Chapter 1: Call me Ishmael
Dear Marie,
By the time that you listen to this, you are probably already grown up. Hopefully the people have been cured by then. Hopefully they know that you are their savior. Hopefully this city isn't named the Pitt anymore, and that awful, godforsaken place is only but a distant memory of a hellish nightmare that once stood upon the hidden shadows of the mind.
Now, these letters should explain who I am. I am your father. I am Ashur, Lord of the Pitt. But I'm also your father. So call me Ishmael.
I once was in the Brotherhood of Steel. They are an organization that focuses on gathering technology to preserve it from destruction and decay, and also to keep it from destroying the world. I used to live with them once upon a time out west.
We had a mission. Our mission was to secure technology from the old capital of the pre-war United States, Washington D.C.
Before reaching that place, we were to contact the Brotherhood branch near Chicago. Unfortunately, we were unsuccessful, and we lost a lot of troops in trying to reach them. Our leader, Elder Owyn Lyons, decided to move on to our mission, which was to reach the Capital Wasteland, Washington D.C.
Before we were to arrive, we fatefully passed near a city called the Pitt. I had never seen such a hellish place before. There was a bridge extending from the train yard to the city itself, and the bridge was filled with wildmen and trogs, and if that wasn't enough, there were raiders everywhere. Our leader, Elder Lyons, feared that we might not make it to our destiny, so he took the decision that we should take the city, guns ablaze, and raze it to the ground as swift and brutal as possible. That resulted in an event known as the Scourge, an event too traumatic for me to speak about right now. In time, I hope to share with you all my stories.
Of course, I never arrived.
I was left behind here in the Pitt, to forge a life for myself, to build something, and to rise out of the ashes trapped in an abominable dark pit, so that others could see the end of the light in sight.
It gets way more interesting, friends, read on!