Fan Made Fallout Contest "Creative use of a Rat"

The Vault Dweller

The Vault Dweller

always looking for water.
Attention all fans of Fallout! The makers of Fan Made Fallout are currently holding a contest that anyone can take part in. It's as simple as thinking of a creative way to use a sample of the ever-present and always plague-bearing Rattus Rattus or what you'd commonly call the rat...<blockquote>Welcome visitors,
Introducting our first foray into fan submissions and interaction!

We'd like to invite our visitors to submit your favorite ways to use a rat for use by one of our NPCs in the game. His name is Butch and he sure loves rats! He knows a million uses for them ... and frankly, that's about 5.99 million more then we want to try and come up with on our own ... that's where you come in!

We're looking for a short sentance of a way you can use a rat. For example (Put 'em in a stew, they make a great hat, a child's toy, a club, etc....) We'll choose the 5 best submissions (using a crack panel of ratologists) and put them in the game. And we'll put your name in the credits, too!

Here are the rules:

1 - Submissions should consist of no more then one short sentance of text. We're looking for creativity, not a dissertation on rats
2 - Please include the name you wish to appear in the credits, if different from your login name
3 - We'll be accepting submissions from now (February 11th) through the end of the month (February 29th). Winners will be announced sometime in March.

Other then that, you're good to go!
We look forward to reading your submissions!</blockquote>Let's hope they get plenty of great submissions from all you excited fans! It would be wonderful to have your name in the credits of a fan mod for your favorite game. You know you'd like it.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
A Rat-competition! Yay!

Well, I'm not surprised at all. The guys from FMF was always nutty. :)
 
So I assume that the million uses for rats will be used as the NPC speech blips for when the player is just walking around a location (e.g. Cassidy's arthritis gripes or Ian mentioning how clean Vault 13 looks).
 
Well,

Supermutants can use the tails for floss (in theory).

Alive or dead, they'll keep your toes warm at night.

Finger puppets...

Golf club warmers...

A rat and a stick makes a great scrub-brush for your dishes.

Lonely nights...

Family planning?
 
I'm superstitious, gents!
After all, it's the year of the Rat.
And I'm afraid of clan Eshin, too :))

However, the best "falloutish" use would be the electric generator with a running rat inside. It's got the style, and not too... violent, I'd say.

By the way, do you know that rats are quite intelligent beings, and some even claim that they possess the sense of humour?

And also, do you know how they hunt for the birds' eggs? One rat climbs onto a nest, while another one is lying flat on the ground, on its back. So, when the first one reaches the eggs, and it hurls down one of them, aiming (!) to hit the other rat, in order not to break the egg against the ground!
 
egalor said:
And also, do you know how they hunt for the birds' eggs? One rat climbs onto a nest, while another one is lying flat on the ground, on its back. So, when the first one reaches the eggs, and it hurls down one of them, aiming (!) to hit the other rat, in order not to break the egg against the ground!
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That's awesome. However I've had quite an experience with mice at my old apartment which made me hate that entire family of rodents. That, and I briefly had a Russian dwarf hamster named Anka. She literally kept biting the hand that fed her, so I let her into the wild.
 
Rats can be used as "bio-tasers". Connect one with a battery and let loose on the enemy for the shock of their lives!

Rats can be used to scare off Super Mutated Elephants. Don't roam the wastes without one!

Stuck in a hedge maze? Grab a piece of cheese and throw it out. The rat will guide you to freedom within 5 minutes. That's right... FIVE MINUTES!!!

Have a body to dispose? A few hundred starved rats will gnaw it to dust!

Fake edit: Love rats by the way. I have 7. They R teh cute!

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Per said:
Tie a rabid rat around a grenade to cover your enemies in foam.
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Wow... thats not deviously mad-scientist at all....




*Cackles manically*
 
egalor said:
However, the best "falloutish" use would be the electric generator with a running rat inside. It's got the style, and not too... violent, I'd say.
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That is awesome! :D

I can totally imagine that not only being funny, but also ironic and hence very fitting in the Fallout universe. Dude I'm totally impressed.

Per said:
Tie a rabid rat around a grenade to cover your enemies in foam.
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Per gets second place so far by me. :)

Cute rats Nevermore. I hope to get multiple rodents as pets when my dog passes.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
shihonage said:
...I briefly had a Russian dwarf hamster named Anka. She literally kept biting the hand that fed her, so I let her into the wild.
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Don't let dwarf hamsters sour you on rodents, shi. Those things are fuckers. And this is coming from a rat LOVER.... I've got two really big cages, and had a baker's dozen at one time from a litter I had.... raised them from birth to about four months old, until my manager found out and made me get rid of them.

@Nevermore: Your ratties are cuuuuuuuuute! I miss having pet rats myself.

My suggestions:

Put a little camera or mike on them and use them as spies.

Let them into a house and pretend to be an expert exterminator (get good money that way!)

If you've got a bunch of them, and don't mind them being near you, you can use them to keep warm.

Or on a variation on that, you can use the skins to keep warm (not recommended for people who like rats, obviously.)

It takes a while, but you can teach them to fetch stuff. Add in the fact that rats can chew through metal pipes if they really try, and can shrink their shoulders to the thickness of their heads, and you've got a critter that can get any little thing and come back through tiny holes.

They can be used to undermine the structural integrity of buildings, especially mostly wooden ones, if they chew on the buildings enough.

You can color rat feces white and trick someone into thinking they're tic-tacs.

That's about all I can think of.
 
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