Fun and Games in Post-Apocalyptia

Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 6:54 pm

When I wrote this, NV didn't exist yet. So obviously, the first 100+ of these are Capital Wastaland specific. But I will contribute more that take NV into account...

Most of these are mine... but not all.


List of fun things to do now that Project Purity is completed:

1. Throw Tenpenny a surprise party on his 81st birthday, causing him to have a fatal heart attack.
2. Establish a mole rat colony and make gobs of wonder meat. Hire Zip to advertise for you (he just wears his usual outfit and a sadwich board). Pay him in Nuka Cola. Get filthy rich.
3. Sneak into Fort Independence and paint all the Outcast Power Armor electric blue and hot pink.
4. Teach Princess kung fu, allowing her to beat Macready into submission and establish herself as HRH Princess Angela I.
5. Lure a Deathclaw into Paradise Falls. Watch as slavery in the wasteland is messily abolished.
6. Moon people from the top of Tenpenny Tower.
7. Build a TEN-millimeter Minigun, and make Brick jealous by traipsing through Ranger compound with it.
8. Salvage a boat and create a water taxi service. Get even filthy richer. Buy a council seat in Rivet City.
9. Get a bunch of seeds from Harold and Bob/Herbert and become the Johnny Appleseed of the Wasteland.
10. Publish a calendar entitled "The Bad Ghoul Gals of Underworld", featuring female ghouls in bikinis. Wonder why no one buys it.
11. Get the Family to establish a community theater group, and have them perform "Twilight".
12. Hack into Vault 112's computers. Restore the memories of the residents, and take away Braun's powers. Equip Tranquility Lane with lots of torches, plenty of pitchforks, and a limitless supply of tar and feathers.
13. Teach one or more of the barbers how to produce the coolest of all haircuts: the MULLET!
14. Declare yourself Pope. Officially lift the prohibition on priests getting married. Watch Diego and Angela live happily ever after.
15. Establish a doggy daycare. No feral doggies, please.
16. Go to Andale and convince the Smiths and Wilsons to provide recipes for your new project, The Wasteland Cookbook
17. Start a Lonely Hearts Club, pairing off lonely wastelanders. Butch and Bittercup, maybe?
18. Convince all the Rivet Citizians that the presence of a pool table in their community will corrupt their children, unless they start a boys' band.
19. Shove Burke's fusion pulse charge up Confessor Cromwell's derriere and detonate it, giving him his own very personal "Day of Division".
20. Hijack the Enclave signal, and broadcast various recordings of HMS Pinafore on it, 24-7.
21. Make yourself a huge stone ax and a Yao Gui skin loincloth (or bikini). Declare yourself to be Grognak II.
22. Get Three-Dog some new music. Recommended songs: "Dead Puppies" by the Aggogant Worms, "Christmas at Ground Zero" by Weird Al, "Bubbe Shot the Jukebox" by Mark Chestnutt, "The Hampsterdance Song", "Funky Cold Medina" by Tone Loc, "Mississippi Squirrel Revival" by Ray Stevens, and "Dude Looks Like a Lady" by Aerosmith.
23. Start a new radio serial, starring you and your "stalwart meta-human manservant, Fawkes".
24. Use a stealth boy and sneak around goosing people.
25. Find a cello, learn how to play it, and perform duets with Agatha.
26. Reprogram one or more Mr. Gutsies to speak only pig latin. Or actual Latin.
27. Introduce a new form of art: Super Mutant diqueck Paintings. Lure a marauding Super Mutant over in front of a large canvas. Open fire on it with a Minigun. Use lots more bullets than necessary. Outfit the gore-spattered canvas with a frame. Try it with feral ghouls, too.
28. Reintroduce the Macarena to the Capital Wasteland.
29. Find Dr. Lesko and get him to give you another mutagenic bio-enhancer, making you able to breathe fire.
30. Try to convince the Andaleans to live on feral ghoul instead (think Ghastly Scavenger perk).
31. Shoot down of those birds endlessly circling Megaton, and find out if it's edible.
32. Go down into Vault 106 and breathe deeply. Breathe VERY deeply.
33. Find Doc Preston and tell him that you haven't used the toilet (except maybe to drink from, if you're really sick) once since you left the vault. Ask him if there's anything wrong with you.
34. Find out where Jericho got his name, preferably without him beating the crap out of you.
35. Ride around the wasteland on your very own Red Ryder tricycle.
36. Kidnap Zip and take him to Raven Rock. Tell him that there's 1,000 bottles of Nuka Cola in Rivet City. Clock him to see how long it takes him to dash across the entire capital wasteland.
37. Kill a deathclaw and ask that clothes-seller guy in Tenpenny Tower to make you a suit out of it. While you're at it, find out if they're edible. Can't be worse than radroach, bloatfly, or 200-year-old pork and beans.
38. Implode the Dunwich Building just for a giggle.
39. Invent the Chippy Chopper, a new weapon that uses a tricycle, an electric fan, a wood chipper, and 50 microfusion cells.
40. Get Eclair to try and use his pondscum-prep skills to make lasagna. See if his name gets changed as a result.
41. Try to breed a three-headed Brahmin.
42. Trick Three-Dog into breathing helium just before he makes a live broadcast.
43. Do a "Dr. Strangelove" pose atop Megaton's bomb. Preferably after you disarm it, we don't need any "accidents".

