Hard Luck Blues | Side quests Fallout: New Vegas Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

Hard Luck Blues

Given by: Morgan Blake [Sharecropper Farms] (M45:3)

She'll ask you to check water pumps, because something is probably wrong with them. Go to the [East Pump Station] (MsB:21) #1 where you can find a terminal #2. [Science 50] fix the terminal and read a note about a radiation in a filtering system.

Travel to the [Vault 34] (MsB:30). The reactor (M18A:2) is your target. Unfortunately the door leading to the Overseer's Office is blocked so you need to get a key. Look for a corridor with the leaking pipe. Further way is flooded, so dive under the desk and locate a vault technician there (M18A:3). Search him and get the security terminal password #1. Now go through the clinic heading to the Armory (M18A:4), which is also flooded #2. There is another drowned vault technician with the utility terminal password.

Go to the utility room where you can access the terminal using the password you found (M18A:5) #1 and activate the pump system. Next go to the [Armory] where you can unlock the door leading to the Overseer's Office (M18B:1) #2.

Once you're inside the [Reactor room] you have to watch out for radiation and vault inhabitants. You'll reach a huge terminal (M18C:1), where you can:

• read some notes;
• open the door to the reactor (M18C:2);
• close the exterior vents;
• reroute Vault control.

If you decide to close the exterior vents, water won't be radiated any longer.

You can also save trapped Vault 34 inhabitants, but the Sharecropper farms will be doomed.