The Full Story of The Mass Bay Medical Center & The Ticker Tape Lounge - Fallout 4 Lore

[@darkmugetsu6572]

Police Protectron, we can hack it to turn it into a temporary Companion 3:45 Truely a "Temporary" Companion RIP 4:02

[@donutseeds1285]

Dark Mugetsu he got fucking destroyed

[@rockstarbonnie7153]

@@donutseeds1285 one minute he was there and the next he's ash

[@metroidhunter965]

Assaultron made it her bitch. Definitely a Dom robot.

[@erict3728]

Robots can be people too

[@ReflectionOfPerfection]

17 second companions

[@finndo]

giant skull couple: that's vault boy and vault girl. And this is actually proof that the vault boy/girl bobbleheads are accurate representations of these 2 people.

[@ZaleraArkanus666]

finndo Lol. Why does this comment not have more likes?

[@drakkenmensch]

Don't think too hard about what the birth of a giant skull baby would have been like for the mother...

[@Dead_End_Angel]

Silver Dragon it might have caused brain damage to the baby aswell, if the skull is soft enough

[@drakkenmensch]

This is the gift that keeps on giving more nightmares.

[@swine13]

finndo hahahaha all this time I thought it was a caricature, but the evidence is too compelling to ignore

[@micah9639]

8:00 The military set those cages up post bomb drop to imprison anyone who tried to break quarantine or start something in the hospital. After a period of time the people got tired of being under the thumb of the military and tried to leave but the military forced them to stay at which point the people rose up and overwhelmed those soldiers still alive and hadn't deserted yet. The people, not wanting to kill members of the military, locked the soldier up in the cage till they could figure out what to do with them at which point looters or rioters stormed the medical center looking for supplies causing the people to flee and the medical center to be abandoned leaving the soldier to die of starvation, thirst, etc.

[@CaporegimeMarcus]

I wonder if any Fo4 developers watch this and are laughing about how hard we try to rationalize things they just added in while they were drunk...

[@ltnagle2492]

Clariño D. Marc I always wondered that myself lmao

[@arthurmorgan6087]

It’s probably just like how people in high government laugh at conspiracy theorists connecting things that aren’t related. Like astronauts laughing at flat earthers

[@sygmarvexarion7891]

Or not even them, just an automated program made to populate the world with stuff.

[@Lucas-df4ht]

For the family, I think some Betheseda employee got bored and decided to play with the prop size to have a laugh

[@DEWGGaming]

Lucas daVeiga He/she's a Raider at heart.

[@fuzzface8252]

More than likely. Bethesda has always messed around with skeletons, and done weird unexplainable things, like the plunger room in Fallout 3.

[@phuochoangminhnguyen3031]

Yea i think we are just thinking too much about this

[@MAROWAK-uk8no]

Seeing the police protectron getting obliterated by the assultron just made me laugh

[@CRocketSlim]

I had to LOL at that Protectron getting pwned at about 4:00 in

[@tonyfalcone2589]

Just wanted to stop in and let you know how much I really enjoy your channel , Your story telling is both relaxing a good way to learn a bit more of the lore plus game play with out really given to much of it away when it matters. I dont know how much Iv played FO4 but I pick up something from you all the time. I pretty much run your channel all the time I just pick a spot and let it play in the back ground while I play or in the room. Please keep up the great work.

[@oxhorn]

Thanks a bunch, will do!

[@StudstilI]

4:00 RIP Protectron we hardly knew ye 😢

[@certifiedangelgamerman]

0oStudstillo0 😭 🌹

[@dogmeat8190]

0oStudstillo0 the want flow

[@dogmeat8190]

0oStudstillo0 alike a bidrs

[@zacharyalberico9254]

came round the corner than got blasted into oblivion. rest in peace. His name was Paul The Police Protecteron. all he ever wanted to do was protect and serve

[@Scotttjt]

He had only had two days left until retirement...

[@Cardthulhu]

Bethesda probably didn't have a child skeleton model, but the engine allows for uninhibited scaling of every existing model. so, I think some programmers just saved some money there instead of making a baby Skeleton model.

[@thebaronanative8289]

Actually oxhorn, that room with the burned bodies and the mannequin, that mannequin was actually supposed to be on top of the pile holding a gas canister. At least that's what happened in my game.

