Robots Radio, Games, Lore, Stories, Community, Just Press Play. Welcome to the Fallout Lorecast, the podcast that explores the boundaries of our knowledge about the world of Fallout. Wastelanders and Vault Dwellers, welcome back to the Fallout Lorecast. It is the end of May, which means it is time to hang out with our patrons.
This is your host, Tom, more robots, and me and a whole bunch of patrons today. We'll be discussing some of the strangest mysteries in Fallout. And thanks, big shout out to Pumpkin King here, who helps pull together a list. We've got a big list of even more than just the ones that we're going to be able to get through today, but we're going to start taking a chunk out of this list and discussing some of the things that we know a little bit about, but make us go, hmm, well, there's got to be more to the story than just this.
So I'm excited to introduce all of our patrons. And here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to, I'm going to read through everybody's names and welcome everybody. And then on the count of three, you are all going to make the sound of Nernroot.
I know that's an Elder Scrolls thing, but that's one of the things we're talking about is the Nernroot on the pre-dwin. So at the same time, everyone's going to make the sound of Nernroot. And so we've got a little green, Cooper, Pumpkin King, Adam Bonnie, baby. I'm already stumbling over names.
Silas, AK Spartan, Riot, Scarecrow, and Nova. Welcome to the show, everybody, on the count of three, get ready to unmute and make the sound of Nernroot three, two, one. Rackle, crackle, crackle, crackle, crackle. Wow.
That's beautiful. I feel like a conductor. I'm just conducting all of you. Do you think we could take that sound clip and mod it into the game so that when you walk by the Nernroot on the pre-dwin, it makes whatever that conglomeration of sounds was?
Anybody into modding out there, that would be amazing. Are we going to introduce the robots reducks of all impact? Yeah, yeah, there you go. There you go.
We can have Buddy Bot just do the voices of every character in the game. So everybody sounds like Buddy Bot. That could be another thing we do. Welcome back, everybody.
Everyone's already groaning and like, oh my God, really. Welcome to the show. We're going to get into this. We've only got an hour.
We've got to respect everybody's time. But we're going to start with the first topic. This is one of, I think of one of a lot of people's favorite suspected speculators. Also one of those perks that almost everyone uses in the game because it's so much fun.
The Mysterious Stranger. What's going on with the Mysterious Stranger? We have a character who has been in the game since Fallout 1. It's gotten a few different touch-ups and different outfits or whatever, but shows up.
And here, I'm going to read what the Fallout Wiki has to say about it. It's not a whole lot. It says, The Mysterious Stranger is an individual that may appear if the player character has the Mysterious Stranger perk. And also, the Mysterious Savior in Fallout 76 and utilizes Vats in combat.
Background. Here we go. Appearing suddenly, if one has the namesake perk, the Mysterious Stranger can be spotted through the wasteland in his trademark trench coat hat and 44 Magnum. And this is the Fallout 3 definition of some of the details are slightly different.
The other one's but same kind of concept. To lend a helping hand in battles after one's Vats sequence finishes, he will vanish. That's it. That's basically it.
We don't really have a whole lot of other lore. Pumpkin King, do you have any other? Have you, I know you researched some of these a little bit. Is there anything else you want to add on top of this?
So I've heard, you know, just from the areas that I've dug from YouTube to, you know, the Wiki, there are people there, there's a description that says that he was once a farmer. I don't know where they found that, but they described that. And they described that as his name and not his occupation. We have the whole thing with the Lonesome Director from Fallout New Vegas who is speculated and kind of, I personally confirm the fact that he can give you the Mysterious Magnum to be the Mysterious Stranger's son.
Again, just open speculation based on just some of the news and titles. I think there's a description for the Fallout 1 and 2 talking about how he's some sort of eldritch being. Right. And it's one of those characters that's got multiple descriptions but no one can figure out which one's right.
It's also kind of uncanny the fact that he just kind of shows up and helps you out of nowhere and then just disappears. I mean, it's clearly a video game function but story wise, that's super weird, right? There's one thing I do want to bring up and it's the, you can find a case file in the Nick Valentine's detective agency called the Mysterious Stranger file and it goes into how many different places that he's been from old NCR to Boston and they even got to and when you have his perk and Nick Valentine as a companion, Nick Valentine will acknowledge his presence and you're like, where's he at? I just saw him, where'd he go?
