The Nuka-Cola Challenge: Sierra Petrovita, Girdershade, & The Nuka Cola Plant - Fallout 3 Lore

travelling southwest of evergreen Mills we eventually find a big ruined overpass beneath this overpass we find two shacks erected on a small hill sign as we get close we see that we have discovered the small town of girder shed a small path winds between the overpass and between these two houses there's a small Shack to the left and then this Shack to the right we learned that this Shack is the home of a man named Ronald Lehren but heading inside we don't find Ronald he's not home right now and there's nothing really interesting inside his house so heading outside we can go down the hill to explore the second Shack outside we see a bunch of empty bottles of nuka-cola and on the wall of the building is a big glowing nuka-cola neon sign this is the home to sierra patrovita inside we find a shrine to nuka-cola banners on the walls bottles on every countertop and in the corner the person responsible cierra herself well hey there stranger sierra petrova does the name good to see a new face in girder shade I take it you're here to check out my new Cocola collection and take the tour oh petrova da i've been pronouncing it petrol vita my bad but uh I hate nuka-cola that stuff is disgusting disgusting it's the most delicious drinks ever created it quenches your thirst boosts your energy and even makes you smarter what's not to like about it why did they use a blue bottle of the soda inside is brown that's just weird aha that's where you're wrong market research done in 2050 to said that the blue color was the favorite in 86 people out of a hundred polled and the particular hue of blue is dazzling blue scientifically proven to be the most pleasing of all blues but the taste I could never get used to it no no no you're a second the flavor is the essence of 17 different fruits mixed in just the right proportion to give the beverage that delicious taste in fact in the great passion fruit Famine of 20 44 people actually noticed the taste difference when the flavor was changed well I just don't like it well I guess everyone has their own opinion even if it's silly why don't you take the tour of my collection maybe it'll give you a new perspective on things what do you say well I guess you're right the taste isn't that bad see I knew you were smart the moment you walked in here so enough with the small talk are you ready for the tour a tour of your nuka-cola collection Wow I have one of the know the best nuka-cola collection in the capital wasteland heck I've won the nuka-cola fan club collection award for the last 10 years in a row wait there's a nuka-cola fan club yep I'm the president the recording secretary and the treasurer once a year we gather here in girder Shade to have a cook-off using nuka-cola and the recipe last year I won with my poached Roach and Nuka sauce delicious oh that sounds disgusting but Ronald said he liked it where we'll wait a minute how many members are in your club well only two right now me and Ronald but membership is open to the public you can join if you like so what kind of stuff do you collect exactly well look around you toys banners stools anything I can get my hands on really my pride and joy is my perfect nuka-cola machine it's barely even scratched actually I have to give credit to Ronald for donating some of it okay who is this Ronald Ronald oh I'm sorry I figured you met him already he usually chats with people who enter girder Shade he's my neighbor and my protector as he called it imagine if some nasty Raider wanted to take my stuff he'd show them a thing or two he's such a sweetie you should talk to him Oh sounds like a nice guy tell me more about this Ronald guy he's a darling always watching out for me and more importantly keeping the collection safe like once there were these raiders that came by there were three of them and their leader was named like lug nut or something uh Sarah so they like kicked in Ronald's door and he was like blam with his gun and one of them got all splattered let me other one tried to like hit him all in his head with some club and Ronald was so cool how he dodged it and shot the guy in the face then the lug nut guy was in Ronald's face with the I'll kick your ass stuff and Ronald was like hell no and he punched it Sarah please I get it you stuff oh sorry I get carried away sometimes well you should definitely talk to Ronald I bet he'd like to meet you he's such a sweetheart Wow this conversation is getting boring no you're just thirsty come on take a look at my collection and have an ice-cold new coke all on me sound good I think I've had just about enough of this you can never have enough of the refreshing taste of nuka-cola oh don't be such a grump you can go if you want to but you're missing out are you crazy or something hey that isn't nice you should apologize right now you don't like it tough well I've never been so insulted before and to think I was going to offer you the chance of a lifetime well forget it now if we insult her she shuts down forever what do you want now come to make fun of me again and we can't get any interesting information out of her so instead we'll apologize and say okay I'm sorry I don't know what came over me that's fine we all get a bit crazy sometimes when we get the taste the tastes of a cold nuka-cola let's pretend this never happened and start again so do you want to take the tour uh I think I'd rather be smacked in the head with a blunt instrument what an odd way to make music I'll have to try it sometime well if you don't want to take the tour what are you doing here no not that kind of instrument oh no reason Ciara I was just passing through oh well that's silly if you don't want to see my collection then there really isn't anything else to see here unless you think broken bridges are scenic nope I'm not really interested in seeing your collection oh really Wow well why did you come out here then look lady I just want to get out of this not oh I think you came to the wrong place I think there's someone in California that collects nuts or was it Nevada well while I'm here I'm looking to make some cash you have any opportunities for me here actually there may be tell you what you take the tour of my collection and I promise to give you a proposition you won't want to say no to so do you want to take it tell you what you tell me the opportunity first and then I'll consider taking the tour well I suppose I really wanted you to see the tour but you seemed nice enough she then goes ahead and gives us the quest but you know what we'll be nice to this poor lady and take her tour first yes of course I would love to take your tour Sierra well come on then let me show you around but no free nuka-cola until the end of the tour with that we begin the quest the nuka-cola challenge and sierra patrovita walks over to the first stop on her tour an oversized Nuka Cola bottle when nuka-cola was invented by john caleb robertson in 2044 it quickly became the world's most popular soft drink she then marches over to her countertop and with grace matching that of Vanna White she motions to her collection resting upon it the Wonder drink soon drew a dedicated following which prompted the nuka-cola corporation to release many promotional items like these pleased as punch she then marches to the opposite corner