Bible_Update_03_11_02.pdf

FALLOUT BIBLE UPDATE

MAR. 11 TH

TH 2002

INTRO: BLACK ISLE STUDIOS MESSAGE BOARDS

Welcome to the fifth Fallout Bible update - if you missed any of the others, check the Black Isle main page

and the "More News" section (and scroll down). The first three updates have been collected into "Update

Zero," and the fourth update stands on its own.

For those of you who haven't seen these before, the Fallout Bible is just a collection of all the background

material and hi-jinks from Fallout 1 and Fallout 2 compiled into one document so the fans can take a look

at it. Some of it's a little rough, so if you see anything wrong or if you think of anything you'd like to see,

drop me a line at Cavellone@blackisle.com and I'll see what I can do. I can't promise I'll answer your

emails immediately, but I will get around to it, usually when the weekend hits. Because I am lazy, small,

quick questions have a much faster turn around time.

In any event, these updates will now be appearing hopefully twice a month (on every other Monday) on the

Black Isle Studios website, but you can usually find it not long after at any of the Fallout fan sites across

the web.

Thanks for supporting Fallout,

Chris Avellone @ Black Isle

FAST FORWARD

1. First off, I wanted to thank everyone who submitted their information on why they like pen-and-paper

games. If you have anything else you'd like to add, send it on in to Cavellone@blackisle.com.

2. Also thanks for everybody who sent in tunes - if you have anything that strikes you as a good Fallout

fifties ambiance, send it my way at the email address above. I'm always looking for new music tunes.

3. Hey if any of you out there would be interested in a Fallout PNP RPG play-by-internet game, feel free to

contact John Schweizer at:

johnschweizer42@yahoo.com

Or go to his site, which has all the info here:

http://www.geocities.com/drell42

4. There are a lot of questions this time, and there's also a lot sitting in my archive. If you don't see your

question here, I haven't forgotten, I just haven't gotten around to it yet.

5. Also, I'm sure this will cause another flurry of flames, but there's a great deal of stuff that took place in

the Fallout universe that were just done 'off the cuff' - or for reasons that may not be apparent from a

gameplay standpoint, whether due to artistic, programming, or time constraint concerns.

There isn't always a reason for everything you see in the games, but there's the temptation to see all kinds

of deeper meaning and find the 'reasoning' behind these truly random actions and placements. If trying to

put two pieces of Fallout lore together makes your head hurt, take a step back, breathe, and realize that the

developers may simply have been highly caffeinated at 1AM in the morning before a major milestone. It

just happens, and we do our best to bring you a good RPG regardless.

6. I will be including Fallout Tactics material to the Bible, with two caveats: I'm probably not going to

write it since I don't know as much about FOT, and two, it'll be an appendix to the Fallout 1 or 2

information for any torch-wielding purists out there who can choose not to print or read that section. For as

many people who requested it not be present, there were an equal number of people who wanted to see it,

so here's the solution. Feel free to flame away.

7. There's probably going to be some questions I won't answer because it might ruin or pigeonhole potential

future titles - or I just don't want to answer them in case I want to leave it open-ended for reasons of my

own (this applies to the Africa extinction question, and the questions about Cassidy and Sulik, below).

When I get other questions like this, I'll let you know.

8. Here's another Fallout fan site to add to the list from last time - it's from Tank, and as of a week or two

ago it was still being updated:

www.geocities.com/fo_tank

9. BTW, this Bible doesn't have much chance of ever becoming a real hardcopy work just because I think

it's going to end up being many, many hundreds of pages long before it's finished.

10. Also, if this file ends up being too large for easy download, I'll cut down the number of screenshots so

it's easier to digest.

That's it. Onto the update:

QUESTIONS

Here's one from Aaron Johnson :

1. What does the Easter egg you find in New Reno do?

Nothing, it's just lame game developer humor - it was just there so we could say for sure there was an easter

egg in the game. I like the icon for it, though.

