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The answer to all your problems

Ask Marcus— Answer to all your problems

Ask Marcus constitutes a philosophical answer concerning all of life's unanswerable questions. Questions such as where do we come from? What are we? And where are we going? Questions without a proper answer can all be replied with two simple words - Ask Marcus.

Background

Marcus is the wise super mutant caretaker of a community known as Broken Hills. Although he was once an angry soul, his anger soon subsided to a mellow understanding of all things big and small. Whenever a super mutant needed a question to be answered, they would be met with the reply: Ask Marcus. The phrase soon became known throughout the wastes as something that could answer any question, no matter what the nature of it was. Who started the Great War? Ask Marcus. Is there civilisation outside the Wasteland? Ask Marcus. Why is that Courier hoarding coffee mugs? Ask Marcus. Soon, all would flock from as far as the DC Wasteland to see the great Marcus. Ghouls, humans and mutants all went to share in the glorious knowledge of Marcus.

But after a while, Marcus was sad to see how they fought over their questions and the true nature of Marcus' existentialism and philosophy. He headed off to Jacobstown in the Mojave Wasteland, never to be heard of again. Legends of Marcus still exist, but the answer still remains. Ask Marcus.

Philosophy

MarcusTheMutant

The father of Wasteland philosophy

The philosophy itself can be described as a way of answering a question which has no definite answer. Ask a question and you're sure to get an answer, no matter what the nature of it is. Although Ask Marcus may be cryptic and complex to some, it is a very simple philosophy which can be applied to any everyday situation. Examples for this are 'Will the Courier appear in another Fallout title?', which can be answered simply with those two magic words.

Do not hesitate to Ask Marcus anything. Feel free to leave a question below and he may get back to you.

Ask Marcus

Feel free to leave a question for Marcus, and he will try to get back to you.

  • Q: What should the first question of your new Ask Marcus page be?
A: Something worth answering.
  • Q: Does patrolling the Mojave really make you wish for a nuclear winter?
A: Yes. Yes it does.
  • Q: There's a giant yao guai on my chicken soup... I haven't left this desk just to keep it pre-occupied. What should I do!?
A: Ask the waiter for another bowl.
  • Q: Who is best pony?
A: Applejack, obviously.
  • Q: What is the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow?
A: African or European?
  • Q: Have you met Littlepip yet?
A: Not yet.
  • Q: Have you ever taken an arrow to the knee?
A: Yes, back when I was an adventurer like you.
  • Q: The velociraptor spots you 40 meters away and attacks, accelerating at 4 m/s/s^2 up to its top speed of 25 m/s. When it spots you, you begin to flee, quickly reaching your top speed of 6 m/s. How far can you get before you're caught and devoured?
A: Not far enough.
  • Q: You are at the center of a 20m equilateral triangle with a raptor at each corner. The top raptor has a wounded leg and is limited to a top speed of 10 m/s. The raptors will run toward you. At what angle should you run to maximize the time you stay alive?
A: Backwards.
  • Q: Back when you did take that arrow to the knee, you said you were an adventure at the time, was this when you helped the chosen one and who was it that shot the arrow into your knee?.
A: Back when I travelled with the Chosen One I was shot in the knee by a Tribal named Sulik after making an off-colour comment about the bone through his nose. Those Tribals don't like settling things with words.
  • Q: Did Chef ever get to make sweet love down by the fire?
A: Yes, he laid her down by the fire.
  • Q: Who is The Tailor?
A: He's the master at making lingerie.
  • Q: Are you homosexual, and do you have a super-mutant lover?
A: Why, are you interested?
  • Q: I can't decide what I want for breakfast. Should I have the Honey Bunches O' Goat, Frosted BaconFlakes, or the Mice Krispies?
A: Frosted BaconFlakes, obviously.
  • Q: How should we go about answering YOUR questions that you use as an answer?
A: Ask Marcus.
  • Q: My screen is shaking when and only when I'm editing, it only did this once before temporary and it's come back. What's going on and how can I fix it?
A: Get a new screen.
  • Q: You used to be a courier? If so, but then what happened?
A: Being a Courier is dangerous. Believe me, I met one once.
  • Q: Is Tezzla Cannon an IRL version of Yes Man?
A: No, he's the IRL version of Grim Reaper.
  • Q: If a man asks anything about the wasteland, and a woman will answer: Ask Marcus, then why ask the woman first?
A: It's a lot easier to ask an average Wastelander a question than to seek me out.
  • Q: Hey! It's the wastelander who had the yao guai problem for earlier. Your solution worked! The waiter took the bowl away, making him the yao guai dinner. But now there's a new problem: I ordered an omelet for my main course, and after I ate it, I just found out that it was made from a deathclaw egg. When I exited the restaurant, I was nearly attacked by two deathclaws. Luckily, some weird dude who called himself the "super-awesome mega-sexy all-knowning one-and-only" Courier killed them for me. Now that you mention it, he was a she... but I'm not even sure anymore. I think I'm public deathclaw enemy number 1. What should I do!?
A: Stop eating at Wasteland restaurants. It seems to end badly for you.
  • Q: Believe me, I decided on that when I got attacked by two more deathclaws. Luckily one of them's a munchkin.... but the other, it was humongous. It seems to have stabbed me through my stomach a few times, slashed me deeply twice in the back, broke my arm in two places, blinded my right eye, and made me bleed for two hours. I'm surviving on a super stimpak, some jet, whiskey, and a fission battery. I estimate that in about two days, I'm going to die. Luckily, I made it to my gran-gran (whose location I've risked for the deathclaws, unless I die) just in time. Me and my grandma have no idea what to do with my body once I die. What's your suggestion?
A: Feed it to the Deathclaws. It will give your grandmother some time to run before they finish eating you and start looking for her.
  • Q: Why have you not read Fallout Equestria?
OLD QUESTIONS

Notes

  • Marcus has the right to refuse an answer to anybody.
  • Marcus would like to thank Grif and Atheon for their hilarious argument which led to the creation of his wondrous philosophy.


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