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[USEC_OFFICER]

An Epilogue of Sorts

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Fact descends into rumour, rumour into myth, and myth into legend. Knowledge of Rob's deeds after killing the Master is sketchy at best. Some say that he witnessed the crowning of the Holy European Emperor, that he fought against the hordes of Zheig Hwei and that he was a commander at the Battle of the Two Camps. Tribals will speak in awed whispers of how he drove the Roc Lizards out of Ireland, or when he discovered the Lost City of Mexico, or why a thousand human hearts are sacrificed yearly in his name. The following account is from the archives of the Brotherhood of Steel, the information collected from the Brotherhood, similar organization across the world, or from Rob himself.

While large numbers of supermutants were killed by Rob, enough remained to create a formidable force. Surviving supermutants and patrols gathered at the ruins of the Cathedral, forming a mighty army. Marching north, they swept aside the Followers of the Apocalypse and besieged the Hub. For 100 days the supermutants launched themselves at the walls and barricades of the Hub, inflicting heavy losses yet unable to take the city. On the night of the 100^th day the Brotherhood of Steel arrived at the city. Led by Rob Snarker they immediately launched an assault, driving the supermutant army into the desolate no-man's lands of the east. While the Hub survived the siege its fortunes recovered slowly as the city was overshadowed by the NCR and other expanding cities.

For the next few years Rob wandered from city to city. The ghouls of the Necropolis became great engineers and scientists with his help. When Shady Sands founded the NCR Rob signed its constitution. At his urging the Brotherhood of Steel helped the NCR, providing lost technologies and information. Junktown would become a centre of law and order, though the law could be quite harsh at times.

The second time Rob met Pat, his future wife, was after the siege of the Hub. They had met before, though Rob was lying nearly dead in the street at the time. During the siege Pat took charge of the sick and wounded. The two met when Rob was looking for beds for the Brotherhood wounded. She became enthralled by him, and the two married soon after. By all accounts Pat was a devoted wife, despite Rob's long absences. While Rob was a distant husband, rarely staying a week in his own home, he did truely care about Pat, and together they had three children. Their names were Primus, Secundus and Tertius.

Primus became an Initiate of the Brotherhood at an early age, eventually becoming a talented Knight. He met his wife in Shady Sands, as part of the Brotherhood's delegation to the NCR. They would have four children together, three girls and a boy. During his life Primus was considered the most talented Knight the Brotherhood had, and became one of the few Elders who was not originally a Paladin. Rob's relationship with Primus was estranged. Perhaps he saw too much of his younger self in Primus.

Secundus was Rob's favourite child, though the last time the two had met was when Secundus was 16. At 16 Secundus stole ten thousand caps from Rob and left the family home. The next day Rob tracked down Secundus and gave him some equipment and words of advice. From these beginnings Secundus would create a mighty commercial empire, controlling everything from the caravans to the holography industry. His empire would collapse shortly after his death of a heart attack at the age of 62. He never married, but fathered a large number of bastards. During his lifetime he acknowledged 15 bastards as his own, though certainly more existed.

When Tertius was 21 Rob whisked his mother away to a Brotherhood project involving heavier-than-air travel. Lacking a steady source of income, Tertius began to wander the wastes, travelling from town to town and preaching his ideas of peace and unity with nature. He gathered a small group of dedicated followers, and together they would found a small tribal village that they called Arroyo...

And that's the epilogue. It has enough flexibility (hopefully) to deal with the plot of Fallout 2. After all, Rob Snarker is worshipped in some places as an actual god, Primus is like Leonardo Da Vinci except with actual inventions, Secundus makes Morgan look Poor and Irish, and Tertius is hippy nature Jesus. All and all it's crap a fine epilogue.

Now on to Fallout 2.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Now for character creation. Basically the two ideas that I have for the character:

Spoiler: Option 1: Big Guns (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Option 2: Small Guns (click to show/hide)

Thoughts? Ideas? After all, I've never played Fallout 2 before, so I have no idea how terrible they are. Or good, or that matter.

