What's your fallout shelter going to be like?
chalupamonk
sky h4x0r Join Date: 2002-02-19 Member: 227Members, NS1 Playtester
sky h4x0r Join Date: 2002-02-19 Member: 227Members, NS1 Playtester
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<div class="IPBDescription">Aesthetics are important.</div>With escalating tension between Pakistan and India over the little hunk of burning love, Kashmir, and formidable nuclear arsenals available to both sides, I don't think it's very unlikely that the inevitable will happen. But, rather than be a downer, I've thought of an important question for every member of the human race: What is your fallout shelter looking like?
If you don't have one, get working. Because time is running out, baby, and even though I don't like seeming so pessimistic, I think of this more as a way to relieve tension. Well, my tension, anyway. So here's where you give out the details of your fallout shelter, what it's equipped with, etc... Let's use mine as an example.
My shelter is a joint effort with a few pragmatic friends from #naturalselection. After we heard the news of the approaching war, we started constructing our magnificent underground haven of humanity. There is a tunnel that leads 300 feet underground, into the steel-plated fortress we like to call "The Lemur" because eBnar thought it was funny. Inside are me, Jedisar, Bozman, PsychoticRedemption, and eBby.
We made sure to make it look as little like an NS map as possible, because we figured we might go crazy from the atmosphere and end up killing each other thinking that the other was 'the thing'. Otherwise, we've got a really nice track lighting thing going on through the place (it's actually pretty big), and we've got our own hydroponics area! I know, I know, it's cool.
We've got five generators, solar panels sheathed under titanium plating near the surface, and a small hydroelectric plant running on an underground stream, which is also goin to be our source of water until we start getting any contaminated water. We've got air conditioning going on, and Boz is working on setting up a LAN so we can play with NS while we wait for the radioactive dust to settle.
Living quarters are anything but austere, and by the way, we've all brought girlfriends <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo--> .
Well, that's some of our lil' base of operations. What are yours like?
(Edit: Spelling and a few other tweaks.)
If you don't have one, get working. Because time is running out, baby, and even though I don't like seeming so pessimistic, I think of this more as a way to relieve tension. Well, my tension, anyway. So here's where you give out the details of your fallout shelter, what it's equipped with, etc... Let's use mine as an example.
My shelter is a joint effort with a few pragmatic friends from #naturalselection. After we heard the news of the approaching war, we started constructing our magnificent underground haven of humanity. There is a tunnel that leads 300 feet underground, into the steel-plated fortress we like to call "The Lemur" because eBnar thought it was funny. Inside are me, Jedisar, Bozman, PsychoticRedemption, and eBby.
We made sure to make it look as little like an NS map as possible, because we figured we might go crazy from the atmosphere and end up killing each other thinking that the other was 'the thing'. Otherwise, we've got a really nice track lighting thing going on through the place (it's actually pretty big), and we've got our own hydroponics area! I know, I know, it's cool.
We've got five generators, solar panels sheathed under titanium plating near the surface, and a small hydroelectric plant running on an underground stream, which is also goin to be our source of water until we start getting any contaminated water. We've got air conditioning going on, and Boz is working on setting up a LAN so we can play with NS while we wait for the radioactive dust to settle.
Living quarters are anything but austere, and by the way, we've all brought girlfriends <!--emo&;)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'><!--endemo--> .
Well, that's some of our lil' base of operations. What are yours like?
(Edit: Spelling and a few other tweaks.)
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Btw, I'm thinking of adding a swimming pool and hot tub..Thoughts?
The hot tub is a great idea, Jed. We'll need a little relaxation.
How many times must I ask you to keep it down. It must Fam^ and his damn oven but you guys should really keep it down. It is hard to sleep at night with those odd noises that you guys make. I thought putting my shelter 50 feet accross from yours would not let sound through, however, I was wrong. If you do not keep down the sound at night I will be forced to call the Fallout Shelter police.
As for the defense of my shelter:
The tunnel leading into my fallout shelter has these big, purple, and sharp poking fingers inserted into the walls and ground. If anyone beside me trys to get in, they get poked to death! But never fear, I will have plenty of corn on the cob and ovens to keep me busy!
ps, I am h4xing your l4n for my use. Sorry.
<a href="http://pants.netfirms.com/kaboom.jpg" target="_blank">Here's an example</a> (dramatization).
Edit: Netfirms is down, again. ### ### ###.
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We've got our shelter rigged up with some high-tech radar and GPS tracking systems so we can watch every missle that is fired (although we had to replace it when my friend matt thought he was playing "missle command" and broke the darn thing because he kept losing). It's nicely furnished with leather couches and a giant home entertainment system. Our electricity is drawn from three underground generators placed over several geothermal vents, alowing us a fairly inexhaustible supply of cheap electricity.
As for water, well, we've had to buy roughly 20,000 litres of Evian spring water, totaling about $2,000,000. That stuff ain't cheap. We've got it stored in a huge holding tank, and we estimate it'll last us about 10 years. We have a hydroponics garden facility down there with various neat plants that are all edible, so when the missles begin to fly i'm officially a vegetarian. Oh, and I've brought every single electronic thing I own down there to stave off boredom, as well as a LAN so me and my friends can play NS.
Its actually better to live in than my house....
Also, Jedi, I can h4x it, I have a guy on the inside working for me.
No.
/me destroys high's shelter (that is for saying no)
/me aims @ chal/jedi's shelter
*edit*
/me is touched by E's post and shuts down the guns
/me offers a peace treaty
/me launches underground nukes at steve's shelter and laughs manically
More defenses are definitely good. We need to fight the coming zombie hordes, not ourselves.
Oh crap! I'm picking up a zombie horde a little over 50 miles away on the radar! It's time for your defenses to compe into play, Jed. Let's hope we make it through this wave...
/me hops onto one of the computers and boots up a remotely-controlled sniper turret. Yep, I see them. *BAM*
Heads a poppin'! Similar in many respects to my avatar. Here they come!
There, that will auto-target 'em and take them out. The Computer is coded with the intelligence of all previous generals of the Human Race and it's got some AI installed, so it will handle it all...easy.
Now, I think It's time to add a Bar, both wet and dry...
<a href="http://pants.netfirms.com/kaboom.jpg" target="_blank">This is what I was talking about.</a>
That bunneh is gonna burn in hell.
The zombies have overrun my base of operations, my poking fingers are almost at thier maximun limit. I need help!
/me punches in a few keys
C> Six Minutes to get atleast Twenty feet away. I hope you're a good runner.