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PLOT AND EXPLORE

Welcome to the plot page! Here we will list current obstacles that can be overcome to gain access to new areas and plot items that need to be addressed.

If you have questions in developing your approach or are looking for clarification, please leave a comment here!

While we encourage cooperation, we understand that multiple different groups/people may want to go about solving the same plot different ways. Plots that more than one character/group can claim will be designated as such. These plots will have a 'claim up to' date to allow multiple claims. On that date, all requests will be processes.

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EXPLORE

CURRENT BLOCKADES TO BE OVERCOME:

Overseers Offices / Entrance Door
These are two plots, but as the solutions are similar are lumped together. The doors leading to the room labeled Overseers Office or Entrance are both currently sealed shut. Terminals are located to the side of each door. Impressive hacking skills or powerful force will be needed to open these doors. MULTIPLE PEOPLE/TEAMS MAY CLAIM THIS PLOT.

PLOT

CURRENT TASKS TO BE PERFORMED:

Computer Terminal Reading
All the terminals in the vault now have power. Spread around different rooms, some of these terminals have simple password protections (and possible searching near a few terminals will find the password) while others are easily accessible. What new information can be gained from going through the logs? Please include what room the terminal your character is accessing is in.MULTIPLE PEOPLE/TEAMS MAY CLAIM THIS PLOT.

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Flat | Top-Level Comments Only

Characters involved: Zhao Yunlan, Saya Takagi
Plan of action: They want to look for the Overseer's office, attempt to break into it, and look for hackable computer equipment with information on the Vault's history, structure, and outside conditions. Yunlan can pick/jimmy simple mechanical locks; Saya can hack and program.
Relevant threads: Here!
Additional information: Yunlan has a police baton lent to him by Sandy that he can use to try breaking down barriers if necessary. (However, he doesn't have lockpicks -- he's going to need to go exploring for wire pieces if he needs to pick the lock.)

To open the Overseer's office, the computer terminal next to it will need to be fully online. That will require the Vault power to be back up. Yunlan and Saya are free to figure that out while trying to pry open the door!

Thank you!

Now the power is on, would the two of them like to try again sometime this month?

Yes, they will! It will be after Saya's been treated for her radiation poisoning.

It will take a while tinkering with the terminal to unlock the door, then some force to pull it open once the lock is undone as the opening mechanism has rusted. You're welcome to play out the process, if you like. A log will go up this weekend for the opening of the office and meeting a new NPC!

Please go to this log to investigate the office!

Characters involved: Saya Takagi
Plan of action: After powering the bunker, opening the overseer's door and encountering the Gutsy unit and passing inspection; Saya plans to spend a great deal of time going over any relevant information that can be accessed from the terminals she now has access to including whatever her clearance provided by the Mr. Gutsy gave her.
Relevant threads: Opening the Overseers door and encountering the Mr. Gutsy.
Additional information: Saya still has the tools given to her by Yun should she need to do some work on the terminals. Other than that, whatever technical knowledge she has and has learned through investigating this new place.

Edited 2020-06-19 17:30 (UTC)

She can access all terminals save the one in the Overseer's office, Simmons is very strict about chain of command and that only the Overseer is allowed access to that one.

In the terminals within the dormitory/civilian area there are mostly fragments of personal journals, while in the laboratory area she can kind find more fragments of lab notes from the scientists. With her hacking, we can say she can access and fully check a terminal per day, as some data will need reconstructing. Or she can rush a bit and get only readily available data at the rate of 2-3 per day. The terminals available are:

Male dorm terminal
Female dorm terminal
Maintenance room (she will have to wait for Nick to be gone for this one)
Testing area observation 1
Testing area observation 2
Testing area observation 3

Where would she like to start?

Edited 2020-06-19 18:07 (UTC)

Saya will take her time. She likes doing things right! If she does somehow find a way to speed up the investigation, she'll do it, but not at the cost of losing valuable information.

For priority's sake, I'll denote what she would focus on and trickle down from there on her list barring any changes due to events occuring around the Vault.

