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Holotag Tips

  • 1 of 6: If you have any Brotherhood holotags in your inventory, you can ask various people about them to be referred to Scribe Jameson.
  • 2 of 6: You'll usually find her in the southern-most rooms in the A Ring area.
  • 3 of 6: Ask her about the holotags to learn what they are, then turn over all the ones you have to get 100 caps and 25 XP for each one.
  • 4 of 6: As for where to find holotags, they're usually only found on dead Brotherhood members. (Though there is one lying around loose on a wooden table in the A Ring's northern-most rooms.)
  • 5 of 6: You can find live Brotherhood members in and around the Citadel, the Arlington Public Library (location 20 on the Zone 9 Map), and in several of the D.C. ruins interior regions. You probably won't be able to kill them yourself, so do your best to get them killed by local hostiles (such as super mutants) or by using the mesmetron to frenzy them (see the "Strictly Business" misc. quest).
  • 6 of 6: Below is a list of all the Brotherhood initiates that are already dead when you find them, making it easy for you to claim their holotags.