This is a quest guide for optional quests listed in your PipBoy.
Locations mentioned can be found in our maps section.

Quest list:

• Agatha's Song
• Big Trouble in Big Town
• Blood Ties
• Head of State
• The Nuka-Cola Challenge
• Oasis
• The Power of the Atom
• Reilly's Rangers
• The Replicated Man
• Stealing Independence
• Strictly Business
• The Superhuman Gambit
• Tenpenny Tower
• Those!
• Trouble on the Homefront
• The Wasteland Survival Guide
• You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head

While accepting this quest, you will be given a speech option, charisma option and/or Lady Killer option that allows you to convince Agatha to give access to her husband's Ammo Box.

Locate Vault-Tec Headquarters

Recover the Soil Stradivarius from Vault 92 Sheet music can be found in the restroom in the Living Quarters

Return to Agatha

Find a buyer for the Soil Stradivarius You can sell it to Abraham Washington in Rivet City and Ahzrukhal in Underworld, for 200 caps or 300 caps with a speech check.

Rewards:

• 300 XP

After the quest is over, you can give Agatha the sheet music from Vault 92 in return for positive karma or the Blackhawk Scoped .44 Magnum.

Ask the people of Big Town about their captured friends Pappy has the clearest info.

Rescue the Big Town captives from the Super Mutants Head up to Germantown. Red is one of the holding cells on the ground floor.

• Open the cell door with the key found on one of the Super Mutants
• Open the cell door using the terminal. Get the password from a desk on the first floor
• ScienceBoy: hack the terminal
• StealthBoy: pick the lock of the cell door

Escort Red safely back to Big Town

Rescue Shorty Shorty is in the basement. Rescuing him is optional and does not result in a better quest reward

Escort Shorty safely back to Big Town You can quick travel with them in tow. Bringing back Red, Shorty or returning with news that everyone is dead will close the quest, but there are some post-quest options (listed below).

Rewards:

• 200 caps from Pappy if you don't save anyone
• 300 caps from Red and positive karma if you save Red
• 500 caps from Red and negative karma if you save Red and extort money from her
• 300 XP

Mutant attack The super mutants are coming for an attack. It takes about an hour from the end of the quest before the Super Mutant attack begins.

• Leave Big Town to its fate. Everyone will be dead when you return.
• CombatBoy: take the super mutants out yourself
• CombatBoy: train the residents in Small Guns
• ScienceBoy: repair the robots in the junkyard
• StealthBoy: teach the residents how to sneak
• StealthBoy: help the residents make a minefield around the town

Deliver Lucy's Message This part is purely optional and you might run into this quest without talking to Lucy, but since she's in Megaton you'll likely bump into her first.

Check the West Residence They're dead. Check the bodies to find they've been mauled. High medicine will give more detailed analysis.

• 0-29: they are, indeed, dead
• 30-49: they have bite marks on their neck that go to the bone
• 50-69: there seems to be too little blood
• 70-89: the bite marks look like they're from humans with sharpened teeth
• 90++: the blackish powdery residue on the bodies is not unlike the found on old trainyards (what this has to do with Medicine skill is beyond me)

Check the Schenzy Residence

Check the Ewers Residence

Report to Evan King Ask him if he has any clues where the Family might be and he'll put three locations on your PipBoy.

Locate the Family They're at Meresti Trainyard, due east of Northwest Seneca Station. Go there either underground via Northwest Seneca Station or overland. Either way, once you enter Meresti Trainyard, follow the flaming barrels to come to Robert, the gate-keeper.

• Show him Lucy's letter and he'll let you past
• Bribe him with 100 caps
• If you have the Cannibal perk, he will let you past
• SpeechBoy: convince him to let you in
• CombatBoy: shoot him. This narrows down your options with the rest of the family, you'll have to shoot them too
• StealthBoy: sneak past him. As with the CombatBoy option, this turns the Family hostile

Locate Ian West Several of the dwellers here can be talked into giving you Ian West's location and the password to reach him with the following requirements.