Right. Like that sort of thing. Yeah, so by the time of Fallout 4 you can tell that the creators are playing with the character a little bit more like he's somehow a real person or something and yet is still very mysterious. So that's the name.
That's the name, right? Right. So here let's open this up. Who has some thoughts?
You've played through anything that you, your experience is with the game, fun speculation of what might be happening. Adam Bonnie, you want to start us off? I'm thinking, some of the things like the Institute, I don't know, like they've managed to get rid of like that blue globe when they teleport, maybe. Oh, because that's like, that would explain the appearing and disappearing thing, like a teleportation ability.
Yeah. And then you've also got like Nick who's originally from the Institute so has sort of insight and knowledge into him as well, might kind of like cross over that one. Right, right. But that also, well, okay, so let's go down that route.
If that's the case, then that can explain the events of Fallout 4. It may even explain the events of slightly earlier games, like 3 or 76. Just in some roundabout way, right? Like, you can kind of stretch it since we're a thing, sort of.
But what about Fallout 1 and 2, which happened like almost a century before that? Is it a different mysterious stranger? I feel like something like dog me is where it takes on like a different world. Oh, so like same name, different person or different creature or whatever, right?
I remember another detail and this is another, this is this one's out there. So we know the order of the order of mysteries, the mystery 76. One thing that was talked about is how we don't know where, I can never remember the husband's name, the guy who owns the property and tried to get it started. Right.
No one knows what happened to him and there's theories out there talking about how he, after the whole falling out of the mysteries, he went on to make the men of mysteries, the mystery, strangers and all that. Oh, that's fun. That's what we have survived for like, for that moment? Because it's, or are these descendants?
These are people who, who, people of the key is trained and the trainings kept on going. That kind of deal. That's, yeah, that sounds really cool. Yeah, I don't know.
That's a cool idea, but there's no way of actually knowing that. Right, right. Yeah, as with any of these things, they're well beyond the realm of being approved. It explained the training, it would explain him knowing what to do, that sort of thing.
Yeah, since you're in chances like that, man incorporated, that's the same kind of thing, right? Like an organization where they all take on this and this and the mantle of the mysterious reader, right? Follow Londoner doing that double seven for zero. Well, that makes sense.
That makes sense. Yeah. Well, if I was my first one, so I thought it was naked first. Yeah.
Well, I mean, you've got like the trench coat and the hat and all of that. I had the perk before I did find him. I was so confused. Like hold on, I've seen you before.
Right. One thing that's also like the reason that that one, the, I can see that one going in is because each mysterious finger is different, even the three and four different looks different. The three has the trench coat and he looks like a younger gentleman. Whereas if you look at all four, it's a, it's an older gentleman with a full mustache.
Yeah. Well, I too can get older and grow mustache. So three and four takes place. So he's like young, but the other one in four looks like a good 20 or 30 years.
Yeah. Or just, or just lower poly graphics. That's over to three goals. Oh, man.
Or could be another. Please go talk to me. Just get reduced graphics. Right.
Just lower your graphics settings. And then a silver shroud thing like someone just took it up because they thought it was cool. That's true. We do have that.
Because of the mysterious strength, the back and straight in with that, which is the fact that it's the comic book with the husband, what's it? He loved the comic books. Right. That's good.
Thank you. I can never remember. Yeah. I'm so glad I remember reading.
Do you like the critics? Which is being comic book that he could have done that. And I know that they actually were in contact with what's his name from Fallout four who actually does like, you know, the fallout, the silver shroud radio. Right.
Right. Yeah. I'm in the quest and I forgot his name. Yeah.
There's a lot of things that can connect to that. Yeah. Yeah. This is great stuff.
Let's move on to some other people. Let them try and silence. I like to think about the idea, especially since you had the episode recently going into Andrew Cole. I like to think that it could possibly be a similar type being to him because I mean, obviously the very, very powerful pistol he carries is a lot like how you know, you get to Alien Blaster and it's, you know, one shot for the first however long of the game.
I think that it could be a similar type of thing. Like whenever you shoot at Andrew Cole, he just disappears. Yeah. Disappears.
And it's the same kind of thing. Though you don't get any dialogue. I think it's, it could be thought of as a similar type of character. A cryptid before we had cryptids in 76.
Yeah. So kind of like a, you know, game spanning cryptid of a similar flavor. Yeah. Yeah.
Could be more helpful. Muffman, if you will. Right. A more helpful Muffman.
Yeah. Yeah. I like that. I like that.
