Here Kitty, Kitty is a side quest in Fallout 4.
Quick walkthrough
| Side quest: Here Kitty, Kitty | |||||||||||||
| Enter Vault 81. | |||||||||||||
| Talk to Erin about her lost cat. | |||||||||||||
| Leave the vault to find her cat. | |||||||||||||
| Head East out of Vault 81 towards Chestnut Hillock Reservoir. | |||||||||||||
| Find Ashes the cat there and send it back home. | |||||||||||||
| Talk to Erin. | |||||||||||||
| Reward: 75 XP a Fusion core or a kickball or a silver locket or a teddy bear | |||||||||||||
Detailed walkthrough
As the Sole Survivor enters Vault 81, Ashes (the cat owned by Erin Combes, a young vault resident) runs out of the vault. Upon seeing this, residents of the vault will comment on it, directing the Sole Survivor to speak with Erin if asked about it. Erin may also approach the Sole Survivor. She explains Ashes scratched her and she yelled at him to go away, but she has no idea where he went. If the speech checks are passed when asking for a reward, she'll offer her favorite kickball, her old teddy bear, or, lastly, the heirloom she received from her mother. While not mentioned by her, the initial reward would have been a fusion core, which is more favorable and valuable than all the former options.
Ashes can be found east of the vault towards the Chestnut Hillock Reservoir, sitting on the docks, or on the opposite side of the reservoir, near the skeleton in the wheelchair. He may either be killed, which results in failing the quest, or talked to to have him independently walk back to the vault. Once he's back in the vault, talk to Erin again to receive the reward.
Quest stages
Notes
- If the quest Hole in the Wall does not start after meeting all of its requirements, doing this quest has been known to get it to trigger (although this quest itself is not a direct requirement); however, any activity away from Vault 81 for a period of time will trigger the quest.
- The player can send Ashes home from up to 60 yards away, by triggering the "Send Home" action through the scope of a scoped weapon.
- If the internal door between the elevator and the vault door is closed before Ashes runs through the doorway, Ashes will continue to run into the closed door. After running in place for a few seconds (and potentially clipping into the door), the door will reopen, and Ashes will run through, allowing the quest to continue as normal.
Bugs
For Xbox One, the quest can be completed by reverting to a previous version of the game. This requires disconnecting your console from the network and installing Fallout 4 from a disc without allowing installation of the 1.3 patch. [verified]- When turning in the quest and Erin speaks to Ashes, he may not emit any sounds at all and be completely silent. The subtitles still appear as if he is making the noises, and the quest continues as normal.[verified]
- Hearing about the quest from a NPC after accepting the quest from Erin will result in the quest telling you-you need to speak to Erin, marking her as the quest objective resulting in her only responding as though you had spoken to her and the cat not appearing at the dock.[verified]
- It is possible to fix this bug by using the console commands resetquest 00033520 and setstage 00033520 10, then speaking to Erin. Another possible fix is to use prid 000c437b, and moveto player while in the Vault. Ashes will try to return to Chestnut Hillock Reservoir, and one can then use setstage 00033520 200. The player should tell Ashes to go home, and he will run to Erin, completing the quest.
- When you get Ashes home and talk to Erin, she may only say generic dialogue and not reward you.[verified]
- Ashes may not appear next to Erin when returned even though she talks to it normally and the quest is marked as complete.[verified]
- Sometimes the option to send Ashes home might not show up. One known cause is if patch 1.3 was installed after entering Vault 81, but before starting this quest. [verified]
- If you cannot issue the return home command, use the console commands resetquest 00033520 and setstage 00033520 100. These will allow Ashes to be interacted with and the quest to be completed normally.[verified]
- Alternatively, if you have changed the default key for the "Action" command, changing it back to "E" temporary will sometimes allow you to send Ashes home.
- If neither of these work, use the console command setstage 00033520 200. This should advance the quest to "Talk to Erin", and make Ashes run home.
- Even if passing all three speech checks for the maximum reward, all the player will receive is the teddy bear at the end of the quest. [verified]
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