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Fallout 3 Hints

How can I get this quest?

  • 1 of 8: You'll find Reilly in the ghoul "Underworld" area inside the Museum of History. The museum is in the Mall interior region in the D.C. metro ruins, so see the D.C. Ruins Interior Regions hints to find a way to get there.
  • 2 of 8: Enter the museum through its front doors, then move around the curvy desk to get to the large prehistoric exhibit room. The big doors with the huge carved skull over them lead to the Underworld Concourse.
  • 3 of 8: After you're through talking to Winthrop, go down to the south end of the concourse's ground floor to find two sets of double doors that lead to the Chop Shop.
  • 4 of 8: In the Chop Shop, find a woman named Reilly on one of the beds and try to talk to her to learn that she's in some sort of coma.
  • 5 of 8: Quicksave, then talk to Doctor Barrows about her condition.
  • 6 of 8: If you don't have a high enough Medicine skill to revive her yourself, you'll have to pass the Speech Challenge with the doctor in order to get her revived. Keep quickrestoring and trying again until you manage it.
  • 7 of 8: Talk to Reilly about the predicament her rangers are in until you get the quest.
  • 8 of 8: NOTE: If you give up on reviving Reilly, you can go ahead and rescue the trapped rangers without officially getting the quest. However, you won't be able to open the code-locked ammo box or raid the Ranger Compound early.