 pm to Henry Jones Jr
I take it you are reading through the Fallout Bibles to get your lore information? If not, these are all pretty good.
Posted on 7/9/15 at 1:56 pm to NCrawler
Fallout wiki is what I've been reading. Looks like you just opened a whole other can of worms for me to get into though 
Posted on 7/9/15 at 6:56 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Fallout wiki is great. My favorite vault was the one with all the clones running around. Favorite backstory was probably Joshua Graham.
Posted on 7/9/15 at 7:29 pm to Brosef Stalin
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My favorite vault was the one with all the clones running around.
Gary. Gary? GARY!! GAAAAAARY!!!!!
Posted on 7/10/15 at 6:28 am to Henry Jones Jr
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Gary. Gary? GARY!! GAAAAAARY!!!!!
Gaaaaarrry??
This ones good too:
Ringa ding ding baby!
This post was edited on 7/10/15 at 9:01 am
Posted on 7/10/15 at 7:59 am to Henry Jones Jr
Post MOAR
Posted on 7/10/15 at 11:44 am to Carson123987
Vault 92 was extremely fricked up.
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The true purpose of Vault 92 was to act as a testing ground for the creation of "super soldiers" by way of "subliminal suggestion." By exposing the citizens of the Vault to white noise that contained hidden subconscious messages, the Vault Overseer hoped to create soldiers that could be controlled through a form of hypnosis, thus fulfilling his orders from Vault-Tec. This research was then to be used for a project to create super soldiers who would be completely obedient and fight far more ferociously than normal humans. The Vault's lead researcher Professor Malleus was initially unaware that the overseer intended to use the research team's work to create soldiers. He thought he was researching their musical talents, etc. This is made clear by a series of his recordings you can pick up throughout the Vault.
The recordings state that, although the experiment initially showed great promise, the most promising subject began exhibiting extreme, uncontrollable aggression and tore three people apart before the Vault's security team was forced to subdue him. It took 23 gunshots to finally take him down. Professor Malleus is horrified at this and cannot understand why a resident would act in such an extremely aggressive manner (as far as the doctor is concerned, the suggestions are limited to simple and harmless triggers like obsessive fixing of hair, constant ear scratching etc.). A later log on the Overseer's terminal shows that he intentionally placed a subliminal message in the resident to trigger a violent outburst, as a measure to see whether the command would be obeyed, how much damage he would do, and how much punishment he would be able to survive before Vault Security killed him. He expresses particular delight in the 20+ bullets required to stop the subject, stating that a whole army of soldiers implanted in such a fashion would be unstoppable.
This rage soon manifested in other subjects. One computer terminal contains the diary of one of the inhabitants, Zoe Hammerstein, who went mad because of the white noise. The diary shows her writing (specifically her spelling and grammar) degenerate, until her final entry, where she begs her friends for help in a sentence that is barely comprehensible.
Attempts by the Vault Overseer to contain the situation (such as by programming code words into the subjects' implants in order to stop them) only worked briefly. Professor Malleus, the expert in charge of the white noise experiment, soon lost hope in the project and attempted several times to convince the Overseer, Richard Rubin, to take the situation more seriously and even consider abandoning the Vault in light of the violent and savage behavior of the residents, not realizing what Rubin had done until it was too late. However it seems that Rubin had Professor Malleus killed, based on evidence from a log on his computer terminal.
More than one-half of the Vault's population (according to Professor Malleus's V92-05 audio log) eventually became violently unstable and began slaughtering the rest of their fellow residents. A note titled "Feedback Loop" explains that the survivors yet untouched by experiment made one last push for the escape, possibly explaining why the vault door was left open. The "normal" vault citizens made an attempt to stave off the crazed group, so there are frag mines scattered around the Vault. Sadly, the skeletons of the presumed young lovers Hilda Egglebrecht and Parker Livingsteen can be found locked into the Recording Studio, a place where they once enjoyed accompanying each other greatly, according to notes left by Parker.
The heavy presence of the mirelurks is explained by a computer terminal in the lower, flooded parts of the Vault. Apparently, shortly before the "crazies" incident, there was an issue with one of the walls in that area, which had cracked because of some body of water nearby. The wall was repaired and given some minor reinforcements, but the Chief Engineer of the Vault, Carl Maynard, stated in this terminal that the repairs were only temporary and that a serious approach needed to be discussed. However nothing was done because of the mad inhabitants, and the wall there eventually broke, allowing the mirelurks to gain access to the Vault.
Posted on 7/10/15 at 2:44 pm to Henry Jones Jr
Posted on 7/10/15 at 2:48 pm to NCrawler
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Vault 68 is located in Texas. College Station to be exact...
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