There are billions of different fathers and mothers, each one with a unique, individual story...or is your dad the same as my dad brother?

You stop being a real person as soon as you get married. Everyone in their teens and early twenties knows that.

However...

Liz was a promising student. At least until her father died in her first year at university, leaving the family in serious financial trouble. So she took to dancing and eventually other services at a "gentlemans's club" to pay her way through her legal course. She got through it with an alright grade, but had fallen into drink, drugs and hanging out with lowlife. For the next few years, she struggled to keep any job in the legal profession for long and had to make do with whatever she could find in between.

Eventually she met Nate in a bar while high as a kite. And a drunken fumble in the toilets gifted her the miracle of life. Damn.

But she'd seen Nate a couple of other times since and thought him slightly less of a tool than most other men she'd met. So on discovering she was pregnant and knowing he was the kind man who would want to "do the decent thing", she decide she'd be better off with him than bouncing from job to job and living in a crappy apartment.

She managed to clean up her act a bit whilst pregnant and moved in with Nate shortly after the birth. Although he compliments her about how good she is with him, he did buy that ridiculous tin can to help (hates the way that thing looks down on her and calls her "Mum" all the time).

On leaving the Vault, she initially wants to find her son. It's what a Mother should do right? But she soon learns that missing people is an accepted reality in this new world, and the ones who took him sound really intimidating. Occasionally, she feels a pang of guilt and makes some effort to pick up the trail, but they obviously wanted him alive for some reason, so he's probably OK. And people just seem to leave chems lying around all over the place...

this is anime now.

Mine is always the weirdest because I use the same character for the 3 modern FO games.

After winning the battle of Hoover Dam, Princess Cathy was excited about the change that she brought to the Mojave. Several years later, she got tired of the less glamorous parts of being a leader and delegated the tasks to her friend Brisa. Having remembered Dr Zimmer's description of the Commonwealth, she borrowed a vertibird from the Enclave Remnants and flew all the way to Sanctuary Hills.

Princess Cathy got off, thanked the remnants and started exploring this "quagmire". Everything was OK, until she came across the dead body of the Sole Survivor near Vault 111. The Sole Survivor had a memories holotape on her body and Princess Cathy, being curious and all, put the holotape in her PipBoy.

Big mistake.

Princess Cathy was locked in place, and experienced the Sole Survivor's memories of the day when the bombs fell and her very last day. Once the memories scene was over, Princess Cathy vowed to finish what the Sole Survivor started.

There were side effects to this, which became apparent back in Sanctuary. Everyone thinks that Princess Cathy is the Sole Survivor, and they don't believe her when she said that the original Sole Survivor is dead.

Over time, she realised that she took the identity of the Sole Survivor, the personality and everything. She found that unacceptable so she played along with finding her son, so that she can finally become who she originally was all along.

Why don't you use your dad's story then?

BTW why would anyone want to craft a back story in linear and rigid game like this...........Pillars of Eternity seems like the right game for crafting back stories........

People have obviously been able to create a backstory that works for them. That's what this thread is about four [censored]s sake. Your incessant moaning says more about you than the game.

Just started my second playthrough. The first one was good but it lacked immersion, and my guy (I simple went with the original 'backstory') became a boring jack of all trades. So I wanted to build up some attachment with the second one aswel as making her less motivated to search for her son, or mounr her husband.

Ops. That became much longer then I first had planned. If you actually read through all of that, thank you. Impressive, I probably wouldn't have read it . I also haven't checked for spelling and neither is English my first language, so sorry if it's a bit "cheaply" written.

Anyway, after my first character I wanted to make sure this one was more thought out with a backstory and really immerse myself this time. I think it might work. Btw, any americans (or even native americans) that could tell me if that is a believable version of a "native" woman in the screenshots i linked? her face became a bit too "flawless" then I would have wanted, but it felt making a native without really seen many natives myself was hard enough so I kept it simple. Also changed her skin afterwards to something lighter since I guess the natives up north (in alaska) have more pale skin.

Also, this is her "build":

2 strenght

1 perception (2 with S.P.E.C.I.A.L book)

4 endurance

3 charisma

7 intelligence (mostly for the chemist perk, otherwise i'd spent more in preception)

7 agility (she will be stealth orientated)

4 luck

Nice thread, fun to read other peoples backstory . Much like when I played with toys when I was a child it's not the toys that make the story for you, they are just tools for you to create a story with.

