Channel 2077

BY PLAYER GEORGES

Channel 2077

GAME: FALLOUT 76

LOCATION: BURNING SPRINGS

Channel 2077

Before the war, a row of mint Radiation King television sets in a shop window could stop a fellow on his way to work. Georges has brought a little of that feeling back. Behind this brick storefront are old screens, radios, tabletop fans, and enough household odds and ends to furnish a modest start. The checkerboard floor and wooden counter look familiar to me, even if the road outside has forgotten what a smooth surface feels like.

I picture him finding the shop with its stock scattered and its future written off, then setting about putting things where a customer could find them again. Georges does not volunteer much about where he learned his ways, but he knows the value of a second chance. Channel 2077 seems a fitting name for a place holding on to the useful parts of yesterday while the rest of us work out tomorrow.

PLAYER GEORGES

Player Georges is one of those travelers whose kindness gets there before his history does. Folks know him for lending supplies and putting up camps in places that make a working man stop and study the supports. I have heard talk of him coming from far north, but his origin remains a mystery.

What matters to me is what a fellow does with the tools and time he has been given. Georges brings imagination to his building and a helping hand to the people he meets. Whatever road brought him here, Appalachia is better for the good he leaves along it.