The Full Story of Vault 111 - Fallout 4 Lore 

Fallout 3: Where's my dad? Fallout 4: Where's my son? Fallout 76: Where's my refund?

Ah...the touching story of Nora and dbrfgbrgbnr. I've been waiting for this...

Nora in heaven watching me clear out my 9273th settlement instead of saving my son be like: 🗿

Gotta say it, Nate's voice actor really nailed the "Oh God" when he sees Nora dead. So much emotion in that line! Nora's execution of the line is good too, but you can FEEL the frustration, anger, helplessness and sadness in Nate's version. And i LOVE it!

And thus the Sole Survivor, dbrfgbrgbnr, left Vault 111 in order to find his son, avenge their spouse, and collect all the battered clipboards.

2% of comments: Saying the video is late 98% of comments: dbrfgbrgbnr

from that moment, the sole survivor has a mission that is so out of focus that he completely forgets about it after 30 minutes of gameplay

I found the opening of this game "vicariously traumatic". The short time you spend in pre-war Sanctuary is just enough to ground you before the devastation so that when you wake up and everyone is dead.. you feel a sense of digital loss over their polygons and the wasteland that replaced your scenic views. Or maybe I was just extra good at role playing that night..

Hi Oxhorn, I have a request for you. My friend Daniel is a huge fan but he recently lost his hearing in an accident, he's really having a personality change and I wanted to ask if you could caption your videos. I know you put in a lot of work but it would mean a lot to me to see him have joy in watching your videos again. Thanks for the content Windy~

Vault-Tec-"I wonder what happens if we lock a bunch of people in a underground bunker, and then we just do some bullshit to them?" Everyone-*dies horrifically* Vault Tec-"Ah. I see. Welp, let's do it again! I'm thinking...plant people, this time."

"We're on the list" "Oh, ok, what's your name?" (Raspberries) "Ah"

Interesting fact, I wanted to see who it was that had the pipboy before he died so when I replayed the game I went looking for that person. Turns out he's not just a scientist, he's the doctor in that vault. If I'm not mistaken he's also the one who leads you to the cryo chambers as well.

"A mission that consumes their life ." * 5 seconds later * " Oh boy I sure hope I have enough aluminum "

You should've said "The Chilling Story of Vault 111"

I think you always miss a huge thing about Father/Shaun. If you listen to his inflection when he says "I wanted to see what would happen" there's a weird hesitation there. I would guess that, as someone raised in the Institute who never (as far as we know) had children of his own (unless you count the synths) and never experienced having parents, he could have wanted to see if you'd come looking for him. Since he'd found out, probably just prior to releasing the Sole Survivor, that he had terminal cancer. Think of the Origami Killer in Heavy Rain, who was trying to find a father who would risk everything for their kid. I always got a similar impression from Father, especially in his treatment of synth Shaun and his releasing of the Sole Survivor when he did; it smacked more of regret to me. "Wanting to see what would happen" in a "would they come for me, after all this time? Would they still love me like a parent does a child?"

Oxhorn: "That consumes his or her entire life" Me: Gets out the Vault and starts conquering the whole Commonwealth, building villages, doing a questhunt and just as I start to be bored (about 200-600 hours later), I remember that Nora/Nate is dead and my son is still missing xD

The saviour of the Commonwealth "dbrfgbrgbnr"

The skeleton's were Support staff. Theere was the scientists, the guards, and the support staff.

I always had a hard time believing Vault-Tec did not have their own secret vaults to control things after the bombs dropped.

The vault's overseer said he'd been dreaming of the cryolator for a long time. If he did, indeed, go to VTU, he could have shared the idea with one of his classmates, who also made one in WV.

_Ahhh, Mr.Dbrfgbrgbnr...I've been expecting you...._

This vault was so small, I didn’t even know it had lore that deep lol

Its just crazy that the vault tec salesman said "total protection from radiation and crazy super mutants as if they knew mutants would come. As if they'd done tests already.

An interesting thing that I just realized is that, despite the fact that there are only 8 beds in the bunk room and one in the overseer´s room, when we enter the vault after the bombs dropped we see that there are at least 16 vault tec employees (5 security, 6 scientists, the overseer and 4 who wear only juimpsuits who may be auxiliary personnel or scientists who have not put on the lab coat). Which means that they had to sleep in shifts and that at least 11 of them managed to escape alive (as we can find only 5 bodies in the vault when we wake up).

The reason why the salesman didn’t tell us about it is because even he didn’t know. Like any shady corporation in fallout. Like had some dark secrets they kept from their employees and customers.