I read all that, well done!

Native americans can have widely different skin tones, even within the same area, so don't stress about it. Your character looks very believable and the appearance fits the back story.

Perfect, thanks! It really helps to build a solid background, and not rushing when playing. Much better feeling than my first playthrough

Decided to revise, and changed the name.

Naval Sanders was an engineer for the U.S. military. He was primarily concerned with coolant systems and water filtration systems. He's a quarter-Filipino, with a half-Filipino mother and a caucasian father, with three siblings, a sister and three brothers. He was born in Chicago. His father fixed "oldtimer" gas-fueled cars and ran a hardware store. He was also an alcoholic and would one day drop off a peer and break his neck. Half-way through his engineering studies, Naval dropped everything and took over the family business to support his mother and two siblings, with the third having moved to Canada years prior. There, he was exposed to racketeering crews. He was drafted for the army for a while and left service after two years. When he returned, he turned things around for his family, opting in with mobsters as a bouncer and occasional mechanic. He sold the hardware store and upon learning his boss had a weakness for old-timers, gifted his father's cars to the mobster, to make himself irreplaceable as an old-timer car mechanic.

His younger sister would be assaulted by a racist street thug, whom Naval beat to a pulp with a tire iron. He would also save a woman called "Ellie" from an erupting gang war. Whereas Naval lacked direction and was satisfied with keeping his family comfortable, Ellie was driven by her dreams. Following the war, Ellie testified against gangs in courts. She studied for degrees in law and language and she would join the federal government as a language expert. When war hits, Naval is once more drafted into the army. In exchange for his service, Naval is sold insurance that provides him a bodyguard for his now pregnant wife, as well as other, more obscure benefits, such as his entry to the vault. Naval survives the war and returns home to live with his family in earnest, never returning to the mobster life.

Naval survives within Vault 111 for several days, coping with the effects of cryogenic stasis. He suffers from a severe lack of balance due to his vestibular system having been stagnant and frozen for centuries. He accepts that, in his current state and the possibility of nuclear fallout outside, he must accept that his son's kidnappers have a week or more ahead of him. When finally his senses return back to normal, he ventures out into the world, exercising his mistrust of military robots and a fondness for the people of Goodneighbour.

Omar Little

Omar was born at Fort Griswold on Feb 19, 2040. He follows in his fathers footsteps and joins the military at the age of 18. He excels in combat trainning and by 2059 is deployed to the Anchorage Frontline in Alaska. In 2066 China invades Alaska giving Omar his first taste of war. He is enthralled by the brutality of it and devotes himself to becoming "all that he can be." By 2068 he has earned the rank of 1st Sergeant. In 2071 a frag grenade detonates near him scarring his face badly. He returns to battle 3 days after the incident. His repeated success on the battlefield catches the attention of his superiors. In 2076 he is offered an opportunity to participate in the Forced Evolutionary Virus project. He accepts and is flown to the West Tec Research Facility in Southern California. On October 7th 2076 he unofficially becomes the first human to be administered the FEV. During his breif stay at the facility he meets and falls madly in love with a West Tec nurse, Nora. By the end of October he as well as 149 other FEV infected soldiers are redeployed to Alaska. With the help of the enhanced soldiers the US reclaims Alaska by January 2077. Omar returns home to a 4 month pregnant Nora. West Tec relocates her to their Boston facility so the coulple buys a home in Sanctuary Hills where they get happily married. He lands a construction job at Mass Sand and Gravel. Shortly after they settle in Omar finds it difficult to adjust to mundane everyday life. Nora finds him staring at blank television screens on more occasions than she would like to admit. When he almost kills the milk man one day because "he was a commy spy" Nora brings him to see a psychiatrist. He is diagnosed with PTSD and after 4 months of therapy he starts to show progress. On June 17th 2077 Shaun is born. It turns out the birth of his son is just what he needs to help repair his damaged mind. Omar all but forgets about the war and dedicates himself to being a wonderful father and loving husband. Life is good in Sanctuary Hills.

