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|map marker ='''Vault 106'''
 
|map marker ='''Vault 106'''
|leaders =Overseer [[Albert Leris]]
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|leaders =[[Albert Leris]] - [[overseer]]
 
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|local map desc =Local map with [[torn out journal entry]]
 
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|refid ={{ID|00103c}} (exterior)<br />{{ID|018528}} (entrance)<br />{{ID|018529}} (living quarters)<br />{{ID|034a53}} (living quarters)<br />{{ID|034a54}} (living quarters)<br />{{ID|018536}} (science lab)
 
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|terminal =[[Vault 106 terminal entries]]
 
|terminal =[[Vault 106 terminal entries]]
|footer =[[Image:Vault 106 door geck.jpg|240px]]<br />Vault entrance
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==Background==
 
==Background==
As part of the [[Vault#True Purpose|Vault Experiment]], psychoactive drugs were released into the Vault 106 air filtration system 10 days after the door was sealed. By [[Timeline#2277|2277]], the vault's interior is mostly destroyed, and filled with [[insane survivor]]s. The psychoactive drugs are still being pumped through the vault's air filtration systems, as evidenced by the player's vision suddenly being shaded blue at the same time that hallucinations appear. Information in the vault's computer terminals reveals that the [[Albert Leris|Overseer]] knew that the inhabitants of his vault would be fodder for drug testing and he instructed his security personnel to tell those in the vault that everything was fine. At the very end of the vault is a cave-like area, where skeletons and other items are located, including a [[mini nuke]], suggesting some of the vault dwellers may have been trying to blow their way out.
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As part of the [[Vault#True Purpose|Vault Experiment]], psychoactive drugs were released into the Vault 106 air filtration system 10 days after the door was sealed. By [[Timeline#2277|2277]], the vault's interior is mostly destroyed, and filled with [[insane survivor]]s. The psychoactive drugs are still being pumped through the vault's air filtration systems, as evidenced by the player's vision suddenly being shaded blue at the same time that hallucinations appear. Information in the vault's computer terminals reveals that the [[Albert Leris|Overseer]] knew that the inhabitants of his vault would be fodder for drug testing and he instructed his security personnel to tell those in the vault that everything was fine. At the very end of the vault is a cave-like area, where skeletons and other items are located, including a [[Mini nuke (Fallout 3)|mini nuke]], suggesting some of the vault dwellers may have been trying to blow their way out.
 
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| Official Vault-Tec Info (from Computer at the Citadel)
 
| Official Vault-Tec Info (from Computer at the Citadel)
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==Notable loot==
 
==Notable loot==
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===Entrance===
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* The [[Torn out journal entry]] can be found under a large ruined book on a table (with another large ruined book and a chemistry set) in one of the side rooms. Coming from the vault door down the stairs to the right first hall way you encounter, first room on the right.
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===Living quarters===
 
===Living quarters===
 
[[File:Vault 106 living quarters map.png|thumb|220px|Local map with notes, bobblehead and skill book]]
 
[[File:Vault 106 living quarters map.png|thumb|220px|Local map with notes, bobblehead and skill book]]
* The [[Bobblehead - Science|Science bobblehead]] is located in the living quarters. After you first enter the living quarters (it's a two level room: top level), enter the door on the far left hand side of the room, diagonally across from where you first enter. Proceed to a hallway into a fairly large room (for a vault); this room has 3 windows on each side that look into a subterranean cave. The bobblehead is on a bookshelf against the back wall (3rd shelf)
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* A copy of [[Nikola Tesla and You (Fallout 3)|Nikola Tesla and You]] is inside the classroom in the living quarters. After you first enter the living quarters (it's a two level hall: top level), enter the door on the left hand side of the hall. The book is hidden, together with two tin cans, in the bottom wooden box of those stacked (with a drinking glass at their top) on the teacher's desk.
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* The [[Bobblehead - Science|Science bobblehead]] is located far diagonally across from where you first enter. Proceed to a hallway next to the classroom into a fairly large room (for a vault); this room has 3 windows on each side that look into a subterranean cave. The bobblehead is on a bookshelf against the back wall (3rd shelf).
* A copy of [[Nikola Tesla and You (Fallout 3)|Nikola Tesla and You]] is inside the classroom in the living quarters - the room to your left after you first enter the living quarters area. It's hidden in the bottom wooden box of those stacked on the teacher's desk.
 
