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[@Synonymous101]

Just a heads up when I say Atlantic, what I really mean is Arctic…yeah.

[@LittleWritingV]

Not a problem

[@TheKoty222]

It be like that

[@Cosmodjinn]

I mean, when you think about it, it's all connected. Other than some wonky salt gradients in the Souther hemisphere, the names are arbitrary delineations.

[@madjack1748]

you had one job

[@user-zp8kj2cl9g]

Atlantis is in the arctic tho

[@bobbyscott2123]

That underwater quest areas that got cut from fallout 4 sound as if it would have been really good

[@jessesaito2856]

Would have made for a good expansion

[@DMCMaroney]

it's available as a creator inspired mod

[@bobbyscott2123]

@@DMCMaroney aye funny I just saw that the other day I will probably install it

[@eggboi584]

Yep, instead we got automatron 😅

[@bobbyscott2123]

@@eggboi584 yep sometimes Bethesda makes good DLC far harbour / point lookout / the Pitt And then you end up with crap operation anchorage / mothership zeta

[@leaddybug]

saying how blue ghoul whale sounds like beluga whale had me shook. also it wouldve been so sick to have that vault 120 quest

[@quempire2656]

Is it a mod

[@RoseWhitmore]

@@quempire2656 i do believe some people made it into a mod, yes! same with some other cut content

[@cardinalbubxiii803]

Granpappy got into the medicine cabinet again

[@QuieroLibertad]

LMAO 😂😂😂

[@Kriscosmic]

Took to many chems out there fishing again

[@Reefer-Rampage69]

Grandpa found the keys again

[@muttproductions2536]

I heard he actually got into the horseradish

[@S0ulGh0st]

I *really* like your theory! "beluga" turning into "blue ghoul" by mistake, Ol' Peg threatening the cephalopod overseer... That all sounds quite solid!

[@Michael-eg3rs]

the loss of 20'000 Leagues Under The Sea quest is easily the most upsetting one to lose. But with modders creating mods like Sim Settlements 1 and 2, Fallout London, Fallout 4 New Vegas, America Rising, Countless weapon and power armour mods, its not hard to believe that maybe someday, someone get a team together to recreate the cut quest.

[@M3TALG0DS]

Wonder who the voice actor for the sentient squid would be because they would be telepathically communicating with you.

[@TheCrispyForge]

I really wish we got to play that cut quest it sounds like it would be super memorable. Plus I will always take more Bioshock like environments.

[@cliveambrose2251]

There's a mod on Nexus by that name - 20 Leagues Under the Sea - Vault 120. As far as I can tell, it's not cut content, but recreated using Creation Kit.

[@kingofhearts3185]

@@cliveambrose2251 If memory serves the assets were removed from F4, but left in buried in F76's files. Dataminers found the remnants of the vault and were able to recreate it in F4. Even if they could port them, Bethesda have made it clear they will go after mods that rip assets from their games, hence the F3 and FNV remake mods redoing the audio from the ground up.

[@curlyfrysamurai]

"massive, bigger than anything you or I will ever see" *Prydwen flies overhead*

[@peytonmac1131]

Staring up from the planet they stand upon.

[@andyfriederichsen]

It could be either a mutated or possibly even unmutated baleen whale, such as a humpback or blue whale.. The rotting, deceased whales we see in the game can't be mutated river dolphins, as those live in South America. It's more likely those are mutated Cuvier's beaked whales or just mutated marine dolphins.

[@Xbalanque84]

No, it's very clearly some kind of toothed whale, as evidenced by the protuberant melon, jaw structure, and _TEETH._

[@andyfriederichsen]

@@Xbalanque84 Read my comment again.

[@prcervi]

regardless of what the source species was i wouldn't want to tangle with it

[@androidmk5987]

The idea of an untainted pure baleen whale swimming through the oceans sounds...oddly hopeful.

[@andyfriederichsen]

@@androidmk5987 The ocean is pretty big and even with radiation being unrealistically dangerous in the Fallout universe, I doubt much of the ocean is irradiated like the areas on land are.

[@ShinKungFuMan]

So some info from a modder: if you look in the CK, after you hear the "ghoul whale" speech, another resident of Bunker Hill will comment to you and tell you where to look...starting Here There Be Monsters for the Yangtze. It was always meant to be the Yangtze. Also the ghoul dolphins were involved in Vault 120 in some fashion: you can find their corpses litered all over it when it's backported from 76 to 4.

