Chapter 3: The Khans.

Apparently that was not a Junktown. (I really thought that this was a Junktown)

But I entered the base anyway just to see what is inside.

 I was thinking to speak with their boss, but finally I decided to leave the area and return to shady sands to sell some of the goods i looted. Who knows what comes to mind to this hot blooded bastard.

So we came to Shady sands... only to hear that Tandi, Aradesh's daughter is missing. And is most probably kidnapped by those khans. I remember that girl. She is cute. Needs to be saved. The only problem is that i couldn't force myself to get some money in advance. =(((

But instead of rushing I decided to sell some stuff to Razlo. After I told him that I am looking for Tandi he handed me 2 stimpacks. Nice man. But when I asked again, he gave me nothing.

So, I traded Pistol, Mutfruit and Scorpion tail for 2 stimpacks and with my dear Jan headed back to Khans. Btw, Seth also gave me some supplies, but I put them in the backpack even without noticing what exactly he gave me.

So I am back to Khans.
Looks like it is possible to sneak from the backdoor, release Tandi and get away.

No. Not possible...

So the only way was to threaten the Khan leader, to fight for Tandi and to buy her. I decided to buy. Not so brave, but safe at least. Maybe some time I will come back to those Khans and free 2 women slaves and one guy in the cell.

When we came, Tandii happily ran to her father.

Aradesh was really grateful. But Tandi... Well... She prefers guys,..

When I came to Razlo, he refused to speak again. (even after what I did to this village) But I found a guy in the back room. He was seek so I gave him some Antidote.

Time to go to Junktown.

Chapter 2: Failed hopes

The first part took to much time. so I decided to optimize recording.
 While i started this part I encountered one problem. Fallout is not saving the picture during the action, only when it is your turn and nothing is moving. So I missed Jan killing the Rad scorpion sequence. Not good.
So I stopped playing and started investigation.
Result:
I will use FRAPS to record all my play-through,
I am still thinking if it worth posting it as a blog or just record everything. I have to think.

Anyway, I will try to make this part only from fraps images, Will see how it goes.

This is what I recorded before starting chapter 2 from the beginning:
After reading both scout handbooks, we left the Shady sands.

Me and Jan Headed to the Vault 15.

On the half way to the Vault we stumbled across some items laying on the ground.
Lucky day. 10 mm pistol, 48 10mm JHP and 2 fruits. Feeling lucky, Hope in vault 15 it will be the same.


Coming to the place overseer marked on my map, we found only a rusty shack and one radscorpion. Is it really the entrance to the great vault 15?

Jan showed himself as a good combatant.
And here i relized that image was captured after the move was finished.

Chapter 2: Failed hopes.

After reading both scout handbooks, we left Shady sands.

We arrived to thee location that overseer marked on my map without any inconveniences. and fairly fast.
But coming there we found only a rusty shack and a scorpion hiding inside. He managed to sting me when I carelessly entered the shack.

But as soon as I got out of his way, Jan sorted everything out. At least one more scorpion tail.

// Here my first crash appeared, I alt-tabbed while recording fraps video and Fallout crashed.
//Have to restart before killing this scorpion. But I will not describe that again.

Apparently vault 15 did not make it. (the image is actually AFTER I cleared the vault, just forgot to save it while entering)

We had to kill a lot of rats to go inside only to meet another vile creature: Molerat. I was really glad that Jan is with me.

The rope I found in Shady sands became handy.

 So we climbed down and down.

During the fight in the darkness, i realized that it became much easier to pay attention to the small details.

hope this will be handy in the future.

And then.... dead-end. I will have to look for the chip in some other places.

Anyway, after killing most of the rats we searched remaining lockers and found some useful stuff.
some .223 ammo, 10 mm AP ammo, flares, crowbar, dynamite. And, the most important - H&K MP9 10 mm SMG. Great close combat weapon. I also found 2 grenades, but I better sell them. My skill is so low so I will most probably end blowing myself up.

So we left vault 15 without any clues where could the chip be. The only places I know in this area are Junktown and Hub. Hub is far away so it would be better to go to junktown south of Shady sands. That is what I thought.

To be continued...

Chapter 1: First steps

So let's start. (I will try to speak from 1rst person, even though I am a man, but Vault dweller is a woman)
Hi. My name is Squaw. Nice to meet you.



Crap, Pure Ed.

So, it's time to go.
The door is closed and will not open again due to some breakdown. So I have to go and try to find that water chip.
After dealing with some nasty rats I finally see the exit to hte wasteland. So thrilling.

