"Thank you for listening to Commonwealth Public Radio, your donation of caps and ammo can help us stay on the air"

[JackTheBehemothKiller]

Edit: I guess I need to clarify something.

This is just a concept piece. It is not meant to be the exact script, it's not meant to be exactly what you'll hear. There will be other news items, just like on every single other radio station within the Commonwealth and the other two previous Fallout games.

Three Dog doesn't only have one script that he follows, he mentions several things that the player does as well as numerous things not even related to the player. This would be a similar radio station with similar effects.

 

I wrote this around my character and how I saw everything happening. It is not meant to reflect your character, just to get you in the mood of what I would like to see/hear happening in my Commonwealth.

 

 

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:Banjo plays joyously and enthusiastically:

 

Strip: "Hello and welcome to Survivor Talk on Commonwealth Public Radio with us, Strip and Scrap the Scavenger Brothers!"

 

Scrap: "We're broadcasting

 

Strip, sotto voce: "As always"

 

Scrap: "From Our Fair City"

 

Both: "Boston, Mass!"

 

Strip: "So, as I do every time the Rad Storms are weak, I brought my '63 Corvega out of the garage to polish around the rust"

 

Scrap, laughing: "You STILL have that thing!?!"

 

Strip: "And after I was done, I took her out to head to my favorite junkyard to scrounge for some aluminum. On the way, a band of Raiders ambushed me and were about to attack. I honestly thought I was done for."

 

Scrap: "I could be so lucky"

 

Strip: "Out of the blue, this girl drops in from nowhere in a full suit of X-01 power armor!"

 

Scrap: "No way, I'd have to have all the caps I've ever loaned you to get one of those!"

 

Strip: "So this girl turns to the leader of the group and casually demands that he turn on his fellows"

 

Scrap: "That poor thing, was there enough left of her to scrape into a grave?"

 

Strip: "The fool did it! I don't know if he was coming down off Jet, if she was off her gourd on Grape Mentats, or some combination that I'm not even aware of but he turned around and put a round in the Raider next to him! Next thing I know I'm in the middle of a firefight and this girl unholsters the biggest Gauss rifle I have EVER seen, pauses to take aim and completely incinerates three of the remaining Raiders! As soon as it started it's over and this lady is checking through the dust piles to see if there's anything good. The leader has started to recover from what he did enough to snap out of whatever this woman did to him and starts to aim his pipe rifle at her."

 

Scrap: "Like that would do anything to a set of X-01!"

 

Strip: "Fortunately for almost all involved, I had also recovered enough from the surprise of the ambush enough to throw a hatchet into his neck!"

 

Scrap: "You forgot your laser pistol again, didn't you?"

 

Strip: "No! That piece of crap you gave me still doesn't work! I've swapped out every single part on there! It's a new pistol and it still doesn't work!"

 

Scrap: "You know you're no good with anything designed after 2075! Give it back, I'll fix it for you"

 

Strip: "Anyways, she looks up when the raider leader falls dead at her side, stops looking through the ashes of one of the raiders she killed and tosses something to me."

 

Scrap: "Is that where you got... ?"

 

Strip: "Yeah! She threw me a brand new Recon Scoped .50 Cal Sniper Rifle!"

 

Scrap whistles in awe

 

Strip: "And that, ladies and ghouls, is how I met the Scourge of the Institute, General of the Minutemen, Agent of the Railroad, and all around good gal; The Sole Survivor!"

 

Sole Survivor: "Glad to be here guys, Scrap how did this guy ever survive with such bad luck with his weapons?"

 

All three laugh.

 

Scrap: "I honestly don't know. I saw him make a guy in a hat and trench coat laugh once, maybe that guy keeps him safe because it amuses him. In any case, we are very glad you found us, were able to help out my brother, and even more glad that you were able to come in for an interview."

 

Massive explosion audible on air

 

:Footsteps heard entering the hole where the locked door was:

 

Super Mutant Overlord: "I found you, puny human! Now you will payyy!!!"

 

:gunshots, Super Mutant screeching in pain, Strip and Strap throwing out stupid jokes, Overlord dies in a blaze of gunfire:

 

Sole Survivor: "And you call us dum dums"

 

All Laugh

 

Strip: "That's all the time we have for the show today, folks! Tune in next time when we interview one of the Sole Survivor's closest friends Preston Garvey to see what we should do to help our settlements!"

 

Scrap: "Don't scavenge like my brother!"

 

Strip: "Don't scavenge like my brother!"

 

:Banjos, banjos everywhere:

 

 

 

 

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And that's what I want to hear on my radio.

 

 

Cambridge Square is where this would be located, it would probably need to be a new location as I don't think anything is there. Northwest of the police station, and Southwest of College Square. The two images at the bottom are the actual location and a rough location of where it would be in-world.

 

I posted this (originally) on Reddit where it was very well received, in the ensuing discussion there were several good ideas and things that got thrown up.

 

In my head I saw:

Strips - Ghoul, been living in Cambridge since before the bombs dropped. Owned a handyman business beforehand (I believe there's a Red Rocket just northwest of College Square, maybe that was his before the war, or he rented out part of the garage?)

Scraps - amalgamation of various generation/types of synths. The head was found by Strips in an operational state and called out to him while he was scavenging. Eventually gets a full body by their joint scavenging (I wrote this before Automatron came out, so a lot of this flows into the abilities you get in that DLC.) For some unknown reason Scraps has the memories of a pre-war old man with the initials T.M. who lived just outside Cambridge. In the garage of his house you'd find a black Corvega that, while in poor condition, is still operational.

