the World As We Know It
Part 1: the World As We Knew It
The story stars with "one month" before great war, ending at one day before war. A young girl writes in her diary about the current world, whats in it, things in the stores, people she likes and cares for, and how she thinks the future will be, every thing is good and great. When finished with the pages of her diary she decides to make a time capsule and buries the diary and along other special things. The next day the unexpected Great War happens and shes vanishes from the world but her secret capsule still remains burred in the long forgotten flower garden.

Part 2: the World As We Know It
A young woman in need of a job for caps gets hired to collect spores that grow on the roots of dead plants. (The spores are used in medicine to cure addictions and they slow bleeding by helping the blood to coagulate.) While out on a dig one day, she hits the capsule and uncovers its secrets... The young woman learns about what the old world was like by reading the diary every night before she goes to bed. Eventually she feels strongly for the old world and wishes to know more of it. She wears the locket that came with the diary and finds out that the locket is a key to a box that the diary girls father buried on the same day but in a different location than where the diary capsule was originally found. There are clues in the diary as to where it is kept. The woman is determined to find the other capsule that contains the box because within it holds a picture album of the old world and writings from the diary girls father to his daughter and about how he thinks the world is going to turn out to be.

Here is just a thought I had for a story. I'm not sure if it sounds very interesting, I know i'm missing something but what? Keep in mind this is just a summary I still have to work with the story but I'd like some ideas to play around with. The setting and such are TBA. This isnt a roll play so I will be the only one involved with this story. Some questions I have are Is it too boring? Is it too cliché? And what do you think I could add to make it a better story. Help would be much appreciated ^^

Ah [censored] man I just had a great story for you and this gotdamn [censored] computer deleted it all.

You need detail, description, and immersion in your story, which I think you'll do better with in first person.

Here's a plot.

You are a young gun-for-hire, usually recovering and finding things. You are a retriever, who has a chip on her shoulder. In your young days you have never came across a capsule like this. From there you could maybe have conflict of weather you should sell it or read it. Then, if you read it, the new conflict could be "should I go after this 'treasure'"? Like I said, I had a detailed post for you, but my computer is stupid, so here's the short version.

Make sure you work on grammar too.

Your avatar distracted me for ten minutes, but I fortunately pulled away to write this;

First off! Even when your writing a summary, make sure to use proper grammar. People are more likely to comment if it's pleasing to the eye(s).

Secondly, It's a pretty nice idea. I generally stay away from anything that has anything to do with Pre-War, because that just doesn't seem fallout-y to me. But I would read this, it's an interesting idea.

But I would go with something like Ant said, a treasure hunter or something. Collecting spore for medical research does not fit the Fallout spirit. Here's my idea:

Your woman gets hold of a note, probably originating from the girl(dead one) herself. The woman had to fight some men for this info, perhaps they were drinking in a bar and she overheard them she steals/kills for it. I wouldn't tell this right off the bat, by the way...

Anyway, when she finds the capsule, she is extremely disappointing by the discovery. It's not treasure, it's a diary. Spirit dampened, she makes her way back to the nearest city in hopes of getting some caps for the diary. On her journey she starts reading it, she begins to get attached to it and by the time she reaches the city, she does not want to get rid of it.

She changes course to find the other capsule...

BUT

The men she originally got the note for are pissed. They are still convinced that there was treasure, they get a party together to catch and drag the secrets out of her. Now she on the run from these men while simultaneously searching for the treasure.

NOW

You could do this in a variety of ways, but your best bet is first person with the journal excerpts every now and then. Or every chapter. Whatever.

This is the plot I expanded on from your idea, if it works for you, great. I would love to see it.

These are great ideas! I'm sorry about the grammar, it was late and I don't think I was thinking to clearly haha! I'm still open to ideas but I believe I'm going to start on a draft. I will try to use some of your ideas in the story, and if you want credit where credit is due please tell me and I will be sure to thank you at the end of my story. I used to write stories but they were always roll plays with other people and I was usually a Mary-Sue with no creativity but I do believe I've improved. I hope I can get the ball rolling and write an interesting original story for fallout fans to enjoy, wish me luck!