because apparently i am a glutton for punishment and didn't make a save before starting this garbage ass mod I am livetooting it now. because oh god I HOPE, I HOPE this is building towards a big fuckin' subversion and it'll be actually clever and funny but so far NNOOOOOPE. ugh.

So here we go. I have just received a message from a strange wanderer NPC who does not speak at all, from a man named, and I shit you fuckin' not, Commander James DESPOT, who says the Brotherhood of Steel cannot be trusted (I mean... they're not great, but ... for real, not like the NCR are much better)...

...that said the lead elder of the BoS is called Elder Guile, so...

...fuck me this is some 80s SatAM shit here.

okay and this isn't even seemingly lore appropriate because the Brotherhood of Steel npc I've found is some kind of abusive religious dickwaffle or some shit as opposed to the outgrowth of a military force that found out what the fuck the Enclave were doing, went fucking rogue as shit because "HELL NO WE ARE NOT DOING THAT SHIT", and fucking rebelled against their government for being shitty fashy pieces of shit.

granted okay as time's gone on they've kinda... suffered "Adaptation Decay" if you'll forgive the use of a trope, and it's kinda turned INTO a sort of pseudo religious thing where they horde technology because they can't trust anybody else with it and want to stop it being used to end the world again, but you know, they're not like hyperevangelical douchénozzles usually.

(unless bethesda writes them I guess)

this... whole thread is gonna be kinda shitting on this mod I'm fucking stuck in. I apologise for this but short of loading up the mod in fucking FNVedit and working out what bloody quests to complete so I can jsut fucking LEAVE the damn thing, I'm stuck here so if I gotta suffer with this you're gonna hear me complain (even though this is entirely my fault)

Oh no.

oh god so apparently there's this quest where I have to go talk to this fucking John Despot or whatever his name is. fuck. and it's taking me on a trek through... god only knows WHAT??? and it's a fucking ugly mess, and...

also another HUGE problem. There's a bunch of sidequests, and yet NOTHING. NOTHING fucking explains anything.

This writing is so bad oh my god.
"There's this big dome, supposed to be the city of the future! But this VIRUS turned up! You know? The virus that's never been mentioned before? This virus that is killing loads of people? This virus we're looking for a cure for? That we injected you with as a guinea pig against your consent?? Yeah that virus you know ALL about so we're not gonna explain anything more"

and then you're like "...well okay I guess I'm cured, great, ... now what? How do I get home?"
"Good news! You're cured! But we need you to go fetch the cure. go get it."
"...oookay? Why?"
"Nope not saying go fetch, monkey."
"...fuckin... fine. whatev."

All the sidquests do this too. Like, there's cybernetic, friendly feral ghouls around. Why? this mod sure as fuckin' hell ain't gonna tell you!

There's these BoS scribe looking motherfuckers, the old abusive asshole from before I mentioned, who wants you track down where three of them have gone missing! why???
FUCK YOU this mod isn't telling!
You find where they are! There's a couple of punk looking girls with rad looking hair, one of which is a ghoul, and they are... doing... research??? on them???

I guess? in secret???

why? \o/ WHO KNOWS \o/

Oh gosh, I told them the BoS are onto them! So they release the two ghouls they've got! (wait wasn't there three? HAHA TOO BAD THIS WILL NEVER EVER GET ADDRESSED AT ALL but there's corpses of two in a bathtub nearby so maybe that's what happened! but that makes FOUR! TOO BAD NO ANSWERS FOR YOU!!)
So you report back! Turns out old asshole has history with them! what history? WHO FUCKING KNOWS IT WON'T SAY!

aaand that's THAT quest completely done with with NO FURTHER ANSWERS, just fuckin' tossed out the door. gone. done.

earlier on there's an old guy in a shack, who says him and his buddy across the little ravine in a separate shack are the only survivors...

if you're asking "wait, survivors of what?" too bad, you will NEVER GET ANY ANSWERS EVER.

this whole bullshit is so fucking badly written and not even slightly explained and it's like some hyperactive teenager wrote it and kept forgetting to actually WRITE A STORY instead of just slapping in as many "wicked cool things" they could think of.

fuck me this is painful.

I'm genuinely tempted to just... kill everyone and everything in this mod just so I can fucking leave asap and just delete the goddamn mod but fffuuuck... there had BETTER be some decent fucking quest rewards from this. christ.

(oh and the two kidnapped/absconded feral ghouls?? because this mod is badly written, whereas all the other cybernetic ghouls are set to be friendly so they do not attack you - and neither do companions with you - these two never are. and as an additional note, if you kill them even in self defence, the two npcs go immediately hostile for not dying to them. fucksake.)

oh AND I keep getting popup messages saying "You do not have an ignition key" seemingly at random and what the fuck is that about.

oh my god it's a bug

it's a bug from 2013 that still isn't fucking fixed oh my GOD