The final stats

For those who are interested in Maximus final stats.

Here you go.

I really do hope that you have enjoyed this blog. The game is a little buggy and does NOT posess the same depth as the previous fallout games (flawed and frustrating as they were) and reminds an awful lot about oblivion.

If you loved oblivion and you want to roleplay in a post-apocalyptic future: Get fallout 3.

If you hated everything about oblivion ... try it out regardless.
The minigun is -alot- of fun!

Be warned that the game gets repetitive and somewhat boring though.

RIP MAXIMUS

IT'S OVER???

OH GOD! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN???

I'll try to explain it for you. Maximus idea consisted of:

1. Go to Bryan and get some sleep.
2. Once revived go back to the super-duper mart and cause a ruckus.
3. When the raiders come to see what the ruckus is, blast them all to hell with the fatman!

The problem with this idea was that the raiders hadn't gone back to their positions, they had all ganged up at the entrance and waited to ambush Maximus. The moment he sticked his head inside the door they opened fire with their (totally overpowered and unfair) sub-machine guns and completely destroyed our hero!



Here's another picture to further emphasize the pain being felt.
Note how Maximus pulled out his flamethrower in a last attempt to save himself, only to be tangled up in it - elongating his neck and crushing his right arm something fierce. There also appears to be a sword lodged in his rectum.

I believe this to be the most painful image ever created!

Rest in peace Maximus.
There is no love for your kind in this wasteland ...

EPILOGUE



Bryan Wilks never found a home and eventually succumbed to the wasteland.



Moira Brown never wrote the survival guide but it's ok because she was completely bored with that idea already.



Agatha never got her violin and since Maximus had taken everything she had to defend herself with she soon died at the hands of some unmentionable fiend.



Lucas Simms is still dead.



Nobody knows what happened to these two, nobody knows if they even existed.



Amata is the new overseer of vault 101.



Bittercup was never captured by the super mutants which made her very sad. She put on her black dress, lit a ring of candles and under the full moon slit her wrists. She slit them the wrong way though and severed her tendons. How she managed to do it on both hands is a mystery but as everyone who's been to Big Town lately can tell you: Bittercup is more bitter than ever.



Maximus died because he decided not to be a cowardly wimp anymore. He would help those who needed help and punish those who did bad. It is not clear when or why this decision really came about but Maximus had been near death so many times that he didn't fear it anymore. Feeling invincible he would make this wasteland a better place, earn the admiration of the ladies and truly, finally find love in this harsh world and not just the temporary comfort of a prostitute.

Maximus never found love in the wasteland.

THE END

The demise of lugnut (and stuff)

I've really been dragging my feet lately. Now that the wretched queen is dead I suppose it's time to head up again.. not paying attention I was ambushed by fire ant warriors who came down upon me with fiery vengeance!

This is bad. Real bad. I had to take buffout again not to drop dead, which isn't the best idea in the world since I'm already feeling SERIOUSLY desperate for Med-X. I think I'm addicted. DAMN!

Still ... I've found the key to the safe so I open it.



So this is the fabled treasure. The package ... it's my size but definitely not my style. (Doesn't come with matching boots and the ground is like 40% broken glass) so if I ever encounter whoever wanted this I'll ... sure. I'll deliver it, what do I care. and a man runs into the room and demands it off me.



Yeah. Well. No.



I could have solved this peacefully but I am not in a peaceful mood at all. My last ounce of blood is mixed up with various drugs and the results aren't pretty! Who would risk (and lose) their life over this ...
Strange affairs indeed ... I'm lucky because I found some supplies in here that I missed earlier, feels good man. I inject everything and head to the surface.

... and of course I am ambushed again. Mercenaries this time! I pop some med-x and some buffout to take 'em on.
There are two of them.
One throws a grenade that completely misses me and pulls a knife. I pull the ripper and show all his limbs how it's done.

The second pulls a lazer pistol and shoots me with his eyes.



No wait. I mean I shot him in the eyes!



It's largely ineffective though so I try out bullets instead.



Much better. Now to find that kid ... wait...

*Skip this if you don't want to hear me whining*

Thanks, fallout 3 you apparently don't think the decapitated ant queen is quite dead yet since the mission is still active. Fuck you. I have to go back down there? Fuck you, fallout 3. Fuck you! (take a swig, I'll take one as well!)

I activate the machine and suddenly the telephatic connection between the queens dead, severed head and her already deceased workers is cut. *Start reading here or I'll hit you* I return to Bryan and he's happy but doesn't really give me anything.
I .. say that I can stop by and tell him if I find a nice home for him .. some time.. maybe.. he tells me he has a cousin in Rivet city. Funny. I was planning on going there sometime.

