maybe not so unique, as it seems townsfolk there die all the time... but in my game, i'm really trying to make an effort to prevent such events!

anyway... so i leave http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Cross at big town with http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Sticky before heading to http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vault_87 (those kids really need all the help they can get). a couple days of game time might have passed, then joined up with http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Fawkes while leaving http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Raven_Rock and headed back... i get to big town and immediately notice cross is gone, also http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Red and http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Shorty are dead!!! perma-dead; something in a script has ordered them to die; cvar "resurrect" only brings them to life long enough to hear them die again... wtF is going on here?

is this a bug? has http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Bittercup become self aware and escalated her dark poetry to dark scripting? are these townsfolk dying from a daydream she had? or is this a completely normal event after reaching a certain point in the games timeline?

Fallout 3 GOTY v1.7.0.3

If you don't teach them to survive then they are scripted to die after a short time.