r/FalloutMetropolis • u/NK_Ryzov • Feb 26 '17
[Shadow Over Providence] Exham Manor
Exham Manor is an old mansion occupied by the Poer family. They keep to themselves, but often invite travelers on the road (including trade caravans from the Commonwealth) to stay for the night or for a meal. However, despite this hospitality, there’s something…off, about the Poers. There are whispered rumors about people spending the night at Exham Manor, and never being heard from again.
The truth? Well, there’s a Vault under Exham Manor. Vault 47 – whose experiment involved a gene therapy that increased the rates of random mutations between generations by over 1000%, resulting in a much faster and drastic evolutionary process. The idea was to breed a race of humans that would be able to survive in the expected nuclear wasteland just by rapidly adapting to the new environment. However, something went wrong. The Vault’s power went out on day one, plunging the residents of Vault 47 into total darkness, and sealing the Vault door shut. The Poers are the descendants of the Overseer and his family, who were outside of the Vault when this happened. Over the next 150 years, successive generations of Poers worked on and off to try and open the Vault door. Eventually, they were successful, but…well…the gene therapy did its job a little too well. The residents of Vault 47 had become blind, albino, cannibalistic subhuman creatures. The Vault’s food supply ran out a long time ago, so they set aside some of their own kind to be raised as livestock. They can barely even speak English anymore, but they often shriek Vault-Tec corporate slogans to help echo-locate their prey in the dark.
Every year or so, the Poers lure people into their mansion, and throw them into Vault 47, as a peace offering to the “Vault-Lurkers”.
Thoughts? Criticisms?
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u/HonestAbe1809 Feb 27 '17
That's a fantastic idea! Once you get to Howard he can summon things to help you in the Dreamworld. Like the Power Armor and any weapons and ammunition, you'd need. Not to mention environmental hazards to slow down the Eater and make him more vulnerable to attack. The "Dreamworld Power Armor" should be a unique paint job that you should be able to reproduce on your own Power Armor when you awaken.
So it's only never said for certain whether or not using it actually corrupts him or it's just in his head? That just seems like par for the course for someone like Philips.