Fallout: Tale of Two Wastelands - Part 40 - Rolling The Die

Fallout: Tale of Two Wastelands continues, as we dive into the weird and wonderful world of random encounters, and the delightful secrets buried within them...
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[@BryanWagner]

Robbing Uncle Leo is a reference to Japanese monk Ryokan. See "The Thief and the Moon". Ryokan was being robbed, and had compassion for the thief. He insisted on giving him his clothes as a gift. The thief left, and Ryokan sat naked in the moonlight. "Poor fellow," he said, "I wish I could give him this beautiful moon."

[@BewareofTarps]

Yeah, I remember being pleasantly surprised when I had that encounter. I wasn't expecting a Zen koan to make its way into Fallout, and I certainly wasn't expecting to hear it from a super mutant, but it's honestly kind of perfect.

[@ciderandthorazine]

nice one, Wagner and Clements-Housser! you people have mad knowledge.

[@alfraser9083]

Hmm well you learn something new everyday

[@pablorepetto7804]

Ah, and that may be the origin of the name! "Ryo" sounds a bit like "Leo" and this story is definitely "something you'd have read in a book." It's cryptic and garbled, but this entire event chain seems like something made by a dev for their own enjoyment.

[@BryanWagner]

@@pablorepetto7804 I tried looking around for the origin of the name and came to the latter conclusion. Uncle Leo appears as an NPC zombie in the Shivering Isles and again in ESO. I think it really is just a Seinfeld reference easter egg.

[@pannarrans6278]

What Uncle Leo says is a reference to a story where a thief tries to rob a zen master in the night. The master gives him his clothes, which is all he owns. After the thief is gone he looks at the night sky and thinks to himself that he wished he could give this beautiful moon to that poor man.

[@SwissDontMiss]

What a bizarre yet really cool reference. I love how many things are in this game that I have never seen before even after playing it so many times

[@williammcvie7722]

I thought Uncle Leo would be a Seinfeld reference.

[@Nah-NoNeed_]

@@williammcvie7722after much googling that’s all I was able to find. But the characters don’t seem to be similar in any way besides having a name and no one else knowing how they got that nickname. Characters in Seinfeld even going on to say “I don’t remember his first name” and even signing a book with the name “Uncle Leo” as that’s all he ever calls himself. I honestly think it could just be that. But of course I don’t work at Bethesda either now or at the time this game was made to know for sure.

[@buhbuhjaychampagne1706]

The Moon Cannot Be Stolen

[@Scott_Forsell]

One playtrough I went to the Super Duper Mart as Moira directed me to and there was a deathclaw in the parking lot. I died immediately. A couple hours later I went to the Mechanist's Lair outside of Canterbury and there was a deathclaw in the parking lot. Took two swipes that time to kill me because I'd leveled up. Progress!

[@crowttubebot3075]

My first ever playthrough I got that same deathclaw. Died instantly. Reloaded, and got the alien blaster and a bunch of ammo for it. The two extremes of the random encounters.

[@athatcher9367]

On the road to the super duper mart I summoned an enclave soldier way before the enclave shows up, I was like level 3 and had just left the vault and done a few things around Megaton. It took a lot of ammo but I killed him and got a plasma rifle real early in the game. Plus his armor, even though I couldn’t use it yet it sold for some okay money.

[@harleyleedavidson8751]

​@@crowttubebot3075wait did you get the normal alien blaster or the firelance?

[@crowttubebot3075]

@@harleyleedavidson8751 First playthrough was back in 2008. I assume regular? Didn't know enough at the time to know enough, though. I just remember being puzzled, and saving my game to keep it.

[@harleyleedavidson8751]

@@crowttubebot3075 the regular is grey and the firelance is gold

[@iamwords2d200]

16:01 It’s kind of a shame Jon dropped Lazlo so quick, he has a bunch combat barks that are rather fun. Rambling about the player being a “Dirty Commie” and the such. Like a flesh Liberty Prime.

