Today in the CBO
Settlements Today
by Nat Wright-Kowalski
2 June 2296 - Egret Tours Marina
Each Tuesday for the upcoming weeks through the playoffs, we will feature one of the settlements, teams, and owners of the Commonwealth Baseball Organization. This is meant to tell you more about life in the Commonwealth, as well as give you more information about the teams and their owners.
In our eighth installment of "Settlement Today," I visited one of Nate Howard's favorite settlements, Egret Tours Marina.
According to the intranet, "Before the Great War, Egret Tours Marina was a recreational marina several miles inland along the Charles River, southwest of Boston.
"By 2287, the marina has become the home of Phyllis Daily, a hermit woman who is convinced she is a synth after accidentally killing her grandchild." (
https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Egret_Tours_Marina).
Egret Tours Marina, 2287. Today, Fallon Field at Egret Tours Marina stands just beyond those buildings in the background. WRVR's studios are north of where this picture was taken, along the river's western banks.
Today, Egret is known as the "impenetrable fortress, though the baseball stadium could be vulnerable to attacks, as well as an unlikely mirelurk infestations from the riverside.
Though there are some farmlands outside the settlement, most of the settlers stay within the city walls. Mayor Ron Staples still runs the pier-side restaurant in addition to his mayoral and baseball duties, and most of the people living at Egret Tours Marina want it to stay just the way it is.
Egret Tours Marina - 2296 - overhead shot from a vertibird. Check out this builder's, RunawayUmbrella, full settlement here - https://imgur.com/gallery/6PPzKYM#67lyOCX
Owner - Ron Staples
Ron Staples has not always been your conventional businessman, but his vision has led to opportunities. While set up at his one-man settlement near Walden Pond, Ron had dreams of being the best bartender in the Commonwealth. At first, Nate must have thought Ron was crazy, but then Nate decided he could use a good bartender at one of his favorite settlements, Egret Tours Marina.
Ron agreed and moved there, where he became best friends with Egret Tours Marina matron, Phyllis, which most of the settlers called Old Phyllis. Soon after arriving and setting up the best bar in all of the Southwest on the Egret Tours Marina pier, Ron Staples was voted mayor of Egret Tours Marina. It's not the richest settlement in the Commonwealth, but it is a well-fortified sanctuary.
All the Clothes in the Commonwealth
Fallon's is a pre-War department store franchise that generally specialized in women's fashion. Billboards and advertisements can be found throughout the Commonwealth. Fallon's Basement in Diamond City [was] the company's post-War successor, ran by one of the original owner's descendants, Becky Fallon.
Becky Fallon had legal rights to the company by pre-War standards, and since she ran the Fallon's Basement store, she had the know-how to convert the large Fallon's Department Store back to its pre-War glory.
Now, the Fallon's line is the Commonwealth's sole producer and supplier of clothes for citizens' needs. There are clothing shops supplied by Fallon's in all settlements.