what would you do if you woke up in the fallout wasteland : Fallout: New Vegas

» Thu May 03, 2012 2:30 pm

I am amused. At how nobody whatsoever from the Caesar's Legion-loving camp is popping up to say how they'd be making a beeline for the legion fort to volunteer to be a skirt-wearing, machete-weilding, NCR-machinegun-charging cannonfodder recruit? Where's the loyalty, boys??

Hehe. All fine and dandy when yer sitting behind your computer warping philosophy to claim how grand and wonderful and altruistic it would be to be Legion... yet when the rubber hits the road, and you face the thought of actually having to BE one of those crazy kilted asshats, without any magical 'courier' superpowers, and with a machete and the Legate standing behind you saying charge those fortifications or die... ayeah. Quite another story.

That's when the low, mean, viscious and extremely undesireable reality of life in the Legion would hit home. "Um, I don't want to be a legion soldier..." Sorry, it's that, or slavery, or death. Choose now, please. "Um, I've been fighting now for years, I think I'll muster out of the legion now and go raise beans or be a layabout..." Sorry, the only retirement plan the Legion has, is death. Carry on...

If it was your real-life ass on the line, you'd all be running screaming to Vegas, California, or some other decidedly UN-Legion part of the west. Mwuhahahahahahaaaa!!!

Screw you, I just now saw this forum.

I would personally be very scared for my life. I would hope that somebody would accompany me out of Goodsprings and to the safety of the Cottonwood Cove, where I would willingly give myself up. Seriously, as somebody who cannot shoot and can only fight when in a blinding rage, even getting to Primm would be a huge feat. I'd be dead within the hour.

» Thu May 03, 2012 1:46 pm

Ghoul strippers.

That's what I'd do.

I love you. You literally made me laugh out loud. It's almost 2 am here, I woke people up. :bunny:

» Thu May 03, 2012 8:36 pm

Me and my deathclaw will have you by step 3..

Sadly, I can see that happening before I even reach step 1.

» Thu May 03, 2012 8:20 pm

Sadly, I can see that happening before I even reach step 1.

I will probably be killed by infection if the fallout world wasn't so medically advanced. Most likely I'll be killed by raiders.

» Thu May 03, 2012 10:33 pm

crap my pants
then go jump off a cliff lol

» Thu May 03, 2012 7:23 pm

I will probably be killed by infection if the fallout world wasn't so medically advanced. Most likely I'll be killed by raiders.

I hadn't even taken that into account (infection). I'd definately be dead as a doornail before step 1. Although I do have a strong immune system... then again at times it seems my IS is as proactive as a doctor after his 7th shot of gin.

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:57 pm

I am amused. At how nobody whatsoever from the Caesar's Legion-loving camp is popping up to say how they'd be making a beeline for the legion fort to volunteer to be a skirt-wearing, machete-weilding, NCR-machinegun-charging cannonfodder recruit? Where's the loyalty, boys??

I don't want to a legionnaire, I love Legion and think they're the best for the wasteland, but the legionnaires are slaves just as much as the breeders are, so I wouldn't want that.
Nah I'd walk into Legion territory after Gomorrah and settle down as a citizen.
Just cause I support a faction doesn't mean I'd EVER want to fight for them unless I had to.
Why?
Cause I'm an atheist and the idea of dying scares the crap outta me.
I'm gonna support Legion, I'm gonna try to help them in other ways, but I'm not gonna become a recruit.
Doesn't mean I'm not loyal, cause that I am, I'm just not excessively loyal to the point of obsession.

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:44 pm

If you wouldn't be willing to be a part of it if you were actually thrust into that 'reality', then it's probably a safe bet it isn't really good for anything but the murdering, r a p e and slaving that is their way of life. They're just better organized raiders, and that's all. Sure as hell not any great hope for humanity.

Dude, they are a Slaver nation who recklessly thrust there soldiers into combat with only the basic equipment. Who would willingly want to join that? The point is, they do it well. They conquer tribes so they can afford to do this. They would make the Mojave into a better place (Although it would take alot of sacrafice to do so). I still can't think of a way to actually join them. Going up to them and going "Hey can i join the legion?" would either get you Enslaved or Executed. Don't think we all see the Legion as utopia.

» Thu May 03, 2012 11:34 pm

I don't think Legion would be 'that' against people willingly joining them, you'd still have to go through indoctrination and training.
But, they aren't too much agaisnt using 3:rd party sources to help them out, so I'm sure one could help them out without actually joining the Legion.
Like the Courier and Dale Burton.

» Fri May 04, 2012 1:41 am

I don't think Legion would be 'that' against people willingly joining them, you'd still have to go through indoctrination and training.
But, they aren't too much agaisnt using 3:rd party sources to help them out, so I'm sure one could help them out without actually joining the Legion.
Like the Courier and Dale Burton.

I don't really see evidence of anyone joining the Legion that wasn't forced.

» Thu May 03, 2012 10:50 pm

I don't really see evidence of anyone joining the Legion that wasn't forced.

Great Khans, while deceived somewhat, are still joining Legion willingly.
Omerta's are also joining Legion willingly, and after helping out Mortimer the White Glove Society is more than willing to join Legion as long as they can still be cannibals, which they can as shown by Aurelius.
None of them are "forced" to join Legion, they chose so on their own accord.
Great Khans were deceived a bit, but I think that even if you give up Karl you can still get them to join Legion.

The uhm, third tribe they conquered also joined Legion willingly.
They weren't forced really, they could have fought back or fled from Eddie and the Blackfoots but they chose out of fear to join them.
Forced would be more like the Twisted Hairs, where Legion after Vulpes deception just stormed in and 'took' the tribe.

So there are a few instances where people have joined Legion out of their own free will.

» Fri May 04, 2012 2:31 am

Find a conviently placed gun, which would be just about anywhere and try kill a few people and raid their bodies for money/clothes/weapons/food. I'd then burrow myself a small cave with a covered enterance.

If this doesn't happen I'd likely off myself if a better purpose never came along.

» Thu May 03, 2012 12:07 pm

On second thought, I would probably head to Arizona. Seems pretty nice there, especially with no Raiders around.

» Thu May 03, 2012 6:01 pm

I'd either stay in Goodsprings or join a caravan company.

» Thu May 03, 2012 12:59 pm

First I'd say "Crap! I had more guns and ammo at home than I'll ever get here!". Realistically, I'd try to make my way up to Vegas and try to get on with Mick & Ralph as an armorer. Put together some decent firearms over time and pack a bugout bag. If the Legion prevails, I'm off to the high country. If the area stabilizes then I'd try to eventually get on with the GRA.

In the game I don't have much to do with either the GRA or Mick & Ralph, but that's because it's a game, not life.

» Thu May 03, 2012 10:21 am

Depends on what era and what my location was. But it wouldn't be pretty and I'm not sure I could even post it.