 

The callers would call in and ask for aid with general problems: sick brahmin, best turret type for use near mirelurks, complaints about/how to deal with an untrustworthy trader, etc. Most of them would be complete nonsense and just an excuse for the characters to play off of each other, but every third or fourth would be something tied to a hidden quest, or how to find a particular unique weapon, or something else that the player would be able to use.

 

I can see some sort of joke when they first met before they had each other's real name. Strips says that he'd be able to make a scrap body for Scraps, Scraps gets offended and makes a joke about the strips of skin hanging off Strips.

 

 

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/RAUWJ7E.png?1

 

 

 

http://i.imgur.com/2qh4yV0.png?2

[JackTheBehemothKiller]

Of course, I would love to help write/script this, whatever needs doing, I just don't know enough about the mod programs to actually do the work. But setup I can most definitely help with

[JackTheBehemothKiller]

Is anyone interested in this? Did no one listen to CarTalk on NPR?

[Fenryr3001]

Problem with that would be that it wouldn't fit for anyone that doesn't play a female,siding with the minutemen and being a railroad agent, using X-01 and a Gauss rifle.And it would sound weird as hell if she had another voice actor.I like the idea,but I'd keep it like Radio New Vegas (Without Johnny Guitar,thank you very much),only mentioning you in news reports,and then trying to keep the gender as open as possible.

Edited April 3, 2016 by Fenryr3001

[JackTheBehemothKiller]

Problem with that would be that it wouldn't fit for anyone that doesn't play a female,siding with the minutemen and being a railroad agent, using X-01 and a Gauss rifle.And it would sound weird as hell if she had another voice actor.I like the idea,but I'd keep it like Radio New Vegas (Without Johnny Guitar,thank you very much),only mentioning you in news reports,and then trying to keep the gender as open as possible.

 

I wrote it to reflect my character and how she does what she does around the Commonwealth. It could be changed any number of ways. The opening scene could be scripted, there could be several different scripts for the opener depending on how the player saved Strip, it could even be handwaved as something that happened without the player knowing they had saved Strip.

 

As it is, it's a concept piece to showcase something that I'd like to have happen. It's not meant to be the exact script of how it has to happen.

 

You follow?

[Jeffman12]

Count me in if something needs doing in the near term.

 

I'm not well versed with modding, but I'm sure I could help with a little direction. I've also been thinking about trying to do a little voicework somewhere.

[zanity]

You'll get radio stations like this WHEN the GECK arrives. Want to know how LIMITED pre-GECK radio modding is? Well modded stations currently can't even properly randomise the playback of their track list.

 

Control of dialogue trees (including radio track order) is something the GECK will revolutionise, very quickly indeed.

[JackTheBehemothKiller]

You'll get radio stations like this WHEN the GECK arrives. Want to know how LIMITED pre-GECK radio modding is? Well modded stations currently can't even properly randomise the playback of their track list.

 

Control of dialogue trees (including radio track order) is something the GECK will revolutionise, very quickly indeed.

I know it's going to take the GECK, but I'm trying to plant the seed right now. Could start doing the voice-work and whatnot.

[abdia]

Problems

1. Does not reflect people's actions. -Can be resolved if they reflect story actions ONLY and keeps it very non detailed
2. The ending does not make any sense whatsoever, if the sole survivor is listening to the radio, then how is he/she in the broadcasting room itself? -Can be resolved by cutting the ending
3. WAAAY too short, although it will be looped, but they are not gonna get attacked by super-mutant overlords every 2 minutes? Also, they would repeat already said things like: 'I'll fix it for you.'
4. If this is gonna be lopped, as all radio stations are, they will be saying the same things, as they will be saying the exact same things to each other, over and over again, which will eventually lose the listener's interest, and they will stop listening.
5. You will need at least 10+ ways of explaining each event in the storyline, so as, when they loop randomly, the listener does not get bored when they repeat the same message for people who maybe just tuned in, that means 10 different scripts, all explaining the same event in the storyline. Do not forget that there are numerous significant storyline events to announce.

[JackTheBehemothKiller]

 

Problems

1. Does not reflect people's actions. -Can be resolved if they reflect story actions ONLY and keeps it very non detailed
2. The ending does not make any sense whatsoever, if the sole survivor is listening to the radio, then how is he/she in the broadcasting room itself? -Can be resolved by cutting the ending
3. WAAAY too short, although it will be looped, but they are not gonna get attacked by super-mutant overlords every 2 minutes? Also, they would repeat already said things like: 'I'll fix it for you.'
4. If this is gonna be lopped, as all radio stations are, they will be saying the same things, as they will be saying the exact same things to each other, over and over again, which will eventually lose the listener's interest, and they will stop listening.
5. You will need at least 10+ ways of explaining each event in the storyline, so as, when they loop randomly, the listener does not get bored when they repeat the same message for people who maybe just tuned in, that means 10 different scripts, all explaining the same event in the storyline. Do not forget that there are numerous significant storyline events to announce.

 

This is not the exact script. It's not exactly what you're going to hear when you turn on Commonwealth Public Radio. It's a concept

 

I edited the initial post. Also, I think I briefly touched on all of those issues previously in this thread. Do those previous posts work to address your concerns? Do they bring up new ones?

I'd love to flesh this out properly