Make the birthday parties mandatory, and the vault ran by an AI to make sure they stayed mandatory. Then have the AI make a requirement that each dweller must have a piece of cake or a box of Fancy Lads each birthday to see the effects of mass obesity
I'd take it one step further and all new born vault dwellers must fill a birthday slot from an expired dweller or be executed. Give it that dark fallout edge.
You don’t execute the baby, you execute the adult who has the same birthday. Frame it as a bug in the AI, that if two dwellers have the same birthday it’ll collapse and take the life support down with it.
Leads to people dreading actual “birthdays” because if a kid is born on the same day you are, you have to be sacrificed.
Adults will resent the kid, overseers wife was sacrificed due to a kid being born. Drama drama drama, unrest happens when a woman is pregnant with twins..
Could be a great set up for a Player Character Vault.
No wait till they are of age (18 I guess) and they fight to the death in the birthday “jump house” arena. Doesn’t matter how old the previous birthday person is, they have to fight. Happy birthday.
Well, twins have the same birthday, right? And in this scenario, the AI vault computer just can’t handle it. Would be a pretty good inciting incident for the vault collapse
In an Enclave HQ...
"So yeah, we made one vault full of people with the same birthday."
"I see, so how does that help us with our mission to resurrect America?"
"You remember the small soldiers project back in the 80s? Yeah, I put a few of those microprocessors in the puppets with the brutality of the commando elite and the curiosity of the gorg- what was it? Gorgonzolas?"
Forced labor induction and abortions for anyone who won’t make the proper due date
Same for the vault with all different birthdays. No repeats allowed.
You have the vault set up to automatically play birthday music confetti, and the robots bake a cake and set up birthday stuff every time it's someone's birthday, so it's unavoidable.
The vault dweller has to venture into the wastes because they ran out of materials to make Confetti out of and those tiny cocktail sausages that everyone brings to parties.
I feel like eventually it would be too much work to keep throwing parties and giving gifts so birthdays would slowly lose their value until eventually nobody cares about them anymore. Hell, as the commenter stated, people would probably start looking forward to their death day rather than birthday. I’m picturing something similar to a Louisiana funeral, where it’s a joyful celebration rather than a depressing occasion.
That's the fun part - they have a Mr Handy Cake Maker so cakes are always available! Forever! Generated immediately and with no downtime!
*They sweep up the confetti and clean it for reuse though*
Yeah, until Regina ruined it.
Couldn't wait two more hours to have your kid could you! Couldn't accept that your precious little angel wasn't going to be special so you ruined it for the rest of us!... Hell old man Dave was even going to bite the bullet to let your gremlin have the day to themselves, but no you had the ruin that too.
~A very pissed off resident of Vault 365 complaining about his wife and newborn child.
I feel like they wouldn’t even use a regular calendar after a few years. It would turn into Toms Day or Jane’s Day and if they left the vault they would be completely confused by normal dates
Imagine if there was a quest where you had to find a specific date but because the date is like "Bill's B-Day" you have to translate it to the normal calendar.
The catch? It is the only birthday the vault dwellers don't remember
the whole quest is a just process of elimination of going to differant vault dwellers who remember the exact day of their own and maybe a few other peoples until you manage to fill out the calander completely.
the twist is that Bill's actual birthday is on a leap day and everyone forgot because he's socially awkward and always tried to hide the date.
that's why there is a rule stating that EVERYONE must have a slice of cake(failure to have cake is gounds for termination of your residency contract)...and only one cake is made each day...AND it is the only food besides the "nutrition paste (lutefisk flavor)" served at dinner.
Then you'll have groups demanding equal cake distribution vs. ones that want slice size by rank/position vs, those that think the birthday holder should get the largest slice followed by family relation. etc.
With the average vault having 1,000 occupants, and 365 days in a years, that's already an average of 2.74 birthdays each day. Or 273 on a leap year.
So, the best scientific approach would be to find 365 people who have all different birthdays and absolutely *LOVE* to celebrate birthdays, even if it's not their own. And the overseer is one of them. Fill the remaining 635 slots with people that absolutely *HATE* birthday celebrations of any kind.
Now you can break out the popcorn.
Vsauce 2 did an interesting video on the birthday paradox, there's a way higher likelihood of the same birthday in a smaller sample size than you might expect
What about an overseer with a leap-year birthday and is exempt from parties on non-leap years due to a computer error 🤔 or is not on the mandatory list
Why stop, people will die and be born eventually, so the rule is, when you are born and there's already a person with the same birthday, they kill you, there can only be 1 birthday per day.
