Fallout 4's Commonwealth Baseball Organization

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[OrangeP47]

I know it might be *slightly* lately to make a prediction, but I think the T-51s will have it again this year, after seeing all the previews. That record speaks for itself, even if they're #2 and deficient in HR.

Granted, this isn't who I *want* to win, merely who I think *will*.

[StLee]

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News and Notes - Reports from around the Commonwealth

by Nat Wright-Kawolski

8 September 2298 - CBO Playoffs: All Teams in Action

Action continues today as we have four games on the schedule today.

First up is a 12:05 PM first pitch in the South Charles Association League Semifinal matchup of the #4 Diamond City Swatters at the #1 Goodneighbor Hancocks. Tim Fusion and Quincy Eloquent are scheduled to pitch for their respective teams in the matchup.

The second game begins at 3:05 PM with Game 2 of the Fort Hagen Silver Shroud at the Nordhagen Beach Party Boys. Brent Hooker and Tommy Beach will see the mound in that one with the Shroud up 1-0.

The third game is Game 1 of the #3 Warwick Mirelurks at the #2 Oberland T-51s in SCA action at 6:05 PM. John Diner and Sheng Kawolski will get the nods there.

The final game of the day is a 9:05 PM first pitch with the Easy Town Assaultrons up a game on the Abernathy Adamantium in Game 2 of that NCA League Semifinal series. Smoker Caliman and Brad Westing are starting in that one.

All CBO Playoff games will be featured individually in Publick Occurrences' special Playoffs section. Visit us at @publick to see all features, or buy tomorrow's print version for your home collection.

For those listening live, all games are televised on BNN networks and on radio stations DCR (Games 1 and 4 today), WRVR (Game 2), and Atom Cats Radio (Game 3). An all robot crew will be broadcasting the Easy Town-Abernathy game. The BNN games will be broadcast throughout the entirety of the game. Regional games will be broadcast in their entirety even if other games are not complete. Therefore, Northwest quadrant (Institute League region) and Northeast quadrant (Brotherhood League) settlers will be able to watch the first pitch of Fort Hagen-Nordhagen Beach and Easy Town-Abernathy from the first pitch to the last. The same goes for regional games in the Southwest (Railroad League) and Southeast (Minutemen League) quadrants for both the Diamond City-Goodneighbor and Warwick-Oberland games.



8 September 2298 - BMU: Natick Banks Takes League Championship in Deciding Game

Depending on your loyalties, the Massachusetts Association League Championship was either thrilling or heartbreaking.

The series went down to its final game, with the Natick Banks Big Leaguers and the Haymarket Mall Commandos giving their fans plenty of drama. In the end, the Big Leaguers came out on top, winning 5-3 at Garden Terrace Field today to take the series 2-1.

"We're lucky to be going into the Boston Minor Series," said Natick Banks pitcher Oren Gep. "If all the series are like this, it'll definitely be an entertaining postseason."

Gep earned series MVP honors, hitting for a .455 average, with 3 home runs, 6 RBI and 4 runs scored.

The Natick Banks Big Leaguers will play against the Galleria Robotics Experts in the next round. Galleria won their series against the College Square Nerd Ragers 2 games to 1. The Boston Minor Series schedule will be announced tomorrow.

[StLee]

Originally Posted by OrangeP47

I know it might be *slightly* lately to make a prediction, but I think the T-51s will have it again this year, after seeing all the previews. That record speaks for itself, even if they're #2 and deficient in HR.

Granted, this isn't who I *want* to win, merely who I think *will*.

It is hard to pick against Goodneighbor as hot as they've been, but I agree. Oberland has the X-factor in Sheng Kawolski who dominated every single playoff game he pitched in last year. I find it hard to believe he won't do the same thing again this season.

[Tyke]

Sad to say, but I think you're right - both of you!! I think it must be either Goodneighbor or, maybe more likely, Oberland. They've got the level of consistency that keeps them powering on.

[OrangeP47]

Popping in on Christmas to say my brother got me the officially licensed Fallout Chess Set! It's quite nice. The pieces are named after Fallout 3, but the art style is definitely Fallout 4.