[@BS-nw1qr]

By the time Jon was singing praises to how amazing the random encounter system is at making you confront the consequences of your actions, he already mentioned the main issue with in. Those events are very very missable. I could easily jog pass Fredie Gomez's body and never lay an eye on him and never even know what happened to the Vaulters.

[@KashouWannabe]

I love all these years on, all those thousands of hours Jon has put into the Fallout series, he is still learning new things and seeing different stuff.

[@NixHarpinger]

Truly shows us how underrated Fo 3 really is.

[@AgentofChaos315]

Time to make the multiverse cry

[@PlebNC]

*canon event noises! *

[@Egzindahouse]

Lone Wanderer: Into The Fallout-Verse.

[@oswinosgood7870]

I will never forget i stepped outside of dukov's place and absolutely everything was exploding. That was when i decided everyone was wrong when they said not to give your companions explosives because as i investigated, it turned out Charon blew up a car, which blew up some Emclave, and their pet Deathclaw 😂

[@yourbluewaffle]

It's a weird coincidence that Uncle Leo is a nice supermutant but Leo is also the name of Lily's evil imaginary friend brought about by her stealthboy schizophrenia.

[@fraggelofthewastes]

I don't think this is a coincidence at all.

[@tnc7399]

It's not really weird. Lilly, Leo, they are pretty similar.

[@inductivegrunt94]

All these random events really help make this game so replayable and enjoyable even all these years later.

[@Lokitsu1]

Jon, you ran into the Wounded Deathclaw random encounter in the Super Duper parking lot way back in one of the early episodes of this playthrough.

[@LMK-Gaming]

I have been fortunate enough to run into Uncle Leo once during one of my many playthroughs of FO3 and I did have Fawkes with me at the time so i did get to see the unique dialogue between the two.

[@Satori-Automotive]

39:00 WTF !! I saw uncle leo 2 times.. at my first playthrue and at a playthrue off my best friend. i played the game multiple times and sadly never saw him again. But i NEVER saw a second or even third encounter!! Crazy! Watching ur channel shows every time new facts about this game that i have never heard before!

[@yourbluewaffle]

My favorite random encounter spot is at the war memorial. When you climb up those stairs, you could be greeted by a deathclaw chasing some wastelanders, a group of Chinese remnant soldiers, people fighting over a fridge etc.

[@stevencitrin4293]

The only Uncle Leo I could find was a character of that name from the American 90’s sitcom Seinfeld. Literally this character and the random encounter are all that come up if you google Uncle Leo.

[@thecrazytophatman7304]

Uncle Leo is a reference to Seinfeld where the actor Len Lesser (who played the character of “uncle Leo”) is the same voice actor for uncle leo in fallout 3. Hope this helped!

[@Hazz3r]

It may well be a Seinfeld reference but that last part isn't true. Wes Johnson plays Uncle Leo. The same guy who plays Fawkes, every other Super Mutant, Mr Burke, etc.

[@thecrazytophatman7304]

My mistake, it appears that the one source I looked at may be incorrect. Thank you kind sir!

[@giovaniguaresi9194]

I remember when i played fallout 3 for the first time, it was 2008 or 2009 and i was trying to find megaton entrance, after a few minutes going around, four outcasts spawned and i remember that i was impressed with their badass armors but a while later, a deathclaw spawned and killed a outcast with a flamethrower but the others managed to kill,after seen this awesome random event, i took everything from the body and i kept the armor until i got the training. The 13 years old me loved every minute of that playthrough, even don't understanding 90% of the dialogues

[@steamroller8773]

If you lie to the second wasteland survival guide encounter 21:00 she will give you a second copy of the guide.