Maintenance Room (Whenever she has a chance to, she'll focus on this one first.) While waiting on opportunities to continue working on this one, she'll go down this path:
Testing 1 > Female Dorm > Testing 2 > Male Dorm > Testing 3.

Unfortunately, time stamps have been corrupted on all terminals, making it impossible to tell if entries are in the correct order.

Only one non-corrupted entry is able to be opened.

Subject pool has begun displaying increased agitation following temporary escape of subject 002-03. Prolonged increased baseline sympathetic nervous system activity may be detrimental to future trials. Virus modifications have not accounted for resulting alterations in immunoresponse. I’ve suggested to the Overseer increased monitoring of baseline health of subject pool through routine medical examinations. An excuse of a newfound disease in the vault resulting in the state of subject 002-03 and required testing to control for potential exposure should quiet the pool for a time, though not forever. We must increase testing speed. We cannot allow this branch of research to be prematurely ended due to a fluke.

When I find out who left that door unsealed I’m going to kill them.

Reconstructed data. These were previously corrupted, but with work reconstructed.

Subject remained coherent until time of death. Cause of death: self-inflicted injury. Levels of aggression increased to unanticipated heights; sedatives remained ineffective. Suggests enhanced resistance to chemical exposure in addition to radiation.

A technical success. Pity there’s no one to share the champagne with.

This entry appears to have been written and deleted several times over in addition to corruption, leading to some unrecoverable words in the entry.

Fucking project Rescan. He's going to do it. The Overseer has slowly shifted resources towards their division for weeks and now that asshole's finally getting his way.

[corrupted]

I won’t let it happen. I’ll prove this modification works. With or without the Overseer granting us additional subjects.

Is she able to copy these files to the Pip-boy data tab? Or make manual copies onto it?

Now that she has rebuilt the files, they can be accessible to anyone, but all the data remain on the terminal itself. She can scrounge some paper from the ruined books and a pen if she wants to write them down, however!

Fair enough! That's perfect thanks!

One uncorrupted entry can be found.

One year. That’s the count down. Anyone can survive a year, right? Right. A year underground with no sun. No sky. No trees. Walls closing in.

It’s only a year. Then Vault-Tec will let us know where we can go, what places survived. They couldn’t have blown up the whole world. Some bombs must have been hit before they could launch and wreck everything. Somewhere must be there. Australia. Or too close to China? Somewhere in Africa. Somewhere hot and sunny. People sailed before atomic power. We could do it again.

Just one year.

This entry was deleted, but had yet to be fully purged from the system.

There haven’t been any bodies. That’s weird, right? Before the war, you would see the body at the funeral. Get to say goodbye or spit in their face one more time. But here it’s just an urn of ashes, same size, color, and shape for everyone. To stop the infection spreading, the doctors say. But not a single body? Not even to look at through a window before they burn it? No one gets to say goodbye. Not while the person is sick, not when they’re dead. They’re just gone one day. Can't even be sure it's not just dust in the urn.

It’s weird. My stomach hurts thinking about it.

God, don’t let me be sick, too.

In the pieced together corrupted data, Saya can clearly see this computer was kept as a general use terminal for the whole dorm. While names attached to the files are unavailable, there are numerous small notes ranging from reminding people the dorm is a shared space: pick up your socks, to making fun of one dorm inhabitant for having a crush on another, to a lecture on how eating sugar bombs in bed is how we get ants. A few odd notes can also be found here and there, wishing a quick recovery to vault members that have gone into the isolation wing for medical treatment and some people calling dibs on various items if the person doesn’t come back (followed by stern notes about how inappropriate that kind of ‘joking’ is, their parents are going to be informed about this).

Noted! Saya will start relaying the information in the pip-boy network as she comes by the info! I'll start with the previous one and move up daily with each passing day she can manage to gather info on the terminals. Thank you!