The *Biggest* question I have is this: *Where is Vault Tec big wigs? Why didn't they survive? If they knew before hand, why weren't they in their own super Vault? Where are they? Why hasn't any one heard from them?*

I love how the synths you save from the institute are more human than both Father and Vault-Tec. It's kinda sad...

Idk why the institute didn't take all 3 and maybe tried to get more babies lol

This video came out a few years later than expected

the adventures of Dbrfgbrgbnr =))

Is it just me or does the voice actor who plays Nate expresses a lot more emotion the Nora’s voice actor?

It’s touching to know security still kept themselves happy with a Christmas party with his buddies

never noticed the "hostile mutants" part or vault tech guys speech

Damn... _that’s cold._

Just a minor observation: In the sequence when Kellogg shoots Nora, I find it interesting how they included the sound effect of a shell casing hitting the ground yet when you look at the design of a revolver it doesn't eject empty shells out of the chamber like a standard handgun. And even in the game when you use this same revolver or any revolver for that matter you have to manually eject the empty shells out of the cylinder when you reload................... Take that for what you will

Red Menace really takes the sting out of being recent widow

Howdy welcome to Vault 111! What’s your name? My name? It’s dbrfgbrgbnr. W-well ok then, welcome... (Under breath) God why did I take this job.

This is probably the most CHILL vault out of all of them

“Thank you for choosing Vault-tec!” “...you’re welcome...” 😂😂

It's kind of a shame the other vault dwellers didn't live. It could have been quite fun to see them try to adapt to the future and rebuild their community. Could have made for some fun interactions, maybe even interesting side-quests in the new settlement you can build. It also makes more sense why you'd take time to build things at the beginning of the game.

His name sounds like a super mutant speaking Chinese

You know the biggest plot hole I always found in 4 is that they chose Shawn to have uncorrupted human DNA, but you literally watch the bombs drop. The radiation of an average nuclear bomb reaches 1km in 1 second meaning that all of you would've been irradiated before entering the vault and unless the cryogen pods really did somehow disinfect the residents your DNA wouldn't have been uncorrupted. As well if you look at a nuclear bomb from literally any distance (even up to 5km from the explosion in a recorded instance) you would be completely blind as it would be 500x brighter than the sun (but I can overlook that part).

Nice name. "dbrfgbrgbnr" However, you should've added some vowels to that. Like "Dabarfgoobergaboner".

"Finding the Cryolater in West Virginia seems like a continuity error to me." Just one item on a long, long list, sadly.

Ah yes. 1:10 I love the main protagonist of the game dbrfgbrgbnr. He had a speech about war you know.

dbrfgbrgbnr? How exactly do you pronounce that? 😂

The most terrifying part isn't the explosion, but how the staff sound happy and jolly, even though they know that the residents are going to be frozen for years and possibly know that a family would be shot and the son taken, and that the vault dwellers would not wake up and die in the cryo-pod, that in my opinion is the most horrifying part.

Usually your research is spot on Oxhorn and you have way more lore information than I do, but you missed a few things on this one... It sounds like the military and Vault-Tec did not want to warn the general public . Remember there was military vehicles and personnel there at Sanctuary already and the Vault-Tec headquarters building for the area was only about 15 miles away. There is one major issue. If you watch the beginning sequence and count the Vault-Tec personal, there are 4 guards in body armor, 6 in staff in vault suits, and 6 in lab coats. This is 16 Vault-Tec personal. Only the one that leads you to the cryo chambers has a pip boy and is likely the overseer. With the one missing staff you mentioned (Nordhagen) that is 17 total. That means there were 2 to a bed except for the overseer, who got a bet for himself. You find no suits of guard armor, so I am guessing that they had no problem overpowering the scientists. The question is if the staff were on the scientists side or not. I am guessing since the scientists were the only ones not at the party that the staff sided with the guards and since the scientists fortified the exit, likely a few staff died trying to get through, but with 10 against 6 they were able to over power the scientists and the body armor gave them a huge advantage. So I think 3 scientists, 4 staff and 4 security guards made it out. I think the body with the Pip Boy was the overseer and that was the only way to open the vault. It looks like the fight started in the overseer's office then they fell back to the vault exit. They likely dragged the body over to activate the door. There were also 2 women in the vault, one scientist and one staff and I am guessing both survived. Also understand that of the bodies outside the vault you do not find any military uniforms, power armor suits, or the Vertibird and the APC in Sanctuary is no longer there. Likely most of the military survived, especially the ones in power armor or vehicles. From what it looks like there is only one detonation and that is the crater where the Children of the Atom worship. Sanctuary was several miles away. Based on estimates of the map size and locations you are talking about 20 miles. About the largest realist warhead used would have been around 10MT. This would have put Sanctuary at the very edge of the Thermal radiation range. Many of the people outside would have suffered some burns, but would not have been instantly killed. The damage would have been enough to shatter windows (1-2 psi), but most structures would still be standing. Those bodies might have been the military fighting off the people that wanted to be taken with them or that tried to make it to the platform as it was dropping and the top doors were closing. The rest likely fled with minor burns with half dying within the first year from radiation. Now to understand radiation levels... most forms of radiation fade quickly. From instantly lethal within an hour of the drop at the lip of the crater to safe enough to walk across the crater bottom a month later (one hour of exposure). Radiation levels in the area will be low enough to only be of limited health risk in 6 months and pretty much safe within 2 years. There might be some pockets of radioactive elements that could be lethal for hundreds if not thousands of years, but these really require you to touch them and they will settle into the soil and be of little threat to most. Also plant life is about 10 more resistant to radiation, so most trees in this area would be damaged, but many would survive. By springtime the plants would be growing back just fine. That is why I love my green mods I use. Now of course there would still be radiation levels as they seemed to like dumping radioactive barrels all over the place. Now after 200 years the Children of the Atom could likely survive in the crater. The radiation levels would have drooped enough so there might be only a slight increase in cancer risk after at least 5 years exposure.