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Originally Posted by Tyke

Sad to say, but I think you're right - both of you!! I think it must be either Goodneighbor or, maybe more likely, Oberland. They've got the level of consistency that keeps them powering on.

I still have one to sim today, but Goodneighbor snuck by in Game One and Oberland fell. Perhaps it is still any team's championship. Nordhagen Beach is in dire straits at the moment, though!

[StLee]

Originally Posted by OrangeP47

Popping in on Christmas to say my brother got me the officially licensed Fallout Chess Set! It's quite nice. The pieces are named after Fallout 3, but the art style is definitely Fallout 4.

That's a really cool gift!

My best gift was a charcuterie board because I love to cut the cheese!

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[OrangeP47]

You know we haven't seen too many notable Synth players, but reading the writeup for that last Swatters game, it's kinda fitting that Diamond City of all places would have a Synth of some caliber on their team. Shows real progress.

[StLee]

Originally Posted by OrangeP47

You know we haven't seen too many notable Synth players, but reading the writeup for that last Swatters game, it's kinda fitting that Diamond City of all places would have a Synth of some caliber on their team. Shows real progress.

Good catch! I had started a MacCready story at some point and never got back to it. Since you pointed it out, it can be a good first round feature story! Let me get started on that!

[StLee]

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News and Notes - Reports from around the Commonwealth

by Nat Wright-Kawolski

10 September 2298 - From the Publick Occurrences Archives

Hi, Publick Occurrences readers.

Our home team, The Diamond City Swatters, made the playoffs for the first time in team history. Yesterday afternoon, pitcher X10-44 Mannson was named the Game MVP in the Swatters' first-ever playoff victory.

Today I want to feature a string of stories that indicate the change of Diamond City from a place of fear and loathing to an open city welcoming all. This story string takes us back to the first change in 2229; to 2287 when my sister, Piper Wright, wrote an article about the Institute history in Diamond City; to 2288 and the change; all the way to today in 2298 when Diamond City has become a beacon of the peaceful and equal Commonwealth.

Below is the first story in this string of stories by Piper. Please enjoy this Publick Occurrences classic, "The Synthetic Truth." As you can see below, Piper never implicated Mayor McDonough. However, the buzz of the article, coupled with strange reactions by the mayor to it, led to the demise of the mayor and Nate Howard insisting on the Institute making permanent changes to its policies.

The story below:

The Synthetic Truth

by Piper Wright

30 October 2287 - Noodles. We all eat them. We all love them. And Diamond City's Power Noodles has supplied this sustenance for the past fifteen years. From the stilted mechanical cadence of Takahashi's programmed Japanese, to the fragrant steam that wafts from each bowl, to the scalding tang of each delicious mouthful - the ordering and eating of noodles is but one of many shared human experiences. Or is it?

I was struck by this very question as I sat at the counter of Power Noodles last Wednesday night, just after 5:00 pm, enjoying a dinner I had so many times before. That's when I noticed our very own Mayor McDonough sidle up to a stool, and engage in the very same ritual. Right hand extending. Mouth opening. Teeth chewing. Yes, eating noodles. The shared experience of almost every Diamond City resident.

So it must have also seemed to the residents of Diamond City nearly sixty years ago, on an uncharacteristically warm May evening in 2229, as they sat around this very same counter. But that was before the days of Takahashi and his noodles, when the bar served not noodles, but ice cold Nuka-Colas, frothy beers, and stiff shots of whiskey. The barman's name was Henry, and that night, he facilitated the shared human experiences of drinking, smoking, talking and laughing. That is, until tragedy struck.

There aren't many among us who are even old enough to remember that evening - although some of the city's Ghoul residents certainly could have, had they not been forcibly removed, thanks to Mayor McDonough's anti-Ghoul decree of 2282. But there is one person among us who does remember, distinctly, the events of that evening: respected matriarch Eustace Hawthorne, who recounted her story in a Publick Occurrences exclusive interview.