[@Manfromthenorth0551]

Oxhorn, I love your videos but I can't understand why you think every skeleton with army fatigues is prewar. The Gunners also wear army fatigues, the skeleton in the cage is most likely a Gunner that maybe disobeyed orders or something else that would warrant imprisonment.

[@joshuadario166]

Doesn't explain the skeleton though

[@ericporter4243]

Matthew Hilliker It is bare bones completely clean. I doubt it

[@MediumRareOpinions]

Eric porter Well it has been 200 years, being bleached doesn't necessarily mean it's pre war. Though it's certainly not recent.

[@napatora]

@@ericporter4243 how long do you think it takes a body to skeletonize lol it's not that long at all

[@tacocat4252]

To be fair most prewar dead are skeletons whereas most “recent” dead are bodies. Even the old general from 40 years prior is a body when he should be a skeleton

[@brandonmax9925]

I had that same weird question... why are there SO many scenes of random mannequins all around the commonwealth in some very peculiar situations? I heard somewhere, can't remember specifically, but they mentioned the idea that mannequins are actually disguised gen 1 synths. There is even one scene you can find in a theater in the commonwealth where a synth is standing completely still in the middle of a bunch of mannequins on stage as if you just walked in on him and he's trying to blend in to hide, and if you get too close he attacks you. It's a scary idea and fits the institute perfectly. I'd love it if you went in depth on this theory and found me some piece of mind, or if you found some more secrets of the institute to give me another reason to stay up at night in terror. Anyways, if you read this and think it's a cool idea message me back for more details Oxhorn

[@Enclave_Engineer]

At that burning scene i found mannequin with cigar in mounth and flip lighter in hand stanfing on top of pile of burned corpes

[@staringgasmask]

@@Enclave_Engineer or in far harbor, where there's a bloody skeleton with a manequin with a machete just next to that skeleton

[@raptorjesus5870]

I think its raiders. Why wouldnt you use mannequins as distractions or decoys? Or to live out your twisted raider fantasies. That and they are all over so it wouldnt be very hard to find them.

[@Porphyrogen]

Camera and flowers. Birth of the child at the nearby hospital and happy grandparents ?

[@oxhorn]

I like that one better!

[@notsogoodcheese1092]

Oxhorn you are awesome!

[@notsogoodcheese1092]

Porphyrogen I agree

[@VladProdigious]

Porphyrogen, Now there's an idea. That just may be the best take on that scene.

[@apogeecreativitee7596]

You can get the pie. Its all about your luck and how much you are willing to try.

[@rianrushwood1426]

15Hero _ I have 4 of them on my brotherhood character

[@dalvestdc]

I got two first try.

[@mr.luckman1811]

@@rianrushwood1426 two of them from nuka world?

[@paulhayes5684]

I love how an assaultron is comically out of view and the Protectron gets blasted so hard. Also since I was collecting as many power armor frames as possible, it took a few tries but I eventually killed the female gunner before she could get the power armor.

[@grady3251]

When I went to mass bay, I went for the railroad to put down the Mila but I came in the way through the super mutants on the overpass and only saw the room with the crashed vertibird in it. I never knew there was that much to explore in there!

[@ProbablySky]

Oxhorn, have you ever been in public speaking or radio? You have a calming voice, tbh.

[@thecolabaron]

i second that, if I were making a show I'd def hire for narration

[@schizophrenicgaming5007]

He'll problem let out his inner bob Ross lol

[@LordGecko01]

Oxhorn need to be a DM his campaigns would be awesome, doesn't even matter what RP his storytelling ability is legendary

[@quinncykaluzniak5429]

The enlarged skulls could be mentats addictions, the mother could have taken them while pregnant

[@brendancarrick9920]

Ox the prewar soldier is actually a gunner traitor

[@brendancarrick9920]

now that I think about it the possibility of the dead prewar soldier could be a dead gunner that was captured by the raiders

[@l_miester456]

But how did his bones dry out? That normally needs to happen over long periods of time... Ox even states this every now and then when he finds skeletons in his videos

[@maxpower3990]

any military force that survived the bombs would have secured the hospital if they had the troops and guns. They may have tried to maintain order by turning it into a makeshift fort and installing the cages but been overrun later or left when the supplies ran out.

