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[minkhollow]

What's an aspect of your character's canon that you haven't had a chance to play with yet? Do you want to poke at that, or not?

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[aaaaaaaagh_sky]

The rest of the world. The canonical Fallout games take place in a handful of places- the California/Oregon/Nevada area, the DC area, the Chicago area if you count Fallout Tactics*. One of the major reasons I was interested in the DLC for Fallout 3 was the opportunity to get an idea about any of the other areas of the Fallout world and what was going on out there, what'd happened to places that weren't major target zones, etc. I'm hoping to play with some of that as Ellen moves along, both the canonical DLC I'm going to have to rewrite to get rid of some idiot balls and offensive material** and other stuff I plan on doing with at least part of the East Coast. And maybe Canada. The very first scene that the player sees when firing up Fallout 1 for the first time is newsreel footage of 'our brave boys keeping the peace in newly annexed Canada'. Which is to say two dudes in power armor executing a bound, kneeling Canadian prisoner of war, and then waving to the camera. There has to be something I can do with that.

And there's the historical stuff, too; I really want to explore what the prewar world was like, and the days just after the war. We've got a handful of canonical historical documents from that time, and we know how history eventually turned out. But that's it, and I'd love to see what can be done with that time frame... probably not through Ellen or Fawkes or Arcade, though. Either through fic, or through bringing someone from that time period into m_m.




*This game is considered semi-canon for various reasons. Fallout Brotherhood of Steel, on the other hand, was a horribly done game that bore almost no resemblance to anything else Fallout and is not considered canon at all. We do not talk about Fallout Brotherhood of Steel, kthx.

**It's one thing to play with popular tropey elements by inserting one or two reasonably well-developed enemy characters, and quite another to go 'We've got a game section set in a rural isolated swamp! Let's make 3/4 of the humanoid enemies you meet in random encounters physically deformed, mentally retarded, inbred violent cannibal rednecks!'