[@catfishvodka6668]

Big if true

[@ian7064]

The only other in universe creature i could think of could be a fog crawler. They make loud noises, they stick to foggy areas, they seem to be able to swim in the ocean, and they're massive. Shipbreaker in far harbor got the nickname for attacking shipping vessels so maybe my hypothetical fog crawler made its way south to Boston in search of new prey and ships to attack

[@perria5283]

Everyone loves a good ol’ Peg

[@frankieb9444]

Fisto: You rang?

[@EdilbertFernando]

@@frankieb9444 Assume position

[@TheRealDickGrayson]

Speak for yourself champ.

[@XO1Productions]

​@@EdilbertFernando say please

[@TobyTBD]

Especially the old timers.

[@kevenblackworks1906]

The official name of those dolphins are Dolfish, as stated in the F76 ATX. They are also confirmed to be Beluga whales in F76. Theres notes about it in the Atlantic City DLC in the Aquarium.

[@rejvaik00]

F76 ruining the lore as per usual... Can't believe Bethesda would do that to their fans when they released that mess

[@grungus3935]

@@rejvaik00yeah, how could they ruin the well established lore of the random whale corpses that are in fallout 4

[@francisharkins]

Tbf not alot of people played F76 for the lore... that and I think a massive amount of players dropped after the first few months even before the first dlc, and even before they added NPCs back.

[@helpmekiller3670]

Lmao how could theyyyyy ​@@grungus3935

[@Body-By-Tacos]

So I think he’s missing the fact that Peg is the reason for all the skeletons on the beaches or corpses with huge bites out of them. That’s my suggestion

[@averagejoe455]

"Hunt for the Ghoul Whale!" *Has a porpoise as the thumbnail image*

[@kradikt666]

That was done on porpoise 😂

[@TheRealDickGrayson]

​@@kradikt666nah it was just for the halibut.

[@TheRealDickGrayson]

Can you speak up? I've got bad herring. How'd Shamu get back at his trainer? He whaled on them. I started with one fish but I've got tuna. Why do fish love bird watching? They live to sea. Dolphins make horrible spies, they always get caught fishing for answers.

[@Steel-101]

Awesome job man! I really wish Old Peg was a DLC story(for the Commonwealth or Far Harbor). It would be so cool to throw harpoons at a mutated whale 🐳. Or maybe a harpoon gun called “the Pequod”. Hey, I can’t resist a good Herman Melville reference lol 😂. I do hope we see some more mutated sea creatures in the future games, comics, or TV shows.

[@KS-PNW]

If they wanted to go really dark with it they could do a whole 'Raft of the Medusa' reference ' (the real life incident that inspired Melville, FYI it's MESSED up, Google at your own risk). Probably too dark for Bethesda though..

[@InterpolationStation]

Imagine a The Red Death quest but instead of a joke you get to see the happiest, healthiest whale this side of the midnight zone.

[@saltygrump]

God damn it Peggy that boy ain't right

[@mediokay]

Peg a leg

[@MillieBlackRose]

I was just wondering if Peggy named it after herself like she names her food after herself.

[@zacm9747]

Want Pegsghetti and meatballs with some apple brown Peggy for desert?

[@lenikai]

If you have the Mutant Menagerie - Big Game Hunting mod installed you can find Ol' Peg somewhere around the Submarine and it's terrifying

[@kennethproseus3340]

Just saw it earlier tonight when swimming to Spectacle Island and had to close my eyes while I swam lol, too scary. Luckily I think it's docile if the in game note nearby is true.

[@Tommytakanawa]

Right on Synonymous. Keep the quality vids coming. Your channel is a gem.

[@cliveambrose2251]

There's a mod on Nexus by that name - 20 Leagues Under the Sea - Vault 120. As far as I can tell, it's not cut content, but recreated using Creation Kit.

