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Well, according to Fallout 76 Super mutants in the Appalachian mountains were created before the apocalypse when West Tech dosed an entire town with the mutagen.
Thank you for the latest chapter. I look forward to the end of this Omake, not because I'm not enjoying it (I do), but because my reading list has grown a bit unwieldy.
Skip nothing. You understand me?
Nothing.
Or Saurial will look sadly at you while Kaiju eats your socks. All of them
FEV was developed by West Tek from PVP in 2075, as established in Fallout by talking to ZAX 1.2. Once the military took over the project they shipped samples of various FEV strains out to facilities all over the place, in Fallout 3 we learn that one of those facilities was Vault 87 near Washington DC. Given that Super Mutants from Vault 87 were escaping regularly as early as 2078 and that West Tek and the US Military were experimenting with FEV in multiple locations across the country for over a year before the Great War hit, Super Mutants do actually make sense in Appalachia by 2102.Well, according to Fallout 76 Super mutants in the Appalachian mountains were created before the apocalypse when West Tech dosed an entire town with the mutagen.
FEV was developed by West Tek from PVP in 2075, as established in Fallout 2 by talking to ZAX 1.2. Once the military took over the project they shipped samples of various FEV strains out to facilities all over the place, in Fallout 3 we learn that one of those facilities was Vault 87 near Washington DC. Given that Super Mutants from Vault 87 were escaping regularly as early as 2078 and that West Tek and the US Military were experimenting with FEV in multiple locations across the country for over a year before the Great War hit, Super Mutants do actually make sense in Appalachia by 2102.
The thing with the Brotherhood of Steel is more of a retcon than the Super Mutants, and that turned out to not actually be a retcon at all, just poorly explained.
I truly wonder if FO76 will evolve into one of the respected stations of canon for the franchise, or if it will be treated as Fallout: Tactics, where they keep the cool bits (BoS airships and dune buggy raiders) and drop the nonsense (hairy deathclaws?). I also would love to see the setting for the game with actual NPC's instead of other players, as I'm one of those odd folks who doesn't find running into P****Banger69 while exploring the ruins of civilization all that amusing or immersive.
As of the point in her story where you pulled skitter!Taylor out (ie mid leviathan fight), Taylor does not even know that Sophia is Shadow stalker."We managed to stop him from doing that," explained Saurial. "Dinah's a Ward now in our world."
"With Shadow Stalker?" said Taylor, wondering what happened to her nemesis.
Saurial shook her head. "No, Shadow Stalker had all of her extracurricular activities exposed. Dad actually rigged me with a camera, and got evidence of it all. She was under house arrest, but she escaped during the take-down of Coil and is on the run. I guarantee you that she will get a very unpleasant welcome if she chooses to come back, especially if she threatens any of our friends and family." Saurial was showing teeth again, and not in a friendly way.
FEV was developed by West Tek from PVP in 2075, as established in Fallout by talking to ZAX 1.2. Once the military took over the project they shipped samples of various FEV strains out to facilities all over the place, in Fallout 3 we learn that one of those facilities was Vault 87 near Washington DC. Given that Super Mutants from Vault 87 were escaping regularly as early as 2078 and that West Tek and the US Military were experimenting with FEV in multiple locations across the country for over a year before the Great War hit, Super Mutants do actually make sense in Appalachia by 2102.
The thing with the Brotherhood of Steel is more of a retcon than the Super Mutants, and that turned out to not actually be a retcon at all, just poorly explained.
Good.On the one hand, yay! Bethesda did a multiplayer! On the other hand, they did it wrong.
"a creepy monkey cymbal toy with glowing eyes that had Xander moving away "
If that monkey is anything like the ones in Fallout 4, I don't blame him.
Almost always shot the things, their damn creepy, especially in low light areas and using real darkness mods.
I'm a big fan of Fallout 4, so yes, you can assume that they are exactly like them, except that they don't summon post-apocalyptic monsters unless Saurial is feeling particularly cranky with somebody (like Coil).
