The beginning.
"My name is Logan. I had the unfortunate occurrence of being shot in the head."
— Logan's Day, first season intro.
Logan's Tale
is an ongoing YouTube roleplay series by RyconRoleplays based on Fallout 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.
The story follows Logan Carter, AKA the Lone Wanderer, AKA the Courier, and currently consists of two parts. Logan's Day begins in the Mojave Wasteland, with Logan struggling with amnesia after being shot in the head by Benny, and follows his recovery and quest for revenge, while Logan's Dawn flashes back to the character's origins in the Capital Wasteland, and his life before losing his memory. The series is planned to eventually return to the Mojave in Logan's Dusk, and much further down the line will conclude with Logan's Night.
The creator has also done similar roleplay series for many other games, including ones for Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.
Tropes present in the series:
- Action Girl: Christine and Veronica are both capable wasteland survivors in their own rights, and part of Logan's character arc is realising that they can take care of themselves and that he doesn't have to worry about them all the time.
- Amnesiac Hero: Logan throughout Logan's Day has only vague, muddled memories, has lost a lot of his skills and knowledge from his past, and only even knows his name because it was written on a piece of paper he was carrying. He's effectively a whole different person from his Logan's Dawn self.
- Anachronic Order: The intended watch order is to start with Logan's Day and then to go back to Logan's Dawn to learn the character's origins afterwards. Though watching in chronological order is also an option.
- Arc Villain: Benny for season one of Day, Elijah for season two, and the Think Tank for season three.
- Asshole Victim: Vulpes Inculta and Benny both deserve everything they get.
- Logan also executes Dean Domino on the spot after he confesses what he did to Christine.
- Bond One-Liner: This final line to Benny:"Dig yourself out of this grave!"
- Cannibal Larder: Andale.
- Cliffhanger: Quite frequent in the series.
- Episode 11 of Day ends on Logan about to shoot a stranger in the back without knowing if they're innocent or not.
- Episode 36 ends on Logan collapsing from radiation poisoning in the bunker.
- Season 2 ends just as he reaches the elevator to escape the Sierra Madre vault.
- Season 3 ends on him about to undergo an operation to potentially restore his memories.
- Composite Character: Similar to the Tale of Two Wastelands mod, Logan is a composite of both the Lone Wanderer and the Courier, who were otherwise separate characters in canon.
- Darker and Edgier: Dawn is this to Fallout 3 in some ways. While the game presents certain characters and factions as unambiguously heroic, Logan doesn't always view them so charitably, and as both major incarnations of the character progress, they both get graudally more cynical and ruthless.
- Déjà Vu: Logan finds the harmonica familiar, and believes that he might've played it before.
- Duel to the Death: How Logan chooses to settle things with Benny.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: Logan early on in Day has dreams remembering his father (who is notably not James) being killed by the Legion, which becomes strange in the light of his backstory in Dawn. Later seasons would explain this as Fake Memories due to his brain being scrambled by the bullets.
- The earliest seasons had a lot more raw gameplay footage, like clearly visible HUD elements, loading screens, and Logan eating through the Pip-Boy interface. Later seasons were better edited and generally more cinematic in presentation.
- Logan frequently stops to eat and drink at inopportune times in Day, making him come off as a Big Eater, as the way hardcore mode in balanced in Vegas means the character gets hungrier and thirstier at a much quicker rate than is strictly realistic for the timescale. This issue was ironed out in later seasons, and completely absent by Dawn.
- Heroic Sacrifice: Logan attempts one at the Purifier, even though Fawkes is present, though of course he ends up surviving anyway.
- Years later in Day, he unintentionally echoes this moment in the irradiated bunker of Fortification Hill.
- I'm a Humanitarian: The cannibals of Andale.
- Impairment Shot: Logan spends a significant time suffering randomly blurring vision, ringing in his ears, and headaches following a head injury in Nipton.
- Killed Off for Real: Boone.
- Knight in Sour Armour: Logan is this by the later seasons of Dawn. He's extremely cynical, bitter, and has few qualms about using violence, but he still wishes for a better world.
- Laser-Guided Karma: Vulpes Inculta and the rest of the Legion in Nipton aren't just allowed to walk away after what they did.
- Lost Common Knowledge: At one point after leaving the vault, Logan comes across a children's playground, and has no idea what he's looking at.
- Oh, Crap!: Logan's reaction to reading the Platinum Chip delivery order, particularly the clause about mercenary reclaimation teams.
- Past Experience Nightmare: Logan experiences jumbled memories of his father's death and a previous encounter with the Legion while he sleeps, though they're not quite accurate.
- Post-Victory Collapse: Logan collapses from radiation poisoning in the Fortification Hill bunker after activating the systems for Mr. House. Veronica saves his life by carrying him out and giving him Rad-X.
- Powered Armor: The Brotherhood, of course.
- Logan wears a suit of his own in the later seasons of Dawn.
- Pyrrhic Victory: Logan defeats the Think Tank and rescues Veronica, but Boone dies pointlessly, robbed of even the chance to go down in a blaze of glory like he wanted.
- Sawed-Off Shotgun: One of Logan's favourite weapons in Dawn.
- Red Eyes, Take Warning: Raiders in the Capital Wasteland often have red eyes. Logan speculates that it's an effect of the chems they take.
- Took a Level in Badass: Logan in the beginning of Dawn is a Technical Pacifist who is intimidated by the outside world and runs away scared several times, but that quickly changes out of necessity.
- Tranquil Fury: Logan's reaction to finding out what Dean Domino did to Christine.
- True Companions: Boone and Veronica are this to Logan, saving his life on a few occasions, and he in turn goes far out of his way to rescue them from the Think Tank.
- Walk and Talk: Companion conversations are sometimes edited to omit the dialogue tree and take place over the course of a journey instead, most especially Veronica's.
- Wistful Amnesia: Logan is very aware that he lost almost his entire identity thanks to Benny, and is frequently bothered by it.
- Wham Line:Boone: I can't feel my legs.
