Stashing Bottle Caps

[GETbacon]

maybe one of the capping plants was hit by an off target nuke spreading millions of caps all over world (or just the us as there have been no reports of other contrys using the caps as currency)

 

and if nuka-cola was world wide and since there is no compaction then there would be more then enough caps in the entirety of the world.

 

CARTOON LOGIC FOR THE WIN!!!

[HavocPL]

Ansfer is simple.Pre-war Nuka-Cola Challenge:)

Something like this: "send us 100 nuka-cola bottle caps,and you have the cup or something else"

[PerroLoco53218]

NukaCola-VaultTec Worldwide Corp

Publicly traded on the NYSE & FTSE, DAX, CAC, Nikkei, Hang Seng & Shanghai exchanges

 

The NukaCola Worldwide Corporation sponsored a lottery beginning in 2063, issuing specially marked NukaCola bottle caps as lottery tickets in an effort to increase their already astronomical world-wide sales. Just prior to the inauguration of this lottery NukaCola-VaultTec CEO, former Vice President "Rick" Cheney implemented a drastic change in the secret, proprietary NukaCola formula adding an incredibly addictive nicotine-derived amphetamine compound. Needless to say, sales skyrocketed. The fact that potable water resources were being contaminated on a scale never imagined possible by anyone other than Al Gore created a world-wide scarcity of drinking water, exacerbating the demand for the highly addictive soft drink.

 

About the same time, that is just a few years before China's ill-fated Alaska misadventure, Vault-Tec facilities were beginning to come on line. However, in spite of increasing international tensions, sales of Vault-Tec shelter space remained sluggish. NukaCola-VaultTec marketing people reasoned that the lottery could be used to stimulate sales of the extravagantly expensive VaultTec shelter space if they played their cards right.

 

Up until this point only the very wealthy could afford to take shelter in any of the Vaults, so NukaCola-VaultTec began to offer deluxe apartment accommodations in various Vaults as major lottery prizes. By the time Atomic War broke out in the fall of 2077, VaultTec had built more than 18,000 vaults. These included 7654 vaultsin mainland China, 7824 Vaults in the Continental U.S., 4212 in Europe, 601 in Australia, 75 in Israel, 12 scattered throughout other regions of the Middle East, 4 in Russia, 1 each in Denmark, Norway & Sweden, no vaults were ever built in Canada or any part of Africa. )... since EVERYONE wanted the guarantee of survival that VaultTec offered, it was a no-brainer.

 

The object, of course was to get people to try the product once. Since the stuff was more addictive than heroin, it came as no surprise that the NukaCola divisions in China & the U.S. actually had to open additional bottling facilities to meet the demand. Because the Chinese were absolutely convinced of the U.S. nuclear superiority, literally billions of Chinese were drinking a couple of 12 packs a day of the stuff in the weeks just before China invaded Alaska. In those final weeks it wasn't uncommon for families to sell their children as slaves to finance their NukaCola purchases! As it turns out, the same thing happened in the U.S., though the traffic in slaves was a little more discrete. So slave trafficking actually started about a year before the bombs started falling.

 

Most NukaCola & VaultTec executives had not foreseen that bottle caps were destined to become the de facto currency of a post-Holocaust world & died of starvation, entombed with trillions of now worthless dollars in various Executive Vaults. However in a super-secret Executive Vault, the location of which was known to only a few few insiders, a NukaCola bottling facility was constructed more than 100 meters underground. This facility continues to crank out 1000s of new bottle caps every hour. These are, of course artifically aged to look as if they were manufactured before the Great War of 2077.

 

It is an open secret that this underground NukaCola bottle cap manufactory employs slave labor and is therefore in many ways responsible for the continued success of the slave trade both in Paradise Falls & other locations world-wide. It is thought that the cyberneticly enhanced former Vice-President "Rick" Cheney continues to direct world-wide NukaCola operations from this secret, undisclosed location. Apparently there are several other underground NukaCola bottling facilities scattered throughout the world but their locations are unknown at this time.

 

Admittedly, while bottle caps don't have much intrinsic value they are (thought to be) a pre-war manufactured item that can no longer be produced^* which implies some degree of rarity. The Wastelanders have accepted them as the equivalent of currency...

 

^*Actually NukaCola caps are still being produced in the secret, underground NukaCola bottling facility buried under some ruins in Langley, Virginia that's presided over by the now 330 year old former Vice President & current NukaCola CEO "Rick" Cheney, whose brain was implanted into a custom built RoboProtectron shortly after his electro-mechanical heart failed 9 years before the Chinese invaded Alaska.