 
* A poem entitled "[[Scribbles]]" is found on a table with a monitor on it, near the entrance to the Overseer's office.
 
* A poem entitled "[[Scribbles]]" is found on a table with a monitor on it, near the entrance to the Overseer's office.
* [[To anyone who gets this]] - A note, right in front of the locked (average) door south in the local map. It is written by a non-insane vault resident.
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* [[Feel the love man]] - A note, downstairs in the left most room of the male dorms. It appears to have been written by one of the insane vault residents.
* [[Feel the love man]] - Another note, downstairs in the left most room of the male dorms. It appears to have been written by one of the insane vault residents.
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* [[To anyone who gets this]] - Another note, on the ground in front of the locked (average) door south in the local map. It is written by a non-insane vault resident.
   
 
===Science lab===
 
===Science lab===
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* A book [[Tumblers Today (Fallout 3)|Tumblers Today]] is on the science lab level. From the entrance, head straight down the corridor and take the stairs to the right. It's the first door on the right after the stairs, in the large room with all the machines. Turn left after entering and head to the back of the room - the book is on top of an overturned machine, near to the window (two bottles of milk are also on top).
 
* A book [[Tumblers Today (Fallout 3)|Tumblers Today]] is on the science lab level. From the entrance, head straight down the corridor and take the stairs to the right. It's the first door on the right after the stairs, in the large room with all the machines. Turn left after entering and head to the back of the room - the book is on top of an overturned machine, near to the window (two bottles of milk are also on top).
 
* A [[mini nuke (Fallout 3)|mini nuke]] is in the final room of the science lab area, just past the fight with the [[Vault 106 survivor]].
 
* A [[mini nuke (Fallout 3)|mini nuke]] is in the final room of the science lab area, just past the fight with the [[Vault 106 survivor]].
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* There are two [[Fallout 3 keys#Vault 106 master key|Vault 106 master key]]s (which can open the door to Overseer's Office).
* There are two [[Fallout 3 keys#Vault 106 master key|Vault 106 master key]]s located in the Vault. One can be found next to a functional computer terminal in the northwest corner of a room in the living quarters that is only accessible through the science labs. (You can see the room and the science lab's door through barred windows in the living quarters, but you have to go through a door in a room with a reactor in the labs to get to it.) There is also a hidden key at the bottom of a shelf in the store room, behind the one where you fight the [[Vault 106 survivor]]. This key cannot be picked up without using the tcl command and going as close as possible to the key.
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** One can be found next to a functional computer terminal in the northwest corner of a room in the living quarters that is only accessible through the science labs. (You can see the room and the science lab's door through barred windows in the living quarters, but you have to go upstairs, through a door in a room with a reactor in the labs to get to it.)
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** There is another one at the bottom of a shelf in the store room, behind the one where you fight the [[Vault 106 survivor]]. Note: this "key" is actually a red passcard. Although it looks normal, you cannot see the message when hovering the mouse pointer over it, and thus cannot pick it up. It is probably a bug. You may use the "tcl" command and go closer to reach the key.
   
 
==Notes==
 
==Notes==
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* You can wait during the hallucinations.
 
* You can wait during the hallucinations.
 
* Grenades, if thrown in a hallucination, will explode once the hallucination has ended but the explosion won't be heard where the grenade was thrown, but it will be heard elsewhere.
 
