AWKWARD ZOMBIE

AZ, I have a confession to make. I like explosions.

This may come as a surprise to some of you. I can practically hear the doubtful whispers already, and for what it's worth, I'm sorry for keeping it a secret. However, I cannot change my nature. When I look at an explosion, I regard it with more than just apprehension or fear; I regard it with adoration. I wake up each morning and shield my eyes in wonder at the massive ball of fire in the sky that gives us life every day, and I think "That would be so much more awesome if it was causing other things to explode".

I invite you all to join me on a world tour of detonations begetting more detonations. First stop: Meresti Subway Station.

For those of you not versed in the lore of Fallout 3, Meresti Subway Station is a little hovel with a resident population of vampire wannabes, who refer to themselves as "The Family". Rather than skulk around at night attacking innocent scavengers, they mostly sit around in their home talking to each other and sitting on benches. Their single most noteworthy accomplishment is attacking the town of Arefu, which formerly had a peak population of 7 and absolutely nothing of value to anyone. Its population is now 4.



Upon tracking down the Family's base, a journey which is likely to cost you both of your legs thanks to the landmines and bear traps scattered about the only accessible path in, you'll be greeted by this charming fellow. His job is to guard a security checkpoint that leads into Meresti Station. You can get past the door by:

a) Killing him and taking the key. This will understandably make the Family hostile.
b) Picking the lock and hacking the computer past it. This will also make the Family hostile.
c) Convincing him that whatever business you have in the station is important. He doesn't care to ask what your business is.
d) Bribing him.
e) Telling him you have mail for one of the residents. He doesn't even suggest that he deliver it himself.



This is most likely the first thing you will see when entering the station. The Family's leader, Vance, spends around 20 hours a day standing on this exact spot and looking down upon his people. He takes hourly breaks from creepily staring at them to whine at his wife about how he has doubts that the Family will work as a society. Although he owns a very extravagant bed and the only room in the entire settlement, I have never seen him sleep. As a precaution, I trapped his bed anyways.



My preparation consists of slowly walking backwards and dropping landmines in front of me within exploding distance of each other. The residents frequently crept up behind me and told me not to blow myself up, before walking right past me and onto the newest landmine in the chain, which was yet to be deactivated. Despite this, no "accidents" ever occurred.



This is Karl. He spends most of his day running his store, and the rest of it complaining about how he has no customers. I suspect that being a cannibal and living in an underground settlement isolated by an admittedly incompetent security checkpoint is hardly a good business model, but I'm no merchant.



Here he is again, blatantly violating the Family's laws by eating meat instead of drinking blood like a good vampire. It probably isn't even human meat.



One of the Family's main sources of entertainment seems to be these computers. The only thing on them are the Family's laws, but that doesn't stop people from visiting them every few minutes before going back to sit on more benches.



This is what Vance does when he isn't staring at people for hours at a time. Evidently, the conquest of Arefu has made him so confident that he believes a military victory over the wasteland is not only possible, but likely. I really wish I could be around to see whatever demonstration of power he has in mind, but...

...I think we've seen enough of this place.

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People seem to like this, so I'll give it a shot. Vote for any location in any game and I'll blow it up if it's possible to do so with a single action. I may not have the game, or even a means to acquire it, but I'll do what I can if I think it'll be entertaining. If you can't think of a new game for me to visit, that's fine too. I could run this entire series on Fallout 3 alone and not get tired of watching populations get reduced to 0 within seconds of one fatal misstep. In fact, I can personally guarantee that outdoor towns will look a lot better and lag a lot less, so don't assume you've seen all the Capital Wasteland has to offer.

Oh my.

Minecraft.
Carve pictures with explosions.

Ganelon's Really Infamous Exploding Force, I request that you set up a whole freaking lotsa buncha explosions in a Metal Gear Solid game, preferably 3, but any of them would work, wouldn't they?

But there's a variety of asplosive devices that can work together, right?

The real question is, is there a limit to the number of explosives that can exist in one area at the same time?