All right. Any other last thoughts on this one before we move on to the next topic? And like, John McThree and then he like disappears behind the glass and it's like, nobody can do that. But I guess you can.
What was that? Stealth Boys. Stealth Boys. Oh, there you go.
But there's no sheen. You can see the sheen. Yeah. Yeah.
I mean, for all you know, he could be using stealth boys more too. We don't know exists. We don't know. You can get, you can start using some frigid rivers that you get from that west.
Oh, maybe that, maybe that ties back into it again. So maybe, maybe we're getting a solution there. There's a lot that could go to this. Yeah.
Will. I had one quick thought. Maybe like, because the only time we ever see the mysterious ranger correct me from wrong. I haven't played one or two is when we use that.
So maybe that's something that only people associate with Vault Tech use. Maybe he was testing it when the bomb drops and the radiation made it so he stayed within the realm of that. Oh, so what if he like, sucked into the. Oh, no.
He just pops up randomly. Like it's a glitch in the Vats software that really makes him reappear. Yes, the pure virus. Yeah.
He's also dressed like a vault tech wrap as well. So it could be like a vault tech crystal. Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah. I got the later games. Yeah. He just broke my brain.
So he got drawn. He sort of got with my day and it just. That's a really cool idea. He's like a drawn character.
Like, let me just put this out there. Nick Valentine can also see him though. He has a bunch of files inside of his house about him. And as far as where where before we emerged from the vault, there weren't very many other people in the capital or another capital in the Commonwealth.
And but he still has many studies reporting from him from his clients. But he has his files on him. But if it's tied to the software in any Pip Boy that has that's installed, then anybody else who found a Pip Boy and tried to use it and use Vats may have accidentally summoned him at some point. Yeah.
So it could be other people are doing that, right? I feel bad for having to deal with the Gary's. The Gary's just keeps summoning him. Oh my God.
That's why that vault is totally wrecked. Oh, that's amazing. The other thing would be like, you know, Nick Valentine is a sin. So he's not an human.
I mean, yes, he's human, but like, isn't like, aren't since like a little bit better than like the human. It's still in Fallout three. It also for Vats, you can get an upgrade from Dr. Zimmerman for Vats.
So since 100% we may not know this, but they could be able to use Vats. Yeah. So there we go. I'm just trying to.
No, what I'm saying is that Nick Valentine actively reacts to the presence of the mysterious. Right. He physically gets pulled out of the software into the world. Yeah.
That's why he's able to damage enemies is because he physically appears for a moment and then gets pulled right back into the Pip Boy. Yeah. Through some sort of weird technology. Yeah.
Since it's been processed visual things better than people. So they probably picks up on it. Yeah. Well, he's also been following it.
So he's looking for science. He's a detective. He's more aware than the average companion. Yeah.
So when this happens, he's like, wait a minute. I've seen this guy before. What's going on? Every robot I definitely gives you an edge.
Yeah. He's the whole mobile VR thing as well. We came on the VR thing as well. Yeah.
Yeah. One of the other things is that people also think that he could also possibly be a step like you had brought out the robots. Right. Right.
Yeah. There's that possibility as well. So that could be things. So very cool stuff.
All right. I think I think we've done this. This justice at this point. Let's move on to our next topic.
So there is a mystery about the aliens, the Zetans and their interest in giddy up Buttercups. And this is here's what the wiki says. Giddy up Buttercup is the name of a robotic toy force manufactured by Wilson automatoys before the Great War touted as the ultimate in equestrian robotics. It was a toy aimed at a target audience of little girls with a cost of $16,000.
Inflation was crazy. A marketing poster featuring the horse is copyrighted 2042. Background. The aliens aboard mothership Zeta possess a large number of them stacked on racks in the research lab.
One particular observation room has a loan buttercup in the center surrounded by five dead test subjects. I love this detail. Alien captive recording log 21 features Sally being taken to the recording room and noticing a giddy up Buttercup. The aliens are described as being excited either by her recognition of it or by her happy reaction.
If Paulson Elliott Turkorian, I believe that's how you pronounce the name, or Samma, are taken to the Buttercups in the research lab, they'll make comments about them. So Bunken, you want to add anything else about this one? Yeah. So I'm going to be real.
This one I put on is a joke. But it's like a real thing. Like there was a couple that are jokes like a pig that was a joke, but this one made me really think about why they had them. Because I think somebody was watching somebody that talked about how the account that they had was a maximum of 42 giddy up Buttercups in the entire DLC.
