If you could create a Fallout Vault experiment, what would you do?

[SomeBritishDude]

For thoughs who don't know, in Fallout several vaults where invented to keep people safe after the bombs fell. However, many of them were instead used for weird twisted experiments with the inmates. For instance, there was a vault in Fallout 3 full of nothing but Clones of this guy called Gary.

If you could design a vault experiment what would you do?

I'd lock a 1000 cats in my vault and leak radiation into the food and water and see what we had when the vault was opened. We'd either get Cat from Red dwarf, or scary ass mutated saber tooths.

EDIT: Years later...

Wow, necromancy much? Nice to see I've made a thread that lasted this long. I'd like to take this oppitunity to give give a shout out to Obsidian and Vault 11. There's no need for us to invent a vault experiment, Vault 11 is as good as it's going to get.

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

I would do something boring, like try to keep everyone alive long enough to walk the wasteland and fix it. And horde the weapons and make every single vault dweller an elite soldier.

 

[Octorok]

Actually Vault 108 with Gary clones was about power. Vault-Tec gave them enough food to last two thirds of the time until the Vault was to be opened and not enough power but a gigantic armoury. One of the scientists cloned Gary in a bid for control, as the Overseer was scheduled to die in 40 months.

I'm making a vault in the GECK, alongside my other stuff, which is about instinct. Vault 74 has normal Vault dwellers and criminally violent individuals, that have been brainwashed to reject violence a la Clockwork Orange. The experiment is to see if they're basic survival instincts override the brainwashing when the power goes and the food supplies only feed half the Vault.

 

[j0z]

That's sick.
wait, that's the point...
Doesn't matter, don't mess with da catz!


OT:
I would lock everyone up, and then kill one person. Make it look like murder, and then watch them try to figure out who it was. Then systematically kill everyone off, leaving two people. Then watch what happens

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

That's sick.
wait, that's the point...
Doesn't matter, don't mess with da catz!


OT:
I would lock everyone up, and then kill one person. Make it look like murder, and then watch them try to figure out who it was. Then systematically kill everyone off, leaving two people. Then watch what happens

And if you befriended those two people they would rule you out as a suspect and kill eachother.

 

[Unreliable]

You have to fuck 3 times a day or die.
Would be the most enjoyable vault ever, at least until the condoms ran out.

That's sick.
wait, that's the point...
Doesn't matter, don't mess with da catz!


OT:
I would lock everyone up, and then kill one person. Make it look like murder, and then watch them try to figure out who it was. Then systematically kill everyone off, leaving two people. Then watch what happens

Wasn`t that how John Carpenter`s The Thing worked, only with an Alien.

 

[dreadmaster]

dancing mutated bears

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

Or a lot of dead cats. I like the thought of getting Cat from Red Dwarf, I wonder what he'd think of Dogmeat.

I'd have a vault full of clones of the Vault Dweller, the Chosen One or the Lone Wanderer.

Hell, it'd be handy.

 

[Pandalisk]

That's sick.
wait, that's the point...
Doesn't matter, don't mess with da catz!


OT:
I would lock everyone up, and then kill one person. Make it look like murder, and then watch them try to figure out who it was. Then systematically kill everyone off, leaving two people. Then watch what happens

i Enjoyed that in oblivion, best part of the game for me, pinning them to doors with silver arrows.

A vault supplied with the Arnold swartsenegger movies and a workout centre with all basic needs, see what epicness will come forth from the vault.

 

[SniperWolf427]

All of you people are weird....

I would simply increase the temperature of the vault by 1/2 degree every other day starting at 50 degrees until all of the inhabitants have died a horribly painful death, a la melting alive.

 

[Megatheist]

I'd make the entire Vault Dark and force my inhabitants to wander around either in the dark or with Night Vision goggles that never break. They'll all revert to their primordial instincts or turn into the super humans of the time machine and force everyone to submit to their will via psycho telepathy.

 

[AmrasCalmacil]

You have to fuck 3 times a day or die.
Would be the most enjoyable vault ever, at least until the condoms ran out.

Really? I think there'd be problems from that kind of pressure.

That's sick.
wait, that's the point...
Doesn't matter, don't mess with da catz!


