Riverside cottage

The riverside cottage^{[Non-game 1]} is an unmarked location in Appalachia in Fallout 76. It is west of the fast travel point to the Kanawha Nuka-Cola plant, and south of the plant itself.

Layout[]

A destroyed, lime green car sits before the patio. After walking up the patio and into the building, the doorway leads into the main room. A Mister Handy lies destroyed on the kitchen floor, in front of the oven. The refrigerator has had its door removed. Turning right from the front door leads into the bedroom.

A single, sheet-less bed lies in the middle of the room, and a baby crib is next to the window. The northern bedroom wall has collapsed and exposes the bathroom. A dead radroach holding a walking cane and wearing a bowler hat sits on the toilet.

Notable loot[]

• Wedding ring - In the dead radroach's inventory.

Appearances[]

The riverside cottage appears only in Fallout 76.

Behind the scenes[]

• The location contains several references to the Final Pam, a character from the Fallout 4 episodes of the webseries Monster Factory by Justin and Griffin McElroy.
  • The house is similar in layout to the player character's pre-War home in Fallout 4.
  • The name "PAM" is spelled out in wooden blocks on top of the TV.
  • There is a dapper, wedding-ready radroach in the bathroom, a reference to the character Roachie.
  • Pam claims that her real son is a coffee tin. The same item can be found in a crib, along with a box of Abraxo cleaner, which Pam suggested feeding to baby Shaun as a snack.
  • There is also a hammer on the nightstand between the crib and the larger bed, alluding to Pam's idea to "take a hammer and fix the baby" because she thought Shaun was too small. The nightstand on the opposite side has Pam's original shirt and fashionable glasses sitting on top.
  • The destroyed Mister Handy is a reference to Codsworth, whom Pam calls her "three-eyed metal husband."^{[Non-game 2]}
  • The baby bottle in the fridge alludes to the existence of Trash Hulk, Pam's organic husband, as Pam suggested feeding him with a bottle before shrinking him to roughly the size of a baby.
• A few details added to the game in later updates read as alluding to or inspired by the works of the McElroy Brothers, podcast comedians and prominent West Virginians. The trio were honorarily considered mayors of Huntington for one day in 2017, when they held a parade to improve public perception of tarantulas. They are joined in some projects by their father Clint McElroy, a successful radio host active in the area since the 1970s.
  • Davenport appears to be named for Davenport the navigator from The Adventure Zone.
  • Season 2 of The Adventure Zone takes place in West Virginia, and Indrid Cold was a central character, per the mythical figure's brief Wikipedia page. Later, the Smiling Man was added to Fallout 76 in the Mutation Invasion update, in a comparable depiction.
  • The same update added Steven Scarberry. One of his lines trails off with a thoughtful standalone "Unless..."^[1] This a famous catchphrase of the McElroys, as part of a joke format.
    • His script notes instruct the actor to speak dejectedly, then grow confident at the end of the line,^[1] which is the format of the joke.
    • As literary precedent, a line structured the same way in a musical called Hamilton was confessed by the playwright to be an allusion to their podcast.^{[Non-game 3]}

Gallery[]

The main room

The bathroom

References[]

Non-game