i would probly just head to megaton earn enough caps for a huntig rifle some gernades and a 10 mm pistol then head on down to rivet city and flak and shrapnel will "ACIDENTLY die" and i will take over go out hunting ever 1-3 weeks with my hunting rifle with a scope i attached my tag skills would be sneak-im like a ninja, small guns-im a decent shot and barter-my skills would be
S 5
P 4
E 6
C 5
I 5
A 7
L 6
i would wear leather armour with a bandana and some lucky shades
my main perk would be strong back cause i will need to carry many guns since i will be operating flaks gun shop then when im rich id probaly buy a brahmin get jerhico to protect me while travilin the wastes selling guns and ammo(ammo not included with guns) sell my extra stuff for stimpaks just in case we get ambushed and mortaly wounded

QUOTE: (I) would move into Megaton and become Walters apprentice by helping keeping the town in shape and get a decent amount of caps especially when a take the old boys job when he dies of old age (or il murder him if he lives longer than (I) expect

Don't think that would be a problem. He usually dies on me within a week or two. I have to take my scrap down to Fort Independence then.

*wakes up*
Holy crap...
*cries*
*Attempts to walk to the nearest settlement*
*is mauled by a yaoguai*

Once i get to Megaton, i get enough caps to buy a decent gun from Moira, travel to Rivet City (since the only things on the way there are mole rats and radroaches, with the occasional mirelurk or raider) and then just stay there

I try and play any RPG like this: "if I was in this world, what would I look like/ what skills would I have/ what would I say to people" etc.

So currently I'm on Str 5, Per 6, End 7, Char 5, Int 7 Agi 5, Luck 5. Tag skills I've gone for Speech, Repair and Barter. I got the game a couple of weeks ago and keep restarting as I change my mind about my 3rd tag skill (am I quite sneaky/ am I good enough at computers to justify picking Science etc), also I think way too much about pointless things - should I reload a save if I break all my bobby pins and things like that. It annoys my wife a lot, mainly because I keep asking her to check my face in the character generation - "does this look like my nose?"

(She gets revenge though, she lets me start playing for a while and then says "I think your hair is a bit darker than that".)

Well, as long as I could do just what The Lone Wanderer could do (i.e. regenerate just with an hour's rest, instantly be healed with stimpaks, be able to level up and have perks, run indefinetely, soak up bullets like a sponge and hold 250 pounds of gear in who knows where) but not reload a save file (i.e. if I die I'm dead, no going back to change a decision) and had all of the add-ons, I would:

• Play cautiously and slowly through the main storyline
  
• At the purifier, I'd go in, since the PTSD would probably be getting to me by then, and death wouldn't look all that bad
  
• Wake up, and slowly and carefully go through the Broken Steel storyline
  
• Return home, and shack up with either Amata in Vault 101 or Moira in Megaton

If I marry Amata:

• Lead the charge in opening the Vault, and leave regularly to finish what I'd started in the Wasteland
  
• Raise my kids in the Vault, letting them live in the comfort and happiness that I had never had
  
• Have vault Physicians check out my wounds, physical and mental
  
• Get a summer home in Point Lookout
  
• Comfortably retire in the grandeur befitting a war hero

If I marry Moira:

• Help her expand her buisness into Rivet city, and across the Wasteland, and work in it as chief quality control officer
  
• Finish what I'd started out in the Wasteland
  
• Get help from Moira in dealing with the nightmares and PTSD
  
• Get a summer home in Point Lookout
  
• Raise my kids in my Megaton House, teaching them everything I would have wished I had known about weapons at that age
  
• Send them to college in Rivet City for the Liberal Arts, and Mothership Zeta to learn Science and History
  
• Retire comfortably in my Megaton House, and make it a beautiful home

In either case, I'd be able to live comfortably and fulfill my goal of ending my service with the Brotherhood of Steel, and settling down in a quiet place, far from the Super Mutants, Ghouls and Raiders. With something other than Wadsworth to come home to after a night of horrors unthinkable to most, I might even be able to not become a drug-addled veteran. Nevertheless, I'd still make trips out into the Wasteland to scavenge, and let my kids know what's beyond the walls of Megaton or Vault 101 (namely Mothership Zeta, The Citadel and Point Lookout).

