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Fallout 3 Hints

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  • 1 = Roosevelt Academy. The academy has been taken over by super mutants.  <Lockpick & Medicine & 2 Unarmed skill books, Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    2 = Shalebridge. Two factions of giant ants are fighting in this area.
    3 = Broadcast Tower KT8. Super mutants have taken this area over.
    4 = Five Axles Rest Stop. Some raiders are camped here.  <Big Guns skill book, mini nuke>
    5 = MDPL Mass Relay Station. The raiders here include one named Torcher, who has a flamer weapon and a unique mask.  <Small Guns skill book, Torcher's Mask, Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    6 = Rockbreaker's Last Gas.  <Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    7 = Vault 87. You can only enter this vault through the Little Lamplight caverns, and only on a main quest.  <Energy Weapons & Unarmed skill books, Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    8 = Everglow National Campground. Some raiders are hanging out here.  <Small Guns skill book>
    9 = Jalbert Brothers Waste Disposal. This is a highly radioactive area.  <Medicine skill book, Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    10 = VAPL-58 Power Station.  <Big Guns & Repair skill books, mini nuke, Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    11 = Little Lamplight. A colony of children is living in the nearby caverns. You can get the misc. quest "Rescue from Paradise" here, and you'll come here on a main quest. You may also come here on the misc. quest "Those!".  <bottlecap mine schematic, Wazer Wifle>
    12 = Fort Bannister. This is the Talon Company mercenary HQ.  <Energy Weapons & Science & Small Guns skill books, Occam's Razor, fat man, mini nuke, Nuka-Cola Quantum>

    a = Shalebridge Hill anthill entrance.
    b = Shalebridge Tunnels anthill entrance.  <Science skill book>
    c = Drainage Chamber manhole entrance.  <Sneak skill book, mini nuke>
    d = Military truck.
    e = Beached boat.
    f = Abandoned Shack.  <Repair & Small Guns skill books, Victory Rifle>
    g = Old shack and yao guai.
    h = Two wrecked vehicles.  <Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    i = Hostile ghoul village.  <Barter & Explosives & Lockpick skill books, mini nuke>
    j = Hostile ghoul pylon.  <mini nuke>
    k = Trapped shack.
    l = Scavenger ruin.  <Nuka-Cola Quantum>
    m = Giant crater. You can find some alien blaster power cells under the overturned truck. See Zone 2's secondary location e for a blaster to use them with.
    n = Dead raider.  <Medicine skill book>