What's the coolest random encounter you've had?

[Toxicwire†]

I was scouting an abandoned rural town, crouched in the bushes as I saw a team of super mutants run into a patrol of BoS paladins, they fought and both sides had equal losses and then off in the distance I heard a vertibird, it was coming in to support the BoS paladins; the vertibird got shot down, the mutant that shot it down immediately got killed after shooting the vertibird. As soon as the vertibird crashed and exploded a lot of cars with it, the BoS paladin shouted "Ad Victoriam!" Lol.

[The Angriest Mongoose]

A battle between Finch Farm, the Minute Men, and the Brotherhood vs the Raiders at the Ironworks, the Gunners, and the Super Mutants of that satellite place. That was an awesome battle.

Watching a farmer being attacked by dogs only for him to step on a landmine and blowing him and the dogs sky high.

[Dakuwan]

Had battle like that. Raiders, mutants, brotherhood and deathclaw. Down south in some abandoned town repurposed for raiders.

It was madness, and my most memorable random encounter.

[Big Boinka]

Spoiler Warning:

Within my first week of playing my initial ecounter with Abernathy Farm went as follows: Blake told me his wife had been kidnapped by raiders. I was given a quest to go get her. I ignored the quest and went about my business. A few in game weeks later I went back to have Blake tell me I failed. The raiders apparently killed her and dumped her body back on the property by the doorway. Didn't see this event again until at least a year later.

[Ez Duzit]

There's been some pretty good random encounters but the funniest one has to be running into a guy claiming to be Preston Garvey, even dressed like Preston. Conversation went something like this:

[Fake Preston]- Hi, I don't think we've met. I'm Preston Garvey with the Commonwealth Minutemen.

[Sole Survivor]- And I'm the General....

[Fake Preston]- Haha that's a good one. Well, I see you already know about us so you know we're making a comeback. The General sent me out to collect donations from the citizens to help support our cause. So can I put you down for, say, 100 caps?

[Sole Survivor]- No really, I am the General !!!

[Fake Preston] Oh Sh_t

(Those were fake Prestons last words before being sent to the great commonwealth in the sky)

[Borrolan]

Not sure if this qualifies as "cool" Weird maybe. Only experienced this once in well over 1k hours of play.

There is an unmanned trader stand in the middle of nowhere. Literally nowhere, not even on a road or a path.

One time I approached the stand and the trader was there selling stuff. I bought and sold, then went on my way. Bizarre but quite amusing.

[McKnuckles]

Wouldn't say coolest, but the weirdest would be out in the wasteland and randomly seeing Carla's pack brahmin just randomly run by from some direction without carla in sight.

[ZaggRukk]

I don't know what it's called, but you can find a guy, talking to his daughter about life stuff. It's shout out to "The Road" book/movie. Kinda sad conversation tbh.

A guy sitting next to a camp fire, warning you not to get too close, because all he's eaten for days has been beans!

I haven't run into this one yet, but the video was pretty cool: An Alpha Deathclaw fighting a Albino Deathclaw.

And the Mr. Gusty that is enforcing curfew. Ge blows up due to a malfunction if you confuse him!

[Pizza Basil]

Was walking around and saw a pile of burning tires.

[Futa Fanatic]

being nuked by raiders i didnt even see or hear, instant ko... but at least i got the achievement lol

[bigdale]

I was strafed by a group of gunners in a vertibird. I was able to find the dead Brotherhood they jacked it from at one of the nearby static encounter locations.

[Kasane Randell MFer]

It always involves deathclaws Fighting each other.

[raubrey]

The Art I didn't kill kept showing up.

[Toxicwire†]

Originally posted by Kerillian:

It always involves deathclaws Fighting each other.

Speaking of deathclaws, in Fallout New Vegas I got trapped under a porch where all the deathclaws spawn between New Vegas and the player spawn. Took me an hour to kill those 3 deathclaws that trapped me by stabbing at their ankles xD

[Out Of Bubblegum]

The reference to Bioshock. One of the many random encounters like the ones mentioned above. A little girl trader and her robot protector at a random location. But I did not grock the Bioshock reference when i saw them. I had to read it somewhere.

[bigdale]

Originally posted by Toxicwire:

Originally posted by Kerillian:

It always involves deathclaws Fighting each other.

Speaking of deathclaws, in Fallout New Vegas I got trapped under a porch where all the deathclaws spawn between New Vegas and the player spawn. Took me an hour to kill those 3 deathclaws that trapped me by stabbing at their ankles xD

I remember well trying to sneak for as long as possible and then running screaming in order to get to The Strip at a low level.