Wow. Wow. So that's a lot. Yeah.
And I heard someone say, oh, they're going to use them to take over the world. They're going to upgrade them to ride them to ride them and all that. Or program them to go to war or something. So here's the thing.
A lot of this stuff, like the meta explanation is one of the developers was just feeling wacky and decided to just put a thing in the game. And then there's no real explanation. They just stuck a thing in there to make us wonder, like why are there better cups here? Why are there so many?
But of course, that leads to potential for this to become a real thing and have some actual explanation. And maybe we learn more about it in the future. Right. So here, let's open this one up.
I know Scarecrow. I don't think you've tried any thoughts about about the Buttercups and Zens Zens. Zens. Everyone.
I never actually got to play that DLC. My game would never stay well enough to do. Oh, okay. But based on this information, you have any theories on why aliens would be interested in robotic horse toys?
The only thing I can think is maybe they were studying the way we did electronics trying to figure out our way of doing things. Okay. Okay. Yeah.
And these are fairly simple. These would be pretty common. You find them all over the place. So probably pretty easy to collect.
I can see that. All right. Who else has some thoughts on this? Who else wants to chime in?
Any thoughts? No? I have an idea. So that was one thing I was thinking of was what Scarecrow said.
Is that because they're so common, they're very easy to access. It's a good way to see what technological level we use humans are on. The other thing that I was thinking is perhaps it's maybe a cultural obsession and they're trying to understand why humans are so like, why they're so common in this part of the world, about this part of the world over here. And so when they have ducted the people, they also took some better cups.
And so Americans were like, you're a human being. You're a human being. I know that thing. I really like it.
It's like a little girl did while China or Africa or something like that. And they just look at us like, what the heck is that? It's like a cultural curiosity. Yeah, exactly.
How do you call it would be as well? Right. I've got a theory. Okay.
So you've spawned in my mind and we're through this out there. I mean, we have thoughts are these are horses. There are no other horses and fallout, right? There's paintings.
There's paintings. Apparently there's paintings of them. Right. But I think you can see them in the Vegas.
But come, the events of Mothership's data in Fallout three, we do not have horses. Many of the games, right? And at this point, the aliens are studying the humans clearly. They're probably wondering what this animal is because they can't find it in nature.
Yeah, maybe that too. But you don't remember that the data was there for at least 1969 or it was. It was. It was.
It's a lot earlier because we had a samurai. So it would be, oh, yeah, I forgot about him. Yeah, it was certainly several hundred years. And then we went to the episode about that.
Is it like time, like, time, or has the same ship been in service since that long? But then you could also speculate, do the Zane actually live that long? Or is this like generation upon generation upon generation? They just kept people cryo frozen.
That could be another explanation, right? So maybe this current generation of Zatans are looking at these buttercup, buttercup, getting a buttercup of horses going, what is this? This isn't an animal. Why do they love this thing so much?
And then when like a little girl goes, oh, it's horse. They're probably like, oh, she knows what it is somehow. What is it? So this coming from what you said, and then we notice that it could also be when it comes to aliens, they mean, they're without saying they get excited and so happy when the little girl notices it, but any adult kind of despise.
So could it be like a comfort system for someone of a smaller stature? Maybe. Yeah, I mean, you have the situation with the bodies of the test subjects, five dead test subjects around. Yeah, it's something that's never talked about.
Right. So have they weaponized the buttercup in order to kill those five people? Is that what happened? Like does this go back to the hole?
Maybe they're weaponizing these things and then like let them loose on the population at some point? Or perhaps it's just a 200 year old piece of technology that's sort of a sort of thing with a touch that just gets electric unit. Maybe, maybe. I mean, it has a vision battery in it.
It's not really a leap of logic. I think I just have a lot of charge and it's 200 years old. So yeah, by faulty. Right.
By the logic, I could totally track. Absolutely. It's intense. It's a vision battery.
Yeah, it's a vision battery. Yeah, most things have vision batteries in them. Yeah. So, yeah.
It's a tonium to power in. It's going to last for like a half and a thousand years. So yeah, that's just the one thing that I think is the funniest thing is why they're obsessed and it's never explained. And I get that like mothership data is a goofy DLC all on its own.
Right. Right. Do I feel like you're usually asking if anybody else has thought on a why? Yeah, that's only fine.
