Bruce Beach's "Ark II" Fallout Shelter

[aaronacephalous]

42 school buses, a whole lot of cement, and plenty of creepy -- if I still had a machine that'd run the GECK, I'd already be building the Ark II mod myself. But I don't, so all I can do is post about it here.

 

The way in, with cargo conveyors and a decontamination shower:

 

http://www.radmeters4u.com/arktwo/photooutside/x04park.jpg

 

http://www.radmeters4u.com/arktwo/photoinside/zbottomconveyor.jpg

 

http://www.radmeters4u.com/arktwo/photoinside/zdeconshower.jpg

 

The main power panel. (Mind the puddles.)

 

http://www.radmeters4u.com/arktwo/photoinside/zpowerpanel.jpg

 

An example of a bunkroom.

 

http://www.radmeters4u.com/arktwo/photoinside/zbunksbothsides.jpg

 

And the corresponding dayroom, which is said to be at least twice as big as it looks -- so, two postage stamps.

 

http://www.radmeters4u.com/arktwo/photoinside/zdayroom.jpg

 

Impressive fire-preparedness measures. I'm feeling more confident already.

 

http://www.radmeters4u.com/arktwo/photoinside/zfirestation3.jpg

 

One of the kitchens, presumably captured via the internal surveillance system. (The internal surveillance system! Be comforted by the all-seeing eye of Overseer Beach, and rest easy in the knowledge that, as with every Vault-Tec Vault, your well-being and mental hygiene are continuously monitored and reviewed!)

 

http://www.radmeters4u.com/arktwo/photoinside/zkitchen.jpg

 

The adult day room; the cage behind the table is the pharmacy, which...doesn't look like stretching to three hundred people, is all I can say. (Yeah, that's how many are supposed to be able to survive in this thing, for I'm not sure how long but it must be at least a year or two.)

 

http://www.radmeters4u.com/arktwo/photoinside/zpharmacy.jpg

 

And, finally, the dental suite, complete with X-ray machine behind the chair.

 

http://www.radmeters4u.com/arktwo/photoinside/zdental.jpg

 

...and you thought your dentist's office was scary. It'd have to be one hell of a toothache, that's all I can say.

 

There's a map of the bunker, which is worth a look just for its hints to Overseer Beach's frame of mind -- and because, otherwise, you'd never know there was a sensory deprivation tank in there! (It's behind the pharmacy cage, but you can't see it because there's a wall in the way.) Apparently, sleeping in there with some Bach or some Beethoven, plus maybe a supplement or two from the handily located pharmacy, is all you need to take care of cabin fever -- which is good, if it works, because otherwise I can imagine there'd be blood dripping from the unsettlingly curved ceilings before a month had gone by.

 

There's also a website put together by Overseer Beach himself -- like the map, not to be missed, especially since it includes views of the surface-level fixtures that I didn't bother posting here. Modders would do well to take a close look at this Penn and Teller interview, assuming you can stand Penn and Teller at all; aside from some interior shots not present on the website, it spends a lot of time wandering around the surface buildings, so you can get a better idea of scale and of how the place should be laid out topside.

 

And -- as though it even needs to be said -- this place is screaming to be in Fallout -- for that matter, it looks like it's already three-quarters of the way there. (Seriously, that table and chairs in the day room/pharmacy?) I'd do it myself if I could, but I can't, so I'm putting it here instead. Here's hoping.

[pkleiss]

Overseer Beach sure is proud of all those new safeco locks he's put on all the doors, eh? Sadly, I am from that region of Ontario. It makes me wonder whats been added to the water supply since I've been gone. I love how the adult day room is cut in half by the pharmacy. Men don't need space anyway. They'll just kill the kids and take their day room when the need arises. That website hasn't been updated since 2001, I wonder what it looks like now?