Wrecked by Vault Tec

[PlotBunny]

I am making Fallout table top system. The mechanics are easy, but I am having problems with the vaults. I need help coming up with unethical or questionable social experiments that Vault Tec would have done. Please no copies of existing vaults. Thoughts?

[Aralicia]

For reference, a list of the known Vaults of the Fallout franchise.

Proposition : Vault 47
"What would happen if the Overseer was ever changing, and not selected by any criteria ?"
This one sentence was the basis of the experiment of Vault 47. Every month, the vault main computer would randomly select a new Overseer among the residents of the Vault. In order to avoid dwellers making new Overseers a puppet by controlling access to the command room, the computer would obey to any vocal order given by the Overseer anywhere within the vault.
To cope with the quick change in leadership, the inhabitants of Vault 47 set up a Council composed of the last six Overseer, which allowed them to advise the new one, and give some continuity to the laws and projects.
All of this came to an abrupt end when, 3 year within the experiment, a two-year old boy was selected as the new overseer. The residents where ready to pass a month without true headship, but one of the boy's sentences was recognized as a order to open the Vault Door.
Under the onslaught of radiation, most of the dwellers died with the rest becoming feral gouls, reducing the population of the Vault to 0.

If the characters visit the Vault, there is a chance that the main computer is still active or can be reactivated. In such case, It would follow its programming and immediately announce one of the characters as the new Overseer.

[Scud422]

Vault 88:
"What is the natural rhythm of humans?"
The vault contains no clocks or any form of time-keeping devices. This, combined with the vault's complete detachment from the outside world, will test to see if humans keep the standard 24 hour cycle or if their wake/sleep cycle stabilizes at a different time frame.

Vault 89:
"How malleable is the rhythm of humans?"
All clocks and timekeeping devices start slowing down ever so slightly and eventually stabilize after 40 years so that a 24 hour clock actually takes 30 hours to complete a cycle. The slowdown is equivalent to making each day 1 second longer than the last. Record how a 30 hour sleep/wake cycle effects the psychology and productivity of the different generations.

[XLordxErebusX]

Vault 113:
Vault-Tec Staff: 7 (1 overseer, 3 scientists, 3 engineers)
Vault Dwellers: 315 prisoners, divided into 5 cell blocks of 63.

"What is the true nature of Evil and can it be harnessed for use?"

This vault was not open to the public; it was considered a black-ops experiment between Vaul-Tec and a classified government agency. The vault was mostly automated, except for seven vault-tec staff: the Overseer, three scientists, and three engineers. It's population included three hundred and fifteen violent and mentally-Ill prisoners.

The vault was cut vertically into the hard granite of a mountain range, before being divided into three levels stacked on each other:

• Level 1: Residential and R&D (mostly Plasma Weaponry & Cybernetics)
  
• Level 2: Maintenance and Power Plant
  
• Level 3: Cell Blocks A-E
  

The overseer and his staff were clearly sociopaths themselves, chosen for their lack of morality and empathy. They committed unimaginable cruelties on the vault's prisoner population, having no regard for the health or safety of the victims.

These experiments included a wide variety of types of torture, surgical alterations/amputations, genetic modification, and horrible psychological experiments.

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Ran out of ideas. I was thinking something between DOOM and Auschwitz. The overseer was meant to be a sort of Dr. Josef Mengele type-character.

[GeneticDrift]

I am not familiar with the fallout games, so i hope these dont come to close.

Vault 164
This shelter was filled with cats. If any serious harm was done to a cat 1 human was executed by an AI. Narrow tunnels and walk ways allow cats to wander anywhere in the vault. Extensive living space was provided to the cats while the dwelers were forced to live in cramped confines. When food ran out the people turned to canabalism. Perhaps a few cats remain?

Vault 116
Reality tv. The vault is separated into 16 different cells wach monitored and broadcast in real time. Vault tech managed to keep thepis vault going for a long time before the workers died in some accident. Leaving the 'actors' with no way to win food through contests. The last few recorded weeks show the inhabtants trying to figure out what game they were playing so they could eat, getting more panicked,desperate, and crazy.

[Shiroi]

Designed to test human reproduction limits in isolated post-war communities, candidates for this vault were selected to display minimal genetic variance, replicating generations of genetic inbreeding.

Designed to strip the life purpose value of the individuals inside to test the ability of the subjects to dramatically shift goals in a short period of time, this vault is populated entirely by farmers and seamstresses known to enjoy their jobs. No land for farming or sources of cloth were provided. It was billed as a massive cotton farm designed to produce clothes for the survivors after the vault opened, and a door inside the vault with a sign "Acreage 10,000, please observe all safety regulations" opens to a solid concrete wall with a graffiti sign "under construction".