Who else wants to chime in? Hey, Spartan, anybody thought about the buttercups? Yeah, I had a theory because so in fall of four when you go to the. The Wilson, the Wilson headquarters, you can find out that that factory that makes the buttercups was also either can't remember if they were already doing it or were in talks of doing it, but they were going to start making munitions for the US government.
Right. And so I thought was that possibly the Zadins like because obviously the Zadins are scouting and taking from all sorts of areas and different things and kind of just collecting knowledge. Like maybe they were aware of that like they found out that Wilson was going to do that and they thought maybe these horses were already going to be weapons. I think these are the types of ammo and they can't figure out how to use it.
Yeah, like they can understand. And so maybe that's why like the there's those bodies is like they and they weaponized it because they thought it was a weapon thought it was a terrible weapon because they couldn't figure out how to kill anything with it and then made it a real weapon. That's a fun idea. Yeah, like okay, they're making ammunition.
We know what these bullets and shells do, but what is this thing and how is it a weapon? And then another just like obsessed with it. Like a weapon. Right.
Right. So just for context, that's called project size and they're making land items for the army. Okay. So there you go.
Yeah, that's what it was. And it was the. Yeah, because glass is a lot of his glass. I remember his first name.
He stepped down from his senior ship position, either CEO or CS or something like that. He gave it to see what the. Yeah, he gave it to his son as a apology because he spent his entire life developing a kitty of buttercup brand. And so he had time to spend with a son and so he gave the reins over to his son and no pun intended and his son turned around immediately turned to the US army and said that he started going to talk to the army about weaponizing the manufacturing line to create land lines.
Yeah, that's fun. That's fun. And then all this time now trying to figure out like, how is this a weapon? I like that.
It may be it's a walking landmine. There you have those. Maybe that's what they think it is. And they're like, how is this thing explosive?
It's not. Who says that? That's the only giddy up buttercup that's in that room with the five bodies who said that's the first one. Right.
Could have been five more and they just put another one there. Right. Here in the stampede of the hill exploding. Yeah.
These little walking kamikaze drones. Oh, they if any of the if any of the creators of fall out are listening. Arling glass. Yeah.
This needs to be an feature game. Anytime you say alien show somewhere, they should also be these little butter cups walking around and like, doo-doo-doo. Do they lock in on you and then just hone in and explode? That's amazing.
One's Asian have a pink one on a leash. They're like a pet. Oh, my gosh. They're great.
They're mods that you can actually get as like, you don't get a butter cups as companions. That's fun. That's fun. Or like a monkey, like the creepy monkey.
I think there's a mob with a monkey. Oh, there's a jingles and a jingles. There's the jingles with a clapper monkey. The clapper monkey.
I've shoot every one of those I see. Yeah, yeah. All right, let's say it's time to go. Thank our patrons.
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All right, so we've got another mystery friends. This one I've talked about before. It is Experiments NRT-001. This is the instance of finding Nernroot from the Elder Scrolls games on the Pridwin.
It's a different color, it's blue, it's a little bit different, but it's basically the same model. And I believe, I don't remember if it was talking to Nate Perkipile or one of the developers on some interview somewhere, but they mentioned that this is one of those fun things they did, it's a little Easter egg. They were like, you know what, we could boot on the Pridwin. We just take these models from the other game, stick it over here and see if anybody notices.
And so of course, there's that meta description of like, oh, the developers thought this would be fun. Let's just throw it in, see what people do. But of course, that leaves open ended questions. Some people speculate that that means that the two universes are the same.
Pete Heinz has commented that that's absolutely ludicrous. That is not the case. It's just fun to use a character model or an object model in one game in another. So that's not what this means, but does it mean something else?
Why are the brotherhood studying this funny blue plant that you can't seem to find anywhere else in the environment? What is it? And here's the wiki entry for it. It says, the basis of this experimental plant was a root found by a brotherhood of field scribe at the mouth of a river, the root displayed unique chemical properties, prompting described to graft it onto a hardier stalk for further testing and hybridization.
The result was a leafy plant with thick roots, and after being determined to safe to ingest, it was brewed into an oddly good tea. And that's a quote from one of the characters. Soon after, other samples of the plant began to exhibit a form of bioluminescence. As we know, the Nern root can glow, and it makes like a chiming sound, that we all imitated perfectly at the beginning of the episode.
The scribe deduced that the leaf must have restorative properties due to how healthy they felt, but other scribes suggested that the tea should no longer be brewed, and that the plant is addictive in nature. That's about it. They've been calling it the glow leaf. That's what the scribes call it, just colloquially.
