Fallout Character Ideas Options

[SubRosa]

We have character/roleplay idea threads for Oblivion and Skyrim, so I thought I would create one for the Fallout games. I wonder if we could use a Fallout section now?

For a while now I have been kicking around the idea of playing The Shoveler (inspired by the character with the same name from Mystery men). She would use a shovel for a main weapon, the nailgun for a ranged weapon, wear the construction helmet, and maybe the roving trader outfit (as it has lots of pockets and little do-dads hanging off of it).

Over time this idea morphed into one of playing a character like The Undertaker. But with a shovel (to bury their victims of course). Today I made a breakthrough with the Undertaker concept. The character will be a Lich, and use the Deadwalker mod I created in both FO3 and New Vegas for Persephone. But the twist with the new character is that she is a Mad Scientist who made herself undead. Probably with some sort of Prometheus Serum.

So I was thinking of wearing one of the Mad Scientist Scrubs from Old World Blues. But I am not sure about the colors. They come in red, green, and sort of teal, and an off-white. The only one that might work is the white. But I already have a character in white - Persephone. So I'd rather not go there again. So I am thinking of making a black version of the scrubs. Some quick testing has already been promising. Some other ideas on clothing are the black and red Outcast Robes, or the Outcast Recon Armor.

I have thought about covering part of some of her face. Using the breath mask from Lonesome Road plus some sort of helmet or hat is one idea. Another is to try one of the versions of the Lobotomite Masks - with or without goggles. The Valence-Oscillator (halo) is in the running too.

Since the character is a mad scientist, she will be an energy weapons user. Not sure on the weapon she will use. Not that there really are very many.

I also know this will be a rather nasty character. Playing Persephone in New Vegas I ran into difficulty with healing, as stimpacks are pretty scarce in that game, and eating and sleeping don't work for a Deadwalker (my roleplay). It occurred to me that the cannibal perk would help with healing. But that is just not what Persephone is. But the Lich is a perfect cannibal, and a vampire in FO3, and even a ghastley scavenger in NV. I'll probably use the console to give her the cannibal perk from the start of the game. Who knows, she might be so evil that she will even blow up Megaton?

I am not sure on a name yet. Here are some ideas:

Kalma - Finnish goddess of death and decay, her name meaning "The Stench of Corpses"

Kali - Hindu goddess of death.

Akka - A group of female underworld spirits in Sami and Finnish mythology.

Loviatar - Finnish goddess of death and disease. Daughter of the Underworld Queen Tuonetar.

Morta - Roman goddess of death.

Right now Loviatar is looking best. It has a nice ring to it.

This post has been edited by SubRosa: Aug 23 2015, 04:12 AM

[Lopov]

Thanks for the suggestions, I already checked them out earlier. Cyber Arm Vault suit is the base mod but it only allows you to use the cyber arm with a minority of armor sets, I use the upgraded version which allows you to use it with any kind of armor and surprisingly, it blends very well. The same mod comes with a bionic eye which will also be used by SX4.

Cybernetic Dawn looked great at first and I d/l-ed it just after checking the pics but when I began reading what it does, it was exactly as you say - it changes too many things.

Cybernetic Perk Tree looks interesting but I already use Cyborg Friend which improves the vanilla perk plus makes you friendly to robots. I also installed Simple Night Vision - it's probably the simplest night vision mod out there just as the name suggests, you turn the NV on and off by pressing the desired key. What's interesting about it is that the vision requires either action points or energy cells as a power source and once you run out of any, the vision returns to normal, so it's mostly useful for scouting dark areas.

I found another Cybernetic-related mod, namely Facticius Humanus, but it messes up faces in my game because I have some other face-altering mods installed which I find essential. Bodies added by that mod are the best IMO but I won't sacrifice my face mods just to get some body which won't be visible most of the time.

In the end I used vanilla Caucasian race, then boosted his SPECIAL and resistances accordingly. I also enabled slow health regeneration. A weapon of choice is Atomic Pulverizer, normally found only on Mothership Zeta but in my roleplay scientists from Commonwealth found another copy and equipped their prime hunters with it.

My long-term goal is for SX4 to slowly become aware of his human part, something similar to the Android quest from the base game. Except that in my case SX4 is not a complete android but a half-android, "designed" from a fallen pre-war soldier and as such retains a bit of humanity. Anchorage Aftermath will fit nicely in here to serve as his backstory.

This post has been edited by Lopov: Apr 18 2016, 08:37 PM