of her Shack to talk about the prize of her collection by 2067 a nuka-cola machine such as this rare pristine model could be found on almost every street in America and finally she walks to the southeast corner to grab a cold one from her nuka-cola themed refrigerator even in today's crazy world nuka-cola is still the number one choice of refreshment among armageddon survivors as promised here's a little pick-me-up an ice-cold nuka-cola just look at the frost on the bottle so cold and delicious pardon me I tend to lose myself when I hold on to a nuka-cola before I get to the little proposition I have for you let me tell you a little bit of nuka-cola quantum with that she gives us an ice-cold nuka-cola quantum but quantum never heard of it before well right before the bombs fell the good folks at nuka-cola developed what they hoped was an improvement on the original formula calling it nuka-cola quantum it was said to have twice the calories twice the carbohydrates twice the caffeine and twice the taste that stuff sounds absolutely revolting on the contrary the secret ingredient was an 18th fruit flavor which added just a hint of pomegranate topped that with a specially engineered isotope to boost the energy output and you have the perfect refresher for a hot summer day so what went wrong then well the flavor certainly wasn't the issue the public was just split on the unique feature of the Quantum's appearance you see to make it stand out on store shelves and to give it that extra kick the formula called for a mild isotope the effect was a drink that not only boosted your energy but also glowed with a bright blue light wait did you say it as an isotope in it as in it's radioactive oh no only ever so mildly no ill effects were ever recorded well it does have the unique property of making your your pee glow glowing pee that sounds like dangerous stuff oh no not at all nuka-cola quantum was made under the supervision of the Food and Drug Association they would never let harmful products end up in stores what's your interest in all of this I love the stuff I can't get enough of it I thought it was hooked on regular nuka-cola but the quantum beats it by a long shot I've got to have more ok enough with the addict routine can you resist the chase that'll blow up in your face like Ronald always says he thinks of the best nuka-cola jingles so I suppose this is where I come in that's right you bring me nuka-cola quantum and I pay you suddenly I might add for every bottle you bring me I pay you some caps you know for expenses but if you're super cool and find like enough bottles to fill my nuka-cola machine 30 and all I've got a super secret cool prize for you a super cool prize come on Sierra tell me what this prize is first there are no secrets between friends oh okay I have a schematic for the Nuka grenade the only one in the whole capital wasteland bring me the bottles and it's yours imagine the look on the targets face when they are burning alive in an effervescent explosion of Cola and fruit flavors so what do you say will you bring me the bottles a new car Grenada sounds tempting but no way I'm not scouring the wasteland for some stupid soft drink hey it isn't just some stupid soft drink it's only the most delicious thing man has ever conceived if you don't want to help me find some quantum then fine someone else will come along one day who will do you even have a clue as to where I can start looking in fact I do surprised you didn't I your best bet would be to find the ruins of the DC Nuka Cola bottling facility find the shipping manifests inside with them in hand you should have a good clue as to where the quantum was delivered while you're there you may even be able to find some bottles of quantum actually I don't think I'm ready to do this now oh come on I told you everything there is to know about it how hard could it be to just get some shipping manifests and then find me some bottles of quantum come back to me when you're ready to change your mind I guess but if we just gotta get our hands on that Nuka grenade schematic we can say okay Sierra you've got a deal oh goody I can taste the quantum already good luck to you sweetie now that we've agreed to help her we can ask her some more information that might help us on our venture hey Sierra is there anything else interesting to see near girder shade well to the east there are some nasty Raiders in Evergreen Mills I'd stay away from there if I were you luckily were kind of hidden here under the old highway so no one bothers us Oh Evergreen Mills yeah I've been there and you were right to warn me well what do you know about the Nuka Cola bottling Factory well the DC facility was like their main factory just before the bombs fell all the research they did was perform there it was the only facility to ever produce quantum they were in a test market mode and they would have expanded production if the drink caught on too bad they didn't otherwise quantum would be as plentiful as regular nuka-cola tell me more about this Nuka grenade it sounds interesting I don't know a whole lot about weapons but I do know that it's more powerful than a regular grenade it explodes in a huge blue flame - how cool is that that sounds pretty cool I'm eager to get my hands on one but what do you know about nuka-cola quantum well besides what I've already told you not much they were working on a way to prevent the glow from remaining once it passed through a person's system but it was never perfected I heard that the stuff they used to make it glow and give it that kick has a shelf life of over a thousand years should make the bottles easier to spot we can then pass a medicine check to say drinking that stuff can't be good for you if it contains radiation well I guess so I heard that sometimes the radiation would remain in people's systems but only in a few test cases all you need is a little right away and poof the isotope is gone what exactly does a bottle of quantum look like well the bottles are glass just like regular nuka-cola except the glass is clear that way the glowy stuff inside shows through you'll know it when you see it what happens when you drink a bottle of nuka-cola quantum oh my it's like a tidal wave of flavor washing all over your body your head spins but everything is clear at the same time it's quite a rush you seem kind of addicted to the stuff is it safe to drink addicted why would you say that I can stop drinking it anytime I want it's so silly to think I would get hooked on the most delicious soft drink ever devised by man all right I'll be going now good luck watch out for me knees I'll be sure to watch out for me knees with AD she goes and sits down at her counter covered in nuka-cola memorabilia and we can head outside to find some quantum but just as we do so who might you be and what brings you out to our little paradise it's Ronald Lehren the guy who Ciara said was super strong well you know what Ronald it's none of your business Wow okay I get the message take it easy look I'm just trying to make sure no one messes up my chances with her so I went in the shack what's it to you hey hey no need to be that way beautiful it's cool anyway Sierra and I are already hooked up I just don't want any other chicks messing with her head you know what I mean I was just checking out Sierra's nuka-cola collection that's all huh it better