So I posted a couple of days ago that I got the urge to temporarily abandon my Witchering and return to the Captial Wasteland, thanks in no small part to all this talk about Fallout 4. While looking at the character creation options again, I decided I could easily make a character that looked like Conan O'Brien, and outfitted him with the attributes I thought best fit Conan.
I used the preset head that was simply the widest and most massive. I then went and made him extremely pale, gave him Tunnel Snake hair and changed his hair color to ginger. I went back to the face settings and made his forehead as large as possible. Then I simply tweaked the eyes a bit and viola. Optionally, the in game Rough Beard option is very appropriate to Conan's chose beard of the past, so I used my robot assistant to swap back and forth between the beard and clean shaven a few times.
Strength was set to 1, Perception to 7, Endurance to 7, Charisma to 9, Intelligence to 9, Agility to 6, and Luck to 1. I figured Intelligence was justified because A) Conan is a Harvard grad, and B) Dem skill points though. Strength and Charisma are obvious. Perception I wanted high because all comedy requires good perception, and endurance I basically translated into tenure. With Leno and Letterman gone and Stewart leaving (if you counted him among the group), Conan is the longest running late night talk show host left on the air. Agility was tricky, but Conan is nimble enough and some good perks require 6 in Agility, so that's where I put it. Luck only got 1 point up front, but it makes sense to me that Conan's Luck would be on the lower side after the whole NBC thing and just the fact that comedians tend to play off of misadventure. I added one point each to Strength and Luck with Intensive training at levels 2 and 3. I tagged explosives, speech, and lockpick.
And then I figured, since I'm playing as Conan: How would Conan have played the game? Seemed obvious to me that he would be evil...
And so, Evil Conan O'Brien unleashed his ginger fury upon the Capital Wasteland. He blew up Megaton immediately (though not before calling the town's mayor and sheriff "Calamity jane"), and then immediately after getting a suite in Tenpenny Tower he had the tower overrun by ghouls. During the ghoul attack, Conan also murdered Roy Phillips by shooting him in the back...of the head. Roy's murder meant that the tower siege would never end, and so Conan lost his home as well. Forced to set out into the wastes again, Conan moved East until he found Rivet City. Conan then spent three hours randomly pickpocketing people and planting the stolen items on someone else. Much to Evil Conan's disappointment, nobody seemed to care about their new or missing items. Well, except Seagrave Holmes, who got a live grenade in his pocket and now has made his eternal home in a watery grave (I assume, I didn't see anywhere that they might have buried the body.)
Following that, Evil Conan remembered that he was out of the vault to look for his dear old father, Liam Neeson. Being that his only lead was Megaton, and he just nuked Megaton before getting any information, Evil Conan became depressed. He turned on his radio to cheer him up, only to hear that bastard Three Dog badmouthing him about blowing up Megaton. Evil Conan figured, "If he could figure out my part in that from afar, maybe he can help me find my father!" So Evil Conan decided to find Galaxy News Radio. Not knowing where it was, Evil Conan decided to go back to Megaton's ruins to look for clues.
Upon his arrival, Conan was in awe of ground zero. The rubble of Megaton's ruins were too irradiated to get near, yet someone was aimlessly wandering around. Conan struck up a conversation with her only to find out that this was Moira Brown, now a ghoul. She took the news of her new appearance pretty well, and asked Evil Conan if he knew a town where she might be accepted in her new condition. Tenpenny Tower's ghoul infestation came to mind, but Evil Conan decided not to mention it. Moira went her own way, and Evil Conan began thinking about radio towers. Where might one be? Where could a radio station be functioning in a wasteland? He started heading east, when it happened....
The game froze for the tenth time since I started this playthrough. I got frustrated and went back to witchering. But I was enjoying my time as Evil Conan. So I have decided that when Fallout 4 releases, I will do an Evil Conan playthrough of it and stream it for all to see. For now though, it's back to witchering for me.
How about you? Have you had any fun character playthroughs in the older Fallouts, or do you have one you wish to try in Fallout 4 eventually? Let me know in the comments.
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Quote Of The Day
"I sold my soul to the devil in exchange for more play time."
-Amaltheaelanor
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Today In Music (June 8th)
Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers released on June 8th, 1999. Also released on this day:
- Honor Amongst Chaos by Waylander (2008)
- Contraband by Velvet Revolver (2004)
- Echoes Of The Elders EP by Daniel Tidwell (2010)
- Eye Of The Tiger by Survivor (1982)