#like places with raiders

[vault81]

ok here's what I've gotten so far in terms of the faction map, I'll make a proper post when I've actually got the rest of the stuff filled in. This is just an example ig?

[onewingedangels]

TOMB RAIDER I-III REMASTERED (2024) dev. Aspyr, Crystal Dynamics (PS1)

[doomstonee]

Brainrot

[survivalove]

no southern raiders meta is in good faith when you ignore how sokka was blatantly disrespected and discarded (and no i’m not talking about by katara - the only person this fandom seems to be able to “hold accountable”)

[shatinn]

Fallout 4 - build - Fizztop 'home plate' (wip tidy up)

mod in use : https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/33176

[dykedvonte]

The Khans - My Introspective

I don't like the Military and I don't support a lot of the actions the NCR does to the Mojave in New Vegas but in terms of the Khans I feel like the fandom infantilizes or diminishes the fact that they are or at least one of the most violent raider groups in the Mojave.

What happened at Bitter Springs was a tragedy, innocent lives were lost and the fact that the NCR swept it under the rug and continued to hunt down Khans that are truly trying to back down and resettle is horrendous, but there is a history to the NCR's aggression towards them.

The Khans first appear in Fallout 1, the main faction of raiders in the game besides the mentioned Vipers (who don't actually appear if I remember correctly). They came from Vault 15 along with the members that would form rival groups; The Vipers, The Jackals, and Shady Sands. They are a very large and foreboding raiding party, known for burning towns and encampments they attack and taking survivors as their slaves or slaves to sell. They are a big reason why the Jackals and Vipers are actually so small in New Vegas, they wiped them out.

Their main targets where Shady Sands and Junker town, the former of the two would be what became The New California Republic. This explains a big part of their animosity towards the Khans, only furthered by the fact the Khans kidnapped Tandi as a young girl, the girl that would go to offically found the NCR out of Shady Sands. When the dweller saved her and killed much of the Khans, this allowed the NCR to develop into what it currently is as they no longer needed to focus on fighting off constant raids.

When the Khans became the New Khans in Fallout 2, they barely resembled the Khans as they were led by Darion, Garl Death-Hand's son (former leader of the Khans). They were smaller and refortified vault 15, still planning to take down the NCR (at this time nowhere near as imperialist as they are in FNV) as mostly a revenge/power ploy. They manipulate The Squat, a group of y'know squatters, that lived in the upper levels, promising and lying about repairing the vault and offering them ransacked caravan resources if they kept the NCR away. Being their only life line The Squat had no choice. Still the chosen one got rid of them and they left New California for the untapped Mojave.

The Great Khans, the most current iteration, continued in the path as the original Khans, regrouping and gaining information from the Followers who hoped they'd use their new medical knowledge to heal themselves. They gained more members and a substantial part of Vegas territory before they were run out by the three families. They were pushed to Bitter Springs where they first and foremost continued to pick off and attack NCR settlements, most of which consisted of caravans, towns, and camps as they saw them as easy like in their old days. It was the killing of four influential Republic members (non-military) that brought on Bitter Springs.

Bitter Springs was the result of years of hatred and animosity and likely the goal to send a final message to the Khans. It does not excuse the fact that innocent men, women, and children were slaughtered with few survivors. It does not excuse the fact that the NCR has yet to make amends for this and continues to try and persecute the Khans even in moments of surrender.

This post is not to defend what happened but to give a quick rundown of the Khan's history and their history with the NCR. It's to remind people that the NCR is not just their military power but an actual group/settlement of people that were also attacked indiscriminately by the Khans. It's to point out that the Khans were not a band of indigenous people (no matter the comparisons) driven from their homes but raiders who fed into the brutal cultures of the west coast wasteland and were in turn treated to the same things.

My frustration comes from the fact that FNV has so many comparisons to indigenous struggles but the groups it chooses are not comparable at all. Their oppression hinges on not being familiar with their past, which explains why they have the reputation they do in canon. The "tribes" are often not even groups of minorities or have goals/desires out of acquisitions of power and I feel like it is important to both acknowledge that this is bad indigenous rep because it is not supposed to be. It is supposed to be a comparison of the in-game groups and how they all do the same things and justify it in their own fucked up ways, some better at it than others.

FNV of all the Fallout games (in light of it being heavily Western based) distastefully uses indigenous imagery and theming for groups that are sad mimicries of American indigenous cultures at best and outright offensive at worst.