be because I warn you I don't like anyone messing around with my woman she never said anything about you two being together well that's likely because it's none of anyone's business but ours bah hey she's a fine-looking lady I mean you're no slouch either but a man has his standards you know I'm not messing with anything good I aim to keep it that way she's a fine woman I'd love to get closer to her if you know what I mean maybe I like messing around whoa that's kind of kinky I like it wouldn't mind watching that sorry baby you'll just have to take a number I'm gonna be the first one to tap into Sierra's goods not you what exactly are you driving at Wow you are as naive as you look how do I put it I'd love to do the horizontal Bop with her you know flour bean field come on kid that's disgusting what are you a nun tip maybe you're just not old enough to understand yet yep still don't get what you're driving at new to this stuff and a kid well let's just say that she has something I want to get ahold of that's where you entered the picture yeah well I've seen Sierra I can't say that I blame ya now you're speaking my language well only problem is she won't give it up for me that's where you come into the picture what the hell is wrong with you you're sick born and raised that way and damn proud of it look I have an offer to give you you can either stand there be a pain in the ass or you can listen to what I have to say I don't have time for this nonsense alright suit yourself I was going to make you an offer that could earn you some caps but if you don't have the time to listen oh really that sounds interesting go on I know she's asked you to find her some nuka-cola quantum hex she asks every one that wanders through here what I'm proposing is used to look for the drinks but instead of bringing it to her you bring it to me she'll be so impressed that I got all the nuka-cola for her she'll melt in my arms like butter I pay you the same she was going to pay and everyone's happy look I got things to do I'm not interested fine oh and I wouldn't bother running back to Sierra and warning her about our little chat she won't even understand what you're talking about she may be a looker but she's a bit vacant in the smarts Department sorry I'm just not interested in your offer well look don't answer me now just keep it in mind if you find some and you've had a change of heart I'll still buy them or if we have a female lone wanderer and we have the Black Widow perk we can say tell you what handsome find me some quantum and we'll make it a threesome holy [ __ ] are you for real hell yeah I'm off to find you some quantum then and I know right where to go with that he pulls out his weapon and charges for the nuka-cola Factory if we follow him we can try to protect him but he inevitably meets his end whether by running into a deathclaw along the way or by being killed by the Raiders outside the nuka-cola plant in fact even if we clear the plant and all of the Raiders outside of it before we send this guy to look for quantum he's scripted to die as soon as we enter the plant and exit it even if he was standing in front of it alive before we'll find him lying there dead on his body is the unique sawed-off shotgun called the knee capper the knee capper is much more powerful than your typical sawed-off shotgun it does 75 damage compared to a sawed-off shotguns 50 but it's a little bit slower dealing only 1.88 attacks per second compared to a sawed offs 2.25 this still gives the weapon a higher DPS bringing the DPS of this weapon to 140 point 6 giving it point 6 greater damage per action point it also has a much tighter spread than a sawed-off shotgun the sawed-off shotgun has a spread of seven but the neat camper has a spread of four and even though it weighs one pound less it has much less durability meaning you'll be repairing it far more often that said compared to other shotguns we've come across in the game it's not the best choice it's weaker than a simple double-barrel shotgun that we get from the Point Lookout DLC dealing almost 50 fewer DPS a regular combat shotgun is also a bit more accurate than this one but the knee capper does much more raw damage even more so than the terrible shotgun however the terrible shotgun has way more critical damage the kneecap er does zero critical damage and for that reason alone it's an inferior weapon at any rate let's assume that we don't want to send this poor guy off to his death as creepy as he is we can instead pass a speech check to say how about you pay me double for each quantum bottle I retrieve you devious bastard I didn't figure you were that clever alright alright double it is just bring me those bottles if I have to listen to see here I'll ramble on any longer I think I'll blow my brains out so you're gonna do it or what yeah sure I'm always for making more caps thought you might good I'll see you soon then and with that he walks back to his Shack so now we have a choice do we find the quantum and give it to Sierra for her negotiated price and the Nuka grenade schematics or do we bring it to Ronald for double the price so that he can use it to get on Sierra's good side and Ronald is right as much as it pains me to say it Sierra is a bit dim if we go inside after having this conversation we can talk with Sierra and say did you know that Ronald has offered to buy quantum from me he has oh that's sweetheart I knew he'd help me all that guy does is watch out for me all the time no I think he just wants to get into your pants that's so silly why would a man want to wear a pair of these filthy woman's pants does it make sense I bet you and him cooked up that line just to make me smile well mission accomplished oh yeah you're right he really cares about you Oh both of you are so sweet how did a gal like me get so lucky in this messed-up world to find you two now you've gone and made me cry never mind you're so silly anyway now we gotta go find 30 bottles of nuka-cola quantum we have likely collected quite a few bottles of nuka-cola quantum thus far in our gameplay but if we want to find big stashes of the stuff to cut down on the time looking for it Ciera told us we can find some shipping manifests at the nearby nuka-cola plant once we get those manifests we'll know exactly where this plant shipped bottles of nuka-cola quantum that we can then collect the Nuka Cola bottling plant is on the south eastern edge of the map really close to ándale as we approach we see it's smokestacks towering in the distance just outside we see a big nuka-cola fountain but 200 years later it no longer flows it has big banners on the building and a nuka-cola machine against the wall with two nuka-cola inside the road outside the plant is swarming with raiders in fact this entire area is a raider hotbed we see the main door it has two lights shining down upon it and there's a big broken glowing nuka-cola sign directly above if we go around back behind the building we find two broken delivery trucks in the back of the one that still has tires we find a skeleton right next to a spilled box of nuka-cola we can walk away with 10 bottles of nuka-cola and one nuka-cola quantum when done exploring the perimeter we can open the main doors to the nuka-cola factory we find ourselves in a dimly lit Lobby think with the dust of Ages there are nuka-cola banners on every wall and we see