And if I can't get infinite mines or whatever equivalents there are, do they remain in the area after I leave?

Minecraft is definitely doable, so I'll try and get around to that when I have some free time.

EDIT: Have a bonus image from the previous update. Not really sure how I missed this one.

I have returned, ladies and gentlemen. You all have my sincerest apologies for such a long and unwarranted absence, but the truth is that I've been working on this update on and off for weeks now, and only just completed it today. The sheer scale of the project was so much larger than I had anticipated, and I made several time-consuming errors along the way which set me back longer than I'd care to mention. However, the important part is that I did finish, and I hope that you all enjoy the results.

This thread promises a world tour wrought with explosions, and while I originally intended for it to be significantly less macroscopic than this, our next stop is... well, the world.



The world is a rather nice place to live, at first glance. Colorful, healthy grass stretches as far as the eye can see. Trees dot the horizon, basking in the warm glow of a paradoxically square sun. Animals live out carefree lives in the shade of gigantic mountains.

Really, there's only one thing that keeps it from being a true paradise: You are not welcome in it.



When night falls, horrors crawl out onto the surface from underground caverns. Corpses of those who failed to tame the unforgiving wilderness rise from their graves armed with bows and claws, desperate to hunt down the living and assimilate them into an ever-growing army of undead. Gigantic spiders with a taste for human flesh stalk the hillsides with unmatched speed, eager to satiate their limitless hunger.

...And yet for all their ferocity, none of these abominations are more terrifying than the Creeper.



The Creeper is a monster that should not exist in any sane world. It does not eat, sleep, or fulfill any discernible role in the circle of life. Lacking any appendages , its only defense mechanism is to explode violently when agitated. If killed from a safe distance, a black powder leaks from its wounds that can be used to create dynamite. More than any other, this creature represents the world's hatred of mankind, and I intend to subjugate it.



First, I have dug tunnels beneath the surface with a hole every 5 meters. These will serve as guidelines for the explosives.



The holes are then covered with TNT, supported by bricks of cobblestone. At a distance of 5 meters, the cobblestone will not be destroyed by any explosions other than the one caused by the TNT it supports.



Here, the TNT filled holes have been covered by grass, rendering them completely invisible to the surrounding wildlife.



This is the result of the detonation: A massive scar upon the landscape that will not heal for years to come. Did that hurt, nature?!



As a precaution, I have constructed a simple house to barricade myself in when the night comes. It contains few comforts, as I spend all of the day working and have little time available to relax during the nightly sieges.



Unfortunately, my project soon reached a stage where the scale had to be increased dramatically, and my house - along with the mountain it was carved into - became an obstacle to this end.



Fortunately, I was nothing if not prepared.



Much better.



This is the final day. When the sun rises, the spiders retreat and the zombies and skeletons burn to dust.



They have underestimated me. From here, it seems as though I have accomplished nothing. That I have wasted my time running in fear from them and digging holes in the ground to escape their wrath. Nothing could be farther from the truth.

To all the horrors of the world, I have only one thing to say.

Get the hell off my lawn.

AWESOME.

best
ever

BEAUTIFUL

also i sent the minecraft one to bobs house of video games

I know it's kinda hard to see the whole thing from the limited mortal scope of a minecraft guy, so here's a satellite image of the aftermath.



Where to now, dear viewers? I'd rather not go back to Minecraft since it takes forever to do this stuff, but anything else is fair game.

I called that creeper face when i was watching it.

Ganelon's Reasonably Insane Exploding Force confirmed as awesome.
Ganelon's Rather Immaculate Exploding Force, were you going to try a MGS game or did you decide against it? Also, do you perhaps have any war games that might work for this?

I still need someone to test a MGS game as I don't think I own any of them, but I do have some ideas. If it is possible in MGS, count that among them.

Just off the top of my head, X-COM and Bioshock both have plantable explosives, as well as exploding world objects that react to damage. Half Life 2 is also pretty much guaranteed to work, although some may consider that a predictable choice.