Arroyo bridge

[JR Jansen]

This thing has puzzeled me for quite some time now and maybe someone has an explanation for it (Yamu, onyone).
When you go from Vault 13 back to Arroyo after getting the GECK you find Hakunin half dead and your village destroyed, wright. But you can not go back to the village because the bridge is destroyed too. The funny thing however is that it is cut from the wasteland side. It is still attached from the village side.
The enclave (who kidnapped your fellow villagers) would not have done this. I do not think they would care about the bridge. Either they came in via the front door and then they would have cut it from the village side or they landed in the village themselves and they would not care about the bridge. Well that is what i would do. If i went in with a supperior force with better weapons and armor to capture a bunch of villagers i would not care about that bridge. It is hardely an escape route and besides what if a couple of the got away. They did not need all of them. Besides Hakunin had to cross it anyway so it would have been cut after the Enclave left.
Hakunin, on the other side, did not seem fysically able to cut it. They guy is half dead and was lucky to survive untill you came along. Anyway after the total destruction of the village, what would be the point for him to cut it down.
So does anyone have any ideas why it was cut down and by whom.

JR

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[Yamu]

That's a toughie...

Most of the (in-game) possibilities are unlikely, at best, but here goes:

1) With the last of his strength, Hakunin cut the bridge. The only possible reason I can think of for this is to spare the chosen one the anguish of seeing his destroyed home and his ravaged companions. It's still not very probable, though, considering Hakunin's weakened state, even BEFORE they roughed him up.

2)The Enclave cut the bridge simply out of spite. It wouldn't be inconcievable for some reckless "cowboy" to just cut the bridge, and be picked up by a vertibird on the other side.

3) It IS possible that The Enclave cut the bridge so that no tribals would escape. After all, the whole point of capturing the Arroyo tribe, in particular, is that they were unique-- the mutated descendants of a discernable control group. As the tribe wasn't all that big, but the enclaves ambitions were, it would stand to reason that they'd need every test subject they could get.

Most likely, however, the reason is that due either to laziness or for atmosphere, the programmers decided not to let you return to the villiage, and they HAD to cut it from the outer cliff because if they cut it the other way it'd hang down the inner cliff and would've seemed to have disappeared.

"Nil Desperandum"

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[Guest]

RE: That's a toughie...

I've always assumed it was destroyed in the fight. The Enclave's heavy weapons hit the weak bridge and it gave away.

 

[JR Jansen]

RE: That's a toughie...

Not likely because that would have destroyed the bridge completely. But it is not completely destroyed it is actually intact. It is only hanging from the clif so it is a fair assupmtion that it would have been cut.

JR

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[Kilroy]

RE: That's a toughie...

Maybe someone from Arroyo saw foot soldiers from the enclave from a distance and was brave enough to cut the bridge so they couldn't get in and then tried to stop them him/hersdelf? Kinda like the spartians when Persia invaded Greece. Or a coward managed to escape from the slaughter and cut the bridge so the enclave couldn't get him. And then Hakunin fought him and threw him down the canyon. And that's how it realy happened and that's why Hakunin is so badly hurt! Or maybe he ate him!

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