• Brianna: Lady Killer perk
• Justin: Impartial Mediation perk or Speech check
• Karl: Black Widow perk or high Strength
• Holly: Scoundrel perk or high Charisma
• Vance: speech check, Cannibal perk (and having used it at least once) or he requires you research the Family; speak with his followers for that, or access any computer terminal in the area to read up on their beliefs
• Bullets: put them in everyone's heads

After this, head into Ian West's cell to talk with him

• Let him stay with the family
• Show him Lucy West's letter which will convince him to head back to Arefu
• SpeechBoy: convince him to go back to Arefu

Speak to Vance about Ian's decision Note you can no longer attack the Family to resolve this quest from the moment this step is triggered, attacking the Family now fails the quest. This includes the gate guard Robert.
Speaking to Vance you can also resolve the problems with Arefu. The deal is for him to take blood packs from Arefu in trade for either leaving the town alone or protecting it.

• If you've researched the Family's Laws (on any computer terminal) you can convince Vance without any skill checks
• With high Intelligence point out the alternative source (blood packs)
• SpeechBoy: work on his sense of morality
• ScienceBoy: with high medicine skill, point to blood packs

Return to Evan King The same as above is true here: once this step is triggered, attacking any Family member fails the quest.

Rewards:

• Schematic: Shishkebab from Vance
• Hemophage Perk from Vance (if you return to him after the quest is closed)
• 300 XP
• +300 karma (unless you slaughter the Family)

This quest is fairly freeform. The order in which it is penned up here assumes you bumped into the Temple of the Union first. You can also meet the slavers at Lincoln Memorial first and be sent out to find the Temple of the Union. In either case, you can help the ex-slaves or slavers as you choose.

Make sure the Lincoln Memorial is free of Super Mutants

Talk to Caleb Smith

Get a picture of the Lincoln Memorial It's in the Museum of History, and can be handed over the either Caleb or Leroy depending on who you're helping.

Find Hannibal Hamlin and the Temple of the Union

Find at least one Lincoln artifact in Museum of History The total list of available artifacts are, with bottle cap value listed for Hannibal/Leroy: Lincoln's Diary (100/75), "Action Abe" action figure (10/10), Lincoln's Hat (25/25), Lincoln's Memorial Poster (quest/100), Lincoln's Voice (50/50), John Wilkes Booth Wanted Poster (50/75), Civil War Draft Poster (75/50), Lincoln's Repeater (150/100), Antique Lincoln Coin Collection (15/15).

Tell Hannibal the memorial is free of Super Mutants After killing all the slavers.

Join Leroy Walker in attacking the Temple of the Union

Rewards:

• Schematics: Dart Gun if you help the ex-slaves
• 50 caps from Leroy if you kill Hannibal Hamlin
• 100 caps from Leroy if he kills Hannibal Hamlin
• 300 XP

Take Sierra's Nuka-Cola Tour

Recover 30 bottles of Nuka-Cola Quantum and bring them to Sierra Petrovita This can be a bit of a pain since Nuka-Cola Quantum is quite rare. A good way to approach this is to pick up and save all the Quantum you chance upon (you'll often find Quantum in Nuka-Cola dispensers or in Nuka-Cola crates).

Find the ruins of the Nuka-Cola Bottling Factory

Recover the Nuka-Cola Quantum shipping manifests

• CombatBoy: dungeon crawl. In this crawl you'll meet Milo, the Mister Handy foreman. Convince him you own the place with speech or show him the Employee ID you can find prior to meeting him.
• StealthBoy: lockpick the pair of metal doors just opposite the entrance inside the factory

Rewards:

• 1200 Caps (40 per bottle) from Sierra Petrovita
• 1200 Caps (40 per bottle) or 2400 caps (80 per bottle, with speech check) from Ronald
• Nuka Grenade
• Nuka Grenade Schematic

Undertake the Treeminder's Ceremony

Obtain the key to the caves from Branchtender Cypress

Enter the caves below and destroy Harold's Heart

Apply Birch Sap to Harold's Heart and stop his growth

Apply Laurel's Liniment to Harold's Heart and accelerate his growth

Kill Harold by burning him There is really no advantage to this option, and it also means the whole Oasis turns against you.

Speak with Tree Father Birch

Speak with Leaf Mother Laurel

Rewards:

• Barkskin perk if you destroyed Harold's heart
• Missile Launcher from Branchtender Cypress if you apply birch sap to Harold's Heart
• Druid's Outfit from Branchtender Maple if you apply birch sap to Harold's Heart
• Linden's Outcast Power Armor from Branchtender Linden if you apply Laurel's liniment to Harold's Heart
• Villager's Hood from Bloomseer Poplar if you apply Laurel's liniment to Harold's Heart
• Bear charm (+10 Speech) from Sapling Yaw if you did not kill Harold, asked her opinion before going into the caves and succesfully passed a speech check or have the Child at Heart perk

Disarm Megaton's bomb

Disarm Megaton's bomb...or rig it to explode There are some unusual options during or after talking to Mister Burke.