three paths forward a door to the right double doors in front of us next to a big glowing red light or a door to the left now the double doors with the red light is locked with a very hard lock for now we'll start by going through the door to the left we go down a short hallway which leads to a research room patrolled by a protectron protect Ron's in the adjacent room fire upon us once done we can go back into the research room and loot it while looting the desks to the southwest we find a still functional terminal called the research terminal inside we find five notices the first is a company announcement the nuka-cola corporation is pleased to announce to all of its employees that the first shipments of our nuka-cola quantum are on their way to retailers in the Washington DC area this flagship test market program is the culmination of a three-year research program to bring the refreshing taste of quantum to market congratulations to all employees on a job well done the next one is called quantum progress report number 67 test subjects in the nuka-cola quantum programmer responding well to the reconfigured taste and the new isotope on the only listed side-effects from the group are three cases of dizziness one case of nausea and one case of impaired vision we find from a sampling of 50 that this is an acceptable number of cases and approve this product for production five of fifty that's a 10% impairment rate so if 10% of the people who drink nuka-cola quantum suffer from these side-effects that's an acceptable number of cases for them to approve it 10% moving on to the next one quantum progress report number 55 and it only gets worse isotope cee 7/7 2 has proven too damaging to the initial test group which now needs to be disbanded due to their reluctance to continue in our program this group has suffered four fatalities 12 major internal organ failures and 32 internal radiation burns this is an unacceptable humper of issues in a given test group and recommend we switch to an alternative isotope such as CES 77 4 or you are 99 3 so this was a report on a previous test group before the last one we read which was 67 so we are reading through some of the previous tests they had to go through before they finally approved the one that had a 10% incident rate at least that one didn't lead to any deaths like this one and the next report is number 41 O'Dare isotopes ee7 7-0 has proven to be a disastrous failure all of the test subjects suffered severe internal organ failures and died within 3 days of ingestion we recommend the immediate destruction of the container a32 in the production rooms and suggests switching to isotopes ee 77 2 please send standard Nuka condolences fruit and cheese packages to the test group members families well I have to say compared to their previous tests the one with a 10% incident rate is much better good job nuka-cola good job big improvement the final one is an announcement about a new flavor coming attention all nuka-cola corporation employees we are very proud to announce that research and development has been completed on nuka-cola clear with an only minimal loss of life we've been able to modify the look of nuka-cola but give it the same great taste we will be submitting the product to marketing shortly for bottle design and advertising strategies from all of us in the research department thanks for the support this is likely a reference to Crystal Pepsi which was released in the 1990s Crystal Pepsi was marketed as Pepsi only clear Crystal Pepsi initially sold well but by 1993 they took it off the market we learned more about nuka-cola clear from the nuclear world DLC to fallout 4 we learned that John Kaleb Brad Burton himself cancelled the nuka-cola clear project because they already had a lemon-lime flavor that was going to be debuting soon and project cobalt had recently plopped quantum into their laps so all of the funds that had at one time been set aside for nuka-cola clear were diverted to nuka-cola quantum we also learned that nuka-cola clear was originally called sharon's down country lemon it was invented and patented by a woman named Sharon Lawrence nuka-cola then swooped in and bought the rights from her to rebrand it as nuka-cola clear however they weren't gonna produce it the same way saying that Sharon's original ingredients were too expensive after exploring this room we found two more terminals that had the same notes on it and a walnut it's safe that requires a key we can't pick this guy we'll have to come back once we find a key a door opens up to the north to the factory floor we can loot some garbage cans to the left some boxes on racks in the middle of the floor and then head up a ramp to the northwest here we find a door leading to both the offices and the shipping department crouching down and opening the door we round a corner to see a new color these look like mirelurks but they glow a nuka-cola blue we find new color kimete on these creatures but sadly they can't be used in any cooking recipe however when eaten raw they're much better than new clerk meat which incidentally is much better itself then cooked Marlar cakes mirelurk meat heels 20 hit points at the cost of two radiation Nuka lurk meat heels 20 hit points at the cost of for radiation but also grants us +10 action points for four minutes however it is exceedingly rare this plant is the only place where we can find new killers meats and these new clerks do not respawn which means the total number of nuclear commits we can find in the entire game is 10 after passing through the door to the storage and mixing vats we can round a corner to kill another new Clerk and before exploring this room we can head to the opposite side where we find another new Clerk [Music] once dead we can turn on our light and continue exploring to the southwest we find our factory protectron still in his charging dock if we try to activate it nothing happens on a shelf right next to the sky we find three pulse grenades on the bottom and we notice strangely enough that we can interact with the repair pods I accidentally closed one by trying to activate the protector on and even though there is no protectron and the one next to the sky I can still close it there are railway spikes in the nearby box and incidentally we find a lot of railway spikes in here in general and we can hack the very easy locked automated maintenance terminal if we do we find only one option run maintenance routine after looting some energy cells on the countertop we can turn around to see that the protectron is now active right identified initializing program Excalibur greetings fellow employee please present your valid work I no valid I need detective please state me clearly for voice identification Oh rummaging around quickly trying to find something anything we see a piece of paper right next to the terminal this piece of paper is called and welcome to the nuka-cola family hello Larry on behalf of the nuka-cola corporation I'd like to welcome you to the shipping department at our bottling facility in Washington DC your official job posting is shipping clerk and your employee ID number is NCSD 71g please keep this information handy at all times thanks again and welcome aboard oh great so with this in hand we should be able to talk to that protectron right nope I even reloaded my autosave and tried to activate this