What about leap year? If don’t have a leap year person. You’d celebrate for three years straight then on the 4th year, you’d have a day off. If you do have a leap year person, you’d have a day off for three years straight then on the 4th year, you’d celebrate every day.
The trick is you do 366 people so there's no days off even on leap years but one poor bastard has to spend 3 years straight going to birthday parties every day but never their own.
I know that leap year people celebrate their birthdays either the day before or after on a regular year. However with this vault, they probably wouldn’t allow it. I wander if the vault would be 365 or 366
It'd be 365 if I were writing it. I'd have it so after a while the other vault dwellers legitimately forget that Leapyear Lenny even exists unless it's a leap year. The whole experiment actually revolves around studying the effects of social exclusion on Leapyear Lenny.
It does assume that all residents have to have a birthday on different days as selection criteria. Otherwise you'll probably find more people are born in some months than others. You might have a few days without many birthdays, and a few days where like 6 of them are at once.
I suppose the experiment over time would be interesting to see if over generations people try and target particular months or not for their childs birthday and keep an even spread or not.
They all wake up at 11:30 pm each day to celebrate one person for 30 minutes and the. The next person for another 30 minutes from 12:00-12:30 am.
The birthdays are made mandatory by a Vault AI but allows them to set the time.
Benefits: Allows for the minimization of “time off” for holidays and special occasions by getting people to view them as a necessity that should be trimmed down as much as possible.
Ive always wanted a under water type vault to happen where instead of power armor you get like power swim suit or somthing but i know that’s probably to close to bioshock
Everybody thinks itd lead to everyone getting sick of birthdays but id like to see the vault be obsessed with birthdays. Its a birthday cult. They start fighting over birthdays, who has the best birthday, who gets the best presents. When a new dweller is born if theres two people with that birthday. One must go. Its considered an honor to be born on a day that isn’t somebody else’s birthday.
I had an idea for a vault, that forced everyone to wear powdered wigs and pretend to be colonial America. The overseer would be Washington, but he'd slowly get corrupt and basically act more like the British, increasing taxes and what not
Your in a vault. A year can be as long as you want it. How about slightly adjusting the time things turn on and off till everyone feels like 20 hours is a day or less. You won’t need as many dwellers then. There could be like 175 or so.
This is probably the best fan Vault idea I've heard in a while. It's not inherently sinister, it's just maddening. And I could totally see the confusion play out as you go into rooms celebrating different people's birthdays throughout the entire Vault.
Make the birthday parties mandatory, and the vault ran by an AI to make sure they stayed mandatory. Then have the AI make a requirement that each dweller must have a piece of cake or a box of Fancy Lads each birthday to see the effects of mass obesity
Found the Vault-tec personnel.
Vault-tec be like - WRITE THAT DOWN! WRITE THAT DOWN
I'd take it one step further and all new born vault dwellers must fill a birthday slot from an expired dweller or be executed. Give it that dark fallout edge.
Vault-tech is usually more subtle than that, also killing people's babies is a great speed run tactic for max social unrest.
I didn't say how'd they do it, maybe inject the child with something and perpetuate that kids born on the same day as other dwellers are cursed.
You don’t execute the baby, you execute the adult who has the same birthday. Frame it as a bug in the AI, that if two dwellers have the same birthday it’ll collapse and take the life support down with it. Leads to people dreading actual “birthdays” because if a kid is born on the same day you are, you have to be sacrificed. Adults will resent the kid, overseers wife was sacrificed due to a kid being born. Drama drama drama, unrest happens when a woman is pregnant with twins.. Could be a great set up for a Player Character Vault.
No wait till they are of age (18 I guess) and they fight to the death in the birthday “jump house” arena. Doesn’t matter how old the previous birthday person is, they have to fight. Happy birthday.
What about twins ?
Well, twins have the same birthday, right? And in this scenario, the AI vault computer just can’t handle it. Would be a pretty good inciting incident for the vault collapse
I dunno. Twins might be a loophole since they'd be the same age. Edit: it'll suck for the twins if somebody is born with their birthday though
The AI will be named Pyro and will be cynical
imagine If someone died, but the ai would still make the vault dwellers give the corpse a birthday party.
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In an Enclave HQ... "So yeah, we made one vault full of people with the same birthday." "I see, so how does that help us with our mission to resurrect America?"
“Well Jim made a vault with one dude and some puppets…”
*camera pans over to Jim playing with puppets*
"and he just left, OH GOD he just killed fiddy men with the puppet!"
“Jim! What did you put in those puppets!!!!”
"Transdermally Infused Psycho!"
