If Billy Joel re-wrote "We Didn't Start The Fire" but featured The Stragglers, he'd conclude we most certainly did start the fire... Welcome back to Big Red Button, the HOTTEST Fallout podcast released this week!
"The Big Red Button" is an actual play 2D20 game set in the post-apocalyptic world of the Fallout video game series. In this episode, the hosts continue their adventure as the Stragglers, a group of survivors navigating the dangers of the wasteland.
Timestamps:
(00:08:14) Leveling Up
(00:09:09) Jake's Choice of Skills and Perks
(00:10:12) Houston's Choice of Skills and Perks
(00:11:09) Gotfree's Selection of Skills and Perks
(00:12:28) The Journey North and Encountering Mongrel Dogs
(00:18:26) Man's Worst Friends
(00:34:00) Discovering a Helmet
(00:36:01) Implications of the Footprints
(00:40:10) The Group Encounters a Threat
Summary:
In this episode, The Stragglers level up their characters and choose new skills and perks. But as they head further into the woods, they hear strange sounds and become increasingly nervous - and aware of a lurking threat...
Spoilers ahead, read at your own peril!
The Stragglers engage in combat with a pack of dogs and successfully defeats them; setting the dogs on fire, kicking, hitting, and shooting their way to safety. Or so they think. They discover a helmet from the Brotherhood of Steel and find footprints leading away from the scene. They decide to follow the trail of footprints, which they realize belong to the Synth they have been tasked to find. But as soon as the clues are pieced together, disaster strikes.
TL;DR?
- Leveling up in the game allows characters to increase their skills and choose new perks.
- The characters are on a mission to find a synthetic human robot and gather information about a roving band of cannibals.
- Mongrel dogs are like regular dogs, but if regular dogs hated people and wanted us all to be dinner.
- Using luck points can provide opportunities to uncover major clues, but it can also get you into big, big (red) trouble...
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