Slyfox

A long time ago, in a forum far, far away, I wrote an off-the-cuff Fallout fan-fiction piece entitled Dongo Weener.

More specifically, it was somewhere between 2000 and 2001, the forum was the long-defunct Vault 13, and at the time I’d been playing an unhealthy amount of Fallout 2, and had just discovered The Hitchhiker’s Guide to The Galaxy, which should explain my frame of mind perfectly.

When Vault 13 closed down in 2002, I joined Duck and Cover, and promptly migrated the chronicles of Dongo Weener to their fan-fiction subsection. Strangely enough, people read it; people liked it! I carried on writing very intermittently, developing Dongo Weener episodically: when things happened that made sense, I was as surprised as anyone else!

(As an aside, this almost mirrors one-to-one a comment by Douglas Adams himself I read years later in The Salmon of Doubt.)

Over time, Dongo Weener appeared on the main page of DaC under the fan-fiction section, it was translated to Czech by a forum-goer known as DJ Slamák (although for the life of me I cannot find it on the Internet anymore, nor in the Internet Archive’s copies), and I was even asked to repost it on Scotty The Great’s Fan Community, although they’ve changed their name to The Radiated Society in the interim. I believe I also posted it to Vault 52, but it seems they have also disappeared into the æther. At one point, I was even told that I “periodically channel the shade of Douglas Adams”, which was rather mind-boggling to my teenage self at the time.

Enough fond reminiscing, however. In the spirit of posterity, I have endeavoured to set down the words of Dongo Weener here, edited only to address formatting glitches. I sincerely hope you enjoy it.

Contents
Prologue
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Afterword