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I've revolutionized this radical concept, a new way of thinking about skipping across timelines.Professor Greebley's press release

Pylon V-13 is a location in the Cranberry Bog region of Appalachia.

Background[]

This structure is built on one of the Appalachian monorail pylons, the 13th from RobCo Research Center. This section was going to be used by Professor Greebly, a somewhat reputable scientist, as part of an experiment attempting to conduct time travel by moving through dimensions at a high speed.[1][Non-game 1]

He published a press release, declaring his intent to use this monorail as a chariot to go "skipping across timelines."[1] It is unclear if he recorded this press release before or after the War (possibly for the press of the Charleston Emergency Government).

Several scientists and/or engineers lived here for some time after the War, and modified the structure. Their relationship to Professor Greebly is unclear. They lived here long enough to have a mailbox and workshop. Some or all of them eventually died here, and their clothed skeletons litter the location. One is under a bed, and another can be found on the ground directly beneath the rear window of the tram.

When the Dwellers of Vault 76 discovered Pylon V-13 in 2102, it was highly radioactive and sparking. By the end of the year, the radiation dissipated. For the next few years, the modified ring continued to discharge four arcs of electricity several times per minute. The gas-powered generator sticking out of the door of the front tram has remained running.

By 2105, the electrical activity has grown more frequent and erratic. It now discharges roughly every eight seconds, and produces three to eight arcs.

Layout[]

The ground-level location consists of a dilapidated wooden structure, which houses a weapons workbench and leatherworking bench. Another room contains the remains of an inner tube and inflatable raft. There are many gas tanks, air tanks, and buckets throughout the location.

A mailbox marks the entrance to a flight of stairs leading up the pylon to the middle entrance of a three-car monorail. Upon entering, the player may hear a radio to the left which plays static, immediately opposite an elevated sleeping bag. Continuing in this direction, the player will enter the domicile portion of the train. Above the open door of the rear train, they have affixed a satellite dish. A functional TV is installed nearby.

Heading to the front of the monorail, there is a dining table to the right, lined up on one side of the front car. Past this is a medium generator sticking out of an open door. At the end of this room, Professor Greebley's press release sits next to a microscope, on a shelf just above another which bears the periodic table.

The north end of the train is supported by the pylon that Greebly intended to use to travel through time. One can step out of a broken window onto another wooden platform that leads to the pylon. The circle has about fifty boards attached to it, and a permanently active tesla coil at the top, which damages the player. In the conductor's chamber is a button that will activate additional tesla coils when pressed, which will loudly spark until they individually break.

There are two skeletons dressed as scientists in the rear car. Another lies on the ground by the rear pylon near the treasure mound for Cranberry Bog treasure map #4, and a fourth in the front car by the generator. At the front of the train, there is a skeleton dressed as a mechanic, piled near the walkway extending from the conductor's chamber to the crackling ring.

Notable loot[]

  • Professor Greebley's press release - Holotape, on a table on the southern end of the train, next to a microscope.
  • Rich Taylor's testament - Note, found on a rock next to the below-mentioned duffle bag.
  • Toolbox key - To the northwest of the pylon, in a duffle bag on a wooden stump with the aforementioned note on it. Opens toolbox east of Watoga with key to Clara's box in it.
  • Potential Vault-Tec bobblehead - In the southern end of the monorail suspended from the rails, on a barrel.
  • Two potential magazines:
    • In the connecting part of the suspended monorail carriage, half a carriage north of the top of the exterior pylon steps, on the left side (heading north), on top of the mattress.
    • In the northern car of the suspended monorail carriage, near the TV and small satellite dish, on the plank with the sleeping bag across from the skeleton draped on the seat.
  • Three potential plans:
    • Next to the weapons workbench on the ground, on a metal table. (Weapon/weapon mod plan)
    • In the train car with a working radio, in front of the radio box. (Workshop plan)
    • In the train car with a satellite dish, on the shelf with torque pieces. (Workshop plan)
  • Potential weapon mod - Next to the weapons workbench on the ground, on a metal table.
  • Potential recipe - In the train car with dining utensils and drinking glasses on a shelf, on the opposite shelf.
  • Stealth Boy - In the train car with a satellite dish, behind the shelf with torque pieces.