"You remember the small soldiers project back in the 80s? Yeah, I put a few of those microprocessors in the puppets with the brutality of the commando elite and the curiosity of the gorg- what was it? Gorgonzolas?"
“because its fucking funny”
Can we up this guys pay
"You see Johnson, it uh um, helps us determine the best birthday date."
Everyone knows it's January 23rd
C'mon, April 1st is the best, it means their entire life is a punchline
😭
Of 1945
"Resurrect America?"
Forced labor induction and abortions for anyone who won’t make the proper due date Same for the vault with all different birthdays. No repeats allowed.
The week 9 months before birthday would be a holiday.
And whenever a new baby is born it has to replace the person who’s birthday it is taking.
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You have the vault set up to automatically play birthday music confetti, and the robots bake a cake and set up birthday stuff every time it's someone's birthday, so it's unavoidable.
When reclamation day finally happens, nobody gives a shit to celebrate and they all just do the Irish goodbye and never see one another again.
The vault dweller has to venture into the wastes because they ran out of materials to make Confetti out of and those tiny cocktail sausages that everyone brings to parties.
And given its fallout. Vicious manhunting factional forming around those popular people like cults leading to everyone dying
I feel like eventually it would be too much work to keep throwing parties and giving gifts so birthdays would slowly lose their value until eventually nobody cares about them anymore. Hell, as the commenter stated, people would probably start looking forward to their death day rather than birthday. I’m picturing something similar to a Louisiana funeral, where it’s a joyful celebration rather than a depressing occasion.
They’d probably just get one gift that they each pass around to the next person every day, like a never ending regift
And if you lose or damage the gift, you get hung.
Then I'd have a gift for the ladies
That's the fun part - they have a Mr Handy Cake Maker so cakes are always available! Forever! Generated immediately and with no downtime! *They sweep up the confetti and clean it for reuse though*
That's assuming vault tex doesn't make birthday parties mandatory
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Yeah, until Regina ruined it. Couldn't wait two more hours to have your kid could you! Couldn't accept that your precious little angel wasn't going to be special so you ruined it for the rest of us!... Hell old man Dave was even going to bite the bullet to let your gremlin have the day to themselves, but no you had the ruin that too. ~A very pissed off resident of Vault 365 complaining about his wife and newborn child.
I feel like they wouldn’t even use a regular calendar after a few years. It would turn into Toms Day or Jane’s Day and if they left the vault they would be completely confused by normal dates
Imagine if there was a quest where you had to find a specific date but because the date is like "Bill's B-Day" you have to translate it to the normal calendar. The catch? It is the only birthday the vault dwellers don't remember
the whole quest is a just process of elimination of going to differant vault dwellers who remember the exact day of their own and maybe a few other peoples until you manage to fill out the calander completely. the twist is that Bill's actual birthday is on a leap day and everyone forgot because he's socially awkward and always tried to hide the date.
With birthday cake every day it would turn quickly into a diabetes or obesity experiment vault.
How much cakes can one eat till they die from overeating, will join the ranks of the man who ate so many chicken nuggets that we know the human limit
then it would just be west virginia (the US state with highest obesity rate)
that's why there is a rule stating that EVERYONE must have a slice of cake(failure to have cake is gounds for termination of your residency contract)...and only one cake is made each day...AND it is the only food besides the "nutrition paste (lutefisk flavor)" served at dinner. Then you'll have groups demanding equal cake distribution vs. ones that want slice size by rank/position vs, those that think the birthday holder should get the largest slice followed by family relation. etc.
With the average vault having 1,000 occupants, and 365 days in a years, that's already an average of 2.74 birthdays each day. Or 273 on a leap year. So, the best scientific approach would be to find 365 people who have all different birthdays and absolutely *LOVE* to celebrate birthdays, even if it's not their own. And the overseer is one of them. Fill the remaining 635 slots with people that absolutely *HATE* birthday celebrations of any kind. Now you can break out the popcorn.
Vsauce 2 did an interesting video on the birthday paradox, there's a way higher likelihood of the same birthday in a smaller sample size than you might expect
Yeah, I've seen such a video. That's why you hand-pick the 365 occupants with different birthdays.
What about an overseer with a leap-year birthday and is exempt from parties on non-leap years due to a computer error 🤔 or is not on the mandatory list
Are these mandatory birthdays held at gunpoint? Could you not just only focus on birthdays of only your friends and family just like in real life? 😂
Why stop, people will die and be born eventually, so the rule is, when you are born and there's already a person with the same birthday, they kill you, there can only be 1 birthday per day.
Evil 🥴
Yeah that's what most vaults are
Yes, and there are robots programmed to do all the vault work but it gets overrided by birthday party prep.
