OOC: The medical experimentation doesn't really have a whole lot of survivors. It's, um.
Okay, in the Fallout games there are these robots called Robobrains. They're robots that use organic brains as processors. The background lore of the game up until Fallout 4 has always said that officially, all the brains used for these robots are on record as having come from chimpanzees, but that there were a good number of brains from condemned criminals and other prisoners used. All of them had their memories wiped and were reprogrammed to be combat robots.
Fallout 4's Automatron add-on involves going through a pre-War facility where these things were developed and made en masse, on a scale that left me arguing with the person playing the game at the time as to whether we were seeing something more Nazi (for numbers/mechanical efficiency) or Unit 731 (for utter callousness). Needless to say there are absolutely no chimpanzees anywhere. What there are, are a lot of brains in jars. A lot a lot. And functioning Robobrains with varying degrees of murderousness, and some feral ghouls, which is to say radiation zombies who want to rip your face off.
Not sure if that's something you're going to want Sariel in on, but if it is, we'll arrange something.
ETA: dammit, I almost forgot about the Institute's FEV lab. Not nearly as bad on-site as the FEV pits in Vault 87 back in FO3 but there's at least one survivor who managed to hold his brain together after being turned into a supermutant who winds up begging the main character for help; if I get Ellen to the point where she encounters him we'll see about getting Sariel in on that.
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Okay, in the Fallout games there are these robots called Robobrains. They're robots that use organic brains as processors. The background lore of the game up until Fallout 4 has always said that officially, all the brains used for these robots are on record as having come from chimpanzees, but that there were a good number of brains from condemned criminals and other prisoners used. All of them had their memories wiped and were reprogrammed to be combat robots.
Fallout 4's Automatron add-on involves going through a pre-War facility where these things were developed and made en masse, on a scale that left me arguing with the person playing the game at the time as to whether we were seeing something more Nazi (for numbers/mechanical efficiency) or Unit 731 (for utter callousness). Needless to say there are absolutely no chimpanzees anywhere. What there are, are a lot of brains in jars. A lot a lot. And functioning Robobrains with varying degrees of murderousness, and some feral ghouls, which is to say radiation zombies who want to rip your face off.
Not sure if that's something you're going to want Sariel in on, but if it is, we'll arrange something.
ETA: dammit, I almost forgot about the Institute's FEV lab. Not nearly as bad on-site as the FEV pits in Vault 87 back in FO3 but there's at least one survivor who managed to hold his brain together after being turned into a supermutant who winds up begging the main character for help; if I get Ellen to the point where she encounters him we'll see about getting Sariel in on that.