October 23rd 2077 the bombs fall. The family flees to the vault where they are cryogenically frozen for the next 150 years. For 150 years Omar endures an onslaught of nightmares that he is unable to wake from. For 150 years his friends are torn apart by machine gun fire and vaporized by plasma rifles. Then one day it abruptly stops and he is awoken only to witness his wife murdered in cold blood and his child ripped from her dead fingers. Then its back to the abyss of neverending nightmares for the next 60 years. When he is finally released to the surface he is a damaged, broken man. He frantically wanders the wasteland searching for his son who was so savagely stolen from him witnessing all types of atrocities in his travels. He meets a man named Preston who informs him of the current state of the world and the amount of time that has passed since Omar first entered vault 111. Omar is floored by this revelation and falls into a deep depression. Convinced his son is dead, after wandering for another 2 days he decides to commit suicide. Before he can go through with it Nora, his long dead wife comes to him in a "vision." She tells him that Shaun IS alive and that the people of today, although misguided, need Omars help.(which is why he is a yes man) He honors her wish to find their son and help the people of the commonwealth. Although his cause is noble he is clearly insane. The weight of his reality has caused this tortured but grizzled soldiers mind to create a mission that would be carried out with overwhelming force and precision. The 141st Ranger Battalion way. The more time he ends up spending in the commonwealth the more he becomes one with the brutal nature of life in the wasteland. He strangely finds himself preferring the world in its crippled state over the world he knows and came from. He likes the death. He likes the misery. He likes this world. He feels alive when he is in the wilderness amongst the monsters human and beast alike. He enjoys hunting them. He enjoys when they hunt him. Or try at least. The only other time he has ever felt this alive was back in Alaska amongst the bodies and the mortar shells and the blood and the greasey steel of power armor. And so he wanders from gun battle to gun battle in hopes of finding his son and satisfying the insatiable hunger for murdering anyone that had it coming to them. He knows he's insane. He tries to keep it in check which he is able to do when interacting with peope but when the bullets start flying he is another person. An FEV fueled warrior from another time. Is he going from quest to quest for random people because he genuinely cares? Is he honoring his dead wifes wish to help the people of the commonwealth? Or is he just a homicidal maniacal soldier stuck in time with an addiction for adrenaline and chaos?

The Sole Survivor: Satoru Takuya (its long but worth it )

http://imgur.com/s81OIqD

Satoru was always a wise kid; a wise ass, and also a wise intellectual. Understanding from a young age he could base his sarcasm off of his smarts - witnessing this dynamic in people everyday - Satoru rightfully exploited it in himself as he grew into manhood. The transition from wee-lad into sharp jawed man was not always smooth, however, as that very nonchalant and aloof sarcasm he filtered through intelligence often made jealous peers angry. Angry enough that one day, at the age of 18, several kids his age approached him at an outdoor social function and attempted to publicly assault him. 'Attempt' was as far as they managed. Satoru easily unarmed and defeated the five people, escaping with only a few scratches. This act sent him down a peculiar path that would one day see him as the Sole Survivor (and his son!) of the Great War.

The deans of his wealthy public highschool saw the Takuya's as lower-middle class try hards, too closely resembling the Chinese to be fully accepted in their community. The Chinese were becoming a big threat to American society in 2062; a distant oriental boogyman people often passed the Takuya's family off as. When word of the fight spread, Satoru was expelled. The other kids received nothing as punishment. Satoru's father scoured the internet for solutions and decided the best option would be for Satoru to finish his highschool education elsewhere then immediately join the U.S. Army. Satoru excelled, naturally, and quickly rose the ranks, going from being known as a flippant but coach-able ensign to a sarcastic but well respected Sargent. He eventually married Nora. The marriage arose out of a childlike romantic fling that lasted but 3 months before the couple were wed. Nora, a free spirited and spiritually minded woman, successfully with grace convinced Satoru to adopt a little boy, not even a year old, named Shaun (not Shawn or Sean...its Shaun.), as it would be a good testament to humanity and a wonderful precursor to having their own biological child. Satoru was skeptical, but he loved Nora deeply and despite his nonchalant demeanor stuck to a self-imposed Code of Ethics, and thus, obliged to adopting Shaun. Nora's love, Satoru's honor, and Shaun's cute little bald head and big brown eyes bonded them more closely than anything Satoru could imagine.

One day, while on base, Satoru stumbled upon classified documents detailing an upcoming war...

