"You and me… we grew up in it. But our boy Nate? He's seeing all of it for the very first time."

A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama

Episode Name: TOPSIDE

October 23rd, 2287 - Log 003.

Day one - Late Afternoon.

The surface. Sanctuary Hills. Nate Campbell steps out of Vault 111 and into a world two hundred and ten years beyond everything he knew. The neighborhood is bones and rust. The government never came back. And somewhere out there, his son is waiting. A pre-war soldier sees the Commonwealth for the first time — and the wasteland wastes no time introducing itself.

In This Holotape

• Nate surfaces from Vault 111 and sees the Commonwealth for the first time through pre-war eyes.

• Sanctuary Hills — once his neighborhood — is rubble, ash, and silence.

• A giant molerat, a woman with a pipe pistol, and a man in flame-painted T-60 power armor

• Codsworth — still operational, still waiting, still trimming a dead hedge after 210 years.

About The Dusty Signal

The Dusty Signal is a Fallout 4 fan fiction audio drama. DJ Dusty - an original character - presents stories from the wasteland... a campfire on the airwaves, a place for friends to gather.

Season One features recovered Pip-Boy recordings from Nate Campbell, a pre-war covert operative and the sole survivor of Vault 111, as he searches for his kidnapped son in the post-apocalyptic Commonwealth.

Original characters. Faithful to the lore... (kind of).

Built by one Fallout fan, for all Fallout fans.

This is a work of Fan Fiction. Creative liberties are taken from time to time to enhance the characters or deepen the story. All Fallout intellectual property belongs to Bethesda Game Studios. No commercial use is intended or implied... This podcast is free now and will ALWAYS be free.

This series has been created, written, and produced by Garrick Cline. The one man creative force behind Classic Me Studio. This series is assisted by Artificial Intelligence, NOT created by it.

NOTE: Classic Me Studio is a one man operation with a tiny budget... AI software is utilized to create the voices, some artwork, and to help with the backend of running a creative studio. The Dusty Signal podcast is the flagship show produced by the studio. Hopefully, more will follow in the future. I hide nothing of what I am trying to accomplish. For more information about the studio, myself, or my workflows and software... please visit the Classic Me Studio ⁠⁠website⁠⁠.

The Courier Network

Got something to say? The network is always open.

The wasteland's mail system ain't what it used to be… but, between that drunkard Gee Mail, the "Mr. perfect" Yah-Hoo Rider, that 'ole Hot Mail Girl, the always paranoid Pro-Ton Postman, and the perpetually late Out-Look Express… something usually makes it to my desk... usually.

Just send your dispatch to me here: ⁠⁠The Dusty Signal Courier Network⁠⁠

I read every letter. The good ones might even make it on the air.

Stay Alive.

Stay Strange…

Dusty, Out.

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