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aaaaaaaagh_sky, and it's spoilerriffic with no lj-cuts, fair warning. I've been writing up different sections of the game so far as narrative in her journal, much like I did with Gordon Freeman and Half-Life. Problem is I just ran headlong into something on the Wasteland Survival Guide quest.
I'm up to the Arlington Library portion of the quest. In game, you meet a Scribe of the Brotherhood of Steel at the remains of the Arlington Public Library. She tells you the Brotherhood is there gathering what few readable books remain for entry into their archives. If you're on the quest, you're there to download the contents of the card catalog, with the option of finding a terminal that still has access to the full archives of the library. The archive terminal is deep in the library and there are radroaches and raiders out the wazoo between you and the terminal. Find a prewar book in readable condition and bring it to the Scribe, and she pays you a hundred caps for it. You can come back to her throughout the game with any readable prewar books you find and get all that cash.
Thing is. I can't imagine the character I'm playing- a high Good Karma individual with a gentle temperament and a respect for knowledge, as she was raised a scientist's daughter- not offering the Scribe the library archive contents once she gets them. She met the Brotherhood Outcasts first, and they were jerks, but then she met Paladin Hoss and his crew in Falls Church, and she wound up respecting them. Finding out what Scribe Yearling was there for would probably tip her further in the respect direction, since Scribe Yearling's pretty decent- a little stiff at first, but she's not a jerk. Ellen- my Vault 101 Dweller- is on the naive side, or at least tends to assume the best of people until they actively treat her like jerks, so I can only assume that she'd offer Scribe Yearling a copy of the archive contents. Which, according to all the dialogue in the game, is the contents of every book in the Arlington public library as of late 2077.
Having all the info obviates Scribe Yearling's mission at the library. Am I justified in having her pack up and leave the library as soon as she's verified the archive contents? Nice as a constant source of caps in Arlington might be, it's not as if Ellen has the ability to Fast Travel that you have in the game. I don't want to ask too much realism of Ellen's setting, because it is Fallout, but there ought to be at least a modicum of plausibility in human behavior. And if you have the contents of ALL THE BOOKS EVAR in a library where you were originally just hoping to recover a handful, well, that's sort of grounds for going home, isn't it?
aaaaaaaagh_sky, and it's spoilerriffic with no lj-cuts, fair warning. I've been writing up different sections of the game so far as narrative in her journal, much like I did with Gordon Freeman and Half-Life. Problem is I just ran headlong into something on the Wasteland Survival Guide quest.I'm up to the Arlington Library portion of the quest. In game, you meet a Scribe of the Brotherhood of Steel at the remains of the Arlington Public Library. She tells you the Brotherhood is there gathering what few readable books remain for entry into their archives. If you're on the quest, you're there to download the contents of the card catalog, with the option of finding a terminal that still has access to the full archives of the library. The archive terminal is deep in the library and there are radroaches and raiders out the wazoo between you and the terminal. Find a prewar book in readable condition and bring it to the Scribe, and she pays you a hundred caps for it. You can come back to her throughout the game with any readable prewar books you find and get all that cash.
Thing is. I can't imagine the character I'm playing- a high Good Karma individual with a gentle temperament and a respect for knowledge, as she was raised a scientist's daughter- not offering the Scribe the library archive contents once she gets them. She met the Brotherhood Outcasts first, and they were jerks, but then she met Paladin Hoss and his crew in Falls Church, and she wound up respecting them. Finding out what Scribe Yearling was there for would probably tip her further in the respect direction, since Scribe Yearling's pretty decent- a little stiff at first, but she's not a jerk. Ellen- my Vault 101 Dweller- is on the naive side, or at least tends to assume the best of people until they actively treat her like jerks, so I can only assume that she'd offer Scribe Yearling a copy of the archive contents. Which, according to all the dialogue in the game, is the contents of every book in the Arlington public library as of late 2077.
Having all the info obviates Scribe Yearling's mission at the library. Am I justified in having her pack up and leave the library as soon as she's verified the archive contents? Nice as a constant source of caps in Arlington might be, it's not as if Ellen has the ability to Fast Travel that you have in the game. I don't want to ask too much realism of Ellen's setting, because it is Fallout, but there ought to be at least a modicum of plausibility in human behavior. And if you have the contents of ALL THE BOOKS EVAR in a library where you were originally just hoping to recover a handful, well, that's sort of grounds for going home, isn't it?