He illegally read the entire document, memorizing every important political detail in the document, only to later be found out by his superiors. Satoru was sentenced, discharged and set for trial. Since he didn't steal anything and the judges could not prove just how much Satoru knew, instead of being imprisoned on the charges of 'Threatening American Saftey', Satoru was instead exiled from the county to live on a little wasteland island where reformed criminals were sent to assimilate back into daily life...if they didn't kill each other first. Before the trial, Satoru escaped confinement and fled with Nora and Shaun to a little community called Sanctuary where a friend trained in espionage and Jet smuggling would keep them hid until they figured out a long-term solution. When the bombs fell, Satoru, Nora and Shaun were admitted to the closest Vault, Vault 111, unbeknownst to the Vault-Tec rep he just admitted a potential traitor to the United States.

We know what happens from there. Now Satoru, confident, sarcastic, perceptive, powerful and intelligent Satoru has reemerged from Vault 111 to find the world has gone to hell. He could use his skills to rid the landscape of the blights which blemish it, those dirty no-honor Raiders and Gunners for one, and that would technically be little worse than living on that damn criminal island, but the only thing he really cares about is finding his adopted son Shaun. He may not be related by blood, and their connection only temporary, but Satoru has the giant heart of a conflicted Hero and will do whatever possible to rescue his son.

Role Play Spec'ed into: Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, w/ a lil Luck thrown in for good measure.

Nick was a class clown and a going nowhere kind of guy. When he heard of the impending war he joined the military and decided to be spec ops. Highly trained in sniper rifles, infiltration and close combat. He felt he finally was doing something worthwhile. He killed many people in the name of his country. He was so efficient the CIA recruited him out of the military and he became a spy, on one of his missions he met Nora who eventually became his wife. He changed his name and ran from the CIA because he was done killing. His wife was in the military so that's how they got into the vault.
She gets killed and his son is taken and he must become the man he buried deep down. The more he saw of the new world the more disillusioned he became. he felt he needed to do something he knew he could do and have that help someone or anyone. He eventually ran into the railroad where he assumed the name whisper and became the foremost expert on ex filtration and taking out key targets. He wears a ballistic weave tux and combat sniper fires two shots at once and the deliverer. I used the dogmeat duplication trick only once (took forever) to make it so I had one silenced and one not... License to kill mofos!

lol poping from post to post said that dont make it true, Fo4 is a RPG like it or no.

Look at this thread and you'll see that people are very good at back stories and role playing. My second character I created after I saved my first game just before leaving the vault. Reloaded and made a new character without that dad backstory. I'm a brotherhood soldier and was in my head when I walked out of the vault. Role played that I was exploring it and just walked out. It's very very easy you just seem to have other issues with this game and your using any excuse you can to rip the game apart

Just some quick additional info on Mr. Little. He's basically a mercenary that will do just about any job for anyone as long as the pay is good. Hell, he'll do the job even the pay isnt good just as long as he gets to kill something (in honor of his dead wife of course). He has a loose affiliation with the brotherhood of steel. He joined their ranks as a means to an end (they provided him with weapons/armor to help find his son and survive in the wasteland). Although he despises mutants and the institute he does not share the brotherhoods radical beliefs. To him they are just a steady employer with good pay. Personality wise think Denzel Washington in the book of Eli or Mad max in the new remake.

I Was going to play this character Boogie Boy, but I think I have to do him on a follow up. I abandoned him around level 5, and built a bit of a basic character.

Fred did his time in the service, and he did it well. But with a baby on the way, he decided that when his enlistment ended, he wasn't going to re-up. He would focus on life for a change.

After the bombs fell, and his wife was murdered in front of him, he lost all hope. How long was he frozen for, afterwards? He came to a hard realization. His son was gone.
Once he reached the surface, he was crushed all over to see the world- the place that was to be his salvation- was in rubble. Everything had been lost. Only in this world, there is one piece of his past that is still relevant. His ability to kill. So he set off to find the faction with the most powerful equipment, and when the Brotherhood of Steel didn't attack him on sight and die an early death- as so many others had- he joined them. Because, as we all know, war... War never changes.

My first character is Nate Howard (yes the default male SS).

