A hilarious, but tragic example of an extremely horrifying creature that has an incredibly mundane name. Earle Williams is a bonus
boss on Fallout 76 who was introduced in August
2020.
Some
time before the present
day in-game, Williams and his
friends were trapped in a mine after it suddenly collapsed behind them, killing one of them and leaving the rest permanently stuck. The
men were nonetheless desperate to survive, and resorted to cannibalism. Some of them, however, had too weak of a stomach and decided to just wait for their starvation to end it all.
Earle Williams was not one of those
people. In fact, cannibalizing his dead friend seemed to make his sanity slip away. He started trying to eat everyone, dead or alive, but was nonetheless fully aware of what he was doing; he knew he was becoming insane. By the
time that the events of the game had started, Williams has mutated into a massive man-eating monster waiting impatiently for his next meal, and it's up to the dwellers of Vault 76 to put him out of his misery before it's too late.
The fight against Earle Williams is quite tough. He has TONS of health, and he's so resistant to all forms of damage that even legacy weapons barely
deal scratch damage to him. He's nimble, aggressive, and can utter a piercing scream that
will terrify the player character(s), causing them to run uncontrollably in a random direction if they're standing too close, potentially allowing him to land a
nasty hit or two. The mine itself is bubbling hot and will kill you very quickly if you stand in the wrong spot, and there's several mini-me's of Williams that are very strong and tend to gang up on a single
player to quickly overwhelm them. And on top of that, you have a strict
time limit of 25 minutes to kill him, which
may seem generous, but it's not.
Despite this, there IS at least one weapon that works insanely well against him: The plasma gun with the flamethrower
mod and of course the right perk cards. ESPECIALLY if it's the special "Enclave" version, which has an
insane ammo capacity. (However, the
mod is INCREDIBLY rare.) Some players have managed to kill Williams singlehandedly by using this against him.
