I got to do some Fallout last night!

I got ready to kick some death-claw-ass. Unfortunately I died again. Damn! I guess I just ain't good enough to face them yet. I loaded the game again and decided to go back to the Hub with the caravan and did so without any danger. What! I was really expecting some action on the escort mission. Anyway, I decided to travel by foot to Necropolis, the city of the dead. I have actually been in Necropolis before, I forgot to write that, and I eradicated all zombies I could find. Very easy with a shotgun and a lot of shells… I found that parts of the town were cut off, so this time I thought I could perhaps find some way around. What I found was not a way around but an "Invading super mutant" prowling around inside the first building. Well, why not try to kill something instead of GETTING killed? I walked around and spotted another one near the first one. I simply walked through the door. "Come here human!" I shot them down with my 15mm and my desert eagle. After reloading and searching the bodies they rose again! Again! As in "from the dead" …and killed me. A cool thing though was that as I went to Necropolis I encountered some rad-scorpions that made me level up. I chose the perk "more criticals" and I inflicted 2 critical hits on the mutants of 40 and 38 points of damage respectively. Wow! All that is gone now though. Load game. This time I decided to stay in the Boneyard and to find out more about the gang "the blades". After all, my last name is Blade…

I met a paranoid guy called Greg. He didn't tell me anything, though. Maybe it's about time I start building my "speech" skill up. I spoke to a few more "blades" but no one of any importance it seems. As I went on exploring I came across a library and inside, met a girl named Katja. When I asked her about the waterchip she didn't have anything to say except "Miles is working on some high-tech stuff". This girl didn't seem to be a part of any gang and she was really nice so I talked to her for a while and she actually offered to join me. Huh? Cool! Even with my speech skill. During the conversation she displayed a completely different view of the blades than the boss of the regulators had. She told me they weren't that bad and that if I chose my words correctly I could even get some of them to talk! Not with MY percentage in speech, honey. After she joined me I leveled up! I chose the perk "more criticals" again as it seemed effective. I also decided to build up my speech and lock-picking skills. Since I started I have been building up the skill for Energy weapons with one or two percent per level just to be ready when I get one of those babies! It's called strategy, man! Strategy! Uhm…Why Katja was mingling with the Followers Of The Apocalypse, I don't know. After picking her up we went around the library, that is the stronghold of the FOTA sect looking for books to read to boost my science and repair skill. I found nothing. What I DID find was a girl, the leader of the FOTA. This hot punk-rocker chick had a lot to say and we spoke for quite a while. She told me about the "Children of the cathedral" sect that has hospitals and preaches of peace, but she said that she is convinced that they are evil. Something about a guy called Morpheus and something about nightkin, coming and going through the backdoor of their Children's temple. Nightkin, eh? Interesting. I decided to get all the information I could, as I have now decided to take the COTC guys down!

As for other gaming, I finished another mission in Iran from the Team Sabre expansion. Only one to go now! Playing BHDTS I realized that the AI is horrible! In the mission where you mount the .50 Caliber and the Iranian pilot takes you to the big ship and slows down so you'll have time to thin out the defenses your team mates continuously stand in your line of fire. Fortunately, they don't die when you shoot them. Much worse than in the original campaign. The missions don't seem to hold together very well either and if you stray too much it's pretty much game over for you. This makes the expansion missions feel more linear. Still really cool to play though.

During the weekend I played alot of Advance Wars on the GBA and also alot of the classic Best of the best: Championship Karate on the Genesis. On top of that, I finished the campaign in Rebelstar; Tactical assault.

No time for Fallout though, but hopefully today I WILL kill me some death-claws in the LA boneyard.