Hailing from Boston, Nate was strong and intelligent. After high school, he was offered a scholarship in engineering to MIT. But instead of going to college, he enlisted into the US Army, to follow his families tradtion. The MOS he chose was 12B (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Combat_engineer). Nate graduated from BCT and AIT at Fort Leonard Wood the top of his class, going from PVT.E/1 to SPC.E/4. he was assigned to thehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/108th_Infantry_Regiment_(United_States) to directly support the infantrymen. While stationed in Fort Hamilton, NY he Met a woman named Nora. She was to attend Harvard for a law degree. The dated for about a year and then got engaged, then married. To be with Nora when she went to school, Nate, now SGT., asked his CO to have him transferred to the Concord, MA district, North Atlantic Division, Corp of Engineers. The CO, though reluctant to do so because Nate was promising soldier, agreed to his request out of respect for the young NCO. Nate and Nora moved to Concord and bought a house in a neighborhood called Sanctuary Hills. All seemed good for Nate and Nora until the the day the 2nd/108th was to be deployed on the Alaskan front lines. The day Nate deployed was the when he learned Nora was pregnant. Due to this, Nora wasn't able to attend Harvard anymore, but she would try and get her law degree at another college.

Upon arriving to the frozen front, Sgt. Nate Howard realized the hell war was. Being assigned to go into the combat zone and set up COPs (combat outposts), make paths for the vehicles and look for and disarm landmines. Since Sgt. Nate Howard would be on the front lines and sometimes behind enemy lines, him and his fellow 12Bravos came under heavy fire from the Chinese. Within 9 months of his deployment, 35% of the 2nd/108th were KIA,MIA or WIA. During the Battle of Mt. McKinley, Sgt. Howard was in charge of several 12Bravos to set up defensive fortifications as Chinese soldiers were moving into their location. However, the Chinese attacked earlier than predicted, and an intense fire fight ensued between Sgt. Howards Sapper platoon and Chinese soldiers. Sgt. Howard ordered his platoon to keep constructing the fortifications, and him and the 11B's(Infantrymen) would hold off the enemy. During the firefight, the PA soldier received damage that immobilized the armor, leaving the soldier paralyzed in the open receiving a hail of the enemies fire. Sgt. Howard left his position of cover and charged in the open to help the PA soldier. As he charged towards the PA soldier, grenade shrapnel wounded his face, but he kept charging forward. After repairing the PA soldiers armor and gave him 5mm ammo, the proceeded to lay down a lot of hate on the Chinese soldiers, killing them or pinning them. The Chinese then retreated as they began to take to many casualties, giving victory to the Amercans. The defensive fortifications were also completed, which would help the Amercans in the future. However, a soldier in Sgt. Howards platoon was killed in action, the 17 year old Pvt. Shaun Smith. For his bravery and turning the tide of battle while still completing hos objective, Sgt. Nate Howard was promoted to Staff Sergeant and awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Ssg. Nate Howard retired from the Army, tired of war and bloodshed, to settle down with his wife Nora. His child was born and he was named Shaun, in honor of the young Pvt.

And then Fallout 4 begins...

Didier de Fault:

Never was there such a common and, thus, forgettable face. Didier was hired for intelligence work, just on the basis of his looks, but never could get his head around deception. Eventually, the unnamed intelligence organisation farmed him out to a long term surveillance job in the U.S. military - where he worked in logistics. Against the strictest instructions of his handlers, Didier married a loving wife and, consequently, had an adoring robot and a son who he named Shaun because he couldn't spell Sean and he was trying too hard to fit in with a foreign culture. Military Intelligence may well have been just buttressing their already widely acknowledged reputation when they neglected to notice anything strangely foreign or contrived about Didier's name but spelling Sean as Shaun on the birth certificate of his only child peaked their interest. Didier de Fault was debriefed, interrogated and promptly charged with espionage (but not necessarily in that order). At his court-martial, Didier's proud and very amused confession was so unconvincing the case got laughed out of court. Everyone got what they wanted. Military Intelligence had once again earned their precious reputation, Didier's logistics department was "safe from Communism" and Didier was sent back to work where the laughter was no longer directed at him but at those "bozos" from Military Intelligence. Career-wise, Military Intelligence didn't want him. After all, how could such a klutz not get singled out as a spy and if he did, how could he lie his way out of it? I mean, if an organisation is going to maintain a convincing reputation, moderation is surely the key, no? And so, Didier continued his double life working as a spy pretending to be a U.S. logistics officer with delusions of espionage.