Non-corrupted entry

Forced evolutionary virus strain c366-43a marked for triage. No improvement in cognition over previous attempts. Potential use for future military application once method of imprinting to allied forces determined. Such an undertaking relatively low priority, but submitted to Overseer for consideration.

We must double our efforts on remaining strains. While vault remains sealed, potential contamination of subject by outside radiation remains possible. Time is of the essence.

One corrupted entry is recovered

Stage one of project Rescan has been registered as a success. Entire scientific team to submit to brains scan protocol ‘as soon as convenient.’ There must be a way to slow it down. This cannot be the solution to preserve our humanity.

Noted! Thank you!

This computer has been particularly damaged, and Saya can tell it was potentially intentionally corrupted from a previous person skilled in hacking. All entries require reconstruction and there are several entries that cannot be pieced back together.

Entry 1

It’s happening tonight. We can’t live this way anymore. Too many disappearances, too many unanswered questions. That creature in the hall. I don’t care what they say, that was no fucking disease. No skin condition. That thing wasn’t human. And nothing from Vault-Tec. No long awaited signal we can leave.

There’s still more of us than them. We just need to take the Overseer office. They scientists can hide in their precious pod room all they like, we’ll get them later.
There’s no choice.

Entry 2
Well fuck.

Entry 3

The final entry is someone’s notes on experimenting with a recipe to recreate the iconic Nuka-Cola beverage. It has many side notes on different combinations of ingredients and some fine ranting about how they are so close, what is the secret. At the end they manage a non-carbonated variant that apparently tastes ‘disappointing’ but has some restorative properties.

Using scrounged sources of sugar and flavoring, characters can now create ‘Mocka-Cola,’ which will increase the body’s natural healing rate a small amount. No where near as potent as a stimpak, it’s still helpful in a pinch and doesn’t require any robot assistance to make/access.

Mocka-cola! I love it! Noting this in my research. Thanks!

Of the five experiment report files she can check, only the fourth entry is non-corrupted and accessible. It reads:

Subject 004-02. Modified FEV injection appears promising. In contrast to previous attempts, subject has maintained ambulation and some coherence two weeks following exposure. Preliminary data support my previous theory this mutant strain may benefit from continued radiation exposure following acclimation to host. I have requested permission for maintained high radiation levels in testing chamber. Louis remains unconvinced cognition will survive such measures, but I'm certain the overseer will understand the merit of this modified protocol. As he so often likes to say, humanity depends on us.

Saya can reconstruct two additional entries:

Personal Entry. Underwent my brain scan today. The processes appears relatively harmless, despite concerns from other members of the research team. More a personality imprint than anything else. I don’t see it replacing our research as a viable alternative anytime soon. Pretty sure the fact the Overseer’s kid is on that team is why it’s getting such a push. Not that I’m saying that out loud.

And not that that fact matters to a certain co-worker. He refused to undergo the scan, of course. He’s been placed under house arrest until he goes. Dramatic guy, that one. The Overseer is more upset about the chain of command not being respected than any actual damage to the project. But try talking that into his thick head. For a genius, he’s an idiot sometimes. He’s going to sink our projects on his own with these kinds of stunts.

Going to give him a med-X and drag him to the scan room myself if he doesn’t get over it by the end of the week.

Entry 2

Critical notes placed with Overseer. Testing chamber doors sealed. My god, how did it go down hill so fast. I don’t even know how to use a gun.

Edited 2020-06-26 19:08 (UTC)

Looks like this one has more proof of everything going downhill >.< Thanks!

Saya has to wait until Nick is called in by Simmons for an inspection/debriefing, then she is able to spend a couple hours straight with the computer.

There are several non-corrupted entries in the terminal, all having to do with mundane requests and ‘order received’ notices of vault repair. Reading enough of the repairs, she can piece together a good description of just how the water recycling system works, making future repairs much easier (so long as no new parts are needed, those are all custom Vault-Tec items). Saya will also learn it involves recycling of all ‘waste water’ collected from the bathrooms for re-consumption, meaning she has to live with the knowledge of drinking purified former-urine.

