ENCLAVE PRIVATE FILES DOCUMENT NUMBER #2299
SUBJECT: VAULT-TEC DIARY
ASSOCIATED PERSON: UNKNOWN
DATE: PRE-WAR TO WASTELAND ERA
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October 28, 2077
Wow where to begin? No seriously where, you must understand that this is the first time this has ever happened to me. Our Overseer tells us to include as much information as possible as to inform future generations to why the war happened and why the world is as it is today.
A couple of days ago Saturday October 23, 2077 every American's worst fear happened: the nuclear war. At first I couldn't believe it, I mean we'd all had the drills they were mandatory but we never thought war would happen for real. We thought that Anchorage was the last straw in this whole paranoia.
But we were wrong. Our Overseer tells us that so far no one knows which nation fired their nuclear weapons first but it doesn't matter; in the end we still got the hellhole outside that according to the radio people are coining "the Wasteland". It doesn't matter to me what they call it but I guess we need another name for hell.
Anyways back to October 23, we heard over the sirens that it was NOT a drill everyone started to run for safety but I knew where to go: the local Vault.
I had received an invitation to the local Vault 69 a few days prior however it instructed me strictly that only I was allowed, fine by me I'm sort of alone anyways. Seeing as how it said in all the films that the Vault had all you needed I didn't bother taking anything with me.
I ran to the local vault which was hidden in the local hills disguised as a mine. As I opened the door I could see in the distance the bombs falling, I quickly got inside. Inside the mine there was a large line to enter the huge gear-shaped Vault door and as I got in the Vault I noticed something: everyone there was female. I shrugged off my concerns and got in the line.
2 Mister Gutsy robots were checking everyone's invitations and I pulled mine out and they gestured for me to go in then all of a sudden we heard it: the sound of a nuclear weapon going off.
No not just one lots, as we ran inside the Vault I saw many people crying. I think we all understood that whatever was out there had no chance of survival. Then once we were all inside they closed the Vault door. We heard a large rumble in the distance as it closed. The Overseer says that's how much I'm allowed to write for today so I'll continue tomorrow.
October 29, 2077
After the door closed everyone immediately began to talk about what they had heard and what they had left behind etc. when the Overseer went towards the middle of the crowd and told everyone to calm down. The Overseer is a Caucasian brown haired sort of tall woman. She explained to everyone how it was going to be fine and how nothing could get through the Vault door and basically everything that was ever said about the Vaults.
She then explained living conditions in this Vault. She said that the women would all sleep in one section and men in the other. At this everyone started to look at me and then it occurred to me that I was the only male there. And I mean it everyone was female it seemed kind of strange to me that out of every guy in Texas I was the only guy picked for a life at Vault 69.
I shaked off my concerns to listen to the Overseer, she told us that there are (including her) 1,000 people in the Vault, 999 women and 1 man, we would all receive 3 meals a day, showers are 5 minutes long, no one was to go towards the Vault's entrance, we all had jobs in the Vault, we would all receive a device known as a Pip-Boy for personal info and that we are all required to write in journals at least once a week.
So there you have it, they gave everyone an official Vault-Tec rulebook which contains fare more rules than I'll list here.
October 30, 2077
We're having a Halloween party tomorrow which is the first event in the Vault. There'll be a costume party and the winner receives 5 boxes of Sugar Bombs cereal. I'm not exactly a big cereal guy so I'm not going to make a costume but my God the people here are going crazy for those boxes.
That's something else though, whenever I'm walking throughout the Vault and I pass someone they'll look at me and I mean it.
Overall I'm getting used to the Vault… but not the people who live in it.
November 1, 2077
Yesterday was Halloween and it was definitely the most interesting to have happened since I got here. Everyone was dressed up as something from a RobCo robot, Vault Boy, Grognak the Barbarian, etc., etc.
I just stayed in my living quarters trying to figure out how to use this blasted Pip-Boy. But after hours of toying with it I think I've figured it out, it's very intelligent for someone to come up with this. I checked the time on the Pip-Boy and it said 11:42 pm. Usually there's a curfew and everyone goes to bed at 10 but it seems like the Overseer had decided to stretch the curfew.
Then my door opened I looked up to see 3 females in costume standing there. Now I was a bit surprised, there are security terminals on the living compartments and that would mean that these girls had to have hacked it but they were certainly in no condition to do so. Even in their costumes I could see them struggling to stand, they were drunk.
But then I saw a 4th girl behind them that I previously hadn't seen a sort of shy looking girl with black hair hidden behind them, it seemed like not all of these girls were drunk. So taking the situation calmly I asked them what they were doing in my living compartment.
"Oh nothing we were just looking for some excitement" said the one closest to me, to this she and her friends giggled and they walked away except for the shy looking girl.
"I'm sorry about them, they just begged for me to take down the terminals so they could come see you" she said.
"Not a problem" I said "So you know something about terminals do you?"
"Oh yes, I used to work on them before… well you know" she replied.
We spent the night there talking about who we were and how life was for us before the Vault. Turns out her name is Anita Marton, she's 29, was a repairer on RobCo terminals, and well she was another person with a regular life like you or me. It just occurred to me that during the film clips of things like the Battle of Anchorage you rarely see the lives that war affects, all you see are scenes of victory but at what cost? Now I understand the saying that my grandfather used to say:
"War, war never changes"
It was around 2 in the morning when the Overseer came on the speakers and said (quite drunkenly too) that it was time for everyone to go to bed and that someone named Alyssa Demra had won the Sugar Bombs cereal for her outstanding US military soldier costume.
I said goodbye to Anita and she said goodbye back. As I was in bed I stayed awake for some time thinking about her when finally sleep overcame me.
