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Edgar Allen Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado"
This is
a weird scene to stumble on in Fallout 4, but it all makes sense if you're an
Edgar Allen Poe scholar. The skeletons, one with the Amontillado bottle and one
chained up inside a wall, are references to the Poe short story, "The Cask
of Amontillado," in which a man buries his friend alive. His murder takes
the term "frenemy" to a whole new level. Bethesda decided to bring
the literary work to life because Poe was a famous Boston native. What makes
Poe's story so memorable is that the motive, not the crime, is the mystery,
like how the motive behind your senseless annihilation of every living thing in
sight remains a mystery to ever NPC.
via Rich123321