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Helping the AntAgonizer
1 of 16: Go to the area NW of town that's marked on the world map with a quest arrow to find a metal door to some tunnels.
2 of 16: In the tunnel, go forward and down some stairs, then sneak carefully forward so you can disarm and grab a frag mine.
3 of 16: Head north from there to reach a large room. Go along its walkway and down some stairs to reach its lower floor.
4 of 16: Go out the lower door and along the passage until it divides. Go the left way if you want to claim three more frag mines and nab a stealth boy off a shelf, then go back and go the other way.
5 of 16: Be ready to start fighting giant ants after you descend the stairs and open another door.
6 of 16: When you come to a small section of concrete tunnel, jump over the radioactive water in it and go through the hole in the opposite wall.
7 of 16: Keep going down the cave tunnel and fighting ants until you come to a door to the AntAgonizer's Lair.
8 of 16: Go along the lair's cave tunnel until you reach a large cave room where the AntAgonizer can be found sitting on her throne.
9 of 16: After quicksaving, approach her to get her to talk to you, then choose from the three responses you're given.
10 of 16: The first choice is an attempt to talk her into giving up her identity as the AntAgonizer. If you learned her real name from Joe Porter and can pass a very hard Speech Challenge, she'll give you her AntAgonizer costume and leave.
11 of 16: The third choice is to provoke her into a fight. She'll go down easily, but her ant followers won't.
12 of 16: However, the second choice of helping her get rid of the Mechanist is by far the best, since it's the only way you can get the unique Ant's Sting melee weapon.
13 of 16: Say that you swear to destroy the Mechanist and his pitiful toys, and he'll promptly show up with some protectrons and attack the throne room.
14 of 16: You can let the AntAgonizer and her ants do most of the work, but you'll want to make sure the AntAgonizer survives the battle.
15 of 16: Get the Mechanist's costume and helmet from his body, then talk to the AntAgonizer and hand them over to get the Ant's Sting weapon, plus her immediate departure from the area.
16 of 16: If you want a quick way out of the lair, you can kill or pickpocket the AntAgonizer to get her key, which can be used on the locked ladder in her bedroom area to go straight outside.