I wouldn’t call this a lore thing, just a little thing Ive picked up, but haven’t you found that it’s a little wierd how at the robotics disposal grounds, there is only a single robot there? And the rest is cars?

I have always wondered what would have happened if the soldiers outside had forced their way into the vault. There were plenty of them and they had two soldiers with power armor and miniguns the vault tech security would not have been able to keep them out. Imagine how different things would have been had those two soldiers in power armor jumped on the platform just as it started to descend.

Those dead vault suit wearing skeletons were actually staff, in the beginning when you first enter, there are a number of staff wearing the jumpsuits

The voice acting in this game is really great, and oxhorns voice combined with his broadcasting ability makes a great combo!

200 years waiting for this

So you're telling me Vault 111 Had Space left when the Bombs Dropped,but they didn't let the Rep in?Why?Did they think that someone would pull a Suitcase of Cash Out Last Minute?

Huh, I had always assumed that everyone in the Vault science and security had died in the battle to leave. I figured that was why we were the 'sole survivor" but I never thought about the fact that the amount of skeletons didn't match. Really cool lore video!

Dude holy crap, this is insane after watching the show. Considering vault-tec most likely dropped the bombs it makes sense that the staff had an early warning

Vault- tec was a very COLDhearted company

I wanna see Ox do a "full story" of Fallout 3

I can’t believe that frosted flakes murdered Our wife

Nobody: Even in vault: Oxhorn name the caracter: dhfjdjshdjsb

I love the fact that your still making Fo4 videos

The name, if you’re wondering, is pronounce “Gavin”

I was wondering why 111 seemed so familiar and then I remember ITS THE STARTING VAULT

"All the comforts of the modern home!" **sees very scary and bulky cryogenic chambers**

(4 years ago) Ox: We enter Vault 111, promised shelter from the harsh atomic blast. This place has lore, but we'll cover that in a later video. Me now: sees this video in recommended. "Boys it's about damn time.! "

Hmm maybe you are still backup. Shawn's dying. They needed a replacement and he wanted you.

*Everybody below gets to freeze, while the world above burns*

I just realized something.... why, when Kellogg kills Nora, do we hear a shell hit the ground? Its a revolver, that isnt how revolvers work.

I know you did a video on this a while ago, but I just thought of something *and don't remember if you mentioned it in that video* So in Vault 111, we learned that Vault-Tec was relying on residents to agree to enter the vault for most of their experiments to work, or at least this one. We learned that the Vault-Tec staff got an early warning on the bombs dropping. What if Vault-Tec really was involved with the nukes being launched? I'm too tired still to type much more. There also isn't much more to type. Good day, y'all.

Is there a video of Oxhorn playing Fallout 4 for the first time? I would love to see Oxhorn's first impressions of Vault 111 and Fallout 4.

The most amazing part is how much soul you have to trade to the demon for you to get the chance to use something that you signed up for like literally minutes before.

I just started watching your videos because Im playing fallout for the first time but i get carried away with shooting and completing the missions that I usually forget to Come backs to certain places after I beat them, now that I get the lovely privilege of watching your videos and exploring the places I’ve already been too! A lot of stuff I see in game make sense! Thank you this channel is awesome!

oh and who is this old man kellogg speaks of? certainly not shaun. obviously.