[@matthiasisgud8457]

Mr.Smuggypuss I've never seen a gunner wear an army helmet

[@DanielCoffey67]

I am thinking that the two cages would have been installed just after the bombs dropped. Given the number of military personnel treated there, it was possible that some of them had "self-medicated" with available chems in an attempt to mitigate their radiation symptoms and were prone to psychotic or violent outbursts. The cages would have been an effective way to isolate such personnel till the drugs wore off.

[@jurassicpranks2843]

I LOVE your channel Oxhorn, everyday I look forward to your next video and btw you did a video on the Wu family, right, well if you go to south Boston military checkpoint and go in the little hut by the side of the road and read the terminal you can find a really interesting document about them going past the checkpoint.

[@jurassicpranks2843]

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[@notsogoodcheese1092]

Jurassic Pranks Same!

[@notsogoodcheese1092]

Jurassic Pranks Same!!!!!

[@joemiller1202]

Jurassic Pranks it's impossible to disagree

[@dinosaurislandbros9539]

I completely agree

[@WastelandSeven]

On the monstrous skulls thing. The phrase "To Serve Man" comes to mind. ;) Then again, considering the medical experiments citizens were being used for...you never know.

[@SwedishEmpire1700]

Nah, just Bethesda being lazy

[@jothamheystee]

Luzur How were they being lazy? Clearly they were just messing around or Oxhorn's first explanation is correct. Not everything that you do not understand makes the creator lazy.

[@nicholascross3557]

It could even be an easter egg reference to the game 'Theme Hospital' in which one of the first conditions one can learn to treat is bloaty head. This family may have contracted it and been waiting for treatment.

[@reychop]

I tend to lean on the gigantism theory. We already have real life diseases that causes acromegaly due to hormonal imbalance. Maybe the family was there for their daily checkup when the bombs fell. Or they could be for their treatment. :)

[@beebee7203]

Hey Oxhorn when my character walked into the room with the pile of ash. The mannequin was standing next to the pile with lighter in its hand.

[@mr.luckman1811]

nice

[@ErzengelDesLichtes]

I like your explanation about the giant heads. I'm pretty sure the reality is that a new level designer was learning how the scaling features worked and, after creating the big-headed skeletons, he or she created the baby by scaling an existing skeleton (thus the wrong proportions). Since there's no major missions to this area, no one in QA looked too hard and so it wasn't reported to the PM, and so they weren't forced to remove it.

[@TheticCrime]

There are many police stations around Boston and none of them has a police uniform or police car near. Did Bethesda forgot to add em?

[@windhelmguard5295]

you can find millitary fatigues in some poliece stations, which makes sense because the governor declared martial law in the weeks before the bombs droped, poliece stations might have been hastily converted into millitary facilities.

[@MediumRareOpinions]

Seems a shame to me, they honestly should have included a version of riot gear of the type we found in the divide to show how militarised the police had become pre war. Even if it was a matter of time, how long would it take to re texture vault security uniforms with text for Boston Police Department on them, they've already re used it for the covenant settlement.

[@tatmannewsnetworkyourfavor3822]

I still wish they would have still put police cars and uniforms in them

[@SCP_Wandsman13_13]

They have cop cars in 76, so I think that people the sirens and paint wore off.

[@aurorabelvis854]

is that a vertibird in the ceiling

[@kallemchugh5821]

Aurora Belvis when?

[@aurorabelvis854]

It's in the thumb nail

[@kallemchugh5821]

Aurora Belvis yep a vertibird!

[@oxhorn]

Yep!

[@kallemchugh5821]

Oxhorn hey Oxhorn. i would love it if you made a video on the tragic story of hardware town. i would love it if you did!!

[@evanmonthie6569]

I love the Fahrenheit 451 reference

[@thunderlips5293]

The skeleton with military fatigues in a cage was probably a scavenger in military fatigues or a gunner that had disobeyed orders

[@owllover123]

10:53 When I played it, the pink-dressed mannequin was standing and was in the process of falling down when/because I opened the door. Gave me quite a scare when I first got to that place. LOL

[@MegaRazorback]

Oxhorn that big head bit you're talking about? that's Macrocephaly, an uncommon pathological problem that can be caused by either an enlarged brain, water on the brain, bone overgrowth or a number of other factors.

