Once a year, Bob decides he's going to go ahead and start growing these weird pods filled with tiny seeds. Harold: 'It's kind of embarrassing really. Wherever the seeds take purchase, they grow into trees, plants, grass or all manner of wonderful things.' At the end of this time, the pods open and the seeds are carried quite easily upon the wind. Poplar: 'In what we call the Harvest Month, the Great One creates seeds among his branches within seed pods. The Lone Wanderer: 'What's causing this place to grow?' в†‘ The Lone Wanderer: 'How is it you're causing all of these things to grow around you?'.

Can you imagine being stuck in one place for that long not being able to eat or to read or to sleep or anything? In the meantime, I have these Treeminders bothering me every day about things I don't even care about. Harold: 'I've been literally rooted to this spot thanks to Bob for maybe twenty or thirty years.

в†‘ The Lone Wanderer: 'You don't actually seem that sad.

The old gate that stands at the mouth of Oasis Cave is the last piece of architecture from those days.' When the attacks started about 200 years ago, many people took shelter in the natural caves that dotted the area. Linden: 'Oasis is located near what used to be an old mining town before the bombs fell.

в†‘ The Lone Wanderer: 'Any information you could give me on the caves below Oasis would be helpful.'.

The gate to enter it is accessed via a narrow passage in its western face. The Oasis is located inside a large rock formation in the north of the Wasteland. No other place in the Capital Wasteland is so teeming with life, although there are locations far from the Capital Wasteland, including Zion Canyon and Jacobstown, that have comparable amounts of plant and animal life. The Oasis is one of the most fertile places in the wasteland, filled with lush vegetation, trees, and even birds and squirrels living within the sheltered forest. The Lone Wanderer in 2277 is the first one in years to visit the vale. Most are turned away, some are killed when they try to gain entry by force, and others are shot on sight, like raiders. Only select outsiders were permitted to live long enough to enter the Oasis, though it was rare. Although they disdained technology, the Treeminders continued to use firearms, to remain on equal footing with their enemies.

As the Oasis grew and nature once again reappeared in the wasteland, the cult confronted the hostility of the wasteland. The control over the cult, exercised by Tree Father and Leaf Mother (Birch and Laurel), with equal say in its affairs. The Treeminders shun technology in favor of nature, blaming technological progress for all human misery. The cult, the Treeminders, were to be his last line of defense. Birch saw in Harold not an unfortunate mutant condemned to live out his life as a tree, never again to resume his wasteland travels, but a god. Around 2257, a small cult formed under Birch, dedicated to the worship of Harold. With Harold's mutation progressing further he became the unwilling heart of an oasis in the desolate wastelands. Sheltered by the rock formations in the northern Capital Wasteland, it gained a new lease on life in the 2240s or 50s when Harold found himself overwhelmed by Bob in his travels and laid down roots in this area in what the Treeminders call the Harvest Month (when Bob's seed pods ripen and disperse their seeds, resulting in the creation of new trees, grass, and plants). As the time passed, the sheltered rocky vale was stripped of mining equipment and other installations, with only a handful of artifacts surviving to the 23rd century. The extensive network of caves beneath it was used as impromptu shelter by the inhabitants of a nearby mining town from the bombs. What is known as the Oasis was once just one of many mines scattered across the landscape of the United States.

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