Welcome to Fallout town: What do you do now?

[Emilox The Great]

I can be the local "No-Bark", ya know the slightly paranoid deranged fellow who spews out nonsense at everyone i see.

Or i could be the witty sidekick.

Or both!

 

[Grottnikk]

First, make the town a place that people want, even NEED, to come to by providing the necessities: food, clothing and shelter. Once you have that, there will be a population boom and raiders won't be an issue - either they'll have no reason to be marauding douche-bags or they'll be too few in number to pose a threat to an entire city's worth of people.

After the population has grown to a good size, you can start reclaiming territory around the city, making contact with other settlements. I'd probably be more of an urban planner and/or diplomat. This has nothing to do with my actual job in real life, but it's something that would be needed and I'd be good at it.

 

[Bloedhoest]

8: The wasteland is a dangerous place, so your cars must be able to withstand gunfire while protecting you. You will therefore run through a gauntlet of raiders. Points will be deducted for every wound inflicted, and awarded for every bullet deflected.

Lol, making a door out of bent tin cans.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

I'd save the game, don't want to die! Anyway as fair as help goes I'm fairly adaptable, I know a bit of survival and could probably be trained in guns to help defend our fine home. But after a while I'd probably begin exploring and return some day, find the town destroyed and go find the fuckers that killed you all extracting revenge and dying in blaze of glory!

Sneak through the Wastes until I can find a town, then steal everything that isn't nailed down and sell it. Repeat until I have enough for a gun. Then see where I can find a silenced sniper rifle. Then sit in a tower and be loved by one and all for shooting passing wildlife and defending the town.

Well according to my story you did a piss poor job of defending the town son!

What? Dad, I was with you exploring the whole time! I've only got a shitty varmint rifle, but I hear you can buy all kinds of stuff up in North Vegas/Down in Rivet City, so I asked to make a detour! Honestly dad, you need to lay off the mentats. You can barely concentrate on one thing at a time unless you've had a handful. :/

[small][small]Rassa frassa![/small][/small] Get over it ya' jet fiend, your addiction nearly got us killed when we were hunting those damn Deathclaws, that and the fact we missed the Alpha at the end of the canyon.

But dad, it helps smooth everything over! I saved us both when I shot the Mother Deathclaw 5 times in the face before it saw us! At least I have enough money and sense to know when I'm addicted and go see the doctor. Humph.

Find the biggest baddest mofo with the most guns and marry him.

I'd be pretty useless myself but I'm pretty good with technology and mechanics. I have a History BA and a computer science BSc

Afternoon luv. *doffs cap* ;D
I'm not quite the baddest mofo, I love my mum and protect the town. But I'm a dab hand at shooting things in the face from a distance, shooting things in the torso from a distance, and cooking!

Sorry don't mind the boy, he's a sex pest!

And as for you boy you only have the money I gave you and I'm not addicted, they help! Think of me as Father Elijah just less tech' know how and less "I want to kill everyone" mentality! And you say you protect this town but last time I checked it was on fire!

Oh no I'm not! I'm a take to dinner and then marry the shit out of pest!

And the money I got while you were busy 'haggling' with that shopkeeper for some more mentats. I cleaned the whole town out while you were trying to form logical sentences!

Will you boys stop yammering at each other like molerats and eat yer damn wasteland omelette It's going cold!

 

[ardencabbel]

I would most likely do some scavenge work from time to time, but focus on collecting the tales of those that visit our little haven. Work on gathering the necessary parts for a printing press, provided I can find a book on the subject, and put together a newspaper and book printing shop. Publish collections of the stories I have gathered from people, and help to spread the stories of average people managing to make something of the wasteland.

Once the necessities are covered, people need motivation and entertainment. "AC Printing's Extraordinary Tales of Thriving Survival" could go a long way to at least helping with both.

Yep... publisher.

(Limited run of publications until I can get a chemist to help me figure out how to make molerat blood into sustainable ink.)

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Limited run of publications until I can get a chemist to help me figure out how to make molerat blood into sustainable ink.

I think you can make a decent ink out of soot and animal glues. However it does make the paper brittle after a long time. The bark on the burnt out trees might be another option for ingredients although I'd imagine that's hardly less sooty

I only know this becuase of studying history rofl.

