The MODUS Files - A Fallout Audio Drama Podcast Series

The Ballad of Trader Red - Episode 6 "Where There's Smoke"

What happens when you mix Moonshine, Dynamite, a whole heapin’ helping of mutated bears and one pissed off Cryptid named Trader Red? Well, the Baileys are about to find out.The Dead Boone Forest is full of surprises and our intrepid travelers have only begun to scratch the surface. With a long and winding road ahead, they have no idea what dangers lie around the next bend.

The Ballad of Trader Red - "The Dead Boone Forest, Part 2"

No good deed goes unpunished. That’s what Red’s crazy Uncle Remus used to say. It’s a lesson Red never really thought about…until she was staring down the barrels of three rifles, aimed by the folks she had intended to save. Maybe it was inevitable that her extras would get exposed…that the Baileys would find out she wasn’t quite human, not anymore.Now, in the middle of the Dead Boone Forest, Red and the Baileys have a choice to make. Are they still able to trust one another or will the wasteland claim yet another set of victims?Dangers wait around every corner, choices have consequences…and the Ballad of Trader Red continues.

The Ballad of Trader Red - Episode 4 "The Dead Boone Forest, Part 1"

The Great War changed the landscape of America in ways the survivors could barely comprehend. Once bountiful fields were now nothing but barren deserts, while the towering forests - at least those not clear-cut to provide resources for the war effort - were either blasted expanses of burnt matchstick trunks, or in some cases, something far, far worse.The long winding road leads Red and the Baileys towards Tennessee, but the path will prove to be a treacherous one, as both human and beast stand in the way of their destination. And as the old maps used to say, when one steps into the unknown…”Here Be Monsters.”

The Ballad of Trader Red - Episode 3 "The Warm Up"

The Golden Rule of the Wasteland - “Thou shalt get sidetracked by bullshit every goddamn time.” Red finds herself burdened with responsibilities she neither wanted nor needed, but a job is a job…just like her Pa used to say.The Baileys are still coming to terms with their mysterious benefactor, hoping that she’ll be enough to get them to points south and the beginnings of a new life. Tensions remain, however, and trust comes hard on those lonely Kentucky roads.And Red’s past may soon come to haunt them all, because the Reavers don’t forget and they don’t forgive…and an act of mercy might prove to be Red’s worst mistake of them all.

The Ballad of Trader Red - Episode 2 "The Company of Strangers"

Kentucky…once part of the East Central Commonwealth before the Great War, had been a place of Whiskey and Thoroughbreds, where the elite came to witness the Great Kentucky Derby while the factories of Louisville and Lexington turned out armaments for the conflict with China.The horses are long gone, as are the elites and their factories, leaving a broken and blighted landscape behind for the survivors. Now known more as a place you pass through - casting glances at the remains of the old world on your way to somewhere else - old Kentucky ain’t what it used to be.Trader Red hadn’t meant to get herself caught in the middle of yet another mess…but here she was, watching over a bunch of folks she neither knew nor really cared to, as her eyes were still cast to those hills far to the south in Tennessee.But the Wasteland has a habit of turning any straight line into one damn twisted pretzel…and choices, good or bad, have consequences long down the line.