[voiidorwhatever]

Fo4 companion dialogue is. silly, to say the least. We've all gotten slightly annoyed at companions for making fun of us for picking up junk when one of the main things to do in this game requires Picking Up Junk (settlements aren't gonna build themselves baybee) and I just saw a post about how weird it is that everyone makes a comment about how much Goodneighbour sucks when they've mostly live(d) in worse conditions. That reminded me - Bethesda. Please. If you set up narratively that a location Sucks, then make that location suck. Every NPC and their mom tells you about how Goodneighbour is this awful place and, sure, you nearly get stabbed on your way in, but. Considering no one in this fuckass game even knows how to build a bed, Goodneighbour should be, like, the pinnacle of living. Goodneighbour is a little rough around the edges, but. pretty much all places on the Commonwealth are. You're treated with caution every time you show up somewhere new, settlers that tell you how awful Goodneighbour is should be used to that. Daisy and Kent are super nice and even the Guards constantly make small talk with you and aren't really all that threatening?? They've got a fucking hotel that's Still In Business, so they have to have some kind of 'tourism' industry. You have an open cooking station there, technically anyone could just put down their bedroll somewhere and chill. I feel like Goodneighbour should've been made much more dangerous if it's truly supposed to be perceived that way.

The only reasons I could see for all this negative press is that perhaps people still remember Goodneighbour from before Hancock took over (it has been a while though) or that they just don't like ghouls. That's also silly though, because most people that make negative comments about Goodneighbour can be stuck in settlements with ghouls and even make positive remarks about The Slog.

Idk! Could've been more thought-through :')

[mire-lurking]

Woe, angst be upon yee

Think about this plot for more than a minute and it'll start to fall apart probably but just uhhh please don't think about it too much😞🙏

So Sosu has been frozen for over 210 years, they came from a world that wasn't as irradiated as the Commonwealth is currently, so, why not give them radiation poisoning?

They feel fine when they first step out but even still, they can just feel things are different, everything, even the air, feels contamimated. Over the many years, most of the radiation has disappeared, people of the Commonwealth have grown a tolerance to the low amount of radiation that still persists, but Sosu being completely new to this world has no such tolerance and even with a radiation suit slowing the process, the poisoning still seeps into them, slowly starting to kill them. At first it's barely noticeable but the closer they get to their goal, the weaker they seem to get.

First true problem presents itself, the Dimly-lit desert- I mean the Glowing Sea. Even with the power armor taking most of the radiation, by the time they get to the insitute, they're severely ill. The fatigue, the effects of the radiation, it's all obvious. Despite never knowing them it pains the Father to see them in such a way, perhaps it was cruel to let them out of their frozen prison.

Nonetheless the institute is smart, has people to deal with what radaway can't heal, and so with time Sosu is cured but it's made clear to them; any trips to Commonwealth are risky, simply put their body can't handle the radiation.

Obviously there are companions that want the Institute destroyed, but I wonder how they'd react to this? Going off of the assumption that they're close to Sosu, just how willing would they be to write their death sentence by demanding them to destroy the only thing that can help them stay alive? The thing that'd let the companion keep their close friend, maybe their lover, alive? How willing would they be to sacrifice the person whose been there for them this entire time, despite Sosu having their own struggles to deal with?

And with X6? Oh with X6 just think about it. Time passes and he's, dare he say, attached to the future leader. Slowly, without his notice, he's started to truly care. How would he take it, hearing other companions, or faction leaders, demand that Sosu does the "right thing" and destroy the Institute, destroy the only place where they can roam free without a hazmat suit, without having to worry about radiation?

He'd be kinda angry about it I think

[krohft]

every time i look at the classic tr tags the collective delusion takes eight years off my life span

[ava-dreel-thinks]

I want whatever vibrator Lara Croft is using

[ingo-in-places-he-shouldnt-be]

Ingo shouldn’t be wandering the grounds of Croft Manor.

[saline-coelacanth]

This wasn't a request, I just really wanted to draw Raider

[emmiewlw]

Always keeping an eye out for a girl w a tattered baseball cap STOP im crying what do you mean clem found aj without having to kill anyone and got back to Richmond in a week and lived out the rest of her days there remember

so true bestie and then all the ericsons kids showed up to hang out and javi taught everyone to play baseball and everyone was happy!!!!

[winged-wolf-s-collection-of-arts]

thinking more thoughts!!

Kiley time-

I uh- kind of poured all my chaotic energy into her, and separated her from the rest of the npc cast? Otherwise the dialogue would get totally fucked, and my ‘I need to hit this story with a drama nuke’ desire would cause trouble.

So she’s uhhh off on her adventure of a different genre. (But stuff she does Will affect things... dun dun dunnnn) but dude Wow she would be so irritated by Jun. Good thing we’re going to Sanctuary to leave them and take Preston.... OR THAT IS WHAT I WOULD SAY if she didn’t want to be anywhere near the vault!! We’re going somewhere else, babeyyyyy! Maybe talking with him and Murphy would bring some understanding (is what I would say if I were doing big character development in the beginning but we’re not!!) Shoving my desire for conflict into this.

[the-cpu-system]

I love playing borderlands and deciding all the relationships for my oc

[shatinn]

Fallout 4 (wakey time)

build: https://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/15504