A.N: This is a revised version of my original story. As I have had almost a year of writing development I have decided to debug and reformat my earlier stories as to make it easier to continue.
A.N: Due to the laughably small amount of Sword Art Online and Fallout Crossovers out there I decided to create this story. This will be an OC centered Fan fiction, so the main cast of SAO won't be making any big appearances, though I may throw in a cameo if I can fit it in. The prologue and a few other chapters will be in First Person POV while most of the other ones will be in Omnipresent.
Disclaimer: I don't own Fallout, it is owned by its creators at Bethesda Game Studios, I only own the OC Cast.
Prologue: War, War never changes
File 1 of the 'Endless Wastes' incident
Audio recording of subject one code named: "Antonius"
(An old man's voice is heard speaking as the audio recording starts.)
The Apocalypse was upon us, though it wasn't how we had expected it.
It all started on June 8th 2022, when the highly acclaimed and long awaited Virtual Reality MMO Fallout Endless Wastes was released. Thousands of people around the world were lining up for miles at every game store in the world to either pick up a preordered version or buy one.
Everyone was excited, from new players to old veterans, we all wanted a first full dive glimpse into the world many of us had loved for so long.
At first, it was amazing. With thousands of people exploring the Wastelands of Post War America from the area they started playing at.
So, if you were from Raleigh North Carolina you would start in the Carolina Wastes and so on.
I, was one of these people.
When the game came out a couple of friends and I went to the nearest Game store and got our copy's together. We were so excited and instantly went home and popped our games in.
We didn't know at the time, but that last look around our rooms before initiating the full dive, was our last glimpse of the real world for a long time. I wouldn't know till later but, the adventure I had just started was going to be the toughest I had yet.
I will do my best to recount the time I spent in that world, but forgive an old man's memory as I may jump ahead from time to time but I will do my best to fill the gaps.
The first thing I can remember from my time in the Death Game as we called it back then was that,
War, War never changed.
(News recording from "Gaming USA" news reel dated June 8th 2022)
(A red headed reporter stares out at the screen from behind a long news desk as the recording begins to play)
Hello America!
Todays a big day in the gaming world folks. The long-awaited release of Bethesda's newest instalment in the famous "Fallout" Franchise has finally arrived.
Today I've got the head of game design at Bethesda here Akihiko Kyaba to discuss his companies upcoming game Fallout Endless Wastes otherwise known as FEW. Tell me Mr. Kyaba how does it feel to finally have the game out of development?
(The camera pans to ta middle-aged man wearing a business coat with round framed glasses and slicked back dark brown hair.)
Well Robin, it feels very freeing to be honest. We had a lot of decisions and story design to fully polish of towards the end that became very stressful due to delays.
One of those hard decision's we made was about the V.A.T.S system in game.
As every Fallout player knows War, War never changes and one of the greatest and most well used aspects of the Fallout game's is V.A.T.S.
Which means Vault Tec Assisted Targeting System, which in previous Fallout gems allowed players to slow down time so they could pick their target areas on enemy's.
As you know, this doesn't work in an online setting, therefore we decided on changes to it.
We will include VATS but It will be different because time will no longer slow down. Instead players will gain a speed boost and accuracy buff whenever they activate it that uses up their Action points or AP and the S.P.E.C.I.A.L skill Agility will determine both in game agility as well as the length and effectiveness of VATS.
(The camera finally returns to facing the reporter.)
"Well there you have it folks.
Fallout Endless Wastes comes out today, so go by your local game store and pick up your Pre-ordered copy or buy it and we'll see you in the Wastes after all,
War, War Never changes
(Video ends)
(As the video ends a large living room appears with an old man and a few interviewers talking beside a video screen that just turned off.)
Do you remember anything that happened on that first day the game came out?" said one of the Interviewers to the old man.
(The old man paused before speaking with his bushy eyebrows furrowing as he collected his thoughts)
I remember that first day, so clearly, as if it were only some far-off dream.
I remember my clock next to my bed had recently ticked over to 5:00 PM, and I was ecstatic. I had waited for this for 4 years.