• With the Black Widow perk, you can seduce Mister Burke, after which you can get him to leave (and he'll send you love letters) or up his fee by 500 caps (also doable with a speech check)
• After talking to Burke, you can turn him in to Lucas Simms. Simms will get shot by Burke, though if you're quick enough you can gun down Burke without any karma penalty or the town turning hostile (you can shoot him at any point without the town becoming hostile).
• After talking to Burke, you can talk to him again and tell him you're sticking with Simms to turn him hostile
• After talking to Burke, you can talk to Simms and tell him you're taking Burke up on his offer to turn the entire town hostile

Regardless, you can arm or disarm the bomb with an explosives skill of 25. You need Burke's Fusion Pulse Charge to arm the bomb, so if you gave it to Simms you can forget it.

Ask Leo Stahl at the Brass Lantern about buying Mentats to raise Explosives skill This is most easily triggered by mentioning to Burke you don't have the skill for the job, but the info on Leo Stahl's habit can also be gained from Moriarty's computer or Doc Church.

• SpeechBoy: convince Leo Stahl to admit his drug habit. Either blackmail him to sell you drugs or convince him to give up the habit and give you the key to his stash
• StealthBoy: steal the key from Leo

Loot Leo Stahl's stash at the water treatment plant for Mentats to raise Explsovies skill

Meet Leo Stahl at the water treatment plant for Mentats to raise Explsovies skill

Report to Lucas Simms in Megaton

Report to Mister Burke in Tenpenny Tower

Activate the Detonator at Tenpenny Tower

Receive reward from Mister Burke in Tenpenny Tower

Rewards - bomb disarmed:

• 100 caps from Lucas Simms
• 500 caps from Lucas Simms if you convince him with a speech check
• My Megaton House Key
• Deed: Megaton House
• 300 XP
• +200 Karma

Rewards - Megaton exploded:

• 500 caps from Mister Burke
• 1000 caps from Mister Burke if you convince him with a speech check or Black Widow perk
• My Tenpenny Tower Suite Key
• Deed: Tenpenny Tower Suite
• 300 XP
• -1000 Karma

To activate this quest, either head straight for Reilly's Rangers compound or go the Underworld Chop Shop. You'll see a woman, Reilly, on a bed in the Southwest corner. Convince Barrows to revive her (speech check) or do it yourself (medicine check) and talk to Reilly. If you had for the compound instead, she'll be there.

Gear up at Ranger Compound

Locate the Ranger's ammo crate On the mid level of the Statesman Hotel

Find Our Lady of Hope Hospital The quickest way to Our Lady of Hope is through the Metro, emerging at Vernon Sq. Station. A second path is through the Dry Sewer, due east of Dupont Circle Station.

Locate Reilly's Rangers On the second floor of Our Lady of Hope, bridge over to the Statesman Hotel. Dungeon crawl your way to the rangers.

Lead Reilly's Rangers to safety They kind of burst out of the elevator like madmen, so it helps if you make sure they have plenty of ammo and supplies beforehand.

Locate a Fission Battery Can be found on the Protectron back in the Alfresco Lounge.

Give Fission Battery to Donovan

Return to Reilly at Ranger Compound

Rewards:

• Ranger Battle Armor or Eugene from Reilly if at least one ranger survived
• 300 XP

This quest is centered in Rivet City but can be triggered anywhere if you find one of the many copies of the holotape from the android. This write-up starts from talking to Dr Zimmer in Rivet City.

Search for clues about zimmer's missing android

Discover what Doctor Preston at Rivet City might know about the android The quest relies on you finding 4 clues about the android. To do so, speak to 4 of the following persons (speech skill helps, as does medicine for doctors and science for scientists) or find the holotapes near them. These people are tied to the android through medicinal or scientific interest, because they are part of the railroad or they are slavers on the hunt. It does not matter what order you speak to whom in, so simply go by whatever is most convenient - obvious candidates are Doctor Preston and Father clifford in Rivet City and Doc Church, Moira Brown and Manya in Megaton.