[@prcervi]

there wasn't enough material left from the cut content to recreate it, any mod trying to add the quest and zone back in can really only be inspired by it

[@silicabeastmaster1175]

Yeah. Even with the collectors edition art book and in game unused assets there is a squid and a spear gun (complete with bubbles effect when shot) but no whale assets have been found/shown. Several reasons for this: 1. The quest never got that far along and realising how difficult the squid was, Bethesda realised a giant whale was never going to work right. 2.They did finish the whale but removed all traces of it as a surprise for a later Fallout they tend to add back in. When the engine/time constraints allow. In games as large as Fallout a lot gets left on the cutting room floor for various reasons. The Elvis songs from Fallout New Vegas. The Marilyn Monroe securitron. Joshua Graham... The fight arena from Fallout 4 was drastically scaled back and repurposed.

[@CaptainSam666]

I commented the Beluga whale sound alike as my theory on Epic Nate's video! I smiled so big seeing this thumbnail!

[@Kriscosmic]

Grandpappy took to many chems out there fishing again and just saw a mirelurk floating by

[@bowenorcutt78]

Stuff like this is what I love about Fallout 4. They just really did a fantastic job making this feel like its own living world in this game.

[@AlexMourning5635]

This is a fascinating way of showing how every story changes with each telling, similar to how myths form. Pretty neat!

[@vincentgeter8195]

Wait theres a Chinese sub in the water in Boston

[@LinkiePup]

Theres a Chinese sub in your walls.

[@butterknutts5888]

@@LinkiePup YoSkidi Oh-Goh !

[@hugedogballs622]

Thank you for all the amazing fallout lore these are my daily bread and butter you make my day when I get some more lore dumps

[@fLowMage21]

Synonymous I just wanted to let you know that your videos are continuously perfect not too long, but also the perfect amount of information

[@fLowMage21]

When fallout five, and the new elder scrolls come out, you are going to get huge

[@Segafishy]

could have been exposed to FEV which we know causes massive growth and in the Ocean a body is under less strain to support itself (its why on land Behemoths dont get much bigger than they are as their bodys just cant take the strain of their size) so in theory it could be any Cetatean (even a Dolphn could be viable alongside the Beluga as we have in real life experimented with the intelligence and abilities of both) as FEV can alter its appearance.

[@cassmakesstuff]

Was always my thought, that it could be a whale either purposely or accidentally exposed to FEV and it became a behemoth ghoulified whale 😅

[@macclea]

this channel reminds me of AltShiftX. I don't care about fallout anymore just like i dont care about game of thrones anymore. Yet both of your channels I watch and enjoy every video!! The source material is fantastic and your explanations are excellent. Keep up the good work homie

[@dajosh42069]

Quite frankly... As many unrealistic, and outlandish things exist in Fallout... I'm glad they didn't have a vault overseen by a "Giant Sentient Squid". Some more sea creatures (that are actually _capable_ of fighting in the water) would most certainly have been cool. I mean...one of the scariest things about the ocean in general, and deep water in particular, is that it's populated with all manner of potentially dangerous life forms, both larger, and smaller, than we are! But in Fallout 4, all you need to do is take Aquaboy/girl, and the water becomes one of the safest places on the map. Animals can't attack in water, and you don't need to go very far out before guns become ineffective, and enemies begin to lose track of you. Having SOME SORT of threat out there would have been reasonable.

[@Matt-md5yt]

my man glad you covered this one

[@legateelizabeth]

Is it bad that I hear "My granpappy was egging" and my brain immediately goes "Manslayer could work WONDERS with that line"

[@user-zp8kj2cl9g]

This is extremely plausible. All of it, from the beluga whale to the cut vault mission. Awesome stuff as always, my man.

[@mcdoogle_robotman]

For cut content quest, the most memorable thing out of Fallout 4 is that line.

[@comradecrawdaddy3343]

Guess we will have to have a talk with grampy bone

[@nickthehuman123]

Hell yeah. Was hoping you'd cover this

[@TailcoatGames]

That’s just a theory, a fallout theory! Thanks for watching

[@M3TALG0DS]

So we could have had a sentient squid telepathically talking to us meeting him 20K league under the sea style, being our friend to help us take down ol peg like Moby Dick, and Bethesda squandered this opportunity to be better than Fallout new Vegas for once? BRB gonna cry

[@kidpiper9642]

This games vibe just gets deeper and deeper the more people jump on the train.

[@algamez94]

Came for the fallout, stayed for the whale pics

[@enricohepner]

Ok, "giant beluga whale" becoming "giant blue ghoul whale" is the GOAT of Fallout theories.

[@Space_Catnip]

That would have been the coolest quest on fallout 4 hands down. I wish they didn't have to cut content or at least keep working on it after the fact.

