Hello fellow vault dwellers and raiders alike!

Today is the release of Fallout 76: Wastelanders.

Bethesda has pledged to fix their problem of a game the best way possible. I still hold out hope they will and am confident the addition of the npcs in game and the focus on story will be delicious.

The main issue was implementation and gameplay not the lack of story. I still hope to meet that darn overseer and give her a piece of my mind (and maybe romance her).

That being said here's the release of Strange Bedfellows!

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An entire episode set in the past, we follow Mal who has lost all of his charges to the brutal plague or the wasteland monsters.

Having already stumbled and been drafted as a general in the Enclave by MODUS, he's content. (See what I did there?) The mutations that we will see manifest fully in the future are clearly in their infancy and he himself is not as cynical or beaten down morally as we find him in The Commonwealth.

Enter one Babs.

A woman who has been living on her own much like Mal, but a more savage way of life has made her hardened on the outside to almost anything. Taking refuge in an abandoned visitors center in the suburbs, her family is gone, and having been born outside the vault after the bombs, she has little in terms of old world knowledge. What she lacks in historical knowledge she makes up in spunk, survival instincts and tenacity. Not one to become a monster she has seen many become, she had a past that seems to gnaw at her in it's own way.

As these two rather diametrically opposed personalities meet by sheer accident is where we begin...

Art by the talented Princess Butters.