• Doctor Banfield (Medicine), Tenpenny Tower, on the floor in the corner of the examination alcove
• Doctor Barrows (Medicine), Underworld, Nurse Graves' desk
• Doc Church (Medicine), Megaton, on his desk next to the terminal
• Cutter (Medicine), Paradise Falls, holotape on top of file cabinet
• Lucy (Medicine), Little Lamplight, on her desk
• Doctor Preston (Medicine), Rivet City, no holotape
• Red (Medicine), Big Town, on her desk
• Scribe Bowditch (Science), the Citadel, by his terminal
• Knick Knach (Science), Big Town, desk in Minor Mole store
• Moira Brown (Science), Megaton, round table behind the counter
• Seagrave Holmes (Science), Rivet City, floor near his bunk in his room
• Wintrop (Science), Underworld, on his desk in his room
• Manya (Railroad), Megaton, on the table in her home
• Father Clifford (Railroad), Rivet City, at the base of his pupil in the church
• Herbert Dashwood (Railroad), Tenpenny Tower, corner of the central bookcase in his room
• Tulip (Railroad), Underworld, work bench to the north of her shop desk
• Eulogy Jones (slaver), Paradise Falls, desk in his main bedroom
• Grouse (slaver), Paradise Falls, on the ground by the sandbags he's sitting behind
• Sister (slaver), Rivet City, on the desk of his room

Continue to search for clues the the android's identity OR tell Zimmer the android is dead While gathering clues, you'll likely run into Victoria Watts, or rather she'll run into you. She'll give you an android internal component which you can give to Zimmer to close the quest right now.

Find out what Pinkerton at Rivet City knows about the android Find Pinkerton in the broken bow and simply talk to him, pester him to get the recall code (the "but what if he doesn't believe me" option).

• Head to the entrance and dive off behind the plane. The entrance is underwater.
• StealthBoy: there is also an overland entrance, but the lock is Very Hard (lockpick 100)

Report to Zimmer OR warn Harkness about Zimmer

• Talk to Harkness, use the recall code. Have Harkness kill Zimmer or authorise you to do so (positive karma) or convince him to go with Zimmer (negative karma)
• Talk to Zimmer, reveal everything to him (negative karma)
• Talk to Harkness, use the recall code and convince him to authorise you to kill Zimmer. Then tell Zimmer about Harkness, getting both rewards. If you wish, you can then kill Zimmer to stop him from taking Harkness with him, or wait until he picks up Harkness and kill them all.

Rewards:

• 50 caps if you give Zimmer the android internal component from Victoria Watts
• Wired Reflexes perk if you turn Harkness in to Zimmer
• A3-21's Plasma Rifle if you warn Harkness about Zimmer
• 300 XP

Retrieve the Declaration of Independence from the National Archives Take the long way around via the rear entrance, or head for the rotunda to team up with Sydney.

Defend the Rotunda Help Sydney, then head in deeper with her, pick up the Bill of Rights and Magna Carta along the way and head into the strong room, bumping into Button Gwinnett.

• Forge the document, see step below
• SpeechBoy: convince Button Gwinnett you're Thomas Jefferson and have him hand over the document
• CombatBoy: destroy Button Gwinnett

Bring Button Gwinnett the ink You can find an inkwell in the Arlington Library, same room where you found the library archives for Wasteland Survival Guide quest.

Return to Abraham Washington in Rivet City

Rewards:

• Railway Rifle schematic
• 400 caps if you return without Sydney (or screw her out of her share)
• 75-100 caps for the Magna Carta
• 100-125 caps for the Bill of Rights

After the quest is finished, you might find a holotape A Note from Little Moonbeam's Father during Reilly's Rangers quest. Bring it to Sydney to gain her unique Sydney's 10mm "Ultra" SMG.

