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roskelld

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No you don't. Pre-war books you can hand in at Arlington Library for a substantial cash reward but pre-war money is just more valuable currency, essentially. 10 caps per note, I think.

Oh yea, Pre-war books.

That's right, I think the advantage of the pre-war money is that it has a good value and doesn't weigh anything.

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SM47

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My character looks exactly like my Dad. I'm telling you.

P.S. We are talking about our real Dads here, right? Because my in-game Dad doesn't look anything like my real Dad. My in-game Dad looks like the guy with the beard out of CSI. And he talks just like that Liam Neeson off the films.

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StumpyJohn

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Thanks for the clues about Rockopolis. I gave up after over 2 hours of searching over the past few days and went on the Wiki to find out where it was. It's safe to say I never would have found it without looking it up online - it's crap if you ask me. Would be fair enough if there was a clue from a character about where to start looking, or if the entrance itself was more obvious, and actually somewhere you might wander on the way to somewhere else!

No worries. Agree its a bit crap, based on the Dashwood stories I was expecting a lot more

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Thanks for the clues about Rockopolis. I gave up after over 2 hours of searching over the past few days and went on the Wiki to find out where it was. It's safe to say I never would have found it without looking it up online - it's crap if you ask me. Would be fair enough if there was a clue from a character about where to start looking, or if the entrance itself was more obvious, and actually somewhere you might wander on the way to somewhere else!

Only got a few map locations left to check through now, this saga is nearing an end at last.

I know what you mean, on the other hand, I found it after listening to Dashwood's talking of his manservant and then hearing that one episode about Rockopolis - it is obscure but I knew what I was looking for. Could well not have found it, but became a bit obsessed.

I actually like the fact that some might discover it and some won't, ups the sense of discovery and the feeling there's still more out there. I'm sure they could have done the things you mention, but discovering it was that much more special.

Bit crap inside, mind.

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Spacehost

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So I ran across

Andale

last night during a cross-country recon mission to the

RobCo factory

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I felt something was wrong from the word go. Those burned-out houses, the crazy old guy locked up in his place, babbling. The setting sun painted the sky blood red as I interrogated the locals- they were nice. TOO nice. Some of the things they said hinted towards crimes against nature. I had to check it out.

A sly gander in one of their houses revealed a locked basement- the patriarch of the family seemed ill at ease with my snooping, so I left and waited in the hills just north until midnight and returned under cover of darkness. I snuck into the house again- checked out the fridge. Didn't trust what they had in there. The basement draws my eye again, but the lock's too tough for Goodie Two Shoes me to pick. I bet Mr Smith has the key.

I'm no good at this pick-pocketing lark, but after five tense minutes snooping around in the parents' bedroom as they sleep and I realise that he's left it on the nightstand. Success! Of a sort... Mr Smith wakes up and so does his wife, and I high-tail it down to the basement for cover as a magnum slug splits the air by my ear. My fears are confirmed- they've been eating anyone dumb enough to drop by for God knows how long.

Coming up out the basement I'm ready with my shotgun, but no-one's home. I slip out into the night... and find that the Smiths have woken up their neighbours. Crap. Some dumb bitch comes at me with a kitchen knife- and recieves three blasts of buckshot in the gut for her trouble she goes down like a sack of wet sand as I take a magnum slug in the leg. Mr Smith has a scoped .44- too bad I do too, and I've had more practise. I close the range on him and his wife, and cap both of them before they can get anothe shot off, spinning around to finish off the last of the caniballistic nutjobs with a cranium-splitting headshot as he slips up behind me.

Now the only thing I have to worry about is what to do with the kids...

In a genre of stories, Fallout 3 excels at getting you to write your own. I love it.

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SqueakyG

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So I ran across

Andale

last night during a cross-country recon mission to the

RobCo factory

.

Now the only thing I have to worry about is what to do with the kids...

In a genre of stories, Fallout 3 excels at getting you to write your own. I love it.

Oh yeah, I just went there yesterday too. When the old guy started talking about the place, I was expecting it to be a homage to Invasion of the Bodysnatchers (that would fit the 50s vibe very well). But it turned out to be a lot more disturbing than I could have imagined!

I checked out the other family's shed first, and when I came back out they were all stood there waiting for me. Apparently I could have talked my way out of violence, but instead I called them sick fucks, and they attacked. I was just discovering the delights of using a plasma rifle for the first time, so it was quite a pleasure to turn them into green goo.

And don't worry about the children. After this happens, the grandfather adopts them. If you go back to him, you get to hear about how these two families have all been interbreeding for generations. They're all kind of related. Cannibalism and incest, woo.