Anyway I go sleep in his dead fathers bed until lunch. I eat a little and head over to the super duper mart.



Oh ... right.. Raiders.. well. I'll just have to be extra quiet then.



Through the scope of my illogical but efficient magnum I can tell they've got patrol guards. With big guns... it's an open space too I won't be able to sneak my way in here. I open fire.



Sadly I miss. They storm me and hit me more than once so I run outside and prepare a surprise for them.



I would have laid out mines but I used them all up on the ants so ... I got none. The raiders aren't stupid either and don't come out so.. damn. I guess the surprise will have to come to them!



Bad idea bad idea bad idea bad idea!!!

jesus CHRIST those raiders pack a punch! I run back to the kid to get some more rest. I'm not entering that place again until I got some ammunition for my laser rifle, I've fixed my sniper rifle or I've gotten some for my .. oh wait. I got a BETTER idea!

What a fiery pain

It's time to head back into the ant den and finish what I came here to do ... after I've cleared out the ant den that is. After this I can get back to shopping.

The whole plan was to become a pacifist and not have to fight things all the time.

Yet I throw myself head first into all these crazy adventures, maybe I should have just told that little punk Bryan to fuck off?

I don't even understand what's so dangerous about these ants.
Fire breathing sure but they're hardly a match for most other things in the wasteland. Even seasoned raiders could take them out.



On the bright side I need money to start life anew in one of the vaults. I'm sure there are lots of them out here in the wasteland ... and money? I'm sure that's what inside here. The note I found described this door, inside is the "package" and I'm sure whatever it is will make me RICH!

It's almost an insult to my intelligence. Two ways to open the door, a keyhole AND a computer - and I'm smart enough to figure both out!

It worries me that a room with a "secret package" being stored inside should have such poor, almost inviting security. It might be boobytrapped so it's a good thing I'm a demolitions expert!



aaand there's a locked safe. Curses I've been foiled! so I guess I need the key after all. I'll just move along until I find it, thankfully I found this cool chainsaw-knife called "the ripper" in there. It's worth something I bet.



Found Bryans neighbour. Took his stuff. That's ... if I remember correctly there were 7 people in the little settlement. 2 are confirmed dead and 1 is hiding on the surface. I wonder what else I'll find down here...



DOCTOR LESKO!!! You bastard! He tells me in an annoyingly nasal voice that I'm stomping around in a "highly delicate experimental area" .. he's the one. He created the ants! I threaten to paint the wall with his fucking brains!

He ...
...doesn't respond to threats and seems like a general idiot. He actually wants my HELP to destroy the ants (yeah that's easy. kill the queen) but he says that killing her will terminate months of data.
Instead he wants to activate some kind of equipment in the hatching chamber to destroy the "mindlink" between the queen and the ants ... so they all frenzy and kill eachother.

So that's why they go crazy when you blast their antennas. They lose contact with the queen! The scientist in me begs me and screams for the data and the research. Think of what this can teach us! About ants! It's incredibly unimportant data and likely a huge waste of time but just THINK man! Ants!

Well the human in me demands supplies. Ants are no good to me dead and I've wasted incredible amounts supplies for the sake of that damn kid already. I ask Lesko for some payment and ...

... he says that he hates my selfish individualistic person and that the ant race is superior. So no supplies ... HAVE AT THEE!




Wow the ripper worked like a charm! I looked like a complete retard trying it out but it sure was effective. Justice = Served.

All he could have given me was an injection of some kind of biochemical ant stuff.
Cool. I could become a super hero and fight evil!

So yeah. Now that the doctor is dead I'll proceed to...
1. KILL THE ANT QUEEN.
2. Locate and steal the super-ant formula.
3. Locate and steal the robot.

I start by hacking his terminal and unlocking the door to the queen. Check my ammo.. and get going. Pop some med-x, a drug I've grown curiously fond of ... fight a few ants and what do you know.



A research terminal, a huge ant and my robot. JACKPOT!
I got all I ever wanted! Just gotta take the queen out with my rocket launcher ...



BAM! I blew her antennas clean off! Sadly I blocked the screenshot with the rocketlauncher (take a swig!) but she's frenzied now! ... I guess she lost her ... psychic connection ... to herself.
That makes sense.

She starts to fight the robot which is very inefficient since she spits poison at it or something. I fire missile after missile at her...



Man she's tough skinned. out of ammo. time to try something else!



