Today in the CBO
Settlements Today
by Nat Wright-Kowalski
30 June 2296 - Fairline Hill Estates
Each Tuesday for the upcoming weeks through the playoffs, we will feature one of the settlements, teams, and owners of the Commonwealth Baseball Organization. This is meant to tell you more about life in the Commonwealth, as well as give you more information about the teams and their owners.
In our twelfth installment of "Settlement Today," I visited the luxurious settlement, Fairline Hill Estates.
Before the purge of the wasted Commonwealth, Fairline Hill Estates was a place where settlers always tried to make a community but experienced several problems. According to the intranet, "Since the Great War, the remains of this gated community have been used by several scavenger and raider gangs. It was recently occupied by a small settlement, though now it is home to yao guai and feral ghouls. The previous [sic] residents left behind a small amount of evidence of their existence, including some of their belongings. Several rotting brahmin corpses lie in the playground being eaten by yao guai, and workstations remain inside the houses undisturbed. In the interim, one home was fortified (and filled with ghouls), its well armed occupant killed, and the place was ultimately abandoned.
Fairline Hill Estates 2288 - The beautiful homes had fallen into disrepair
Nate Howard made Fairline Hill Estates a "second Sanctuary." With the nearby potential with Milton General Hospital and Fallon's Department Store, Howard could see the potential for a powerful settlement outside the Commonwealth.
It is not yet where Howard imagined it to be since there is still some time needed before the sheer numbers reach the place where it needs to be. However, with the sponsorship by BosCom, with the probable location of the BosCom main TV studio occupying the old Gunner's Plaza south of Fairline Hill Estates, that vision could become a reality.
Today, settlers have rebuilt the mansion estates of the area, making the homes there into multi-family homes. The Yao Guai Circle, named that because Howard found yao guai occupying the area when he first arrived, has added more attractiveness to the area, and the residents there hope that it can continue to grow and more people will attend games there in time.
Fairline Hill Estates 2296 - The mansions of the Estates. Tour this custom settlement at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCEahOIkSis
Owner - Eleanor Scarface
It might have been better to have written this earlier or wait for Piper Wright to take over, but right now Eleanor is still the owner. She will not talk about herself much, but she has been successful in establishing trade in the area.
All we know about her past was a note found. To sum it up, "She apparently has some history with the raider Bosco [deceased] and his gang from D.B. Technical High School, and this resulted in the large scar down the left side of her face." It is believed Bosco gave her the scar since he wore a yao guai head mask and used a deathclaw gauntlet on his enemies--perhaps sometimes his friends.
TV is coming back
According to the intranet, "BosCom was a telecommunications company that was focused on serving the Boston area. Various advertisements boast phone and television services."
Piper Wright has now tagged that technology and can get closed-circuit television programs to play. Now her conglomerate BosCom, which is the owner of Publick Occurrences, is working to expand that technology into each settlement, starting with its first targets of Fairline Hill Estates and Diamond City. In conjunction with Kent Connolly of Hubris Comics and in cooperation with Nate Howard and Isabel Cruz, with help from scriptwriters like Rex Goodman of WRVR, BosCom plans to run a five-episode TV series of The Unstoppables. That series is planned to run later this year.