 

[Jedamethis]

I'd save the game, don't want to die! Anyway as fair as help goes I'm fairly adaptable, I know a bit of survival and could probably be trained in guns to help defend our fine home. But after a while I'd probably begin exploring and return some day, find the town destroyed and go find the fuckers that killed you all extracting revenge and dying in blaze of glory!

Sneak through the Wastes until I can find a town, then steal everything that isn't nailed down and sell it. Repeat until I have enough for a gun. Then see where I can find a silenced sniper rifle. Then sit in a tower and be loved by one and all for shooting passing wildlife and defending the town.

Well according to my story you did a piss poor job of defending the town son!

What? Dad, I was with you exploring the whole time! I've only got a shitty varmint rifle, but I hear you can buy all kinds of stuff up in North Vegas/Down in Rivet City, so I asked to make a detour! Honestly dad, you need to lay off the mentats. You can barely concentrate on one thing at a time unless you've had a handful. :/

[small][small]Rassa frassa![/small][/small] Get over it ya' jet fiend, your addiction nearly got us killed when we were hunting those damn Deathclaws, that and the fact we missed the Alpha at the end of the canyon.

But dad, it helps smooth everything over! I saved us both when I shot the Mother Deathclaw 5 times in the face before it saw us! At least I have enough money and sense to know when I'm addicted and go see the doctor. Humph.

Find the biggest baddest mofo with the most guns and marry him.

I'd be pretty useless myself but I'm pretty good with technology and mechanics. I have a History BA and a computer science BSc

Afternoon luv. *doffs cap* ;D
I'm not quite the baddest mofo, I love my mum and protect the town. But I'm a dab hand at shooting things in the face from a distance, shooting things in the torso from a distance, and cooking!

Sorry don't mind the boy, he's a sex pest!

And as for you boy you only have the money I gave you and I'm not addicted, they help! Think of me as Father Elijah just less tech' know how and less "I want to kill everyone" mentality! And you say you protect this town but last time I checked it was on fire!

Oh no I'm not! I'm a take to dinner and then marry the shit out of pest!

And the money I got while you were busy 'haggling' with that shopkeeper for some more mentats. I cleaned the whole town out while you were trying to form logical sentences!

Will you boys stop yammering at each other like molerats and eat yer damn wasteland omelette It's going cold!

Yes Ma'am! *tucks in hurriedly*
[sub]I'm not arguing with any woman who can make her own Wasteland Omelette. D:[/sub]

 

[DarkRyter]

Start up a tribe or gang or something.

Maybe raid some nearby communities.

It's not like some hero from a vault or mystical chosen one or mailman's gonna kill me and loot my corpse for bottle caps, right?

 

[ardencabbel]

Limited run of publications until I can get a chemist to help me figure out how to make molerat blood into sustainable ink.

I think you can make a decent ink out of soot and animal glues. However it does make the paper brittle after a long time. The bark on the burnt out trees might be another option for ingredients although I'd imagine that's hardly less sooty

I only know this becuase of studying history rofl.

Brittle paper might not be too much of an issue. As society progresses in the wasteland, better papers and inks can be worked on. And it creates a collector base for people that took the time to preserve all those 'First Runs'.

 

[Alcamonic]

Make my very own Republic of Dave of course!

But in all... eh seriousness? I would probably be some sort of engineer or junk fixer in a town.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Limited run of publications until I can get a chemist to help me figure out how to make molerat blood into sustainable ink.

I think you can make a decent ink out of soot and animal glues. However it does make the paper brittle after a long time. The bark on the burnt out trees might be another option for ingredients although I'd imagine that's hardly less sooty

I only know this becuase of studying history rofl.

Brittle paper might not be too much of an issue. As society progresses in the wasteland, better papers and inks can be worked on. And it creates a collector base for people that took the time to preserve all those 'First Runs'.

Well it's only after a really long time that it starts to corrode the paper so I'm sure that it would serve it's purpose for how long you need it to You need acid to make animal glues I think but assuming there is water, salt and electricity around that shouldn't be a problem. I'd imagine Nuka Cola would work as an acid aswell if it's any like Coke.

