Part 10 – King Kong
We’ve been primarily doing side missions throughout the last 3 updates. I think it’s time we got back to the main mission to find Daddy Neeson.
Moriarty’s computer told us that Daddy Neeson went to somewhere called Galaxy News Radio Headquarters in the capital.
Ok. Let’s go. I’m looking forward to beating him up for lying to us.
On the way there, we get attacked by a bunch of raiders.
Hey, why you attack us?
I think they just want to kill us and take our stuff.
Isn’t there any way to end this peacefully? Perhaps a bribe or something?
Nope. But, would you really have just handed them over money if they asked for it?
Perhaps... maybe I would’ve felt sorry for the guy.
Really?
Well, probably not... but the option should still be there.
Ya know, being a raider sounds kinda fun. We should try to join up with these guys. C’mon!! It’ll be fun!!!
Nope. Fallout 3 doesn’t let us join up with any of the raiders.
:evil:
Anyway, we finally reach the capital:
This is the Washington DC. It’s full of ruined buildings and destroyed cars.
Ok. According to our map, we should be really close to the GNR building... Just a little east of here.
Nope. The city is full of all sorts of artificial barriers that we’re not able to cross.
Here is a bunch of rubble that the game doesn't let us cross.
Why can’t we just climb over this thing. Shouldn’t be too hard...
The game doesn’t let us.
Then, how do we get there?
We have to travel through this subway tunnel.
This is the entrance to The Farragut West Subway Station.
For a game that was marketed to have sandbox style environments, the city is extremely linear and forces us to take a specific path to reach a particular destination.
Inside the subway, we find a bunch of feral ghouls.
You could put on the ghoul mask that Roy Phillips gave you. With that equipped, the ghouls won’t attack us.
Fuck that. I’m not putting that thing on my face. It’s disgusting.
So, we kill a bunch of them until we get out of the tunnels.
Once we’re outside, we get to fight our very first Super Mutant!!
In Fallout 3, these creatures will just attack you on sight and you can’t reason with them.
FACT: Super Mutants look like big yellow orcs.
Naturally, we kill him fairly easily.
On the way to the Galaxy News Radio building, we come across these guys. They’re part of the legendary Brotherhood of Steel.
She’s the leader of this group.
What’s the Brotherhood of Steel?
In Fallout 3, the Brotherhoold of Steel is the name of the paladin order that protect Washington DC.
So, these paladins will protect us?
Yeah.
Even though we blew up one town and also caused the deaths of everyone in another town?
Exactly.
:D
FACT: GNR stands for the Galaxy News Radio.
Conveniently, they’re also heading to the GNR building. We decide to tag along. (Actually, the game doesn’t give us any choice but to follow them.)
We finally reach the GNR building. It’s being attacked by Super Mutants.
Our new friends help us kill them.
The fight is fairly easy and we kill all the Super Mutants. The scene is fairly peaceful...
...until a giant Orc blasts through the barrier and heads our way!!
FACT: This Super Mutant Behemoth uses a fire hydrant grafted onto a pole as his weapon. This weapon will kill you in one hit.
Conveniently, one of the nearby Brotherhood of Steel paladins who got killed in this epic battle happens to have a portable nuclear missile launcher.
Hold on a second. We’re not gonna fire that thing at the monster, are we?!!
What’s wrong with that?
Well, won’t we get destroyed in the blast radius? Or at least get radiated to hell?!!
Nope. In Fallout 3, you can launch a nuke at a target 20 yards away without any danger of being caught in the blast.
So, that’s exactly what we do. We fire the nuke at the monster. It took me two nukes in order to kill him.
Yay!! We killed him!! Let’s go loot the body.
WTF? We just lauched a nuke at it!! Won’t there be tons of radiation near his body?
Nope.
So, we head over to the body and loot the corpse. Our radiation meter doesn’t increase at all.
Hey, didn’t we also find a suit of power armor on that dead Brotherhood of Steel dude? It looked like a pretty nice piece of armor. Let’s equip it.
We can’t. In Fallout 3, you need to have receive ‘Power Armor Training’ in order to even put it on. Same with the helmet.
So, where can we get this training?
We can’t right now. We get it in a manditory story mission later on in the game.
She thanks us for helping kill the giant orc.
So... umm, what you guys doing here?
Anyway, we’re looking for our daddy. We’re fairly certain that he came here recently. Do you know who might have info on where he is?
Translation: When she says: “He’s umm... interesting”, she actually means “The dude is completely inane”
Inside the building, we find a bunch of Brotherhood of Steel members.
Three Dog is a DJ who runs Galaxy News Radio. Here’s his studio where he broadcasts from.
And here’s the man himself:
Actually, we don’t really care who you are.
Nice story, bro.
There’s people out there trying to just barely make by each day. Fighting to stay alive and make something of what they got.
But then you’ve got all kinds of shit... Slavers, Super Mutants, Raiders... They all want a slice of the pie too and aim to take it by force.
I keep them informed about all the shit going on in the Wasteland.
Didn’t we just tell you that we don’t really care?
FACT: Only the most intelligent people are capable of making this assessment.
:facepalm:
Whatever. Just tell me where daddy is now.
You wanna find your dad? Well, it just so happens that his location is known to me.
Ugh... Not another filler quest.
That shiny thing was our broadcast relay. Without it, our broadcast range is quite limited.
And you want us to replace it for you?
One of the Brotherhood guys mentioned seeing a dish in one of the old museums.
I need you to get it and take it to the Washington Monument to replace the broken one.
Then you tell us where daddy is?
Exactly.
Whatever. Let’s just get this over with.
In order to get there, we have to go through a fairly lengthy tunnel level. We kill a bunch of super mutants, ghouls, and raiders on the way.
We finally arrive at the museum.
This is the inside of the museum. It’s infested with Super Mutants.
Dude, that thing is fucking gigantic! How the hell are we supposed to carry that out?
Fallout 3 lets us store it in our inventory, just like any other item. Apparently, we can just put the dish into our pockets.
Really? This thing must be heavy as hell.
Nope. According to the inventory screen, it doesn’t even weigh anything. We won’t get incumbered or anything like that.
The dialogue window even tells us that it ‘appears to be easy to remove’ and take.
Anyway, we need to take this thing to the Washington Monument and replace the broken dish.
Ok. Let’s go.
After we take the dish, we backtrack and leave the museum.
The Washington Monument is very close to the museum. It’s the big phallic tower in the distance.
We walk over there and head for the entrance:
The tower is currently being guarded by a couple of Brotherhood of Steel knights. They allow us to enter the building.
We take the elevator to the top level of the tower.
What the hell? From outside, the tower looked like it was completely destroyed. And yet, the elevator still works?
I mean, this thing looks like it should’ve collapsed decades ago. How the fuck does the elevator still work?
I agree... Doesn’t make much sense.
Anyway, we head to the top of the tower and install the new dish.
Whatever... Let’s just head back to Three Dog.
Umm... we finished your quest.
Yeah, we know. Just tell us where Daddy Neeson went.
When your dad passed through here, we talked for good long time. He’s a real stand-up kind of guy.
Rivet City?
He’s talking about Rivet City.
Just follow the river south from here... There’s no way you can miss it.
End of update.
Next time, we head to Rivet city.