There is a less detailed layout for the air system, but she can get an idea of where the main filter is if that should ever need a repair.

There is one corrupted file she can piece back together.

Four yards of lead and steel between me and success. Father won’t open the door for me. Almost three years since the bombs fell, no word from Vault-Tec, and he still won’t open the damn door. Breach of protocol. Yes, unsealing the Vault will let in radiation, an unknown amount, but those whackos over in project FEV are playing with the stuff like it’s glitter at a bachelorette party anyway. If Rescan is going to be anything more than a back-up drive we need a radio tower. To build a tower we need to get outside. It’s not that damn hard.

But he won’t let me out, even disabled the pip-boy manual override to open the door so I can’t get out without him. Figured that out when he caught me trying to do just that. Got slapped with a week in maintenance as punishment, told me I’m lucky not to be shot for mutiny. Now the project’s even further behind. Great job, dad. Father of the year award winner yet again.

At least everything else is in place. Theoretically. We just need that tower to test it.

This! Is really good info! Thank you!

Those are all the entries! Feel free to ask for any follow up items you may come up with.

These were all great, thank you very much. Saya will be keeping all the notes and, if possible will be adding a few extra things to her knowledge base. Also, will need to have a word with Simmons.

Characters involved: Saya Takagi
Plan of action: Two things she'd like to do as soon as possible. A)Verify the water recycling system and the air filtration system and make blueprints others can follow if repairs should be needed and she's not around. B)Request to speak with Simmons and inquire if there's any plans/goals that need to be focused on at the moment. What does he want of the group, particularly of Saya since she's been doing the technical repairs. Does he need any repairs and/or maintenance?
Relevant threads: Knowledge found on the water and air systems
Additional information: ANYTHING ELSE YOU THINK WE SHOULD KNOW. Just her knowledge. For the blueprints, she'll do manual ones if there's enough paper and writing materials to do the drafts. For speaking with Simmons, she'll opt not to bring anything extra to try and demonstrate obedience and willingness to work.

Edited 2020-06-28 19:19 (UTC)

For the systems, she can verify that, yes, the notes she found match up to what she can figure out about them through observation. She's welcome to make back-up plans, there are enough ruined books and folders to repurpose laying around that she can write an entire encyclopedia if she ever wanted to.

For Simmons, excellent timing! A post to interact with him will be going up a little later today. If that doesn't cover what she is looking for, reply here and we'll suss it out!

Characters involved: Azula
Plan of action: Azula wants somewhere to spar and work out, so she's decided to repurpose the classroom.
Relevant threads:
The thread that led Azula to exploring the Classroom for information.

The post where I asked about making a training room.
Additional information: She's going to try and separate the items in the room into two separate rooms in the male dorms. One room for trash and broken things, one room for anything they might still find useful but she doesn't want in the Training Classroom like extra desks or glass.

Of course if she finds anything she wants for herself it's going right into her room.

Anything that's too heavy she'll just attempt to push against the wall so it's out of the way.

Once the room is cleared or enough space is cleared she'll clean it up...but it's unbecoming for a Princess to be seen cleaning so she'll try and do it when she thinks no one will see her.

Approved! The locations page will be updated.

For items to find, there are the desks with some pens, pencils, and ruined books in them, a globe under the teacher's desk, and the broken projector and screen. If there are any small everyday items (like a lunch box or toy alien) you'd like her to find as well, feel free. There just won't be anything super helpful in the area.

Thank you!

She will keep the following items in the training room for training purposes.

Pencils: For knife related training.

Ruined books: Stuff them in bags and use them as weights to lift (So long as they aren't moldy and smelly.)

Globe: If it is in tact and solid it could make a useful training tool. If it is hollow but in tact she'll keep it herself.

Characters involved: Jiro Azuma, Elizabeth Dewitt
Plan of action: Jiro's going to dig out some debris and Elizabeth intends to stabilize the hallway/tunnel with pieces from currently unused dormitory bunks.
Relevant threads: Here
Additional information: Eventually, they want to get Louis involved and use his flamethrower to weld and curve metal for holding up the tunnel.

