Just kidding, no flash, not that anyone cares.

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protagonist with finding a replacement. He or she is given a portable device called the "PIPBoy 2000" which keeps track of mapmaking, quest objectives, and various bookkeeping aspects. Armed with the PIPBoy 2000 and meager equipment, including a small sum of bottle caps which are used as currency in the post-apocalyptic world, the main character is sent off on his/her quest. Bottle caps also appear in both sequels. In Fallout 2 however, the institution of a more conventional form of hard currency has rendered them worthless (as the player character remarks upon finding a hidden stash of caps). The protagonist is then sent out into the remains of California to find another Water Chip.

The Master.
The player initially has 150 game days before the Vault's water supply runs out. This time limit can be extended by 100 game days if he/she commissions merchants in the Hub to send water caravans to Vault 13. Upon returning the chip, the Vault Dweller is then tasked with destroying a mutant army that threatens humanity. A mutant known as "The Master" (previously known as Richard Grey) has begun using a pre-war, genetically engineered virus called Forced Evolutionary Virus to convert humanity into a race of "Super Mutants", and bring them together in the Unity, his plan for a perfect-Wait, I think I'm dragging on.

Long story short, Obama is now officially in the white house.