I've also seen that guy from Grayditch for the 1st time in the Hobo's game. Ironically, he appeared far in the northwest.

I didn't know that the Hobo moved Arkansas' corpse all the way up that ruined building. But now I understand at what girl was he peeking from that window.

Officer Hollande and Lieutenant Meier Loork.

I never paid good attention to those statues before - what is the most right guy holding in his hands?

The one on the right has a flamethrower. It looks funny because it has a tongue of flame rising off the muzzle, which looks odd in a statue.

After hearing some odd voice coming from outside the barn, the raider decides to investigate...

Haw Baw!

WTF???

HAW BAW!

GRRRRR!

Baw baw...

SubRosa -

Yeah, that suit looks like a commie to me too!

Poor hobo.

Wow, stealthy indeed in her chameleon suit!

Aww, paying homage to fallen comrades.

Lopov -

So that raider thought he would go Hobo huntin' eh? Well I guess he didn't count on Hobo bringing his big boy gun!

Hectate, she's so darn pretty. Phewzus.

Yeah, you did good with that HOBO sequence there, Lopov. Now I'll have to google Haw Baw

Haw Baw!

Lopov: The Hobo must have gotten an eyeful of Holland's globe and anchor!


Acadian: I actually decided to create a Commie Killer perk for Holland to take. I just have to test it out to see if it works or not (it will do extra damage against all Asian characters).

Warrant Officer Smith was using a Stealth Boy in that sneaky pic. She doesn't have a Stealth Suit. That's Chinese!


Renee: I never intended it, but I have always thought Hecate looks similar to Megan Fox.


Getting ahead in the world

Every Marine is a rifleman

Walking the DC streets

Holland teamed up with an Army remnant.

Shooting it out with Muties

Judge me by my size do you?

As well you should not!

Holland takes some well-deserved R&R

Well, I’ve learned what ‘disarming’ means in Persephone speak. . . now we know what it means when Holland gets ‘ahead’.

Yup, a Marine and her rifle!

Walking the DC streets, doubtless looking for 8th & I (Marine Barracks and home of the Marine Corps Commandant).

Showing those Army soldiers the right way to do things no doubt.

Mutie Shootie!

Phallic hydrants! What a difference the camera angles make!

Aww, enjoying some Leatherneck down time.

I loved these!

SubRosa, nice icon in the top left corner in the 1st pic.

Officer Hollande makes it to the "city".

Great shots of the Behemoth, he really looks pissed off.

Some pork'n'beans for a good night sleep.

--

The Hobo thanks all that liked his "Haw Baw" story.

He came upon the vehicle from another planet the other day but carefully observed it from a safe distance.

The Hobo admits that he's afraid of the what looks like a fallen flying platter.

He also came upon Motel Loviatar but all beds were occupied.

Hobo's wise to keep his distance from that contraption! Using the binoculars effect made for neat screenshots!

Loviatar's Diner!

Looks like The Hobo's decision-making is top notch! Avoiding the spaceship, and Motel Loviatar (where there is always a vacancy... )

Acadian: I had forgotten about the Marine Barracks in DC. Holland was probably there at least once in her time. I looked it up on Google Maps, and near as I can tell, it is in an area that is inaccessible in the game.

She was definitely showing the Army how to do things right!

Now that I have played her a bit, I have done some conjugating on Holland's background. She was born in 2050 in Denver, Colorado.. When she was two years old the New Plague/Blue Flu occurred and killed her parents. She was sent to an orphanage, and grew up bad. When she was a teen she was committing cyber-crimes and blackmail. Finally she was arrested by the FBI when she was 21 (in 2071) and given the choice of prison or the military. China had invaded Alaska when she was 16 (in 2066), so they needed every one they could get.

It was an easy decision for Holland - steel bars or shooting people. Since they gave her a choice, she went into the Marine Corps, because she wanted to be the best. She soon learned that prison would have been a lot easier. But hard as the Corps was, it gave her a sense of purpose and belonging that she had never felt before. Given her skill with computers, she was put into Signals Intelligence/Electronic Warfare.