[@samessex3246]

Great video Ox. When I came here in the room with the mannequin and the skeletons, the mannequin was stood up with a cigarette and a lighter in its hands.

[@Thadrash]

A possibility with the cages in the hospital is that after the bomb drops with all the radiation changes begin to happen to those that survived and since its a hospital they will likely want to examine the process. But with limited supplies there's only so much they can do, so they cage those that start to change to monitor whats happening and also provide some comfort to the other survivors which may fear that the people in the cages may attack them

[@fan1360]

I love your gunner videos so far, I really wanted to know about the gunners and this is a great help 😁

[@michaelsullivan7051]

Idk if anyone's mentioned this already, but in my game the room with the burnt pile of bodies had the mannequin stood on top of the pile with the lighter in her hand

[@joeturner2532]

My first thoughts were "fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck, I'm too low level for this shit"

[@carlossosa4110]

your video's oddly help me sleep

[@Thezombieapplz]

Same here I put on one and it actually helps my insomnia

[@Stoned2daBone-r4g]

same

[@razorphazer60]

Every time I enter the burn pile room, (13:00) the mannequin was staged , standing on the pile cigarette in mouth, lighter in hand. If you are using explosives or explosive weapons near by the blast wave will have knocked over the mannequin. Probably when you destroyed the turret.

[@BigMT9022]

dude shows up in heaven... "get dude your dead!!!" "what how?!?!" "You were drowned with your head in a toilet while he beat you with a toilet plunger" "well damnmmmmmm"

[@Kizu671]

In 13:20 the mannequin was actually standing straight on top of the burning pile on my play through.

[@micah9639]

10:30 In emergencies of country wide magnitude in our timeline, hospitals generally serve as a command center and fallback point for the military. Its likely the US military was using the hospital as a gathering point for survivors and an area where the military could regroup. I'm sure a lot of returning soldiers probably got injured fighting looters and scavengers while others suffered from the radioactive fallout

[@arbiter-]

Also, I like how you use the little unobtrusive method of linking to previous videos. Much better than bulky annotations. Keep up the amazing work Oxhorn!

[@addlowe109]

Love watching the videos. Recently got fallout 4 for pc. But having trouble getting it to actually work (crashes when I select new game) but listening to your videos keeps the anticipation high for finally getting to play all the detailed quests in your videos.

[@TheBestGamingCritic]

Hey Ox. So the Commonwealth has a impressive network of overpasses and I was wondering if it might be worth it to do a video on where you can travel using exclusively the overpasses.

[@aaron71]

Guy with his head in the toilet was gettin' a pre-war swirlie XD

[@zachfletcher6751]

"how can we explain this" -oxhorn "I have no ideal"-me "i can only think of 3 reasons "- oxhorn haha I love the deep study and examination of oxhorn coverage of fallout 4 lore

[@doogieggr]

Oh snap, didn't even know this was posted literally yesterday. Thought I had stumbled across some hidden Ox gems. I love the combination of Lore, walk through, and exploration tips.

[@oxhorn]

Welcome to the channel!

[@theonethatlookslikethisone1280]

13:04 I'm surprised the gunners didn't burn down the entire hospital lighting fires like that indoors lol

[@ZahnwehZombie]

The large skulled family in 14:54 might suffer from gigantism, explaining their large skulls... it would also explain why they're in the Mass Bay Medical Center.

[@kierancarr1494]

As much as the gunner disposing of the bodies and the raider deco is a plausible scenario, when I visited the hospital, it shows that the mannequin is holding the lighter with a cigarette in her mouth burning the bodies.

[@anttitheinternetguy3213]

12:08 the manneguin is clearly meant to represent the medical training doll, used in training of cpr

[@samza360]

I think the shrine at 5:50 was some sort of memorial to some pre war hero figures who made a sacrifice ie. Firefighters who died trying to save people from a burning building or something

[@lucdw3286]

I'm still wondering how the fuck I missed this building in my 3 playthroughs

[@ricktherockandroller]

Once again... Good job Mr.Ox. It's been years since I played this game but I still enjoy watching you talk about it. Thanks for the years of free entertainment.

[@IrishOverkilled]

Ox “ There isn’t much lore here outside.” Also Ox “let me reload my rocket launcher.”