* Grenades, if thrown in a hallucination, will explode once the hallucination has ended but the explosion won't be heard where the grenade was thrown, but it will be heard elsewhere.
* If [[Fawkes]] is present for the Tunnel Snake hallucinations, he will see them as well, for some reason, and attack. The same is true for [[Cross|Star Paladin Cross]], [[Charon (Fallout 3)|Charon]] and [[Jericho (character)|Jericho]].
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* If [[Fawkes]] is present for the Tunnel Snake hallucinations, he will see them as well, for some reason, and attack. The same is true for [[Cross|Star Paladin Cross]], [[Charon (Fallout 3)|Charon]], [[Jericho (character)|Jericho]] and [[Butch DeLoria|Butch]].
 
* The large, unreachable cavern the vault has been built within is visible from windows in the room containing the Science bobblehead.
 
* The large, unreachable cavern the vault has been built within is visible from windows in the room containing the Science bobblehead.
*A poem can be found near the overseers office saying "scribbledy bibbledy hoodledy hoo. wing wang bricka bang choo choo choo. Upsideup Popsicle tastes like blue. Ghost's in the hall go boo boo boo
 
   
 
==Appearances==
 
==Appearances==
Vault 106 appears only in ''[[Fallout 3]]'' but is mentioned in ''[[Fallout Bible 1]]'' and in a [[Fallout 2 cut content|cut]] section of [[Vault 13]]'s [[Oscomptr.msg|voice interface terminal]] in ''[[Fallout 2]]''. <ref>[[File:106InFO2.jpg|200px]]</ref>
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Vault 106 appears only in ''[[Fallout 3]]'' but is mentioned in ''[[Fallout Bible 1]]'' and in a [[Fallout 2 cut content|cut]] section of [[Vault 13]]'s [[Oscomptr.msg|voice interface terminal]] in ''[[Fallout 2]]''. <ref>[[File:106InFO2.jpg|100px]]</ref>
   
 
==Behind the scenes==
 
==Behind the scenes==
 
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{{FO3CC}}
* Vault 106 was originally filled with water. <ref> http://www.computerandvideogames.com/193691/previews/fallout-3/ (Page 2) </ref>
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* Vault 106 was originally filled with water. <ref>http://www.computerandvideogames.com/193691/previews/fallout-3/ (Page 2)</ref>
 
* Several additional hallucinations were planned and partially implemented for Vault 106, including a room appearing upside-down for a short time, a hallway where the Lone Wanderer would gradually shrink as they progressed along it, hallways appearing where blank walls had been before, and the "boss" survivor initially appearing identical to the Lone Wanderer's father. Most of these were cut for unknown reasons.
 
* Several additional hallucinations were planned and partially implemented for Vault 106, including a room appearing upside-down for a short time, a hallway where the Lone Wanderer would gradually shrink as they progressed along it, hallways appearing where blank walls had been before, and the "boss" survivor initially appearing identical to the Lone Wanderer's father. Most of these were cut for unknown reasons.
 
* In addition to the unused hallucinations, a special helmet called the [[makeshift gas mask]] was placed in two locations within Vault 106. Wearing the mask would have prevented any further hallucinations from happening. The mask was mostly implemented, but suffered from a scripting flaw which permanently re-applied the blue tint whenever it was removed, even outside of Vault 106.
 
* In addition to the unused hallucinations, a special helmet called the [[makeshift gas mask]] was placed in two locations within Vault 106. Wearing the mask would have prevented any further hallucinations from happening. The mask was mostly implemented, but suffered from a scripting flaw which permanently re-applied the blue tint whenever it was removed, even outside of Vault 106.
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Vault106fullView.jpg|The beta version of Living quarters' dorms (not seen during normal gameplay)
 
Vault106fullView.jpg|The beta version of Living quarters' dorms (not seen during normal gameplay)
 
Vault 106 computers ruined.jpg|The computer room after the hallucination
 
Vault 106 computers ruined.jpg|The computer room after the hallucination
Vault106_Science_bobblehead.jpg|The [[Science bobblehead]] in the living quarters
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Vault106_Science_bobblehead.jpg|The [[Bobblehead_-_Science|Science bobblehead]] in the living quarters
 
