The quest starts aboard the USS Ozymandias, a beached research vessel east of shore, on a rocky outcropping. Inside the boat, there is a key-locked safe, which can only be unlocked from a nearby terminal. To do this, you will need to retrieve three Soil Samples from locations across Point Lookout. The quest may also start if you find a muck hole and pick up one of the holodisks, before even finding the boat.
Each Soil Sample is within an excavated muck hole on the surface. Each hole is surrounded by radioactive muck and Feral Ghouls. And each is filled with flammable gas. Inside each are several Bio-Gas Canisters, and the Soil Sample, contained on a holodisk. Once they are collected, return to the Ozymandias.
Soil Sample #1 is inside an excavated muck hole north of the Trash Heap.
Soil Sample #2 is inside an excavated muck hole east of Lil' Tyke Playhouse.
Soil Sample #3 is inside an excavated muck hole northwest of the Jet Crash Site.
Each sample will unlock a corresponding entry on the terminal, releasing the safe door. Once all three are entered, the safe opens. Inside are ten Bio-Gas Canisters, Radiation Suits, Rad-X bottles, and RadAway packets. You are awarded 50XP for finishing this quest.
The quest makes frequent references to English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley - the Bysshe company in the quest receives its name from Shelley's own middle name. The USS Ozymandias is named after one of Shelley's most prominent sonnets, and the quest's name is taken from this sonnet's first line: "I met a traveller from an antique land".
