Been a while.  It's been so long since I played this that Bethesda has actually installed trophies.  Now I can marauder with a purpose!

All right, so I'm outside Megaton and I'm a measly level 3.  Time to blow up this joint by visiting Tenpenny Tower and pushing the all-important detonation button.  On the outskirts of town, I'm confronted by two mole rats.  Two quick blasts from VATS takes them down.  Seriously, how do people survive in the wastes without VATS?  I can't aim for the life of me.  This place is a zoo of animals trying to murder me.  Four dogs and a bloatfly are just hanging out, waiting to tear my face off.  Good thing I have the junker hunting rifle.  Too bad I don't have ammo to spare.  Gawd.  Maybe I'll use the BB gun.  I try it on a bloatfly and manage to put a BB in its brain, making it frenzied.  Normally, this would make it attack other enemies, but since it's just the two of us hanging out in the wastes, it just shoots stuff at me with increased vigor.  Ass.

I stumble into a broken city and before I can even tell you what the name of it is, I get shot by a raider.  I don't think my BB gun will cut it for human enemies.  Or at least cannibals that parade themselves as human.  I'm a high-class marauder, not like this whackos.  Time to bust out the big guns!  Like the 10mm.  Well, it gets the job done.  Her green mohawk looks nice...50 feet from her body!  I steal a few caps, her sawed off shotfun and her armor, just because I can.  Okay, on second though, she can keep the armor.  I look like a frigging idiot, wearing a car tire pauldron and no shirt.  Okay, apparently I'm in Fairfax Ruins.  There's another enemy around here somewhere.  I found him!  Or rather, he found me.  As I wait around the corner of a building for him to approach, I hear a beep and an explosion and his cries of pain.  He stepped on his own land mine.  Wow.  How do you people survive and manage to harm anyone besides yourselves?  Oh wait, you didn't.  Thanks for the head's up on the mines, by the way.  Those little bastards are notoriously difficult to disarm and there's quite a few of them around here. 

Holy crap, there are raiders all over this joint!  This might be a slug fest with my bat if I run out of ammo.  Shit, one of 'em's got a missile launcher and has no qualms against breaking my limbs.  Somehow, I have three raiders in my face and that's when this sawed-off shotgun decides to jam on me, so I think I'll switch to the 10mm, take some Psycho drugs for increased damage and heal my oozing wounds.  Good thing I stole all those Stimpaks earlier. 

Well that was a complete waste of time!  After managing to take out all but one of the raiders, who had run away after I shot him in the face several times, I decide to loot the corpses and finish the job.  The jerk is hiding behind a car, so I start shooting at him.  Only at the last minute do I realize, he's the bastard with the missile launcher and he fires one directly into the car.  Before I can beat a hasty retreat, he fires another missle at my feet at the same instance the car explodes, killing us both and propelling my ragdoll of a body 500 feet away.  Fawk.  Back to Megaton.

Same damn mole rats...

Okay, Fairfax, let's try this again.  Only this time, don't invite the guy with the missiles to the party.  Actually, inctead of going to Fairfax, I stumble into Fort Independence, home of some Brotherhood of Steel Outcasts.  They're attacking the raiders, so I guess I'll side with them.  Although one of them called me an idiot.  I will remember this and come back when I'm a strong enough asshole to murder you.  The Outcast, Defendder Morgan, thanks me for my help but I'll still kill her later.  First, I need to loot some corpses.  One of the raiders is carrying an assault rifle.  Yoink!  Now that's what I'm talkin' about.  All right, back to hunting for Tenpenny Tower.  All I'm seeing is a couple of bloatflies.  Vivious little bastards.  Why are they so hard to shoot?  And they only give one measly experience point.  Waste of time.  After cresting a hill, I can see the tower in the distance.  Swanky joint!  It actually looks kinda nice...unlike Megaton.  I made the right choice.  There's a Robco robot facility next to it.  But I think I'll explore that later.  I hate robots and I don't want to waste ammo. 

Some...person comes running up to me as I'm drinking from a fire hydrant and then runs off.  As I'm staring at her in shock, I see a red blip on my compass and notice someone with a gun in the distance.  Targetting him tells me it's Sam Warrick.  Who the hell is Sam Warrick?  Well, he's about to be a corpse!  And he's the murderer of the girl who just ran up to me.  Slaver, maybe?  Anyway, he's a corpse.  Nice sniper rifle, dude.  I think I'll steal that.  And your clothes.  And all your other worldly possessions simply becasue you shot at me unprovoked.  Ass.  Ooh, he was wearing a pair of nice sunglasses.  Now I look cool.

Ok, I keep getting distracted.  I've finally reached Tenpenny Tower.  I will now perform the single greatest action in this game: I will sneak up to this ghoul at the gate and drop a live grenade in his pocket.  Oh, the look on his face!  Well, his face is gone now, but you should have seen it.  Heheh!  Time to go inside.  I tell the dude at the intercom that I'm looking for Mr. Burke and they let me right in.  Suckers!  And of course they give me the usual warning not to do anything stupid.  Dude, I just blew up a ghoul with a grenade, what do you consider stupid?  Heh, after checking my general stats, I am considered Very Evil and have a lovely picture of a the Pip-Boy with horns and a pitchfork. 

Getting off the elevator, I am greeted by a security guard who tells me Mister Burke is expecting me on the balcony.  The balcony offers a lovely view of the wastes.  Okay, the wastes are friggin' ugly, but I'm sure it was a nice view once upon a time.  Burke is there with Allistair Tenpenny, the owner of this ritzy joint.  He's even giving me the opportunity to press the button.  Before that, I must ask Tenpenny why he wants to blow up Megaton.  He just wants it gone because it's an eyesore.  Well...okay, you got a point.  Okay, time to blow this joint.  Or, rather, that joint. 

The light is blinding and the tower is hit with the shockwave and buffeting winds from the nuke.  All that's left is a mushroom cloud.  I get a key and deed to a luxury suite in Tenpenny Tower and my 1000 caps as a reward, as well ast the "Power of the Atom" trophy.  Hehehe.  God, I love being so evil.  I level up.  I'll go with the Educated perk to take full advantage of it.  It grants me three bonus points to assign to skills with every new level I gain. 

Let's check out my apartment!  I have a robot!  A robot butler!  His name is Godfrey.  I think I'll have him give me a haircut.  And hair color.  And I'll organize my junk by stashing my unused weapons in this footlocker and my clothes in a dresser.  Then take a nap. 

Okay, time to continue the quest for daddy.  I go back out on the balcony and find Tenpenny just shooting a sniper rifle at the wastes.  Wasteland safari, he calls it.  Very relaxing.  Speaking of, I think I'll go and take a breather myself.  Until the next time!

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1 Re: Dark's Adventures in Gaming: Fallout 3 (part 3) by TrueDestroyer on February 01, 2009, 02:17:59 PM

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