[@thechatteringclown]

I always wondered if Uncle Leo is connected to "Granny" Lily over in new Vegas, as she refers to the voice in her head as Leo. Did she and Leo potentially meet pre FEV and, once she started hearing a voice in her head, she named it after him? Very unlikely, given Lily was created by the master's followers and Leo comes from vault 87, but it's still odd to me that one of the few friendly supermutants you meet shares a name with the imaginary voice in the head of another such rare case.

[@The3dsstuff]

I was incredibly lucky to run into uncle leo on my first ever playthrough right out of megaton. it got me to talking about supermutants to my dad (who had played the original fallouts extensively.) lovely memories. god i would've been about 11-12 then. didn't realise that was still a memory. cheers for that.

[@Taolan8472]

In the event there's a random event you want to show us, Jon, you can use mods/console commands to force spawn them. Maybe a wrap up episode as an epilogue? Complete with a visit to that mythological creature you referenced before, Junkers Plunkett? Edit: oh my, you visited the NPC void.

[@crickett3536]

Seconding this suggestion, as so many encounters are missed by fast travelers (like me lol)!

[@SirDylan23]

People really do be commenting before they’ve finished the video.

[@Taolan8472]

@@SirDylan23 Well yeah some of us have ADHD and need to get our words written out before we forget we thought them to say.

[@docette2015]

Fun times! Random encounters do spice up a Fallout game nicely, and it looks like FO3 has some fun ones. I'm glad you at least got the "superhero fan" one to spawn and didn't have to venture into the void for that! Poor Uncle Leo, though -- he deserves better than being trapped in the holding pen. If only the game had actually chosen him to spawn instead of fifty million BOS Outcasts!

[@perturbedbatman2009]

These random events definitely enhance the game. I mentioned this in a comment on a previous episode, but I ran into a vertibird outside the sniper’s shack (or whatever it was called) which dropped off a lone Enclave soldier and a sentry bot. I gave him a bit of a backstory that he had been entrusted to take on a mission basically solo and 2.5 seconds after setting foot on the ground, he hears a madman yelling “hello, fresh victim!” and slaughtering both him and the sentry bot with a combat shotgun.

[@lifeisraph]

I love that Jon goes out of his way to show us such unusual details of the game - that shows his true passion and dedication and it makes for truly enjoyable videos!

[@r.j.pinkerton9032]

Uncle Leo is one of my favorite npcs

[@JaceMorley]

I'd say the bigger problem with the game relying only on these encounters for quest consequences is, rather than just risking missing some of them, is that it limits the players understanding of the consequences of their choices to the short term. The slideshow can tell you more about the long term consequences, which is something Fallout 3 really lacks giving you an idea of.

[@jcoutelier]

I think the only encounter I've never seen personally that I'd like to is Sydney and her partner ambushing you if you refuse to work with her during Stealing Independence.

[@rakardoslegend1432]

I've seen Uncle Leo spawn several times(across several different play throughs) in front of Smith Casey's Garage. By the time I usually caught up to him, he had engaged combat with the sentry bot, etc. up the hill in that mini military checkpoint with the truck. Usually the few soldiers would kill him before I could save him.

[@joeboywho]

I love Uncle Leo! I have met him one singular time. It was at Springvale, and I had Fawkes with me, and I almost shot the poor guy because all I saw was a Super Mutant charging at me. I didn't end up shooting him because I saw his friendly compass tick, and proceeded to have a nice conversation with him, and let Fawkes and him have a chat

[@nikolasweischner3560]

40 already? Love this series.

[@the_Book_778]

After a quick search online Uncle Leo also appears in the Shivering Isles DLC for Oblivion as a non hostile Zombie in Muurine's house. As for the reference about a book, it's possible that the character of Uncle Leo is a reference to the character in the show Seinfeld where he appears in an episode called "The Bookstore".

[@Jon_the_Wizard]

I've never run into Uncle Leo. I feel like I've missed out.