#'s 44-56 were not my doing, but I had to include them because many of them were so cool. And because I didn't want to have to renumber everything.

44. Find Three Dog some Alice in Chains.
45. Challenge a Brotherhood sniper to a sniping contest.
46. Rig said contest to win for you every time.
47. Break back into Vault 101 by hotwiring the door and bypassing the password entirely
48. Walk off after Vault 101's gear door opens.
49. Pull the 'burning dog poo bag' trick on Vault 101. Make sure there's a LOT of poo, it will be a few before they get that door open.
50. Rig up an incinerator to pump pot smoke into Vault 101's air ducts.
51. Hijack the audio and play the Doors while doing 50
52: Find, repair and resurrect an old Army Deuce-and-a-half
53. Use that massive truck to make frivolous commutes between Tenpenny and Megaton.
54. Find four Cellos and three other guys, then recreate the band "Apocalyptica"
55. Reprogram President Eden to do your bidding. Then, use him to command water deliveries for the Brotherhood.
56: Find a second duece, bring it to the Citadel, show the Brotherhood scribes how to drive/fix it and sell it to them for 125,000 caps. A working truck is, after all, priceless.

57. Have another rigged sniper contest take place, but this time with Sarah Lyons. Tell her that she has to do a lap dance for you if she loses.
58. When Sarah Lyons finds out that you rigged the contest on her, realize you have urgent business elsewhere in the wasteland. Maybe in Oasis, it's a good ways from the Citadel (and freaking hard to find, too).
59. Teach the Super Mutants to drink beer and have belching contests.
60. Find out if you can get an advlt-sized set of Bumble's "Blast Off" jammies.
61. Use V108's lab to clone yourself, a la Jango Fett. Raise the kid as your own.
62. Decide your kid needs a little sister. Swipe some of Dr. Li's hair. You always wanted a smart youngster.
63. Rediscover an old copy of Weird Al's "Weasel Stomping Day". Create your own holiday: Radroach-Stomping Day.
64. When radroaches are nearly extinct, start a "Save the Radroaches" organization.
65. Realize radroaches aren't worth saving and wipe them out once and for all.
66. Organize a food fight in Cafe de Mungo, or whatever the name of that cafe in Tenpenny Tower is.
67. After being thrown out of Tenpenny Tower for said food fight, hire a personal injury attorney and sue whoever owns the place now (Burke, most likely) for 25 million caps, for hurting your feelings.
68. Watch as Chief Gustavo fires a three-round burst of 5.56 into your personal injury attorney's nether parts. Leave before he does it to you, too.
69. Get a large box of detergent. Next time some obnoxious little kid swears at you, wash his/her freaking mouth out with soap.
70. Get another Stealth Boy and sneak around again, but this time giving people wedgies.
71. Reopen the Silver Lining Drive-in. Go out of business in two weeks when you realize that there aren't any working cars anymore.
72. Propose alternate punishments other than death for Rivet City malefactors: something lingering, yet humorous, maybe involving boiling oil (if anyone can tell me where the reference is from, I'll go up to 110. Or if you really hate this crap, stop at 90).
73. Do something naughty in Rivet City and have said punishment inflicted on you.
74. Make a hand puppet out of an old sock. Go around the wasteland talking to the puppet. Act surprised when people start shooting at you.
75. Use a stealth boy to sneak between two super mutants. Use a silenced 10mm to shoot each of them in the butt, then sneak away. Watch the super mutants beat the crap out of each other with Nail Boards.
76. Rig the next election in the Republic of Dave so the Flower wins the election. Get her to rename the place Flower's Happy Garden.
77. Replace Dukov's booze with laxatives. While he's... ah, indisposed, steal one of his girlfriends. Or both, if you're into that.
78. Get some new undergarments. The ones you have on are probably pretty skanky by now.
79. Reverse pickpocket Enclave Power Armor onto Agatha while she's asleep.
80. Hide valuable items in rotting Brahmin corpses and see if anyone finds them.
81. Go to Lucy in Little Lamplight and demand that she show you her medical school diploma.
82. Return to Ranger Compound and find that Brick has built herself an ELEVEN-millimeter Minigun and named it Eugene's Big Brother. Get into a major snit because hers is bigger than yours.
83. Bet Three-Dog that he can't say "Good golly, ghoulies" five times fast.
84. Try to figure out exactly WHY when you go to various places where there's no walls, fences, or other barriers, some mysterious little voice tells you that "you cannot proceed in that direction".
85. Find a working Xerox machine. Xerox your butt. Frame it and hang it in Abraham Washington's museum when he's not looking.
86. Hijack Mothership Zeta. Buzz around the wasteland beaming up super mutants and experimenting on them in disturbing by humorous ways.
87. Hitchhike. Fail to get anywhere because THERE'S NO CARS!
88. Give Dogmeat a new, less derogatory name. I mean, how would you guys like to be named "Strange Meat Pie"?
89. Pull my shirt up over my head and walk around with my arms up in the air, babbling incomprehensibly and demanding "TP for my bunghole".
90. Find a harmonica to use as a pitch-pipe. Round up Brock, Ted Strayer, Seagrave Holmes, and myself. Form a barbershop quartet.
91. Suggest a recreation of the Vault 69 experiment (vault population: 999 women, one man). Volunteer to be the man. Get no takers.
92. Change your name to All Talon Scumbags. That way, when Talon Company puts out a hit on you, it says "Private Contract: Kill All Talon Scumbags".
93. Decide that Canturberry Commons is too quiet now and establish yourself as an archvillain known as The Proctologist. Invent a new trademark weapon called the Really Long Finger.
94. Find out exactly how Little Lamplight remains populated, since everyone gets sent out before they're old enough to have kids. (maybe they split in half like amoebas?)
95. Bungee jump off the back end of Arefu.
96. Find the PA system that the crazy guy by the Ranger Compound was using, and repeatedly sing "On Top of Spaghetti" out of it in a really obnoxious voice.
97. Instead of #96, sing "Baby Got Back", only do it in classic "white and nerdy" style.
98. Declare a "Funny Hat Day" in your community of choice and walk around with a Brahmin skull on your head.
99. Build a giant statue of your dad out of sand, bricks, scavenged scrap metal, dead super mutants, or anything else you happen to have a lot of.
100. Find an old PS3 and a copy of "Fallout 3", and wonder why the game seems so frickin' familiar.

Bonus section: MATCHMAKER OF THE WASTES

101. Decide to become a Wasteland Matchmaker, to repopulate the wasteland faster. Start by pairing off Butch and Bittercup. They have a nice "bad boy/goth" vibe.
102. Teach Red the ways of the Black Widow. Get her to cozy up to Lucas Simms, and "convince" him to let the Big Town survivors move into Megaton.
103. Convince Vera Weatherly that maybe Bryan needs a male role model, and that Seagrave Holmes might be a diamond in the rough.
104. Encourage Cmdr. Danvers to find out if "Tin Man" Harkness really does or doesn't have a heart.
105. Sister and Tammy. Those two deserve each other. And they both deserve James.
106. Try to figure out who to pair Moira up with. Go totally nuts. Have a nervous breakdown. Decide that it would be better if Moira didn't breed.
107. Sit back and watch as romance blossoms all around the wasteland!



