Stand In Glowing Ashes (Preliminary Title, Fallout CK2 Quest.)

When The Hiatus is Over Should i continue this from where we are, Or should i Reboot it?


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Birth of a beast.
Author's Note: I live!

So "SOON" turned out to be a little over a month, once again motivation aint great right now, but this is not dead, it is still fighting for life quite strongly.

At anyrate next this is the next section of the Voteless section, and I'm gonna keep trying to get this out before the end of August.


Subject Name: Melissa Elwood nee Williams.
Sex: Female
Date of birth: March 4th​ 2050.
Ethnicity: Caucasian
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 125 Lb.
No known genetic diseases.
Contacts: Parent's Deceased. Sibling "Wallace Williams" currently deployed in China, Spouse, Andrew Elwood.
Notes: Highly Cooperative, Liked by nursing staff, Seems to be in good health, but has had abnormal fluctuation in quantities of several hormones in her time here.
Concerns: Nursing staff member "Dwight Howell" has shown unhealthy romantic interest in subject, bordering on obsession, significant Belligerence and threats of violence have been recorded after his advances were rejected by the subject. Recommend change of assigned nursing staff.

The following information has been deemed a company secret of significant importance. Unauthorized viewing of this information will result in immediate death upon being located by the Confidentiality Department. Please confirm clearance with Password #12.



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On December 18th​ 2075 an altercation between Nurse Dwight Howell and Subject Melissa Elwood took place, Apparently Nurse Howell had made repeated advances upon Miss Elwood, Who eventually rejected him… rather thoroughly.

Nurse Howell is noted as having struck Miss Elwood across the face afterwards and was screaming at her when security arrived.

He was of course promptly restrained and put on non-paid leave for the next 3 weeks as he was reevaluated.

Miss Elwood was verified to have suffered no permanent physical harm, and was issued a West-tek standard apology letter in the mail, Replacement Staff for her was pending.

Two days after the incident with Howell, The Quarantine ward was placed under automated running (All tasks normally assigned to humans such as feeding, cleaning, and standard health checks temporarily assigned to specialized Mr. and Mrs. Handy units.) as most employees took their government mandated week off.

According to the security logs, on December 24th​ 2075, Dwight Howell apparently entered the building, used his knowledge of security to bypass the robotic security, and made unauthorized entries into the Genetic material storage room, and the Experimental Organisms ward and stole several notable samples of genetic material, including but not limited too.

DNA from Carcharodon carcharias

DNA from Latrodectus mactans

DNA from Heloderma suspectum

DNA from Eciton burchellii

DNA from Torpedo torpedo

DNA from Trioceros jacksonii

DNA from Experimental Organism #87 Metal Processing Fungoid.

Howell Would then make his way to the Quarantine ward, And would using universal control codes, have Mr. Handy Unit #119 inject each sample into Miss Elwood's body.
According to Unit 119, Howell would then slap Miss Elwood awake, spoke of "Punishing Jezebel" and "Destroying the beauty that I can't have."

Howell then grabbed the fire extinguisher, and apparently used it to break Miss Elwood's Kneecaps, this was followed by forcing her into a wheel chair and wheeling her out of the quarantine ward, Unit 119's testimony ceases after this due to his preprogrammed inability to leave the quarantine ward.

From what we can estimate to have occurred afterwards, Howell brought Miss Elwood to the Forced Evolutionary Virus Research Lab, and proceeded to drop her from one of the catwalks into a vat of FEV, Miss Elwood apparently put up a struggle, as Howell was found with severe head trauma next to the vat that we would later retrieve the Subject from.
On December 28th​ 2075, Employees returned from their holiday, And as soon as the Situation in the FEV lab was ascertained, Attempts to retrieve Miss Elwood from the vat began.

Due to what we now realize to have been the influence of Experimental Organism 87's genetics, standard retrieval hooks would fail after the metallic portions of their structure were broken down and assimilated into The Subject's body.

A commission for a non-reactive ceramic retrieval hook was sent to the Workshops in the Engineering division on December 29th​ 2075, After its delivery on December 31st​ we were successfully able to retrieve the subject from the vat.
At this point in time mutations to her jaw structure, her spinal column and her skin were already beginning to make themselves known.

Nurse Howell after recovery from his head injury, was, with permission from corporate, Reassigned as permanent performance evaluator for the Penatron 9000, West-tek Public divisions attempt to compete with Rob-co's prototype Pleasure robot FISTO.

As for the Subject, Scans of its dna revealed the full extent of the changes induced by FEV, Changes which brought the interest of corporate, We have been ordered to begin study on the subject's behavior, capabilities, and continuing physical and mental development.

(Addendum: At the time of this writing Subject showed no signs of Human like intelligence or memory of its previous existence, With the developments of recent months, it is being debated that we should refer to her once more as "Miss Elwood".)

(Addendum: Corporate has denied request to redesignate the subject, arguing that humanizing it would allow others to argue for the subjects to have rights, The subjects having human rights would impede research into their unique biology)



Author's Note: Poor, Poor Melissa Elwood...

At anyrate I'm not dead,

All of you be sure to read, discuss, speculate. whatever suits your fancy really.
 