Notes[]

  • Standing in the modified pylon once caused the player to take acute radiation damage. As of the first content update, Wild Appalachia, the radiation was no longer present.
  • There are six beds and five bodies at this location.
  • The presence of an active medium generator in the front car suggests someone is regularly filling it with fuel. This entire location is littered with buckets and gas tanks. There is also a Stealth Boy in the rear car.
  • The flag on the mailbox is half-raised. Like most mailboxes in the game, the mailbox can be looted for random junk.
  • Cranberry Bog treasure map #4 was drawn from inside the rear car. The car does not appear to be damaged in this depiction.
  • Pylon V-13 can be seen clearly from the small Mothman Cult camp founded in 2103 at the nearby flooded Old Mold Quarry, where cultists appear to be committing suicide. It can also be seen clearly through an opening in the trees when standing at a specific vantage at the Sacramental Glade, built in late 2104.
    • On the other end of the monorail track, in the Ash Heap, one pylon has been converted into a Towering Might totem by the Cult.
    • A nearby pylon bears an abandoned altar featuring the text "NOTHING IS real". The same text is found at an abandoned altar in Allegheny Asylum.
      • This graffiti was also seen at sites desecrated by Sister Gwyneth in Far Harbor.
  • When Vault raids were removed from the game, the Vault 94 terminal entry which once started the mode was altered. It now contains the string of text "...System Error Codes (0-V13)".
  • Fallout 76 upcoming content A lite ally in the upcoming America's Playground update mentions the modified pylon near Watoga, in a set of line which otherwise concerns various cryptids. He describes it as "some weird science experiment" which "seemed abandoned," and "a big ring" "they'd built," "like for the train to pass through."

Enemies[]

  • There is always a behemoth supported by super mutants between the sparking pylon and Abandoned Bog Town, who must be defeated to claim the workshop there.
  • A pair of large creatures are always encountered immediately behind the stair pylon. The creature type is randomized, but they are almost always glowing or scorched variants.
    • This pair of creatures occasionally spawn within the train cars, and are unable to move in the cramped space. Normally, there are no creatures within the tram.
  • Insult Bot can also spawn inside of the train car area, and will be unable to navigate the stairs back down to the ground. It can be pushed out of a door, which will probably result in its destruction by fall damage.

Behind the scenes[]

  • V13 or V-13 is one way to shorten Vault 13. Project V13 was a canceled online Fallout game developed by Interplay Entertainment and Masthead Studios.
    • Greebley is a homophone of the word "greeble," as the "e" at the end of that word is not silent. The spelling is also inconsistent, as his subtitles read "Professor Greebly." Greeble was a recurring character in The Armageddon Rag, the promotional newsletter for Project V13.
    • Greebley says people called him a "foolish old man."[1] On release, the game would have been called Fallout Online, abbreviated as FOOL.
    • Greebley also explicitly posits the existence of multiple "timelines" and declares his intent to go "skipping across" them.[1]
  • The premise of an eccentric scientist using a vehicle to time travel by means of speed[1] parallels that of the Back to the Future film franchise. The series concerns characters averting death or time paradoxes through careful time travel.
  • The periodic table asset found here differs from our world's periodic table, and bears the name "Todd Howard." See the pages for periodic table and the Children of Atom shrine where this asset was first deployed for more information.
    • A graffiti asset from this shrine highlighting one of the changed elements, Molybdenum, also reappears in Fallout 76. It can be seen along a trail near Red Rocket Mega Stop.
  • Fallout 76 upcoming contentThe upcoming mention of the pylon in America's Playground will be the first textual allusion to Pylon V-13 in over five years, aside from the ostensibly coincidental error code at Vault 94.

Appearances[]

Pylon V-13 appears only in Fallout 76.

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Non-game

  1. Fallout 76 Vault Dweller's Survival Guide: "A scientist of some repute has constructed an electrical scientific experiment (an inter-dimensional time traveling portal) at the front end of a suspended monorail tram. To test it out, you must climb the pylon the tram is stopped at. Watch your step: the place is rickety!"
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