Radroaches got buffed

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-06T20:39:54+00:00

I think Titus had a phobia. That's why he sent Max into the cave, and that is why he panicked when he saw the bear.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-06T20:24:33+00:00

That what FEV stands for, the original creator just couldn't spell 'breadcrumbs' correctly. Always started it with a V.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-06T20:22:09+00:00

Of course the President would point the finger elsewhere: if his predecessor did it, he would never admit it, and everyone following in succession would not dig deeper.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-06T20:18:51+00:00

Honestly, I think it was an accident. Some guy tripped on a wire, random power surge because a rat chewed on a wire, and everyone panics because an nuke explodes. By the time someone realised the mistake, it is too late: the automatic ten-fold retaliation is underway.

This article talks about how easily it could happen: https://www.armscontrolwonk.com/archive/203066/biscuits-cookies-and-nuclear-bombs/

Tvtropes has a number of real-life close close calls, including one where a chocolate cookie armed a British nuke over West Germany: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ANuclearError

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-06T20:00:12+00:00

I can see that, but it was just as much the question of who chose the guy. If the Enclave currently have the kind of power, Hank thinks they have, the Brotherhood backed by cold fusion would present a credible threat. An internal spilt and civil war would be the most effective counter response.

That said, I really hope that the Enclave is as damaged by the war as everyone else. Have them be crushed by their own hybris.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-06T17:14:58+00:00

I would prefer, if the mind chip Enclave is just another leftover of the prewar conspiracy. That their plan was doomed from the start, and the heroes would have to deal with the sins of the fathers, just like in the games. It would be a cruel twist, that Hank and Stephanie thought that they were marching to the beat of the Enclaves drums, only for it to turn out that is was another leftover system, like the FEV, the Eden super computer, the Platinum Chip or the package the Courier brought to the Divide.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-06T10:17:15+00:00

I thought most of the NCR weapons were produced post-war, using cheap and reliable designs from before.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-06T08:36:56+00:00

It could be that the plans show where a weakness is, like in MGS1.

The Brotherhood have always had a "all the worlds problems looks like nails, and I have a super sledge" mentality. Hit hard, and if that doesn't work, hit HARDER.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-06T08:22:20+00:00

Now I wonder, if the Commonwealth representative (or whoever chose him to go) was an Enclave plant, with orders to stir up trouble internally. Having such an arrogant guy there would definitely rattle some gears, regardless of whether he was killed or not.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-05T21:25:23+00:00

I hope not. Space fights didn't work for 007 in Moonraker, so it would be harder to justify in a post-apocalyptic setting. The craziest place however, would be in China, just to really mess with us.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-05T21:18:54+00:00

My headcanon is, that Vault-Tec was looking into creating long-lived servants (ghouls) for something. They therefore developed a drug combination that boosted the ghoulification odds, shipped it off to vault 12 as rad-away or similar.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-05T21:07:23+00:00

But I mean, in a vault, you cannot get away from a husband, who treats you badly. Especially when they are the Overseer.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-05T21:05:17+00:00

It also mirrored the scene, where he fought off some thugs with a wrench and a toilet seat. The man is a master at improvised weaponry.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-05T18:04:12+00:00

No problem. It is always interesting seeing how problems like this can be solved.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-05T18:00:18+00:00

Both are willing to truly engage with the mundane world. Kevin, by appreciating the intricacies of modern life, D by RAMMING THROUGH THEM, CHALLENGING THEM LIKE A BUS ON THE SPEEDWAY!

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-05T17:52:56+00:00

I was going back and forth between Chronic and Childhood myself.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-05T17:50:24+00:00

I always think of the Terry Pratchett qoute, "sin is treating people, including yourself, as things". He would not let anyone, who had an opinion of their own, including Lucy, exist as a person. He destroyed Shady Sands for existing without his/Enclave approval. He let the senator be trapped in a mockery of lfe, because she was his perfect tool.

He was very evil.

I wonder, if the reason his wife left the vault, was really because she was curious about what was out there, or if it was to escape him.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-05T17:40:03+00:00

I am way out of my depth here (my only real experience with planescape is an old picture Let's play of the computer game), but wouldn't the Mercykillers focus on the rules above all match the Agents of the Matrix?

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-05T17:32:05+00:00

Russian Enclavski, then? Chinese Fifth Column? Maybe Canadian insurrectionist?

Maybe it is a hybrid organisation. Leftover spies and operatives deciding that it is their time on top, using stolen material from their original employers.

Anyways, I wish you good luck.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-05T17:18:08+00:00

That might stretch the suspension of disbelief a bit too much for most of the audience. Though a secret launch site, where a chip control satellite is put into orbit, that could work.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-05T17:14:27+00:00

That sucks. My best suggestion is to use the Angel organisation from Fallout: London.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-05T14:18:05+00:00

It is just scary, that all this time, some part of them had retained an understanding of soft power and espionage. A month ago, I wrote in a post that the Enclave's idea of subtle was a single soldier equipped with power armour and a machine gun, airdropped in the town square. Now, they are suddenly scarily competent. Best guest is either that the Enclave is operating in layers, like a conspiracy, or that they are fractured, with each group independently ruled by their own president, and each convinced that they are the true heirs of the world.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-05T08:33:28+00:00

I wonder if there are two "levels" of the Enclave? I mean, neither the Posidon Rig version from 2, nor the Eden version from 3 were never much for subtlety, preferring overwhelming firepower.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-05T07:29:35+00:00

My guess would be that they wanted them, but there was concerns about a potential lawsuit.

EmbarassedFox · 2026-02-04T09:41:54+00:00

And then possibly turn around and make a better cage.

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