 

[Baldry]

I'd save the game, don't want to die! Anyway as fair as help goes I'm fairly adaptable, I know a bit of survival and could probably be trained in guns to help defend our fine home. But after a while I'd probably begin exploring and return some day, find the town destroyed and go find the fuckers that killed you all extracting revenge and dying in blaze of glory!

Sneak through the Wastes until I can find a town, then steal everything that isn't nailed down and sell it. Repeat until I have enough for a gun. Then see where I can find a silenced sniper rifle. Then sit in a tower and be loved by one and all for shooting passing wildlife and defending the town.

Well according to my story you did a piss poor job of defending the town son!

What? Dad, I was with you exploring the whole time! I've only got a shitty varmint rifle, but I hear you can buy all kinds of stuff up in North Vegas/Down in Rivet City, so I asked to make a detour! Honestly dad, you need to lay off the mentats. You can barely concentrate on one thing at a time unless you've had a handful. :/

[small][small]Rassa frassa![/small][/small] Get over it ya' jet fiend, your addiction nearly got us killed when we were hunting those damn Deathclaws, that and the fact we missed the Alpha at the end of the canyon.

But dad, it helps smooth everything over! I saved us both when I shot the Mother Deathclaw 5 times in the face before it saw us! At least I have enough money and sense to know when I'm addicted and go see the doctor. Humph.

Find the biggest baddest mofo with the most guns and marry him.

I'd be pretty useless myself but I'm pretty good with technology and mechanics. I have a History BA and a computer science BSc

Afternoon luv. *doffs cap* ;D
I'm not quite the baddest mofo, I love my mum and protect the town. But I'm a dab hand at shooting things in the face from a distance, shooting things in the torso from a distance, and cooking!

Sorry don't mind the boy, he's a sex pest!

And as for you boy you only have the money I gave you and I'm not addicted, they help! Think of me as Father Elijah just less tech' know how and less "I want to kill everyone" mentality! And you say you protect this town but last time I checked it was on fire!

Oh no I'm not! I'm a take to dinner and then marry the shit out of pest!

And the money I got while you were busy 'haggling' with that shopkeeper for some more mentats. I cleaned the whole town out while you were trying to form logical sentences!

Oh yeah go marrying random strangers, I thought I raised you better back in the Vault!

Oh well at least I don't go around stealing from our friends and have the common courtesy to wait till they're dead!

But I need somebody to keep my gun working! Hurhur, accidental double entendre. ^^

Pff. Since when was old Mrs. Frost our friend? We all knew we'd have killed each other and nicked their stuff years ago if we weren't so evenly matched and she didn't have a Laser RCW.
And yeah, you wait until the bullet you just shot hits them in the groin and then you take thir stuff. At least I only take what I need, leaving them alive with a good chance of survival!

You can handle that yourself!

Please you betrayed me and help the shit out of her, I would've died if not for my Awesomeitis! And I only kill the baddies, don't lie to me monkey man!

 

[Jedamethis]

I'd save the game, don't want to die! Anyway as fair as help goes I'm fairly adaptable, I know a bit of survival and could probably be trained in guns to help defend our fine home. But after a while I'd probably begin exploring and return some day, find the town destroyed and go find the fuckers that killed you all extracting revenge and dying in blaze of glory!

Sneak through the Wastes until I can find a town, then steal everything that isn't nailed down and sell it. Repeat until I have enough for a gun. Then see where I can find a silenced sniper rifle. Then sit in a tower and be loved by one and all for shooting passing wildlife and defending the town.

Well according to my story you did a piss poor job of defending the town son!

What? Dad, I was with you exploring the whole time! I've only got a shitty varmint rifle, but I hear you can buy all kinds of stuff up in North Vegas/Down in Rivet City, so I asked to make a detour! Honestly dad, you need to lay off the mentats. You can barely concentrate on one thing at a time unless you've had a handful. :/

[small][small]Rassa frassa![/small][/small] Get over it ya' jet fiend, your addiction nearly got us killed when we were hunting those damn Deathclaws, that and the fact we missed the Alpha at the end of the canyon.

But dad, it helps smooth everything over! I saved us both when I shot the Mother Deathclaw 5 times in the face before it saw us! At least I have enough money and sense to know when I'm addicted and go see the doctor. Humph.

