History VideoGame / TheRockwellSeries

Thus begins [[https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/49747 ''The Rockwell Descent'']], the first part of B. Dylan Hollis' Rockwell Series. A quest mod for VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas, it offers a (mostly) lore friendly and a dramatic story filled with horror, awesome fights and endless conspiracy as you try to uncover the origins of the mysterious men and save the people of Rockwell.

The mod later received a sequel called [[https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/47724 ''The Rockwell Pursuit'']]. One year after the original, you find one of the people you saved and he tells you about the new home of the facilities' former inhabitants. Meeting with their Overseer, he asks for your help in preparing and protecting the Rockwell people for their Great Pilgrimage back to the original facility in Vermont and cleansing it of the Tantrum. Much more ambitious and bigger in scope, it covers your preparations for the long pilgrimage across America as well as the journey itself across the Mojave and four completely new maps.

* BodyHorror: Normal ghouls look ugly, but the Tantrum's faces are disfigured horribly. [[spoiler: And then there was the original Tantrum Annhilator...]]

Thus begins [[http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/47724/?tab=1&navtag=%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D47724%26preview%3D&pUp=1 ''The Rockwell Descent'']], the first part of B. Dylan Hollis' Rockwell Series. A quest mod for VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas, it offers a (mostly) lore friendly and a dramatic story filled with horror, awesome fights and endless conspiracy as you try to uncover the origins of the mysterious men and save the people of Rockwell.

The mod later received a sequel called [[http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/49747/?tab=1&navtag=%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D49747%26preview%3D&pUp=1 ''The Rockwell Pursuit'']]. One year after the original, you find one of the people you saved and he tells you about the new home of the facilities' former inhabitants. Meeting with their Overseer, he asks for your help in preparing and protecting the Rockwell people for their Great Pilgrimage back to the original facility in Vermont and cleansing it of the Tantrum. Much more ambitious and bigger in scope, it covers your preparations for the long pilgrimage across America as well as the journey itself across the Mojave and four completely new maps.

* DrivenToSuicide: [[spoiler: The Rockwell Descent ends with you failing to save the scientists that started the whole mess as they all drink cyanide together to atone for the hell they've caused.]]

* JumpScare: A [[DemonicSpiders Mother]] [[OhCrap Deathclaw]] suddenly jumps out when you activate the generators in one of the bunkers. A [[FromBadToWorse swarm]] appears just as you're about to leave. Also, the entire bunker is blacked out, so unless you have some night vision, you'll be getting the crap scared and kicked out of you with startling regularity.

* WackyWaysideTribe: Brotherhood Outcasts make their home in Paradox Colorado. However, due to how nice they are and the fact that they have absolutely no interest in your technology, they don't bear much resemblance to canon iterations of the Outcasts and could easily be replaced with literally anybody else.

* PoweredArmor: Nearly every infantry man of the Rockwell Army is wearing T-51b PowerArmor. [[spoiler: gets [[InformedAbility "upgraded"]] with the [[AncestralWeapon US Military T-45d Power Armor]].]] Applies to the Tantrum as well.

* The Snow Ghouls of Paradox have had their corpses preserved since the great war. Their faces are still half rotted, and their brains are exposed. They look horribly like traditional zombies.

It's an odd thing. [[PlayerCharacter You]] find yourself walking the Mojave and suddenly you find a mysterious new village north of Goodsprings appearing on your PipBoy map. You decide to investigate and suddenly you find a huge facility that was seriously not there before. [[BodyHorror Men with disfigured faces]] covered in Enclave PowerArmor, apparently called Tantrum, as well as several soldiers in T-51b PowerArmor, lie dead. You find one of the soldiers alive and he tells you to go back and leave.

Being [[{{Badass}} who]] [[ChronicHeroSyndrome you]] [[MessianicArchetype are]], you don't have any intention of doing that.

