Joyce Easton

Joyce Easton was an employee of the Whitespring Resort before the Great War.

Background
Joyce Easton worked as a clerk at the Whitespring Resort's Candy Shoppe when the resort announced its Ironclad Service upgrade. The upgrade planned to replace all the employees with robots, following the trend of large Appalachian corporations automating their workforce. Joyce was already familiar with this trend as her husband, Dave, had already lost his job in the mines to automation. Like many of her colleagues, Joyce scrambled to find other employment but despite a three month job search, failed to secure even an interview. With both her and her husband out of work, they planned to take out another mortgage on their house, if only to keep their family going until Christmas. Fortunately for Joyce, her replacement robot had a malfunction and her employment was extended for two weeks while the bot was being serviced. The two-week extension meant that Joyce was one of the few human employees still at the resort when the bombs fell. Most people ran but Joyce remained at the resort as the rest of her family were out-of-town and she had no one to go home to.

With no management left behind and being the most senior employee left on the payroll, Joyce was chosen as leader by the four staff, 92 guests and 500 robots who were left at the resort. She took her responsibilities seriously, organizing the remaining employees and guests to take inventory of their supplies, secure the grounds, reprogram the robots and, above all, maintain the standards which the Whitespring was known for. Everything went well for about a year until the survivors at the resort discovered that the planned Modern Heritage remodel of the resort would still go ahead on January 1, 2079. The Modern Heritage initiative would lock the survivors out of their rooms and reprogram the robots to escort any 'vagrants' off the premises while the remodel took place.

Joyce, along with the rest of the survivors, prepared for the eventuality of leaving the resort as best she could, including taking wilderness survival classes from the Artisan's Corner bots. Although Joyce believed that the group should stick together, there was no consensus as to what the plan should be after New Year's Day. Joyce would set out for Charleston with Paula Hamilton and a caravan of other survivors, but not before leaving a holotape for her husband to find, should he ever come looking for her. Her final fate is unknown.

Related holotapes

 * One last toast
 * Joyce's message
 * The Whitespring staff meeting, 12.27.79

Appearances
Joyce Easton is mentioned only in Fallout 76.