Fallout

There's an RPG I used to play from about five years ago and before I went to Japan. It's called Fallout. Its a post-apocalyptic nuclear aftermath game that places the main character in a world where radiation has changed humans into mutants. I've just repurchased the game and have dived right into it. I was going to write about my exploits in the game, but first I think a brief introduction is necessary.

Ok. Here's the short version: The main character, called the "Vault-Dweller", comes from a nuclear fallout shelter large enough to support a community. In the game's beginning, a part essential to life in the vault (the water chip) fails and leads the "Overseer" to request the Vault-Dweller to leave the vault (temporarily?) to get a new one. After finding and retrieving the chip, the Vault-Dweller learns of a whacked-out group of religious sketchies called the "Children of the Cathedral". Their leader is an insane character called "The Master". The Master has developed a virus that changes humans into super-strong yet really dumb mutants. The Vault-Dweller is ultimately tasked with finding and destroying The Master before The Master finds and "dips" the other vault dwellers into the "vats" containing the virus (thus changing the humans into super-mutants). As well, there are dozens of mini-tasks within the game and one can choose to be either a nice-guy or a bad-guy type character. Anything goes, as long as you kill the Master.

At the moment, I've found the chip, destroyed the vats and am now just wandering the wastes (the desert now covering the shells of former cities and the wreckage of buildings and cars now defunct) searching for more experience and complete the myriad of sub-tasks the game has to offer.

So, with the intro all understood, the way is paved for diatribing on more detailed exploits in the future.

Nuff for now.