After all, who doesn't want to play in a radioactive tropical paradise overrun by giant mutated bats, cats, chameleons, pigs, and chickens?
| The "Aloha Islands" from the unofficial Fallout:Hawaii project |
And as one adventures around the islands, listen to the news and great tunes on:
"Chubby Dave is the only DJ at the helm of Pearl City Radio. A man with literally no enemies. Even raiders would never kill him because then there would be no more music. He gets by on fishing and donations from Pearl City citizens and lives in a makeshift hut, which incidentally is also the broadcasting station. A small cabin with an incredibly long antenna sticking out of it."
https://fallout-gravel-pit.fandom.com/wiki/Aloha_Islands
Fabulous work. I would also include:
- mutated chickens as the equivalent of molerats
- explorable underwater resorts (or an underwater vault?)
- thematically like Rapture from Bioshock, but with a 1960s vibe
- Marine versions of Power Armour for Underwater exploring?
- make more could be made of the active volcanoes
- Cult of Pele the Hawaiian volcano goddess
- Sea Monsters including mutated sharks (and turtles?) are a must!
- Slowpoke, the giant ancient ghoulified snapping turtle as a "good" contact. His lair is a massive cave system in a hidden clearing on the island.
- Ala Moana shopping centre as a Diamond City style trading hub?
- A spiderweb of post-apoc tunnel systems under the mountains would be sweet
- Hawaii loves SPAM so this needs a CRAM factory with CRAM Musubi side quests.
- Make this a cult with the annual CRAM festival - this is a thing IRL!
- Off coast crashed Chinese spy ships/US subs with remnant ghouls.
- One repurposed into a villain/raider lair
- Easter egg side quests like the Magnum PI bar and home
- What if there were experiments to make REAL dinosaurs in Kualoa Ranch (where they filmed Jurassic Park...)
- Tiki Bars with 200 year old sushi and different cocktail recipes for the Bar-robot "Drinking Buddy"
- Shinto shrine in the Mountains with crazed monks
- Sentient mutated whale?
- Surfing Super Mutants whose lair is along the classic Northshore surfing spots (Bonzai pipeline)
- Sidequest for a Legendary ghoul surfer crew (wearing Hawiian shirts of course) who are way laid back and hold island secrets that they only tell if they deem you worthy (by completing their quest).
- Pineapple flavoured Nuka-Cola
- A resort on the Eastern side (like Turtle Bay) that is intact and pristine (bar the skeletons laying on sunning chairs. The robots upkeep the place very well and treat you like a guest long as you behave But if you try to leave without paying your bill they activate the Legion of security bots that have been keeping the riff raff out all these years
- An Island of Deathclaws guarding a secret base
- A faction sticking to the traditions of King Kamehameha and trying to unite all of the islands.
- The Oahu Dole plantation is filled with Mutated Carnivorous pineapples plants!
Yeah, I've clearly been overthinking this one :-)
Would make a great setting for "Gamma World" too!
And another laydown of potential sites from another fan - some intresting ideas here
| Map from the "Fallout: Paradise" project (also seemingly abandoned) |
Vault 20 (Maui)
The Vault 20 Resort was more than some cold steel tomb. It was a marvel of ingenuity! It was a testament to the idea that the American way of life could not only survive the bombs, but flourish.
It served as a sort of giant advertisement for the other vaults. An idyllic beachside resort on top, and a mechanical marvel in the depths below.
Inside vault 20 every whim was cared for. The dwellers could desire for nothing, for all was given freely. There was no overseer. Instead, a ZAX mainframe named Akua managed the vast army of food replicators and Mr.Handy robots. All this was supplied via a deal with RobCo Pacific.
The residents were supplied with holographic video games, delicious food, digitally simulated beaches, and even plentiful drugs. Not to mention the debauchery between the original wealthy male and female dwellers.
Of course, this doubled as an experiment to how Humans react to ultimate pleasure at the cost of authority and the outside world.
The first two generations of dwellers spent their days thanking the gods of vault tec for their existence. Yet, as it turns out, Humans are not built simply to consume. The third generation formed an idealized cult of the “real world” and tried to stage an uprising to open the vault doors.
This was the one pleasure overseer Akua could not allow. They began to hate the machine and dismantle his robot helpers. Then they came to despise all technology, seeing it as something that degrades the soul and leaves one as a shell of their potential.
When things turned violent, It was long and brutal but the dwellers prevailed. One of their leaders was a wacky woman named Irene. She had re-interpreted Hubologist texts from the vault database. Then she adapted them to their circumstances.
They stepped out into the world as a Luddite cult (inspired by a very bad misreading of “nature” even though they had never seen it.)
Meanwhile, a group of ghoul surfers had taken up camp in the resort. The two groups merged and the Tideripper collective was slowly born.
| "Abandoned Hawaii" by Sebastian Wagner https://www.deviantart.com/sebastianwagner/art/Abandoned-Hawaii-464485965 |
| Waikiki in the movie "Godzilla" (2014) |