I moved stealthily through the dim light of the basemant, with my weapon at the ready. It had been a hard and dangerous fight to get to this point, but I knew that something of great value waited just ahead.

Fading into view, almost like a mirage, I saw the gleam of several shiny objects in the near-darkness ahead. My heart was pumping, and I felt a nearly uncontrollable urge to laugh madly, as I moved closer. What could it be, this treasure that had nearly killed me several times over?

Finally, hearing no sign of anything moving in the darkness, I switched on the light of my miner's helmet and I saw my treasure clearly for the first time. Beautiful, lovely, gleaming with a silvery sheen, I could see there were five of them.

Perfect, shiny, unused, and unbroken, FIVE stainless steel toilets reflecting the bright light back at me! I moved close, and took in their silvery perfection, and then it hit me. I couldn't do ANYTHING with them... I couldn't sit on them, or use them, or take them to my home where the best I could manage was a sadly used and abused prewar porcelain toilet. Oh no, these would sit here in the darkness, with their memory taunting me every time I felt the urge to walk into a bathroom...

Oh, cruel developers, spiteful hands of the Evil Gods, why must you torture me this way?!? In a fit of despairing rage, I threw a grenade and a molovtov cocktail at those shiny demons, but when the flames died away, the toilets still sat there, taunting me with undiminished perfection.

At last, I planted a couple of bottlecap mines among those gleaming toilets (if I can't use them, nobody will) and sadly departed, taking only the memory with me...

You need to stop wasting time playing and write some novel or a least a few short stories.

People with your talent should be producers not consumers...

Seriously, that was a good story and well told.

Speaking of treasure, last night I discovered a bank Vault FULL of prewar money!

I got up and danced around the house.

My roommates thought I was having a stroke...

I thought this was going to be about [spoiler]Jamaica Plains[/i]
That's awesome there is another place of this caliber.

HaHa luv it....especially the "If I can't"....

ha same here

Good story. Those toilets are gorgeous.

It verges on cruelty that they are static objects...like those beautiful stainless steel sinks...but I think I've seen a few of those that you can drink from (but if any, not many).

In all seriousness, once we get the GECK, we'll probably find a few models that are actually activators. If not, we'll make them so. I will so be modding that into my personal abode...and that sink...and the stainless steel pop-up trash cans I think are in the Institute.

Great story again.

Much more interesting read than the terminal stories in the game.

Even if it's about toilets.

that was well done.

One of the mods (Homemaker i think?) has the Institute toilet in it, they are functional (in that you activate it and the lid lifts and you sit).

Ha! That was good. I enjoyed your story. Now if only we could take them back to our settlements. Happiness level:150.

I'm holding out for the bidet model.

I also noticved the 5 toilets in perfect condition. i was going to post something on here when I found them. can't remember for the life of me what building it was but I was going to ask whether it was deliberate or whether they just made a mistake and possible forgot while making that part of the building?

or weather it was a bit of a joke and you could only dream of having a lovely poo on a shiny toilet of your choice.

Great story by the way!

Glad y'all enjoyed my little tale...

As to the building, I guess that would be a spoiler if I told, but no... there's no chance it was an accident. I think it's a bit of a joke on the player, as you say. Devs cheatses, they does!

The Institute toilet bowl lets me sit down with opened cover.

That feeling, boy oh boy, as a woman in post-apocalyptic world, my character must be happy to finally be able to once again waste on a hygienic disposal.

Yeah, leaves and corncobs get kinda old.

Opening up an toilet and using it with an coverall like the vault suit on looks pretty bad.

RL story about very drunk friend.

Now can you use it in power armor?

I remember once being in a restaurant, and two girls from Whitman College were in there. Anyway, the had to make a trip to the "girl's room", and I noticed that one girl had on levi's with a chain attractively twisted around one leg from ankle to waist where it was secured with a carbiner.

At any rate, a few minutes went by and there was a lot of yelling from that ladies restroom. I know some of you know how this ends, but eventually the girl with chain came out of the bathroom carrying a soggy pair of levis, a chain, and was wearing a friend's coat tied around her waist. Her march of shame from the restroom at the back to the exit in the front must have seemed like the March of Bataan or something to her...

Anyway, I mention this because of the complexity of some of the Raider armors and the difficulty one might encounter answering a call of nature, not to mention Power Armor.

@ Neildarkstar: I installed waste recyclers on my T60

@ OP: Simply epic. *applause* *throws roses at stage*

Trouble is, 'Public Occurrences' only has a couple of sheets.

What... You don't have a rolled Boston Bugle by your commode?

I'll wait for the Sims mod that pixelates you when you use it

I just keep stacks and stacks of pre-war money there. Can't afford to do that in real life

I was disappointed for another reason, the lack of realism there wasn't one unflushed.

I don't know about anyone else who works at a large company, but there's always that one person who never flushes, leaving their treasure for the rest of us to get disgusted by later.

5 untarnished johns. Bethesda's offices must be small.

Well, I didn't explicitly state it, but these five toilets are sitting on a pallet... being uninstalled, I would presume they would not see much use, eh?

That is worse as you can not flush them.