


The result is the three-part story View from the Vault. Story of the Century: Piper asks the Sole Survivor to join her in her office after meeting them at the gate, as she wants to interview them for an article in Publick Occurrences.She makes up a story about the Sole Survivor being a trader in order to be let back in. Jewel of the Commonwealth: Piper is encountered stuck outside Diamond City after Danny Sullivan closed the gate by order of the mayor.Interactions with the player character Interactions overview Interactions She despises any pro-Brotherhood choices the Sole Survivor takes. She is sympathetic to the plight of synths and has an open dislike for the Brotherhood of Steel due to their self-serving nature, technology hoarding, anti-synth policies, and in her eyes, lousy fashion sense. Ironically, she generally dislikes it when the Sole Survivor lies. She is shown to not be above lying and manipulating others in order to get what she wants, such as when she tried to use the Sole Survivor to regain access to Diamond City after being banned from the town. Adding to her reckless nature, she may also be seen smoking occasionally. She tends to enjoy sarcasm.ĭespite multiple death threats and an assassination attempt, finding herself in sticky situations is a point of pride for Piper, who feels getting into trouble is just part of chasing the truth. She is highly perceptive, however, and was able to deduce the mayor was a synth. Her tendency to find the latest scoop and the truth can cause others to find her nosy and annoying, however, resulting in her having few friends. Piper has a rapport with Nick Valentine as they both are investigators. She has a strong drive to better the world and does not want to be complacent, causing her to become a writer in order to try to reduce the corruption within the town. Piper is a rather lonely woman who feels isolated in Diamond City. She was able to escape the cult before being discovered as an imposter. Piper briefly joined the Church of the Children of Atom by faking a vision of Atom as a ruse to prevent her own execution. In response, McDonough banned Piper from the city, saying the article is all lies, although Piper is determined to get back inside the city. Recently, Piper has written a controversial article containing an interview with Eustace Hawthorne called The Synthetic Truth accusing Diamond City's mayor McDonough of secretly being a synth, although she has no concrete evidence, only speculation about events such as where the mayor has eaten his noodles. She began to feel that Nat was the only one she could count on. People began to actively avoid her, treating her less like a friend and more like a nosy snoop. Her fervor for discovering the truth made her popular for a while, but eventually, public opinion turned against her because her articles were seen as being "too negative" which caused her to get into a lot of trouble. She started her newspaper out of a desperate attempt to begin improving life in the city. She quickly found out that there was a lot "wrong" about Diamond City, from crooked guards to failing infrastructure. Įventually, Piper and Nat saved enough money to relocate to Diamond City, where she began her career as an investigative journalist. When the raiders eventually showed up expecting the gate to be wide open, they instead encountered prepared defenses by alerted townsfolk and were driven away. The settlers, outraged by the story, exiled Mayburn. The conspicuously public accusation got the attention of the town's mayor, who accepted Piper's evidence. Piper then created and circulated wanted posters featuring the captain and a list of his crimes. The local authorities did not believe her claims and refused to investigate. His superior, Captain Mayburn, arranged to leave the main gate open and unguarded one night to allow raiders access in exchange for a cut of the loot and had Piper's father murdered to keep him silent. After her father was found dead under suspicious circumstances, Piper learned that he had discovered a raider plot to sack the town. Piper grew up in a small community on the outskirts of the Commonwealth with Nat and their father, a member of the local militia. 3 Interactions with the player character.