protectron after having looted the paper earlier but even though we have Larry's ID there's no way to interact with this guy so maybe we need to use it for something else after exploring this room we can continue by going down some stairs to the south this path rounds a corner to the east where we see waist-deep glowing blue water it looks like the nuka-cola quantum or at least the isotope used to give nuka-cola quantum its unique color has somehow leaked and filled this basement here we find more new clerks and with these signs pointing the way to shipping and to the offices after killing more new clerks so we can wade to the end of this room where we find even more there was a stairway in the middle of this room but it leads to a broken platform we can't go anywhere from here so heading back down we can instead climb the stairway to the northwest this leads up to a catwalk that takes us east we see a doorway in the water down below and the ramp continues ahead if we jump to the other side we can fall to the ground and kill the new clerk that charges us here thankfully there is a staircase down here so we can climb up that way and we'll see that there was nothing here anyway so to continue we can go through the doorway this leads us out of the water up a staircase to end at a door to the offices we find ourselves in a completely dark office hallway and we hear the unmistakable sound of radroaches I'm not gonna waste my ammo on these guys so pulling out my shock sword we can take care of them incidentally this one building has the highest concentration of radroaches of any other building or dungeon in all of Fallout 3 looks like we need to be ready for some pest extermination pureeing up this door we see that the hallway continues to the south there's a door in the wall to the southeast and then a door to the northeast this looks like a bathroom we can get rid of a radroach in here and peering up we see a hole in this ceiling but no other radroaches turning on our light we can explore each and every one of these bathroom stalls and in the water tank of the furthest northeasterly stall we find one Mentats heading out we can face south and we hear a new clerk walking around and sure enough before we head into that room let's continue down this hallway we see it rounds to the left and behind us oh that's what we call teamwork well our stealth game is up we see that we are in some sort of l-shaped room and it's a complete wreck there are radroaches scurrying above us but we'll take care of them later continuing to the eastern side of the L we see a door that leads back out to the hallway and then a hole in the wall that leads to another room to the north here we find some terminals and some office cubicles this first one is the marketing terminal we see the same company-wide announcement we read on the R&D terminal down on the first floor and we see three entries as part of a three-step marketing plan in stage one stage one of nuka-cola quantum marketing will include two 15-second television commercials for 10 second radio commercials and a highway billboard campaign the spots on the TV and radio will tease the consumer with the blue glow of the new drink never showing the bottle in an illuminated environment the billboard will show the bottles blue silhouette on a black background the tagline will be try something new go blue the name will not be revealed until stage 2 in the next one stage two of the nuka-cola quantum marketing will include two 30-second television commercials for 15-second radio commercials and a highway billboard campaign in this stage the name quantum will be revealed and the bottles shown in full view we will emphasize the drinks new energy content and flavor the tagline will be take the leap enjoy a quantum clever that's a reference to a quantum leap or a quantum jump in the final one stage three of the nuclear Cola quantum marketing will include four 30-second television commercials for 15-second radio commercials and a highway billboard campaign in this final stage we will aggressively compare the drink to other competitors and show their inferiority using hired actors at taste tests the actors will read pre written scripts approved by our department the text should give an authentic on-the-spot in but still clearly point out quantum strengths the tag line will remain take the leap enjoy a quantum well I think we found out where Chevy got their TV commercial ideas from these are real people not actors heading out of this terminal we can continue to explore these cubicles we find another marketing terminal on the opposite side but it has the same terminal entries and as we round the corner to leave goodness that charge we can now head into that rec room we passed earlier after clearing the place of vermin we see a skeleton on the ground and that the floor above has caved on in there's a door to the east checking the hallway we see that it doesn't connect this must lead to an office space or a closet we see that it's locked with a hard lock after picking it we noticed that we disturb a skeleton peering inside oh not a skeleton skeletons one two three four of them seems like a lot for one closet after looting the containers we see a first aid kit on one of the shelves and on the ground near to one skeleton hunched over in the corner we find a note help me he threw me in here I can't believe he did it but that bolt brain Foreman's psychopath locked me in the closet a gosh-darn 17 minute break that's why you threw me in here it's been a day and that stupid robot hasn't even checked on me I can't wait until the next time he opens that door I'm gonna brain him with this Auto stapler and then escape this story will be front-page news so fast that he'll have been reassigned with toaster duty by the time he sees it day 3 and I'm running out of what little edible supplies there are they dragged another guy in here as well says his name is Seth from research and development apparently it's now against company policy to leave the toilet seat up in the unisex bathrooms we've come up with a plan that won't fail we'll be out of here in no time but for now we play the waiting game it's clear that his plan failed and it looks like the foreman robot whomever it is brought two others into this closet as punishment the foreman locked them in here and then forgot about them maybe they died of starvation long before the bombs dropped or maybe it was the bombs dropping that disrupted the Foreman's routine or possibly killed the HR department which was giving this robot orders and without orders to release them kept them in here until they starved whatever the cause I don't think we can blame the robot instead we must blame the people who programmed the robot no Cocola itself and the first aid kit on the wall we find three stimpacks and we can head out the door to kill one more radroach and then turn the corner to climb a stairway to the shipping department at the top we see that the hallway turns right towards shipping but we do see a path to the left we'll explore down here first after clearing a few more radroaches we see a door to the right inside a large room with even more radroaches we don't see any new clerk so we can turn on our light and clear these radroaches before looting the containers there is a terminal on a desk to the east but it's another marketing terminal with the