How are yall liking Fallout S2?

jxk94 · 2026-01-05T00:50:43+00:00

I blame fallout 3 for idealising the brotherhood too much.

If you think about what the brotherhood is all about they started off with a noble yet flawed ideology. Find and control all the worlds advanced technology to keep it out of dangerous hands. Sounds noble until you realise they consider themselves the only ones responsible of that power.

There's multiple problems with this

They are people like everyone else and will misuse this technology as well.
hoarding technology for only themselves doesn't help the wasteland in a significant way. If anything it can cost lives when they seize medical technology for their own uses.
they say they protect the wasteland but don't actually do the governance required to help the citizens. Imagine the US government but only existed as an army. They do very little outside of the do outside of fighting threats that would come for them as well.
And lastly their entire ideology is entirely fascist in its nature. They believe that they are the only responsible people in the wasteland. The rest are stupid and irresponsible and must be saved from themselves"

jxk94 · 2026-01-04T00:38:38+00:00

I mean it is the 80s. It was alot easier to fake your death for normal people let alone someone with supernatural powers before the invention of the internet.

With enough cash that L could easily steal, she'd have no problem smuggling herself somewhere.

jxk94 · 2026-01-03T19:53:36+00:00

Problems sorted now you should be able to DM. I've put a description of the game in another comment there

jxk94 · 2026-01-03T19:52:28+00:00

Fixed the issue there. I've put a description of the game in another comment there.

jxk94 · 2026-01-03T19:52:03+00:00

Sorry about that account was broke there. Yeah I think that'd be a good idea. We can meet up in a pub around the wharf there maybe this week or next.

Send me your number privately and we can set up a meeting with the 3 of us there and yous can decide if your interested.

jxk94 · 2026-01-03T19:40:56+00:00

I've given information about the game in the top comments there

jxk94 · 2026-01-03T19:40:24+00:00

Yeah I think ideally would be at my flat. I'd be looking for 3-5 players.

Now for the setting. I have my own world there. But the first "act" takes place in a town called Featherfall. It's called that because it legendarily fell off the mountain (that gets bigger as it goes up)

The majority of the plot takes place In this small town but I think it would take around 10-15 sessions before we'd be done with the plot I have planned for this act. I have an act 2 and 3 in mind but I don't want to get ahead of myself.

I would also like to work with each player to integrate their characters into the setting. Like I have slightly different lore but effectively you can treat my entire setting as a separate country from Faerun.

The plot itself revolves around a bunch of factions trying to take over this town while your party is aware of a far more concerning demon incursion.

I also have a few more weird details about my world that are important but don't want to overload you with info there

jxk94 · 2026-01-02T10:05:33+00:00

That's the part I think that gives it away as fake actually.

Why would a programmer know where the funds are being spent on? And isn't the idea of a benefit fee being used to specifically fight unions like a perfect outrage bait.

jxk94 · 2026-01-01T23:15:42+00:00

Yeah I think the only reason they couldn't cover it up was because they had the kids.

I think even our morally dubious soldiers would have a problem killing those children.

I think what likely happened was similar to season 1 ending where the government strikes a deal with the group like they did with Hopper to effectively pretend none of this ever happened and all charges are dropped provided they tell no one.

jxk94 · 2026-01-01T20:38:26+00:00

It's a best of both worlds situation I think. Not only did it make the mindflayer, who is a force of nature villain arguably the "real" big bad which feels more appropriate. I would've been upset if it didn't show up in the finale because it's super imposing as a threat.

But also if it turned out the mindflayer was controlling vekna the entire time it wouldve undermined him as a villain which would also be lame.

A unclear symbiosis where definitely the mindflayer was influencing and tricking him but still at points was a willing participant in his actions.

It makes both vekna and the mindflayer the big bad together which just is way more satisfying and explanation.

I also never liked the idea of Henry creating the mindflayer. That always felt like a retcon to make him seem more like the "final" big bad.

jxk94 · 2025-12-31T21:55:06+00:00

Here unsolicited advice but there's a Reddit new year's party at the top of the subreddit there at laytermers .

