Short stories?

[Senterpat]

I'm working on a mod that adds readable books to the game. Some are fan fics, others are informational, and some are public domain. So I'm looking for some other ideas for short stories to add. If you wanna write a story for the mod that's cool too.

[pintocat]

Civil Defense brochures? http://www.popcultmag.com/oddglimpses/ephemera/nuclear/nuke02.html

[charwo]

I had an idea once about Carrie DeLaney, the teacher from Lamplight running a radio station, and after the first year following the war was ghoulified over the following decades and became as war weary and bitter as Edna Kabappel, telling stories of what the pre-war was like, little snippets of living in DC, trying to weave a grand historical narrative the point being Fallout's pre war world was actually almost like ours until the Resource Wars, except the USSR didn't break-up in 1991, but functioned the same and the 50s kitsch was explicitly by design, especially how almost every piece of equipment in Fallout's world was a skeuomorphism (see the concept in the real world: http://madebymany.com/blog/apples-aesthetic-dichotomy) which actually functioned in high tech ways we are only to beginning to see how. It goes a long way to elaborating on why pre war clothes are almost indestructible, why the limited self replicators in the vending machines allow the 23rd century conesuier to find Salisbury Steak, sugar bombs and nuka cola in the subway tunnels that should long ago have been stripped clean. The basic notion that while America was a totalitarian hole, it was attempting to create a final society, there was a belief that other than intergalactic travel, there was nothing more to discover or do. We see 50s kitsch, they saw themselves building those eternal buildings in the Time Machine's 800,000 AD, designed to last long after man himself had degenerated into beasts. That's the biggest piece of Fallout's pre war: man had become the cog in his own machine: either this last war to fight or nothing to do but drown in comfort. At least for the middle classes...

Stories I wanted to include were about a an American solider in Power Armor who spent three or four years walking from Beijing, where he saw the bombs launch, across the frozen Berring Straight in dead of winter to DC because that was his home, and sick with heartache when he saw all was lost, he died of exhaustion and a broken heart. The inhabitants of Underworld, most of whom were not yet Ghouls, carried him over to Arlington, which was then still passable overland and one dared not go into the subways, and buried him with military honors as best they knew how.

Another is how Doc Borrows deliberately stayed when new human immigrants to Underworld began turning into Ghouls in almost all cases. Most of the still-Humans fled, Borrows stayed on to look for a cure. It paid off in making him nigh immortal and how he wants to understand how ghoulification works for a cure that will end the disfigurement and going feral, but keep the immortality. There's the initial story and then something that hints he's looking for someone to find an autodoc or the pieces for one and build one: he wants to see how skin grafts and rhinoplasties would take to the ghoul population, because if he can't reverse ghoulification, he might be able to remove most of the most disfiguring effects.

And I had some songs too.

Another would involve the Enclave's arrival: when it was known near Raven Rock the Enclave personnel had arrived, there were a large number of ghouls, male and female former soldiers who came the Raven Rock to to join. I mean the Federal Government had come back. America was still alive! So they camp out with the surprisingly well maintained military uniforms of the Great War Era, hoping to help the Enclave rebuild America. Their disillusionment was not pretty, though surprisingly for the Enclave, they weren't killed on the spot. They were however told they were nothing like Humans any more, and thus not entitled to American citizenship nor any human rights. 

[paragonskeep]

Sounds like an awesome idea.

@Charwo: Great ideas and can't wait to read them.

I'd be happy to contribute, time permitting, I'm a creative writing major so if you don't mind a few that I've already written for school. Hopefully they're good.

[charwo]

Wait....someone wants to read them? WOW!!! Um....give me a couple of days and I'll have at least one. Where would I post it though?

[dawe1313]

those do sound interesting, wouldn't mind reading them myself.

i'd say just attach it as an upload here. or start your on thread in the [url=http://www.taleoftwowastelands.com/forums/topic]off topic forum[/url] if you  don't want to hijack Senterpats thread

[Senterpat]

Feel free to post them here. Paragon I'd like to see any stories you have too. As a general rule, Im not using any stories involving major characters. So far there's about 105 books completed, new covers and all, but would like to get up to 200 or so.

[paragonskeep]

Do you want to keep the stories strictly Fallout or is it anything goes? (within reason)

And what format would you prefer? .pdf or .doc?

[Senterpat]

.doc or .txt would be easiest.

Also try to keep them short, as I dont want to have stories tht are going to take over an hour to read, and I can only fit 1000 characters per page.

Fallout universe stories are preferred, though not about actual characters. Though some books that I added aren't fallout stories, so it's not a rule.

[Senterpat]

http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/50598/?tab=4&navtag=%2Fajax%2Fcomments%2F%3Fthread_id%3D1015312%26mod_id%3D50598

 

here's the current version, ready for playing, still looking for more stories. Currently it only has books in New Vegas, CW will get books later.