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Vault 101 (Fallout Thread)
Neko_Ali:
I really don't see how they would have survived. By the video it looked like they were close enough to get hit by the blast wave in a couple of seconds, which would mean they probably got pulped before the fire even reached them. Electrical insulation disks wouldn't help them. Not to mention, it looked like the cap (elevator floor maybe?) was probably sealed because the bombs were about to hit, the ones on top were waiting for their turn to go down. After the bombs dropped you can bet those who were already inside probably sealed the vault door and left everyone out there for dead. If not from the shockwave and firestorm, then from the radiation.
94ssd:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 08 Jun 2015, 18:08 ---I really don't see how they would have survived. By the video it looked like they were close enough to get hit by the blast wave in a couple of seconds, which would mean they probably got pulped before the fire even reached them. Electrical insulation disks wouldn't help them. Not to mention, it looked like the cap (elevator floor maybe?) was probably sealed because the bombs were about to hit, the ones on top were waiting for their turn to go down. After the bombs dropped you can bet those who were already inside probably sealed the vault door and left everyone out there for dead. If not from the shockwave and firestorm, then from the radiation.
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In the Fallout lore there are multiple instances of Vaults being sealed shut as soon as the bombs hit, leaving people on the outside to die. Little Lamplight is an example. No reason to believe 111 would be different.
Neko_Ali:
That's pretty much going to be true for every vault though. Even in the ones that were equipped to handle the full 1000 people each was supposed to contain, there weren't nearly enough vaults in any given area to handle even a significant fraction of the population. Not to mention the chaos that would happen when the news started announcing the bombs dropping and everyone started making a dash to get into a vault, whether they were approved by Vault-tec or not... But once the bombs started dropping in the area, the people inside really didn't have a lot of choice but to seal the doors on everyone else, or it put everyone already inside at risk. I'm sure more than a few people inside had to deal with massive survivor's guilt. Especially given that most vault entrances were in caves or under buildings, not out in the open like Vault 111. So people trying to get in would have been spared instant death and lived long enough to try and beat on the door (probably not heard because of how thick they are) or plead with the people inside on the intercoms if they were still working.
BenRG:
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 08 Jun 2015, 18:08 ---I really don't see how they would have survived. By the video it looked like they were close enough to get hit by the blast wave in a couple of seconds, which would mean they probably got pulped before the fire even reached them. Electrical insulation disks wouldn't help them. Not to mention, it looked like the cap (elevator floor maybe?) was probably sealed because the bombs were about to hit, the ones on top were waiting for their turn to go down. After the bombs dropped you can bet those who were already inside probably sealed the vault door and left everyone out there for dead. If not from the shockwave and firestorm, then from the radiation.
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It's a sci-fi super force-field it only needs writer's fiat to work as required. The characters' survival is assured due to the fact one is seen later walking the Wasteland and talking to a dog.
mikmaxs:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 08 Jun 2015, 23:20 ---
--- Quote from: Neko_Ali on 08 Jun 2015, 18:08 ---I really don't see how they would have survived. By the video it looked like they were close enough to get hit by the blast wave in a couple of seconds, which would mean they probably got pulped before the fire even reached them. Electrical insulation disks wouldn't help them. Not to mention, it looked like the cap (elevator floor maybe?) was probably sealed because the bombs were about to hit, the ones on top were waiting for their turn to go down. After the bombs dropped you can bet those who were already inside probably sealed the vault door and left everyone out there for dead. If not from the shockwave and firestorm, then from the radiation.
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It's a sci-fi super force-field it only needs writer's fiat to work as required. The characters' survival is assured due to the fact one is seen later walking the Wasteland and talking to a dog.
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I'm pretty sure that the guy talking to the dog is a stand-in for the player's character, since they're wearing a vault jumpsuit (traditional starting garb, and something that a survivor who didn't make it in the vault wouldn't have,) and because a dog companion is another staple.
All Fallout games take place well over a century after the apocalypse. Even if the people on top survived, it wouldn't really be relevant.
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