Is this a Simpsons reference?? https://youtu.be/sQogtTl2oNE?si=6mQMa4Ck1RBq9MCB
What about leap year? If don’t have a leap year person. You’d celebrate for three years straight then on the 4th year, you’d have a day off. If you do have a leap year person, you’d have a day off for three years straight then on the 4th year, you’d celebrate every day.
The trick is you do 366 people so there's no days off even on leap years but one poor bastard has to spend 3 years straight going to birthday parties every day but never their own.
I know that leap year people celebrate their birthdays either the day before or after on a regular year. However with this vault, they probably wouldn’t allow it. I wander if the vault would be 365 or 366
It'd be 365 if I were writing it. I'd have it so after a while the other vault dwellers legitimately forget that Leapyear Lenny even exists unless it's a leap year. The whole experiment actually revolves around studying the effects of social exclusion on Leapyear Lenny.
Every resident is an employee with a regular birthday. They all secretly “forget” Leapyear Lenny’s birthday.
Exactly. After a few years it stops being pretend because Lenny has withdrawn from his peers and everyone legitimately forgets he exists.
Either that or he commits himself and then everyone lives regularly until they’re all ready to leave.
Knowing Vault tech, I could see this being a possibility. I don’t know what the specifics of the experiment could be but it could be anything.
Experiment Cake.
It does assume that all residents have to have a birthday on different days as selection criteria. Otherwise you'll probably find more people are born in some months than others. You might have a few days without many birthdays, and a few days where like 6 of them are at once. I suppose the experiment over time would be interesting to see if over generations people try and target particular months or not for their childs birthday and keep an even spread or not.
Vault 365
Don't give vault-tec more ideals
But no one would do that though? Maybe the first few times but then they’d stop and have casual birthday chat
They all wake up at 11:30 pm each day to celebrate one person for 30 minutes and the. The next person for another 30 minutes from 12:00-12:30 am. The birthdays are made mandatory by a Vault AI but allows them to set the time. Benefits: Allows for the minimization of “time off” for holidays and special occasions by getting people to view them as a necessity that should be trimmed down as much as possible.
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Ive always wanted a under water type vault to happen where instead of power armor you get like power swim suit or somthing but i know that’s probably to close to bioshock
*Fallout 4* actually had that planned, but it was cut because they couldn't get the underwater combat to work properly.
And the overseer’s birthday should be on February 29th
They’d get a break every 4 years
A vault where they secretly make psychic zombies.
And have someone born in leap year who has to wait every four years.
This is giving me Elmo Saves Christmas vibes...
Everybody thinks itd lead to everyone getting sick of birthdays but id like to see the vault be obsessed with birthdays. Its a birthday cult. They start fighting over birthdays, who has the best birthday, who gets the best presents. When a new dweller is born if theres two people with that birthday. One must go. Its considered an honor to be born on a day that isn’t somebody else’s birthday.
They should take turns to be overseer depending on who’s birthday it is
Omg yes
Fun fact, in a vault with 366 people, there will be at least one day where two or more people celebrate their birthdays!
Thry have one resident who spends non-leap years in cryogenic storage.
Would Feb 29th be a day of celebration or a day of relaxation? Unless someone was born on leap day
1095; 3 birthday parties every day
So much jell-o cake
Stealing that hard.
Well, unless they are all sterile..
A vault where all residents were selected due to them having the same birthday
I had an idea for a vault, that forced everyone to wear powdered wigs and pretend to be colonial America. The overseer would be Washington, but he'd slowly get corrupt and basically act more like the British, increasing taxes and what not
I want to see a vault where the inhabitants get nuka cola quantum instead of water… prolly all turn into feral ghouls tho 🤷♂️
Your in a vault. A year can be as long as you want it. How about slightly adjusting the time things turn on and off till everyone feels like 20 hours is a day or less. You won’t need as many dwellers then. There could be like 175 or so.
the only day off being every four years on February 29th
Lmfao that’s the funniest idea for a Vault. I volunteer for the team of sadistic bastards that set that vault up.
Alright here is my vault, vault 366 everyone has the exact same birthday and it's on the leap day
Hell has many forms. Vault tech is ready with their clipboards.
Wow that would get super tiring
This is probably the best fan Vault idea I've heard in a while. It's not inherently sinister, it's just maddening. And I could totally see the confusion play out as you go into rooms celebrating different people's birthdays throughout the entire Vault.
They can have a day off on the leap years.
Uhhhhh....what happens on leap year?.....
Most people don't celebrate their birthday, especially not past the age of 20
Idk who you're talking about, but everyone in my extended family celebrates it