Crab-punchin' time!

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If anyone is interested, and has a moderately flexible schedule since I'm not always able to tag on weekends or what have you, Ellen and her Brotherhood companions are going to be mounting an assault on one of the buildings in Fallout 4. In the real world it's a Revolutionary War-era fortress named Fort Independence, which is not far from downtown Boston, and is currently a state park or something of that nature. In the Fallout universe, it used to be the headquarters of a group called the Minutemen, who were forced to flee the premises forty years ago under assault from giant mutant crab monsters. The crabs are still there, including one that's huge enough that people up and down the Boston-area coastline just refer to it as a sea monster.

The crabs are non-sentient and not very intelligent even by animal standards. The giant one spits acid. The meat is edible and apparently quite tasty even though these are crabs that get their food from post-nuclear Boston Harbor. Anyone who participates is free to take home as much crabmeat as they like, and can probably also be paid in guns or explosives once the Castle is taken, because there's an armory on the premises, it's just... y'know, behind massive numbers of angry crabs.

Later there will be glorious misunderstandings and anger and Hero Fights with the surviving Minutemen when they get all huffy about somebody else taking the Castle and taking all the stuff in it, but that's later. For now, if someone wants to participate in killing a whole bunch of unintelligent but edible monsters, let me know.

Comments

[cottoncandypink]

Wilford is so down for this. I'm more flexible than usual right now, because it's too hot for me to record anything without my CPU exploding.

[deadeye_shot]

Hawkeye could be interested, but she'll have to get ammunition from somewhere. Writing off x number of rounds of ammo as practice rounds might be suspicious in her world.

[inlovewithwords]

For certain definitions of edible...

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In all fairness the game also thinks that two hundred year old deviled eggs are still edible. At least the mirelurks are fresh.

And there have also been multiple discussions of what foods available in-game are acceptable under kashrut, given that we never encounter any rabbis or kosher authorities (or anyone qualified to handle halal issues, either), for whatever that's worth. The lurks are off the list, of course, but if you go by Eldad haDani there's at least a precedent for kosher slaughter of two-headed cattle...

[electro_kinetic]

Noriko would be down for this! I'm usually pretty flexible with timing.

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The post is still open if you're up for it.