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| name = Guide 103
| image = AWikiEditor.gif
| description = Get a strong start exploring solo!
| season = 3rd (Began 2017 Sept 01)
| status = '''Setting up structure only...'''
| complete = 3%
| authors = [[User:Henry|Henry]]
| chapter = Chapter 2
| chapters = [[Guide 103: Intro]]<br>[[Guide 103: Outline]]<br>[[Guide 103: Chapter 1]]<br>'''Guide 103: Chapter 2'''<br>Guide 103: Chapter 3
| notes = Add [[Whisky Bob]]<br>Add [[Thirsty Ronald]]<br>Add [[A Man's Job]]<br>Add [[Rail Line Gang]]<br>Add Stranded Rust
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<div class="center" style="color:red; font-size:125%">'''A WORK IN PROGRESS'''</div>
<code><div class="center" style="color:red; font-size:110%">'''You might prefer the [[Guide Sandbox|Express Version]] for now.'''</div></code>

==Packing Light==
Drop all extra items at your tent, and bring all of your [[Caps]] (you need 17k or more), and only: [[Spiked Knuckles]] in Slot 1, a [[Radio]] in Slot 2, a [[Hatchet]], a [[Tool]], your best [[Knife]], and several [[Beer]]s. By now you should be wearing a [[Leather Helmet]] and [[Leather Armor]]. Let's go!

==Necropolis==
Head straight east to [[Necropolis]], and enter Motel. Speak with [[Thrane]]. He has a long dialogue and sometimes he walks away which ends the conversation prematurely. Start it again and keep trying until you finish it normally. You'll know if it worked when you get [[XP]]. Go inside and give 34 [[Nuka-Cola]]s to [[Krieger]]. Exit and re-enter [[Necropolis]] via Watershed. Run up the street to the manhole cover. Go down the ladder and beat all of the sewer rats. Return to the street and run in to speak with [[Elmer]]. He gives you a [[Tape]]. Read that to update your [[Pip-Boy]] with his message to [[Skeeter]]. Now run to the back of this building, into one of the small rooms. Find the ladder down. Go down to bottom level, into vault, and use elevator to get to Level 3. On Level 3, run to the working computer, insert your [[Pip-Boy]] and run the '''vemxp.exe''' program. Wait a while (keep pressing 1) for the "''user interface to load''", and eventually something happens. You're not sure what, but someone taps you on the shoulder and runs away. You have to follow him!

==Outside==
Exit [[Necropolis]] and chase down the guy who you suspect murdered your friend. He's waiting to ambush you just outside of town. Go there and he tries to clobber you. Defeat him easily with your [[Heavy Handed]] punches, and exit. Hike 12 [[Zone]]s north by 3 [[Zone]]s east to find [[Vault 15]]. Drink a beer if you have any left, and enter. Defeat the cave rats, and access the working terminal just inside the vault entrance. Use [[Science]] skill on certain computers there to get some [[Electronic Parts]]. No need to use the elevator. exit when done, and exit to [[The World]] map again. Head 5 [[Zone]]s straight west to [[Shady Sands]].

==Shady Sands==
Enter the town and speak first with Iguana Mikey about your quest to find Pete's son. Then talk to Buster next-door to get some work for him. Then run down toward the town gate and into the Rawhide Saloon. Speak with Nora about delivering a letter, with Mira about Buster's job, and with Mira again about paying back a debt, and then with Lenny about Son of Bob. (Get the dialogue with Lenny right or that quest fails.)

Then run into town through the gate and straight east into the water pump building. Talk with Dorothy twice to deliver Nora's letter. Next run west to the medical research building and speak with Dr Henry about a deal with Doc Jubilee. Go straight to Dusty's Cantina and talk to Dusty to pay back Mira's debt. Ask him what's on the menu and eat some food. Run over to the hospital and talk with Doc Jubilee about the deal with Dr Henry.

Report back to Dr Henry about the deal. Report back to Mira about the debt. Report back to Nora about the letter. Report back to Buster about the smokes.

'''<span style="color:blue">◄Welcome to Level 10</span>'''! Distribute [[Skill Points]] to make [[Doctor]] '''50''', from 36, and [[Close Combat]] '''146''' from 140.'''<span style="color:blue">►</span>'''

Exit [[Shady Sands]] and go to Train Station nearby. Cross the train tracks and speak with the Ranger Captain. Get his dialogue right and you get some shiny new armor. Put on that armor, and exit back to [[The World]] map.

==Broken Hills==
Travel to [[Zones|Zone]] 29:17 to find the next town, [[Broken Hills]]. Press '''C''' to open your [[Character]] screen and note your [[Carry Weight]] limit. Now enter the town and go into the bar to talk with Francis to get the [[Strong Back]] Support Perk. Note your [[Carry Weight]] limit just permanently increased.

==Vault City==
Exit [[Broken Hills]] and start heading north 11 zones to [[Vault City]]. Go into the clinic, get the [[Medical Investigation]] quest from Doctor Andrew.

'''<span style="color:blue">◄Welcome to Level 11</span>'''! Distribute [[Skill Points]] to make [[Close Combat]] '''150''' from 146, and [[Doctor]] '''52''' from 50, and [[Speech]] '''30''' from 15.'''<span style="color:blue">►</span>'''

-next steps-

'''<span style="color:blue">◄Welcome to Level 12</span>'''! Choose '''Lifegiver''', and distribute [[Skill Points]] to make [[Doctor]] '''75''' from 52.'''<span style="color:blue">►</span>'''

-complete quests back in Hub/Necrop, start Heist-

'''<span style="color:blue">◄Welcome to Level 13</span>'''! Distribute [[Skill Points]] to make [[Speech]] '''53''' from 30.'''<span style="color:blue">►</span>'''

-Complete Heist, do water runs, Charlie in Gecko-

'''<span style="color:blue">◄Welcome to Level 14</span>'''! Distribute [[Skill Points]] to make [[Close Combat]] '''160''' from 150, and [[Speech]] '''57''' from 53.'''<span style="color:blue">►</span>'''

-water runs-

'''<span style="color:blue">◄Welcome to Level 15</span>'''! Distribute [[Skill Points]] to make [[Close Combat]] '''170''' from 160, and [[Speech]] '''61''' from 57.'''<span style="color:blue">►</span>'''

-wip-

==Abroad==
(Then: Train Stations to SF, Tanker, exit to mine, up to Ranger, east to Reno for car)<br>
(Next CW in Redding, Old Traditions, main quest)<br>
(More: Den for food, Klamath for Light Step and Toxic Caves, Modoc (20 Meat/10 Jerky), VCity, main quest)<br>
(Back South: Necropolis for Elmer, Hub for Band, Jacob, Fr O'Shaughnessy, Water Runs)

==More Exercises==
*Show NPC Hit Points
*Show tag indicators
*'''Control+G''' and '''Control+D''' to "Grab All" and "Drop All'' items in a single hex, simultaneously
*Use '''Control+(click item)''' to "Fast-Transfer" items between your [[Inventory]] and container

==Table of Contents==
* [[Guide 103: Intro]]
* [[Guide 103: Chapter 1]]
* '''Guide 103: Chapter 2'''
* Guide 103: Chapter 3

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