Carol Sweeney

Carol Sweeney, identified as a raider corpse in-game, is a deceased former raider from the Cutthroats who took refuge in Big Bend Tunnel.
==Background==
Carol Sweeney was an affluent tourist visiting Pleasant Valley Ski Resort when the Great War began. Like the other tourists seeking for survival, Carol became a raider and joined the Cutthroats. However, Carol did not stay with the Cutthroats for long. When David Thorpe caused the Christmas Flood in December 2082 that devastated Charleston, Carol was appalled at what Thorpe had done and guilt-ridden for becoming an accessory to mass murder, striking out shortly after the Flood. She and a few other raiders left the Cutthroats. Carol became the default leader of the group which took shelter in Big Bend Tunnel, setting up a community at the western end of the tunnel in January 2083.Scattered journal pages Attempts to explore the eastern end were suspended after a November 2085 trip resulted in her witnessing the scorchbeasts digging themselves out from under the ground. 
Despite that, the group built a self-sufficient community in and around the western end of the tunnel, scavenging, foraging, and even setting up a little agriculture. In May 2088, her community came into contact with the Brotherhood of Steel under Knight Melissa Reische. The group formed a trading relationship, exchanging what weapon parts and tech salvage they could find and exchanging it for supplies from Reische. While Sweeney considered it a one-sided exchange, the Brotherhood kept trading with them and in 2093 learned that the reason was to keep their community going. Sweeney considered the words, realizing that she has been stuck thinking of herself as a former Cutthroat, rather than a survivor. Reische gave her hope. Carol also realized that while she might have imagined a different future while vacationing at Pleasant Valley, the hard life in the new world was strangely simpler and more peaceful than the pre-War chaos.
Like others throughout Appalachia, Carol's peace was shattered by the advancement of the Scorched. The increasing presence in the tunnels limited contact with the Brotherhood contingent. In summer 2095, Sweeney and her group managed to reestablish contact with the eastern end, only to find that Knight Reische's contingent was gone. Sweeney was distraught, as she thought Melissa would have left a parting note at least. She put a ban on any trips to the eastern end, setting up a patrol and rigging multiple traps to keep the scorched at bay. 
However, it didn't help, as they came from the west. By spring 2097, her group was one of the last few remaining survivors in Appalachia, completely surrounded by the Scorched. The horde appeared on the trails of two former Cutthroats who came to them for shelter. Originally thinking it a ploy to get her to drop her guard, she realized they were genuine in the fear. However, a few hours later, before they could abandon the settlement, the scorched descended on the camp and quickly pushed everyone back into the tunnels, sealing their fate. Trapped deep within the Big Bend tunnel, Sweeney had enough time to ruminate on her fate, accepting death as just penance for her actions in life.
==Appearances==
Carol Sweeney appears only in Fallout 76.
==References==
Category:Fallout 76 human characters
Category:Cutthroats