Oh amygdala, Oh Amygdala! Have mercy on the poor bastards!

OKAY ASSHOLE, EVERYONE KNOWS THAT BOSS WAS BULLSHIT EVEN FOR A SOULS GAME, YOU SHOULD NOT NEED A FULL TEAM PLUS HELPERS AND +10 WEAPONS FOR A FUCKING MID-BOSS, I SOLOED THE FUCKING NIGHTMARE WITH A BLOODTINGE/MAGIC BUILD BEFORE I MANAGED TO DROP THAT FUCKER. THE ENTIRE NIGHTMARE. WITH A HUNTER TORCH AND REITERPALLACH'S ALT-MODE. I RAN THAT WHOLE GAUNTLET WITH THE WORST POSSIBLE BUILD AND LOADOUT BEFORE I MANAGED TO SHOVE HOLY KIRKHAMMER UP THAT THING'S ASS ENOUGH TIMES THAT IT FINALLY DIED.

I fucking hate spiders. Oh look my girlfriend just sent me a picture of her next cosplay, and it's a fucking drider. Somewhere there's a room full of people laughing at me.
 
Well that sucks for Melissa, but hopefully that the human side will come out at a good enough roll and allow us to escape. Maybe we can somehow get her to be our companion or ally. Such as when we're rebuilding Detroit, she gets a nice little section and can be used as a buffer against raiders/mutants/other nasties.
 
Alright first things First.

THIS IS NOT AN UPDATE. I REPEAT THIS IS NOT AN UPDATE.

There, now that your hopes aren't up, I need to talk to you guys.

As I've said before, lately my motivation for this quest has been kinda dead, this combined with real life issues, my passion moving on to other series, and the general feeling that I have botched this quest pretty badly in some ways, has kept me from doing much in the way of writing.

As in, I'm only like a hundred words into the next update.

Now I am Determined not to see this idea die, but with my lack of motivation, my current lack of interest in Fallout, coupled with passion for a few other series, and my free time to just sit and write being scarcer lately, I need to let this one rest for awhile.

But as it always is with my mind, eventually the wheel of my passion and interest will turn back to Fallout, at which point this will be awoken from its cryogenic slumber.

But I am giving you guys the choice of how this quest will be reborn.

Once I come back to this, Do you just want me to continue from where we've left off?

Or do you want me to reboot this, ( Because I kinda think having the first big excursion happen so early was a mistake, and that I should've had more building turns and such to help establish your characters a bit more.)

And if you do want me to reboot this, do you just want to restart from character creation, or the first post from Alexander's P.O.V?


It's your choice guys, i'll probably put a poll up at the top of quest for this, so give it a vote.
 
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If we were to start over at character creation, would we have the same choices to go through or totally different ones? Because I really do like the military veteran (PTSD and all) set up we have, I'm just not a big fan of the regular genius thing we got going on.

Also, if the trips into Detroit are going to be a problem, you could just simplify it into a bunch of rolls. So instead of writing out the entire adventure post by post you could just give a brief little paragraph about what interesting place you looted and things you did.
 
If we were to start over at character creation, would we have the same choices to go through or totally different ones? Because I really do like the military veteran (PTSD and all) set up we have, I'm just not a big fan of the regular genius thing we got going on.

Also, if the trips into Detroit are going to be a problem, you could just simplify it into a bunch of rolls. So instead of writing out the entire adventure post by post you could just give a brief little paragraph about what interesting place you looted and things you did.

I'd probably give you the same choices, i'd likely also add in some new ones.

And I'm considering something like that for some excursions in the future.
 
I'd say reboot it.
Also, tuck the more challenging encounters and stuff behind a skill/equipment/party size requirement. If our character is supposed to be paranoid/cautious, have him deliberately avoid places and actions that he feels he might not be prepared for (maybe raise the initial requirements for choosing to attempt a run like we did, and maybe lowering them for a character that's overconfident/reckless or whatever)

Also also, NOTES! Keep a document for all the little ideas for cool shit that you think of, you will not regret it. Even if we, the players, can't benefit from your ideas, someone we run into or otherwise have to interact with could (friendly, hostile, or mercenary) and it would help to keep things interesting to have other groups clearly trying to carve a life out of this world and trying to improve their lot.
 
Yeah I'm gonna say reboot too. And I gotta agree on the major expedition thing being too early, I'd honestly forgotten that this was supposed to be a ck2 quest until I checked the title again because the vast, vast majority of the pages and threadmarks were about the Detroit expedition which, while fun if it was handled better and took less time between the updates, ended up dragging on for a bit. I like the concept and I think it could be a really fun quest at some point, but maybe save the long questing type stuff we did here for later game/ super important events next time
 
We have already made it this far. Why not rush through the rest of this dungeon crawl and get back to the main part if the quest? Rebooting is probably the healthier option but we are already so close to finishing. I'm happy either way though I have a slight preference for continue
 
So... the polls a tie.

of the two tied options which one do you guys prefer.

If I cant get a clear winner, I'm just gonna flip a coin when I come back to this.
 
Alrights polls closed for real this time.

Reboot from Char creation wins.

Next time I post here, will be to give the link the reboot thread... whenever that happens.

This same character will still be possible, but it also gives new opportunities.
 
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