Merry Christmas (day). Of course, working at a Buddhist school, we didn't get the day off, but no teaching today since our students are doing their mid-term exams. Today I'm free the whole morning until 12.30 so I'll be doing some Phantasy star exploring. Yesterday, the only thing I did in Fallout was that I arrived together with the caravan at the LA Boneyard without incidents. Without incident? The hell? I thought I was going to get to blast some raiders or death claws to hell. Anyway The caravan leader told me I have 2 hours to look around. Adytum is a strange place. The trader lives underground and the regulators (the LA Boneyard "police") are stationed everywhere. I spoke to some people who told me about this bad ass gang called The Blades. I went to their part of town and visited them and they actually seemed pretty friendly! They gave me directions to a place where I could find some death-claws, so I went there and died! Fortunately I didn't play for very long. The death-claws are powerful, quick and tough monsters! I'll have to be better prepared next time...

I played some Advance wars at first and I tried out a new mission in Team Sabre! But, in Fallout;

Some new places appeared on my map so I decided to go to something called "The Glow" to check out what that's all about. About 2 days south of the Hub I ran into some cave-rats but since I didn't carry a close combat weapon at the time I decided to haul ass. I also met Patrick, the Celt. I was tempted to steal his Nuka cola, but since I have screwed up lately and gotten a lot of enemies in Junktown I decided not to risk pissing him off. At least I would have a friend in the wastelands… When I finally arrived at "The glow" I got a message that said I got exposed to radiation. What I could see seemed like a crater of some kind. Anyway, I decided to go back, because at the Hub, I remembered that I saw some stuff for radiation at the general store. So I went back to the Hub, that's a long way. I l lost several weeks. I ran into some rad-scorpions on the way. At the Hub I got a job to protect the Water merchants' caravans. I wanted to get some ammo for my desert eagle, but Beth didn't carry anymore so I decided to sell the damned thing and to try out my hunting rifle while protecting the Water merchants' caravan. While I was waiting for the caravan to take off I went to Bob's Iguana bits for something to eat. Unfortunately, I told him I knew about his "secret ingredients" and his dealings with Dr. Morbid in Junktown so he didn't want to sell me anything hehe. I started to browse around in the general store but I got bored and started to walk back to the caravan leader. On the way I met Irwin. Irwin told me that he had been thrown out of his house by raiders and that they had killed his Jackass. That's it! Killing jackasses is MY job! I accepted his job and I got transported automatically to his farm and dealt with the raiders. Pretty tough though. During the fight I realized that my character is too weak to handle the hunting rifle properly as I only have 4 in the strength attribute. I got new desert eagle, loads of ammo, a 14 mm pistol and some other things.When I told Irwin the good news he gave me a .223 pistol! Cool! Thanks man. I sold the rifle and the ammo for it and decided to go with the pistols and the desert eagle on the escort mission just to compare them. So I went to the caravan leader and we were off to LA Boneyard!

After killing the innocent people at the pub (against my will, mind you!) I went to the boxing ring to talk to Saul and Gustofer again to place a bet on today's fight. Apparently Saul was a Skulz, because he came at me and started shouting so I blew him away… After that Gustofer would still take my bet so between the choice of putting my money on Saul or the challenger I put my money on the challenger, well since I already killed Saul it should be a given win, right? I waited for the match and I heard some fighting-sounds but there was no one in the ring. I went to talk to Gustofer afterwards to try to get my money and he only told me that the fight was over!Glitch anyone? On the way back to Killian, to tell him that I've taken out the Skulz a guy called Phil wanted to fight so I had to kill him too and when I approached one of the guards he started firing at me with a shotgun! "We don't like your kind around here!" WTF? My old buddies! Even Killian and Lars tried to kill me as I fled town. For some reason Kalnor, one of the guards, didn't attack me. I ran away to the Hub again. Jesus! What's wrong with these people? I killed a few gang bangers who had been causing trouble and EVERYBODY's trying to get me! Anyway, back at the hub, I sold some stuff to Beth. Things I took off the dead Skulz. That's what I had time for last night.

I completed the Rookie mission again in G-loc on the mastersystem and was soooo close to completing the "Ace" difficulty as well. I also started a new campaign in Advance wars on the good old handheld.

