The Dusty Signal

"Just Following Orders." A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: Memories November 7, 2287 - Log 017 Day Seventeen - Very Early Morning Nate Campbell climbed into a dead man's memories today. What he found wasn't just a monster. It was a man who loved his family. Lost them. And made a choice about what to do with that loss — and kept making it until it was the only thin...

"Radio DJs are the worst." A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: Hunting November 6, 2287 - Log 016 Day Sixteen - Afternoon Nate Campbell woke up from a dream he's not going to talk about, spent a day modifying weapons, and somehow ended up fighting through an entire skyscraper full of super mutants to rescue a man who came to teach them Shakespeare. Just another Tuesday...

"I didn't feel anything." A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: Kellogg November 5, 2287 - Log 015 Day Fourteen - Afternoon Twelve days. Everything it cost him to get to that room. And when it was finally over — nothing. Nate Campbell goes into Fort Hagan, fights through an army of synths, and finds the man who killed his wife and took his son. The reckoning he's been...

"Either somebody needed help or somebody needed stopping." A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: Hunting November 5, 2287 - Log 014 Day Fourteen - Early Morning Nate Campbell has a name. A trail. And a dog with a nose that doesn't lie. This is the episode where the hunting begins — thirty hours on the move through the Commonwealth, following Conrad Kellogg's scent fro...

"Tomorrow we go hunting. " A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: Reflection November 4, 2287 - Log 013 Day Thirteen - Early Evening The mission is clear. The trail starts at first light. But first — a road, a dog, and three and a half hours to figure out who Nate Campbell actually is. He has a name now. Conrad Kellogg. He has a plan. And somewhere between Sanctuary Hills and...

"I don't know where to start tonight." A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: Ghosts November 3, 2287 - Log 012 Day Twelve - Evening Vault 114 was supposed to be a rescue mission. Get in, find Nick Valentine, get out. Then Nate looked down. A name tag on a skeleton in a tunnel full of Triggermen changed everything. What happened next wasn't professional. Wasn't cle...

"The lights are on. Whatever it is — it's alive." A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: Civilized November 2, 2287 - Log 011 Day Eleven - Evening Ten days out of the vault and Nate Campbell walks through the gates of Diamond City for the first time. It's loud. It's cramped. It smells like two hundred years of people living too close together. And within the first hour, two brothers are...

"Slow is fast..." A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: Promises November 1, 2287 - Log 010 Day Ten - Late Evening Nate was heading to Diamond City. Then Preston Garvey stopped him at the gate. One detour. Two settlers farming irradiated soil on nothing but stubbornness and fading hope. A raider camp that never saw him coming. Rounds expended — zero. But this episode isn'...

"I'm taking you home, Nora." A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: Buried October 31th, 2287 - Log 009 Day Nine - Late Evening Five days of silence. Then this. Nate goes back to the vault one last time... for a weapon, and for something he wasn't ready to face. What he carries out changes everything. This is the episode where grief gets a place to live. Where a weddin...

"Die you mother f—" A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: Deathclaw October 25th, 2287 - October 26th, 2287 - Log 008 Day Three and Four Some tapes aren't meant to exist. This one does. What starts as an accidental recording drops you directly into the fight — no setup, no warning, just Nate Campbell, a Deathclaw, and a dog who refused to run. The second tape is quieter....

"Not my fight." A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: CHOICES October 25th, 2287 - Log 006 Day Three - Mid- Afternoon. Nate's moving toward Concord for answers — and finds a war zone instead. Five raiders. A man pinned down on a balcony. And a dog who'd already made up his mind before Nate had. This tape follows Nate through the streets and into the Museum of Freedom... where split-sec...

"The universe drops exactly what you need right in front of you — out of the dark, tail wagging, calm as you please." A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: PARTNER October 24th, 2287. - Log 005. End of Day two - Late evening. Nate Campbell moves out from Sanctuary Hills before sunrise, headed east toward Concord. The Commonwealth has lessons to teach a pre-war soldier about patience, a...

"There's no reload in life. So you just try to do better today than you did yesterday." A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: HOME October 23rd, 2287 - Log 004 End of day one - Late Evening Nate Campbell makes his way down the hill into Sanctuary Hills as the sun sets — and finds what's left of the life he had. The house is standing, barely. Shaun's crib is still there. And somewhere b...

"You and me… we grew up in it. But our boy Nate? He's seeing all of it for the very first time." A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: TOPSIDE October 23rd, 2287 - Log 003. Day one - Late Afternoon. The surface. Sanctuary Hills. Nate Campbell steps out of Vault 111 and into a world two hundred and ten years beyond everything he knew. The neighborhood is bones and rust. The government n...

"Hope... It's alll I have." A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: CONTROL EP02: Control — Vault 111 | The Dusty Signal Still inside Vault 111, October 23rd, 2287. Second entry for the day... The first was too emotional. Too raw. Something shifted between the first recording and this one. The grief is still there — it isn't going anywhere — but something else showed up alongside it. Nat...

"Hold on to… what, though?" Season one starts right here, Sugar. Our boy Nate is all warmed up and ready to find his boy and save the day! Well... maybe not so much that, probably more... fall apart. A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: THAWED October 23rd, 2287 - Log 001 Day One - Early Morning. Vault 111. A man wakes up who shouldn't be alive — and finds out everything he loved is g...

A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama Episode Name: INTRODUCTIONS Series Starts April 15th... 2026. Well, Sugar... You found it. This is my little ad, my promo for The Dusty Signal. The airwaves are now open on this show. No holotapes yet. This time, it's just little 'ole me... Blabbering on about myself, this show, and the real star, Nate Campbell. Buckle in my little devils, the ride is about to s...

A Fallout 4 Fan Fiction Audio Drama A father woke up 210 years after the bombs dropped. His wife was murdered. His son was stolen. This is his story. The Dusty Signal is a Fallout 4 fan fiction audio drama created by one person, Garrick Cline... That's me, a 54 year-old, Army veteran and a longtime Fallout fan. The Dusty Signal is built from scratch when time allows it. I'm a husband, father, gran...