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Fallout 3 Hints

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  • 1 = SatCom Array NN-03d. This is a raider stronghold.  <Unarmed skill book, 2 mini nukes>
    2 = MDPL-21 Power Station.  <Energy Weapons skill book>
    3 = Broadcast Tower LP8.  <Science skill book>
    4 = Oasis. You can get the misc. quest "Oasis" here.  <Medicine skill book, mini nuke, Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    5 = Clifftop Shacks. You'll find several super mutants and their captives here.  <Melee Weapons & Unarmed skill books, Board of Education>
    6 = Montgomery County Reservoir.
    7 = Reclining Groves Resort Homes.  <Barter skill book>
    8 = Paradise Falls. This is a slaver town. You can get the misc. quest "Strictly Business" here, and you'll come here for the misc. quest "Rescue from Paradise" (and maybe for the misc. quest "Those!").  <Speech bobblehead, The Break, Eulogy Jones' Suit, Eulogy Jones' Hat, Vault 77 Jumpsuit, 5 Nuka-Cola Quantums>
    9 = MDPL-13 Power Station.  <railway rifle schematic, Fisto!, Nuka-Cola Quantum>

    a = Dead wastelander on ground near rope bridge.
    b = Radioactive pond.  <Medicine skill book>
    c = Abandoned Tent.  <Energy Weapons skill book, Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    d = Burned-out farm buildings.
    e = Crashed UFO. There's an alien blaster and several power cells for it near the alien body.
    f = Musty Cavern's anthill entrance.
    g = Military checkpoint.
    h = Old barn. A scavenger trader has set up shop here.  <Sneak skill book>
    i = Warren entrance.
    j = Raider camp behind monorail wreck.  <Explosives skill book>
    k = Two corpses.  <Big Guns skill book>