"Reefer Madness"

**"Reefer Madness"** was the second main story Quest in Fallout: Lonestar.

### **St. Alfonso's Pancake Breakfast**

After a short rest on the **Midnight Special**, the train stopped at the foot of a massive, overgrown, and unnatural jungle in the middle of the barren wastes. **The Convicts** decided to venture into the forest and ended up finding the entrance to a vault, **Vault 42**. Once inside, they found a particularly peculiar sight; a vault full of half-crazed, stoned out of their minds, scientists. Dressed in Tye-dye colored vault suits, the group seemed to come into the vault in the middle of a song being preformed in what seemed to be an old school diner filled with kooky characters. The restaurant ended up being owned by the Overseer of the vault, a man who called himself **St. Alfonso**, who welcomed the group and told them about their vault as they ate the titular pancakes, their first real meal. They also met his wife, **Dr.** **Audrey**, seemingly the only person there not to smoke the unpredictable **Wasteweed** native only to the vault. She explained their goals of eventually feeding the wasteland and ending hunger with their experiments with a **SuperG.E.C.K.** located in the vault. The group got supplies and medical attention before going to sleep in the vault's barracks. **Nanashi** and **Uncle Remus** stayed up playing pool in the vault's common area.

### **A Tragic Miscalculation**

Late in the night, an explosion rocked the entire vault. Tendrils of giant roots burrowed through the walls and ceilings, spreading spores and plant growth throughout the entire vault. The growth started to envelop dwellers of the vault and various visitors there as well, including one of the prison escapees, **Joe Cool**. Once enveloped, these people were then painfully and horrifically transformed into Wasteweed-covered creatures later referred to as **Weedeaters**. A fight ensued with the monstrosities and the group saved St. Alfonso from certain death, but in the chaos, **Brinkley** was taken into a vent by a tendril, has never been seen again and is presumed dead. After venturing deeper into the heart of the vault where the bulk of the crops were grown, the group noticed the tendrils coming from beneath the floor leading to what they later found out to be the basement where a failed SuperG.E.C.K. experiment resulted in the violent overgrowth. Eventually a giant mutant creature resembling a gargantuan Venus flytrap with certain human features. Upon further inspection, it was evident that somehow in the accident, Dr. Audrey had become this creature, later referred to as **Audrey 2000**. The Convicts had to work together as a team to defeat her as the fires they started to rid the vault of the infestation raged on, igniting the Wasteweed and intoxicating the group in the process. By the skin of their teeth, they persevered, with Nanashi delivering the killing blow to Audrey 2000.

### **The Creation of Flapjack**

After the death of Dr. Audrey, St. Alfonso was heartbroken, but thankful they saved the vault and many of it's inhabitants. He was also extremely humbled by the experience and relinquished the SuperG.E.C.K. to the Convicts for safe keeping. Once ready to leave, the group was told they would be welcome back whenever they pleased for saving the vault. Once outside the jungle, Truman preformed repairs to the device and used the SuperG.E.C.K. to enlarge a pancake they acquired from Vault 42. Though it was the very thing that caused catastrophe the night before, after the repairs were successfully done and the device was stable, it was a success. The pancake was enlarged to the size of a small settlement, with a height of almost 2 stories tall. It ended up being so large it even covered up some of the train tracks, which the Midnight Special subsequently ran through, creating a defacto train tunnel. After the group left, settlers would later move into the inside of the pancake as a settlement and named it Flapjack. The Convicts boarded the train as it headed north from Vault 42.