Mojave Meanderings and Wasteland Wanderings, The Fallout "Where are you now" thread Options

[mirocu]

This is weird. I was in the area of Rockopolis today and decided to go look for it as I haven't been there in ages. I did find it, but Argyle's body was nowhere to be found! I looked it up on the wiki and I know exactly where he's supposed to be and I do know I saw him when I first got here. No idea what has happened. I even did a bit of tcl but couldn't find him

[Renee]

Rockopolis, never heard of that. Is that part of Point Lookout?

Have you ever been to the other DLC locations like Anchorage and Pittsburgh? None of mine ever have. Cho should probably do PL or The Pitt this summer. I read about some 'inbred-looking swamp folk' in PL who brew moonshine and such, and that's got me curious.

December 21, 2126 ... 12:28 PM -- Stu Pitt discovers Shady Sands. He's walking around talking to people and so on. This game cracks me up. Since the guy's ST is pretty high he's really good at combat so far. But his INT is only 2. So everyone he speaks to is like "I can't understand what you're saying!" Stu Pitt isn't very articulate.

I really like the fact that we have to holster our weapons while trying to speak to civilized folks. They don't like it if Stuey's got a weapon in his hands while speaking.

Later.. Stu already got killed by a pack of mole rats. Goodbye Stuey. It's pretty tough navigating this game with a dumb oaf. Nobody could understand what Stu was saying, which really limits progress, I think. I might roll a thief next.

This post has been edited by Renee: May 26 2023, 08:42 PM

[SubRosa]

Rockopolis is part of vanilla Fallout 3. It is way in the south west of the map, up in the hills. It is really hard to find. It's just a little cave with a few things in it. But it is referenced in the Herbert Dashwood radio dramas. In the past there was a ghoul settlement there. Now most of it has been blocked off by a cave-in, and the body of Dashwood's faithful ghoul manservant can be found there.

[mirocu]

Have you ever been to the other DLC locations like Anchorage and Pittsburgh?

No, and I'm surprised to learn you haven't been to Lookout! There's a woman there I have nicknamed Renee as I can sort of see you in her. Brewing moonshine and talking in an accent

Rockopolis is part of vanilla Fallout 3... Now most of it has been blocked off by a cave-in, and the body of Dashwood's faithful ghoul manservant can be found there.

At least should be found

Any idea how his body could have disappeared?



Edit: Reloaded a way earlier save and yes; Argyle is gone. Found the save where I first visited Rockopolis and he's there along with the bobblehead etc. No idea how/why/when his body disappeared.

This post has been edited by mirocu: May 28 2023, 04:38 PM

[mirocu]

Playing is ongoing. Last session I got a pretty good cap increase and today was spent runnin' and gunnin' as per usual. Kept to the mid-western part of the map.

[mirocu]

Spur of the moment session yesterday. Kept around the middle part of the map, killing Deathclaws and even following an Outcast patrol around for awhile. After that I sold all I could in Rivet City and right now it's a new day outside Megaton and Gunny is ready to head out again.

[mirocu]

As the month of September is slowly coming to a close, me and Gunny are visiting Rivet City for more than just selling. Which btw is impossible now as we just emptied all vendors from caps quite recently

We will soon depart for the Dutchess Gambit and I will once more embark on an excursion in Point Lookout as we enter October. This time with Vengeance as my main weapon.

[Renee]

mirocu, have you done all those quests in Rivet City over the years?

[mirocu]

Most of them except the main quest ones, obviously. Since I'm rocu

[mirocu]

I am now in Point Lookout. A little early but October is coming up so why wait

[Renee]

February 23, 2278: Janet is in Fort Bannister with her Talon Company cronies, where she just picked up a Renee-added mission to "break in" a new TC recruit, taking him up to Sat Comm Nav Tower. This is not an easy feat, by the way. The idea is to bring the guy up there without him getting killed, first. And we all know how "eager" NPC followers in this game can be...

[mirocu]

Yes, but we all know how to tackle that; have him stay in a safe place and scout ahead. Unless of course you have scripted enemies to spawn when he specifically enters a cell. But I wouldn't think so?

[Renee]

Yes, but we all know how to tackle that; have him stay in a safe place and scout ahead. Unless of course you have scripted enemies to spawn when he specifically enters a cell. But I wouldn't think so?

Wow, you know my techniques well! -- No, no scripted enemies; the idea is merely to walk the guy from Bannister to Sat Comm, all the enemies along the way are the typical randoms: raiders, mutants, mirelurks, etc.

