Fallout 3 Escape

This is Part 4 of our complete Fallout 3 Walkthrough, featuring Fallout 3 Escape.

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Escape

It's three years later and things have gone to all hell. Your Dad has suddenly left the vault, there's a Radroach infestation, Jonas has been beaten to death, and now the Overseer has got his whole security force looking for you.
Thankfully, Amata has an escape plan. There is a secret entrance to the Vault door in the Overseer's room. If you accept her help, she will give you 10 Bobby Pins to pick the lock on the door to the Overseer's room and a 10mm Pistol. I highly suggest you take her help.
TIP: If you let Amata keep the pistol, she'll use it when she gets in trouble later and won't need your help.
Once your conversation ends, head to your desk and pick up the Baseball Bat, the BB Gun, and if you want, the baseball glove and baseball. Also don't miss the first aid kit on the wall that contains 10 Stimpacks and a Med-X.
Leave your room and head out into the main corridor to find Officer Kendall waiting for you. Thankfully he'll be attacked by Radroaches before he gets the chance to deal with you. Let them duke it out with each other and then take out whoever ends up winning.
TIP: Do not waste pistol ammo on the Radroaches. If you want to take them out from a distance, use the BB Gun. Otherwise, just run up and whack them with your baseball bat.
Loot Kendall's corpse and steal his armor, baton, and helmet. Equip the helmet and armor and save the baton as a backup melee weapon.
Head west and you'll eventually be stopped by Butch who will plead for you to help his mom fight off a pack of Radroaches.
For good Karma: Agree to help Butch, follow him to his Mom's room, and take out the three Radroaches attacking his mom (make sure not to actually hit his mom). Or, you can use your Speech skill to convince Butch to stop being such a pansy and take out the Radroaches himself. Either way, you will be Butch's new best friend and he'll even give you the Tunnel Snake Jacket right off of his back.
For bad karma: Agree to help, kill the Radroaches, Butch's mom, and Butch, and loot their corpses.
NOTE: If you kill Butch, he won't be available later on in the game to help you out.
After you deal with Butch's problem, leave his room, make a left, and continue down the west corridor.
There are some more Radroaches in the diner that you had your birthday party in if you want to exterminate some more pests, but otherwise just head past it and continue down the corridor until you reach the stairs that lead to the Atrium.
You'll see Officer Gomez ahead, but hold your fire, he's a friend. Talk to him and choose any option but the third one unless you're looking to get some bad karma.
Stanley is another character who won't bother you unless you pick a fight with him. Unless your looking to get more bad karma, leave him alone.
Head east and activate the switch next to the door at the end of the hall to enter the lower atrium.
You'll see two vault dwellers chatting in the next room. They're about to charge the two guards to the east and will likely get shot down. Take out the guards yourself if you have the pistol or are feeling confident enough to beat them down with the baseball bat.
Search their bodies for 10mm pistols, ammo, and more armor.
Turn around and enter the door that can't close due to a locker being stuffed under it. Take out the Radroaches and proceed up the stairs.
Follow the linear path, past the window with the angry guy shouting at you, and head through the doorway. Be on the look out for a dead body and a tool box for some small loot.
If you continue down this path you'll eventually be faced with another moral dilemma. Amata is being interrogated by her father and an officer about your whereabouts.
You have several options of what to do here, each with their own consequences.
You could ignore her and proceed on to the Overseer's room, using the Bobby Pins you got from Amata earlier to break into his room.
You could barge in, kill the officer, and talk to the overseer. The only way you'll get him to give up his key and password without resorting to violence is by threatening to hurt Amata. Otherwise, each dialogue choice will end up with you having to fight the overseer. Whatever you do, do not hand over your weapons!
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However you decide to deal with the situation, you'll eventually want to proceed down the corridor until you reach the locked door that leads to the Overseer's room. If you have the key, you can simply unlock the door. Otherwise, you'll have to lock pick it.
TIP: Lockpicking and hacking give you EXP each time you do it successfully.
Examine the computers to either enter the password you got from the Overseer, or initiate the hacking minigame.
Once you're logged in, select Open Overseer's Tunnel to open the secret passage.
Head down the secret passageway and through the door to your left.
Hit the switch straight ahead to open the large door leading to the Vault Entrance.
Continue forward until you find the Vault Door Control Pad.
Press it to open the Vault door and be confronted by Amata who will either kick your ass out or wish you good luck depending on how you dealt with her father.
Either way, you'd be best off running for the exit because any officers that you didn't deal with will soon be storming into the room to take you out.
Once you reach the exit, you'll have one last chance to adjust your name, appearance, S.P.E.C.I.A.L stats, and skills. If you're fine with everything, select Exit Vault 101, and welcome to the Wasteland. Quest Completed
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