Wasteland homes Options

[Lopov]

Whether they're in Commonwealth, Mojave or the Capital Wasteland, you're invited to post pics or write about homes of your characters.

Today I'll show you Rattler's hideout in the Capital Wasteland, made by me.

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The Den of the Rattlesnake

A distance west of Germantown Police HQ and east of Paradise Falls, on one of many hills in that area, there's a dilapidated shack partly built into a rock towering above it. It served as hideout for some junkies but a notorious slaver from Paradise Falls recently killed them, placed their remains on display and moved in. Now nobody dares to approach the shack anymore.

View from below

Screenies taken at night make things more difficult to see but they're better for overall mood in this case. To the right there's a campfire, left of it there's a half-buried corpse of one of the junkies, lying right below wooden stairs leading to the shack. One junkie has been stuck on a pole to the left, one has been hooked right on the main door, and another one is hanging to the right of the entrance.

View from the other side

There's pile of junk to the right of the shack, along with a broken cabinet and some empty barrels. Paradise Falls can be seen in the background

Going up the stairs

right into

the Den of the Rattlesnake,

that can only be unlocked with the specific key.

Welcome!

That's what we see when stepping in. Looks quite scruffy and messy, doesn't it? There's a skeleton greeting us while eternally burning in the barrel with one of the junkies hanging on a chain right behind him. Planks on the left make way to "the loft". Obviously the one who lives there, likes cigarettes, jet and whiskey.

View from the other side

Specifically, from the burning gentleman's perspective. There's a table next to the door with one chair behind it, and one on the top of it. There's a broken refrigerator on the other side of the door and a mutilated arm of one of the junkies next to the lawn chair.

Table full of flesh,

and human at that.

They're hard to spot but there are empty syringes all over the shack, implying the owner's addiction to Med-X. As more time passes, the shack will be even more messy, there'll be cigarette butts, empty packs and cartons and even more empty bottles tossed all over the place.

Bathroom of sort

located under the planks.

View from "the loft"

Not much is up there, only one dirty mattress and a view of another junkie.

Ssskull

Which was drawn by the new landlord.

Time to meet him

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[Renee]

Wow for real?? See I get nervous about putting stuff on Nexus. People can get harsh there, and some of them will expect some fantastic mod which adds all sorts of buyable stuff and features to get added. And really, the only feature I'm interested in is making the renting part work, because that part seems rather unique, right? So I don't know about Nexus, but I can share it with you directly though for sure. Maybe I can put it on one of those Drop Box sites.

If I put it on Nexus, I'd have to write it so that Allistair offers us the rentable flat after we do some work for him, because it wouldn't make sense plot wise if he just says to anyone who shows up "hey I've got this place for rent." Allistair seems a lot more particular than that.

This works for Cho, because he's already done some work for Allistair. In Cho's game though, Allistair was nowhere to be found! Using the console's moveto command put Cho outside, where there was no Allistair. So I made a duplicate of Allistair, who merely sits outside (on the far balcony where he shoots stuff) 24/7. Because plot-wise, we speak to any Tenpenny resident who isn't generic, then this resident points us toward Allistair, then Allistair points us toward a "housing agent." After this moment, we only deal with the housing agent.

Maybe I could write the plot different though, if you find speaking to the Allistair duplicate too jarring. What do you think?

This post has been edited by Renee: Oct 24 2017, 01:12 PM

[Lopov]

Wow for real??

I was just joking, your mod suckz.

Okay, back to being serious, I would use that mod if you either published it on the Nexus or somewhere else but maybe it'd make sense to create a custo NPC (the housing agent) that'd stand in the lobby and you could hire the flat from him directly, what do you think?