[@DennisUrMenace]

I think you’re right with events being weighted, I think some are weighted to be more possible in certain areas as well, I seemed to run into uncle Leo very often at one of the disposal sites were you get one of the bobble heads

[@sandwich2473]

I remember seeing so many of these on my first play through of fallout 3 all those years ago, they really really did add a great deal to the world as a whole to make it feel more alive while making the struggles feel more real the fridge, the ghouls, and the hunters stick in my mind specifically :O

[@Tunder28Forever]

John, I hope you know how much we/I look forward to this series! these vids show us some of the hidden gems (I have certainly) missed out on. Your love for the fallout series shines through in each of these and its the highlight to the end of my week! 👌👍

[@DennisUrMenace]

This is why fallout 3 is respectfully my favorite. It’s world is so reactive I find it so fun, my favorite random encounter is if you are enslaving too many people envious slavers will come and try to gun you down

[@matthewbarry4464]

Wow. I'm glad you showed that next level Wasteland Survival Guide encounter. I've never seen it before.

[@Hydrcow]

My first play through of fallout 3 I found Uncle Leo fairly early on, He walked like 15 feet and lost his head in a super mutant attack. That is something I love about how the random encounters because it made me feel like the other super mutants were actually hunting him down.

[@lDanielHolm]

Been waiting for this, good to see you back from vacation!

[@britishleprechaun9655]

I agree that these events do a great job of showing not telling, but Id prefer if they werent random, learning of the consequences of your actions via slideshow is better than not learning of them at all because you got unlucky

[@alexseviour3416]

I'm not sure if its something worth looking into with the "weighting" of encounters, Uncle Leo appeared in almost every playthrough I've ever done of Fallout 3 in the Group B encounter spot just outside Vault 101. His Phase 2 encounter occasionally happens there as well, and 1 of the 2 times I've had all 3 encounters was there too!

[@NoReplyAsset]

34:49 ooo, very exciting field trip to the Terrifying Infinite Wasteland Void this time around

[@dajosh42069]

This episode was worth the wait. Even stayed up late to watch it. :P Hope you had a great vacation. I thank you for taking so much time to make this episode. 😁

[@mdelles]

I love the talk of random events closure vs slideshow closure, but honestly I feel like doing both would be the best way. Like definitely have the slideshow, but adding in a few random events for some of them would be great.

[@Ikcatcher]

The random explosion at 11:44 really had me rolling

[@hitomisalazar4073]

I always figured that Uncle Leo was a reference to the popular 90s sitcom in America, Seinfeld. There was a recurring character named Uncle Leo in each of the seasons. It wasn't like he was around often. Just like a single episode every season. But he was very striking appearance wise, and very eccentric in his behavior. Which kind of fits his behavior in Fallout 3 in a way. Including insisting his name is specifically UNCLE Leo. Not just Leo. Not Leo with a last name. it's Uncle Leo.

[@Swedishmafia101MemeCorporation]

And thus Jon was converted to the faith of RNGesus 🙏

[@exodore2000]

I love how you get different dialog wearing the Silver shroud outfit in Fallout 4 too.

[@CoinFlipAvery]

I watched your kill everyone challenge in fallout new Vegas from like' 9 years ago and I was VERY VERY surprised you uploaded. you deserve a sub my guy.

[@Fluke2Win]

First Sunday of my Vacation just got a whole lot better with this series coming back.

[@elizamalaguld9064]

So what you're telling me is, Uncle Leo was actually real and NOT simply one of Lily's delusions from the stealth boy addiction...? Huh, neat.

[@rcblazer]

It is a funny coincidence, although Lily says the Leo who talks to her is a bad man who wants her to chop things with her sword. Uncle Leo wouldn't hurt a fly.

