She left a holotape with her friend Marcie and tried to sneak out to get home, but did not make it through the fighting in the city. Unbeknownst to him, the radio message partially made it through, although another nurse heard the message. Sometime between October 26 and November 9, Wayne tried to contact his wife Bonnie at the Mass Bay Medical Center. All the Tournquists could do was listen to the radio and gunfire, which was outside their shelter for three days straight.
Life in the shelter was a combination of fear and sorrow. The Tournquists prepared extensively, managed to get advance warning, and retreated back home to their hidden shelter, while the Ames family was away at the time, returning from a family vacation in New York. While the other workers died, he mutated, becoming a ghoul. This included Ron Cobb, the Ames family ( Leon, Lance, Janet and their children) and the Tournquist family, Wayne, Michael and David.Ĭobb was a member of the construction crew when the radiation blanketed the vicinity. The Great War was not the end for its occupants, as some of the original residents survived into the next year. Skeletons can be found throughout the area.
Already partially completed, the development was occupied for at least a year. This suburb of Malden was under construction when the bombs fell, built to be a picturesque suburban community similar to Sanctuary Hills in its construction with homes of tomorrow.