The Fallout Dust Lore Series - Episode 8: The Horrors of Zion
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- Опубликовано: 20 апр 2023
- The Fallout Dust Lore Series is a standalone series dedicated to covering the story of the Fallout: New Vegas mod DUST Survival Simulator as well as a tribute series hoping to pay homage to ShoddyCast's original Storyteller Lore Series.
This project is entirely a fan-made creation and is not associated with Shoddycast or any of the original creators of their lore series. You can find the series that inspired this one here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvqm_...
ShoddyCast's channel: / @shoddycast
Narrator/Writer/Editor - Scott Thomas
Co-Editor/Boyfriend - Gabe Isaacs
Script Editors - Henry Galley, Charlie Porritt, & Gabe Isaacs
Motion Graphics - Nick Heilman
Special Thanks to ShoddyCast
Zion, the last bastion of *almost* unpolluted nature in Fallout, suddenly the closest thing to hell next to The Sierra Madre and the Mojave itself.
Gotta love how Dust just flips New Vegas on its head!
The Divide becoming the closet thing to society left in the Mojave is also wild
@@Lynch2507 its a matter of perspective... its always a matter of perspective!
I love how this series feels like a spiritual successor to the first season of The Storyteller, it's awesome!
Graham is implied to be somewhat superhuman so it would make sense that he became an unkillable monster.
Its rather ironic that joshua a man of god turned itself into a demon
A ironic and unfortunate end for the burned man
It feels criminal your videos don't have millions of views. But I know you'll get there with this kind of quality. This is the kind of stuff that will inspire content creators of future Fallout titles!
If he doesn't, at the very least he can feel proud knowing that he basically paved the way for high-quality Fallout content.
Similar to how Shoddycast's The Storyteller series or TheNthApple did their lore back then. Those 2 basically became the "gold standard" for Fallout lore / story telling contents. They paved the way forward for future Fallout content creators when it comes to purely Lore / Story Telling delivery.
You can clearly see the inspiration in this video as well. And it's nice to see he's trying to revive presenting that format today.
No need for a 1-hour long documentary, just short, concise, yet high-quality production delivery. It's easier to digest and edit 😂.
Hopefully yes! This is some of the best narations ive ever seen!
Born too late to explore the world. Born too soon to explore the stars. Born just in time to experience fallout.
This is most definitely the best lore series. The storytelling, the writing and the Erie music only adds to the gripping story.
Missed this format when The Storyteller ended. So happy you are making these and pumping them out very fast too. Don't work too hard and burn yourself out my man! Would hate for you to feel stressed in the making of these. Take care!
Ah yes, Zion valley, or as I like to call it "sporefuck valley" what went from being the easiest map of the DLCs to becoming the most unforgiving and with difference. The always spawning spore carriers, the Wendigo chasing you down, the thick green mist and of course your character being pretty easy to kill in such ever hostile area, and of course you got the NCR abandoned troopers in the sorrows camp having enough ammo themselves to kill Wendy 3 times over. Such a lovely place, still love it though
Honestly, this is one of the few RUclipsrs I actually get excited to see in my feed nowadays. Keep up the great work man!
The best way to brighten your day is to watch one of these. One of my favorite series thanks man!
It's honestly amazing how engaging the lore of a seemingly simple hard-core conversion mod can be. I don't really care for the gameplay as much as I do the lore, especially now, since we're entering DLC territory. Great video!
This lore series finally got me to complete a play through of DUST. Escaped at level 15. What a nightmare. But it was so rewarding.
Fitting that zion, a land you could consider untouched compared to almost all the rest of the wasteland, is one of the worst places to go here
Your editing is beautiful like the clear water of the original Zion.
So nice to see Randall Clark!
Caught this shit real quick, just like that fungus
Loved your use of AI voice replication, keep up the good work :)
He's removed it for some reason...
So the next episode is on "The Wendigo" specifically? I wonder what else there is to say about "it" that hasn't already been implied in this video.
Really enjoying this series it's like a bizarro NV.
You my man, had made a lore story telling to tell us to see what happened to the courier himself made his path to the others he walk alone in his travels, but now we see how the burned man now saw the infection of the spore carriers from the vault that tried to make a science breakthrough to make vegetables to grow rapidly from a small quantity of water now turn the land of zion to a dead canyon where the windigo lives n has no predators to hust it down besides it was a plant Giant, it became too hard even for Daniel to hunt it down from just using incendiary ammo and weaponry we all know how he died and maybe if we ever ventured that far know that if you or I ventured that accursed canyon know only it's spells death when we hear it roar and even then we die from its claws, great story there brother n even then there is more to the story even for this Wendigo's origins or something else we may see the telling of the dust mod storyline n see the ending of the wastelands themselves to be taking is on hold and spread it's own death even to all the landz even beyond the USA itself, it'll be in time to take what we lived in this earth now to a dead planet that The courier made but also others that tried to rebuild only for Good intentions be corrupted by evil deeds
I almost wish you could end the Wendego, ain't no way the best character ever should be left to a fate like that.
