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Ismarc is a singer found in the Skum Pitt in Junktown in 2161.

Background[]

Ismarc learned a little from an old man in the Hub, and also from the scavs in Adytum. Ismarc usually sings in the Skum Pitt in Junktown, but sometimes also in the Hub, Adytum, or at Lost Hills for the Brotherhood of Steel.

Songs[]

Ismarc frequently sings the following song:

Transcript

Your head is a bowl!
It's round like a mole!
I'd rather fry!
Than pay you the toll!

Another of his songs starts with the lyrics, "I know your mind."

Interactions with the player character[]

Interactions overview[]

Interactions
38 Paradigm of Humanity
This character has no special interactions.

Other interactions[]

The Vault Dweller can donate to Ismarc by putting caps in his hat. They can also get directions to the Hub, Adytum, and the Brotherhood by asking him.

Tell me about[]

Inventory[]

Apparel Weapon Other items
Citizen outfit Knife Bottle caps

Appearances[]

Ismarc appears only in Fallout.

Behind the scenes[]

One of the challenges of developing the divergent future culture of Fallout is that while what we see in post-nuclear North America is the remains of a culture obsessed with '50s Americana, that culture was doing so in 2077, still some way into our future (for now..). Besides just laser guns and power annor, there are elements of Fallout that culturally reflect pieces of US culture that postdate the '50s but their popularity simply wasn't peaked like '50s Amencana did as of 2077. For instance, in Junktown, the character Ismarc sings a badly mangled rendition of Head Like A Hole, with came out in 1989. Presumably this means that Pretty Hate Machine cate out at some point in the Fallout universe, in some form, but by 2077 nobody cared about the Industrial Revolution or post-punk any more, they were all big into swing and jazz, much like how there was one month during the Pandemic in our real world where the internet was obsessed with sea shanties So, does anime exist in the Fallout universe? Yes. What form does it take? What's popular? How big is anime in 2077? We don't really have enough information to know, other than knowing that it wasn't reflected in mainstream US pop culture when the bombs fell and arrested the cultural symbols of the US. in the form of crumbling billboards and scorched ad pages.Jesse Heinig, Modiphius Discord
  • His song is a reference to the Nine Inch Nails song "Head Like A Hole" which goes:
Transcript

Head like a hole
Black as your soul
I'd rather die
Than give you control

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