Back to School

Current Vault 551 Status

Population: 100
Overall Happiness: 92% 
Benny Happiness: 100%
Wealth: 1553 caps

So things have been going pretty well lately in Vault 551.  No major crises beyond the occasional and easily remedied power or water shortfall, a few revived deaths here and there, nothing too crazy.  Just growth and good living.

When last we visited, the Vault was having a serious molerat problem to go along with the seemingly never ending series of fatal deathclaw assaults.  Dealing with this by simply clearing some bodies and buying off expensive revives was clearly not a long term strategy.  We would need a comprehensive effort to train up as many Dwellers as possible to amp up their stats, so that they could withstand tougher and tougher challenges.  And so everyone went back to school.


New gyms, athletic rooms, shooting ranges and classrooms were built deep within the Vault, continually staffed with Dwellers in shifts working on their muscles and eyesight.  This effort has been going on for a while now, and has borne solid fruit: we're beating back the molerats with no casualties, and averaging at most one death during deathclaw invasions.  Training continues and will continue until everyone is appropriately leveled up.

Father Benny has personally assumed control of the radio station and placed all of his own people on the staff.  Church leadership (and the Newton Sisters!) are all very high Charisma, and now the Father Himself is trained as high as the stat will go: 10 Charisma, with +4 Charisma for the Holy Cleric Garments.  This has made our radio broadcasting center an extremely efficient resource for driving up Vault happiness and attracting new Dwellers from the wasteland.

We have the largest record collection in the Wasteland.

We also hit an important milestone in our Vault's history: the 100th new Dweller, a guy whose name escapes me right now who was drawn across the Wasteland by Father Benny's inspirational message of happiness through divine copulation.  And with that achievement, we unlocked the Nuka Cola Plant!

Yes, the hazmat suits are necessary.  Have you see what this stuff does to car batteries?

So now we have a pretty happy bunch of people in our Vault 551.  Dwellers are training, finding new and more rewarding jobs, killing aggressors, upgrading their weapons and even finding time for the odd game of checkers.  Everything purring like a well-tuned engine indeed.

It won't last.  It never does.  But at least for today, everyone's happy and we're chugging along nicely.