I had been an avid Fallout fan ever since Fallout 3 came out, buying every Fallout game and merchandise I could. This time I had gone out and bought the game with a few friends of mine and had set up with them where we were going to meet.
In the game guide that every preordered game got, contained a map both physical and digital of the area where you would start.
Unlike in most Fallout games you would start in the area in game relative to where in real life you started playing. So, the map my friends and I received was of the Carolina Wastes which included North and South Carolina.
Leaning over to pick up my Nerve Gear I slipped it onto my head, laid down on my bed and uttered the command phrase "Link Start", and watched the colors fly by as all the senses went to green.
Next I remember appearing in a black room with two avatars in front of me, a man, and a woman.
Without hesitation, I picked male and after about 20 minutes with messing with sliders and selections I ended with an almost exact replica of myself, though slightly thinner.
My character had short wavy dark brown hair and gentle dark brown eyes with a moderately formed body and normal physic. To start with he wore a pair of black half rimmed glasses, combat pants and boots with a dark black t shirt to wear. My body then turned into my avatar as another "screen" popped up that had me set my stats and tagged skills.
I remember having 21 points to spend on Strength, Perception, Endurance, Charisma, Intelligence, Agility, and Luck.
I put most of my points in Endurance and Intelligence with strength and perception directly under that with charisma, Agility, and Luck as my lowest skills. Next, I decided to choose Medicine, Energy Weapons, and Melee Weapons as my tagged skills. Finally, I decided on my character's name as Antonius as I liked the "Roman" feel of it and finally finished the character creation. Afterwards I remember being enveloped in white light.
After the light faded away I was standing in the entrance square of the City "New Raleigh" which was the beginner area for all players starting in the Carolina Wasteland which included People who started playing from North and South Carolina.
The area I was in was filled with other avatars appearing in columns of white and blue light while surrounding them were the high dilapidated and partially rebuilt buildings of the city's Central district.
Like most MMO games most of the avatars were uncharacteristically perfect or beautiful though, every so often there were a few rugged and gruff "Wastelander's" that seemed to fit almost perfectly into the setting.
After looking around, I rushed to the nearest good quality equipment shop using my digital map on the standard PIP boy all beginning players received which would basically be used as my menu and user interface.
Since I had preordered the game like almost everyone I had received a good quantity of gold caps or premium currency, this was so preorder players could get a slight head start by being able to buy better starting equipment.
I entered the NPC run shop and bought a Laser Pistol with 90 power cells and a suit of leather armor as well as a few Stim's and a combat knife which used up almost all of my premium currency.
Putting on the leather armor and holstering my pistol on my right hip and my knife on my left I walked off towards my rendezvous with my friends. Little did I know just how much my life had just changed.
(The old man's eyes begin to glaze over as he started to remember the long and hard adventure he narrowly escaped from alive)
A.N: And that's a wrap on the first Chapter of Fallout Endless wastes. If you have an idea for an OC cast member please send me a PM or write it into a review using the following format.
The more detailed the more likely I will pick it.
OC Format
Name:
Alias or Nickname:
Gender:
Faction/Guild type (see bottom):
Personality:
Appearance:
Clothing/off duty wear:
Armor:
(Weapons subject to change from early to late game.)
Primary Weapon:
Secondary Weapon:
SPECIAL (start with all skills at 0 with 21 points to spend into skills)
Strength:0
Perception:0
Endurance:0
Charisma:0
Intelligence:0
Agility:0
Luck:0
Skills (pick three Fallout 3 skills to tag)
Faction Types/Faction or Guild
Marauder: Player killer and bandit type faction (please create a small group of OC's or just describe said faction in both appearance and operation)
Settler: "Civilian" player faction type (indicate other people in said settlement as well as a small description of said settlement)
Wanderer: Already created faction that will be elaborated on in next chapter.
Guardians: Already created faction that will be elaborated on in next chapter.
If you think of others send me a PM with a suggestion and I'll add it
And as always
I
Will See
YOU
In the next chapter
BYE BYE