FO3 TT Vault 106.jpg|[[Tumblers Today (Fallout 3)|Tumblers Today]]
 
FO3 TT Vault 106.jpg|[[Tumblers Today (Fallout 3)|Tumblers Today]]
 
FO3 Vault 106 skeletons.jpg|Ending of the cave, filled with skeletons
 
FO3 Vault 106 skeletons.jpg|Ending of the cave, filled with skeletons

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To Vault Security: If any of our residents notice any unusual odor or faint taste to the air, please assure them that everything is okay. There was a slight irregularity in our filtration system but nothing to cause alarm; the systems have already been corrected and are 100% functional again. If you notice anyone acting out in a strange manner, please report the disturbance immediately so medical assistance can be sent.Vault 106 Overseer

Vault 106 is one of the Vault-Tec Vaults located in the Capital Wasteland. It is located within a large cavern southeast of Arefu, directly south of Kaelyn's Bed & Breakfast, and a bit north of Jury Street Metro station.

Background

As part of the Vault Experiment, psychoactive drugs were released into the Vault 106 air filtration system 10 days after the door was sealed. By 2277, the vault's interior is mostly destroyed, and filled with insane survivors. The psychoactive drugs are still being pumped through the vault's air filtration systems, as evidenced by the player's vision suddenly being shaded blue at the same time that hallucinations appear. Information in the vault's computer terminals reveals that the Overseer knew that the inhabitants of his vault would be fodder for drug testing and he instructed his security personnel to tell those in the vault that everything was fine. At the very end of the vault is a cave-like area, where skeletons and other items are located, including a mini nuke, suggesting some of the vault dwellers may have been trying to blow their way out.

Official Vault-Tec Info (from Computer at the Citadel)
Vault number 106
Started construction March 2064
Ended construction December 2069
Occupants

95 subjects

12 researchers

Duration 147 months
Computer system Think Machine 2800x
Primary power supply Rok-Solid Brand Geo-Thermal
Secondary power supply General Atomics Nuclear power
Overseer Dr. Albert Leris

Enemies

  • Several insane survivors inhabit Vault 106. They wear Vault 106 jumpsuits and wield a variety of melee weapons, such as lead pipes, knives, baseball bats, pool cues, Chinese officer's swords, sledgehammers (at high levels), etc. Despite not wearing armor, the insane survivors are slightly tougher than the average raider.
  • A "survivor" (who has the same ambient/combat voice files as a raider) is on the lowest level, at the end of the science lab section, wearing a Vault lab uniform and wielding a baseball bat. When first encountered, the survivor will activate a Stealth Boy that will remain active until the survivor is killed. The player then has a hallucination in which the Tunnel Snakes (Butch DeLoria, Wally Mack and Paul Hannon) attempt to kill the player. After the survivor sustains some damage, the Tunnel Snakes will use Stealth Boys and flee, and the player will see as if in a hallucination (with the purple tint). This will end after killing the survivor. If the Tunnel Snakes are killed by the Lone Wanderer or if the player uses the Mesmetron on them in the hallucination, they just disappear without leaving a body behind. Both killing them and them fleeing ends the hallucination.

Notable loot

Entrance

  • The Torn out journal entry can be found under a large ruined book on a table (with another large ruined book and a chemistry set) in one of the side rooms. Coming from the vault door down the stairs to the right first hall way you encounter, first room on the right.