Yes, usually a lot of mine will tend to tell their follower(s) to wait while we scout ahead. Janet does this sometimes, but it's harder to accomplish when we're in the open world. There is an option for Failure as well as Success during this revolving quest.

[mirocu]

I have now made my way to the coastal grotto and Plik and I'm about to embark on yet another safari. Plenty of mines as usual as they are very helpful, and also Vengeance and a shotgun will assist me this year. I also expect the other two guys to help out as they are still there.

[mirocu]

Safari is done and was as always fun. Didn't have so many mines this time but plenty enough; even got to take some with me as I left.

Next stop was the detention camp and to my surprise there was no robot there, not even a destroyed one. There are always about three of them but this time only some ghouls. I also didn't find any activity around the Ritual site earlier and usually that place is packed. I have found however that if I return a bit later, there they are. I want to find them as one of them always has a slew of grenades

[Renee]

Safari? Detention Camp? Mirocu must be somewhere I've never been before. I'm guessing one of the DLC.

Anyway, it's February 25, 2278: Janet was able to escort (no, not THAT kind of escort) the Talon Company recruit guy to SatComm Nav Tower. He got killed 3x along the way due to stupidity, but I reloaded all 3 times just because this is mod-testing!

Along the way from the tower she traveled vaguely southeast, trying to head to the Megaton area. Since she's never gone this way before she discovered 1). Silver Lining Drive-in (nothing there but a bunch of old rusted-out cars and a dirty screen), 2). A radio tower which I assume is mod-added, and 3). finally Paradise Falls.

This next part got really hairy because Janet HATES slavers. She choose all the dialog options which would guarantee getting into a fight with Grouse, but the thing is, she'd already placed a couple frag mines nearby. So Grouse didn't last long.

The rest of the battle (and that's exactly what it was, a one-woman battle against a bunch of losers) took the rest of the day and the entire night. She ate a Stealth Boy just before going into Paradise Falls Shopping Area, and then frantically began looking for the Slaver Pen. She attacked one of the slavers, but there were way too many slavers to fight at once.

So the brilliant plan: her invisibility chem was still in action, so she snuck across the plaza and into Eulogy Jones's Pad. Killed Clover, killed Eulogy himself, and killed Crimson. By now the Boy had worn off. But now that she had the place to herself, she snuck outside on the upper level, and stuck the guy stationed there with her mod-added daggar. This poisoned the guy. Before he could react she ducked into Eulogy's upper level again and waited for the guy to keel over.

From there, it was mostly a matter of waiting until her [DANGER] warning changed to [HIDDEN]. Once that happened, she'd sneak back onto the upper-level platform and pick off as many slavers as she could with her lazer rifle!

It was more complicated than that, but that's enough typing. Last I saw, she had pwned ALL of the slavers (outdoors, anyway) and is probably ready to free the slaves!

[mirocu]

Safari? Detention Camp? Mirocu must be somewhere I've never been before. I'm guessing one of the DLC.

As is my longstanding tradition in Fallout 3 when October rolls around I am now in Point Lookout so yes; DLC

[Renee]

That's cool. Wow, not a word bout my one-woman siege of Paradise Falls. What's the point of even writing stuff up. *sigh*

[mirocu]

Don't feel bad. Many of my posts go unanswered too

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Currently on the docks in the Capital Wasteland with Gunny, prepared to run back home to Megaton and conclude this season. I was hoping to reach another 100.000 caps but fell short about 4000, mostly due to not enough sessions but also not enough vendors with enough caps.

When loading up the save at the detention camp today there they were again; two bots and more ghouls. Same thing at the Ritual site. No one last time but now plenty of them. One peculiar thing about the one with plenty of nades who's always there; when I went back and forth to his body he kept getting new ones. I took all of them but upon returning he had some more. Again and again! I guess that's why he often ends up with like 40 grenades when I usually get to him. Anyway; next session will be the last for this year; keep the bubbly waiting!

[Renee]

April 13, 2279 Cho Zen Wan is hanging out in Tenpenny Tower, after accomplishing a mod-added task in RobCo Facility. He's been hanging out in Shakes's bar, Lydia's Boutique, and all the other general areas for hours now, in real-time. Gotta say, there's a lot of dialog I haven't heard, all sorts of conversations amongst the people who live here, and a lot of it's hilarious!

Edit: Cho's game has 364 hours, 8 minutes, and 35 seconds. Been playing since August of 2013. Compare that to an Oblivion game. Back in the day I put two OB games into A-bomb territory (which on PS3 is about 350 hours) within a few months' time each.

This post has been edited by Renee: Oct 10 2023, 11:38 PM