Let's Play: Fallout 3

[Fenris]

So, next chapter?

[Krylo]

Gatling FeverWell, let's get the hell out of here then, shall we?



The trek through the wastelands is mostly quiet. I can hear Red and Shorty talking between each other, but I don't really pay that much attention to it. I just keep my eyes on the wastes. I've yet to walk through them without SOMETHING going wrong, and with two more people traveling alongside, I doubt I'll have better luck this time.

But, the travels ARE quiet. Nothing seems to go wrong. That is until I reach the bridge from before.



I remember the people camped down there so I turn and signal Red and shorty to keep down and quiet.



We move across the bridge carefully and silently, hoping to avoid trouble.

Gunfire.

I turn around.



Where are they?

I hop down off the bridge to see the gunman aiming up at the bridge. I take careful aim and...





I love this gun.

I rush toward the encampment. I know I saw more than one before, and his friends must have heard the commotion.



As they see me they pull up their weapons.



I return fire.



My bullet tears his head clean off, decapitating him. Yesterday that would have probably made me ill. Now, however, I just smile lovingly at my gun.


I walk back to the corpses and free them of any valuables they might be carrying. Ammo, weapons. Whatever.

Rummage through the camp, as well.





Turns out I was wrong about the boat, by the by. It doesn't work anymore.



Either way, I head back to Red and Shorty, and we head toward Big Town together. It's not much further.



Home Sweet Home.



"Yeah, hey, they said you were a doctor, you think you could patch me up a little?"

Her eyes widen a bit, and she nods quickly, "Oh... oh yeah. You got pretty beaten up, didn't you? I'm sorry, I was so scared I didn't really even think of it..."

"Yeah. It's fine. Just... take care of it, would you?"

She nods and brings me to her clinic, pulling out some bandages and painkillers, wrapping, and drugging, me up. I'm starting to feel better when she suggests I go and lay down at the common house across the street.

As I walk in I'm accosted by a young girl. Looks to be in her late teens, maybe. Probably about my age.



I answer her civilly enough, trying to maybe make a new ally. "Hi. I'm Lucy."



She... just keeps talking about fashion and how everyone thinks she's silly and how she likes the word like, so on and so forth. I'm about to deck her when I hear something outside and use it to excuse myself.



You know, I said I'd be happy if I never saw another one of these things again, but I'm actually feeling pretty good about this. Sure it might knock me unconscious drag me back to its lair, and eat me alive in the most gruesome manner imaginable, but at least it's not going to talk to me about lipstick.



I fire the sawed off shotgun right into the thing's head, turning it's face into a red goo, but it doesn't even slow down. I fall backwards, out of the way of it's swing as gun fire rings out around me.

I roll up onto my feet and come around behind it as it prepares to attack a bystander



Firing another shot into the back of its head finishs its life and it slumps to the ground, more slowly than I would like.



Ejecting the shells from the chamber I spin around to another mutant preparing to charge. I quickly slam a few more shells in and flip my wrist snapping the shotgun closed as it comes at me with a sledge hammer.

It pulls back for the strike and I pull my trigger. Shotgun versus hammer. The way nature intended.



Shotgun wins.



I look back at the town, the mutant corpses littering the ground and decide to get the hell out. To hell with resting, and to hell with being these people's hero. I've done nothing but nearly die ever since I've been to this godforsaken hole in the ground. I'm out.



That looks like a good direction, why not?



Fuck.

FUCK FUCK FUCK!

I'm taking aim before I even know what I'm doing, the cool lacquer of the shotgun's pommel against my sweaty palms.



The gun flies from his blasted hands, and I feel a momentary elation, but he's not done yet. I pump my other chamber into him.



Shit, it didn't even slow him down.



I backpeddle away firing at his legs hoping to slow him down, but it doesn't seem to phase him as he continues his charge. It becomes apparent that he's going to catch me and tear me apart, and I stop running, taking aim as he charges for one last shot. Either he dies, or I become lunch.



Yes!