Additionally, on top of the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and Magna Carta there are some other items Abraham Washington will pay for, namely (all can be found in the Museum of History and are tied to Head of State quest as well, except for the Soil Stradivarius Violin, which can be found in Vault 92 and is tied to Agatha's Song quest):

• Lincoln's Rifle, 100-125 caps
• Lincoln's Hat, 70 caps
• Action Abe, 10 caps
• John Wilkes Booth Wanted Poster, 70-90 caps
• Lincoln's Diary, 100 caps
• Antique Lincoln Coin Collection, 15-30 caps
• Lincoln's Voice, 60-80 caps
• Soil Stradivarius Violin, 200-300 caps (speech check)

Enslave the sniper Arkansas from Minefield

Return to Grouse

Enslave Susan Lancaster from Tenpenny Tower There is a chance she will shout for guards after being collared, turning Tenpenny Tower hostile if any guard is within hearing distance. Don't worry about it, just leave and they'll turn friendly again in 3 days.

Return to Grouse

Enslave Red from Big Town

Return to Grouse

Enslave Flak from Rivet City

Return to Grouse

Rewards:

• 1000 caps (250 per slave)
• 300 XP
• -400 karma (-100 per slave)

Find the Mechanist or AntAgonizer, and stop their rivalry

Ask Derek for information about the Mechanist and AntAgonizer

Find the AntAgonizer and stop her Head for the AntAgonizer's lair to the north

• CombatBoy: fight your way through the lair
• StealthBoy: pick the lock of the elevator at the entrance

You will reach the AntAgonizer's throne room

• If you have the Mechanist's suit: give it to her
• Team up with her: Mechanizer will storm in and be killed
• SpeechBoy: use knowledge gained from Joe Porter or the Letter to the Editor from Hubris Comics Store to have her give up her suit
• CombatBoy: kill her

Find the Mechanist and stop him Head for the Robot Repair center to the south.

• CombatBoy: fight your way through the lair. Use the coffee pot in the final room to unlock the Mechanist's room
• StealthBoy: pick the lock of the elevator at the entrance

You will reach the Mechanist's room

• If you have the AntAgonizer's suit: give it to him
• Team up with him: AntAgonizer will storm him. The Mechanist may need some help to take her down
• SpeechBoy: convince the Mechanist to give up with either high speech or the Child at Heart perk
• CombatBoy: kill him

Report back to town for your reward

Rewards:

• 200 caps
• 400 caps if you convince Roe to up the reward at the beginning of the quest or if you remove both super heroes
• 400 caps if you kill one or both super heroes right after the opening sequence
• 600 caps if you convince Roe to up the reward at the beginning of the quest and if you remove both super heroes
• Ant's Sting if you give the Mechanist's suit to the AntAgonizer
• Protectron's Gaze if you give the AntAgonizer's suit to the Mechanist
• AntAgonizer's Custome if you kill or convince the AntAgonizer and keep the suit from the Mechanist
• Mechanist's Custome if you kill or convince the Mechanist and keep the suit from the AntAgonizer
• 300 XP

Kill Roy Phillips and his followers

Help the Ghouls get into Tenpenny Tower, OR Kill Roy Phillips and his followers

• Unleash the feral ghouls into Tenpenny Tower (see below)
• SpeechBoy: mediate between the two parties (see below)
• CombatBoy: kill all the Ghouls in Warrington Metro (Roy, Michael and Bessie)
• CombatBoy: kill everyone in Tenpenny Tower - you can let Tenpenny live and he'll allow the ghouls to stay

Unleash the feral ghouls

• Talk to Herbert Dashwood in the Tenpenny Suites, he will give you the key to the Tenpenny Generator Room
• StealthBoy: steal the key to Tenpenny Generator Room from Chief Gustavo

Once you're in the generator room

• Shoot the generator to your left
• ScienceBoy: hack the OCTA emergency access terminal

Mediate between the two parties. First talk to Tenpenny

• Get to Tenpenny via The Power of Atom quest
• Wait until Tenpenny's door guard leaves, pick up the key from the pedestal and head in
• SpeechBoy: convince the guard to let you in
• StealthBoy: sneak past the guard, steal his key or lockpick the door and head on in

Tenpenny will list five residents you will need to leave or be convinced. Each one can be convinced by a Speech check or a bullet, but alternatives are available

• Edger Wellington III, Millicent Wellington and Susan Luncaster: get the Love Letter from Edgar Wellington III from Susan Lancaster's room. Give it Millicent Wellington, she will kill Edgar and Susan before fleeing
• Lydia Montenegro and Anthony Ling: steal from their safe. They will be apalled at the security and leave

Rewards:

• 200 caps from Chief Gustavo if you take down the ghouls
• 400 caps from Chief Gustave if you take down the ghouls and pass a speech check when taking the quest
• Ghoul Mask from Roy Philiphs if you (help) kill the Tenpenny Residents or media
• Store Discount from Bessie Lynn and Michael Masters
• 300 XP

About a mile out from Grayditch Bryan Wilks will run up to you to give you this quest. With high speech or the Child at Heart perk, you can convince him to give you the Grayditch dumpster key and you can loot the dumpster for supplies.