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And don't worry about the children. After this happens, the grandfather adopts them. If you go back to him, you get to hear about how these two families have all been interbreeding for generations. They're all kind of related. Cannibalism and incest, woo.

Yeah, I got that bit. Cheery!

Next play through I'm going to be a murderous preacher bringing justice to the wastelands by killing the impure.

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Majora

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Andale was one of the best random bits so far but the scripting was a bit odd.

I pickpocketed the key without disturbing the father and crept down to the basement. Obviously my fears were confirmed and when I left the basement I got really nervous because I realised that the residents, who were previously sleeping, had all left the house. I left the house not sure what to expect and saw the all the neighbours descend on my position wielding knives and guns. As I saw them approaching I ran away but none of them seemed to see me and they all just stood in front of the front door of the house. Just stood there not doing anything. Even when I got really close to them they didn't seem to react, I don't know if it was deliberate scripting or a bug but it seemed a bit daft. I wasn't sure whether to kill them or talk to them so I talked to them, said I was hungry which was why I was down there, and we all lived happily ever after. I think it would have been better if they all chased me with knives and guns though.

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That's a bug majora - there is a workaround for it though which involves the sequence in which you do things.

Wat bugged me most about that place and the script was

I killed them all and went to talk to the son who was stood on his dead fathers body. But when spoken to he said his parents had had to go away, and he didn't know when they would be back. Despite the fact his foot was inside his fathers head on the floor. It's a shame they don't take things like that into account when scripting those segments

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Joyrex-J9

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What the hell!?

I just got to Rivet City (sent there by Moira) and was talking to what I thought was some random doctor.

Suddenly "Quest Completed" pops up for the 'Following in His Foot Steps' quest - whaaaa? I was saving doing anything on the main quest line until I was ready.

I assume by doing this I've shortcut'ed it and missed a big chunk of game?

(Thankfully the game had just autosaved, before talked to the doctor)

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What the hell!?

I just got to Rivet City (sent there by Moira) and was talking to what I thought was some random doctor.

Suddenly "Quest Completed" pops up for the 'Following in His Foot Steps' quest - whaaaa? I was saving doing anything on the main quest line until I was ready.

I assume by doing this I've shortcut'ed it and missed a big chunk of game?

(Thankfully the game had just autosaved, before talked to the doctor)

Follow In His Footsteps is pretty much the first story quest out of the Vault, and all it really involves is doing what you just did.

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Joyrex-J9

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Follow In His Footsteps is pretty much the first story quest out of the Vault, and all it really involves is doing what you just did.

Yes but I've ended up skipping the whole Galaxy News Radio thing

I just checked the Fallout wiki and talking to her and skipping these quests is apparently NOT a good idea

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Madison_Li#Notes

It seems you end up doing stuff out of sequence and risk getting your arse kicked

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Spacehost

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Yes but I've ended up skipping the whole Galaxy News Radio thing

I just checked the Fallout wiki and talking to her and skipping these quests is apparently NOT a good idea

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Madison_Li#Notes

It seems you end up doing stuff out of sequence and risk getting your arse kicked

GNR is after Follow... though, there's no reason you can't go visit THREEEEEE DAWWWWWGGG OOOOOWWWWWWWWWW and do his little quest.

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Yeah perhaps.

I dunno, doing it in this order just doesn't feel right.

I'm both sort of annoyed and impressed that Bethsda give you this level of freedom

Yeah, I inadvertently skipped a chunk of the main quest; I talked to Moriarty in megaton, decided to go off exploring before I carried on with it, and ended up in Rivet City :) Didn't realise the ramifications until it was too late, assuming I'd have missed nothing more than a "He's not here, try there" sort of thing, on the basis that the game wouldn't let me skip anything of note.

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MrPogo

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Rescued a BoS newb, explored a nearby office building for scrap, and ran into my first sentry-bot.

Literally.

Rounded a corner and came face-to-face with the fecker.

Needless to say, our encounter was....brief.

I did the same today! Though have levelled up enough that it was the bot who met a brief end.

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Yeah, I inadvertently skipped a chunk of the main quest; I talked to Moriarty in megaton, decided to go off exploring before I carried on with it, and ended up in Rivet City :) Didn't realise the ramifications until it was too late, assuming I'd have missed nothing more than a "He's not here, try there" sort of thing, on the basis that the game wouldn't let me skip anything of note.

I'm kind of glad I've been following this thread since I bought the game a week ago. I've been leaving the main quest for a bit, choosing to explore and level instead, but I think tomorrow I'll go to GNR and get that done so I don't screw anything up.

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