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• Grease and Guile - Chapter 9: Calculated

  by Mottyskills February 10, 2017
  Ada and I checked out early from the Dugout Inn, fresh and full of supplies. The holotape I’d recovered from one of the rogue bots at Wattz Consumer Electronics had enough embedded data to suggest our next location.South and east of Diamond City was the old General Atomics Factory. This dest...
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• Grease and Guile - Chapter 8: Deployment

  by Mottyskills February 7, 2017
    “I’m going to miss you…” Nora paused in my arms. “So much!”“So much.” I confirmed. It was my time to serve. My time to follow in the footsteps of my father and grandfather and saying goodbye to my fiancé was hard. I wasn’t ...
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• Grease and Guile - Chapter 7: Normal

  by Mottyskills January 9, 2017
  I couldn’t care less about caps. Of course it is nice to be able to buy parts I need for my inventions rather than scrounging the Wasteland for them. But what good is collecting currency here? I don’t see any banks opening up. No one is thinking - where can I get a good interest rate o...
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• Grease and Guile - Chapter 6: Chance

  by Mottyskills January 4, 2017
  Life isn’t easy. But when you meet someone who accepts you, flaws and all it sure is worth the effort. Nora was in law school here in Boston and I was job-hunting in the city when we first ran into each other. Literally. “Ooomph..Hey!”“Oh no…I’m so sorry!...
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• Grease and Guile - Chapter 5: Light

  by Mottyskills December 31, 2016
  The urge is always there. Like an itch begging to be scratched.My excursions have taken me further and further into the wasteland and away from the relative safety of home. This results in having to bed down in some pretty sketchy places. I once found a sleeping bag on the roof of an old church ov...

• Grease and Guile - Chapter 4: Fire

  by Mottyskills December 29, 2016
  “Nathan! What’s burning?” From my childhood garage, the sounds of my mom’s concerns were mostly muffled by the success of my latest creation. For weeks I had roamed our neighborhood for bits and pieces to complete the spectacle. I was elated and my adrenaline drowned ou...

• Grease and Guile - Chapter 3: Home

  by Mottyskills December 28, 2016
    The sun was still low in the east as I approached my home.After waking from one nightmare in Vault 111 only to find another above ground, I quickly realized I needed new digs. Fresh with knowledge of what was deep underneath those derelict houses, Sanctuary felt too much like a cemetery. T...

• Grease and Guile - Chapter 2: Sleep

  by Mottyskills December 27, 2016
  “What is that I smell?” It was early. And I awoke begrudgingly with my usual mix of stupor and hunger. Something nostalgic and wonderful wafted into my nose and stirred my soul. “I made your favorite!” Came my wife’s reply. “Aww, honey! You take such good car...

• Grease and Guile - Chapter 1: Names

  by Mottyskills December 27, 2016
  I thought they wouldn’t know what to do with me in the army. I passed all of their required entrance tests, both physical and mental. But shortly after surviving basic, I was ordered to report to some suit. Apparently something I had done warranted a special sit-down.“At ease Priv...
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• TOC: Grease and Guile: Tales of a Wasteland Gearhead

  by Mottyskills December 27, 2016
  My favorite and most played character in Fallout 4 is The Gearhead.He’s the sort of capable character that, if I were in his post-apocalyptic predicament, I’d hope I would be. With some exaggeration of course. The full build explanation is certainly worth a read prior to delving i...
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• Game Play vs. Role Play: How Do You Find Balance in Skyrim?

  by Mottyskills June 9, 2015
  I've been thinking a lot about this question with my latest play through - a dedicated 2 handed Nord male, in the same vein as the wonderful build The Harbinger by Ambrorc. What I mean is this: how do you navigate wanting to role play a character, maintaining the kind of 'rules' that character woul...