How's your quarantine going guys? In case you're getting bored of being home all day long I bring to you another episode of my favorite game Fallout 2!. Which would have come sooner where it not for the incredible amount of homework given to me by my university teachers.
For those that are joining us right now I'll summarize the story for you; Our protagonist, Sara, is a tribal from the post-apocalyptic tribe of "Arroyo". She's the Chosen One and is in a holy quest to find the G.E.C.K, a piece of technology that will revitalize the fields of her home and ensure her people don't die.
Her current objective is to find a Trader by the name of Vic, who may or may not know the location of Vault 13, which is where the G.E.C.K is supposedly located. However, Sara gets lost in her quest and ends up doing a lot of different things instead of finding Vic first, like fighting the Rat God, or killing two guys for being asses... and so on.
Right now, she's in a little town known as "The Den" where she's just acquired a 10mm pistol which puts her in the bottom of the wasteland's food chain. Because if you wanna be at the top you need better guns.
Here's where we left last time. Sara's standing on some corpses.
In order to acquire this gun she had to help this woman by the name of Lara kill some people, she was kind enough of leaving the guns with the dead bodies, which lets Sara sell those for some extra money.
Money that we can't sadly use for buying better guns, as they are too expensive for us, but we can use it to buy better armor, which is always a good thing to have.
Several guns without ammo + some random stuff I picked up gives us a fair amount of cash.
Thanks to the guns those dead guys gave me I was able to get Sara a slightly better suit of armor, again every little bit helps, it's a wasteland after all.
So, what followed was me walking around in the Den and looking at whatever I could in the hopes of getting either more money or better weapons.
Ultimately, the search proved fruitless as I only found some drug dealers-
-And a ghost lady, who had an interesting side quest.
She's being used as a tourist attraction by the guy next door, who tells you the "story" of how she came to be here on the first place.
If you actually want to finish the quest you're supposed to ask around for the ghost, and then you eventually learn that the ghost is looking for a locket/pendant that her mother gave her, something that was stolen by the last person who slept in her now destroyed house.
This guy here has the ghost's possession, and I can either take it by force or just spook him until he gives it back.
After you get the thing, you have to give it to the ghost lady, who then disappears and gives you some experience points for the troubles. Interestingly enough the guy next door doesn't acknowledge her disappearance.
Also, last episode Lara told us to come looking for her at the abandoned church in the Den if we wanted the money she promised to give us, but before I go there Sara's going to steal everything at their home, because it's not stealing if you don't get caught.
It wasn't as lucrative as I thought it was going to be, these guys don't have much.
The reward is also not what I was expecting, but cash is cash.
As all of these activities gave me more cash, I decided to return to Klamath. This, because last episode I talked about the first companion that you could get in the game, a tribal by the name of Sulik.
On the way there, I fought some scorpions. And found Kaga.
Who's this guy?
Oh yeah... Kaga... You may not remember, but he was mentioned waaaaay back, in the first episode if i remember right. He was supposed to be in the same quest as Sara (finding the G.E.C.K) but he was banished instead 'cause he killed the person he was supposed to best in melee combat. And also because he does drugs and other stuff, I dunno, the tribe guys said something like that.
Kaga's a character that only appears in the "Restoration Project" for fallout 2, which i have installed alongside the unofficial patch. This man can make you suffer, he's a random encounter that shows up randomly, with a total of 5 encounters if I remember correctly, each time he has better gear and better followers.
He usually shows up as I'm leaving Arroyo, leaving me with no other option than to run away because he's three guys with knives and all I have are my fists.
This time, stuff went differently. For starters, he didn't show up as I was leaving Arroyo, or Klamath, he showed up when i was leaving the Den, when i already had a gun and better armor. Basically, I became the Kaga in this encounter.
Encounters with Kaga go like this: Once you get his HP low enough he runs away, so that you can fight him again next time, which happened this time. If you're lucky and fast enough you may be able to kill him, which removes him from the game forever and If i remember right also makes his body disappear, as the game probably says "Player no, what did you just do?"
I was able to kill both of his followers with ease, but Kaga got away after I shot him in the privates. Don't look at me like that, it's a perfectly valid strategy!
You know, stabbing someone with a gun isn't a bad idea when you have the advantage of numbers. Sure, one of you may get shot but the gun person can't probably shoot everyone before someone can stab them, right?
Once in Klamath I went over to where Sulik is, and started a conversation with him, with the intention of getting him as a companion so that he can get shot for me help me in the wastes.
Just look at him, he's beautiful.
Sulik explains that he too is here looking for Vic, because he "may or may not" know where his sister may be located, he also explains that he's looking for Vic because his sister was kidnapped one day while looking for supplies for his tribe. He's stuck here because he got drunk and angry while looking for Vic and now needs to pay the damages done.
He also tells us where his tribe's located and explains what's the deal with the bone in his nose (it's his grandpa's bone or something).
In order to get Sulik as a companion you have to pay off his debt.
This is the person you have to talk to about Sulik's debt.
It looks like she actually cares about him.
With Sulik being a willing meat shield, I decide to explore around Klamath before going to the Den to look for Vic. Sadly, we didn't find anything interesting, aside from this helicopter thing called a "Vertibird"
There's also a dead guy here, but we can't loot anything interesting from him.
My exploration eventually led us back to the Den, were I focused on finding Vic. Last episode we learned that Vic was... er... kidnapped? arrested? by a guy by the name of Metzger, who's apparently the leader of a slave ring, specifically, The Den's Slave ring.
For a slave ring leader he's surprisingly easy to talk to, he lets me talk to Vic, as long as I don't try to help him escape or as long as I don't anger him or something.
It's from Metzger that I learn that Vic finds himself in this predicament because he sold Metzger a radio that was supposed to spy on certain frecuencies, which it can't do, so Metzger is understandably angry at him and keeps Vic "arrested" until he either makes the radio work or until he gets tired of him, at which point he'll kill him.
Metzger's the guy in the center.
I can talk to Vic and ask about Vault 13, which does nothing because he won't say a thing until he's rescued, he tells us to look for his shack in "Klamath", the town we were in before, because he's got a radio there he can use to fix the one Metzger wants.
A quick back and forth between the two places and I give Vic his radio. He still refuses to say anything, we have to save him from Metzger first or whatever. Metzger tells us we can buy him... for 1000$
We don't have that kind of money, so we do some expert bartering and end up paying 500$, which is exactly how much money I had so Vic better be worth it.
You better help me make those 500$ fast Vic!
It wasn't worth it, Vic doesn't know where Vault 13 is but he may know someone who can lead us there.
He tells us to go to Vault City, he's even willing to lead us there. Says it's not far from the Den.
Well he's lying.
Yeah, if you can't see the place on the map it's because it takes a while to get there.
There's like... a week of walking, between Vault City and the Den...
Well, you know what that means, road trip!
Well, that's all for now. The homework my teachers give me doesn't leave much free time, and we haven't learned anything during these times. Heck i'd be surprised if I don't actually lose any brain cells during this entire thing.
But anyway, next episode's about the actual road trip from The Den to Vault City. If my teachers allow it, next episode should come soon enough.
As always, thank you so much for reading and I hope you have a great day. Stay healthy everyone!