[@nicolebee3283]

I once saw Uncle Leo 3 times in one playthrough. It was fascinating

[@cyriell]

Happy to see ttw Sundays back :) hope you enjoyed your holiday to the fullest jon ^^ Alltho ngl i wouldnt mind seeing some more building from you like last week :)

[@SteeleGolem]

I've done some light googling on books with characters named Uncle Leo. Surprisingly, I didn't find much. However, the bios on both match Uncle Leo's vibe: - _Love in the Time of Cholera_ "Although Uncle Leo XII has a high socio-economic status, he cares less about material benefits than about emotional, artistic pursuits such as singing. He also supports Florentino’s sexual endeavors after seeing Florentino have an affair in the company office. These characteristics suggest that he is more sensitive and fanciful than his official position might suggest, thus demonstrating that there is often a gap between people’s private and public lives." - _All but my Life_ "Leo is one of Gerda’s only relatives to survive the Holocaust, and he helps her in any way he can throughout the war, sending her packages and ultimately inviting her to live with him at the end of the war." He could also be a reference to Uncle Leo in the Honey Mooners, or more likely Seinfeld which was very much still in the zeitgeist during Fallout 3's development.

[@War7123]

You know I've played fallout 3 a ton of times and seen Uncle Leo a good amount of them... I never once tried to rob him. If I was an evil character I would just kill him but most times I would just talk to him and be on my way. I missed his best lines all this time because I didn't do the obviously evil thing to such a nice character.

[@fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

I have to wonder how the surprisingly large doses of love allocated to really obscure places came to be; because it's all over FO:3. Was it a strong directorial or artistic decision to ensure a lively and surprising world even at the expense of burning a bunch of dev time on things comparatively distant from the heavily signposted and quest markered stuff that players would be reasonably sure to see? Was there a project management structure that made people going off and doing either self-contained(as with some of the unnecessarily well-loved random interiors and non quest-linked random events) or quest-linked but without further downstream consequences(eg. finding Wally Mack dead or Amata being shaken down by the Enclave is liked to the resolution of Vault 101; but specifically avoids having any further consequences that would branch the story even further; Wally is just dead and Amata just tells you to shove off if she lives; save or or not the event wraps up) something that was relatively easy and encouraged for people to do in very small groups or on their own initiative? Both? Some sort of compromise where someone with an artistic vision got leeway to grab anyone not on the critical path of delivering the main questline to do world flavor? The fact that resources were allocated that way is great, it's one of the things that makes FO:3 a gem; but it can't have been trivial to sell a decision like that to whoever had their hands on resource allocation.

[@adamwhite4858]

Wow, I’ve never seen Uncle Leo and FO3 is one of my most played, favorite games of all time. Crazy how much content is hidden away in this game.

[@daJNX]

Uncle Leo, allegedly, is a reference to the character Uncle Leo from Seinfeld. I don't remember where I heard this, but all Uncle Leo appearances reference the Seinfeld character, as he also just pops up randomly. Not sure if that's the real answer, but I like it.

[@paparoach007]

Jon you magnificent bastard! I've been waiting eagerly for another episode of ToTW, I didn't realise how much I wanted another video until the the other day I'm really enjoying this series!

[@Ancusohm]

Thanks for showing off these random events!

[@mateobonavento3939]

I've never seen that Laszlo Radford guy. Now that is obscure! I knew about the child that asks for your autograph, I think it happened near Rivet City for me but it was a really long time ago. I gave him the suit just like you did, and found it funny how he didn't take the helmet. I'm guessing you already spawned Mel at some point and simply walked past him without getting close enough to make him approach you. I always see him in my playthroughs, he's that common. I've found Uncle Leo twice during all my years playing this game, both times the first event because the second one is next to impossible to see.

[@superkaboose1066]

We need a game about Uncle Leo and his survival!