[@necromantikman]

Debilitating giant skull disease!

[@necromantikman]

best oxhorn quote to date!

[@veneer4756]

At 4:02 U screamed "OH MY GOD THAT POOR PROTECTRON!" So loud the neighbours heard.

[@PavelPower]

LOL i love your "giant head" theories. .. I was also confused by the cages on the lower levels. In my playthrough, there was only the pre-war body in there. The other cage was empty, but had a minuteman logo painted on the floor. ???

[@thetiniestpirate]

No bonfires indoors, not even in the apocolypse. Genuinely the most horrifying scene in the whole place.

[@alexpitt5685]

Giant head theory: it's an easter egg to Theme Hospital

[@silverqoon]

Yours is easily the best Lore Channel I have ever listened too Ox! Love your videos and every time I see one in my notifications, I know I'm in for a cool chunk of awesomely told lore! :D

[@ano6852]

I love the Fahrenheit 451 reference! I'm reading that right now in my class and it made me happy that you said what you said

[@danemarconi5340]

I was just exploring the building and came across the 3 large skulled beings. 17:15 Had NO idea what the deal was with those so I hopped over here because I knew you would have an explanation! 🎉

[@DeathGodRiku]

My headcanon for the man with the toy truck is that it belonged to his son and he held it in his final moments to remember his little boy

[@Its_Me_Romano]

don't ask me why but I always find Helicopters/Planes crashed into buildings very cool lol like when the body is hanging half in the building I always found it looking badass

[@krazykat64]

The cigar in the hand of the one skeleton may indicate that it was a maternity/pediatric ward and he was celebrating the birth of a new child when the bombs hit.

[@chrisbilling]

im not gonna stop until i watch every one of your 'full story' videos.

[@jtcranger02]

That description of a matchmaking service for people with he skulls is amazing

[@opaaa8342]

Can you talk about the Fallout New Vegas factions such as the NCR, Followers of the Apocalypse and Caesars Legion? I'm pretty sure people'll love it, so will I.

[@HyperFlame64V1]

13:55 Note To Self: Request Oxhorn to read good Novels on a occasion. Farenheit 451 was amazing and I'm glad I read it.

[@b.a.m.5078]

"We find the skeleton of a pre-war soldier. Wait, wait, wait... this is not making sense." Uh, kinda is. You the player can still pick up a uniform and wear it, and I've found Gunners wearing it. Clothes don't establish a definitive timeline, just a hint. The cages seem post-war. Unless maybe trying to restrain new ghouls?

[@MediumRareOpinions]

Father Grigori Possible But I'd imagine a military unit would have simply killed anybody showing signs of ferral behavior, unless they wanted the remaining hospital staff to study them? But for what end?

[@fuzzface8252]

It's quite clear from Bonnie Tournquist's Holotape that the US Military had taken over the hospital just after the war, no one was allowed to leave, Bonnie's plan to get out and get home to her family in West Everett Estates was by going up to the roof. The Army more than likely brought the cages in, and that skeleton could of been a soldier that disobeyed an order, so he was put in that cage, and probably died from the radiation.

[@JoelStephens87]

As per the mystery at 7:40 - the soldier inside the cell... before the great war, martial law was implemented in major cities across the country due to riots caused by food and energy shortages, as well as the atrocities during the annexation of Canada. Due to the atrocities and the fact that they were now fighting their own countrymen, many servicemen and women defect and are sent to makeshift prison camps - many which are housed in hospitals. It is very likely the soldier and the entire prison setup itself is in fact pre-war.

[@faridunabdullah2695]

Oxhorn is an amazing narrator. His voice is just GOOD

[@barryscott9590]

Maybe the big head family were people who were dying after their heads were horribly irradiated by the fallout and then died due to their massive blood consuming head

[@kievcaryaromin9298]

I swear this channel is like my favorite afternoon show. Damn good channel Ox

[@geofer.o.13.888]

10:53 the manequin on top of the ash pile was knocked down. In its original state, the manequin has a cigarette in her mouth and a flip lighter in one hand.

[@operator8014]

Dude blows through more missiles in one video than I've spent in all my various Playthroughs of Fallout 3 or 4 combined.

[@-DeScruff]

About the Big skulls: Another explanation could be some sorta inhumane pre war testing that we just never found anything about.