RIP AND TEAR! She didn't have much to protect herself in melee combat and an active ripper lodged in her throat would have brought the toughest of brutes to their knees.
She is slain!

I'm a bit bashed up. Probably because I stopped moving around for a while and she got some shots in, also I stood in radioactive water. I won anyway and that's the important part! The ants are doomed.
To further humiliate the beast I cut her head off with the ripper. I accidently splatter it all over the cave...
Whatever works man... whatever works.

UP NEXT is stealing the mutagen... but.. on second thought that scientist seemed retarded. Proclaiming things like "oh that rhymed" when faced with a death threat... and when he tried to reduce the size of ants he made them fire breathing and aggressive.
Yeah. Fire-breath and size genes are in the same chromosome, everyone could make that mistake right? We all know babies spew fire right? I destroy the sample because there's no telling what it would do to me.

... so now I only have to tame the robot. He is voice-controlled and I'm no robotics expert so my robot is ... not mine. Shit.
Shit shit shit!


Conclusion:
The ants have been eliminated. All the drones, the warriors, the workers, guardians AND the queen herself.

I'd say the problem is solved.

The town is no more. 7 inhabitants, 1 survivor, 3 confirmed deaths(including the doctor) and 4 missing people. The kid said the ants killed everyone and there are enough bones for me to believe him.

What a fucking tragedy. I wonder if things like this happened on the way to the supermarket before the bombs dropped too?

Sidequest

I have NO idea what I'm looking for.



I mean. I entered the metro station where the ants have been coming from and I feel like I've already been here a couple of dozen times. I was kind of expecting to see rock storages or .. hatcheries or ... something. This just seems like a pretty regular metro station to me. Just.. a metro station filled with ... giant ants.



Cant' see shit down here! I found some notes in the darkness and apparently .. hold on!



These ants just keep coming! I'm running low on mines. Running low on ammo for my laser rifle too, the more I explore the more I wish they'd just write a guidebook.. by the way what I found was ..
hold on!



There. Out of ants and ammo for the time being. I found a note, there's supposed to be a "package" hidden away down here.
Very interesting! I also found a door .. I'll just poke my head through it and find that it lead outside.

I suddenly find myself dangerously close to a battlefield. I grab my sniper rifle and dodge behind cover, it appears to be some men .. the brotherhood of steel are fighting super mutants! A mutant attacks a brother with a super sledge, I drop him with my rifle and it falls apart in my hands.

Guess I should have repaired it but I have lots of ammo for my laser pistol! I let those mutants have it!
Them ants have to wait for a few seconds!



The super mutants go down and I turn to the brotherhood. Surely this display of bravery has earned me their never ending friendship and a personal robot servant?



Paladin Hoss tells me they were performing a training exercise when the super mutants cut them off. An initiate is barricaded in a building and there's NO time to lose! We quickly dispatch another squad of mutants. or. well. -I- dispatched them while Paladin Hoss was busy getting ... dispatched.



The battle was cool though.







I put the looting on hold since that cool power armor is their uniform and I don't want to upset anyone. I take note of the fact that his head has been shattered but I am still able to recover his helmet. Way to go, Bethesda! (take a swig)
While on the subject I took Mr.Burkes cool hat and glasses but his head still had them on afterwards, what's up with that?
(take another!)

Anyway there is no time for that now. There is a man in trouble! I hurry to the entrance to the building. Thank goodness it wasn't the exit or I wouldn't known what to do!



See? Entrance.

Also I know. Look. The fire ants aren't going anywhere, the kid is locked in a personal shelter and the super duper mart isn't leaving either. I have time for a sidequest to my sidequest!

... the battle against the super mutants was uneventful at best.
The initiate was dead, the mutants were basically just standing around and congratulating eachother on an initiate well done. I nailed them with my rocket launcher and gathered supplies.
Ammo and healthkits and such.

... so... the guy whom I was supposed to save is dead... and the guy who asked me to save him is also dead.
No chance of a reward here I guess?



The surviving paladin won't reveal his name and just tells me to move along and claims that he "has this area under a lockdown" which seems kind of ... well it's just him and he's limping. Fine. You jerk I'll loot your buddy, gear up and go back to the ants.

What a disappointment this has been and .. wait a minute.
What kind of pain is this?

1st of all I can't put on the power armor because I need training in it.
2nd of all it's too heavy to carry so I can't sell the valuable thing.
3rd of all I found his severed head, it was a mistake to believe it shattered when it was like, right there man. I remove the helmet from it and suddenly ...



Way to go, Bethesda!