[@Nigel_The_Crab]

I was worried this wasn’t being posted tonight. But Jon came through for us. Not a euphemism 😂

[@victhefoxygamer_6180]

Once in Fallout 3 in the course of roughly 45 seconds this happened: I was found by a molerat, then two dozen raiders, then a Super Mutant patrol. It was literally back to back and I was mildly annoyed, and then terrified

[@hitomisalazar4073]

That's actually something I love about both Fallout 3 and to a lesser extent, Fallout 4. Being TOLD something happens is far less interesting than SEEING something happen. New Vegas for example would tell you that the loss of the Monorail between the Strip and Maccaran is a bad thing... but it will never show it to you. Fallout 3 says the Vault Dwellers of 101 are unprepared for the wasteland... and if you kick them out you'll see just how unprepared they were. Or in Fallout 4 you hear the Brotherhood is on Crusade and the Minutemen are trying to secure cooperation between settlements, etc.And you see it in the game as well. Granted not slagging on New Vegas, it had moments of that Show, Don't Tell, as well. Just far less overall I found. It's really an unappreciated aspect of 3 and 4.

[@speedingoffence]

My best random encounter was in Skyrim. I was walking in the south with Ingjard in the mountains, and she was wearing the Boethiah armour- the smokey one that goes flat black when you're sneaking. First random event triggered, it was a dragon, so I double casted Dremora. Turns out, it was Durnehviir (from the Sour Cairn), he'd spotted me and wanted to chat! How lovely. He landed and I walked up. So we're chatting, and in the distance, there's a figure headed towards us. He runs up the entire mountain to get to us, climbing over boulders and trees to do so. Eventually, he climbs over Durnehviir's foot to place himself in the MIDDLE of our little group, which included The Dragonborn, a Dawnguard in evil armour that's basically a black hole, two Dremora, and a UNDEAD DRAGON. He pulls a knife. "GIVE ME ALL YOUR MONEY!"

[@leftthigh3999]

The constant time traveling is making worried at the state of the Jontiverse and all the new influx of chaotic neutral Jons

[@armitage1950]

I feel special having met Uncle Leo! Surprised the hell out of me when it happened. Had probably 400 hours in FO3 when I met him.

[@akula9713]

I used to play Fallout three when I was going through a really stressful miserable period of life. So I jumped into a world that was miserable and stressful, but at least it wasn’t real.

[@timbus2]

Funny how escapism still works though, eh? Been there.

[@rcblazer]

I have seen a few playthroughs where players who don't know about Uncle Leo end up killing him with a long range rifle, with me thinking "No! Don't shoot him, he's friendly!"

[@phillip6872]

I found that a lot of my type b encounters locked. So Uncle Leo spawned in a location. And permanently stayed in that location for the rest of that playthrough. The random raiders initiating a new member who was "naked" kept happening in the same location, for me, just outside the flooded metro.

[@Mastiffguy98]

One helpful thing when firelance spawns is getting dogmeat to search for the ammo you might not be able to find

[@derbydriver]

There’s a console command to advance quests, so long as you happen to know the quest ID. “setstage ” I’m not sure if Uncle Leo counts as a quest but if I had TJ guess, that’s probably how his status is tracked by the game. If you can figure out the “quest ID” for Uncle Leo, you can play around with the stage numbers and see if you can get his second and third interactions to activate.

[@HexSayer]

The ranger died getting mauled by albino scorpions and death claws on the left side of one of the episodes

[@Xecryo]

My favorite random encounter (and I don't know what requirement it has) was when I was late game decked out in power armor. And true to video game logic this wastelander in a hoodie comes up to rob the man in power armor so scary it lowers his charisma. Now there was a few different responses but I remember after mulling it over I just felt so bad for him that I gave him 5 caps and he was thrilled. And like I was not short on caps by any stretch. But I thought "Jeeze this poor guy is so desperate and so bad at robbing people I'm just cut him some slack and not make him a smear on the pavement."

[@MagraveOfGA]

Interesting coincidence, I recently started playing TTW myself and ran into Uncle Leo yesterday.

