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Fallout 3 Hints

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  • 1 = Vault 92. You'll come here on the misc. quest "Agatha's Song."  <Barter & Energy Weapons & Explosives & Medicine skill books, Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    2 = Old Olney. This old town is infested with deathclaws.  <Explosives skill book, Prototype Medic Power Armor, fat man, mini nuke, Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    3 = Chaste Acres Dairy Farm. There are raiders and wild brahmin here.  <Melee Weapons & Unarmed skill books>
    4 = MDPL-16 Power Station.  <Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    5 = The Republic of Dave. You'll come here on the misc. quest "You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head."  <Perception bobblehead, Ol' Painless, Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    6 = Greener Pastures Disposal Site. This area is very radioactive.  <Agility bobblehead, Medicine & Science skill books, Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    7 = Grisly Diner. Raiders attack after you enter the diner.  <Barter skill book>
    8 = Relay Tower KX-B8-11.
    9 = Temple of the Union. This is Hannibal Hamlin's abolitionist HQ. You'll come here on the misc. quest "Head of State."
    10 = Minefield. This "ghost town" has frag mines set all over it, and an old sniper named Arkansas. You'll come here on the misc. quests "Strictly Business" and "The Wasteland Survival Guide."  <Lockpick & Medicine & Melee Weapons & Unarmed skill books>

    a = Three ruined houses.
    b = Fishing hole shack.
    c = Ruined farm with raiders.  <Repair skill book, mini nuke>
    d = Red Rocket gas station and jackknifed Nuka-Cola truck.  <Small Guns skill book, 5 Nuka-Cola Quantums>
    e = Wrecked vehicle.  <Big Guns skill book>
    f = Irradiated outhouse.  <Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    g = Drainage Chamber entrance grate.  <Medicine skill book>
    h = The Roach King.  <mini nuke>
    i = Hilltop farm ruins.  <Repair & Small Guns skill books>
    j = Freeway shacks. There will be raiders and more items here after you finish the first two sets of main quests and the "Head of State" misc. quest.