#fallout adventures

[jenchwuq]

Also now that I’m done being starstruck, my own race went pretty well! To clarify just in case it wasn’t obvious, this was a huge race with multiple start waves so like. I was not on the course at the same time as Olympians lmao. Just got to be right there at the awards ceremony.

My marathon is next week so the timing wasn’t super convenient, but it’s a lottery entry so when I got in I was like, I have to do this! I basically ended up using this as my final pre-race long run and a dress rehearsal for marathon day. I got to practice my fueling and pacing strategies, and I’m feeling confident about both heading into race week. Also while this was not my fastest consecutive 10 miles, it was my fastest 10 mile chip time so. I don’t really know if it counts, but not bad for a race I wasn’t actively going all out for.

And this is SO petty, but I witnessed an instance of instant karma mid race where a guy threw his empty gel packet on the ground—and immediately dropped his phone 👀

And sorta unrelated, but being in DC made me miss Fallout 3, so I booted it up when I got home only to realize I was in the middle of Mothership Zeta 😑 I ended up finishing it, but I was so tired afterward I didn’t feel like playing anymore so. Not the post-apocalyptic DC experience I was hoping for. Especially since I annoyed my family all weekend by yelling ‘this was in fallout’ every time we passed a landmark. I can’t remember why I paused this playthrough in the first place, probably because the aliens were so annoying tbh. But I kinda wanna pick it up again, even though I’m still in the middle of Dragon Age. Idk, we’ll see I guess!

[commonwealthsurviv0r]

Commonwealth Survivors.

[loxxxlay]

my first day and i already killed my girlfriend’s father, went to a nearby city, and got their mayor/sheriff killed because i tattled on some creep, and at night i went to his house thinking maybe i could sleep in the mayor’s bed because he’s dead, u know... but instead his son caught me red-handed and told me he’s not sure who’s gonna take care of him now that his dad’s gone,,,,

and the worst part is i still don’t know where i can sleep

[jupiterlightning]

"If y’all could just not shoot me a second, I gotta drink fifty bottles of sarsaparilla so I don’ die. I wondered what was weighin’ me down. “

[skyrim-fallout-games]

Around the Common Wealth

[mypatronusismrpricklepants]

Found Bottle & Cappy….

Now they won’t stop visiting, or waving, or making my dwellers happy. Bastards.

[bethesdatales-blog]

Sometimes hell isn’t hot. 

The cold gnawing to his bones, a ginger fresh out of cryostasis was beginning to see the full circle of what hell could be. Sometimes hell is burning in the desert while you wonder if the radiation or the roaches would eat your body away first. 

Other times, it’s perpetual winter weather on an otherwise perfectly fine day. 

Sometimes still it’s waking up in cold sweat in the middle of the night, next to his new lover, mind raking through old memories mixed with new to keep him wondering where he went wrong, how much he loathes his new life and loathes his old one more, how maybe he’s being selfish but he still doesn’t understand why this had to happen to him of all people. 

One day he’d describe the feeling to an old detective over a beer, eyes flickering between the bottle and the bar as he wonders how a machine could possibly sympathize with his plight.

Sometimes hell is hot, but when one wants nothing more than a sunny day; hell becomes the chill of nuclear winter. 

[jenchwuq]

When Ophelia turns on the purifier at the end, she's not. actively, intentionally trying to die, but she's absolutely fine with it. For her, Trouble on the Homefront happens between Waters of Life and Picking Up the Trail, so. She loses her dad, and then immediately gets rejected by everyone she knew her whole life, including her best friend. And the saddest part of the latter is that she gets it, she understands and from an objective standpoint, she actually agrees. So then she tells herself all she has left is project purity, her purpose is to complete her parents' work. Which isn't necessarily true! But she's a grieving teenager, so it seems fitting when someone's gotta go in, like it's meant to be. And then she survives, so it's more like no girl, you've got a whole life to live, get to it.

i.e. we're doing the dlcs now, and she's basically having this whole identity crisis