Welcome to Fallout town: What do you do now?

[vrbtny]

Get some awesome weapons and equipment, drug myself on whatever's possible, head out of the town like a boss and get eaten by a ghoul.

'Fraid I'd do this.

 

[poppabaggins]

I'm majoring in computer science and math...no immediately useful skills but I can help rebuild technology. Maybe the Brotherhood of Steel will want me.

 

[MrJKapowey]

Basically, run.
(cookie for the reference)

Nah, I'd do this

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I'm ex army so i'd probably set up a merc outfit similar to Talon though not as shit.

Either that or Caravan guards. Depending what pays the most.

Give me a few years so I'm not fifteen and I'd probably be able to hold my own against most of the (non-military) survivors of the apocalypse.

'Why?' I hear you ask... Well, at my school we've got a cadet group and thanks to Captain Rose and the other instructors (did anyone see 'Our War - 10 years in Afghanistan', the first episode with the Anglicans? He is/was Lt. Rose) I would be able to...

Set up a basher - set up a platoon harbour correctly - perform the unload, load, make ready, make safe and stoppage drills for the L98A2, L85A2 and L86A2 LSW. I can also strip and clean them. Presumably the L22A2 as well... - correctly storm a building - correctly advance to contact and destroy an open weapons pit or a bunker (remove pin from grenade, post grenade through slit, give the finger, withdraw hand) - Correctly apply cam-cream though I may need more practise... - treat numerous wounds (small and simple only) until more qualified people arrive - and finally, actually shoot properly...

Oh, since you're going to get a msg from this, which regiment were you in? I'm always interested in the Army so I hope you don't mind me asking.

 

[Drakmorg]

Traveling merchant.

You want some junk? I got plenty of junk. You want rubbish? Well I'll be around again next week, probably find some rubbish you might like.
I also got a lead on some really good garbage, keep it on the hush-hush though, don't want any undesirables catching wind and ambushing me.

I'd need some bodyguards though since I'm shit with a gun.

 

[Gaminic]

I'd be the crazy scientist sending (no-so-very-)eager adventurers to certain death, in the name of "science". Sure, I'll heal that radiation when you get back. And land mines may be dangerous but also worth a ton of cash, which makes it okay!

Naturally, I'd only cash out after ALL quests are completed.

 

[Jon Shannow]

Well i'm a fair shot with a rifle and a shotgun and basic first aid. So i guess i'll be guard. I would volunteer as a farmer but then i'd remember why i don't like it right now and generally stop being productive.

 

[piratejames]

Hmm, either something to do with photography and art...

Or join up with the NCR. I don't really have any survivalist or marksman skills but I'm not shy of hard work.

I guess I'd just go with what was best for my situation.

 

[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.