And when she turned her back She heard a single word carry across the winds...
Garrrry...
*frightened beep*
No way that really happened.
Didn't know folks had cloning machines like that...
We don't. Cloning machines can only do organs and tissue, not whole people. It's just a
scary story.
Alright, well let me tell you one that people used to frighten their kids back around the
time The Vault Dweller came to The Boneyard... I call this story: Mother of the DEATHCLAWS!
Deathclaws? I've killed like thirty of those.
And I’ve killed a Deathclaw with a single shot, but that’s a story for another day.
Suffice it to say back in the 2160's most people thought Deathclaws were just a myth.
The Vault Dweller was one of the few people North of the Angel's Boneyard that ever saw
one and survived.
People in California said the Deathclaw was the most evil thing to rise out of the ashes
following the war. A ghost from the Back When times that haunted the wasteland. The size
of three men. Teeth as long as your arm! Claws as sharp as a Ripper! A demon birthed in the
fires of the apocalypse!
Shoot 'em in legs with a dart gun, then pick away at 'em 'till they'll go down. Laser rifle
works best.
That might work on one Deathclaw, but there were neighborhoods in the Boneyard where packs
of them roamed the streets by night, and the Deathclaw Mother spawned new horrors faster
than anyone could kill them. Even the Gun Runners
Back then, the Gun Runners were just a small group of machinists set up in an old factory,
surrounded by a moat of radioactive goo, not the interstate arms merchants they are today.
The vault dweller and their remaining companions passed through the boneyard on their way
to confront the Master of the Super Mutant army.
They were the most capable fighting force in the land, but even they would need help to stop the horror
that hid beneath the Cathedral. And help doesn't come free...
I think you’re straying off topic Storyteller. How 'bout that momma deathclaw?
I'm getting to that. You see, the Gun Runners traded with other factions in the area, but
they couldn't do real business - not with the Regulators squeezing them dry and the
deathclaws stopping them from relocating. No matter how many they killed they kept coming!
And only The Vault Dweller was brave enough to enter her lair...
I heard them deathclaws weren't the nastiest thing in the Boneyard. Not by a long shot.
Folk in California used to tell tales of a bounty hunter so mean he terrified outlaws
all the way up to New Reno. A man they called Chris.
He traveled with a posse of goons that'd make a fire gecko's blood run cold. They was called
Kain The First Murderer...
Say "Good Night" Gracie!
The Xile...
Maybe those scars will make good party talk!
And... The Saw.
And he's not wearing a cup, either...
They roamed the territory around the Angel's Boneyard showing no mercy to the wicked.
Get your mitts off that kid.
I'm Christopher and you're meat!
Some of the old timers in my home town say that he even beat the tar out of The Vault
Dweller once.
We don't appreciate wise guys here. Buzz off!
Can't guess what The Vault Dweller did to get his dander up, but that meetin' of heroes
went South faster 'n' a flock of geese in November.
You're about to discover why I'm one of the most fearsome bounty hunters in the wasteland!
I'm gonna make you look like a cracked pretzel!
Time to increase the ol' body count.
It's survival of the fittest, and you're out of shape.
Yearg! My groin is the groin of fire...
Ahhhh! Didn't need that knee anyway...
*chuckles* That didn’t happen. Whoever told you that
must have been out of their head on Jet. The Vault Dweller brought peace to the Boneyard.
Didn't run around picking fights. They helped diffuse a war that was brewing between a local
gang and a bunch of crooked lawmen called the Regulators. But the most important thing
that happened in the Boneyard was when The Vault Dweller gained the trust of the Followers
of the Apocalypse.
The Followers, The Children, The Hubologists... I get all them doomsday cults confused...
The Followers aren't a cult. They're... what's the word-
*expository beep*
I guess you could call them a charity. Not a religion, or cult, just people selflessly
dedicated to preserving the ways of the Back When times.
Unlike the Brotherhood, the Followers used their knowledge to help people, freely. They
were founded by Nicole, who came to the Boneyard from Dayglow. Built a headquarters in a pre-war
library and gathered like-minded followers. Pretty effective organization for a bunch
of anarchists.
They got a spy inside the Cathedral, and they knew that the "Children" of the Cathedral
were connected to the Super Mutants. Told the Dweller everything they knew, and even
sent a few Followers along to help stop the Super Mutant Master.
I've been hearing the mutants talk about that Master all my life, but ain't one of them
ever given me a straight answer about what the Master really was.
Some kind of giant mutant too big to even leave his base?
The Vault Dweller didn't say just what The Master was in their memoirs, but there were
some clues in that story. I also met a few of the first generation Super Mutants who
were there when it all happened. And there's someone still alive that I think knew The
Master before it went by that name. But that-
If you say "That's a story for another day" I'll shoot you in the face.
Careful there Storyteller. I think she means it. Besides, I’ve never been a big fan of
cliffhangers myself.
Alright. Well, when the Vault Dweller arrived at the Cathedral-
*warning beep*
Someone's coming...