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# A Terminal Story
## Pitch
The idea is that you find a dead guy (I know shocking in Fallout) in a room with a terminal next to it. When accessing the terminal you get a message, that you don't understand the interface, since its mostly a "terminal"-style display (like MS-DOS or Server-linux environments), but with a skill check (with a few skill options \[luck, science or intelligence]) you at least can execute commands and move around the file system.
Basically, the idea is, that you try to find the murder using the terminal. With a few curveballs included. f.E. you can't access the "internet", since you can't access the DNS-server, thus you have to travel to it and fix it, and stuff like that.
When it comes to choices, I mostly want to leave player choice out of the way and only get the motivation of the murder across. What actually happends to the murder, is probably gonna be the only choice the player can do, but hopefully with enough information, that this choice is actually gonna be impactful. I'm fully aware, that this is kinda against the idea of Fallout (NV specifically), but I thought it would be an interesting idea.
## Story outline
- Player finds a room, where a terminal is on, with a dead guy next to it.
- When accessing the terminal, there are a three choices, depending on the skills of the player
- Science 60: You remember simple terminal commands, just enough, to move around in the file system and find other programs to execute.
- Intelligence 6: You type some words into the terminal, at some point, by accosiation, you find the command to move around the file system.
- Luck 6: By sheer luck you find the "cd"-command, that is used to move around the file system.
- Command Guide: Next to the terminal is an issue of a magazine about terminal commands. Using it, you can now move around the file system and find other useful commands.
- Inside the file system, the player can find several text and audio files.
- Text files are displayed on the terminal.
- Audio files are downloaded to the Pip-Boy. (Story wise, it's because the PC doesn't have a program to play it.)
-One text file complains about the disconnect to the DNS server. It also mentions about the location file on the server.
- Under the commands, the player can find a "netconf"-command
- This displays a page, where several stats about the network gets displayed.
- Under them is the IP to the DNS server and the name "Theta" next to it.
- At this point, the page just states, that it can't find the DNS server and thus can't connect to the internet.
- Under the commands, the player can also find a command called "netsearch"
- This will search the current local network for any other device.
- This includes:
- The PipBoy, the player wears. While the system can find a service called "sambia", the configuration clearly states its write only.
- A server called, "big boy", that has the service "sambia" setup correctly.
- With the "netsearch" completed, the root has two more folders.
- The Pip-Boy, which just errors, if you try to access it by reading.
- And the server, which have more folders and files.
- While looking though the server, you can find a text-file about a list of DNS servers and the locations, both written and as coordnates, so the PipBoy can read it.
- Theta is in Novac.
- Going to the Theta Server, you find an additional terminal. Other than the other terminal, you only find the option to access a control service for controlling other services running on the terminal.
- You can enable the DNS service.
- Once heading back to the terminal, you realize that the messaging system now works.
- You get a message by an unknown user.
- After reading that message, you can get the option to find an exploit, where you find the IP address of the user, who send the message.
- Science 75/Intelligence 7: You find the exploit.
- If you checkout the server, you find an explaination, how to exploit the message system to find the IP address of the sender.
- Using the IP, the player can use a tool to find the coordinates of the IP Address
- The coordnates lead to a place in New Vegas Strip, specifically in the Gemorrah. Inside the Gommorah is a room, that contains a terminal
- After accessing the terminal, some mobsters spawn in the hallway and want to talk to be player
- They mention, that there boss knows about you and want you gone.