Here are two questions from yPArAH from the last Fallout chat at Vault 13:

2. <Red1> [yPArAH] Goris says he is relatively new to Vault 13 when the Chosen one

speaks to him (rolled in about two months ago). This, I suppose, means he is not from

Grutnar's pack. Is so, why is he intelligent, like otherEnclave-modified deathclaws?

According to John Deiley (designer of Goris; worked on design for Vault 13, 15, NCR, and helped with

numerous maps):

Goris was Gruthar’s son, and he was one of the intelligent deathclaws. He was also very

curious about the rest of the world. He did a lot of traveling to try and learn as much as

he could about humans and their culture. To do this he disguised himself by wearing a

rather large hooded robe. If questioned by anyone, he would claim that he was disfigured

and needed to wear the robe.

Anyway, when Goris meets the Chosen One, he says that he has only been at the vault for

a couple months. This is because he just returned from one of his scholarly trips. He

does not come right out and say this, but it is implied in the conversation through some

dialog nodes.

3. <Gadro> [yPArAH] BTW, how did Goris survive the Franky's raid on the vault?

John Deiley has an answer for you:

When you talk to Goris he says that he is a traveling scholar. He is trying to learn as

much as he can about the surviving cultures in the wasteland. Quite simply, he was on

one of his many trips when Franky arrived to kick deathclaw ass. Of course, he could

also have survived by becoming a member of the player’s party and actually making it to

the end game.

If memory serves me right, Goris is not the only intelligent deathclaw to survive. In the

Navarro base the player finds another deathclaw that is slated for execution by Dr.

Schreber. The player has the opportunity to free this deathclaw from captivity.

Unfortunately, I can’t remember this deathclaw’s name. [Xarn, I believe - ed.]

In any case, there is a chance that two intelligent deathclaws survived to continue on the

species. I realize that they are both males, but that is fine. When they were engineered

by the Enclave, the intelligence gene was made male specific and dominant. What this

means is: Any intelligent male that mated with a non-intelligent female would (most

likely) produce intelligent offspring.

Here's a two-in-one from Alex Sinov (one of these questions was also asked by [LasTofThE] at the last

chat):

4. Whi Does Goris Have A different Skin Color? and Goris' pets were dipped in FEV?

(I'm guessing you mean Melchior's pets, but if you mean Goris' pets, send me an email.)

According to John Deiley (designer of Vault 13 and Goris), Goris' skin color was most likely a result of

him mutating differently (FEV mutates even the same critters with variations), and according to Jason

Suinn (designer of the Military Base in Fallout 2) Melchior's pets were extra tough do to their exposure to

the raw FEV in the military base - Melchior dipped them in FEV as part of his "magic." In addition, it was

gauged by that time in the game that the players would be at a pretty high level, so they needed to be extra

tough in order to pose a challenge.

Melchior captured many of these creatures from raids on the surrounding wastes. They were not present

when he overthrew the Enclave forces stationed at the base.

Here are some questions and some points from Pawel Dembowski :

5. In F1 the Lieutenant said that the FEV raises intelligence. There are, however, very many

dumb mutants. What can you say about it? And what do you think of my theory, which i've

been using in my Fallout PnP campaign?

Sorry, Pawel, for two things: I wasn't able to personally respond to your email because I kept getting

bounced, and two, I wasn't able to comment on your FEV theory (as a reminder, I can't read fan-created

material, so just send questions, comments, or facts if you can).

As for the FEV enhancing intelligence, the original Pre-War FEV at West Tek did, and more consistently

than the Fallout-era virus.

The current Fallout-era FEV does enhance intelligence - in some people. Just not many. The Lieutenant

was one of the lucky ones who didn't become a knuckle-dragging, butt-scratching moron after being dipped

(and it may not have raised his intelligence, he may have been that smart before his dipping, but no records

of his past exist to verify this).

The FEV that was released out in the wasteland was mutated by radiation, so its effects changed. As for the

FEV at Mariposa, the Lieutenant says the super mutants are smarter than humans ("We are highly

intelligent and immune to disease"), which is only half-right, and he also says that the virus can also

interfere with a person's memory, causing them to forget things. Obviously, the Lieutenant keeps forgetting

that most of his super mutant forces can barely form complete sentences.

