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Update 16 ? Never Meant To Save Anyone

Okay, last time we finished up REPCONN HQ. Now it's time for one of my favorite areas!



We wanna head back south, past the 188 stop.

We wanna turn to the southwest when we're about at it.





Aha!

We all know by now that the Vaults were never meant to save anyone.



Look at that. Wide open door. Dead inside, except for vermin.



What happened here?



A nearby computer has the answer.



LISTEN TO IT

(It just raises further questions )







I really love how confusing these flyers are. Just what the fuck is going on in this Vault?



Pictured: Boone thinking he can snipe a rat or something through the floor.



We find a different computer that is still running ? perhaps it can give some insight as to what the fuck.











Well okay then



Let's get moving further inside.



Hmm.... let's try "Security".





Only one new file, but any information is good because this place is weird.











We also move further on and loot the armory. (Armories? There's two things of ammo storage.)





Hey, a mini nuke! These are quite rare in the Mojave.



We find another terminal over in the mens dormitory section.









ONWARD



GOD FUCKING DAMN IT (slightly more excusable due to how we get the key/password this time)



Pictured: ED-E photobombing my attempt to take a screenshot of the sign below:





Here I carelessly triggered a trap and ED-E and Boone couldn't get away in time ? this is quiiiiiite a big explosion. If I were playing hardcore mode, they'd be dead!



We can swim through this irradiated water (and risk drowning)



for a tiny bit of loot



and an alternate path.



Which is I guess necessary if you can't pick an average lock.



At some point, people started editing the I Hate Nate posters too.



Hmm? (Read this it's Vault history and important)












Well fuck. What the shit.



Urrrgghhhh we're so close to the Overseer's office too but welp, the direct path is cut off so back through the old warzone and shit.



I also take a quick trip through a DIFFERENT flooded section to grab:



Something for a different quest



...Why are we doing this again?



nice bloodstain



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

The following fight can be pretty hard ? we are at an okay level and have some good gear but I still have to use a fuckton of Turbo to pull it off.



Two sentry bots, a bunch of turrets, and an assortment of robobrains, protectrons, and Mr Gutsies attack you from two sides.



Whew.



Geeugghh.



Ahah! Time for some answers!



Uhhhhh. Shit.



Let's leave Vault 11. Leave and never come back.

I actually like Vault 11. We all know by now that the Vaults were never meant to save anyone and were a giant experiment that the U.S. Government started a nuclear war to get running. Vault 11 is probably my favorite of all the Vault experiments ? pretty much all of the ones we see in New Vegas are superior to the Fallout 3 ones.

I don't know, it seems weird that Obsidian should be so much better than Bethesda but retrospectively, I don't think a single damn person on the Fallout 3 writing team understood subtlety, leading to such things as a vault full of clones of one guy, a vault that pumps hallucinogenic drugs into the air, and motherfucking Vault 101.

Ugh.

Anyways. It is time to talk to Veronica. There will be a sudden passing of time in the screenshots because I did a lot of conversation quite a while ago but chose to hold the screenshots etc for a later time. That time is now.



The grave.

Huh. Well, in that case I take it back. You look pretty good, given the circumstances. Well, welcome, then. I'm Veronica. I live in a hole in the ground.

You live in a hole in the ground?

Well, a bunker, if you want to get technical. I think it sounds more interesting my way. But I'm not there much anymore. I'm usually out here picking up food and supplies for my family. Whatever they need.

So you just leave your family in the bunker?

Yeah. I'm not worried. They can handle themselves. But somebody has to get the groceries, know what I mean? And actually these days I think they'd rather have me out here anyway. But that's a whole other story. So, listen, can I ask you something on the level?

Go ahead.





Well that shouldn't be a problem for me. I can't afford anything like that. Hey, so where are you headed anyway?

The Strip.

Ooo. Very exciting. Gonna strike it rich, huh? I'll be honest. You're the first person I've run across out here that looks like he can really handle himself. There are places I've never been to that'd be too dangerous for just me. What do you think? Maybe we could travel together, help each other out.

You don't look like much. What do you bring to the table?



If I turn out to be a burden, we can part ways at any time. No hard feelings.

Let's go.



I know, I know. But I had to know how you'd react when I told you. We've made a lot of enemies. You still okay bringing me along?

Actually, I'm more comfortable now that I know you've had some training.

I'm great at punching people. I'm not gonna lie. It's a gift.



Veronica, uhhh, well, Veronica got hit hard by ED-E's Lonesome Road promotion to mobile work and reloading bench.



Sucks to be her.



An interesting line, because he actually only has the one lady robot!

Tell me about yourself.

I like long walks in the desert and candle-lit metal workshops.

Who was this Father Elijah to you?

I would say he was my tutor, but that doesn't cover it.



I never had a grandfather ? not that I knew, anyway ? but Elijah was in some ways what I'd imagine a grandfather to be.

Did you follow him from California?

It was by his request, acutally. He cleared it with the other Elders. Somehow. They sent him to look into the Dam. There was a time when I'd have begged to follow. Watch him at work.

What changed?



On our way East he demanded we stop at HELIOS One to examine it. While we were there, we received word that the NCR had taken the Dam. He was furious. Called it "children playing with a bomb." But he was mad because we'd lost its power. What we'd use it for... he didn't even care.

How is that different from how any other Elder would've reacted?

They're cautious. When they discover something, they respect it, learn its limits, consider how to preserve it. Used to drive Father Elijah crazy.



That's not to excuse the other Elders, though. They all covet technology for its own sake. Some are just more fanatical than others.

Ever try to talk sense into him?

Yeah, I did. I couldn't help him. He just didn't listen. And the idea that people talked back to him...



What did you learn from him?

Elijah could look at an old device and immediately understand what made it work. And he could see its potential. Where it fit with other technology. It's not something you can teach, but he tried with me. Some of it stuck.



How is that different? What did you learn from him?





Were you close?

Yeah. I miss him.

Where is he now?

I don't know. Last time anyone saw him was in the battle at HELIOS One. I wasn't there. He gave orders to hold the plant until it could be reactivated. But he ran out of time. The NCR overran it. Everyone thought he was dead. But I got a note from him at a comm station. That's... how he liked to talk, even to me. He wasn't good at face to face.

What was in the note?



I don't want to say delusional, but I don't know what else to call it. The only thing familiar about it was the signature. He said the Brotherhood was doomed, but that he'd return, save us. But the way he said it... I don't know...





So, Veronica. That's the other really important thing about her, and it's one of the saddest things. She's one of our few windows into Elijah.

I set off wandering and encounter a well guarded fuck all.



CAZADORS





Also one of the NCR's Ranger stations.





We also make it to Camp Forlorn Hope, apparently set in the middle of Red Mountain circa Dagoth Ur or something judging by the red dust filter



And this.



Eww.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=