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Post » Tue Nov 23, 2010 12:18 am

Hello my lovelies. It is I, Metro, your friendly neighborhood Vertibird dispatcher Fallout enthusiast/occasional writer.
I need your help with something. It's a project I've been meaning to do for some time now; the problem was just that I am a horrible procrastinator and couldn't be arsed to start it. Well, forget that, sez I! No more slacking off! I'ma do it!

What is it, precisely, that I am going to do, you ask?
I'm starting an online journal. I suppose you could say that it's one part blog, one part fanfiction, and one part ARG. Allow me to give you the basic rundown.

The year is 2279: two years since the events of FO3. The water purifier is chugging along, slowly but surely; a little greenery is beginning to creep back into the Wasteland; everything else is more or less business as usual. Which is where our intrepid and perpetually confused moron protagonist comes in: Major Chmakova, formerly of Navarro, the Amazing Time-Traveling Enclave Officer.
Catapulted thirty years forward in time for reasons (and by means) unknown, our hero is faced with the challenge of adjusting to the Capitol Wasteland... a problem compounded by the fact that her GPS is busted, she has a terrible sense of direction, the hermetic sealing in her power armor may be failing, and she can't get that stupid song by the Ink Spots out of her head.
Also she has to figure out how she got here in the first place, I suppose, and why simply thinking about it results in crippling migraines.
NOT IMPORTANT (yet). : D

The important part, and that would be you come in dear readers, is that I'm turning this into a 'challenge' game for myself. Thing is, I can't think of any proper challenges to do.
Throw some at me! I'll try whatever you've got, no matter how silly or impractical.

Might she wake up one morning to find that someone has stolen all her belongings, and must trek back to civilization armed with only her underwear and a pointed stick?
Might her superiors decide that it would be a good idea to send her into the Deathclaw Sanctuary, while blaring music and lights to 'attract their attention'?
Perhaps she's in a really bad mood and must do all the day's sidequests in the most assholish way possible?
Anything can happen, my friends.
ANYTHING. :3
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Melissa De Thomasis
 
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Post » Mon Nov 22, 2010 11:41 pm

possibly a raider haven she needs to search for large amounts of aspirin so she can think about it
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Big Homie
 
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Post » Tue Nov 23, 2010 8:40 am

That's, uh, a unique idea you've got there. I normally don't like giving out ideas, because I believe that is the job of the writer. But I'm also a horrible procrastinator, so I'll give you a challenge.

Have your character be ambushed by slavers, armor and equipment removed. They take her back to paradise falls, and lock her up with a couple other slaves. She must disarm the slave collar and escape the cage with only a knife made out of a shard of metal, wire, and wood. She can either help the other slaves or not... But she must fight her way to the armory to retrieve her gear. Once she gets her gear a Super Mutant Behemoth attacks Paradise Falls and she must defeat it while battling the rest of the slavers.

That would be a nice way to start it.
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James Smart
 
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Post » Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:54 am

-snip-



That. Sounds. AWESOME. c:
It shall be done! *dramatic!point*

...And yes. Unique. Meh heh. >.>
Thank you for not telling me I'm out of my gourd. I already know.
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Post » Tue Nov 23, 2010 11:42 am

Might she wake up one morning to find that someone has stolen all her belongings, and must trek back to civilization armed with only her underwear and a pointed stick?


I think it would be absolutely hilarious if she was left in less than underwear :lol:
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Post » Tue Nov 23, 2010 4:42 am

The only thing I can think of that is what a horrible sunburn that would leave. Ouch.
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Post » Tue Nov 23, 2010 5:13 am

The act of Time-Traveling actually resulted in two versions of herself existing, one that did time travel and one that didn't. She must fight her other self.

An intelligent computer virus infects he suit's computer systems, using the suit's mechanisms to enforce it's will, and issuing orders through the helmet's speaker.

Some of the suit's mechanisms jam, making it impossible for her to move her left leg.

She is forced to fight a Brotherhood of Steel member. She is only equipped with a rusty knife. The BoS member has a laser rifle.

She discovers an underground research Facility. There she must fight a ten-foot tall Robot with nearly invulnerable armor, and all the maneuverability of a human in power armor.

She becomes infected with a sentient parasite that forms into a new set of armor for her, at the cost that it wants to destroy her mind and use her body as the control node for a new form of life it wants to create.
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