Find Bryan Wilks' father in Grayditch

Deliver the bad news to Bryan Wilks Bryan is in the Pulowski Preservation Shelter next to the diner. After talking to him, go into the shack next to the house where you found his father. Pick up the password recording, use the terminal and read the Doctor's personal notes.

Investigate Marigold Metro Station to remove the source of the Fire Ants A dungeon crawl brings you to Doctor Lesko. Talk to him to continue.

Elimate all five Nest Guardians from the Ant Queen's Hatchery

Send the Inhibitor Pulse from Lesko's portable terminal or kill the Ant Queen With high enough science you can also hack into the terminal near the Queen and destroy the mutagenic.

Return to Doctor Lesko

Return to Bryan Wilks

Find a home for Bryan Wilks

• Tell Bryan he should just stay in Grayditch
• Talk to Vera Weatherly in Rivet City (positive karma)
• Talk to Mayor MacCready in Little Lamplight
• Talk to Eulogy Jones in Paradise Falls, sell Bryan for 100 caps (300 caps with speech) (negative karma)

Rewards:

• Ant Might or Ant Sight perk
• Lesko's Lab Coat if you choose the "serious incentive" option when first speaking with him
• 300 XP

To trigger this quest, go near Vault 101 after finishing The Waters of Life quest. You will pick up Vault 101's Emergency Frequency near Vault 101 (Megaton is close enough).

Return to Vault 101

End Vault 101's troubles Talk to the Overseer, Amata and Butch. You can side with any of them.

Talk to the Overseer and Stop the Rebels

• SpeechBoy: convince Amata to give up her plans
• StealthBoy: hack the terminal in the Overseer's office, find out about the Enclave and use this info to convince Amata to give up her plans

Leave Vault 101 forever

Talk to the Rebels and Stop the Overseer

• SpeechBoy: convince the Overseer to give up
• ScienceBoy: hack the Overseer's Terminal to see he has been in contact with the outside world. Use this info to persuade him
• ScienceBoy: head to the server room in the admin area, accessed via the atrium. Hack the terminal to find out the guards raided the rebels without the Overseer's permission. Use this info to persuade him
• CombatBoy: kill the Overseer
• StealthBoy: head to the server room in the admin area, accessed via the atrium. Lockpick the door and free Mr Brotch, who will tell you about the raid. Use this info to persuade the Overseer

Leave Vault 101 forever

Sabotage Vault 101 and Evacuate the Vault Go down to the Reactor Room and enter the Filter Room with ill intent

• ScienceBoy: hack the water chip terminal
• CombatBoy: kill Stanley and take the system password
• StealthBoy: steal the system password from Stanley

Evacuate the Vault You will be accosted by the Overseer while trying to leave

• Tell him he has no options but to flee
• SpeechBoy: blame the rebels
• SpeechBoy: if it is Overseer Almodovar, you can make him blame himself
• CombatBoy: if it is Overseer Mack, he will attack you

You willl then bump into Amata

• Tell him you caused this meltdown
• SpeechBoy: convince her the Overseer did it

Rewards:

• Modified Utility Jumpsuit from the Overseer or Amata, if you used no violence
• 300 XP

The opening dialogue with Moira Brown is pre-quest but also a part of it: telling her about life in Vault 101 will result in her giving you the Armored Vault 101 Jumpsuit.
For each step of this quest, there are five types of responses you can give: normal and snide are always available, intelligent is available with Intelligence or Perception of 7 or higher, tough is available with Strength or Endurance of 7 or higher, sly is available with Agility or Charisma of 7 or higher. Responses are marked by the relevant characteristics and their availability varies per step as explained for each step. What responses you pick impacts your final result.

The Dream Crusher After the first objective of the first chapter, or the second objective of the second chapter, or the third objective of the third chapter, you can convince Moira that the project is useless and she should give it up with a speech check. This will end the quest at that point.

