Marty (Van Buren)

Marty is an unimpressive, skinny, and mellow ghoul who works as a lab tech in the chemical lab on Reservation Sub-Level 2. During the day, he is usually putting together stimpaks and Rad-X kits for trade on the surface. During late hours of the night, he sneaks into the chem. lab and concocts a soothing, mellowing drug he calls “smooch.�? This drug has the same effect on ghouls as it does on humans – it mellows the individual to the point beyond apathy and couples that with feelings of ecstasy. In order to take smooch, the individual wraps the greasy looking green goo in a thin paper and smokes it. Another way, though not as quick an effect, is to bake smooch into a bread source. One could eat smooch directly, but the taste is so vile that most would puke it back up, even a ghoul.

Marty has only been at the Reservation for about ten years. He stumbled upon the facility when he was searching the wasteland for ingredients to make a new mind altering drug. When the ghouls of the Reservation told him of the “communal�? lifestyle of the Reservation, he thought it was groovy and wanted to stay. When he got the job to work at the chem. lab, it was like a gift from heaven, and the original lab techs were very impressed with Marty’s skills.

Aside from an interesting drug source the player can capitalize on and distribute to outside sources, Marty is also not so keen on Willem Clark’s plans. Perhaps a byproduct of smoking too much smooch, Marty would like to have more interaction with friendly humans, and he is convinced if he had the opportunity to spread smooch around to the human settlements, the humans would become more accepting of the ghouls. It’s all about the love, baby, yeaaaahh…!

Appearances in games
did not appear nor was mentioned in any of the published games, but was to appear in the cancelled Fallout 3 project by Black Isle codenamed Van Buren. It is not certain if he will appear in any future Fallout game.