"Oh, I was there all right. Sitting right at the bar, sure as you're sitting in front of me now. Twenty-two years old or so, and just looking to have a good time. I was safe behind the Wall - we all were - so what was the harm? And let me tell you, that Mr. Carter made it easy. He came into town earlier that day, said he was from out west somewhere. It didn't really matter. What did matter was his smile, and his laugh, and the way he'd make everyone feel at ease. That night, at the bar, we all just sort of crowded around him. Everyone wanted to exchange a word, or hear about the state of the Commonwealth. And Mr. Carter, he was all too happy to oblige. It was just so wonderful. Until it wasn't."

Eustace continued her account of that evening, and the moment when things turned sinister, and the truth about Mr. Carter was revealed.

"We'd been drinking, and carrying on, must have been three hours. Mr. Carter had four or five drinks in that time. He seemed a bit drunk, I guess, like the rest of us. Then something just sort of happened. He was smiling, but the smile sort of went from his face, all in an instant. And then his cheek started twitching, kind of funny. And I remember watching him, clear as if it happened just yesterday. He reached inside his coat, took out a revolver, and then 'Blam!' - He shot Henry, the barman, right in the head. Didn't hesitate, didn't show any emotion - Mr. Carter killed Henry as casually as if he were paying him for a drink. But his cheek never did stop twitching. Let me tell you, all Hell broke loose after that."

What Eustace is describing is, of course, is the infamous event known as the "Broken Mask," when the people of the Commonwealth learned for the first time that the Institute, the shadowy scientific organization responsible for the creation of combat androids, had actually succeeded in creating a model so advanced, it could effortlessly infiltrate human society. Unbeknownst to the people of Diamond City, the Institute had somehow evolved their androids into true synthetic humans. Synths.

"After he shot Henry, that Mr. Carter shot three or four other people, too. Like I said, all Hell broke loose. The guards came running, they opened fire, and Mr. Carter he kept shooting, and throwing people around left and right. Finally, those guards put him down. Seemed like they had killed a man who had flipped his lid. Gone crazy. And he lay there like a dead crazy man, sure enough. God, it was horrible. But then we saw the plastic and the metal - this was one of them early synths, you see - and we realized it wasn't a man at all. It was then we all knew. The Institute wasn't just 'out there.' The Institute was everywhere now. Among us."

It was never determined precisely why the synth known as Mr. Carter went on his killing spree. Some suggested he had somehow been remotely controlled by the Institute, who wanted to test his combat effectiveness. Still others felt he had simply malfunctioned (a hypothesis supported by the twitching cheek), and was never meant to kill anyone. But at that time, the "why" hardly seemed important. What mattered was that the humans of the Commonwealth had been truly infiltrated by an organization whose intentions and motives were, and still are, a complete mystery - using a model of synth even less advanced than the ones the Institute has in service today.

Which brings us to noodles. Specifically, the noodles consumed by Mayor McDonough last Wednesday night, in the same spot that Mr. Carter the synth went haywire, and mercilessly killed several people - after spending hours sharing an experience the people of Diamond City assumed was reserved for members of the human race. They were wrong.

Are we?

10 September 2298 - Playoff Action

The North Charles Association resumes action today as the four teams have traveled to new locations.

The 1:05 PM first pitch of Abernathy visiting Easy Town will feature the #3 seed Assaultrons trying to sweep the #2 Adamantium. Bad Company Grognak is expected to take the mound for the Adamantium, while David Tech is expected to start for Easy Town.

The second game of the day begins at 5:05 PM with #1 Nordhagen Beach, down 0-2, visiting #4 Fort Hagen. Julian Shed is expected to start for the Party Boys, while Mike Cartrette gets the start for the Silver Shroud.

Tonight, Game 1 of the best-of-five Boston Minor Series takes place when the Galleria Robotics Experts visit the Natick Banks Big Leaguers. Punky Shaum (6-9, 4.77 regular season) gets the nod for the Experts, while Burp Taylor (14-3, 3.47) gets the start for the Bigs.

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