As far as Fallout goes, I got some things done as well (regardless of my girlfriend's complaints). I will update again during the day.

I got caught up in the Iranian campaign of Black Hawk Down Team Sabre Add-on (I finished 4 missions!), but I did some things in Fallout as well;

In Junktown I Visited the Skulz gang that hangs out at the back of The Crash House hotel. I also spoke to some hookers and looted the hotel fridge he he. When it became quite obvious that there is no way I could find a water chip in Junktown I decided to go to The Hub. At the hub I got to know some people, likeBeth that has a weapons shop, and I talked to a couple of other people as well. They've had some caravans disappearing from several companies. Another interesting thing was that I found the Water Merchants and I "ordered" a water delivery to Vault 13 for 2000 caps. I volunteered to help out examining what or who made the caravans disappear. I heard something about a Death Claw and something about the Brotherhood of Steel. I traded some cool new weapons and went back and finished off the raiders south of Shady Sands. I went to Junktown to sell all the stuff I took off their dead bodies and I stopped by to talk to the captain of the guards at the entrance, Lars. He told me he needed some hard evidence on the Skulz to bring them down. I decided to go to see them. I remembered a lady ganger that actually spoke to me (although she DID tell me to stay away) before. I remembered talking to the leader and it sounded that it wouldn't be impossible to get recruited! I tried to get recruited but I failed (again!) This is my biggest mistake so far! I told him something to the effect of "You guys couldn't rule a school yard, much less Junktown." A brawl started and I took out EVERY Skulz member in the back of the hotel including the girl, the leader and three more! Jeez! A few stimpaks later I went to see the guys at the Skum Pitt and what happens? The bartender's coming at me! I had to take him out. I could perhaps have fled instead of annihilating him with my shotgun, but it was self defense! The waitress unfortunately met the same fate as she charged me too! Oops… All because I took out a few Skulz? They were causing trouble at the Skum Pitt a few days earlier and I helped them out and I stood up for the girl as well. Ingrates.

Newblogg tomorrow probably.

After I got rid of the Rad-scorpions I walked around town, spoke to Aradesh and the nice guards and finally went to Junktown. In Junktown I walked around a bit traded and got my self a shotgun and some shells. I went for a visit to Killian Darkwater the guy who runs Junktown, kind of. After talking to him an assassin tried to kill him, but I helped Killian's guards to take him out. Killian told me this was the work of someone called Gizmo. I remembered seeing the sign of his casino a block away so I decided to plant the device in his office. This time around I spent a lot of skill points on the thieving skills like sneak, steal, lockpick and stuff. So, at first I actually tried to get Gizmo to say something that I could catch on tape but that failed and he got mad and told me to get the hell out. Izo, his bodyguard, looks like a tough guy, so I went out. After stealing some pocket money from some gamblers, I decided to sneak back into his office and plant the bug. Success! Cool. After talking to the guys at the boxing ring. Saul and the others, I went back to tell Killian I've completed the task. He asked me if I wanted to help him arrest Gizmo. Of course! I went to see the head of the guards, Lars, and then we were off! Gunfight! After killing Gizmo and Izo, I traded some more and then I was off to see the raiders that had been pestering my friends in Shady Sands... I actually spoke to one of them, but managed to insult him and a fight broke out and I had to kill him. I ended up killing three raiders, stealing their stuff and going back to Junktown to sell them.

That's what I've been up to so far. I'll play during free time (in between periods of teaching and probably tonight as well, If I don't get caught in Phantasy Star as usual :)

I am playing Fallout again after MANY years of absence. All this talk about Fallout 3 made me blow the dust of my old Fallout game and play it again. After installing the game I immediately remembered the very nice menus and character creation screens, and I realized that I have actually missed this game .It will be nice to play through it again. So far I've gone to Vault 15, Shady Sands and Junktown. In Shady Sands I took care of their Rad-scorpion problems. I am currently at level 3. During the holidays I hope to play a fewhours. I'll be updating on Monday.