I'll put up a poll.

EDIT: Titthal Askak is too long by about two characters. Will only Titthal work nicely? The last name won't appear in any of the screenshots, but I could always add it in the updates.

[Phantom]

Small guns looks good.


Especially because of the Gauss Rifle. Don't even need ta Bloody Mess for that gore.

[Burnt Pies]

Small guns is too easy. Survive on your wits and ability to convince people until you can find yourself something big enough to mow down entire towns.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Small guns looks good.


Especially because of the Gauss Rifle. Don't even need ta Bloody Mess for that gore.

Gauss Rifle? Don't need Bloody Mess? That?!?!?

...

Unless somebody can come up with an equally awesome weapon for Big Guns, I'm going with the Gauss rifle.

Small guns is too easy. Survive on your wits and ability to convince people until you can find yourself something big enough to mow down entire towns.

Of which weapon do you speak of that can mow down entire towns, and how do I lay my hands on one?

[Phantom]

Pfft, with Gauss Rifles you don't even need to get NEAR the town.

[Burnt Pies]

Find yourself one of the Miniguns. There's one in Mariposa, I believe. Or there's sometimes a few for sale in San Francisco.

Otherwise, Bozar. There's one in some Toxic Caves.

[GlyphGryph]

I've also got to say that unlike the original, Melee and Unarmed are actually pretty fun in this game. The Super-Sledge sending people flying across the map, the Power Fist caving in skulls, the fact that additional levels in unarmed unlock "special moves", they can be quite entertaining.

There's a number more party members too, and you'll want to bring them along since they really make the game. Charisma determines party size, so a high charisma means you don't really need much in the way of combat skills depending on which allies you choose, even if you go guns blazing. (They can also accommodate for most of the other skills you lack, I believe, so that may be neither here nor there) And you really don't need to go guns blazing - I've beaten the game without ever launching an attack (though its not easy!). High Speech+High Science have some of the best and most fun bits, truth be told, but there really is fun for every build here, especially with some of the advanced Perks.

Oh, and Barter is worthless, don't tag that!

I think a very high agility+luck (crits!), decent charisma, decent strength character with melee (knives, yay!), speech, and stealth is a pretty fun build.

Outdoorsman is a fun skill, and super useful online, but not so much in the single player version. Lockpick and steal are good, but don't really need to be tagged except for a few special cases. First Aid and Doctor are useful, but aside from some special story bits stimpacks are moreso. Traps I rarely use, most of the combat skills are roughly equivalent, Gambling is broken to hell and back but infinite money isn't actually worth all that much...

[Mephansteras]

Seeing you try to do a stealth based character could be interesting. Although the sexy slaver is also pretty amusing.

[loose nut]

Yeah, Fallout 2 provides significantly more support for melee and unarmed characters. Melees get better weapons and there's a fun place for an unarmed combat master to shine. But as far as weapon skills go, small guns is easiest, followed by energy weapons and big guns (which are pretty close). But you can make a lot of things work.

Outdoorsman is not a bad skill, but you don't need to tag it.

[USEC_OFFICER]

Hmm... Looks like small guns is the most popular right now.

How about small guns, speech and sneak? Small guns and speech for the obvious reasons, but if I need to I could always drop my companions somewhere and sneak around for a bit. That sounds like the best combination, seeing as most of the other skills are useless and taking another combat skill is a bit silly.

[Fjords to Plowshares]

I'd advocate Steal over Sneak, but they both have their uses, for sure.

[USEC_OFFICER]

I'll just change it to steal then. Haven't even started yet, so it'll be easy.

[Shadowgandor]

I also recommend taking +8 str and +8 agi for...certain activities if I remember correctly. It makes sense to be in good physical shape if you're good looking right? Take some points away from luck, that'll be fun =)

[USEC_OFFICER]

If I wasn't totally heading in that direction, I would ignore your suggestion. But as it stands...

Thoughts, everybody?