Find the biggest baddest mofo with the most guns and marry him.

I'd be pretty useless myself but I'm pretty good with technology and mechanics. I have a History BA and a computer science BSc

Afternoon luv. *doffs cap* ;D
I'm not quite the baddest mofo, I love my mum and protect the town. But I'm a dab hand at shooting things in the face from a distance, shooting things in the torso from a distance, and cooking!

Sorry don't mind the boy, he's a sex pest!

And as for you boy you only have the money I gave you and I'm not addicted, they help! Think of me as Father Elijah just less tech' know how and less "I want to kill everyone" mentality! And you say you protect this town but last time I checked it was on fire!

Oh no I'm not! I'm a take to dinner and then marry the shit out of pest!

And the money I got while you were busy 'haggling' with that shopkeeper for some more mentats. I cleaned the whole town out while you were trying to form logical sentences!

Oh yeah go marrying random strangers, I thought I raised you better back in the Vault!

Oh well at least I don't go around stealing from our friends and have the common courtesy to wait till they're dead!

But I need somebody to keep my gun working! Hurhur, accidental double entendre. ^^

Pff. Since when was old Mrs. Frost our friend? We all knew we'd have killed each other and nicked their stuff years ago if we weren't so evenly matched and she didn't have a Laser RCW.
And yeah, you wait until the bullet you just shot hits them in the groin and then you take thir stuff. At least I only take what I need, leaving them alive with a good chance of survival!

You can handle that yourself!

Please you betrayed me and help the shit out of her, I would've died if not for my Awesomeitis! And I only kill the baddies, don't lie to me monkey man!

But I'd have to practice and learn how everything works and that takes ages.

Dad, that was a dream you had when you hit your head falling off the toilet! You told me all about it in vividly disturbing detail while I was having breakfast.

 

[Buleet]

i will be "that guy".
The dude that helps out pretty much everywhere, does not say much and lacks any kind of expertise in anything.

 

[JokerboyJordan]

I'd get myself a nice leather jacket, gas mask, and riot gear.
Then I'd go out and scavenge large assortments of weapons from the remnants of factories and military outlets.
I'd then set up a store that buys, sells, and maintains weapons.
With enough money, I'd hire more guards to protect my wares, I'd procure machinery to produce more parts, and eventually I'd become the new Gun Runners of the Wasteland.

Oh, and I'd supply the army/guards of the town with weapons at discount prices as long as they're ordered in bulk

 

[Fwee]

I'd just do like I do every time I play Fallout: get insanely rich selling cigarettes.

 

[Bloedhoest]

8: The wasteland is a dangerous place, so your cars must be able to withstand gunfire while protecting you. You will therefore run through a gauntlet of raiders. Points will be deducted for every wound inflicted, and awarded for every bullet deflected.

Lol, making a door out of bent tin cans.

loool, I could see Jezza roaming the wasteland as a ghoul with a bunch of tin cans and nuka bottles as a door on a Corvega.

Go away honey badgers!

 

[Suicida1 Midget]

Caravan guard and freelance merc. Dont really care about the whole town idea. Dont like the crazies who wanna rule cuase they dont...er cant do anything else. Guess that makes me a prick. At least i am happy with my combat shotgun and laser rifle.

 

[Dango]

I'd hire several armed bodyguards to help me head out and map the wasteland, while keeping a day-to-day journal.

 

[ardencabbel]

Limited run of publications until I can get a chemist to help me figure out how to make molerat blood into sustainable ink.

I think you can make a decent ink out of soot and animal glues. However it does make the paper brittle after a long time. The bark on the burnt out trees might be another option for ingredients although I'd imagine that's hardly less sooty

I only know this becuase of studying history rofl.

Brittle paper might not be too much of an issue. As society progresses in the wasteland, better papers and inks can be worked on. And it creates a collector base for people that took the time to preserve all those 'First Runs'.

Well it's only after a really long time that it starts to corrode the paper so I'm sure that it would serve it's purpose for how long you need it to You need acid to make animal glues I think but assuming there is water, salt and electricity around that shouldn't be a problem. I'd imagine Nuka Cola would work as an acid aswell if it's any like Coke.

I like it! And keeping with the naming theme of the wasteland, I could call the newspaper the Nuka Cola News!