Being [[{{Badass}} who]] [[ChronicHeroSyndrome you]] [[TheMessiah are]], you don't have any intention of doing that.

The mod later received a sequel called [[http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/49747/?tab=1&navtag=%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D49747%26preview%3D&pUp=1 ''The Rockwell Pursuit'']]. One year after the original, you find one of the people you saved and he tells you about the new home of the facilities' former inhabitants. Meeting with their Overseer, he asks for your help in preparing and protecting the Rockwell people for their Great Pilgrimage back to the original facility in Vermont and cleansing it of the Tantrum. Much more ambitious and bigger in scope, it covers your preparations for the long pilgrimage across America as well as the journey itself across four completely new maps.

* MadScientist: Hoffman really screwed up the experiments down in his labs... [[spoiler: Subverted, he's as FAR from this as anyone could be. He spent the last twenty years under a time limit, that he would have a cure for the Tantrum victims. With the clock ticking, he worked like mad in the Rockwell Facility, leading to very poor judgments on his part. He tried to atone with suicide, and even in Pursuit, as you explore his computer files in the last room, he says that if you have any evil intentions with Rockwell you should LEAVE.]]

It's an odd thing. [[PlayerCharacter You]] find yourself walking the Mojave and suddenly you find a mysterious new village north of Goodsprings appearing on your PipBoy map. You decide to investigate and suddenly you find a huge facility that was seriously not there before. [[BodyHorror Men with disfigured faces]] apparently called Tantrum, covered in Enclave PowerArmor , as well as several soldiers in T-51b PowerArmor, lie dead. You find one of the soldiers alive and he tells you to go back and leave.

Thus begins [[http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/47724/?tab=1&navtag=%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D47724%26preview%3D&pUp=1 ''The Rockwell Descent'']], the first part of Dylan B. Hollis' Rockwell Series. A quest mod for VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas, it offers a (mostly) lore friendly and a dramatic story filled with horror, awesome fights and endless conspiracy as you try to uncover the origins of the mysterious men and save the people of Rockwell.

** Nearly EVERYONE in Missouri (Where Winright was) couldn't take it anymore and committed mass suicide.

* ForScience: Terminals in Descent all imply that Hoffman focused way too much on being the scientist, uncaring of what would happen to the subjects. [[spoiler: Subverted. Hoffman was one of the last survivors of the original Tantrum outbreak, and in fact its creator. He and his five friends were given 20 years to come up with a cure, but they came up short in the end, leading to the attack on the facility.]]

* HiddenElfVillage: The Goodsprings Rockwell facility was hidden by a hologram projector. [[spoiler: Justified, it was a futile attempt to hide from the Tantrum.]]

Being [[{{Badass}} who]] [[ChronicHeroSyndrome you]] [[TheMessaiah are]], you don't have any intention of doing that.

* EldritchLocation: Winright Manor and the town it resides in is freaky as all hell. [[spoiler: It all started with hallucogenic gasses being pumped through the manor. May explain the sudden headache and coma you receive right after you escape.]]
* ForScience: Terminals in Descent all imply that Hoffman focused way too much on being the scientist, uncaring of what would happen to the subjects. [[spoiler: Subverted. Hoffman was one of the last survivors of the original Tantrum outbreak, and in fact its creator. He and his five friends were given 20 years to come up with a cure, but they came up short in the end.]]
* [[spoiler: Goldwater tells the Courier that should he die, (he does), Gunther calls the shots. Gunther then hands gives you the reins after he feels you are better suited to the role.]]
* [[spoiler: HatePlague: The [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Tantrum Virus]] led people to start either killing or infecting each other.]]
* GameBreakingBug: The key to Vernon's room cannot be found. You might feel fine with using Console Commands to unlock the door... Unless you're looking for Steam Achievements. Kiss them goodbye.

* HubLevel: The main hall of the Superstructure acts like this, with you receiving instructions from Paddington about cleansing the Tantrum as he unlocks the doors to the various facilities.