Find food in the Super-Duper Mart Can be found in the Food Storage refrigerator to the right of the entrance.

Find medicine in the Super-Duper Mart Can be found behind the locked door on the other side of the mart from the entrance.

• Get the key to the door from a box in the alcove north of the locked door
• ScienceBoy: hack the terminal next to the door
• ScienceBoy: additionally, you can hack the Protectron, who will protect you if you're wearing the employee ID badge found on the terminal
• StealthBoy: lockpick the door
• StealthBoy: steal the key from one of the raiders

Return to Moira For the basic objective, you need Intelligence for the smart response, Strength for the tough response and Agility for the sly response. For the bonus objective, you need Intelligence for smart response, Endurance for the tough response and Charisma for the sly response.

Contact radiation sickness (200 rads) Standing next to Megaton's bomb and drinking the water will pretty much do it.

Contact more severe radiation sickness (600 rads)

Return to Moira For the basic and bonus objective, you need Intelligence for the smart response, Endurance for the tough response and Charisma for the sly response. No snide response is available for this step.

Travel to the playground in Minefield

Bring a landmine to Moira

Return to Moira You can skip the above by waiting 24 hours and then going to Moira and lying about having been to Minefield. For the basic objective, you need Intelligence for the smart response, Endurance for the tough response and Agility for the sly response. For the bonus objective, you need Perception for the smart response, Endurance for the tough response and Agility for the sly response.

Test the repellent on three Mole Rats Go to the Tepid Sewers as Moira suggests or find some molerats to the southwest of Megaton, below the freeway overpass.

Test the repellent on seven more Mole Rats You can find plenty of molerats deeper down the Tepid Sewer, but a better alternative might be to head to the RobCo Facility. That place is teeming with mole rats and you have to return to it later anyway.

Return to Moira For the basic objective, you need Intelligence for the smart response, Strength for the tough response and Charisma for the sly response. For the bonus objective, you need Intelligence for the smart response, Endurance for the tough response and Charisma for the sly response.

Place the observer in a spawning pod in the Anchorage War Memorial

Do not kill any Mirelurks in the Anchorage War Memorial You can try to sneak through, but quite frankly it might be easier to just run for it instead. If you have any followers, leave them outside.

Return to Moira For the basic objective, you need Perception for the smart response, Strength for the tough response and Charisma for the sly response. For the bonus objective, you need Intelligence for the smart response, Strength for the tough response and Charisma for the sly response.

Become seriously injured (50% health or less) You can get injuries from the wastes, but jumping from great heights in Megaton works just as well (and helps in crippling your legs for the bonus objective)

Receive a crippling injury

Return to Moira You can skip the above if you have high enough Medicine; you can explain how crippling injuries work to Moira, this will fulfill the basic and bonusobjectives. For the basic and bonus objectives, you need Intelligence for the smart response, Endurance for the tough response and Charisma for the sly response.

Learn the History of Rivet City Talk to Bannon in Rivet City.

Check other sources to confirm Rivet City's history Bannon will pretty much claim he founded the place himself. Talking to Seagrave Holmes or Belle Bonny will uncover you need to talk to Pinkerton in the broken bow for the real history.

Uncover Rivet City's true history Locate and talk to Pinkerton in the broken bow.

• Head to the entrance and dive off behind the plane. The entrance is underwater
• StealthBoy: there is also an overland entrance, but the lock is Very Hard (lockpick 100)

Return to Moira You can skip the above by waiting 24 hours and then going to Moira and lying about Rivet City's history. For the basic objective, you need Perception for the smart response, Strength for the tough response and Charisma for the sly response. For the bonus objective, you need Intelligence for the smart response, Strength for the tough response and Charisma for the sly response.

Install the Processor Widget in the RobCo production facility mainframe

Reprogram the RobCo facility mainframe

• ScienceBoy: hack the terminal. Initiate Pest Extermination and Cease Total Liquidation
• CombatBoy: fight your way out (this fails the bonus objective)

Return to Moira You can skip the above if you have the Robotics Expert perk; you can simply share your knowledge with Moira, it will fulfill the basic and optional objectives. For the basic and bonus objectives, you need Intelligence for the smart response, Strength for the tough response and Charisma for the sly response.

Access the card catalog in Arlington Public Library

Retrieve complete library archives You can get the password for the archives from Scribe Yearling. Then follow the Brotherhood of Steel Paladins as they clear out the building of raiders. You will have to deal with the raiders and turrets in the last area yourself (turrets can be hacked).

