Cheery radio patter from Outpost 17, grim war outside.
Wasteland Active Radio - Revival tells Fallout fan fiction through an in-world radio station, with the character Crispy broadcasting from Outpost 17 in the Ash Flats. Around the station news and weather, a voiced cast plays out mercenary battles, a legal defence and a war against Macklin, whose forces aim to turn captured humans into super mutants.
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Wasteland Active Radio - Revival is fan fiction set in the Fallout universe, performed as audio drama by a credited cast of voice actors. It is built around a radio station. Crispy, the gracious host by his own description, broadcasts from Outpost 17, Station Hill, in the Ash Flats. His openings treat the wasteland like a postcard: screaming birds, horses galloping past with smoke rolling out of their mouths, a day declared gorgeous. The station has the problems of any small operation, only harsher. One broadcast begins with an apology because the antenna froze over in a blizzard and could not safely be cleared. On air, Crispy passes along news from the Dashwood top brass, updates such as Outpost 17.5 being turned into a stronghold, and interviews with guests. Bucket is one of them, brought back for the weather and pointedly unhappy about being pulled out of death to do it. Much of the comedy works through that kind of understatement. Away from the microphone, the show becomes a serialized war story. The Daring Dashwood Mercenary Company, led by General James Howard Roosevelt, is fighting Macklin, whose forces aim to turn captured humans into super mutants and who keeps a compound behind a door in the mountains. The broadcast is a weapon in that fight. One announcement about the general's arrival is a planted lie, aired in case Macklin is listening in again. Because the station feeds the plot, the radio frame carries real weight. The dramatized scenes borrow the game's texture: a fall of 413 feet, a status report on hoverjet fuel, a locked elevator with a terminal beside it. Bored guards pass a watch with a companion who only says hello, until the shout goes up: 'Behemoth!' Some material is genuinely dark. A commander recounts a nine-month campaign in Tennessee against Proud Company and calls it massacres rather than battles. The same commander describes a trial for breaking the Dashwood Code, which ended when the charges were dropped. Another scene goes through the examination of a scarred body in clinical detail, down to a steel pipe grown into its tissue. 'Episode 37: Law' changes the register again: a lawyer named Miles Page meets his clients, Crispy among them, and assumes they will plead not guilty. Recurring characters such as Atlas, Garrett and Bucket carry across episodes, several chapters start with 'Last time on' recaps, and titles mark a four-part series finale. The credits thank guest voice actors by name and note that the Fallout universe belongs to Microsoft Studios and Bethesda Softworks. In one sign-off, the makers step out of character to marvel that the show reached listeners far beyond their home state.
Made for: Suits a listener who knows the Fallout games and wants a serialized, full-cast story set in that world, one that swings between wry station patter and grim war drama and doesn't hold back on strong language or violence.
What sets it apart: The radio station drives the plot instead of just framing it. In-world broadcasts carry news, interviews and weather, and one announcement is a deliberate lie aimed at the villain in case he is listening.
Set in the universe of the "Fallout" video game series, follow the adventures of Crispy the ghoul as he attempts to set up a community in the wasteland of the Midwest "Ash Flats" using an old radio station, and picks up some "friends" along the way.
Bucket returns from death to work against his will; you may recognize the feeling.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A ramshackle station broadcast finds its emotional center in a monument report and a sincere sign-off.
Wasteland Active Radio turns a broadcast from Outpost 17 into a low-key farewell to the odd little community it has built. Crispy begins with screaming birds and smoke-breathing horses before moving through Dashwood announcements, weather, housing trouble, robot repairs, and…
A mountain compound, a 413-foot drop, and Atlas's farewell collide as Macklin's FEV plan turns explosive.
Macklin's mountain compound gives this chapter a fun mix of danger, bad directions, and deeply warped hospitality. The escape route carries the action from a bridge and throne room to that sudden 413-foot descent, with the FEV plan hanging over every turn.
A Yellowstone standoff drops into a 413-foot fall and Bucket's bleakly funny crisis.
The episode frames the Yellowstone standoff as a hard test of nerve, leverage, and battlefield math. Macklin's forces gather at the stronghold, while General James Howard Roosevelt weighs a surrender offer tied to the grim condition of FEV exposure.
A false camp announcement, a war-crimes account, and a sudden Behemoth sighting push the finale toward open danger.
A bluff about General James Roosevelt's arrival gives this finale opener its first charge. The general is already in camp, and the fake announcement is there to mislead Macklin if he has ears on them.
A frozen antenna apology slides into a corpse-room jolt in this grim, playful post-apocalyptic broadcast.
A frozen antenna apology nudges the broadcast open, then the Dashwoods move toward General Roosevelt, blocked caravan traffic, and a possible new ally against Macklin.
Dice, divine mysteries, and the trouble with good intentions.
Crispy opens from Outpost 17 in Station Hill on June 6th, 2288, and lays out a packed broadcast that includes General James Howard Roosevelt's retirement, Major Daniel Walsh taking charge, weather, local news, Tech Tips, Wasteland Health, On the Scene, and Open Table.
Wasteland Active Radio - Revival Episode 51, "Falling," centers on Macklin’s mountain stronghold, where his new FEV strain, locked doors, and fire suppression system turn the battle into a trap.
Wasteland Active Radio - Revival Episode 50 follows the Dashwoods as they move from a planned assault on Macklin’s stronghold into a multi-front battle around Yellowstone.
General James Howard Roosevelt arrives with the Dashwoods while Garrett, one of Macklin's Deadly Whispers, is captured after trying to repair a Stealth Boy unit.
Crispy opens Episode 48, “Rumbling on the Horizon,” with General James Roosevelt en route to Major Walsh’s 19th Division camp, a new alliance with the Wind River Collective, and warnings that the Black Traverse is blocking caravan traffic out east.
A blizzard buries Wyoming roads under six feet of snow, and Crispy urges listeners to stay inside while Bucket forecasts two more days of severe weather.
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Crispy's Wasteland Active Radio episode follows the Dashwoods' winter campaign against Macklin's supermutants near Wyoming.
A lawyer meets his clients in a post-apocalyptic wasteland to build a case for their trial.
In this episode, Crispy the ghoul and his friends are accused of murdering the mayor and discover a secret room with the killer's tools.
Crispy the ghoul and his allies plan to assassinate a raider leader using a robot, then rescue a prisoner from a slave camp.
Crispy the ghoul plans to rescue a kid and assassinate leaders of rival factions in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Crispy the ghoul is captured by raiders and offered a deal by the leader's daughter, who has been secretly ruling.
Crispy the ghoul and his companions scout a raider camp to steal food, while bickering over the need for silence.
A host announces a delay in the season finale of a post-apocalyptic radio drama set in the Fallout universe.
Crispy the ghoul hosts a radio show in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, covering settlement naming vote, local news, and weather.