Of course, life on the home-front was far less insulting. Except for that Vault Tec guy. How can just one man be so offensive? Talking as if he were a close confidante when he has to read ones name from a clipboard. Utterly outrageous! Didier often felt compelled to wonder, can anything be more rude than that? Irrespective of all this, the day on which Didier decided to sign the papers and get rid of that uncultured barbarian was as random as any given number coming up in the lottery. Didier, in the bosom of civilisation, had no reason to take anyone or anything seriously - other than his wife ... and son. Strangely enough, though, no sooner had this "beardless wonder of a barbarian" taken the details back to his van and communicated his latest victory, than the nuclear attack sirens went off.

The short journey to the vault forced Didier to further witness the inhumanity of these people, among whom he lived. But the "best" was yet to come and Didier's brief experience of the vault was something far too painful to recount in any detail. Tricked into cryostasis, trapped while his wife and son were released - one to be taken (presumably for organ harvesting) and the other murdered in front of his eyes. The vault gave back his life after time-uncertain. And with life, lay entwined the memory of loved ones lost and the face of the enemy. Didier may not be particularly good at anything. He is weak, clumsy, easily distracted and cannot even handle a firearm safely, much less shoot straight. But on the day he emerged from the vault, the agony of loss and the blinding rage at having been so wronged were tempered by the scale of devastation as far as the eye could see.

Emerging, blinking and squinting, into the oddly altered light of a devastated world: Didier de Fault had a choice to make. To die in a premature effort to right wrongs which can never be undone, or to live for the endeavour of undoing what damage can be undone and one day, when such strength and opportunity are at hand; then and only then; to strike, at the heart of darkness, such a blow as to illuminate the whole world. After all, is it not so that living, by its very nature, makes different people of us all?

Was a Marine. Fought in the Battle of Anchorage where he served alongside Gunnery Sergeant Benjamin Montgomery, his actions there would turn the tide of the war. Went home with a medal of honor after he and his squad successfully assaulted and captured a Chinese weapons research facility shortly after the events of Anchorage. He would take a direct plasma blast at point blank to the face from a prototype Chinese weapon, survive, and then manage to disarm and eliminate his assailant. He suffered traumatic injuries, fell into a coma, and 15% of his skull had to be replaced. He made a full recovery with the help of top secret experimental medical procedures performed by the military. Although the general public would never know of his actions, he would quickly become a legend among the soldiers in his platoon.

Lots to say about this but it's all off topic - so I've started a new thread for my reply: http://www.gamesas.com/topic/1576852-is-fallout-4-linear/

I didn't see this thread and created a new topic by mistake. Anyways, I've removed the content of that thread and pasted it over here.

I almost finished the game playing it as an FPS, but decided not to continue playing this way. I'm an old fashioned pencil and paper D&D player who likes to create backstories for my character. So, I'm trying to force myself not to play this game as an FPS, but as a Robinson Crusoe Character. I've added my own rules to make the game more immersive: no fast travel, no reloading saves (permadeath - all decisions character makes are final and once he dies the story is over), no cheats or exploits.

Here's how the story is progressing....

After leaving the vault, I need to find out if anyone else is alive or if I can find my son. So, I start to search the houses in Sanctuary and find more giant bugs, but no people. Then I meet Codsworth and we get into a conversation where I let him know that no one is alive. He suggests that I try the next town called Concord who may have people there. Well there is a radio station, so there must be people somewhere, I guess. But, I can't go out into the Wasteland on my own to look for my son as I need help to do that. So, I don't take his advise and start to use whatever is available to make Sanctuary my home town again in case either I find my son or he wanders back home. I spend a few game weeks building walls, wells, planting, etc... Then during that time, while listening to the radio, I get an idea to build a beacon to attract anyone listening on my channel.

