Eh, at worst, find somewhere to hide and wait, or take a Rad-X and march on through the pretty light show.

"Uh, Blue, are we sure this is the best idea?"
"We got more rads from the Glowing one that decided to criticize your paper."

>(I'm not the only one who noticed that Fergus is really Tendo Choi, am
>I? :)

Not anymore. I need to go find Sturges a nice outfit now. One with a bow tie.

>Also, on this line, I'm not sure the female PC is meant to be a
>veteran; her line about the man speaking at the veterans' meeting
>happens before you can switch (nicely done way of letting the player
>make that call for an established adult character, I thought), and
>whichever one of them you choose, the law diploma in the living room
>is still hers. So maybe she's just resourceful as hell. Personally,
>I prefer to believe they're both vets, but the introductory bits
>slightly imply against.

Well, the Vault-Tec rep does imply they made the list thanks to her services to her country, so I tend to work off the theory that she was actually the Fallout-verses version of Mockingbird or Black Widow, and the law degree was what she was planning to use after she retired from taking down Chinese super-spies. She clearly met her husband in an 'interesting story' involving Anchorage.

>>Yeah, the better the environment looks the easier it is to get
>>immersed, and then I run into someone and the immersion totally
>>evaporates. Still, it's nice to have a conversation where the world
>>doesn't seem to freeze and I get this glass-eyed stare from the NPC.

Even if this can go hilariously wrong, as shown in quite a few Youtube videos at this point :)

>>I'm rather ambivalent upon the whole "SimFallout" element, mostly
>>because it seemed like every time I walked into Sanctuary, one of the
>>settlers was begging me to go rescue his kidnapped friend. I've got
>>enough firepower at the bridge to take down an army, and yet
>>raiders/supermutants keep sneaking in and grabbing somebody. ARGH!

I've got weapons platforms in town as well at this point, thanks to the time I had a Deathclaw appear from nowhere in the middle of Starlight Drive-in. Freaking ninja super mutants keep kidnapping people...

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter