Fallout 3- The Legend of Point Lookout part 3- The USS Ozymandias
3,150Fallout 3- The Legend of Point Lookout part 3- A crashed boat, civil war graves and a liberal scientist. This and more in this episode of Fallout 3- Legends of
This boat and the terminal entries in it, as well as the quest An Antique Land are what we shall be looking at today. It involves rotting corpses, murder and a mass grave sight. Such fun
The Ozymandias was a ship under the commission of Bysshe Energy Partners, a subsidiary of The Bysshe Company. The vessel was sent to the Point Lookout region to survey natural gas deposits. It was scuttled by Dr. Martin J. Roach, a Bysshe employee posing as an intern. Bysshe was using the Ozymandias to scout the Point Lookout area for viable signs of bio-gas, a potent energy source. The lead geologist, Caroline Saunders, was considered by Bysshe to be dangerous, as she was a "known liberal with academic ties."
The bio-gas was, in reality, formed from methane emissions from decayed corpses. Ms. Saunders, should she figure this out, would ruin Bysshe's chances at profit. They had her under watch, with Dr. Roach reporting back. Eventually, she contacted her academic ties, and Roach was forced to enact Code Blue, running the Ozymandias aground. The ship's wreckage can be seen just off the coast.
Point Lookout is said to be one of the most haunted locations in Maryland. Thousands of Confederate prisoners of war died near Point Lookout in the later years of the American Civil War. Point Lookout remained very rural and isolated until the Isla Negra real estate company purchased land and began developing new homes and attractions. Unlike much of the Capital Wasteland, Point Lookout's rural location shielded it from direct impact during the Great War, but the resulting fallout irradiated the area in the years that followed. The unchecked forces of erosion carved sinkholes and grottoes throughout Point Lookout. Point Lookout's swamps are rich in natural gases, which sometimes manifest on the surface as explosive methane bubbles.
The area is home to the swampfolk, a crazed, highly deformed, inbred people who live all around the swamps of the region. Swamp ghouls and swamplurks are a common sight here as well, as they are drawn to the area's radioactive swamp waters. Smugglers also roam Point Lookout, hoping to find their fortune scavenging this relatively undisturbed desolation.
Point Lookout is almost devoid of any organized society or signs of civilization. Other than Tobar the Ferryman, Haley of Haley's Hardware, Madame Panada, Marguerite and the Point Lookout tribals, it is extremely difficult to find someone to trade with. The area became known to outsiders from the Capital Wasteland thanks to punga fruit, a unique fruit known to grow only in the local bogs, and many legends about the supposed treasures hidden there. Just off the shore from Calvert Mansion is a sunken Chinese nuclear scout submarine which now is the Sub Recovery Site.
Even though it was not directly hit by nuclear bombardment, the water of Point Lookout's bogs and the surrounding bay is irradiated, having been contaminated by the Potomac River that flows out of the Capital Wasteland. The pervasive radiation in the swamps (as well as frequent inbreeding) led to the birth and evolution of the swampfolk and unusual patches of a greenish-gray, smoking and/or steaming earthy muck that releases flammable methane bubbles occasionally. This muck is a biogas that accumulated because of the radioactive contamination of the mass Civil War-era graves in the area. The decomposing bodies buried in these water-logged graves were irradiated and slowly decomposed into methane because of the radiation's effects on the normal process of decay.
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