‘FALLOUT 4’ TEASER SITE proclaims that NUCLEAR WINTER IS COMING. As Am I.

Sweet Merciful Dingleberries, how the fuck did I miss this?! How did I?! Not only is there a fucking teaser site for Fallout 4, but it has itself one of them bona fide hype-inducing countdowns. Jesus Christ.

The morse code on the Survivor 2299 site (which was registered by Zenimax, and is almost certainly counting down to the Spike VGA’s reveal trailer for Fallout 4edit: It seems I got the date of the Spike VGA’s incorrect, so that isn’t what it’s counting down to.) has changed now from the date 11-12-13 (which is weird, because it’s an American company making a game presumably set in America, yet they’re using a non-American date format of DD-MM-YY), to a series of letters transmitted in Morse code.

“ZL QRNE FVFGRE. V’Z URNQVAT GB GUR VAFGVGHGR. TBQ XABJF JUNG UNCCRARQ GB GUVF CYNPR ABJ. GUVF BYQ ONFGNEQ JVYY URYC HF. UR ZHFG URYC HF. —0321—”

Once these letters were deciphered (using a Caesar cipher, apparently, I don’t know if that’s relevant) they translated to:

“MY DEAR SISTER. I’M HEADING TO THE INSTITUTE. GOD KNOWS WHAT HAPPENED TO THIS PLACE NOW. THIS OLD BASTARD WILL HELP US. HE MUST HELP US. —0321—”

THE INSTITUTE.

In case you don’t remember, The Institute is a location which has been mentioned before within the Fallout series, both in Fallout: New Vegas, and Fallout 3 (where I suspect it was introduced specifically to follow up on this time around).

The Institute lies within the Commonwealth, which, pre-war, was known as Massachusetts. The Institute itself has been around since before the war, at which point is was know by the name “Massachusetts Institute of Technology.” Robert House attended there in the Fallout lore, apparently.

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Oh god. Oh god, oh god. The reveal for the sequel to possibly my favorite game is really, really, really close. And it appears that it shall be taking place in my hometown. #Spooge.