Not the Starlight Drive-In (that’s done already), but to meet Jake at a theatre near Diamond City. I loaded into my bunker (mod) and realized I needed to do some fucking tidying and unloading some of the collectibles I picked up, one of which was this map of all the Boston Military Assets.

Gonna keep that one in the back pocket.

I climbed out the bunker into Sanctuary and remembered I had to do a favor for Old Paul, so I nipped off into the hills behind Vault 111 to check in on his bud. I’ve noticed that it’s these sorts of areas that modders prefer to add little things in, presumably because there ain’t much else to interfere. Paul’s friend was dead and we found a crying little Frenchie named Nuka-Cola in the shed.

On bringing her back, I found out that this is a whole-ass pet type I wasn’t aware of, and also, I learned that you could have pet stores with Sim Settlements 2. Fuck yeah dude. Look at this ugly little thing:

Anyway, after that I left to start walking toward the theatre, and also, Diamond City. I stopped at a bunch of little things on the way— mostly of little interest to me, since I’ve seen them all before… but then I got to the Gorski cabin and, um. Things played out differently.

Namely, Gorski was alive. He mistook Poe for his assistant and I was just too excited to see what would happen.

I should have seen that coming. Went back into the little cellar to find the dead molerat spinning slowly in place.

At this point, I don’t have any idea what mod I installed to get a second set of bobbleheads added to the game.

Crossed a dam, killed some super mutants, la-dee-da. This guy was holding a plunger for some reason.

I ended up at the Sunshine Tidings Co-op, cleared it out and cleaned it up, and found this asshole just stumbling through the middle. I accidentally sent Dr. Goodfeels away and then while cleaning up… found that I did not have enough fucking ASAMs. Fuck.

So it was time to ditch the settlements for now and get walking. For some fucked up reason, I forgot to screenshot the fight with the Behemoth. That Poe won. Handily. From inside the bus near his Car-Henge.

Stumbled up the hill into a campground and demolished the Yao-gui there and found this dude. No context. No other people. Couldn’t talk or free the fucker, so…

Maybe he was a fucked up offering to the bears.

Anyway, I managed to reach Greygarden and poked around in the little homestead next to it. Nothing of great note.

And then… finally.

They tried to fuck us over and Poe talked them into the dirt. I literally stood outside the door and sassed the cult leader until he fucked off. And finally. Finally. We walked into Vault-Tec.

In the process of finishing the quest, Dogmeat ate Frank Davidson’s ass.

And, okay. I really like Jake. I mean, Poe really likes Jake. It’s the accent and the generally cordial way he is. But also, there is no damn reason the game had to zoom in on his mouth moving. I like to think that Poe was just. Really into watching his mouth move.

And also being called Darlin’. Fuck.

To pretend we didn’t care, I took a slightly unflattering screenshot.

So now, result of this playthrough: I can make ASAMs now. I am gonna go meet the Ron first, though, but. Right after? It’s back to Sunshine Tidings to clean it the fuck up.