OT:
I would lock everyone up, and then kill one person. Make it look like murder, and then watch them try to figure out who it was. Then systematically kill everyone off, leaving two people. Then watch what happens

They'd get naked before being killed. It's the law of such things.

 

[The_Chief]

i would play heavy metal as loud as it can until it will almost break your ear drums.

then i would have everyone get the shit kicked out of them systematically to toughen them and the next generation up.

then i would insert subliminal messages so every month someone gets murdered.

then release 4 pigs numbered, 1,2,3,5 and tell them that i've released 5 eehee

 

[Danny Ocean]

For thoughs who don't know, in Fallout several vaults where invented to keep people safe after the bombs fell. However, many of them were instead used for weird twisted experiments with the inmates. For instance, there was a vault in Fallout 3 full of nothing but Clones of this guy called Gary.

If you could design a vault experiment what would you do?

I'd lock a 1000 cats in my vault and leak radiation into the food and water and see what we had when the vault was opened. We'd either get Cat from Red dwarf, or scary ass mutated saber tooths.

Or, more likely, a whole load of dead cats and a flooded vault?

I would construct a second vault right outside the entrance to the first, and have both open at the same time. There is no way out. Vault A would contain only one man, and vault B would contain only one woman. Both would be the overseers of their respective vaults, and both would be the only armed persons in their vaults. Their offices are completely secure.

The water would be heavily spiked with LSD, and subliminal messages would be rife throughout the building to incur terrifying trips. All the possible sharp objects are blunted, and there would be a single room in each vault that could be raised above ground to observe, but the glass is bullet and shatterproof. Both observation pods are within eyesight of the other.

There is a button in each vault that will destroy it. There is also a button in each vault that will destroy the other vault. There is a single window between the two, with a mesh for conversation.

 

[j0z]

You have to fuck 3 times a day or die.
Would be the most enjoyable vault ever, at least until the condoms ran out.

That's sick.
wait, that's the point...
Doesn't matter, don't mess with da catz!


OT:
I would lock everyone up, and then kill one person. Make it look like murder, and then watch them try to figure out who it was. Then systematically kill everyone off, leaving two people. Then watch what happens

Wasn`t that how John Carpenter`s The Thing worked, only with an Alien.

Maybe... don't remeber, I drew that inspiration from "And then there where none" and Oblivion (which drew it from said story/movie)

 

[MasterSqueak]

I'd divide the vault in two halves with equal populations.

Then I would do stuff like flooding one half using the other halfs water supply, and only fix it when someone was about to snap or die.

 

[Nargleblarg]

Make an all male and all female vaults and see how long each gender can survive without reproduction.

 

[AkJay]

Every vault resident is given one knife, and one ration of food and water, after the vault has been sealed for one month, they will go.

 

[Nerdfury]

My vault will be filled with friendly versions of all the enemies outside - humanoids will be intelligent and friendly, non-humanoids will be loving pet-like creatures. Then, when the vault opens everyone will be released into the world at large and come across rabid mutants, mole rats, death claws and rad-scorpions, et al. Residents will see a death claw or mole rat and be all "Awh, who's a cyoot widdle def-cwaw!" or see a super mutant and say "Hey, man, what's up? Didja catch the game?"

Hilarity will ensue!

 

[Insert Comedy Here]

Build a Vault with food dispensers that constantly dispense food, all the fatty stuff. Release a gas into the air that nullifies the brains signals that tell people to "Stop eating, fatty!".
All the jumpsuit extruding machines release incredibly comfortable and extravagant clothing, not just the jumpsuits.
Also the entire Vault is furnished like a ludicrously wealthy, vice enjoying billionaire, with all sorts of extravagances that people enjoy.

Then after around 50 or so years, assuming that the people haven't gotten so fat that they can't procreate, take it all away.
A series of bizarre accidents disables most of the Vaults entertainment areas, leaving the Overseers office, the living areas, and basically anywhere you can't have fun, intact.
The jumpsuits produced are now horribly itchy, and break down easily.
The food dispenser still produce the same types of food, just only enough to feed half the Vault. Also, that gas is still pumping.
Then after another 25 years, the Vault opens.

The Aim: See what happens when you give people everything they want, then take it away from them, especially after that are so used to it.

Hypothesis: Cannibalism, at least at some point.