same marketing messages so instead we can turn around and go through a door to the east here we find a small storage area boxes on the bottom of a shelf to the southwest a first aid kit on the wall to the north and to the south a copy of lying congressional style sitting on a safe the terminal on the desk is another marketing terminal with all of the same messages but the safe on the ground is unlocked inside we find some 32 caliber rounds money and a stealth boy we don't explore and we can head back to the hallway Sharon waste some ammo in another radroach and then we can turn west on the hallway to explore this final room to the left after clearing the radroaches in this room we loot containers until we see a corpse we didn't kill this guy what is this corpse doing here we find a radroach munching on a body and his name is winger mercy er he's wearing a hockey mask on his corpse we find some 5.56 millimeter rounds and a note finding the formula winger merci er the formula for clear nuka-cola is on the first floor of their DC plant and that's where they did all of the research and development for it get the formula and meet us at the red rocket tricycle Factory as we planned our buyer is promising lots of caps so I want to see some hustle this could take our gang to the big time sudden-death overtime forever Goa Lila do we even find a stealth boy by his corpse but it looks like his stealth failed that must mean then that the formula is still here somewhere maybe Sierra will give us a bonus if we give it to her to add to her collection we can pass through a broken wall to an adjacent room where we find a big book of science on a table and after looting a tool cabinet we come to a dead end that's it so our only way forward is to retrace our steps back the hallway and round the corner to the staircase that leads to shipping at the very top we find a door to the factory floor we arrive in a pod at the top of some catwalks we see the factory floor far below us there is a door to the east but first let's climb on down to the bottom here as we climb down we don't see much just some vats on the ground floor but as we near the bottom we see a door to the right and here factory Foreman this is the guy who must have locked those four nuka-cola employees in that room to starve to death and now he wants to do the same to us unless we present him with some identification if we say forget it I'm in the wrong place 62 employees must be in their designated areas at all times and that includes you mate one demerit will now be the shoed lifted further demerits can cause your expulsion from this job posting but I don't have that information I'm sorry as per protocol NC 77 this information must be readily accessible at all times ah one demerit will now be issued note the further demerits can cause your expulsion from this job posting as previously stated please identify also was that evil chuckling really necessary how much of that is coming from Milo just because he's a sadistic jerk or coming from the guy who programmed him either way I'm not liking this guy we have a lot of other options we can be defiant and say my posting title is ass-kicker and my number is 5.56 millimeter ooh you should profanity and attempting to falsify an employee identification number is a violation of protocols and C 68 and C 90 respectively I'm sorry you have now exceeded two demerits now instituting expulsion protocol KL 0 0 1 an expulsion protocol is death apparently on his body we find the research department safe key and the shipping computer login code but there are other ways to get this information besides destroying him if we exceed three demerits by talking to this guy he attacks but I'll show you his response to the other options we can lie by saying my posting is nuka-cola research and development and my number is nine eight seven zero six five that singsong voice of his sends shivers down my spine now here is where that welcome to the nuka-cola family note comes in handy the one that we previously thought might have been useful to stop that protectron in fact it has nothing to do with the protectron and instead gives us all the information we need to bypass Milo's security check after loading that note we find the option to say my posting is shipping clerk and my number is NCSD seventy sixteen or if we have the robotics expert perk we can say command protocol Delta five three disengage security program disengaged or we can try to pass a pretty difficult speech check to say I am John Caleb Brad Burton I don't need an ID number I own the place if we fail the check but if we pass the check I do for you on this wonderfully productive day now we can pump this guy for information what do you know about the new Cola bottling facility is a stunning accomplishment by the corporation what do you know about nuka-cola quantum this product is the pinnacle of taste sensation 17 flavors and that signature the perfect refreshing soft drink keep you on your toes there strontium and this stuff natural strontium is stable but synthetic strontium is radioactive and is one of the most dangerous components of nuclear fallout synthetic strontium is highly absorbent the body absorbs it in a similar way that it absorbs calcium if nuka-cola quantum were real let's just say it would be flat-out poisonous hey Milo I'm looking for the factory's shipping manifests c86 for Fantastic this is what we came here for but I'm also curious about this nuka-cola clear hey Milo may I have the key to the research safe Thank You Milo I'll be going now buddy kind of stands in our way blocking our path now pushing him out of the way we can loot some containers to the left routing the cubicles we find the nuka-cola shipping terminal we can access it using the pass code we got from Milo audit we find the same company-wide announcement we find on all other terminals but we do see two unique options the first is quantum test shipments and this completes the optional portion of our quest giving us the information we need make sure that the initial test shipments of tomorr sent to the following locations along with the standard marketing package Paradise Falls shopping Mart super duper Mart and old only grocery these first three locations in the DC area will be known as test sites a B and C in all intercompany communications use the data enclosed with this message to mark your Maps now that we have the manifests we can go out and see if there's any nuka-cola quantum left I covered two of these locations in previous videos I covered the super duper Mart which is really close to Megaton in my video on the wasteland Survival Guide part 1 in the back room in storage we find bottles of nuka-cola quantum glowing in some crates on the ground but we only find three I covered the next location in my video on old only if we head to the road southeast of old only we see a delivery truck wrecked on the road in the back we can loot dozens of bottles of nuka-cola over 30 bottles of nuka-cola and 6 bottles of nuka-cola quantum now the last location is Paradise Falls I have not covered this yet in a video but for future reference to find the bottles in Paradise Falls we enter eulogies pad from the lobby we head through the door to the right and then turn right towards a staircase leading upstairs the bottles are hidden in big crates behind the stairs we can see them