[@lonestar_iconoclast]

Oh, yeah, that trader related to Big Town! is last option is explosives, if you showed the residents of Big Town how to deal with slavers and Super Mutants with mines and explosives. That trader is heading to Big Town with a selection of explosive munitions. UNCLE LEO! I usually run into him in various parts of downtown DC. I have had him spawn twice for me, but I haven't heard of the third encounter. (The first encounter was near the river just short of a metro station near an onramp for the overpass. The second time was actually as I was entering one of the metro stations; he was was exiting that same one.) I may need to try that sometime.

[@Arcade_Cat_]

I feel very lucky to have found Uncle Leo on my first play through of Fallout 3. I found him by Wilhelm's Wharf very early in the game. Only ever seen him that one time though

[@jessithy]

That Ghoul was looking for Wonderworld.

[@danielmcdonagh1693]

I saw Uncle Leo on my very first playthrough while going to Super Duper Mart at the start of the game. He's basically as big a part of Fallout 3 as Liberty Prime for me, just such a cool formative encounter at the start of my experience with the game. Wild to think he could've just never spawned.

[@growler352]

I have seen uncle Leo twice in all my years I never new if you found him multiple times he had more dialog, but I was lucky enough to encounter him on the road after raven rock when I got foax back to hear there conversation

[@yoyo54027]

uncle leo deserves the world

[@MentatMan222]

Uncle Leo always spawns to the left of Megaton for me I thought it was gonna be near the beginning of vid didn't know the encounter was rarer so that's cool

[@kurtisgalle7304]

The random encounters are why I like fallout 3 better than new Vegas. I swear I find uncle Leo at least one on every play through I do.

[@stuartturner7672]

You saying about how things randomise I think it was my 2nd or 3rd play through, I was doing the survival guide ran over to the super duper mart so really low level and what was in the car park… a deathclaw! scared the absolute crap out of me, only ever had it once and I’ve done a fair few play throughs and ever since I’m so cautious when entering that car park

[@cubsfan8293]

I'm pretty sure Jon spawned uncle Leo earlier in the playthrough

[@tecnza]

I encountered uncle Leo only once in my very first playthrough during the 100 hours (!) I spent wandering the wastelands before even entering Megaton.

[@Nanolis]

After a quick google, the name Uncle Leo is apparently a reference to a Shivering Isles zombie that is non hostile, which in itself is a possible reference to a character in Seinfield both having the same name.

[@saladiniv7968]

the kid didn't take your helmet, so your secret identity wouldn't be compromised. that or bethesda just forgot helmets exist when programing that event.

[@ogrejd]

In my only FO3 playthrough, I did get Uncle Leo twice. Once on the way to the Super Duper Mart and once (I think - it's been a few years) on the way out to Tranquility Lane.

[@zuzoscorner]

Great episode, showed me things i've never seen. coolz

[@octavianpopescu4776]

Ha! As soon as I saw John fixing that robot and doing a good deed, I knew he had to kill some puppies or something to restore neutrality in the universe.

[@sotnosen95]

Gotta be honest, that second Wasteland Survival Guide event with the woman hailing Jon as the saviour of the Wasteland gets kind of depressing when you keep in mind the whole poisoning the water supply thing.

[@Mixxie67]

There's an Uncle Leo in Love in the Time of Cholera (I googled it) but I kind of doubt that's it.

[@KingFunky]

On today's episode Jon goes shiny hunting

[@justrobYT]

Anyone notice how much MATN says "Yes" to himself before a statement? Once you notice it it's so hard to ignore lol.

[@sithstain251]

One day I was wondering the capital wasteland and a super mutant started running toward me. I panic fired and killed it. I only noticed it had the name Uncle Leo as I looted his corpse. After some googling I learned he was non violent and a rare random encounter. I was never able to get uncle Leo to spawn again.

[@gaminreasons8941]

I ran into Uncle Leo once, but he got into a fight with other Super Mutants and I couldn't manage to save him.

[@stegmarr]

It's possible that Uncle Leo is a play on Uncle Tom from Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel.

[@PlebNC]

The kid didn't take the helmet so you could keep your secret super hero identity probably.