FALLOUT (video game franchise) + HALLOWEEN (holiday) = “FALLOWEEN“
The FALLOWEEN photo challenge was issued by Mrs P on Twitter. There were spooky prompts for each day of October, inspiring players to take screenshots in Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, Fallout Shelter and Fallout 76.
Fall is my favorite time of the year and Halloween my favorite festival, so I set myself the goal of posting at least one picture for every day of the month.
OCT 1: BLACK & ORANGE Power armor, Fallout 4OCT 1: BLACK & ORANGE Wasteland forest, Fallout 4OCT 1: BLACK & ORANGE Shroud Manor, Fallout 4OCT 1: BLACK & ORANGE Tree shadow on the Museum of Witchcraft, Fallout 4OCT 2: GRAVEYARD Cat cemetery near Walden Pond with plastic pumpkins, Fallout 4OCT 2: GRAVEYARD Gage’s tomb, Fallout 4I built this cement tomb for Gage in my “Rose the raider” run. I romanced him and created a raider empire in the Commonwealth, then left him for Danse. I joined the Brotherhood of Steel to complete the main story and went around reclaiming the raider outposts and vassals, turning them back into regular settlements, just to see if I could. I killed Gage while reclaiming Starlight. But I kinda liked that piece of shit so I built him a crypt there.OCT 3: MOON A sliver of moon seen through the roof of the Museum of Freedom, Concord, above tapestries with images of the moon (same as the images in the building’s mural). I just caught it like this, misty with moonlight, it’s not enhanced with a filter or anything. Fallout 4OCT 3: MOON My sole survivor Fiona wearing the Nuka Girl costume, beside the mural in the Museum of Freedom, in Concord, Fallout 4OCT 3: MOON My lone wanderer Charity beside the Virgo II lunar lander, in the Museum of Technology, Fallout 3OCT 4: WITCH A witch burning exhibit in the Museum of Witchcraft in Salem, Fallout 4
OCT 5: HAUNTED While collecting pictures for the Oct 1 prompt “Black & Orange,” I took these screenshots of the wasteland forest in Fallout 4But it wasn’t until I looked at them later that I saw a strange figure in the misty woodsSo I launched Fallout 4, went back to investigate, and found this mannequin next to a blood-stained tree.In the shadow of the tree is a headless corpse. I looked everywhere – in the trees, down the hill, under the body – but never found the head.OCT 6: SKELETON This is the only baby skeleton I’ve ever found in a Fallout game. It has an adult-sized skull but a small skeleton body and it totally creeps me out. Mass Bay Medical Center, Fallout 4OCT 6: SKELETON Crypt beneath Old North Church, Fallout 4. The crypt and church exist in real life, too.OCT 6: SKELETON Shem Drowne’s grave, Fallout 4. Shem was a real person and he really did make a gilded grasshopper, that wasn’t invented for the game. OCT 7: HOWL Three Dog working in the radio station, Fallout Shelter. He’s also the radio DJ in Fallout 3, where he howls and says, “This is Three Dog – HOWWWWWL – and you’re listening to Galaxy News Radio, bringing you the truth no matter how bad it hurts.” Probably inspired by real-life 1960s DJ Wolfman Jack.OCT 8: VAMPIRE Freddy Fear’s House of Scares poster featuring a pre-war vampire costume, Dupont Circle, Fallout 3OCT 8: VAMPIRE Vance, leader of the Family, Fallout 3OCT 8: VAMPIRE First law of the Family: “Feast not on the flesh; consume only the blood.” Fallout 3OCT 9: BOO My sole survivor Fiona, contacting the spirits in Hangman’s Alley, Fallout 4OCT 10: SCARY MOVIE Night of the Fish Men’s Revenge, Eden Meadows Cinemas, Far Harbor, Fallout 4
~ J.L. Hilton
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