108. Start a school in Rivet City. Pass a legal ban on homework.
109. Recruit a new follower, one of the Mothership Zeta crew (fit right in with a cyborg, a robot, a ghoul, a super mutant, a dog, an old geezer, a tunnel snake, and a crazy slave chick), wielding an Alien Blaster.
110. Go back into Vault 101 and smash Andy to scrap, just to make sure they bring in a competent doctor.
111. Find out if you can bake Jet into brownies.
112. Write a "Matrix"-themed program for Vault 112.
113. Move into Big Town. Rename it Titipu and declare yourself Lord High Executioner.
114. Reintroduce tie dye fashions.
115. Salvage a vertibird and fly it around the wasteland towing a "DRINK NUKA COLA" banner.
116. Try to collect 5,000 boxes of gumdrops.
117. Find the cryo-frozen body of Walt Disney in Vault 125 and try to revive him.
118. Establish the Hair Club for Ghouls.
119. Play soccer with a super mutant head.
120. Play "Marco Polo" in the tidal basin.
121. Find some 201-year-old twinkies and find out if they really do never go bad.
122. Organize a baccarat tournament.
123. Figure out where all those squirrels and iguanas are hiding.
124. Become a leek farmer.
125. Sit out under the night sky with Dogmeat and bark at the moon.
126. Capture a Protectron, reprogram it for dubious purposes, and name it Fisto (for reasons that are totally incomprehensible to you).
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Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 12:04 pm

127: Look for McDonalds and see if their foods ever go bad.
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Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 8:03 am

128: Overthrow Paris and convince the French to sacrifice themselves off of the Eiffel tower..... What? It might be funny.
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Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 10:31 am

If Paris even still standing? Maybe they have their own version of House... Monsour Chalet, perhaps?

129. Make Mr. House a birthday cake with 261 candles. Accidentally burn the Lucky 38 to the ground as a result. Oops.
130. Get a new tap from the Followers of the Apocalypse. Instead of putting it in House's tower, put it in one of the Atomic Wrangler's private rooms.
131. After allowing tbhe Silver Rush to get blown up (which I generally do because the Van Graffs are jerks and it has so much expensive lootable stuff), buy up the empty building and start a new fast food franchise: Kentucky Fried Gecko.
132. Find all the White Glove Society's white gloves, then wash them in hot water with a bright red sock. Result: it's now the Pink Glove Society.
133. Upgrade the Securitrons to the V3 software, which includes cruise missiles, Fatman nukes, alien disintegrators, and hooded commando faces on their little TV screens.
134. Send said securitrons to trash the Legion (any organization that enslaves people and nails them to crosses deserves no better).
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Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 2:46 pm

135. Instead of replacing the White Glove Society white gloves with pink gloves replace them with white vans(maybe with a few pieces of pre-war candy in them). Then wonder why there is suddenly a suprisingly low number of children in the Mojave.
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Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 7:48 am

136. Look for sporks. Where are they?!
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Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 6:14 pm

137. Look for a store where you can buy a mattress, as no one has any.
138. Tell the Brotherhood that they should look for lightsabers, as they obviously exist.
139. Spread rumours that the Lost Hills bunker is haunted, causing the Brotherhood to cower in fear.
140. Find a dark robe, and pretend to be Batman, unarmed fighting people, and not using guns.
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Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 4:25 pm

141. Find some new country music for Mojave Radio. I mean, "Big Iron" is a great song, but it gets old after the 57,000th time.
142. Find some Christmas carols to broadcast during December.
143. Reprogram the securitrons to salsa dance.
144. Take over the Kings, and get them to start imitating Gene Simmons instead.
145. Find Mt. Rushmore. If it's still standing, carve your face into it.
146. Or, carve your butt instead. Assuming you can tell the two apart.
147. Decide that cowboy ghouls and sixbots aren't kinky enough and start recruiting even weirder escorts.
148. Give the Powder Gangers Fatmen and mini-nukes.
149. Figure out how to make magazines re-readable.
150. Create a new softdrink with Nuka Cola, Sunset Sasparilla, pureed prickly pear, Xander root, and Aguave. Make a killing selling it.
151. Chop down all of the Legion's crosses in the middle of the night.
152. Traipse around wearing Benny's suit and tryiong to talk like him (calling everyone "baby", most notably).
153. See if Mr. House makes it to his 300th birthday.
154. Duct tape the mouths of some of the more annoying characters.
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Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 2:18 pm