Her first deployment was just a year later, in 2072. She was sent to annex Canada. In 2074 Holland and the Corps hit the beaches of the Yangtze River and took Shanghai. A year later her first term of enlistment was up. She could not imagine going back to life as a civilian, so she reenlisted for another six years, and was promoted to Warrant Officer. It was during a major Chinese counterattack on the Marine positions in the winter of 2076/77 that she was taken by the aliens. One moment she was in her battalion HQ working on cracking Chinese encrypted communications, then the next the room turned bright white. She woke up in Mothership Zeta.


Lopov: The icon is from Vault Girl for FO3. I am liking it a lot.

Maybe the pork n beans is what helps Three Dog get the inspiration for his radio show!



Holland is ahead of the muties

Monumental firefight

Time to put that signals and electronic warfare training to use

Been there, done that

Holland picked up a classic Model 1911 Colt

She uses it for the smaller critters

Its good for getting ahead of raiders as well

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Some nice depth you've added to her story!

More Raider and Mutie huntin'!

Love the 'Enlist' sign and Holland's pose near it.

Yes, that old .45 had wonderful physical 'stopping power' that the current military 9mm pistol lacks. Most of us were not at all happy with the change.

Night sky looks very good in your game.

Well, so does sunrise. Was Hollande fighting muties all night long?

Been there, done that is a great shot, it "shows" what happened to Hollande and hints at more to come. She's standing in a good position. Definitely my favorite shot from the bunch.

At first I thought there's a raider wearing PA!

Colt looks good, it's useful to have something for small critters (and raiders). The Hobo uses a shishkebab for bloatflies.

Acadian: It often takes a little while for a character's background and attitudes to come together for me. Holland's are finally starting to really gel.

I hear they are going to be getting rid of that 9mm and going to a new handgun. Hopefully back to a .45.


Lopov: That is actually the vanilla sky! I was using a modded one for a while, but it added too many stars. It didn't look real. So I went back to the vanilla stars. I think I still have a modded moon though, with high res textures for it.

I am not sure if that monument pic was at sunrise or sunset. Holland did spend a lot of time gunning down commies muties in the Mall though.

That was a very close one with the Raider and BOS guy standing right next to one another. That is why I went to VATS. I was afraid I would shoot the BOS'er by accident if I freehanded it.

Hobo eats Bloatfly Fricassee then! In New Vegas I created a recipe for Bloatfly Sliders, which I think was bloatfly meat + vodka.


Hey, you look familiar

Did you come from Greyditch?

Holland enjoys a home-cooked meal at Karen Schenzny's place in Arefu

Dogmeat gets some exercise

Welcome to Big Town

Now get out!

Holland warned them

Holland is way ahead of the muties

A Marine enjoying her chow! Don’t get to see her hair often – looks nice and. . . of course I’m partial to the color.

Looks like Holland and her group have a well-planned welcome for the baddies, channeling them across that bridge makes for a good killing zone.

Ants weren't enough to make the wastelander abandon future adventuring, he had to encounter a deathclaw.

Not only Dogmeat, the raider also gets some exercise...the last exercise.

A warm and full of bullets welcome for the muties.

How can the mutie in the last pic still have one bar of health left when his head is turned into a bloody mess?

Acadian: I'm not sure what would be worse, Post-Apoclayptic food or MREs!

Even back when I was creating Holland, I knew that you would approve of her hair color!

That battle at Big Town can be tough, in spite of the narrow bridge leading into the town. The mutants like to throw grenades, and the Big Towners all love to crowd around the end of the bridge. It is difficult to get through that fight without one or two of them ending up in pieces.


Lopov: Encountering a deathclaw ends most people's wasteland adventuring days for good!

I thought it was hilarious when Dogmeat started chasing that Raider. At first I held my fire to see how long it would last. But Dogmeat couldn't catch her, so I had to slow her down with a couple of .45 ACPs.

I think the head is probably the least vital area on a Super-Mutant, especially the empty space between their ears...



Holland meets a Glowing One

She introduces it to her little friend

Burning One

Even after that, Holland needs her M-16 to finish the job

Holland knows a place to get these Buttercups cheap...

Nukalurk!

Blue Planet

Too close for comfort

"Buddy, I am going to shoot you in the face!"

Holland has mastered human-cyborg relations

Good lord, what the [censored] is a nukalurk? Ahhh!

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