Colloquially, that's a hard word. So, Pumpkin, did you have any other thoughts on this one you wanted to share? So, I would just like to know where and how they found it. I know they found it at the mouth of a river, but like what river?
What river? Where specifically? With them saying that it could be addictive, makes me kind of think that it could be like a tobacco mixed in there. Yeah, or something else.
Like any other type of addictive plant. There are a number of them. There are a couple of different types of needs. Yes, yes, you can say that.
Sure, yeah. There's lots of plants that have addictive properties. Absolutely. The weed one, not so addictive, but some people think it is.
They said, like they didn't say it was highly addictive. They said it was just kind of addictive. That's why I think tobacco right, anything else. Right, right.
I mean, caffeine, you could say is kind of addictive. It's not actually, it doesn't have a chemical addictive property to it, but you feel good when you drink it. So, therefore, you want more of it. Kind of like sugar is addictive in that sense.
Yeah. With this one, I really don't have much to go on with this. So. Yeah, it gives you 10 hit points if you ingest it, and five radiation.
Those are the only stats we have, and it has a weight of 0.1. So, yeah, who has some thoughts on this one? Anybody? Cooper?
I got one. I like the thought of the Dragonborn, right? Never finishing that quest to find all the Nernroon. He just misses that one.
And some brotherhood scribes just find it, and now they can't do anything with it. It's presumably it's just useless at this point. So, I think that's just funny. I think that's just hilarious to think about with the Dragonborn.
Never got to finish that. So, the events of Skyrim are just way in the past. The events are falling. Yeah, that's what I would say.
And then this is now later. Yeah, that's the whole, like, they're in the same universe thing that Pete Hines has shot down on multiple times. But it's a fun thing to think about. It's kind of a fun idea, right?
Any other thoughts on this one? Silas? Oh, let's go first. Oh, go for it, right?
Sorry, go ahead. You said it glows blue, right? Maybe it's just a plant someone accidentally spilled the new cocoa of the quantum on. It's like, yeah, like, it drank up all the quantum the cobalt from the quantum.
Yeah, maybe somebody's walking down by a river. It's easy. I'm not cool. It's easy.
I'm not cool. Yeah. They're walking down by the river with their new cocoa on them. It's not him.
I mean, it's not him. It's not him. That sounds more familiar. So they're walking down the river.
They accidentally trip and spill. And then there's this little plant. And then the plant's like, mmm, yummy new cocoa. It grows up.
Now it's glowing blue. There is the new cocoa in the river and new cocoa. There is that. True.
We don't see any, I've known it. It's a night blue. But there's also no river. And if it was a thot the mouth of the river, you assume it seems floating from up at Earth.
Yeah. And so it's probably like an inland plant that is mutated over there. Really? Like, honestly, it kind of just sounds like it might be a cave dwelling plant or so like that.
It's using the bioluminescence to attract insects into it. Or not a cave dwelling plant. It's using bioluminescence to draw insects to it for pollination purposes. Right.
Something that typically is in darker climate of some sort. Yeah. Or if you look at it in the 76 sense, it could be in an area that was once nuked. And it's just a plant that's just had that property added to it from a nuclear bomb.
Yeah. But everything glowing always goes green, though. Not blue. It can fall out.
Yeah. Quantum is one of the few blue glowy things. Yeah. If you think about it.
What is what? Oh, yeah. Go ahead. Go ahead.
I like the idea of the opposite that the fallout universe, which is our universe, is the precursor to Skyrim. And that because of the radiation and everything, messing up the people's things that eventually some people can learn how to use fires, some people can use how to use magic. And it just slowly builds and builds and builds. And then our world turns into Skyrim.
So that memory is the first memory that grows out all the rest of the ones. Yeah. So it's like somehow mutated due to the radiation and stuff. Turns into a different plant.
Over time continues to evolve. Eventually changes color. So did the tunnelers or the death cluster into the Argonians? Both.
I was probably a champion. They were a champion. They were a death. Deathless.
Yeah. And all the technology from this world eventually became the technology of the Dwemer. And then they disappeared. That's actually a really good thought.
Our group was going to be a shark. I mean, technically they're elves. But what are elves? Maybe elves are just mutated people with longer ears.
But and that could be the thing is we only know what's happening in the United States. We don't know how things are going on in other continents and other countries. So other mutations could be going on. And all these people are coming to the US or wherever.
