If you've played any of the Fallout games, here's a game for you!

Here's what I'm thinking.

Look at your post number. That's your Vault number.
Now, Think of a social experiment for your happy little Vault X-ians.

Example:

Vault 481: Used to test the reactions of people when all of their food and drinks are laced with gradually increasing amounts of cyanide

Vault 1208: Used to test the long term effects of annoying music on people. As soon as the vault closed the song Dancing Queen by Abba began playing full volume on an infinite loop.

Vault 35: The gravity inside the vault has been altered to be twice the normal gravity on earth. As soon as the vault opens all people inside feel light as a feather and have over-evolved muscles in Arms and legs.

Vault 4190: Just me. Yeap... lonely. That and Prince on loop. What sort of sick fuck did this too me?!

Vault 2821
Designed as a testing facility for a new form of iPod with a stronger cord, but all that they could get off of iTunes was "Crank that Soulja Boi"

Vault 1042

This massive vault was intended to hold all of the world's criminals during the nuclar fallout, so they could finish their time afterwards, most of them were quite surprised when the gas was vented in.

Vault 17 - I'd try to recreate how Equilibrium was... Implement a drug that removes all feelings like love, hate, guilt and sorrow etc. If not then i would definitely increase the gravity... Suckers.

Vault 77: Two people locked up tight, plenty of pure water, no food. Each are given a revolver with one bullet inside. See who dies first.

Vault 517:

A mini putt course designed to only release it's captives when they get a perfect and legal hole in one on every tee in the 72 hole course.

Vault 2, which features a rather large yellow slide with three outlets into three clear, perspex tanks; one filled with salt and vinegar chips, one filled with marshmellows, one filled with skittles.

Each night a camouflaged proximity mine is dropped into one of the tanks...

I cannot confirm or deny the rumor this was once a dream I had.

Vault 4231: A normal hospitable room for one man and one woman, unbeknownst to either of them is an infinitesimally slowly increasing dosage of ionizing radiation starting from standard background radiation levels of 2.4 millisievert to 1 centisievert by the next generation, and easing it's way from there. Theoretically we'll have humans immune to 20Rö by the 6th generation.

Vault 2654: Vault dwellers vault is gradually flooded, they are pressed with the decision to escape and survive the wasteland or try to stop/contain the precious drinking water.

Vault 210: A facility experimenting on something called Project Morpheus: Cybernetic Implants that alowed multiple persons to be in the same virtual reality and interact with it like real life, thus being spared the horror of life, or lack of it, outside.

Early experiments resulted in paralization if the user was removed from the network once connected and in some cases, user termination. A breakthrough came about when it was realised that nerve signals where not being sent to the body once a connection was made and the nerves down the spinal column died off. The breakthrough was to have an inhibitor chip below the implant that retained connection with the rest of the body, but when a connection with the simulation was active the chip inhibited nural activity to the body but did not stop it and thus a user could remain connected with the simulation with minimal body movement.

Once the Hardware was perfected they experimented with different environments for users to interact with. Results have yet to be collected...

Vault 1428:
A vault of change. Everyone has doors that revolve randomly every night. The vault has over a thousand inhabitants. Every day you wake up and leave to the same vault, just with different people each time. It's a short term experiment until I get bored and gas them all.

Vault 1046:
A time-travelling castle, manned by pirates armed with laser swords that have guns on them. They also fly on flaming sharks. Cold fire still in prototype.

Vault 3

Everything is in perfect working order. It's just that the medical facilities include a giant room for the storage and preservation of living human brains, which the robots are set to harvest roughly one year after the vault is sealed. Afterwhich, residents are examined and tested for full mental analysis of their intellect for future advances in robot brains. In the meantime, the human bodies are all replaced with cyber-brains and robot protocols.

Vault 563:

999 Spies, and one Engineer. The sentry-sappin' madness!

or

Vault 563:

President Bush and Osama Bin Laden in a vault that has nothing outstanding about it, except that there is no armory, and the only weapon is a revolver with one round.

It seems as I was gone, this thread turned into a SAW trap think-tank.

ThePoodonkis:
It seems as I was gone, this thread turned into a SAW trap think-tank.

Really? I mean, a few are, but mine at least (Minus the whole gassing them part) and most others are reasonable ideas. Clearly Vault-Tec will be run by Escapists. I sure hope so. I want those bobbleheads.

ThePoodonkis:
It seems as I was gone, this thread turned into a SAW trap think-tank.

Mine would be a beneficiary scientific experiment.
Except for the fact that at the rates of Radiation increase stipulated, both the man and woman would be sterile by about 9 weeks. The speed was greatly exaggerated to keep with the suspension of disbelief, it would take probably 90 generations to make mankind even remotely tempered to ionizing radiation.

Vault 4251: Appropriately built for a human to live comfortably, with no entertainment except for ample supplies for an orchestra & conductor, to see if musical prodigality is inherent, or inducable[?].

*[?] Now means "word that makes sense but does not officially exist"

Vault 40: Just a giant bouncy castle.

Vault 569:
A vault with 700 convicted arsonists, 300 firefighters, unlimited gasoline and unlimited water.

Vault 2307: Right next door to 2306 resides the clone of Douglas Adams. He is encouraged to transcribe his neighbor's antics.

superbleeder12:

This vault is a test to see what effect environment has on an artist's music.

It may not need to only deal with music (I just enjoy music a lot). It also could deal with novels, paintings, movies, etc.[sic]

I like yours. Creative.

Valut 367: Twelve men, Thirteen women.
Every room is filled with those little plastic play-pen balls.

because i said so.

Vault 50: 10 X-box fanboys, 10 PS3 fanboys, 10 Nintendo fanboys. One TV.

Or

Vault 69: 100 men. One Woman. But the woman is armed with as much guns as she can carry.

Vault 3.14: The members of the Vault are divided up into castes.

The Master Class: The Overseer and the people in advisory positions. They hold absolute power over the Vault's operations.
The Enforcers: Your average Vault security force, except with much more rank and privelege. They hold a high amount of power over the Vault's operations.
The High Class: Doctors, scientists and whatnot. They hold a moderate amount of power over the Vault's operations.
The Middle Class: Artisans, writers, shop-owners, engineers, that sort of thing. They hold no power over the Vault's operations.
The Lower Class: The grunts. Shuffled into low-paying, maitenance positions and similar. Practically beggars. They are despised by everyone else.

The most important part: the lower the class, the more people there are in it. I hope to see a revolution in due time.