Headcanon: Vault 76 wasn't actually a control vault, it was secretly an experiment in creating clone soldiers. There are no people in Vault 76 and there never have been, the entire vault is automated and run by a ZAX AI masquerading as the Overseer. The Residents are all experimental clones (hence the diversity) and the majority of their memories and histories are implanted fakes, unfortunately the experimental nature of the cloning process and the fact that it was intended to create soldiers, not civilians, meant that the majority of Residents were amoral sociopaths at best, if not unstable psychopaths. The ZAX is still following it's programming and is trying to refine the cloning process however, so it really doesn't care about the Residents beyond what data can be derived from them. The whole 'story' (such that it is) is a fabrication by the ZAX to make the clones go out and 'test' their performance in real-world scenarios. The vault opened 5 years late because the ZAX spent those 5 years seeding and analyzing the area with its robots, allowing it to set up an appropriate 'testing environment.'Funny thing, according to the lore in FO76 Appalacia wasn't a target for any nukes... until after the vault opened and the residents began repeatedly nuking the area for whatever reason.
Heh. Liking this so far. Did notice a bit of a timeline discrepancy though;
As of the point in her story where you pulled skitter!Taylor out (ie mid leviathan fight), Taylor does not even know that Sophia is Shadow stalker.
Thus, Taylor thinking of, and having a conversation on the subject requires your character to have out of context information.
So, in canon, Taylor finds out Sophia's identity after the Leviathan battle. However, the Leviathan fight in my story is completely not canon. For one thing, Miss Militia has access to Bakuda's ordinance for the fight. For another, Taylor wasn't paired with Kid Win in canon, and actually didn't even learn what she was supposed to be doing, because Strider had to evacuate the capes in the face of Leviathan's wave.
All of these things suggest things can't have gone exactly according to canon even before the Leviathan fight. I'm taking some liberties with that. Shadow Stalker was an arch enemy of Grue, and Tattletale almost certainly could have put together the relationship between Taylor's bullies and Grue's nemesis. She could have let something slip, or Taylor could have pieced it together from other clues based on things that happened in this version's story that were different from canon.
So, Taylor's life is the same as canon in broad brush-strokes, but not in every detail. That includes her finding out that Sophia is Shadow Stalker earlier than in canon, maybe only by a few days.
At no time in this section of the fic was Shadowstalker's real name mentioned. It could be that Taylor was thinking of here as JUST Shadowstalker being her nemesis due to activities as a villain and not Sophia her nemesis from Winslow...
Fanfics are, pretty much by definition, AU at the best of times, so expecting slavish devotion to canon isn't sensible in my view This one, for example, has a few things wrong vs Taylor Varga but it's still a damn good read so I don't care
I'm a big fan of Fallout 4, so yes, you can assume that they are exactly like them, except that they don't summon post-apocalyptic monsters unless Saurial is feeling particularly cranky with somebody (like Coil).
Yeah, I have no problem with any of this; I know and happily relish AU elements. However, that wasn't what I was trying to point out. Basically, it caught me off guard when Taylor just casually mentions what in my mind is a fairly significant plot point offhand... Without divergence backstory.So, in canon, Taylor finds out Sophia's identity after the Leviathan battle. However, the Leviathan fight in my story is completely not canon. For one thing, Miss Militia has access to Bakuda's ordinance for the fight. For another, Taylor wasn't paired with Kid Win in canon, and actually didn't even learn what she was supposed to be doing, because Strider had to evacuate the capes in the face of Leviathan's wave.
All of these things suggest things can't have gone exactly according to canon even before the Leviathan fight. I'm taking some liberties with that. Shadow Stalker was an arch enemy of Grue, and Tattletale almost certainly could have put together the relationship between Taylor's bullies and Grue's nemesis. She could have let something slip, or Taylor could have pieced it together from other clues based on things that happened in this version's story that were different from canon.
So, Taylor's life is the same as canon in broad brush-strokes, but not in every detail. That includes her finding out that Sophia is Shadow Stalker earlier than in canon, maybe only by a few days.