Astoundingly Awesome Tales (Fallout 76)

Astoundingly Awesome Tales is a perk magazine in Fallout 76.

Background
Astoundingly Awesome Tales is a pulp magazine series featuring science fiction stories, covering topics such as mutants, monsters, and Zetans. The cover art for the magazine depicts imagery from each issue, highlighting the "astounding" tale. Issues of Astoundingly Awesome Tales cost $29 per copy.

Characteristics
Reading an issue of Astoundingly Awesome Tales will temporarily give the player character a unique bonus, such as increased swim speed or increased damage against specific targets. All bonuses expire after 30 minutes (60 minutes with Curator), and the magazine is consumed once read.

Issues of Astoundingly Awesome Tales are affected by Pannapictagraphist and will emit directional audio when the player character is in range.

Locations

 * The magazines are randomly found throughout Appalachia, including a selection of potential spawn points.

Behind the scenes

 * The name of the magazine is a take on pulp science-fiction/fantasy/adventure magazines such as Amazing Stories and Weird Tales.
 * On the cover of "Rise of the Mutants!" the license plate reads "4LL-0WT-4" and "Bethesda MD," referencing the name Fallout 4 and Bethesda, Maryland, the original home of Bethesda Game Studios.
 * "The Man Who Could Stop Time" is also a play on the fact that the player character can effectively stop time when using V.A.T.S., hence the additional action points.
 * The title "Have Dog, Will Travel!" is modeled after a phrase made popular by Have Gun – Will Travel, an American TV and radio western that ran from 1957-1963 (1958-1960 for radio), featuring a protagonist named Paladin.
 * The issue "Invasion of the Zetans" refers to the aliens that the Lone Wanderer faces in the Fallout 3 add-on Mothership Zeta. An alien also appears at the UFO crash site in Fallout 4, and animatronic aliens show up as the invaders in the Nuka-Galaxy ride within the Galactic Zone section of Nuka-World.
 * "The Man Who Could Stop Time" may be in reference to an episode of The Twilight Zone (1959-1964), where a man is given a stopwatch which stops time. He then uses it for cheap party tricks, then escalates to robbing a bank where he breaks it, and time is now permanently stopped.
 * The magazine named "Attack of the Fishman" could be a reference to 1954 movie Creature from the Black Lagoon. The cover of the magazine resembles the film's poster.