* JumpScare: A [[DemonicSpiders Mother]] [[OhCrap Deathclaw]] suddenly jumps out when you activate the generators in one of the bunkers. A [[ItGotWorse swarm]] appears just as you're about to leave. Also, the entire bunker is blacked out, so unless you have some night vision, you'll be getting the crap scared and kicked out of you with starting regularity.

* PoweredArmor: Nearly every infantry man of the Rockwell Army is wearing T-51b PowerArmor. [[spoiler: gets [[InformedAbility "upgraded"]] with the [[AncestralWeapon US Military T-45d Power Armor]].]] Applies to the Tantrum as well.

* ItsAllUpToYou: The Rockwell Pursuit is just FILLED with quests like this. Despite (or more likely BECAUSE OF) the fact that the Rockwell people acknowledge you as their savior, you're doing the dirty work, which is a little ridiculous when they ask you to do stuff even after three day comas. Mighty fine if it were dangerous work, but it gets even MORE ridiculous when you're stuck doing menial tasks that are little more than simple errands ANYONE CAN DO. [[spoiler: This continues even after you become the Overseer.]]

* GameBreakingBug: The key to Vernon's room cannot be found. You might feel fine with using Console Commands to unlock the door... Unless you're looking for Steam Achievements. Kiss them goodbye.

* BigGood: Overseer Goldwater leads the Rockwell Pilgrimage. [[spoiler: Until he dies at least. The position is passed to General Gunther, but then it finally falls to you after he acknowledges that you're more versatile.]]

** The Winright Manor has some pretty surprising ones...

* ThePlague: [[spoiler: The Tantrum Virus spread until it infected almost every scientist working on it. A case of GoneHorriblyWrong, as the Tantrum Virus was meant to cure ghoulification and FEV.]]
* PoweredArmor: Nearly every infantry man of the Rockwell Army is wearing T-51b PowerArmor. [[spoiler: gets [[InformedAbility "upgraded"]] with the [[AncestralArmor US Military T-45d Power Armor]].]] Applies to the Tantrum as well.

- The end of the intro of the Rockwell Pursuit.

It's an odd thing. [[PlayerCharacter You]] find yourself walking the Mojave and suddenly you find a mysterious new village north of Goodsprings appearing on your PipBoy map. You decide to investigate and suddenly you find a huge facility that was seriously not there before. [[BodyHorror Men with disfigured faces]] covered in Enclave PowerArmor apparently called Tantrum , as well as several normal soldiers in T-51b PowerArmor, lie dead. You find one of the normal ones alive and he tells you to go back.

The mod later received a sequel called [[http://newvegas.nexusmods.com/mods/49747/?tab=1&navtag=%2Fajax%2Fmoddescription%2F%3Fid%3D49747%26preview%3D&pUp=1 ''The Rockwell Pursuit'']]. One year after the original, you find one of the people you saved and he tells you about the new home of the facilities' former inhabitants. Meeting with their Overseer, he asks for your help in preparing and protecting the Rockwell people for their long journey back to the original facility in Vermont and cleansing it of the Tantrum. Much more ambitious and bigger in scope, it covers your preparations for the long pilgrimage across America as well as the journey itself across four completely new maps.

* HiddenElfVillage: The Goodsprings Rockwell facility was hidden by a hologram projector.

* [[spoiler: PatientZero: The Tantrum Annhilator, the original experiment of the Tantrum that infected all the rest.]]
* ThePlague: [[spoiler: The Tantrum Virus spread until it infected every scientist working on it. A case of GoneHorriblyWrong, as the Tantrum Virus was meant to cure ghoulification and FEV.]]
* PowerArmor: Nearly every infantry man of the Rockwell Army is wearing T-51b PowerArmor. [[spoiler: gets [[InformedAbility "upgraded"]] with the [[AncestralArmor US Military T-45d Power Armor]].]]