As long as Vault-Tac knows how to do it well. I would not enjoy hearing from the GMs that we all have to make new characters because no one survived.

In reply to Michiko McManamy (msg # 169):

Lol, this sounds more like Paranoia every day...

Hah, sounds like one of those really old school RPG's.

Roll to survive the character creation process!

Bro, come on now, this isn't Megatraveller.

GURPS Goblins had something similar...

See, what you could do then is Ghosts of the Imperium, where the surprise is that there's a robust Traveller universe afterlife. :)

My history might be a little fuzzy but didn’t the Nazis experiment with freezing Jews in world war 2? I believe they figured out how long a person could withstand freezing temperatures, but that’s different than Cryosleep.

I can’t imagine all the horrible research we got from operation paperclip

Anytime I hear about any of that I cringe. The horrible things that humans can do to each other.... she says before wading enthusiastically into the apocalypse aftermath.

It wasn't just the nazis and didn't end with them. I believe the US was still doing secret medical experiments on unsuspecting people at least close to 1980 if not a little beyond. And, of course, there could be unknown things that went on longer.

I believe you are correct, Michiko.  There was the syphillis experiment, that ran for decades (the last of the involuntary subjects victims died after 1970, as I recall) and ruined thousands of lives (that started in the 1930s,but effects ran much longer than that and down a couple generations), various tests in which "volunteers" (whose consent was surely not fully informed) were given drugs like LSD and methamphetamine.  And the nature of secret "research" being what it is, it's entirely possible there is still stuff going on that won't be out in the open until the younger players here are in their dotage.

Yup. The syphilis experiment actually continued to 1972, at which point 74 were still alive. Considering there were children born infected, it's likely some people who were infected in the experiment are still alive.

Okay. A *lot* less Mengele talk: In my last entry, I have an NPC I would like everyone to remember makes a really dramatic entrance (and subsequent exit), if you don't mind.
This message was last edited by the player at 01:51, Wed 06 July 2022.

Noted!

I just got home, about to eat dinner and put the toddler to bed after then I will get to work on a post. It will be closer to midnight, so appreciate everyone’s patience. It’s time we finally get to Vault 111!

Added a new player, everyone welcome Gil Robinson.

Still working out when and how to introduce them. For now I have turned off the players wanted tag. We will not be recruiting more players unless we experience a significant reduction in players, or I decide to recruit more co-GMs in the future to run specific groups of players through storylines.

Also, once everyone has left the Pre-War Sanctuary Hills thread, I will make one final “End of Introduction” post, and then players will be allowed to continue to post and role play “Pre-War” memories of their lives in the thread. Totally optional, but will be allowed if you so wish.

Welcome Gil!

Hey Gil! Welcome to the Apocalypse!

Hi, Gil!

Welcome Gil.

Just an FYI, sounds like Walt is more of less out of the picture until we wake up, so if anybody is waiting for him, don't feel the need.

Welcome, Gil, to the first day of the last day of the good life.  You're about to take a nap, and when you wake up, you'll wish you were back in grade school getting bullied out of your lunch money...  :)

Information on the Sino-American war for those interested-

Link: https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Sino-American_War

Trench warfare was fairly common, especially in the Alaskan theatre before the introduction of Power Armor. While none of you know who fired the first nuke, the war and information about it would be common knowledge to all of you. And many wastelanders are going to get things wrong. When I feel it appropriate, I will let you guys know OOC what your characters would know about pre-war stuff.


Somebody mentioned getting a thread with relevant links like this up, I do plan to do that one day there’s just so much other more important stuff that needs my attention right now, but one day!
This message was last edited by the GM at 21:13, Thu 14 July 2022.

Hmm.  Did we scare Gil away?

If you go into the GM's menu there should be a 'Edit the external game links' button. That will create a tab at the top like the Game Map or Dice Roller with all the links.

You can also make a wiki for the game.

Gil might well be joining us as we emerge.

I believe Gil has dropped out, I sent them a PM a few days ago and they told me it was looking like they may have to back out. I haven’t removed them yet, giving them a couple weeks to decide.

Thank you Armand, I didn’t know that. And I still need to figure out the Wiki stuff, I’m still fairly new to all this!

I can help with some wiki advice if you want to do that.