A Tent in the Wasteland

	Quest: A Tent in the Wasteland
	The Quest-Giver is: Evelyn in In wasteland, near the NCR, the Hub or Vault City.
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Requirements:	Level 2
Completion:	Kill all rats at the farm, and inform the family.
Rewards:	1200 XP 0 Caps {{{karma}}} Karma Various tools A Folded Tent
Repeatable:	No		{{{timer}}}
Notes:	Spawns near wherever you are when you turn level 2.

This is a nice quest to help new characters get started. Once you reach level 2, look for a new, small location on your map near one of the starting locations. Go there and find a farming family living in a tent due to their farm being overrun by critters. Get the quest to help them and you'll be able to see their farm on the map too. Go there, kill the critters, find some starting items, and report back to the family at their tent.

WARNING: Both quest locations will disappear after a week, so don't try to settle there. (In fact the same applies for all instanced quest locations, though the time may vary).

NOTE: For now, you cannot bring a car into these quest locations.

Evelyn's husband is Hasso, who seems a bit off his rocker, but is able to barter, oddly. Their children are Sally and Eric, who each are able to barter and give some interesting dialogue.

Requirements

• Appears on map after leaving Vault City, Shady Sands or Hub with at least experience level 2.

Rewards

• Around 900xp total for killing 12 mutated rats, depending on your perks.
• 300 xp (xp message not shown)
• A fully loaded Red Ryder BB Gun
• Some basic tools including a Hatchet, Sledgehammer, Knife, an Old Shovel
• Some Healing Powders
• A Leather Jacket if you dig up the grave in the back
• A Folded Tent
• 2 Barley
• A rope

Hints

If you actually do this quest at level 2, you are going to have rather few hit points. It's possible to die in real-time, but in turn-based, it's really not likely. There are twelve rats in total.

One way to do this quest and survive more easily is to use the brahmin pen to your advantage. Run up and grab the BB Gun. Run back down under the pen and shoot the two rats inside the pen. Then go inside the pen and close the gate behind you. From inside the pen, shoot the other two rats outside. Once the outside rats are dead, go behind the farmhouse and look inside through the windows. Press Q to enable your Line-of-Sight, and press A to target the rats inside. Shoot whichever rats you can find, in all three rooms. When that's done, go the farmhouse door, stop and let your Action Points recharge. Open the door to the farmhouse but stand still and recover those few AP from opening the door. Whatever rats are remaining will attack you there. You can stand there and fight, or let them chase you back to the brahmin pen. If you're fast, you can get inside and shut the gate before they block the door.

The best, and simplest, way to complete this quest is to simply bring a weapon. By this point, one can easily have made a simple gun or melee weapon, so that might be easier than trying to grab a bb gun.

Related

Digging the grave at the farm will earn you the Grave Digger karma perk.