Comprehensive and thorough scientific testing projections using the SimTek 5000 indicate the necessity to further separate and define the types of quests available to you on your travels. These are divided into the following groupings:
Main Quests
It appears you have woken from your cryogenetic slumber, Vault Dweller. These quests chart the progress you’re likely to take to reunite yourself with your offspring, and as deemed to be the quests most important to you, they are referenced first.
Institute Quests
This faction of important scientists has a distinct vision of the Commonwealth, and you’re able to play an integral role in helping realize this. Meet a man named Father during your Main Quest, and seek further information then.
Brotherhood of Steel Quests
After an unequivocal arrival, this military fraternity of honor-bound technology salvagers requires your assistance in helping their cause. Should you wish to work with Paladin Danse and eventually Elder Maxson, find out more in this section.
The Railroad Quests
A clandestine group of synth sympathizers led by Desdemona, the Railroad needs your help in ferrying the downtrodden to safety. Latest data shows the Railroad recently left a compromised home base close to Lexington. Perhaps the Freedom Trail holds the answer?
Minutemen Quests
A ragtag band of surface dwellers, Preston Garvey and his crew want nothing more than a new society to blossom. Are you game to help establish settlements and trade routes and help fellow settlers build a new utopia? The aptly-named Museum of Freedom is where to find these folks.
Side Quests
Perhaps you’d like to meet and greet (or eventually maim) potential companions, rescue hapless fools who have gotten themselves in a bind, or solve a conundrum not linked to the main factions? Then try this pot-luck selection of disparate and unrelated activities.
Location Quests
It’s a large and frankly terrifying world out there. Fortunately, Vault-Tec is here to provide notes on which locations have one or more activities to undertake. Some are frivolous, but many offer monetary rewards, and some offer hope to those who need it. Seek them all in the Map chapter of this book.
Random Encounters
You have every right to be suspicious, as danger may arrive in many guises, at any time, and in every place you might wander. But a list of probable encounters can ease your consternation.