[@floomuscw6628]

Man Fallout is just an awesome series.

[@SkeeterMcBeater]

I'd never have thought that. Very interesting.

[@MisfortunateJustice]

Very good audible connection, friend.

[@loganjohnson7441]

Fun fact the bulby squishy part of the beluga whales head is called the Melon

[@joshuanolan546]

Was nobody else waiting for him to say "a game theory"? O.o

[@Falseidoles58]

The mutant menagerie life finds a way mod adds the ghoul whales and sharks its been one of the coolest mods I've used in 4

[@slsbaconbits4012]

... Implying that ol' Pappy would see the beluga, recognize it's specific genealogy, but still be afraid and run off... Occam's razor isn't just a weapon in fallout 3.

[@PestilentAllosaurus]

My first thought was a beaked whale. They're dorsal fins are very small and far back on the body, have a elongated snoot with sharp teeth and come in different sizes depending on the specific species.

[@aquroyadreadmore]

The image from the cut vault 120 quest looks more like a giant barracuda to me. And honesty if any ocean life were to survive the fallout of the Great War it’d be barracudas they are already a vicious life form; add some rads to make it even bigger and you’d have a very fitting final boss

[@mcfearsun]

A bio shock inspired vault… as if Vault Tech wasn’t sinister enough!

[@Arvyn992]

I ran into a NPC talking about Ol'Peg but the NPC was talking to herself literally just herself she was walking and talking herself

[@FleyDragon]

Beluga whale and the submarine? Mind blown.

[@s.e.3765]

Peg... It will come back to you...

[@johnoglesby-vw7ck]

Steely Dan reference... nice!

[@beastmaster0934]

I feel a beaked whale would be a better candidate for Ol’ Peg’s identity. Some of them can get quite big, up to 30 feet in some species, such as Baird’s beaked whale.

[@baylansyms]

Those “ toothed whales “ look identical to the beluga whales that are seen lying dead on the floor of the beluga enclosure in the aquarium at broadwalk in Atlantic city( Fallout 76 ) And I believe you can see alive ones through a small window swimming around in one part of the enclosure. Belugas actually haven’t changed all too much from their pre-war design with perhaps larger teeth being the only visible evolutionary difference. With the exception of highly irradiated ghoul like creatures some of the deep sea life may have retained a lot of pre-war qualities as apposed to what’s found on land or in shallow waters perhaps due to the lack of F.E.V and/or radiation introduced into deep sea environments.

[@Dealerofdeath1998]

Synonymous strikes again !

[@Djingoclottates]

To be fair a beluga whale is a lot more reasonable to reside in boston waters than a river dolphin

[@boseefusrodriguez5281]

i googled "ol' peg rule 34" and was confused but this very informative documentary cleared up my bewilderment, thank you

[@memorymangaming1665]

wait..... what?

[@ryanoglesbee1075]

If it exists, there's porn version of it

[@Niel_albatrozz]

If i had a nickel everytime a really cool quest gets cut from games

[@vahlen5281]

I would have gladly taken functioning underwater areas with mutated fish over the janky ass settlement building system, if given the choice.

[@streghewitch77]

Your theory about the Beluga I find interesting and very possible. However, what you said towards the end of the obvious fish in the picture, that's not a whale or a dolphin. The tailfin is that of a fish and if you look at the head there are gills drawn there

[@moodyowlproductions4287]

Papi"i saw old peg once,sure i am blind in one eye,and my other eye was infected that day from picking at it,and i was tired,and i had been swimming in the sea with too much radiation in it,and that was the hour my glasses were not lense crafted...BUT I SAW THAT GHOUL WHALE"!!!!!!

[@fankgaming7753]

Peg is definitely a refence to Pogo. Pogo sticks only really have the main body of the pogo stick, and the pegs on the side.

[@demonjmh]

I dont think the dolphins looking thing is it. She did say her grandpa said it was enormous. Which implies it was bigger than any death claw and maybe even bigger than a super mutant behemoth.

[@gamerfourlife64]

Ah yes what could of been remember hearing about this

[@VimRefresh]

Im pretty sure the beluga or ol peg in the image would attack your submarine and you woukd have to defend it.

[@MillieBlackRose]

That wording mishap could be true. Sounds very similar. I would have never thought of that. Edit: very disappointed they cut such a great quest. They should work on it and add it as a DLC.

