I got my instructions from Scribe Rothschild to go to Vault 87 to get the GECK. I got the message "(E) Open gate to Little Lamplight". I clicked E several times but nothing happens. I can see from the perception bar that the kids are in there but there's no response to E. What should I do?

And isn't there a radiation suit somewhere that will let me enter from the radiated end?

Thanks in advance.

Talk to Mayor McCready, who greets you when you get close to the gate. Since you are clicking on it, where is he?

Nowhere to be seen. I'm wondering if I've screwed something up. Earlier, after I'd released the kids from Paradise Falls, one of them said "Come visit us", so I did. What do you think?

Well if you've never been, and the kids from PF think you're cool, you should be greeted by Mayor McCready. Who tells you you can't come in. Then either pass a Speech Check or Child at Heart him, but he likes you more if you rescued the kids. Then you go in and deal with the annoying confusing interior. Try to reload a prior save from entering LL. Or a save closest to that point. The kids from PF just help you get past McCready easier if you helped them.

You can also try waiting by the gate, it might cause McCready to spawn. I was in Canterbury Commons and spoke to Uncle Roe before he gave me the "official welcome". I was skulking around his house and he wasn't on radar or on the screen but it kept saying "talk" to him, and instead, I pickpocketed him and got caught stealing...reloading the game didn't work but reloading and then waiting caused him to spawn and immediately talk to me.

Big Daddy: I have been there before and I think that's the problem: I've interrupted the proper sequence of the main quest.
Skirt with a Weapon: I'll try waiting for MaCready to appear. Do you use the T key to Wait a few hours or what?

Failing that I'll have to persist in trying to get in the radiated entrance. I picked up a radiation suit from the clothing trader but it's still a mad rush to try to find the entrance -- even when your resistance is 85% which is the best it gets with the suit and Rad-X. My problem is that I can't see the entrance to dash for it in time.

But as I approached the radiated site, I saw one of the most satisfying sights I've seen in the game: I watched a deathclaw take down two mutants! I then nailed the deathclaw with my sniper rifle.

I play on the XBox 360, sadly I don't know controls on the PC :blush2:

Edit: Also, even if you've been there before, he won't open the gate until you tell him that you helped the other kids, so he SHOULD spawn at the gate to accost you...as far as I know!

I wouldn't bother trying for the entrance. It is designed so that you can't get there. I hot-keyed stims and radaways, and 300 each didn't help me get to that door alive. If you are on PC, there MUST be some sort of reset quest dealio you can do with that PC voodoo magic....