glowing but they are set to owned which means in order to take these for this quest we've got to steal them so even after discovering these shipping manifests and rating each of these locations we still don't have enough to give to ciara patrovita we'll have to do a bit of exploring on our own but we still have a nuka-cola factory to finish exploring back at the factory in that terminal we find another note from marketing and this note gives us the same information that we just read in the first one backing out of the terminal we can loot a first-aid kit on the wall and then open a door to a closet to the south here we find a couple of metal boxes and an easy locked safe with bottle caps and energy cells inside heading out we can explore this part of the factories floor where we just find a few boxes and to continue we can climb the stairs back up to the catwalk and at the top of the stairs we find an aggressive protect rondell so it looks like even after displaying our employee credentials to Milo we still have to deal with these wandering protect Ron's continuing along we can loot some containers and round a few corners to find another protect Ron after destroying him we can go down some stairs to the east which lead to scaffolding overlooking a bottling machine but here we have to destroy another protect Ron as we reach the bottom we see that the machine is no longer functional the bottles would have gone down the conveyor belts to be filled with the beverage and then capped we see a room to the right heading inside we see a number of containers to loot and on the desk to the east is the packing line terminal locked with a very easy lock after hacking it we see the same company-wide announcement we've seen on all other terminals but for new entries under packing line instructions we read welcome to the nuka-cola packing line operator station you are now instrumental in getting nuka-cola from our factory into the public so please read the simple instructions below if you need assistance please call X three four seven and ask for your line supervisor number one access the packing terminal and choose desired inventory to load into sorting units number two select activate packing line number three monitor the packing line by listening for things such as mechanical screeching explosions and/or human cries for help number four if there is an emergency do not panic simply call a three four seven and ask for your line supervisor the packing line will automatically shut down in the event of an issue remember only you can prevent inventory loss by being attentive and vigilant yeah forget the loss of human life inventory losses what's really important and imagine having this job he just sits at this terminal all day pushing buttons his one job is to call his supervisor if someone's about to die in the next one packing line notice attention all packing line employees due to an oversight but the design department the new nuclear Cola quantum bottles are slightly heavier than the standard Nuka Cola bottles as a result the packing line is prone to jams and may cause damage to the equipment please do not load nuka-cola quantum bottles into the sorting units until further notice all test samples of we'll be packaged by hand until a solution is reached we then find two options if we choose to load nuka-cola into the sorting unit we get an error inventory depleted now the packing line notice told us not to load quantum into it but we do find the option and if we choose to load quantum into the sorting unit we get the notice that it's ready we can then choose to activate the packing line warning system error heading out to see what damage we've caused we don't see a whole lot though we do see three glowing blue bottles of nuka-cola quantum well we may have destroyed some of these machines but at least we can loot these bottles of nuka-cola quantum with this room explored we can head back up the stairs to the top of the scaffolding and go south down the pond here we find a bunch of storage containers to loot in a first-aid kit on the wall and to continue we go down a staircase to the south but at the bottom of this vaulted room is another security protectron after killing him we continued to the west through a pod and rounding the corners until we reach another large vaulted room with another security protectron and one more at the top of a nearby catwalk by passing a door to the left we can climb up the catwalk to loot the nuka-cola security where we just see some sort of pre-war console no loot here so heading back down we've got one path before us to open the big double doors to the south this leads to a small hallway leading to more double doors but these are locked with a very hard lock however we can flip a switch to the left of the doors to open them and we find ourselves back in the nuka-cola factory lobby so these were the very hard locked doors beneath the big glowing red light that we first saw upon entry so we've done a huge loop well we can finish exploring this place by going down the hallway to the east at the end we find ourselves in some sort of cafeteria we can loot into a cocolo machine and then a few minor containers of note there is a copy of Dean's electronics on one of the counter tops heading out into the lobby now that I have my light on for the first time I notice a room above the lobby falling down through a hole into this one peeking out of the hole is a filing cabinet and inside the filing cabinet is a copy of Chinese Army's Special Operations training manual and some shotgun shells what a deal well we've got the information on the nuclear Cola that we want but we also have the key to that wall mounted safe in research and development that we couldn't open earlier so heading down the western hallway we can go over to the safe and unlock it using the key inside we find the nuka-cola clear formula the formula does not appear in our notes section instead we find it as a miscellaneous item even though it appears as a hollow tip we can't read it or listen to it so sadly we never find out what this formula is but you know and I bet you a certain someone who loves to collect anything nuka-cola might be able to pay big bucks for this but we also have to make a choice now that we have all the nuka-cola quantum we need do we give it to Ronald or do we give it to Sierra heading back to girder shade we can first check in with Ronald bringing me some quantum I hope is there anything else interesting near girder shed my friend you are at the ass end of the capital wasteland if it weren't for Sierra I'd be outta here one thing I can tell you is stay the hell away from the Dunwich building to the south that place is bad mojo I don't know what that place is about but I hear about weird [ __ ] going on yeah tell me about it but what do you know about nuka-cola quantum that stuff is some of the nasty [ __ ] I've ever had imagine drinking a nuka-cola then downing a fist full of sugar and punching yourself in the head it pretty much sums it up Sierra shared one with me a long time ago after I drank it might piss glowed for a week well buddy it's your lucky day here's all the new Cocola quantum that Sierra could possibly need well this should be enough to fill that stupid machine of hers thanks for all your help but our transaction is done I'll take any extras off your hands for now but then