Worse, over one fourth of the people at the oasis suffered from radiation poisoning. None of the three people who followed him inside ever returned, leaving two hundred people without leadership and with supplies on the verge of exhaustion. They surrounded Faust, who let out one loud scream heard above, then disappeared. After a nearly forty feet (twelve meter) fall, he discovered that the pit was a nest of vipers. Shortly after making camp, Faust fell into the pit, after a member of the expedition startled him. The group made it through the desert, eventually locating a small oasis that emerged around a large, crater-like pit.
In 2097, Jonathan Faust, leading a group of two hundred people, left the overcrowded Vault 15 to brave the horrors of the wasteland.