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aaaaaaaagh_skyA Falloutverse plot prospect that I would like to run by people. Provoked by watching a friend play Fallout 4, and only just now, after ploughing through a great deal of other stuff, encounter the 2287 version of the Brotherhood of Steel.
Okay, so. Before Fallout 4 came out I took Ellen post-canon by several years and used the opportunity to clean up what I saw as a bunch of loose plot ends. Fawkes and Theresa of the Faint Smile destroyed Vault 87, ending the production of supermutants in the Capital Wasteland forever. Little Lamplight was inadvertently destroyed in the process because wrecking the Vault brought down the Lamplight caverns. Elder Lyons established a series of agreements with communities across the Capital Wasteland, linking Brotherhood of Steel water deliveries to community taxes paid in agricultural produce and Brotherhood recruiting rights. The Brotherhood Outcasts, who had split from the main Brotherhood over what they saw as Lyons' excessive interest in things other than the main mission, established a tentative peace with the main Brotherhood after the RobCo factory was revived and started producing, and the fact that Ellen's group beat the Outcasts to the punch in recovering Philadelphia's primary tech of the past meant that the Outcasts no longer had grounds to object to Lyons' policies in any way, and could/would/did fold back into the main Brotherhood.
Then 4 came out. According to 4's canon, Elder Lyons died within a year of Fallout 3's ending, succeeded briefly by his daughter and then a series of ineffectual leaders, and then by the sixteen-year-old Arthur Maxson, who only got the position because he was the last living descendant of the Brotherhood's founder. Maxson proceeded to wipe out Lyons' policies towards protecting Wastelanders and brought the Outcasts back into the fold and defeated the supermutant leader who supposedly rallied all the Vault 87 supermutants under one army banner and generally is presented as having been a Gary Stu of Destiny.
These two timelines can't really be reconciled and I don't much want to try, in no small part because Arthur Maxson was a cute and slightly gawky preteen in FO3 but a raving semi-messianic weirdo with delusions of royalty (his name is Arthur and he names his damn airship the Prydwen, it's a wonder his gun isn't named Caliburn!) in FO4. I would, however, like to make use of Fallout 4's setting and plot possibilities now that it exists. I haven't heard of anyone expressing an interest in playing the Sole Survivor, or any other characters from Fallout 4 for that matter. I would like to have the Brotherhood tell Ellen 'you did a great job in Philadelphia, so we're sending someone to take your place there and we're going to have you head up to Boston at the head of a whole new recon team, mm'kay?'. Fallout 4's timeline includes two small Brotherhood teams sent to Boston prior to the events of the game, one of which sent back a whole lot of discoveries and the other one of which met a Tragic End. I am going to go AU with FO4 and have Ellen head up to the Commonwealth so I can actually work with an area of the Fallout world I RL *know*. If we ever get a Sole Survivor app I'll be happy to work with the player or talk with them about timeline splits, but for now... they're not here, and I am, so.
Also if you know of anyone who's got a pup who wants to deal with medical experimentation horror BOY HOWDY HAVE I GOT SOME DLC PLOT FOR YOU.
Okay, so. Before Fallout 4 came out I took Ellen post-canon by several years and used the opportunity to clean up what I saw as a bunch of loose plot ends. Fawkes and Theresa of the Faint Smile destroyed Vault 87, ending the production of supermutants in the Capital Wasteland forever. Little Lamplight was inadvertently destroyed in the process because wrecking the Vault brought down the Lamplight caverns. Elder Lyons established a series of agreements with communities across the Capital Wasteland, linking Brotherhood of Steel water deliveries to community taxes paid in agricultural produce and Brotherhood recruiting rights. The Brotherhood Outcasts, who had split from the main Brotherhood over what they saw as Lyons' excessive interest in things other than the main mission, established a tentative peace with the main Brotherhood after the RobCo factory was revived and started producing, and the fact that Ellen's group beat the Outcasts to the punch in recovering Philadelphia's primary tech of the past meant that the Outcasts no longer had grounds to object to Lyons' policies in any way, and could/would/did fold back into the main Brotherhood.
Then 4 came out. According to 4's canon, Elder Lyons died within a year of Fallout 3's ending, succeeded briefly by his daughter and then a series of ineffectual leaders, and then by the sixteen-year-old Arthur Maxson, who only got the position because he was the last living descendant of the Brotherhood's founder. Maxson proceeded to wipe out Lyons' policies towards protecting Wastelanders and brought the Outcasts back into the fold and defeated the supermutant leader who supposedly rallied all the Vault 87 supermutants under one army banner and generally is presented as having been a Gary Stu of Destiny.
These two timelines can't really be reconciled and I don't much want to try, in no small part because Arthur Maxson was a cute and slightly gawky preteen in FO3 but a raving semi-messianic weirdo with delusions of royalty (his name is Arthur and he names his damn airship the Prydwen, it's a wonder his gun isn't named Caliburn!) in FO4. I would, however, like to make use of Fallout 4's setting and plot possibilities now that it exists. I haven't heard of anyone expressing an interest in playing the Sole Survivor, or any other characters from Fallout 4 for that matter. I would like to have the Brotherhood tell Ellen 'you did a great job in Philadelphia, so we're sending someone to take your place there and we're going to have you head up to Boston at the head of a whole new recon team, mm'kay?'. Fallout 4's timeline includes two small Brotherhood teams sent to Boston prior to the events of the game, one of which sent back a whole lot of discoveries and the other one of which met a Tragic End. I am going to go AU with FO4 and have Ellen head up to the Commonwealth so I can actually work with an area of the Fallout world I RL *know*. If we ever get a Sole Survivor app I'll be happy to work with the player or talk with them about timeline splits, but for now... they're not here, and I am, so.
Also if you know of anyone who's got a pup who wants to deal with medical experimentation horror BOY HOWDY HAVE I GOT SOME DLC PLOT FOR YOU.
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Date: 2018-02-14 02:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-02-14 02:28 pm (UTC)(Are the brains in mason jars? *now has the Lovecraft in Brooklyn song stuck in my head*)
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Date: 2018-02-14 02:35 pm (UTC)