A couple of people wander into my settlement and I now have hope that there are people still alive. I greet them and they begin to tell me their stories of how they survived. I learn a lot about the wasteland and its creatures, inhabitants and the hostile environment.... Survival of the fittest. I assign the former security guard to patrol duty and the other local farmer to take care of the crops. This is promising, but they can't help me find my son. I still need to think of other ways I can find my son and not get killed in the process. I see a couple of people crossing the bridge to enter my gated town and I go out to greet them. One pulls out a shotgun and the other a pistol and begin shooting at me. I run back inside and hide in a house and both settlers begin to fight back. They have obviously done this before, but this is my first encounter with raiders and I'm a bit more scared now to wander off alone outside the safety of my walls.

As my town is slowly growing, I realize that I'm running out of resources and need to go out and get more junk to add electricity, a meeting hall and more food and water. I reach red rocket gas station and clear that out of enemies. I occurs to me that I can use this as another source of resources and maybe even have people live here to build another community. The more towns I build, the better the chances for my survival and maybe I can find someone to help me find my son.

So, with two towns built, I wander off into Concord to collect more resources and maybe find people. I hear gunfire in the distance and avoid that area, but begin to explore the houses looking for junk and loot. Moving from one house to another, I see a person in the balcony who is waving to me. I approach that area cautiously and find some dead bodies of raiders lying in the street. He tells me that they are trapped inside this Museum and need help. It's just me and my dog! how can I help you when you're being attacked by a gang of raiders. Sorry, I am not prepared to help you now, but I'll try and think of a plan to come back and rescue you.

None of my settlers want to go with me to Concord to help rescue those folks trapped inside.....

Here is where I am stuck in the story. I know I can finish the museum mission by myself and my dog, but that doesn't seem realistic in my mind. Maybe I can go explore further out and build another settlement at the starlight movie theater, but I would need to come up with an excuse of how that story happened.

So does anyone have ideas to share to help me move this story along??

Thanks.

Well for my second playthrough I chose

Brian StraVick

He does not differ from the vanilla game much as I am still exploring. He is very fit from his military training with very short hair, white and a scar on his left eye causedoctor by his friend when they were horseplaying with their new bayonets.

Brian emerges from the vault after his wife was killed and child taken. Horrified after his family was torn apart he emerges to find that the world as he knew it was destroyed and laid to waste.

This character choses to be a mope. He tries to avoid all conversation about his family because it is too painful

After finding codsworth he learns that it has been 200 years since he was frozen. He thought his son was dead because of the time gap. He soon found himself in a radiation storm (this was perfect timing for the characterest story) and fled to his neighbors underground shelter. He found some rations that were still preserved and after the storm he set out to see his nearby town of concord.

After aiding Preston Brian finds a new purpose in life, to be the general of the minutemen. He begins to build his faction in the name of protecting others from the crimes that have been committed on his family

Mylli

As a teenager, Mylli became addicted to chems; taking every fix of pretty much any drug that came her way. One day, laying near unconscious on death's doorstep, her luck picked up and a bright and charismatic young Army Veteran picked her up and delivered her to rehab. Over the following years she fought withdrawal and overcame her addictions, and through all this time Nate never left her.

The drugs, unfortunately, left their mark - her brain was operating at minimal capacity. Though not the most intelligent of gals, she was sprightly and confident with her new-found love of the world, and luck seemed to favour her and every situation she found herself in. She knew that she would never be able to touch drugs again, even something as innocuous as a Stimpack could surge through her veins and ultimately kill her.

Falling out of the Cryovault, she couldn't remember how she got there in the first place (the freezing process didn't react well to her already fragile brain), let alone who the handsome stranger with a bullet hole in his chest opposite her was. She wandered out of the vault to try and find her place in the new world, lucky - though she didn't realise it - that she couldn't remember the old.

Mylli (My Lucky Little Idiot), has the following point spec. (thanks to the You're Special book for the extra point) and most of her perks are concentrated in the Luck tree, and she’s playing on Survival mode.

S - 2

P - 1

E - 3

C - 3

I - 1

A - 9

L - 10

She will never use drugs, not even Stimpacks or Rad-X/Away. Eating only the food that she cooks and using a trained doctor to cure her radiation sickness.

She was never good with guns (except for the small handgun she used occasionally to score another hit of Jet), so is mostly melee-ing her way through the Commonwealth, though she is slowly getting better with a pistol.

Though she’s enjoyed setting up her new home in the remains of an old Red Rocket station, she has an inherent mistrust of other people, not letting anyone else tag along with her, though there is an adorable little mutt that won’t leave her alone!