Living quarters

Vault 106 living quarters map

Local map with notes, bobblehead and skill book

  • A copy of Nikola Tesla and You is inside the classroom in the living quarters. After you first enter the living quarters (it's a two level hall: top level), enter the door on the left hand side of the hall. The book is hidden, together with two tin cans, in the bottom wooden box of those stacked (with a drinking glass at their top) on the teacher's desk.
  • The Science bobblehead is located far diagonally across from where you first enter. Proceed to a hallway next to the classroom into a fairly large room (for a vault); this room has 3 windows on each side that look into a subterranean cave. The bobblehead is on a bookshelf against the back wall (3rd shelf).
  • A poem entitled "Scribbles" is found on a table with a monitor on it, near the entrance to the Overseer's office.
  • Feel the love man - A note, downstairs in the left most room of the male dorms. It appears to have been written by one of the insane vault residents.
  • To anyone who gets this - Another note, on the ground in front of the locked (average) door south in the local map. It is written by a non-insane vault resident.

Science lab

Vault 106 science labs loc

Local map with TT, mini nuke and key location

  • A book Tumblers Today is on the science lab level. From the entrance, head straight down the corridor and take the stairs to the right. It's the first door on the right after the stairs, in the large room with all the machines. Turn left after entering and head to the back of the room - the book is on top of an overturned machine, near to the window (two bottles of milk are also on top).
  • A mini nuke is in the final room of the science lab area, just past the fight with the Vault 106 survivor.
  • There are two Vault 106 master keys (which can open the door to Overseer's Office).
    • One can be found next to a functional computer terminal in the northwest corner of a room in the living quarters that is only accessible through the science labs. (You can see the room and the science lab's door through barred windows in the living quarters, but you have to go upstairs, through a door in a room with a reactor in the labs to get to it.)
    • There is another one at the bottom of a shelf in the store room, behind the one where you fight the Vault 106 survivor. Note: this "key" is actually a red passcard. Although it looks normal, you cannot see the message when hovering the mouse pointer over it, and thus cannot pick it up. It is probably a bug. You may use the "tcl" command and go closer to reach the key.

Notes

  • If you close the vault door while inside, it appears there is no legitimate way of leaving as there is no vault door control pad inside. One method of opening it however is to implement the same technique used to obtain Colonel Autumn's 10mm pistol, when on the left side of the door next to the raised area, flip the camera round where the controls are on the other side. This can take several attempts. As well as this, if you have a companion with you, asking them to leave you will result in them leaving via the door, thus opening it.
  • You see doubles or triples of your father and Amata in two separate occasions while you are affected by the drug. Butch is also seen as an apparition at one point. Killing the apparitions results in a loss of Karma. If you try to talk to your dad as an apparition, he disappears.
  • Behind a Very Easy difficulty locked door on the Vault 106 entrance floor, a locked terminal with Very Hard difficulty contains a letter sent by the Overseer to Vault 106 Security, falsely stating that the unusual odor or faint taste in the air was due to a slight irregularity in the vault air filtration system and instructing the security personnel to tell concerned residents this same lie.
  • Down one flight of stairs from the Vault 106 entrance level (stairs on the right coming from the vault entrance), on a table in the first room on the right there is another note under a book, entitled torn out journal entry which seems to have been written by one of the dwellers as he was going insane.
  • One of the hallucination areas, walking down the hallways from the lower level of the atrium in Living Quarters, resembles a server room with terminals that can be accessed to reveal an entry titled "A Note to Me". Several notes with this same name are distributed on multiple terminals in the area, and after reading a couple of them, they will all change to say "Forget it, I'm through talking to you."
  • In the room where the "survivor" is, there can often be seen to be a conversation going on in the "survivor" spawning point room. You can listen to it if you remain hidden. Often, the topic of conversation is escape, even though the "Survivor" is talking to an "insane survivor". The evidence of escape is in the small cave, where there is a mini-nuke and skeletons, where it appears they were trying to blow their way out.
  • As you enter the science labs from the lower floor of the living quarters, there is a window into the room on the left. Looking through the window shows the room upside down (the floor is the ceiling and the ceiling is the floor) but going through the door into the room everything is the right way round. This is the only hallucination in the vault that does not turn the screen blue while it runs its course.
  • The Amatas you see in the hallucination don't actually look like Amata.
  • You can wait during the hallucinations.
  • Grenades, if thrown in a hallucination, will explode once the hallucination has ended but the explosion won't be heard where the grenade was thrown, but it will be heard elsewhere.
  • If Fawkes is present for the Tunnel Snake hallucinations, he will see them as well, for some reason, and attack. The same is true for Star Paladin Cross, Charon, Jericho and Butch.
  • The large, unreachable cavern the vault has been built within is visible from windows in the room containing the Science bobblehead.