[@foxmc-tag4950]

about the cages: before the bombs fell, there was a great plague, and there was martial law as well

[@UnintelligibleCourtneyM]

I know you only do Fallout lore, but I can only imagine how amazing Elder Scrolls lore would be if you did them. Think about it, Ox!

[@p1nkbr0]

I feel like with the detail of both this location and Gunner's Plaza that the Gunners were, at some point, meant to be more than just a hostile faction used to get in your way.

[@charless1145]

re: couple and baby: art assets are a thing. in world/game: i love your attempts to justify the art assets ^__^ im really enjoying your channel, having found it about a week ago. ive been having fun listening to your stuff.

[@geemcspankinson]

And no, that child in that bed with that toy truck isn't an adult. the skeleton is smaller.

[@thebigenchilada678]

Vilho R a child skeleton isn't composed of solid bone, case closed it's a tiny man.

[@geemcspankinson]

Cjbsr Hhd Nah, maybe.

[@Psycho-wd1gn]

Love your work Oxhorn, I hope you'll never run out of content. And if you do, It'll be when fallout 5 comes out

[@26adex]

Hey, I just wanted to say, that your videos about fallout world, history and lore are really good. I were not interested in fallout games before, but now I have hundreds of hours put into fallout games. Now I'm big fan of a series and I just bought some uranium, i will try to become ghoul, by replacing salt with it. Wish me luck :)

[@bunkn1ves]

in my game skeletons are frequently t posing at an angle floating above where bethesda put them for some reason, so when i found the ashes room in the medical center it had a skeleton standing over it, with the lighter in one hand and the gas can in the other. sadly i was unable to take a picture before my companion knocked it over

[@HellRainsFromAbove]

When you enter the room with the ash pile and the mannequin, the mannequin is supposed to be standing in the middle of the ash pile with the lighter in its hand.

[@Sam-jn2zo]

You can get the perfectly preserved pie, you have a low chance of getting it. But if you have a high Luck level you can get a higher chance of getting the slice.

[@waterbears9874]

8:11 that might be a wastelander or gunner traitor in a cage since gunners wear army fatigues and it might've been there for longer than the minuteman.

[@connormurray5526]

Also I would love to see more character builds on your channel perhaps a stealthy railroad agent or an institute sniper

[@steffipehlert6444]

man the Thumbnail is so perfect

[@TheRPGenius]

Regarding the shrine in the hospital, it might even have been there before the world's destruction. The US WAS militarily active, so it might have been there for soldiers who were mortally wounded in action, sent home to spend their last days with loved ones in a place of medicine which could keep them alive for as long as possible, and then passed away. It could also be a shrine created by soldiers injured too grievously to continue fighting, but not fatally, who were sent back here to receive better and more ongoing medical care than the battlefront could provide--the soldiers might be putting pictures on the table and news clippings on the wall of comrades who didn't make it out alive.

[@girf4233]

ox's vids are why i am alive

[@Kojo220]

Masterful dissection of the place! I always get lost.

[@greulich9635]

well big head syndrom is a thing. it happens in dwarfs most of the time but it sometimes in normal sized people. it ocurs when the hole at the back of the head is too small,causing the head to swell and form a "water" or "balloon" head

[@Bayou_Gamer]

4:00 R.I.P Protectron. Metal to ashes. Rust to dust.

[@postaled]

the beauty of this place is that you can make out the story without even listening to the holotape. Chilling, truly one of the best level design in the game.

[@treysoncullimore6828]

Is it just me or is Oxhorn's voice just so satisfying?

[@KFGrandt]

You always seem to make videos about the areas I just played through. Great video as always.

[@phillipsiebold8351]

The San Francisco Sunlights in the safe are the cigars that Kellogg enjoys. This is one of the clues that Gunners perhaps does some of the work for the institute.

[@hezechiahjones8365]

Phillip Siebold What? That is one weak ass link boy. Kellog is an institute mercenary who happens to like a brand of cigars, and a prewar, locked safe, in possession of the gunners that happens to contain this brand (along with many other cigar items) means the gunners have institute links?

[@the_DeadEye]

Hi Ox, at around 24:00 you say we can watch Bonnie's story here but i think the in video link doesnt show up. :) just wanted to let you know.