I found Keller Family Transcript Nr. 3 today - actually the Hobo found it, I haven't yet found them all in one playthrough, and Nr. 3 is the first for the Hobo. So far I know of two more and since the Hobo wanders a lot, chances are he'll find them too.

My characters usually come across two or three of them in their travels. I think the Antagonizer is my only character to find all five, and I had to specifically go looking for them all to get all of them. She wanted to get into that secret vault in the National Guard depot.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Apr 10 2016, 10:05 PM

That´s cool

I came across all of them by accident, I think. Maybe I looked up the very last one so I wouldn´t have to wander around forgetting all about it

Nice to see others playing some Fallout. You'll be seeing more of me too, now that my Skyrim season is coming to a close.

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*click*

Pipboy App ON, *date needs calibrating* ... Re-connecting to subject Cho Zenwahn. 10 seconds.... 20 seconds....

Well, I'm back. And you have no idea where I've been. Too much to say right now. I'll talk about what happened, where I went after going into that stupid pod. It's crazy. I managed to hook up Vault 112's mainframe to my Pipboy, though. The picture you see below was stored in its memory.



Yeah, that's me in that pic. Weird, huh? ... But right now, say hello to my father, Pipboy app.

Father: Son, it's so good to see you. But what are you doing here?

I could easily ask you the same thing. Things have gone down and I've been all over the Wasteland looking for you. You left me back in that stupid vault to fend for myself. Now, I want to know why.

Father: You've came all this way and risked your life for answers? It must be important to you

Well dad, Duh. Wake up. I had no choice. Vault 101 went up in mutiny, you know that don't you? I had to fight my way out of there, not to mention all the [censored] I've had to go through out in the Wasteland.

Father: That's where you belonged. You're an *unidentified word*, capable of fending for yourself, and you had a good enough life ahead of you. What's out here is my task, my responsibility. I never wanted you to have any part of this insanity.

Well, too late for that. Because here I am.

Father: Project purity was underway long before you were born, we were all involved, including your mother. We were all devoting our lives to it. The idea of free, clean water for everyone drove us to succeed. So many sacrifices were made for that ordeal. My responsibility was to see it through to the end. To make sure those sacrifices mean something.

Well I want to help. I want to be involved. Come on, this is silly. What else is there to do out here in the Wasteland? Count me in.

Father: Yes, what about you? Why, in fact are you outside the vault at all? I don't even want to know how you got out. As much as I appreciate your help, you were supposed to stay there, to make a life for yourself there. Not out here.

Like I said, things went down which you don't know about. The Overseer is dead, and goodbye to that [censored]. I'm glad I'm out of there. Yeah, it is tough, but just walking around in actual sunshine makes it all worth it.

Father: Is that so? You're 19 years old, are you sure you know what you want from life already?

Are you kidding? You'd rather have me live underground like some [censored] mole rat?

Father: I suppose it doesn't matter now. I suspect there's no going back for either of us. We just have to forge ahead.

Yeah, that's the spirit. I'm in. Where should we go next?

Father: That's my boy. Let's hurry. Now that we know what we need, I want to get back to work as soon as possible.

Hey dad! ... Hey, where are ya going?! Slow down! Hey, I have to get my stuff first!

*click* Pipboy App OFF, Date: 12:14.77, 21:05

This post has been edited by Renee: Apr 10 2016, 01:44 AM

Cho the Mole Rat? I think not!

Ah, a family reunion in the Capital Wasteland. Isn´t that nice? *sniff*

The greatest challenge in Cho's life will be to catch up with his father on his journey to the Rivet City, running straight through every raiders' camp, and swimming right across Potomac.

Hey, following roads and avoiding danger is for whimps

So are more people playing Fallout 3 than 4 right now?

I encountered a "new" random encounter today and I don't see it mentioned on the FO wiki either. The Hobo has passed through Minefield many times and explored its houses but today as he entered one of the houses, radroaches inside were alive again, probably because the cell reset itself. However, there was one wastelander in the same house, incapable of fighting the roaches, and after the Hobo killed all of them and afterwards talked to the man, he thanked him, gave him 11 bottle caps and went to sleep.

Cool! I bet the Wastelander was supposed to be a corpse, that got set to alive after the cell reset.

I think the same because there is one encounter mentioned where you find a dead wastelander, surrounded by a lot of roaches. But what surprised me is that he paid the Hobo after he killed the roaches. I mean, of all my characters, he had to pay the only one that couldn't care less about caps.

That´s so cool! Never had that happen in my game

The Hobo found another Keller family transcript, labeled as Nr 2. Now only three more remain.

I remember from previous playthroughs locations of two of them (which I don't have yet) so I might guide the Hobo to find them, but the third one is still a mystery, unless it's located close to "the vault". This has to be my favorite unmarked quest in FO3.

I had a fun Fallout moment while playing Hecate yesterday. She was sneaking around in the fields west of the highway south of Primm, coming up on the Highway Patrol Station. She spotted a Raider walking down the highway, and took aim with Ratslayer. All the while she had Radio New Vegas on, and Mr. Vegas was just wrapping up an news segment. He finishes and says something like "This song is from me to all of you."

I have modded the radio station to change the songs. So what starts playing just as Hecate fires and blows the Raider's head off is this. I watched the kill movie of the Raider's head coming off just as Paul Simon says "Hello Darkness my old friend." I nearly laughed as a chill ran down my spine. Then Hecate set about silently (Ratslayer has a silencer) killing Raiders to the rest of the song. Not one even saw her.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Apr 14 2016, 09:04 PM

Haha, that's awesome and chilly at the same time.

I had a rather similar moment with Blondie some some time ago, when she killed a whole tribe of Fiends, then turned on her modded radio and There won't be many coming home started playing.

I LOVE that song!!!

(and yes, I am here trying to find a hint about where Hecate is, )

This has been


*ping!*


another chilling moment!

That's awesome, SR. I love when spontaneous things happen like this.


More people are playing FO3 than Elder Scrolls, certainly. I am thinking I'll eventually get Fallout 4. Maybe later this summer, or maybe not until next year, we shall see.

I do wanna try FO3 on PC first though. Cho's game on Xbox is getting incredibly difficult now that the Enclave is all over the Wasteland (my updates are way behind my gaming with him). I can't wait to get into modding Fo3 to make some proper companions, for sure. Because the way things are going in his game, if his game was dead-is-dead he'd be a goner by now.

The strange man in black trenchcoat with a cyber arm has been seen in Megaton, showing various people an image of some middle-aged guy called James on his PipBoy, asking about his whereabouts. Eventually he came to Moriarty, seemingly the only person who could tell the man in black about James but Moriarty demanded payment for the information. Weighing his options, the man in black decided that it's better to leave Moriarty alive, so he stole a password for his terminal and read that James headed to the GNR Tower Plaza.

Not having any more business in Megaton, he left the town at night and headed east. Though his thoughts should be focused at James only, the man in black couldn't help but think about prostitute Nova which he hired in Megaton. She reminded him of some other girl but of whom exactly, he couldn't tell.