Super mutants--Zero. Lucy--honestly I've lost count. God, I hate those things.



...But not too much. He was even nice enough to leave me a box of ammo. Now I just gotta find something to try this thing out on.



...Where's a one of those murdering assholes when you need one?



Oh, there they are.

Gotta get a little closer to really get a feel for this, though.



HAHA! FUCK YEAH!



Oooh, that looks like it hurt.




Hey, he had a friend.



It would have been insensitive of me to let him die alone, don't you think?



...Well that was fun.

And I feel pretty good about ridding the world of those two... though I'm a little worried by my lack of reaction to this. I know I should feel ill, disgusted... angry maybe, but I just can't help feeling anything but justified in killing those two.

Whatever. It's not as bad as the mutants, anyway. I'm getting out of here.

Still don't know where I'm going but not here sounds better than here.



Then again...

I head up the bridge right next to the slaughtered... creatures. Whatever they are.



"Fuck!" I shield my eyes from the debris, screaming in shock, and a little bit of anger.



...Great. More crazies.

----

So we're at Arefu. I'm going to guess you people want me to help out and go hunt down The Family, but once I find them... then what?

Kill them? Ally with them? Marry Vance and have his babies*?

*Last option not really an option.

[Solid Snake]

"Kill the family, take the shiskebab, and utilize it as an awesome weapon" is my preferred option, and Lucy could well be justified in slaying cannibals. I see it is an ideal potential "neutral-turning-evil" option for her as she could still justify it as a morally acceptable solution insofar as she views The Family as inhuman.

But I suspect others will want Lucy to be nice and learn the dark arts of the Family. Either's better than siding with Arefu, negotiating with the family and not indulging in some vampirism.

[Khael!]

I'm pretty sure food isn't an issue in this game, but the back of my head keeps telling me that she'd be friggin hungry out in the middle of nuclear nowhere.

I'm a little undecided about whether to befriend the family or kill them, but starvation might be a good motivator.

[greed]

Originally Posted by Khael!

I'm pretty sure food isn't an issue in this game, but the back of my head keeps telling me that she'd be friggin hungry out in the middle of nuclear nowhere.

I'm a little undecided about whether to befriend the family or kill them, but starvation might be a good motivator.

Hungry enough that she sides with cannibals? But yeah I vote leave the family alive. You could also justify it by them being the only group that hasn't shot at her or asked her to save them from super mutants so far.

[Khael!]

Hungry enough that she sides with cannibals?

Well okay no, not at this stage in Lucy's character development. But if she allies with them instead of killing them it's then a possibility left open for later down the road if forumites vote that way.

[Krylo]

To be honest, food's not actually hard to find. It's all over the wasteland. Like ALL over. To the point where you stop picking it up because you already have too much.

There was pork and beans on one of those shelves that I looted earlier, and probably some other food, too.

[Khael!]

Oh that was salvageable? Explains a lot.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Not to mention the literally hundreds of stimpaks everywhere. But I don't even use food or stimpaks; I live on a diet of purified water, bloodpacks and cannabalism. I haven't touched another form of health restorer in well over 10 hours.

On this matter though I'm split; on the one hand, shishkebab (we absolutely must aquire this at all costs) so we could just kill them and steal it, but on the other, we can gain shish schematics from helping them anyway and we can also learn the hemophage (sp?) perk.

Also judging from how Krylo's been playing Lucy I doubt she'd really want to side with vampires anyway, or do anything that risks her life again, but she certainly may enjoy the ruthless killing that can ensue.

Meh, as long as we get a shish, schematics or otherwise, I'll be happy with whatever we do.

[Solid Snake]

If you let the Family live, though, don't you almost automatically gain positive karma?

I'm still of the impression that it would be awesome to have a paranoid, cannibal-hatin' Lucy dispatch some not-so-friendly "justice" on The Family the moment she realizes who they are and what they've done in the past. But my perspective is very much influenced by the necessity that Lucy use a shishkebab immediately. Also, don't we have enough Let's Plays going on starring neutral-leaning-evil women who drink blood?