Gotta say, Zion is my favorite part of DUST, like when I first played it I went into Zion having no idea what to expect, then after trying to get to the red gate, I got jumpscared by Wendy and it scared the shit outta me lol, fun experience .
Fun note about vault 74 is that its from fallout 3's GECK tutorial and even has a similar note and layout inside of it.
Im currently stuck in the long dark and this is just what i needed
The fate of the Sorrow and Dead Horse is such a downer…
I daresay we have another Storyteller in the making
I’ve been looking forward to this episode since the beginning, you’ve done an amazing job with this episode and all the previous ones. Can’t wait for the next one, keep up the good work.
You’re killing it with this series, man! Thanks for all you do and keep up the great work!
WOW i adored this episode cant wait for the next one(this series is literally something i look forward to so much every other week)
Thats for doing this pal many thx
These videos are so good
I’ve looked forward to this episode from the first episode of this series!!!
I really need the name of the intro song, it's so creepy but also soothing to the ears.
God damn, this series is amazing.
This is so cool ! Keep it up copain
Yeeeees, another great lore video ❤
I’ve binged the rest of this series and it really is criminal that this channel is under 25k subscribers. The quality of this series is outstanding, and the video of the mod itself is so good, it’s actually got me picking back up New Vegas and going through it to do this mod!
Yaaayyy !! A new dust lore vid !! I love these so much man I can't wait for the full story !
I haven't played DUST yet, still working my way through my first actual HC playthrough of FNV so I know I can at least start to approach the difficulty level, but to set the scene for how amped up I am to finally get to it, and how good your videos have been at setting the stage: Dream came on MMR (thanks, MMR Extended) while I was wandering around the wasteland the other day, and I suddenly got this incredible sinking feeling in my stomach like I was about to die. I'm looking forward to more!
I can't wait for the next vid to come out I just found these and I just watched all of them in a row and I'm hooked I need to be notified immediately when the next comes out.
This ! This would make the storyteller proud my friend !
Amazing video keep them coming
I literally arrived at the zion entrance today. Already 20 hours into this savefile. Still have zion, lonesome road and sierra Madre to explore
Amazing Scott! Keep up the good work, we know you got it baby!
it feels weird for videos of this quality and so entertaining not having millions of views.
Keep up the good work man I love this series cannot wait for frost😊
I love this!
This series is great man. The story teller 2.0
This has been glorious
Are you using AI to voice Graham and Daniel?
Awww, what happened to the A.I. dialoge for Joshua and Daniel?
Someone should make a Scott companion for DUST, since there's a Storyteller companion for NV
This series is so good!! Anyone else playin Fallout NV while watchin this?
This is maybe the worst part of Dust's backstory, just edging out the situation with the Courier. It makes very little sense for what we actually know about the Sorrows and Joshua in terms of motive and premise, it *barely* makes sense for the Spore Carriers lore-wise, and it really just... Man. I'm glad you did such a good breakdown of it but boy is it hard to enjoy a dissection of something that was so dumb to begin with.
The spore carriers were already in zoin before the 2nd battle at the dam, i agree that Joshua becoming a raider makes little sense tho
@@heroofcanton1318In the worst ending, Joshua is implied to have become a vicious war chief. Maybe in execution he acted like a raider but he was just waring against other people, however in the other endings Joshua just kinda vibes
@@Duwangman ah see that makes sense to
The series getting growing i hope it would continue just like in fallout story teller where theres a character exploring the dust with path finding other survivor to escape...
UGHHH IM SO HYPE FOR THE NEXT EPISODE I CANT WAIT WAHHHHHH
It saddens me that none of the tribals made it to the staircase, but i suppose their fate was sealed by the courier decisions
Daniel needs his own...Mod DLC? If you can call it that
this is like marvels what if
Alright fine I'll play dust mr scott
Should’ve known Zion would’ve suffered like the neighboring Mojave
Ah, despair!
The series are interesting
Oh boy, more fucking depressing content!
Jokes aside, this series is amazing man. Keep up the good work
Bro did RUclips make you cut out parts of your video because I remember you having parts where Daniel and Joshua would talk to each other
I wish he'd answer this.
it’s like the courier in this universe made every bad decision he could’ve😂 need that speech check to get joshua to learn restraint 😂😂
This Zion part is one of the story parts of Dust that I don't really like. (Not blaming you, since you didn't write the story).
The infection of Zion sort of contradicts what is true in the actual game. The spores spread *way* too quickly than it did in Vault 22. For one thing, the original fungus absolutely *sucks* as a biological weapon. According to Keely, if exposed to the open, clear skies of the Mojave, the spores wouldn't really spread and infection people, causing the plot of The Last Of Us. Hence why she only tasks the Courier to destroy the spores inside of the Vault. That's the only place with the right conditions and concentration where the spores can infect people.
