Forum:I keep getting zapped - with no enemies around (lightning?)

Like it sez... when I was wandering about in the sandstorm at Hidden Valley I started to get zapped from nowhere and with no enemies in sight. It sounded a bit like a plasma pistol hit but with no green flash and from 600 HP would have killed me in four or five hits.

Is this lightning from the sandstorm? Gunner Bill 15:38, November 10, 2010 (UTC)

Are you wearing power armor and punching things with the Paladin Toaster? Is the Brotherhood of Steel hostile to you? Schneidend 16:54, November 10, 2010 (UTC)

That's a negative on both :( Gunner Bill 20:34, November 10, 2010 (UTC)

Were you fighting scorpions before before entering Hidden Valley? The same thing happened to me, but I realized it was because I was poisoned from the scorpions I had fought before having entered Hidden Valley. When I saw the dust storm, I thought it had something to do with that. Shadowgate100 20:39, November 10, 2010 (UTC)

You are poisoned my friend. Use antivenom or go to the doctor. You can check this in the pip boy under STATUS. /Trivium

Yes! That's it. Thanks :)

Although I had thought I didn't get hit by those pesky Bark Scorpions.

A bit crap of Obsidian to make "poisoning" sound like getting hit by a laser... and to not flash a message up (like dehydration sickness).

Ho hum! Gunner Bill 08:53, November 11, 2010 (UTC)