Desmond and Calvert form the basis of much of my view of Fallout. They map well to the Think Tank and Braun, to show the world before, and the wonders of the Old World.

Tie in with Ulysses, Joshua Graham, Frank Horrigan, and Lanius, and you see that the protagonists aren't the only capital-H Heroes wandering around. Heroes in the mythic sense, of course. Achilles did great things, after all. Much of them terrible, but _great._ Lanius would have fit in well with those grand figures. Joshua's rise and fall was as capital-C Classic as you can get.

Calvert fled from death, a wonder of technology. The Think Tank, a gathering of mad titans in their own private Tartarus, full of wonder and horror. The Master, a psionic horror, a thing undrempt of between Heaven and Earth.

Braun made himself a god, and spent centuries tormenting those placed into his care, and was left alone in the end, a fitting damnation.

The setting can get mythic as all hell, is what I'm getting at, and you grasp the grim side of this mysticism well with Point Lookout and the Slasher, and Jackrum provides _great_ things for the tone of the story, a look from the other side, don't forget, Jason is a _monster._ A person, too, a hero, a son, a lover, a friend. But he crucifies people with a rifle that shoots rail spikes, and kills for fun and effect. Jackrum sums it up well, however well we know him, however sympathetic he is:

_That is fucking sick._ Particularly in the sense that it shows how _damaged_ he is, as a person. Healthy people don't do that. Happy people don't do that, not sane ones, anyways. It takes a lot of evil, or a lot of hurt, for someone to reach that point. And Jason isn't evil. Enough pain can be a sickness all its own.

I've done a lot of reading, since I read this...god, seven years ago? Yeah. Seven years. A lot of growing, a lot of hardship and distance. When I found this again, I thought it wouldn't be something I could read. I've come to loathe so much of what I used to enjoy.

But, no. Last few hours, I've binged this and Modus Operandi, I'm actually on Chapter 9 of this, but came to here, because the description of Point Lookout grabbed me, if anything, _more_ intensely than it did the first time. I'm glad for this, that a story I once found special is _still_ special.

Don't know if you still even see these comments, couldn't help but leave one.
Fallout, for me, has always been about that dead-inside look of the vault-boy, and the empty smile he gives you when you open up your pipboy. It's an excellent foreshadow of the events in the game you're about to play, and I feel you captured everything about the Fallout games perfectly here.

My favorite character though, was Gallows. He did what he had to do to complete the mission, because he knew that even if one of them got away with the GECK it would save hundreds of lives. He's also a badass. Gallows could probably have given even the Wanderer a run for his money with his sheer determination and tenacity. I know he probably won't show up in the next book, but that brave bastard lives on in the minds of the readers.
Anyway, this is probably one of the best works of fiction I've ever read.

88 lbs makes you a pack mule? I've carried that in a pack alone. Then I had my armor, helmet, LBE, full canteens, mags and weapon. Grunts carry much more.

Read this listening to “Dead city” from metro last light.
I’m not sleeping tonight...

Your stories are premium compared to most others on this site. This story is no exception. I look forward to the next installment.

What a ride that was. I like the character development in Sarah. She became more or less the second Lone Wanderer now: Seen too much, dealt with too many. In the first book she was still a bit naive, now she’s become unhinged and scarred just like Jason.

Also, did I mention that this is my favourite horror fic ever? Can’t deny the atmosphere and the ... things that are in here. Point Lookout really did show up as a malignant force of un-nature, you aimed for it, you delivered it well. I was fearing that you’d fall into the pitfall of concluding the horror as mere scientific phenomenons like hallucination gas from a Vault-Tec experiment gone wrong. Glad that you kept the supernatural concept.

Fantastic job!

No one. Absolutely no one can walk away from this sane. Point Lookout as a DLC was mildly intimidating to me but this story rewrote the entire sensation. This is on the level of Lovecraft (Very similar, actually with the Eldritch strangeness and atmosphere). My favourite horror fanfiction thus far.

Oh god that’s the pint-sized slasher innit...

yes, because promoting a scribe to elder worked out so well for the mojave chapter...

also, you keep referring to the original brotherhood as being "back east". they're on the west coast. Lyons/That Bastard Maxon's brotherhood is on the east coast.

re-reading this, i remember my initial impression that the point lookout bit dragged out a too long and that you needlessly tortured Sarah Lyons, though right now the thought that struck me was what a conversation between Blackhall and one of the Cabots from FO4 would be like, heh.

your talk of an FEV gas struck me as odd, so i went to the wiki to double check. the only mention of an airborne version of the FEV was a theory by the Lieutenant from the original game that an airborne version of the virus was essentially a vaccine that resulted in the ones exposed to it being idiots. well, and the version created by the enclave to wipe out all the "mutants"

otherwise, all mentions of the FEV refer to it as a liquid, to be injected or to have the victim dipped in. hell, the Super Mutants in FO3 even talk about dipping others into the "green stuff" (remembering this is why i looked it up in the first place.

still re-reading, and a thought struck me. mainly that "conscript" isn't the right word to use for the Talon Recruits. it implies they were forced to join up. and i somehow doubt Rivet City security would just tolerate them press-ganging random strangers in their turf. bad for business.

"Da Supermutants don't nmed it, but they also don't sneak"

...the Nightkin say hi.

Commandocucumber is wanderer #confirmed

Also this is the 3rd time in the last year I have re-read your stories. Really love your work.