Welcome to The Cortex Online: I am writer/freelance journalist Brad Smith and this is the official website for my Zedverse stories and blogs. The views and opinions expressed on this social media platform are entirely mine and—well, actually—do reflect what I think. Alea iacta Est—Tenebras expellit et hostes—Sic itur ad astra excelsior
31 January 2025
Part 3 Fallout 4 -- Smith's Run: The Wonderland Line Radroach Massacre of 2087
Part 2 Fallout 4 -- Smith's Run: A Scavenger Hunt
30 January 2025
Part 1 Fallout 4 -- Smith's Run: Wasteland Trackdown
I haven't streamed in nearly two years.
Fighting both Covid and Writer's Block, I returned to
gaming vids. Gaming jump-starts my brain and helps with the block; several
writers play these games.
Jonathan Nolan loved playing the Fallout games—of course,
he created the hit Amazon Prime web series by the same name.
So.
It's a bit slow and I'm getting back to the video gaming
zone.
But I'll get there.
Here we go . . . again:
Renegade SRB agent and now a fugitive synth,
Smith.0 returns to the Commonwealth Wasteland after years of wandering what's
left of North America. After reaching Old Boston's ruined outskirts, Smith
discovers a holotape with a shocking revelation: Husband and wife Nate and Nora
Anderson were violently removed from their Vault 111 cryopods—only to be
murdered by a merc named Conrad Kellogg, who kidnapped their son, Shaun.
Kellogg was one of the reasons he returned to the Commonwealth; Smith set
out on a quest to rescue Shaun.
And, after a century, finally kill Kellogg and
settle some very old scores.