Vault 77

Vault 77 is one of the Vault series of fallout shelters developed by Vault-Tec. It was featured in a promotional, crossover comic strip entitled One Man, and a Crate of Puppets, released to promote Fallout 3. For a summary of the comic's characters and storyline, see the above article.

Description
Since very little is known about Vault 77 itself, it is uncertain whether the events that transpired therein was a planned Vault-Tec experiment or completely incidental.

On October 23, 2077, Vault 77 was sealed with only one person inside. This person, later known as "Puppet Man", initially believed that this was a mistake and pleaded for the "other fucking people" to be let in. Without success, the months of solitude that followed hit him hard.

On February 4, 2079, Puppet Man found a crate of puppets and immediately began playing with them. He quickly lost himself in his puppet games, and by March 30 he developed schizophrenia and started to believe that the Vault Boy puppet was talking to him. That night, he tore apart the king puppet and then accused the Vault Boy puppet of the murder. The Vault Boy puppet responds that it was actually Puppet Man himself who "murdered" the king puppet, prompting the two to escape in fear for what the dog puppet might do. Puppet Man left Vault 77 soon thereafter, leaving the vault empty.

Appearances
Vault 77 appears only in the official Fallout webcomic One Man, and a Crate of Puppets. Vault 77 is mentioned in Fallout 3, in which a Vault 77 jumpsuit can be found alongside a holotape in Paradise Falls. The holotape contains an audio recording of an obviously worried slaver, saying how it scares the others and it should be burnt, and that "he" may be back for it. The slavers obviously fear "him", hinting that it may belong to the Vault dweller who killed the slavers who captured him. The jumpsuit appropriately boosts one's melee and unarmed skills (given that these were the Puppet Man's ways of murdering).