Hi! While Louis will have to be talked into it, this is a definite plan! Radroaches will occasionally crawl out of the holes as they excavate and will have to be dealt with, but otherwise it's doable.

OOCly it will take them until June 1st to complete creating a stabilized tunnel, and the newly opened section of the Vault will be included as part of the second pod opening day. Those involved in creating it will of course get first dibs on exploring/looting.

Characters involved: Chocolat Misu & Takagi Saya
Plan of action: As part of Chocolat's conversation with Nick to restore both power and lighting to the Vault, Chocolat does her best to figure out how the technology of the vault works. It isn't until she found the Vault-Tec Big Book of Science that she really decided to take action. Reaching out for anyone who has far more tech experience than her, Chocolat meet's Saya for the first time. They gather together what limited resources they have (the metal nuts, scrap metal, and what little electric wiring chocolat hasn't used while fighting the creature in chamber 2) and what information is available in the manual to try and reset the reactor.

Hopefully with Saya's knowledge and Chocolates brute strength they should be able to get somethings together. The only real worry is the radiation, which they only have the radiation suits in the reactor level to help them.

Relevant threads:
Saya will be commenting to thread 1 of Chocolat's top level in order to try and start figuring their way around the reactors workings.

Additional information: Chocolat and Saya will be taking two of the functioning radiation suits on the reactor level in order to complete this task.

Good work team! It takes a couple hours, but with instructions, gathered supplies, and teamwork the reactor slowly churns back to life. And the radiation in the room skyrockets as it gets going, so best for them to run fast once and close the door behind them once it begins.

Unfortunately, even with the suits those that worked in the reactor room gain moderate radiation poisoning. This causes severe nausea, vomiting, and feelings of weakness. As a mod note, there is a cure to this currently available in the vault! Your characters are not going to be in pain for the long haul, but it may be a rough couple days. Characters impacted should reply here or in one of the NPC threads for the monthly log with how they'll seek treatment.

Now that the electricity is on, full lighting kicks in across the vault. All the computer terminals light fully up, connecting to their networks. This includes the newly opened testing area, which while lacking access to the backup power is now back on the main grid. Hacking the computers will be a new exploration item.

New quest options and an OOC note to the main community will go up shortly. Good work!

Chocolat and Saya are going to be lead to the infirmary by Sandy in order to speak with Carlotte to deal with this nasty little bout of poisoning.

Awesome! After two injections of Radaway each the pair are on the mend. It will take a couple hours to fully feel better, and they'll have an increased need to pee for 24 hours. Otherwise they'll be right as rain.

Characters involved: Sandy
Plan of action: Now that the power is back on, Sandy wants to return to the testing area and will start searching the area for passwords that people might have left behind. Especially focusing on chamber 3 because that thing looks like a nightmare. If she manages to find a password she'll take to the nearest terminal to read it.
Relevant threads: Here's where you said the power was back on.
Additional information: Sandy will be equipped with one of the batons and a helmet that she found in the lockers earlier.;

Edited 2020-06-10 23:33 (UTC)

It takes some looking around, but she manages to find a password taped to the bottom of a desk in the testing area, apparently one of the previous people weren't great at remembering them. Putting it into the terminal in test room 3 will bring up two options:

EXPERIMENT REPORT
UNLOCK DOOR

Of the five experiment report files she can check, only the fourth entry is non-corrupted and accessible. It reads:

Subject 004-02. Modified FEV injection appears promising. In contrast to previous attempts, subject has maintained ambulation and some coherence two weeks following exposure. Preliminary data support my previous theory this mutant strain may benefit from continued radiation exposure following acclimation to host. I have requested permission for maintained high radiation levels in testing chamber. Louis remains unconvinced cognition will survive such measures, but I'm certain the overseer will understand the merit of this modified protocol. As he so often likes to say, humanity depends on us.

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