(sorry for some graphical issues. I observed it only when pasting this image to blog. I do not know why, but sometimes such glitch ocures)
I headed to the east, directlu to Vault 15 but after a little nap i found myself surrounded by the same rats i had to fight in the cave. Luckily they couldn't see me and I managed to sneak past them.

I also met the trader and his guards.

I managed to sell him a knife I found on Ed's corpse. I also wanted to sell some excess ammo for my gyn (mo much use of it with my skill anyway), but trader had no more caps available.

12th december (after 7 days of travel) I came across a settlement.
The guard was preety welcome. and said that this village is Shady sands.

so i decided to enter even though I wanted to finish my quest as fast as possible and return home.
It turned that this village has problems with radscorpions and raiders. I spoke with their leader Aradesh and promised to help them with radscorpions problem. He also said that there is a city calld Junktown south of here.
He sent me to Razlo for details, but he refused to speak to me about the rad scorpion problem. Maybe because it was almost the night. I wanted to look in the bookshelf, but his wife did not let me. bad luck today with Razlo.
Near the entrance I met the caravan guard Jan. He told me about Hub and Junktown but refused to help me for free.
.

I had no money, so I decided to try to exterminate redscorpions by myself and asked Seth to take me to the cave
They are really big monsters.


First hit - instant kill. (flares are really usefull. they increase chance to hit drastically and cost only 1 ap to throw)


Here I lost my flare under the corpse of a big Radscorpion. I also had to use one of my stimpacks.


After 2 more scorpions and one more hit i decided to lit the area here to shoot rushing scorpions,


My first Levelup.


Everything to Speech.


So results we the following. I spent all ammo I had (AP also), Used all 3 flares, But killed all radscorpions in the cave and looted 2 clips of 10 mm ammo, got 3 tails and some junk.


Time to return to Shady Sands and tell Aradesh that I finished his task.


After Aradesh thank me, I realized that in a hurry to help this village I fogot to check another district. So I headed there
and right at the entrance found a trader and some wanderring childs leaving the district.



The merchand had a scout book in possession, so I decided to sell all the .223 ammo i looted in the guard house, knife and half of stack of 10mm JHP ammo. Knowledge is expensive here, but maybe it will save my life.


In the same district I found one elder.


That was really funny when he gave me some very valuable stuff to help me to kill those radscorps I just managed. Looks like he had no clue about the recent news.
And,,, of course I took everything he gave me. Looking at those items I felt a little dumb. I had to have them BEFORE dealing with those scorpions. But anyway. I never expected to receive such a bonus from the guy the first time seeing me. Maybe he was desperade about those scorpions.


I also fond another scout book and a rope in the same building.
So now it is time to heal the wounds, and take a nap until the morning to speak with Razlo.
I tried to heal myself but with my very low 1rst aid skill barely succeeded. The morning came but I am still wounded.


Doc decided to halp me and make an antidote from 3 scorpion tails i brought from the cave. I received 3 antidotes from him but had to wait untill the evening. Razlo did some trading with me and U sold him one of the antidotes back, but because it was already late, he refused to heal me. sleepy bastard.
Having 87 bucks (not enough to pay for Jan;s service) I decided to ask him again, maybe he will change his mind and help me for share of loot.
And finally he accepred. So my speech training between shooting the scorpions was not a waste of my tallents.


After getting Jan's help I decided to follow my quest and go to the Vault 15. Hope I will find it there... And exit grid looks really scary, All this harsh world....


143 days left untill the water in my Vault is finished. But vault 15 is so close. Easy job.

To be continued...

Beginning

I am planning to insert here my Fallout ironman playthrough. I wish myself luck.
I play Fallout Fixt mod.
I also start with extremely low endurance female.
Super mutant invasions are ON for every city but with 2x timescale because to rush in Boneyard before 90 days is a little rushy. and invasion of necropolis even before water chip is taken seems a little to fast.
In the beginning of the game I also use Fallout save game editor and add Friendly foe perk (because I do not think it is a cheat and it should be here anyway) and I also add Empathy perk (because I am not a native English speaker and I hate when some responses lead to necessity to kill everybody in the city).
I will also try to roleplay and will try to follow the logical way of exploring wasteland, without shortcuts.
I was playing fallout recently a little, but died and decided to play much more careful. and to record everything.
I can do some stupid mistakes because a haven't been playing this game for many years.