From the looks of it, the spore is the the most effective in enclosed, circulated spaces, rather than open terrain. So it fails as a biological weapon. Heck, even in those optimal condition, it isn't too effective. The Courier and their companies can go into Vault 22 and not need gas masks for suits to prevent infection.
The spores probably only had such an effect on the residents because it infected the ventilation system. The residents were breathing it in 24/7, the long exposure in large amounts probably being why some if them were infected, while the Courier is fine.
Now the last issue is the timeline. The Vault 22 escapees came to Zion a few years after the Great War. And it was true some of them (the ones not killed by Randall Clark) were infected and turned into spores carriers. However, literally centuries have passed since they came into Zion, yet the spores haven't spread to others by the events of Honest Hearts. The spores carriers are still there, even out in the open at the former Vault 22 survivor camp, but they haven't spread. Not even to the local animals, or even the Yao Guai right next to the camp. So the spores could never have spread to the extent in Dust. They couldn't spread at all in 200 years, would you expect they could take over Zion in the few years after the Courier came? It's just not possible.
Now, I know why the makers of Dust wrote this path. They didn't want a haven that the players could just screw off to so easily. Keeping consistent with the "everything sucks" narrative and feeling. But there was another way they could have done this, while staying consistent. Use the White Legs
In another ending to Honest Hearts, the Sorrows evacuate Zion, leaving it to be trashed by the White Legs. Let them be the constant enemy of the canyon (and maybe the more deadly wildlife like Cazadors). The White Legs could stay in the canyon afterwards, with their hostility to outsiders already giving them cause to kill the Dust player.
Side Note: you want to keep the mist, you could have it be caused by the malfunctioning weather machine in the Divide (yes, that's a thing. It's the source of the Divide's fierce storms, and caused by Big Mt).
@@hamzahnurreez8420 But the NCR was working on the Cloud, not the spore carriers.
@@hamzahnurreez8420 but if the NCR removed the spores, then why is Zion the only place they has them in Dust? Surely other people would have gotten infected.
Also, there is the matter of distance.
Canonically, it takes two weeks to get to Zion from the Mojave. The path is also filled with narrow, steep crevices. They wouldn't be able to fit large containers (of spores) through the passage.
If the NCR was dumping the spores somewhere, it wouldn't be in a place that would be near impossible for them to bring the stuff there. They would have a better time of containing it by leaving it where it was.
Speaking of which, the spores shouldn't even be around in Vault 22 on the first place anymore. Keely and the Courier burned and destroyed all of the spores in the Vault. The NCR shouldn't be able to even collect some spores.
I feel like dust joshua isn't very in character... he would have definitely burned the bodies...
Didn’t Joshua Graham and Daniel speak to one another?
Joshua Graham was fine with burning corpses according to at least one of the endings of Honest Hearts
Honestly, I don't see Joshua Graham allowing the Sorrows and Dead Horses to become just another raider tribes. Double more, I can't see Joshua kicking Daniel out. I can see Daniel being upset at Joshua but...mehh. As Joshua once said, "waging war against good people is bad for the soul". I think he'd make them more militant at most
It’s sad what they made with Joshua graham. I really don’t think this is accurate after his redemption.
I love Dust, Not so much frost. The lore is nothing short of amazing. Is there a chance of going into some of the Dust mods lore like Understone?
Do you have ideas for other mods with lore to cover after this series? I like your style but I dont know if many other mods have the same worldbuilding as dust.
Fallout Frost by the same author has lore too. But it is set right after the Great War.
This was the one aspect of the lore that messed with me the worst.
Ive always sided with Graham well at the same time seeing Daniel's point. The thought of Joshua becoming his inner demon is horrifying as we led back down to hell. Telling him similar words Ceaser probably told him.
Could you consider uploading a preset for your version of the Courier? I want to do a Play-through of New Vegas before I play DUST, and I can’t see any other version of him in this timeline.
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what's the intro music?
Does anyone know the soundtrack at 7:40
why are three video hidden in the playlist?
Why did you remove the Voice AI segments?
how do you actually get into zion in dust?
How did you get Daniel and Joshua's voice so well?
Well now he removed it...
How did they get the voices for Joshua and Daniel?
It was an AI
@@Nihil01 Seriously...? Fuck, the world is getting scarier and scarier
@Layers oh man I just saw some videos of Fallout 4 npcs having their voice lines expanded with AI in game. It's bizarre.
@@Daniel-dw3pi Never trust your eyes or ears in todays digital hellscape ever again
= -D
The quality of this series is completely undersung. You should be far more popular.
That's out of character for Joshua
It's the lore for Joshua here and considering he was a former legate, it's not entirely. He has the capacity to do it.
What happened to me
This anit a certified hood classic it’s far above this is a certified wasteland classic
so thats the thing that killed Zach