I'm done with these disgusting drinks they taste horrible now to put the moves on my lady come and watch an expert at work with that we lose karma but we earn 2640 bottle caps and we complete the nuka-cola challenge Ronald leaves this house and we can watch him strut down the road to Sierra Petrova's if we follow him inside we can listen to his clumsy attempts at seduction hey there sweet cheeks I got something for you oh you absolute dear you found the quantum to fill my machine yeah I'll fill your machine all right what was that nothing so you want to celebrate well maybe later I have lots of things to do now need to get all this quantum icy-cold that's okay baby we have plenty of time you know where to find me when you want some of this some of what that's ok Sierra play hard to get I love it yep they sure were hard to get and you got him you big old teddy bear anyway gotta get these into the machine see you sweetie yep I'll be seeing you soon I hope well that was pathetic and sad after witnessing this display we can try to talk to him again hey there hot stuff but we don't find any other options whatever floats your boat sweet cheeks jeez this guy but having sold the nuka-cola to Ronald we can check in with Sierra to see if there's anything else we can do hey you're back what happened to our deal Ciara Oh Ronald is such a sweetheart do you know he went out like you did and found me thirty bottles of quantum he loves me it really loves me now I bet he'll ask me to get married Oh for my wedding present I'm giving him the super secret prize - hey you jerk that was supposed to be for me you can't expect me to get married without a gift for my future husband do you that wouldn't be right and don't call me means like that it hurts my feelings can't you see Ciara he just wants to sleep with you a sleepover awesome we could tell bedtime stories into each other's hair and all sorts of fun stuff I could even make some nuka-cola treats for when we get the munchies late at night that would be fun whatever okay well don't forget I'll buy bottles of Kuantan from you so has Ronald been bothering you oh no not at all in fact I've been getting lots of nice attention from him lately ever since he brought the quantum to fill my machine he keeps whispering sweet nothings to me in fact he told me he's going to butter my muffin isn't that sweet that he'll do such a silly little chore for me now all I need are muffins oh you poor thing all right I gotta go now bye bye now well this is horrible and sad and awkward and just horrible but we don't have to live in this and disgusting world instead of giving the nuka-cola quantum to Ronald we can reload our previous save and head to Sierra's Shack we find her wandering around inside as delusional as ever hope you met Ronald he's such a sweetie oh I hope you're here with some quantum I've got the last of the quantum you've done it my machine is finally full well like I promised here's the schematic for the Nuka grenade you've sure earned it if you find any more bottles be sure and bring them by I'll be glad to keep paying for them with that we gained karma complete the quest and nuka-cola challenge get the schematics for the nuke a grenade and earn 1320 caps to craft a new car grenade we need one nuka-cola quantum one tin can one turpentine and one a brac so cleaner making it a pretty expensive explosive to craft the new Cochran aid is one of the most potent explosives in the entire game bested only by the explosive powers of a mini nuke and a bottle cap mine these grenades are affected by physics so it is possible for the grenade to bounce away from the enemy or trying to kill also strangely enough Nuka grenades are not affected by the demolition expert perk or the pyromaniac perks the Nuka grenade blast radius is much larger than a typical grenade which means these are very dangerous in the hands of companions companions don't seem to understand the increased radius of these things and can frequently kill themselves when trying to use them but that's not all because we can come back to sierra petrov enough to give her more nuka-cola quantum zin the future and if we do we can ask her if there are any other kinds of recipes that she can make with nuka-cola quantum well the stuff is so rare I only know one it's called Mississippi quantum pie it's delicious if you want me to make you one I can just bring me some flower vodka and a new Cocola quantum I can whip it up in no time with that she gives us the ingredients necessary to craft a Mississippi quantum pie heading out we can try and scrounge up some of those ingredients if we choose to give the quantum directly to cierra instead of to Ronald he doesn't really have anything else to say baby I hate it when you leave but I love watching you go except for his traditional creepy dialogue once we get all of the components necessary to craft the Mississippi Pie we can bring them back to Sierra and put her to work can you make me a Mississippi quantum pie sure just give me a second and I'll have it ready for you she takes the ingredients and heads on over to her stove and frustratingly we are now locked in place we can't even move our camera we have to sit here and wait for Ciara to finish cooking this thing before we can move and it takes a long time but don't worry I'm not gonna make you sit through it all there you go I hope you I get with that we get the Mississippi quantum PI the effects are okay a Mississippi quantum PI grants us plus one strength plus twenty action points at the cost of minus one intelligence and plus five radiation for four minutes this essentially are the combined effects of one two Cocola quantum and one vodka - the charisma boost and the chance of addiction it's a sneaky way to get most of the effects of booze without any of the risk of addiction but no matter how many times we go back to Sierra we never find an option to talk about the nuka-cola clear formula that we discovered at the factory which means that a we can either keep this for ourselves maybe use it as a decoration in our player home or B we can take up the quest of winger merci er and bring it to goalie Ladue and his sudden death overtime gang who are waiting for it at the red racer tricycle Factory he called it the red rocket tricycle factory in his note but there's no such thing as a red rocket tricycle factory only the red rocket truck stops of which there are dozens in the capital wasteland but there's only one red racer factory so he must have meant red racer not red rocket will meet up with the sudden-death overtime gang in front of the red racer tricycle Factory in our next episode to see exactly what we can get for this nuka-cola clear formula if you want to make sure that you don't miss that episode be sure to subscribe but to click that Bell notification button I publish a new fallout video six days a week on a wide range of topics spanning all of the games you can also follow me on Facebook and Twitter to keep up to date with all oxhorn news and if you like what I do and you want to support me in a more 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Channel: Oxhorn

Views: 866,848

Keywords: oxhorn, nuka cola challenge, sierra petrovita, girdershade, nuka cola plant, NUKA-COLA CHALLENGE, NUKA-COLA PLANT, NUKA-CLEAR FORMULA

Id: U13IZrdmq5c

Length: 65min 50sec (3950 seconds)

Published: Tue Jan 23 2018