Return to Moira You can skip the above by waiting 24 hours and then going to Moira and telling her the library was destroyed. For the basic objective, you need Perception for the smart response, Endurance for the tough response and Charisma for the sly response. For the bonus objective, you need Intelligence for the smart response, Endurance for the tough response and Agility for the sly response.

Survival Guide review Moira will shows you a review. The quality of the guide starts at 0 and gets +1 for each optional requirement met (including when you use skills or perks to explain the theory to Moira) or -1 for each time you lie to Mora. Less than 5 points is poor quality, 6-8 points means good quality, 9 is excellent. Good and excellent give karma bonuses.
After the quest is finished, you can run into wastelanders who have read the guide. If it was poor quality, you can be attacked by the wastelander. If it was good or excellent, he will compliment you and give you some goods if you ask for them.

Rewards:

• Survival perk. For details, see quest perks
• Mini-Nuke
• Dream Crusher perk if you talk Moira out of publishing the Guide (you do not get the Mini-Nuke or Survival perk if you do as the quest ends)
• Super-Duper Mart step; basic: iguana bits (3-15 depending on level); bonus: food sanitizer
• Radiation sickness step; basic: RadAway (5); bonus: Rad-X (7)
• Minefield; basic: Frag Grenades (9), Stimpaks (7); bonus: Bottlecap Mine schematic
• Molerats; basic: Repellent Stick; bonus: Jet (5), Psycho (5)
• Mirelurks; basic: Stealth Boy (6); bonus: Shady Hat
• Injured; basic: Med-X (5), Ammo (varies depending on level); bonus: Environment Suit
• Rivet City; basic: Mentats (6); bonus: 10% trader discount in Rivet City
• RobCo Facility; basic: Pulse Grenades (6); bonus: Big Book of Science
• Arlington Library; basic: 400 Caps; bonus: Lying, Congressional Style

The basic price per head is 100 caps. If you ask around Underworld you will find a lot of these targets aren't bigots, confronting Crowley with this means he now offers you 100 caps for every key without asking you to kill the targets.

Kill Allistair Tenpenny To get to Allistair Tenpenny, follow the instructions in the Tenpenny Tower quest

• Allistair Tenpenny will try to hire you to kill Crowley
• CombatBoy: kill Allistair Tenpenny

Tell Mister Crowley that Allistair Tenpenny is dead

Kill Mister Crowley

Kill Dukov and get his key

• Buy the key for 200 caps
• SpeechBoy: convince Dukov to give up the key
• SpeechBoy: convince Cherry to steal the key for you (she will want you to escort her to Rivet City)
• CombatBoy: kill Dukov
• StealthBoy: steal the key from Dukov

Bring Dukov's key to Mister Crowley

Kill Ted Strayer and get his key

• Buy the key for 25 caps
• With the Toughness perk, convince Ted to give you the key
• SpeechBuy: convince Ted to give up the key
• CombatBoy: kill Ted
• StealthBoy: steal the key from Ted

Bring Ted Strayer's key to Mister Crowley

Kill Dave and get his key

• With high Luck, you can convince Dave to give you the key
• SpeechBoy: convince Dave to give you the key, and you can get extra info from him about fort Constantine
• CombatBoy: kill Dave
• StealthBoy: steal the key from Dave

Bring Dave's key to Mister Crowley With the key(s) in your possession, you should be able to convince Crowley to spill the location of Fort Constantine without having to hand in the keys

Finish the quest by handing in all the keys, or heading to Fort Constantine yourself (the quest will be closed when you pick up the T-51b power armor). If you wish to go to Fort Constantine, one option is to sell Crowley the keys to close the quest and then pickpocket them back from him. Or follow him and kill him once he's on neutral ground to get the keys back.
Fort Constantine is a remote location that contains a massive haul of loot, as well as the unique T-51b Power Armor and a Fat Man with some Mini-Nukes.

Rewards:

• 400 caps from Crowley (100 per headshot or if you got the key without killing him)
• 100 caps from Crowley (25 per non-headshot kill)
• 200 caps from Allistair Tenpenny for killing Crowley
• 300 caps from Allistair Tenpenny for killing Crowley if you pass a speech check to up the price
• 300 XP