

We played hide-and-seek and rode our ponies and our bicycles around the 3,000 acres of grounds within the walls of the park. When I look back on my childhood at Holkham - a colossal Palladian mansion on the north Norfolk coast with a huge, imposing Marble Hall at its centre, ornate state rooms and four enormous wings - I have many fond memories. Here, on the eve of Halloween, in a spine-tingling account, she explains how the spectral intruder became the star of her latest murder-mystery.


However, the message never came, and as supplies ran low, the security team mutinied, and attempted to escape, killing the Overseer in the process. Dwellers were placed in what they thought were sterilizing pods to prepare them to move further into the Vault, but were instead frozen in cryogenic stasis, as Vault-Tec wished to study the effects of cryogenic hibernation on unsuspecting participants.Īs notes found on Vault 111’s terminal reveal, the experiment, head by the research team and enforced by the Security team, was planned to continue for a moderate amount of time, until an all-clear signal was given by Vault-Tec HQ, at which point the scientists and security would leave the Vault behind, letting Vault-Tec continue the research remotely.

Like most Vaults, Vault 111 had a secret experiment unknown to the inhabitants who sought refuge the day the bombs fell. After the events of the Great War, it is one of the few locations to remain relatively untouched by both nuclear fallout and the surviving populace above. Vault 111 is one of the first areas that you will explore in the game, both in pre-war and post-war.
