Science fiction was only the latest twist on adventure stories by the 1930s. In the years following World War One the Great Disillusionment choking across the Western world was replaced by the glee and joyful escapism of the 1920s. That in turn devolved into the despairing desperate escapism of the 1930s. The rise of fascism and dictatorship was welcomed by even the most affluent and elite of Western society. World War Two again gave birth to disillusionment but this time in the paranoia of the 1940s which spawned the Cold War outwardly and McCarthyism at home.

Into this world was introduced the cautionary yet optimistic message of the movie "The Day The Earth Stood Still". When I was very young televisions had three channels and ours was black & white only – a third-hand huge monstrosity lining an entire wall and that would be right at home in the FO3 world.

My Sundays were spent watching one classic scifi movie after another. Theremins were the music that lulled me into drowsy afternoon naps while on that big glowing screen grown men and women, dressed in spray-painted cardboard, performed before WW2 era army-navy surplus.

The release of Fallout 3 and the remake of this classic movie compliment each other well.

It is in this spirit I created the FO3 quest "Farewell To The Master". It is my homage to those long warm Sunday afternoons, and the people who devoted themselves to the golden age science fiction theater that filled my imagination.

As appropriate for a tribute to scifi classics this quest starts in Greyditch. Once the 3D tools for modding Fallout3 are more mature I will update this quest to add more steps of a storyline that is already written.