Appearances

Vault 106 appears only in Fallout 3 but is mentioned in Fallout Bible 1 and in a cut section of Vault 13's voice interface terminal in Fallout 2. [1]

Behind the scenes

  • Vault 106 was originally filled with water. [2]
  • Several additional hallucinations were planned and partially implemented for Vault 106, including a room appearing upside-down for a short time, a hallway where the Lone Wanderer would gradually shrink as they progressed along it, hallways appearing where blank walls had been before, and the "boss" survivor initially appearing identical to the Lone Wanderer's father. Most of these were cut for unknown reasons.
  • In addition to the unused hallucinations, a special helmet called the makeshift gas mask was placed in two locations within Vault 106. Wearing the mask would have prevented any further hallucinations from happening. The mask was mostly implemented, but suffered from a scripting flaw which permanently re-applied the blue tint whenever it was removed, even outside of Vault 106.

Bugs

  • PCPC The hallucinations of your Dad that appear throughout Vault 106 are always the default Caucasian model, even if you choose a different race for your player character (and thus also for your father). [verified]
  • Xbox 360Xbox 360 The game sometimes defaults your body (though not the head) model to the default Caucasian model, staying that way until you reload the game. [verified]
  • PCPC At higher levels when attacking the Vault 106 survivor, even though the survivor might be dead, the Tunnel Snakes will literally "float" into the room without the blue hallucination backdrop. Killing them grants experience points. [verified]
  • PCPC If you shoot at Amata she will disappear, but if you kill her with one shot you will receive negative karma and her clones will turn hostile towards you but, upon reaching you, they'll just stand next to you giving you an angry look with their fists up. [verified]
  • PCPC Despite the insane survivor's natural hostility toward the player, dropping a live grenade on them grants bad Karma. [verified]
  • Playstation 3Playstation 3Playstation 3 Some hallucinations that are targeted in V.A.T.S. will cause the game to crash if they disappear while V.A.T.S is zooming in or the player is taking out their weapon. [verified]
  • Xbox 360Xbox 360 If you shut the main Vault door (the round one) it will appear as if it is not shut all of the way. Another way to see this is to leave the door open and you will see that it is in fact pulled farther back than the rest of the vault doors in the Capital Wasteland. [verified]
  • Xbox 360Xbox 360 After having killed the Survivor, if the player attacks his/her corpse the blue hallucination tint will appear. [verified]
  • PCPC Sometimes after killing the Survivor, his/her eyes will blink even though he/she is dead. [verified]
  • Xbox 360Xbox 360 If you go into the overseer's office and jump near the wall to the right, near the terminal station, you will fall out of the map. One way to get back is to step into the void, and you will teleport back into the hallway before the office. [verified]
    • The other is to land on the overseer's tunnel as soon as you jump through the wall, face their office and move all the way to the right, and then jump out through small gap in the map to land on a tunnel below (you will lose some health). From there, turn right and ascend the top of the stairs that are the furthest away, forward, from you. After you have reached the top of the stairs, continue heading forward until you reach an opened door, directly East of the door to the Vault Entrance. If you have not yet encountered this hallucination event, you will be teleported into the hall if you close the door and walk over it.
  • PCPC Sometimes the game will malfunction, causing the hallucination of Paul Hannon to become real. You can kill him and get a mint-condition Tunnel Snake outfit off of his body. [verified]
  • PCPC When entering the room in the living quarters with the master key and the security terminal, companions may be placed on the opposite side of the wall in an area that should be inaccessible from this room. [verified]

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