[devdrago12]

Two words.

 

Nuka-Cola Addiction

 

Completely agreed- it even goes with the story above, involving the nicotine. Plus, real life Coca-cola accually had real cocane. So, multiple drugs in all these drinks aren't to far off.

[RideTheCatfish]

I'm sure someone's mentioned this, but my guess is that, considering it's been some two-hundred years since the bombs fell, maybe those caps were stored by post-war survivors for one reason or another.

 

That only somewhat explains the locked safes, though.

[theLeeHarvey]

I can see that, maybe some wastelander finds an abandoned, mostly intact home and decides the filing cabinet in the corner of the basement is a good place to hide his small collection of Nuka-Cola caps. One morning he goes out hunting for molerats so he can eat this week and ends up running across an Albino Radscoorpion that instead feeds on him for the next few days. The caps go forgotten and unfound until some lone wanderer happens across the old home and in a fit of OCD searches every nook and cranny finding the long forgotten caps and tossing them in the ever growing pile he carries around in the big, Santa-esque pack on his back.

[yugimawa]

okay, someone might have said this but to be honest this topic isnt worth reading. Did you stop and think maybe they werent stashed before the war but after???? duh, of course thats it why would you think they were stashed before. in the game your in it 200 years past the war there are no signs that you could possibly know that they were there before the war. Even if they were then it would most likly be a result of Nuka-Cola being the most popular soft drink (obviously a refrence to Coke) so alot of people had the caps maybe someone with half a brain said hey we should use these to trade after the war considering most knew the nuclear bomb was to be droped destroying most pre-war money and caps being metal would last better....i mean indians used freakin corn they most likley did the same thing as the game

 

only question of the matter should be how the heck you can have 5000 bottle caps on you alpng with other items :blink:

[CorrodedSoul]

1st

@yugimawa: where's your humour sense????? as stated over nad over, this is a JOKE/FUN thread, thus let's just have fun!!!!

 

2nd

perroloco, man YOU ARE BRILLIANT!!!!!!! what a mod idea, that gould be grat to see...mmm...thinking about it, a vault, an underground factory, slavers, BoS, Enclave and some lurkers, beside a couple of guarding nuka-bots, the chairman robobrain... HELL YEAH that HAve to be awesome...

 

*....runs like hell, opens geck and start to work....*

 

BTW @perroloco, kudos for that awesome story

[theLeeHarvey]

I hope you do make that into a mod CorrodedSoul, I'll play it for sure.

[Boostopheles]

Now that the true story of Nuka-Cola is finally coming out, I am emboldened to tell all you youngsters the FULL truth. You’ve only been able to put together half of the story. I just hope “they” don’t find me before I can get the whole truth out.

 

Before the War, Nuka-Cola had a fierce rival; Popsi-Cola. Popsi-Cola was as large, profitable and politically powerful as Nuka-Cola, so much so the “management” of Popsi-Cola decided they would try to corner the entire worlds restaurant market.

 

In the 20th century, Popsi bought a world-wide fast-food chain called Taco Bull. In 2039, in an undisclosed seedy Washington DC location, two 20-year old students posing as a pimp and a prostitute video-taped these evil, evil people plotting with government officials to make ALL restaurants in the USA Taco Bull restaurants. After that, the entire world would be subject to this insidious plan! Understand: “Every Single Restaurant In The World a Taco Bull!” My gawd, it would be the end of all civilization!

 

When the plot was revealed, given the gravity of the Pure Evilness of such an attempt, the backlash against Popsi-Cola was enormous, people went mad. Popsi-Cola was forced out of the USA and retreated to China.

 

Now it can be told openly. Popsi-Cola coerced and bribed Chinese officials to invade Alaska in a vain attempt to recapture the North American market, both figuratively and practically. Such is the Money, Influence and unbridled Power of the Colas.

 

Popsi-Cola also has many underground plants in China grinding out “Yencaps” to keep the people enslaved in the never ending cycle of Cola dependence. (The cola-machines in China are blue and white, instead of red and white, ironic eh.)

 

So my friends, what has really been shaping and guiding our entire planets population and behavior for the last 300 hundred years is really… The COLA-WARS. They are behind it “all.”

 

Know that these bastards are relentless. They never sleep, they never stop. I mean, look, not even the ultimate nuclear war stopped them. Be afraid, very, very afraid.

 

But hey, while afraid, take a moment and have a Refreshing Nuka-Cola!