Basically, the FEV in the vats only has a small chance of raising a being's intelligence (or even keeping it

intact). The Master was one of the lucky ones. More often than not, it causes brain damage. It's also

possible that the crude dipping procedure in Mariposa also caused imperfect mutations as well, reducing

the chance of heightened intelligence.

But to answer your question: the FEV at West Tek before the war caused increased intelligence in its

subjects, but the FEV at Mariposa after the war rarely enhanced the intelligence of humans who were

dipped. The reason for this is unknown.

Chris Taylor says:

Chris Taylor: Actually, a dip in FEV has a chance of modifying

Intelligence, but it doesn't always increase it. Some people do gain

increased intelligence, a larger majority lose intelligence and most people

remain the same. It also depends if people have enough radiation damage

to be turned into ghouls or super mutants.

Here's a question from Andrew Quigley :

6. About how many working or servicable cars are there at the time of FO2? Obviously

there must be more then one, since the guy in new reno has a garage fully staffed, and

most likely has a large supply of parts( im assuming that was what the warehouse building

next to the garage was filled up with, you couldnt pick up anything off of them)

Probably not too many, but I don't know the exact number. The real problem isn't fuel, it's mostly tires and

other degradable parts that have gone to the dogs in the past 100 years. For every two hundred or so people,

there might be one working vehicle, and even "the local clunker" wouldn't be up to factory specs. NCR is

rumored to have a mechanized vehicle division outside of its farming vehicles, but the number of vehicles

in the division is unknown.

The next question is from Darren Rowe :

7. Just a question about the Luietant from Fallout 1, was he a Brotherhood soldier that got

dipped? Or was he just a mutant that got lucky and scored himself some nice armour

(that looks a lot like PA) - Stainless

He's a human that got lucky when he was dipped and managed to keep his intelligence (or possibly, got

greater intelligence). As for armor and weapons, yeah, he lucked out, especially with that gatling laser. :)

The next question is from DoPr :

8. Hi, In the last "Fallout Bible" update there was a question about Richard Grey and why

he was exiled from Vault City. I remember that there was another person exiled from the

VC - Leonard Boyarski. He also was exiled for a murder but I'm curious how did he die?

I've found his grave on the Golgotha and it's quite surprising. ps. If there are any mistakes,

sorry for my English. :-)

Boyarsky was an in-joke to Leonard Boyarsky who originally worked on F1 and parts of F2 (one of the

five billion developer references in Fallout 1 and 2). I think the name was originally Jason Anderson in the

text, but I don't remember. Boyarsky was exiled for murder and unauthorized research (the research

allegations revolved around some tampering with the pregnancy cycles in the Auto-Doc that apparently put

all of Vault 8 in danger, but the details were deleted from the Vault 8 computer). His crime occurred many

years after Grey's alleged crime, but Boyarsky only got as far as Reno with a traveling caravan before he

was robbed and killed by Reno toughs who saw him as an easy mark (which pretty much is true for

everyone traveling from Vault City). His reasons for traveling south were unknown, but it is rumored his

original destination was east of Reno - even though explorers report there is nothing out there except desert

and deathclaws.

This next one is from John Olivas :

9. Hey what gives?!? You sent me a letter 3 updates ago saying my questions would be in

the next edition of the bible. I asked about EC squadren and Renewing. Then I asked about

what was up with something... It was a quest that couldn't be solved... I don't remember

but it had something to do with not finding a peaceful solution. Oh yeah Melchior the

magnificent. Then nothing. I've been patient but it's another update now. I know you're

busy but I'm getting the idea I'm being ignored just because I'm not some mosquito

asshole who won't leave you alone for five minutes, never logs off the forums and expects

you to explain fusion power. Fusion power! You want an explanation: It's a game and it's

tons o' fun! You explain it we'll give you a nobel prize! I'm asking stuff you MIGHT

ACTUALLY know the answers to and I was told I'd get them. I can't help but feel it's some

kind of strange eliteist thing where only big members of the fallout community get any

time. I used to be part of the fallout community and as luck would have it I was replaying

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