155. Given that we already have factions modeled after knights, Romans, Mongols, Mafiosi, and Elvis; come up with your own interesting theme for a faction. Clothe and equip them accordingly. Possibilities include bikers, ninja, samurai, hockey players, and/or pink bunny suits. Better be VERY well-armed if you're going to do the latter.
156. Become a gecko rancher. Start a steakhouse.
157. Throw a tantrum in Gomorrah because they don't play Go Fish.
158. Learn how to butcher a Brahmin properly (one pound of meat from a 500-pound animal?! Talk about a waste!)
159. Kill a bunch of centaurs. Grind them up and sell them as hamburger.
160. Salvage a kilt. Whether you wear anything under it is a choice best left to you.
161. Bungee jump off the Lucky 38.
162. Go sky-surfing from the Boomers' B-29.
163. Try to go surfing, only to realize there's nothing nearby with waves.
164. Find either Three-Dog or a good impersonator and fly him to New Vegas, because the radio stations in the Mojave svck toes.
165. Run about the wasteland (any you want) with a basin on your head. Attack any windmill you see.
166. Try to kill Mr. House only to have him morph into a Siberian tiger and tear your guts out. You think he can't do that? Did you forget that he is actually Odo the shapeshifter?
167. Salvage a tank and start a caravan with it. Given the number of dead caravans out there, Brahmin just plain aren't doing it.
168. Obtain the Confirmed Bachelor, Lady Killer, and Child at Heart perks, and boost your Charisma to 10. Then, presumably, everyone will like you.
169. Find some size 87 boots and go around smooshing giant ants and radroaches.
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Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 3:32 pm

170. Get a piggy-back ride from Fawkes into Megaton, and ask "Who run Bartertown?"
171. Teach the feral ghouls "Thriller".
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Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 3:26 pm

172. Get some radroaches, coat them all with chocolate, and send them to Mr. tenpenny as a Christmas gift.
173. Send some to Mr. Burke, too.
174. Get a bucket, mark it the Potty Mouth bucket. Every time someone says a bad word, make them put in 5 caps.
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Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 5:38 pm

175. Find and exterminate anyone who pronounces caesar "Kisaar," and centurion "kenturian."
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Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 5:28 pm

I always thought they missed a great 'Trouble, right here in Rivet City' reference. It would have worked so well.
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Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 6:34 pm

According to the wiki, there was one, concerning the "Replicated Man" quest. Don't know if there actually was one, since I never had the stomach to sell Harkness out to Zimmer (unless I was going to blast Zimmer into oblivion immediately after he gave me the combat module).

Here it is... it's under the "Bad Karma" heading: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Galaxy_News_Radio_(radio)


176. Give Three-Dog a lungful of helium just befor ehe goes on the air.
177. Ask Harkness if he ever rusts.
178. Walk around Project Purity singing "Tiny Bubbles" until they throw you out.
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Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 4:15 pm

179. Stockpile large amounts of food, and make a large pile of it in the middle of Freeside. Enjoy the ensuing chaos.
180. Give Beagle a Sunset Sasparilla Deputy Badge to cheer him up.
181. Steal a deathclaw egg, hatch it, and name the hatchling deathclaw Cuddles.
182. Raise said hatchling deathclaw as a pet.
183. Have Lily give you a piggy-back ride while using a stealth boy. Convince onlookers that you are levitating.
184. Transplant a human brain to Rex.
185. Have a sleepover with Antony. Begin a play battle between his Sergeant Teddy and your Lieutenant Dino. (No joke, Antony has a teddy bear in his inventory named Sergeant Teddy)
186. Get yourself, Antony, and various other legionaries to place bets on said battle.
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Post » Sun Feb 20, 2011 2:09 pm

187. Show the mojave rangers and the NCR rangers some "historical documents" and get them to form a new faction, the Walker-Texas Rangers.
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