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The Whale[1] is a special encounter in Fallout 2.
For those of you who ever wanted to know what a whale shouldn't look like, this is it. Apparently the normally aquatic creature was dropped from a height of around 300 miles, and came into contact with terra firma like an egg on a kitchen floor, only with more whale meat involved. Also present is a pot of daisies. Aren't they nice?
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Appearances[]
Crashed whale appears in Fallout 2.
Behind the scenes[]
This grisly tableau was taken from Douglas Adams' book The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. A pair of nuclear missiles fired at a starship in low orbit around the planet Magrathea were, through the power of the Infinite Improbability Drive, transformed into a rather surprised sperm whale and a bowl of petunias. The whale experienced a brief journey of existential discovery before rather violently encountering the ground while the petunias merely thought, "Oh no, not again."
References
- ↑ Fallout 2 Official Strategies & Secrets p.118: "The Whale
In a Fortean stretching of time and space, not to mention probability, car chunks from the rotting carcass of a large cetacean have fallen to the earth all around you. You may even find a small, fractured flower pot. No explanation could possibly make any sense of the occurrence. Believe it or not."