I do think that because we do have, we have seen characters from other countries come to the United States after the bombs were dropped. Because I think what 10 pennies from Europe? Yeah. Yeah.
10 pennies from Europe. So in the Babrops twins are from Ukraine. Yeah. Yeah.
And so they're, we do know a little bit about how the world is doing. Right. Honestly, you don't know what is happening in China because they were mass producing chemical and biological weapons. For all we know, when the nukes went off, those could have spilled onto the environment.
And all of a sudden you have a super mutagenic strain of virus or you have a giant cloud of lean. Or just, yeah, a much more dire wasteland that nobody survived. Yeah. Yeah.
Or that too. Yeah. Yeah. Any of those things.
All right. So back to this one. Anybody else have any thoughts about this specific plant? And it's NRT, which sounds like Nernroot.
Oh, oh, one. I appreciate that. That's why they did it. And of course.
What do you have to say? No, I was just so it's just my first thought was because it's interesting because it looks like Nernroot. But the way it's described and the way we're talking about, it sounds a lot more like moon sugar. I'm looking at the Elder Scrolls comparison because of the addictive stuff.
And like nothing about Nernroot is really, to my knowledge, they're like addictive. Yeah, you can use an open simple potion. But then it's my first thought. But then so like going on to like, why would the Brotherhood be studying it?
My thought would be if we're going with sticking within that like, Pete Hines is debunked at or whatever and I'm playing within those rules, like, I guess my thought would be that they're trying to, because it's clearly affecting all of their people in a very wide range of ways that possibly they're trying to study it as a way to use it as influence over people in the commonwealth and other areas. Because we get missions in Fort where you have to go start getting food supply lines for the Brotherhood and stuff. Like they don't have all of that. Like just set up like everywhere they go.
And so like it's probably a lot easier to be able to drop something in the water supply if there is a water supply or like mess with somebody's food or like study this or that. And it is just like go in and shoot everybody. Sure. If it's a plan like a damage them, but if it also just has healing properties like some of them think, then it's also beneficial for them as well.
Yeah, in a more mainline way. Right. Either way, it's still beneficial to study it. So you've got to point it.
Even if they're just studying just to study, they're still a Brotherhood and they're going to, if they find something that interests them, they're still going to study it. They do that with, they do that throughout the entire series. So it's not really out of their character to find some unique plants. Like, oh my gosh, what is this?
We're going to take back to the lab. We're going to have the scribes look over it. And then we're going to decide if it's beneficial or not. Yeah, I mean, that's the role of the scribes really.
Exactly. Yeah. That totally makes sense. Any other thoughts on this one?
Anyone else who hasn't chimed in? Adam or Lil Green? Scarecrow? No other thoughts on this one?
All right, let's move on to the last one. All right, and here, I'm going to hand this off to Pumpkin. We're talking about the pint-sized slasher. This is the character inside tranquility lane that is murdering everybody.
It's the little kid who's murdering everybody. So the back story for the pint-sized slasher is that he's a adolescence that runs around with a clown-nascong, striped black and white shirt, blue jeans, and like a candice-type shoe running around murdering people with a kitchen knife. It's not a toy knife, it's a kitchen knife. And it's either told is like a boogeyman type of story.
Or a boogeyman kind of story. But with things that you can discover after post-war, it kind of pushes in the fact that he could be an actual person. Like was an actual person before the bomb straw? So there was an actual pint-sized slasher.
And then that story got circulated. And so moms would tell their kids, like, don't say how to you mate, the pint-sized slasher will come and get you. And then on top of that, this became the second most popular Halloween costume. After Captain Cosmo, I believe, was the most popular Halloween costume the year before the bomb dropped.
Or the year when the bomb dropped. So the question is, is this a real character? Is this a real person? So in, I think it's point and lookout.
That's the Fallout 3 one, point lookout. You can find two separate masks that are the pint-sized slasher masks. Now one of them could be a costume mask because you find it in the cave with the little kid. I can never remember what I do.
It's a long time since I've played the point like that. Yeah, that's fine. That's how all of this stuff is at this point. It's in a dumpster where, just in the back of his area, and that one could easily be the costume.
Whereas the other one that you can find is the one that I kind of look at more as being, it could possibly be the one. Like the real mask from the real slap. So in, it's the hotel room that, it's the same hotel that you go to do the Chinese spy quest. But it's in a separate room.