The story of vault 111: one big freezer. The point of the vault? To give super mutants human flavoured popsicles why there were scientists there in the first place? To make sure other companies don’t steal their idea. Point of this comment? I DONT KNOW!!!

Even the Vault-Tec Rep didn't even know about the cryo pods. You'll meet him again as a Ghoul, and he'll ask how you lived for 200 years in perfect condition.

Long time no see ox, I just wanted to let you know that while I don’t watch a ton of your videos anymore you’re still one of my favorite RU-vidrs. I remember staying up super late and falling asleep watching your videos, you have an excellent voice.

One thing that bothers me about Vault Tec's lore is their absence from the games after the bombs fall. I don't think they were responsible for the bombs, but they did have connections with the Enclave and Robco. We know Robert House calculated nuclear war was inevitable. It seems Vault Tec had this same philosophy. So, why didn't they survive? All of the vaults were remotely contolled and monitored, but we find the Vault Tec staff dead in almost every vault. Simple self preservation would of had the higher ups in the Vault Tec company being able to get to safety and have access to their own computer network. Maybe they even had a satellite, as well. So where are they? We didn't find them in DC, the West Coast, West Virginia, or Boston. They had years to plan, but all you find are dead empty vaults. Even the ones still occupied don't have a connection to an outside Vault Tec faction. Vault 81 continued to follow instructions, but they aren't the leadership of Vault Tec. Even the control vaults had experiments built in, as in the Overseer's journey in 76. I don't see the method in the madness. Who would benefit from all these experiments? Only the Vault Tec brass in some secure location collecting the data. They had to have some way of assuring their own survival.

Wake up Mister Dbrfgbrgbnr, wake up and smell the ashes...

I love these videos because you do them so seriously. And that’s exactly how I used to play and enjoy fallout, like yeah it’s a game but if u take it seriously it’s so fun and immersive.

Started playing Fallout 4 again. I've missed playing this game while listening to your videos.

Security and the scientists worked in shifts though didn't they? No reason sleeping could'nt have been Done in shifts too. Overseer might have been the only one with a private bed, rest could share. Great use of space, so 16 or 20 people in total perhaps As for security armor not being on skeletons.. Well terminal entry did say they all had to do duties beyond the usual so when security acted as janitors etc might have just not Worn the armor. I mean what would have been the need?

*S H A U N !*

Just made an observation while starting a new game. The doctor who leads you to your cryo chamber seems to be the only one wearing a Pip Boy so.... i think it's save to assume that it's his Pip Boy we pick up when leaving the Vault.

Are we gonna ignore that institute scientist with the hella cake in the beginning tho

I love the story of "dbrfgbrgbnr". What a lad.

"Cause he's a STOOOONE COOOOOLD KILLEEEEEER!!!" -Memes

Such an amazing explanation. Feels like a short film. I just found your channel, I so enjoyed every story about Fallout you are telling. Thank you

Oxhorn: "Does that mean they were working on a skeleton crew?" Well, they're certainly skeletons now. I'm going back to my corner now..

Damn i'm so early that the bombs didn't even dropped yet...oh

I'll never look at frosted flakes the same way again

I could watch Oxhorn all day. I love these long videos. Normally I'd get bored but your commentary keeps me focused and intrigued

Thank you for choosing VAULT-TEC *Lore voice intensifies* Y O U ' R E W E L C O M E ?

See for me the overseer was a good person. He saw the experiment as preserving the residents so that they can live in a rebuilt future, then he tried to protect his staff by trying to keep them underground when he knew beyond a doubt that going topside would be the death of them all

I love watching your videos in the morning to start my day.☺

No one: Not a soul: Oxhorn: wHy wOuLD vAUlt-tEc dO tHiS?!

I love that your videos are like 40 minutes long, I love your voice and having something to play in the background of university coursework is awesome. it means I can play fallout 4, then do coursework and still have fallout stuff going on, then play fallout 4 after haha

How did the vault tec rep know about hostile mutants before the bombs dropped? 3:23 - 3:30

EVERYONE i found a terminal in fo76 written from kent connolly the man who in fo4 gives you the shroud quest He talks about the unstoppables and the errors in the radio broadcasts he listened to

these videos are really well made, in depth, and greatly entertaining! Thank you! Answering a lot of my questions from starting Fallout 4 and 76

Thanks man. Helped open my eyes to some overlooked lore.