-Penguin

mary moria i kill her couse of her dumb voive

I would probably use my surival skills and other knowledge that I have ( anarchist cookbook type stuff and so on ) and my knowledge of tactics and how to fight to survive, scavenge, make some money, and settle down.

Actually, I'd find an unguarded vertibird, take out the pilot, and fly it to some state that wasn't a primary target because no one wanted to live there. North Dakota, maybe, or Wyoming. Things would probably be ticking along there rather nicely, especially with no annoying federal government making life difficult.

Hmm, if I didn't put a bullet in my head, I'd immediately go to Megaton.

I'd live as a peasant there while being a security guard (I mean seriously guys, stockholm needs a break).

I'd save up enough money to buy the deed to the empty house. I'd take a while off the killing, and start my own personal shop (out of my house). Once I got enough money to have a lot of bullets, I'd start target practice at night.

After I got really good, I'd sell my house/store and buy supplies. I'd start my own protector group, so I could escort important people across The Capital Wasteland. When there was down time and no one needed escorting, I'd hunt raiders.

Eventually, I'd take my team (with their permission) and go on a suicide mission into an Enclave based and take out as much as I could before dieing.

Three dog should make a long speech about that, don't you think? :intergalactic:

what about vegas baby :woot: maybe thats who you are your guy from fallout 3 and he stole a vertibird lol

Well my Dad has been "missing" from my life for over a decade now...so I'm sure I wouldn't go looking for him. Probably dead anyways I'd figure. I doubt I'd freak out. The first thing I'd do, now that I live in a small town in Kansas, is raid the hardware store for tools I can use as weapons. I'd bring as many canned goods as I could along with me and establish a HQ of sorts in case of an emergency. My main priority would be getting food into my stomach every day and better weapons (though raiding houses here would yield many firearms I'd expect). Then I'd begin to venture out further and further for signs of life and organized civilization as time passes. Can't say what else I'd do from there. Only time would tell.

Edit: Come to think of it I'd probably head west to California, and try to find what became of the family I have left.

Following this scenario, I would find someplace safe to hold up until my skills were sufficiently honed before going out into the wilderness looking for dear old dad. That decision alone differs from what my character does because he is only a "character" and can get shot without dying, eat a lot of irradiated food without getting too sick to walk, and carry 150,000 rounds of ammunition without breaking a sweat.

If I was fresh out of the vault and didn't know anything about the world, it might go something like my first playthrough:
- I didn't take Amata's pistol. I had the BB gun and the baseball bat. (Didn't take me long to find out that the BB gun svcked against giant mutated creatures.)
- I got pretty beat up by the first molerat I saw. I probably would have run into more (assuming that I didn't have a map marker) because I didn't immediately recognize Megaton from the picture in the Overseer's computer.
- I was extremely annoyed by Doc Church and Moriarty.
- I would never touch that nuke.
- I would have slept in the common room (if the game let me). Nobody told me those beds were owned.
- I would have taken the armored vault suit. I think my suit would have been pretty thrashed during my escape from the vault and from the molerat.
- I would drink water from a sink.
(end memoir of my first hour out of the vault)

I would first try to make a living with two of my tag skills: science and speech. I wouldn't steal anything, and probably trade in some of my spare stimpaks for food. After I made some caps and could afford some gun repairs and ammo, then I MIGHT go out adventuring.

I got a watch with a light on it, so it could be my pip-boy...

I dunno, my dad is good with guns cause he was with da Polish Armed Forces, so that would svck if he left, though I don't think he would. I shot a pellet gun before, but not a real one (one of the disadvantages of Canada...). I think I'd be good with them though.

Anyways, I think I'd settle in Megaton and work with Walter, make the purifier actually PURIFY the water instead of lying and saying it is purified when it's actually irradiated, stupid people...I'm good at fixing stuff. I think I'd try to restore a car, that would be useful. I think I'd settle in megaton for a bit until I got a car working, then I'd armor it up. I think then I'd go to New Vegas, that would be cool.

Not a problem. I'm a gun nut survivalist in any case, so F3 simply gave life to my survivalist fantasies. The only svck is that in RL there is no save game and reload. So, I'd probably be dead by day three....