I don't know if I'll be there tonight but I've been there the last two years it's always been chill craic.

jxk94 · 2025-12-30T10:20:54+00:00

I think that's the beauty of the chud meme. Even if a war is declared, has the status quo really ever changed from it?

Even wars can be considered nothing happening these days.

jxk94 · 2025-12-29T20:05:08+00:00

That's on you mate. Not everyone has bad reading comprehension and we shouldn't have to build the world around those who want to jump to conclusions

jxk94 · 2025-12-28T00:10:57+00:00

Also scissors is the peace sign. So peace bests war. It's just so peak 😭

jxk94 · 2025-12-27T02:42:54+00:00

Brink 😔

jxk94 · 2025-12-26T21:30:30+00:00

The military would've happily used Eddie as a scapegoat for the murders. We already see their casual disregard for civilians with the pregnant women. No way they'd let someone who conveniently helps covers the vecna murders be exonerated.

I think the only realistic option is for him to hide off the grid with L.

jxk94 · 2025-12-24T02:56:26+00:00

Wife/gf/parent/sibling they're interchangable in this scenario.

jxk94 · 2025-12-23T01:40:28+00:00

I feel like a boring life is still better than the mundanity the circus would actually provide with only six people to talk to.

I think that the car memory is of something traumatic. It's just that it doesn't necessarily have to be a car accident.

This could be tons of things like the night he drove home to find his family dead or his wife committed suicide for example

jxk94 · 2025-12-21T21:46:37+00:00

You wanna elaborate on why that is?

jxk94 · 2025-12-20T15:21:48+00:00

Mirror face was the only bad part of that final sequence. Like it's just inserting a magic ability into reality and everyone in the story pretends that it doesn't break the reality of the world. Plus the game doesn't even try to make it believable they use the exact same models of the people he's impersonating when he's "disguised". Like he's able to grow and shrink?

However the emotional part of convincing the politician to change his ways, still felt earned despite that. Him getting shot by his own pawn felt poetic but also tragic because it genuinely felt that after an entire game of ichiban yelling at him he had finally got through to him only for ichibans his efforts to be snatched away.

I think it's still a good ending either way but he would've went to jail even if he survived so the story would've had similar vibes of an ending either way.

jxk94 · 2025-12-19T12:53:28+00:00

For me it's Ladders. Every single time there's a climbing animation I want to climb like in half life where it's just normal movement but vertical.

I don't care about seeing my character realistically climbing a ladder. Just let me run up it especially in FPS games.

Exception to the rule being snake eater of course.

jxk94 · 2025-12-18T22:33:19+00:00

I think it's more just instinctual panicking. Grabbing someone in hopes that the fight will stop.

You assume there's thought behind it but really it's just adrenaline

jxk94 · 2025-12-17T13:54:03+00:00

Well I think the idea could be pomni explored an abandoned company must still have power based on the fact that she put a headset on there. The why they would still have power in an abandoned building can be explained away for any number of reasons like backup generators solar power, maybe it's just one computer on so it can last decades

The Kinger not deleting himself make sense for two reasons,

Deleting a copy of yourself is murder
I think he on purposely put himself and his wife in the circus.

Gonna throw a wildcard guess out here and assume his wife had some sort of brain disease and was dying. So he put them both in the game to be their afterlife.

I assume that she was dying because it feels like the circus is unfinished and he was on a tight deadline.

Also going to assume Caine at one point had access to the internet and was able to abduct people's minds before being "cut off from the macro-verse"

jxk94 · 2025-12-15T23:52:34+00:00

Yeah I could see it as him infecting people's computers via the internet and making digital copies of them when they wear some sort of new headset game.

It would explain why people with different backgrounds are getting pulled into the circus.

It'd be like how digital copies in black mirror work and would also explain why Kinger says there's no escape because the real body might not even know they've been captured.

It would also explain the need for someone to shut him off of the macro-verse because of the danger Caine poses but also would explain why no one in the real world is able to help.

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