Gas House

**Gas House** is in the location of the real-world Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village

## Background

Gas House was originally called Stuyvesant Town, and was a residential development. Over 110 red-brick apartment buildings, and countless gas storage tanks fill the area. To the East is the Edison Power plant, which still works at minimal capacity, and provides power to the surrounding area.

The housing development also brings with it a significant drug problem, and is the city’s source of Glee.

## Inter-City Relations

Gas House sells power to surrounding areas in exchange for goods and supplies otherwise unavailable in the area. Being one of the few areas producing power gives Gas House leverage in trade agreements.

People from Gas House are also flooding the area drug markets with their drug “Glee”. This drug was originally invented pre-war as a treatment and preventative drug for the New Plague. The military and government were shadow hands guiding the development. After the war, the drug was altered for recreational use and has been renamed ‘glee’ for the euphoric and hallucinatory effects it has on the user

## NPCs

1. *Peter Stuy* Militant guard of Gas House. Peter was once a farmer, but after he moved to Gas House, he became the Director-General of the guard.
2. **Peter Cooper**Second in command to Peter Stuy. They are creatively and collectively known as “The Peters”. That said, Peter Stuy and Peter Cooper often do not see eye-to-eye.
3. **Judy & Ray Aldo** A married couple who have become despondent, and believe that  the natural and ever-hopeful chase after glittering, material ambition is a wistful and endless dream. Between the death of their son by drowning, and Ray’s crippling injury, the two have given up on ‘making it big’ any more. Instead, they’ve grown content with a life in poverty.
4. **Nick Garods** Born and raised in Gas house, Nick hates the area as much as anybody, and is looking to undermine the settlement for a profit. Would help an outside group take control of Gas House, or parts of it, for money.
5. **Niko K-K** Niko is a conservative man with Russian/Eastern European mannerisms and personality. A large man, drinks but not to a fetishist amount, and mentions Russian architecture when comparing the apartment blocks of Gas House. Mentioned “Serrated Coalition 2” as his favorite holo-disk game.

* *The Oval* Gas House’s central green, the Oval, complete with large fountain, was a meeting place for many of the pre-war citizens. Now, it is a dingy shanty town of displaced people, drug dealers, gang members, and other unsavory characters.
* *Cooper Village* The Northern part of Gas House, filled with several identical brick apartment blocks, most of which are condemned and partially collapsed. However, several of the open areas outside are utilized by the citizens there.

## Side Stories/Quests

* *It's the Hard Knock Life* A woman is behind on rent in a hovel filled with children. Do you have the heart to evict her? Or do you lack the spine and pay the rent yourself? Or do you go pragmatic and help her find a job? There are many options open to you.
* *All That Jazz* A married couple has given up on expending the effort chasing dreams anymore. Do you help them rekindle their life after tragedy and loss? Do you channel it into anger and ferocity? Or do you let sleeping dogs lie?
* *Losing My Mind* Nick Garods hates living in Gas House, and has become vindictive because of this. He has plans to undercut the residents of Gas House, sell them out to a rival gang. You can either help Nick, turn him in, convince him otherwise, or ignore him.

## Player Interaction

You can bring in a violent gang of thugs to Gas House, *The Gas House Gang* that will displace many of the residents in the area, and will take over the drug production of Glee.

The area’s drug problems all stem from Gas House, and your actions with them and here will affect the overall distribution of Glee.

## Relation to Main Games

An explanation for why *Jet* is found in pre-war vaults and containers in Fallout 4, despite being a ‘post war invention’ as described in Fallout 2, is suggested by the drug dealers in Gas House.

## Notes

* Judy & Ray Aldo are a reference to Judy Holliday and Aldo Ray who played Florrie and Chet Keefer in the 1952 movie, *The Marrying Kind,* which took place in the area
* Nick Garods is a reference to Daniel Garodnick, a lifelong resident of Cooper Village, and real life New York City Council Member.
* Peter Stuy and Peter Cooper are obvious references to Peter Stuyvesant (former governor of ‘New Netherland’ which became ‘New York’ later) and Peter Cooper (first designer of the American Steam Locomotive), both of which namesakes are used within Gas House for apartment complexes.
* Niko K-K is a reference to Nikolaj Kazimirko-Kirillov, a YouTuber and gamer by the handle “Warlockracy”.