IMBC Emergency Blog Post - May 13th, 2008

VOX is down, and it looks like it's gonna be down for the next 2 hours. I started this blog in the hope that it can be my backup blog. If not - well, it's been fun.

Fallout Journals: Game Critique Interlude, Part 2

So we left our Journals yesterday with me getting some sweet Leather Armor and a couple of new guns for my trouble. I got a Hunting Rifle from the crony I killed in Killian Darkwater's place (<-- it's Killian, not Killiam - mea culpa) and a Shotgun with 100 rounds for a reward in helping the town out. Pretty fricking sweet. And by this time, I had earned enough money to send a Water Caravan up to the Vault to keep them alive. I made my way back with Ian to the Hub to set the deal up.

The Master Merchant was all too happy to take my 2000 caps, but she advised that, once I sent a Caravan up to the Vault, it would be a short time before someone else in the Wastelands realized that the Vault was still up and functioning – and it might be someone whom I'd rather didn't know about the Vault. That made me stop for a moment. I still have 90+ days to find the Chip....maybe I shouldn't send water until it's a bit closer to the deadline....

I decided to hold off and keep exploring with Ian.

We found a few places in the Hub that I can't BELIEVE I missed. One place was a general store that sold......rope. Well, the first thing I did was buy some rope and head back to Vault 15.

Ian and I dispatched a few Radscorpions on our way to Vault 15; we entered the Vault and headed to the broken elevator shaft. The bottom floor was filled with rats – it also contained an SMG, some ammo, and a Leather Jacket. Ugh. This would've come in handy, like 20 gameplay hours ago. I guess I did things a little backwards. Oh well. I ended up just selling the stuff for fun and profit anyway.

I also found a library where I found a holodisk containing geographic data of a third Vault – Vault 12. This must be the place where I can find the Water Chip. And it's probably also the place where I'll find that robots and mutants that Old Harold was talking about. I don't think I'm strong enough to handle the Vault's security yet, so I decide to explore some more.

I head down the map even further to a place called the Boneyard. I soon find out it's all that is left of Los Angeles. There are two fatcions vying for control – the Regulators, and the Blades. The Blades sounds like a terrorist group or something, but when I go and visit them I realize that things aren't what they initially seemed.

I think I'll stop here for now. I'm typing this blog entry into my OpenOffice Word Processor, hoping beyond hope that 1) Vox comes up before midnight, or 2) I can legally create a backup blog and post on it. If I can't, I'm gonna lose the IMBC on a technicality. Well, we'll see how it goes. It's up to Fate.