Fallout Season 2 makes Buffout addiction part of Lucy MacLean's story

Collider reports that Fallout Season 2, in Episode 4 "The Demon in the Snow," introduces the games' drug Buffout as an addiction affecting Lucy MacLean (Ella Purnell), a condition explained on-screen by the Ghoul (Walton Goggins).

Buffout, present in every Fallout game since the first release in 1997, is portrayed as a steroid that boosts strength, reflexes and endurance and can temporarily raise maximum health. The source notes it spread before the Great War among athletes and later military users, spawned variations such as Bufftats, Buffjet and Psychobuff, and persisted in the Wasteland; in the games it can enable feats like punching through ten wood boards, but repeated use leads to dependence, overdoses are possible, and hoarding is common.

In the episode, Rangers of the New California Republic put Lucy on an IV of Buffout for two days after her sun exposure in the Legion camp, leaving her itchy, irritable and craving "not food," according to the Ghoul. The drug's boost is shown when she easily defeats ghouls at the New Vegas Strip entrance, but the article says she will remain at risk unless she receives real medical treatment, an ongoing complication as she moves toward encounters including a Deathclaw and a possible reunion with Hank MacLean (Kyle MacLachlan).

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