As overseer, Kate scrapped the traditional democratic method of electing a new overseer each year in favour of random selection, 'ensuring complete impartiality and fairness.'Дownstairs, on the second floor of Vault 11, we find the personal terminal of Roy Gottlieb, the head of the Justice Bloc and the Chairman of the Coalition of Vault 11 Voting Blocs. Why would you want a murderer as overseer?ДЄnd then we read Overseer Order 745, penned by then overseer Katherine Stone, the wife of Nate Stone. 'God willing, if the killer is apprehended swiftly, we may have found a promising new candidate for overseer,' writes Terry Hart, president of the Human Dignity Bloc. We then discover the upcoming election was postponed following a spate of murders. In Vault 11, though, things appear to work differently. Why? You'd imagine the job of overseer would be one everyone wants, after all, the overseer is the boss, and you even get your own office. The other candidates sound similarly desperate not to be elected. Then I want you to think of Sam and Henry Jr. Friends, when you go to the polls this election, I want you to think of your own children. My youngest, Henry Jr., just said his first word, and it was 'Da-da.' We've got this bond already and he's still just a baby. My oldest, Sam, was on the honour roll this quarter, and I couldn't be prouder of him. 'I'm a devoted husband and father of six beautiful children. In it each of the three candidates is outlined, including a personal message. On them you find the Vault 11 election guide - a 'handy' Dweller's Official Guide to Obtaining Overseers Democratically, or D.O.

Much of the place is window dressing - virtual innards that exist because they have to, because a vault needs to have these places for it to feel real, lived in and in the case of Vault 11, seemingly abandoned.ДЄs always, the terminals hold the key. Maintenance, a classroom, living quarters and all the other rooms needed to keep a small community of vault dwellers alive and kicking are present and correct - and creaking at the seams. Everything from the toilets to the clinic looks worse for wear, as if the walls and ceilings were dripping with entropy. Like most vaults in Bethesda's Fallout games, Vault 11 is a maze of decaying corridors and stairways. Instead of the election being about finding the best person for the job, it seems to have been about finding the worst person for the job. This election, however, looks like it was broken. Vault 11 initially baffles, but what's clear is its inhabitants were in the run up to an election to find the next overseer. 'Haley is a known adulterer and communist sympathiser. It encourages you to vote for candidates who are, it seems, horrible, horrible people. Splattered on the walls of the vault are posters - propaganda for what sounds like an election. What happened to the survivor of this apparent mass suicide? What happened to Voice 1, the whimperer? What happened here? What drove four people to want to kill themselves? There are five voices on the recording but only four skeletons on the floor. Voice 5: If there's anyone out there at all, I hope they never have to find out. Voice 2: You ask me, that's exactly the problem. Voice 1: Anybody would've done what we did. Voice 1: But we were! We did what we were supposed to. Voice 4: 'A shining example.' That's what it called us. Voice 1: Are we really gonna do this? It's open. On it is a security recording of the vault entrance.

Nearby is a terminal, one of Fallout's famous green-flickering lore boxes. Through the main door, on the floor of a large entry room are four skeletons huddled together. The vaults were designed to keep nuclear fallout out and happy dwellers in. Most of the vaults you encounter throughout the Fallout games are locked shut, which makes sense. Vault 11 is unusual in that when you first arrive its main door, the one with the number 11 on it, the one would normally hiss and creak before pulling back and rolling sideways, is open. The Brotherhood said nothing about the horrors inside. The Brotherhood of Steel have sent us here to find a differential pressure controller, one of the parts needed to repair their faulty air filtration system. It is rotting wood and nails and spider webs clinging on to existence like the people of Fallout's post-apocalyptic Mojave Wasteland. Nestled in the mountains, the door that leads to Vault 11 is the kind you see hammered onto a shack.

Five nights at vault 5