Mixtapes of the Commonwealth

[Ilsigi]

I grew up in the era of mixtapes and mix-cds being a regular part of life (and to me an integral one). I made quite a few for myself and (mostly) others and received a good amount myself. Each and every one had/has a story behind it.

 

Clearly music has survived in the Fallout world to some extent as it's played on radio stations and performed in clubs/bars. I find it hard to believe with the ability to record audio on holotapes (and using them to record themselves rambling on about all sorts of stuff), nobody would have thought to record music on them for either themselves or perhaps to give to a special someone.

 

What I think would be terrific would be a mod that added an NPC into the game that was interested in collecting what music he can find for restoration and preservation (sort of in the way that that certain Brotherhood scribes collected pre-war books in previous games). This NPC could assign you a misc quest to seek out such music sources. Littered around the Commonwealth one would then be able to find a variety of collectable mix-holotapes which could then either be brought to the NPC for rewards or kept for one's own personal collection. Most mix-holotapes would ideally have a bit of backstory to them as to who made them and why, etc. Some might actually be meant for NPCs that still exist and delivering it to them instead of the collector NPC might be another path to take for those (with possibly a different reward or just funny reaction). Actual audio on the holotapes, while it would be great if someone wanted to really go the extra mile on this, isn't really necessary... it's more the idea of it. Possible lore for no audio could be that the tapes need to be restored or you just simply have to imagine there's music on them. ;) Anyway, that's the rough idea.

 

ps. I'm aware of the Mix Tapes - Custom Music Holotapes but if you've read this far you should know this clearly has nothing to do with what that mod does.