McClellan Family Townhome

The McClellan family townhome (called Townhome ingame) is a house located on 2026 Bradley Place in Georgetown North in Washington D.C., now inhabited only by a dormant Mr. Handy.

Background
The townhouse was previously home to the McCellan family, made up from the parents, a baby, a boy, the dog Muffy, and the family's Mr Handy. Only the fates of the last three are known: the boy died in bed, the dog died in the backyard, and the robot lies dormant but still fully functional at its station.

Exterior
The home is located in the first floor of a three-storey brick building. By the small backyard is a centaur and a leveled super mutant yielding a melee weapon. There is also where the family's dog, Muffy, can be found dead beside a full bottle of whiskey.

Interior
The home is remarkably small, consisting in the main living room (in which a derelict baby carriage can be found, the kitchen, the children's bedroom, the room with the dormant Mr. Handy, and the master bedroom upstairs. Inside the children's room is the remains of the family's oldest son, lying in bed still holding his teddy bear, along with an assortment of toys. In the adjacent room is the dormant (but still working) Mr. Handy, besides which is the unprotected terminal that can be used to control it. Lastly, the master bedroom upstairs consists only of a couple-sized bed, a chair, and a ceiling light.

Notable loot

 * Lying, Congressional Style can be found on a table in the first room.

Appearances
McClellan family townhome appears only in Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes

 * The name of the family that used to live here is a reference to Ray Bradbury's short story "There Will Come Soft Rains", about a robotic house in Allendale, California that still works after a nuclear war, not knowing that its owners have perished in the atomic blast. The address is a reference to the story, which is set in August, 2026. Also worth noting is that the McClellan last name was used in Ray Bradbury's book "Fahrenheit 451", and the address "Bradley Place" seems to be a play on words for Ray Bradbury's last name.
 * The poem that the Mister Handy recites is There Will Come Soft Rains by Sara Teasdale, a post-apocalyptic poem from 1920, which also inspired Bradbury's story of the same name. In Bradbury's short story, the main computer of a robotic house reads the same poem, not knowing that the person who's supposed to be listening is long gone.
 * (From Wikipedia) "Only one living thing makes an appearance in the [Bradbury] story: a wild dog (though a family dog in later versions), which had been slowly dying from radiation poisoning. It makes its way back to the house only to die; its corpse is then swiftly removed by the house's automated cleaning robots." The dead body of the McClellans' dog Muffy can be found in the vicinity of the house exterior.

Sara Teasdale - There Will Come Soft Rains

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McClellan Family Townhome