Boston Bewilderings, The Fallout 4 "Where are you now?" thread Options

[mirocu]

Thanks for asking, varis. Varis means Crow in your language, yes? Or did Googletranslate get that wrong? -- maybe I got your language wrong; I can't remember if you're Swedish, Finnish, or from Norway.

I think you need to fire your AI assistant cause I have no idea what varis means

She's mostly sick from radiation poisoning, I think. Because pretty sure rain is radioactive in this game, right everyone? She walked in some rain for hours until I realized her Geiger counter was ticking nonstop, then finally she ate some RadX. It was too late for chems at that point though. Funny thing is, I got a mod for Fallout 3 for rain & snow (because DUH... it rains in the DMV!)

Oh! Rad poisoning, I should have guessed. Silly varis

And it rains in FO4? Cool!

This post has been edited by mirocu: Jan 5 2026, 09:58 PM

[Renee]

You're not gonna tell me which country? Fine. Serves me right for trying to learn something new from the Crow.

Yep it rains, except if it IS radioactive then it'll be impossible to fully enjoy in my own way. My characters will be popping Rad-X all the time instead of hoarding it for swimming/radioactive food, naturally-radioactive quest areas, etc. ☢

This post has been edited by Renee: Jan 5 2026, 10:04 PM

[mirocu]

You're not gonna tell me which country? Fine. Serves me right for trying to learn something new from the Crow.

Sweden

Yep it rains, except if it IS radioactive then it'll be impossible to fully enjoy in my own way. My characters will be popping Rad-X all the time instead of hoarding it for swimming/radioactive food, naturally-radioactive quest areas, etc. ☢

Well, hopefully Jenn can survive. Would be a downer if she didn't stick around with that rad name of hers

[RaderOfTheLostArk]

You can also build arches in settlements that remove rads, but I think you need Science 1 for that. And the resources.

Oh, neat. Didn't remember being able to build them in Fallout 4, though I have one built for my C.A.M.P. in Fallout 76.

The dark humor is still there. I just came across a construction protectron guarding a site of a long destroyed military convoy. It said to me: "This day has gone... 0 days without a workplace injury." Then a group of Super-Mutants attacked.

Lol, protectrons have a way of making a lot of things funny or at least amusing.

Boasting never fails to bring on disaster.

Bethesda NPCs never learn.

I think my favorite one is the Mr. Gutsy you can confuse into self-destructing.

"WiLl YoU cOmPlY?!" That's a great one! I just had one in my head that was a great instance that escapes me. Ugh. EDIT: Ah, I remember! A certain con artist who I won't name here. Even Piper doesn't care if you kill him.

Good to hear it's not all doom & gloom in 4, that there is some humor left. Honestly I got rather bored with New Vegas due to its lack of humor/ entertainment. A lot of the Fallout 'purists' state New Vegas is the 'last true Fallout game' because Beth's versions aren't 100% serious all the time but whatever. These are videogames, and part of gaming, for me, is to enjoy the experience.

/Soapboxmoment

I also remember all those silly painted bots y'all used to post pictures of in the screenshots thread. Even just their pictures had me rolling sometimes!

Jenn X is about to die, straight up, and maybe I'll even honor this with dead-is-dead rules, rolling somebody new. Diamond City is too far, she'd have to walk there, hasn't Discovered it yet, so FT is out of the question. The heartbeat sound plays constantly in her game, which is annoying as [censored]; it's like: JEE

Ah, New Vegas fanboys. Basically the Fallout equivalent of Morrowind fanboys. Such goobers. Many of them haven't even played the games they idolize. But New Vegas does have plenty of humor, too. Sometimes a little too much, like the Old World Blues DLC (but it was still funny).

Anyway, I don't think it's necessary to re-roll (and not because I personally don't like dead-is-dead playthroughs). Try going back to Sanctuary and look in houses for containers. There will probably be some RadAway around there somewhere. There is also a ton of stuff there to scrap, which you can use to build a chemistry workbench that will then let you make RadAway. (At least, I'm pretty sure you can make the workbench and RadAway right away.)

Or, if you haven't been there yet, you can rush to the Cambridge police station and help out the handful of people there (I won't spoil who is there) who are fighting off feral ghouls. Might be tough because you are close to death, but the ferals might target the other people instead while you help kill the ferals (who should be marked essential at that point).



EDIT: Oh, also, pretty sure the rain itself isn't radioactive, though maybe I'm misremembering. It just happens to be radioactive where you are standing at the moment.

This post has been edited by RaderOfTheLostArk: Jan 5 2026, 10:40 PM

[SubRosa]

Renee, there might be two different things giving you rads.

The first is that pools of water are usually radioactive, so if you are standing in one, you will take rads. The first rank in the Aquagirl perk will make you immune to taking rads from standing or swimming in water, as well as give you waterbreathing.

More likely, it is not simply rain giving you rads. Rather it is probably a rad storm. This is a type of thunderstorm that also spreads radiation with it. You can tell it is radstorm because the screen will turn green. Typically you will take a spike of radiation with every peal of thunder. When these happen it is best to go into an interior cell and wait out the storm.

[mirocu]

Wow. There's a lot more to the weather system in Fallout 4 than I ever thought!

[Renee]

Rosa is right, the rain/sky were yellow-green in that storm, not the usual blue or gray.

12.06.2287: Jenn arrives at Covenant, using a mix of fast-travel and jogging in real-time, and thank the stars Penny sells Radaway, pretty pricey at 178 caps, but let's try some. OKay, that removed about half her Rads

HP = 9/163, still not good. But at least Stimpaks provide more health. Up to 58/163 now. Goood 2 go. Whoa my, Doctor Patricia removed the rest of Jenn's Rads for just 40 caps, and only charges 35 to fully heal my lovely Jenny.

Hee hee Penny's got a midwest accent, I think. Kinda like Moira in Megaton but not as obvious.

This post has been edited by Renee: Jan 8 2026, 11:46 PM

[SubRosa]

Be sure you are looking in every container you come across, because you should have plenty of RadAways. First aid boxes are especially good.

You can also Craft RadAway at the chem stations.

And raising the Medic perk will increase how many rads RadAway removes, along with how much healing Stimpaks do.

[Renee]

She's scavenged Radaway in the past, problem is she'd consume it on the spot because didn't realize how Rads work in this game. I'm gonna grab that Aquagirl perk next level-up. Thanks everyone! Seriously thought Jenn would die this gaming session.

Anyway she's headed to Oberland Station next; more settlers to meet, a request for Jenn's service as a funky, kickasssssss Minutewoman!

[Kane]

Oh, I forgot there was a doc at Covenant, too! Just don't get wrapped up in their weirdness!