I would probably do most of the things my actual character does. I wouldn't go around putting my self in harm's obvious ways like getting super irradiated just for a book. But I would help WRITE the book. I'd probably just try to help people as much as possible, but I wouldn't break my arm just to tell Moira what it felt like to have a broken arm... You know? I'd do my best to finish the 'Core Quest' and find dad... But you know... I don't wanna die...

S 5
P 5
E 5
C 6
I 8
A 4
L 7

I would probably be an evil person like Burke...but still keep that snide and charming nature that he has. I'd love to be an engineer and do some medical sciences so I would be the town medic and engineer. Probably would work under Moira Brown or kill Doc Church and take his place.

SPECIAL
S - 4 (Not very strong but still strong enough to hold any small guns)
P - 7 (Pretty perceptive,. I survived this long in Middle School....)
E - 6 (Can run pretty long but not very fast)
C - 8 (I loves me my manipulation)
I - 10 (Nuff said)
A - 6 (Ties in with running long.)
L - 2 (Not very lucky...trust me)

I would make a living hunting animals with a sniper rifle or just a hunting rifle w/ a scope. Then maybe start my own medical/engineering business after I make money from both my professions. Find a really nice girl and start a family...

Finally I would probably blow up Megaton if needed because of food/water reasons. Maybe start a new town if I ever find the Garden of Eden Creation Kit and have children...

A big part of how long a person might survive is how much prep time they'd be allowed. For instance:

No prep time: I've got the clothes on my back, nothing else. My only defense is to run.
15 seconds prep time: I grab a pistol and my shotgun, and a handful of shells for the latter. It's enough to get me to Megaton, but not much else.
5 minutes prep time: I pack a small bag with clothes, ammo, and a few survival essentials (food, water, emergency supplies). In addition to my shotgun, I grab my scoped hunting rifle (two long guns can be managed if you carry one and sling the other).
One hour prep time: I run off to a sporting goods store and put together a much more comprehensive survival kit, complete with large backpack, massive amounts of ammunition, and some homemade napalm as well (don't know how to make the real stuff, but I can produce an approximation of it). Maybe a bulletproof vest, if I can locate one.
6 hours prep time: All of the above, plus quality body armor and the best assault rifle I can find, complete with laser sight and night-vision scope. If I die, it won't be because I'm underequipped.

ill be an evil c#@%

If fallout 3 happen

Oh, um... As much as I'd love to find Papa (and kick the absolute crap out of him for abandoning me!), I'd probably run over to Megaton and never step foot out of the city walls again for the rest of my life. My idea of self-defense is screaming for help with a can of pepper spray in my hand, and I don't think that would be very effective in Capital Wasteland. D':

For work, I think I'd try begging Moriarty to take me on as a serving girl, or work as someone's assistant. As I'm relatively useless IRL, I have no idea what I'd do if I were rejected on both counts. Marry Wadsworth, or something?

But if I had the choice of traveling to the Underworld safely, I'd love living there. Maybe I could work for Carol, provided Greta doesn't see me as a potential rival for Carol's affection. o_o;

probably stay in a vault. But if they dont let me back in, i would stay in megatron and make a fortune.

btw im new just got the game today. Only lvl 3 lol :facepalm:

If FO3 were to happen to me, I am not really sure what i would do, I would probably loot a better weapon and ammo and bunker down in an abandoned house and kill anything that tried to get in and go out at night in search of food and supplies & hopefully not die

Just saying to you guys who wish to go a-questing (including myself), that you have to deal with the nightmares, the shakes, the images of people being vaporized burned into your mind for all time. How would you deal with that? I'd try to find a decent shrink, and slowly work my way back to sanity after what I'd have to do in the Wasteland. As for what to expect:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gmgwx77osw

This is why I pose the idea of settling down after your adventures, and for guys the candidates (assuming that you're not gonna be a total dirtbag) are Amata (if you want to bring Vault 101 out into the world), Moira (if you don't mind someone who's a bit zany, but otherwise sweet and caring), and Sentinel Lyons (career military, you'd better be a smoothtalker).

However, if you guys have any other ideas on if and when you'd end your wandering, who would you do it with and where?

-Penguin