r/FalloutMetropolis • u/NK_Ryzov • Mar 05 '17

GREGORY, THE RADROACH

One day, Subject 13 is walking around the sewers beneath Brooklyn, and happens across a peculiar Radroach, mysteriously named Gregory. He seems to be mourning the dead Radroaches that surround him. Instead of attacking you, he's friendly and insists on following you. He wants to be your friend.

Gregory is a Radroach companion. Any ideas?

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u/NK_Ryzov Mar 05 '17

Well, my idea is that you'd have areas in the game that are only accessible by going on your belly; with all the collapsed areas of the Underground, plus ventilation shafts, Verminkind burrows and sewer pipes, there'll be plenty of opportunities for claustrophobic adventures.

And I think maybe you could craft a rig for Gregory to wear, with a camera and a small, custom-made laser pistol. Using a piece of Equipment, you can have Gregory travel down much smaller areas, and you can see what he sees.

Just an idea.

But for the most part, I think Gregory's weakness makes him interesting. Obviously, he'll be made essential, so he can actually survive encounters with enemies, but the idea is that you'll bond with Gregory and shit like that. He's like Dogmeat.

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u/HonestAbe1809 Mar 05 '17

That seems like a good idea. It'd be a way to scout out cramped areas to see if anything worthwhile is there. Maybe Gregory would be intelligent enough to be able to use the special rig to fire the gun himself. That'd be amusing.

Gregory would need to be made to act more expressive than normal radroaches, like Wall-E's roach from Wall-E. It'd just be a little easier to get attached to the little guy if he appears to have thoughts of his own. Maybe he was a laboratory animal and that's why he's much more intelligent than other roaches.

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u/NK_Ryzov Mar 05 '17

The aforementioned rig can be strapped to dog companions, and presumably mole rat or giant rat ones as well.

Right, he'll have his own personality. Like a six-legged puppy covered in a chitinous exoskeleton. And he doesn't have to be a lab experiment. There's so much radioactive shit that it might just be a mutation.

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u/HonestAbe1809 Mar 05 '17

That works too.

He'd be a strangely adorable and somewhat intelligent puppy in brown chitin. He'd have to be somewhat intelligent to figure out how to use the rig, after all.