[@FooMantis]

"I'm Old Peg! Do you love me? Make an assessment!"

[@stephenpina3326]

Very good theory

[@Zero_Alter]

Old Longfellow and I are gonna need a bigger boat

[@manuelrodriguez2637]

Always thought it was just another prompt to find the Sub in case you missed the kid

[@1197Gamer]

I am so upset they didn't add vault 120 in. Fallout and Bioshock are my favorite games and to have had them both together?! Ugh so sad

[@werehusky]

beluga whale and blue ghoul whale sounded the same haha

[@a.jherbert5436]

Why wouldn't there be ghoul whales? What makes humans so special among mammals? Stands to reason, if we can ghoulify, other mammals could too.

[@Blessinsz]

We need that DLC !

[@JUDGERAMBO]

Similar to the sailors that saw mermaids.

[@ladonmccabe]

Wow, this is actually incredibly clever. Beluga whale=blue ghoul whale. People mishear things all the time, and with so much knowledge lost after the Great War, people would have no clue what the hell "Beluga" is, but they would know what "blue" and "ghoul" means. Maybe the person hearing it thought the grandpa just had a funny way of talking lmfao.

[@GoblinGhouly]

“I’m ol peg”

[@zlostnypopolnik]

Thanks for the video. I've asked this once before, but I'll ask it again. Do you happen to be looking for stories from the world of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.? Your style fits that world very well.

[@wod5203]

Between the rushing to pump out a game on schedule and having to cut content to do so, it's easy to miss removal items, and if you have a lead writer who doesn't use storyboards,, well now you have a disaster waiting to happen.

[@foxboiunknown320]

Swear they should have done more with the ocean, after all radioactive particles are heavy and thus sink

[@syntroniccyndi6358]

It makes so much sense now lol

[@peterteitz507]

Oh that's nothing compared to my story: Yesterday I left Far Harbor only with a few Nukes, the Mariner and my good old Dogmeat to free the ocean of the meanest monster in existance. THE RED DEATH they call it up there in the far north. Damn I tell you it was the mother of all fights! After I fired all my ammunition the beast was still moving - so I had to kill it with my bare hands! Only lost seven fingers and half of a thumb (so please excuse my poor writing here). As the deamonic light in Red Death's single eye finally faded, I was covered over and over with it's glowing blood. I used my only stimpack to save the Mariner's life, but my dog was lost forever. Farewell my old friend. I will miss You!

[@peterteitz507]

(and as soon as the mods are finally working again, I will bring Dogmeat back!)

[@NecroChungus]

This video really just made me salty about the cut quest in the underwater vault. wtf.

[@VAULT-TEC_INC.]

It’s just a theory… a GHOUL THEORY.

[@nathanlynch9634]

I've always wondered what ol peg was and if it was real and ol peg might be real.

[@EasySqueezy1]

The whale bones that you can find on the beaches of far harbour are far too old to be recent, bones don’t get that clean and dark easily, takes a long time, like say 200+ years. Those bones are likely from whales who got killed from either the blast, tsunamis washing them ashore or just those that succumbed to the nuclear fallout and didn’t survive.

[@dhgodzilla1]

I have another Theory. It was actually Lizzo taking a Bath in the Harbor

[@r000ty]

Is this an "Old Gregg" reference from The Mighty Boosh?

[@iamgort70]

I see Synonymous vid, I click. I can't believe we have to wait like 8+ years for another Fallout game.😞

[@eXcAlIbUr_aLmAsRu7I]

‏‪2:18‬‏ Bethesda cut content

[@johnterrencesmith2148]

The creature in the image had gills and a vertical tail fin so it wasn’t a whale.

[@Synonymous101]

Thats a whale dolphin, ol peg is in the background.

[@colton3927]

Ghoulified beluga whales should be called Beghoula whales

[@MiguelMartinez-pt9lq]

Great videooooo

[@RedS0L0]

I just want fishing in fallout 4 let me catch a mutated flounder But it looks like a regular fish 😂

[@JarikMorningstar]

I wanted Vault 120 to get finished so badly 😭

[@monchichi]

Grand pa scavenged mirelurk eggs, so he would have been familiar with mirelurk queens. Then said it was bigger than anything you would ever see. 🤔 How freaking big was it?