Old Olney, aka the Deathclaw Santuary Topside, was a blast. I entered the town from a tunnel leading to it. When I popped my head out, it said, "You discovered Old Olney" and I about crapped my pants. Not deciding to go back to where I came, I thought I'd just sneak out of town. As I walked across a grate, I fell into another tunnel. Good grief, guess what's down there. Okay, time to fight. One down.

My sneak was pretty high (60+), so I saw a red bar quickly coming my way. I crouch, take aim, and ready for a surprise round of plasma juice. Sure enough, it pops its head out, and I enter VATS, making all my shots go toward its rather cool-looking head (never really seem them up close like this - look like Godzilla from the crappy movie). As VATS takes over, another deathclaw steps out and takes the brunt of the shots.

Oh, shiiiii.... I stand up and start backing up, firing as I go. It's at this point the game screws me: it locks me into place! OMFG! NOT GOOD! I move my stick and I'm not budging, all the while two deathclaws are bearing down on me. Crap, this is going to get ugly.

Sure enough, they start hitting on me. Rather than hit on me at the same time, they literally went in succession. During this time, I'm firing two shots, hitting my favorite to release stimpak. This goes on, for what seems like an eternity, until they both drop. Total stimpaks used: 23.

I know this because, prior to the fight, I only had used 9 stimpaks the entire game, and those were only to replace "broken" limbs. Rather proud of myself for this feat, but now that's shot.

Meh. Turned out that wouldn't be the only time I'd be injecting stimpaks during a "gajillion against 1" fight. Damn wasteland is worse than all the mutants at the Capital combined!

As I continued playing, I eventually found myself at Tenpenny Tower. Oh, yeah! I've a quest here! Something about killing Tenpenny. I check my notes, and sure enough, time to get busy.

Then I meet a ghoul named Roy, who wants me to help get him inside. Hey, I'm a nice girl, so why not? Sure enough, Tenpenny says it's okay if I can get others to agree. Not such a bad guy after all. During this time, I meet Daring Dashwood, and recognized his name immediately, as I always have GNR playing. I run through his dialogue (and get a basemant key) and learn of his sidekick. Although it wasn't a quest, I decided to make it one.

I finished up letting the ghouls in, but rather than return to TT from the train station, I bail, looking for Argyle.

And forget my own cardinal rule of saving often. Yeah, I'm betting you know where this is going.

By 9pm last night, I make it back to Tenpenny Tower, which is about a week in-game time. I needed to do some trading, and I walk in and see nothing but ghouls. Odd, but I paid it no mind, figure the game can't render everyone (plus, I remember some snob saying she'll stay in her room). I talk to the girl ghoul, running the shop, and a creepy feeling comes over me. Why is she running the store?

Then I see it. The dialogue about bodies in the basemant.

WHAT. THE???!!!!

I remember Daring giving me a key, so I rush outside and enter the basemant. Whew! No bodies! Thank goodness. No, wait! There's another room! I get there, and still no bodies. In fact, this is about when I realize all the guards are gone, too. Captain Oblivious, I am.

At this point, that's when I realized there's a major glitch in the game. Now with Tenpenny gone, I have no way to get his key. As I speak to Roy, I'm utterly pissed off at him for killing Daring that I whip out Big Bertha (my nickname for the combat shotgun) and kill him, taking my first-ever bad karma hit (with this character). I'm so pissed, I clear out the whole damn tower of anything with a heartbeat. Bad karma can kiss my ass.

I stand in the lobby, looking around, then save for the night. Screw this. I'll just reload my last game... ... ... which was over 7 hours ago.


I can't recall if Old Olney was done within this 7 hours or not. The game gets me immersed to the point I simply forget.

Before I went to bed, I decided to see how the game screwed me over, and it turns out I'm not the only one. Seems like "tenpenny's key" was a pretty popular question. Now that I know the answer, I've got to decide if I want to lose 7 hours of play time or just continue, letting how things turned out stand.

*sigh*

Evil game, this is, but I'm still having a blast with it.

Oh, and if you're curious, no, I still haven't found Dogmeat. I did get the Reservist's Rifle, though. Yeah, it svcks how the last game plays into this one, but I needed a sniper rifle that wouldn't break after a few shots.

I'm at level 20, and three skills are at 100 (small weapons, repair, and sneak), and the first two were boosted by books I've found. Sneak is the only one I pumped exp into, so I wouldn't get OP.

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Plan To Stay Balanced FAILED

LOL.

I remember my first Old Olney, I think I was going to pick up the Quantums that the Nuka-Cola factory said was there. I don't think I had a follower with me, if I did they died quickly when I fell through the sewer grate. Similar to your Tenpenny situation, my last save was hours ago, even the auto-save. I say screw it, and charge into the sewers.

Deathclaw knocking on the door. By chance, or luck, I had a dart gun with me. That was the first time I realized the dart gun's true value, too bad I only had around 10-15 darts.

By the end, I was out of food, water, and Stims. Bare bones on ammo, weapons falling apart.

The next time I went, I made sure to be well prepared. With over 1000 darts, 200 something stims, and my secret weapon, Fawkes.
Mwahahahahahhah!!!!

LOL yea, I really dis-like the Tenpenny Tower quest. Plus, if you deny the ghouls entry, Three Dog will blast you on GNR, calling you racist for hating on Ghouls or something like that. I never finished the get the key from 3 people for that ghoul in Underworld.

The one good thing from the Tenpenney quest is the ghoul mask. If you have the DLC Point Lookout installed, it will add Ghoul Reavers to the game. OMG I hate those and with the mask, you can walk right by a feral ghoul and they won't even look at you!

I wish you good luck on your next exploits

Btw. the Scrapyard where you can find Dogmeat is south of Minefield.

You didn't get the T51-b?!!?!??! O-O