"Hold on to… what, though?"
Season one starts right here, Sugar. Our boy Nate is all warmed up and ready to find his boy and save the day! Well... maybe not so much that, probably more... fall apart.
A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama
Episode Name: THAWED
October 23rd, 2287 - Log 001
Day One - Early Morning.
Vault 111. A man wakes up who shouldn't be alive — and finds out everything he loved is gone. This is the first recovered holotape from Nate Campbell, a pre-war soldier and sole survivor of Vault 111, recorded in the moments after he was thawed from cryo-stasis.
Recorded on a Pip-Boy 3000 Mark IV that he took of a skeleton's wrist near the vault's exit. Nate is trying to hang on to some form of reality... but, his reality isn't even real yet. Everything he knew is gone. Everyone he loved is gone.
His wife was murdered. His infant son was stolen. Two hundred and ten years erased in an instant. This is where the story starts — raw, broken, and barely holding together. He has to make a choice. Break... or get control.
In This Holotape
Nate Campbell records his first entry inside Vault 111 — barely coherent, barely standing.
The aftermath of watching his wife Nora murdered through cryo-pod glass almost breaks him… almost.
His infant son Shaun was taken by an unknown man with a scarred face.
Giant cockroaches, an empty vault, and his dead neighbors are all that's left to greet him.
That moment the soldier takes over when the father cannot go on.
About The Dusty Signal
The Dusty Signal is a Fallout 4 fan fiction audio drama. DJ Dusty - an original character - presents stories from the wasteland... a campfire on the airwaves, a place for friends to gather.
Season One features recovered Pip-Boy recordings from Nate Campbell, a pre-war covert operative and the sole survivor of Vault 111, as he searches for his kidnapped son in the post-apocalyptic Commonwealth.
Original characters. Faithful to the lore... (kind of).
Built by one Fallout fan, for all Fallout fans.
This is a work of Fan Fiction. Creative liberties are taken from time to time to enhance the characters or deepen the story. All Fallout intellectual property belongs to Bethesda Game Studios. No commercial use is intended or implied... This podcast is free now and will ALWAYS be free.
This series has been created, written, and produced by Garrick Cline. The one man creative force behind Classic Me Studio. This series is assisted by Artificial Intelligence, NOT created by it.
NOTE: Classic Me Studio is a one man operation with a tiny budget... AI software is utilized to create the voices, some artwork, and to help with the backend of running a creative studio. The Dusty Signal podcast is the flagship show produced by the studio. Hopefully, more will follow in the future. I hide nothing of what I am trying to accomplish. For more information about the studio, myself, or my workflows and software... please visit the Classic Me Studio website.
The Courier Network
Got something to say? The network is always open.
The wasteland's mail system ain't what it used to be… but, between that drunkard Gee Mail, the "Mr. perfect" Yah-Hoo Rider, that 'ole Hot Mail Girl, the always paranoid Pro-Ton Postman, and the perpetually late Out-Look Express… something usually makes it to my desk... usually.
Just send your dispatch to me here: The Dusty Signal Courier Network
I read every letter. The good ones might even make it on the air.
Stay Alive.
Stay Strange…
Dusty, Out.
Find The Signal Out in the Wasteland
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