82. Charleston Capitol Building
- COLLECTIBLES: Bobblehead, Holotape, Magazine, Nuka-Cherry
- CRAFTING: Armor, Chemistry, Cooking, Weapons
- DANGER: Radiation!
- ITEMS: Arms and Ammo+; Health and Chems; Overseer’s Cache; Recipe/Mod/Plan; Trunk
- INFO: Expected Enemy: Ghoul, Irradiated Animal; Landmark; Note; Scavenge Rating: 4; Size: 4; Sleeping; Threat Level: 1–10
- LOCK: Door (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2), Safe (2, 3), Terminal (1)
- ITEM EXAMPLES: Alarm Clock, Bandage Scissors, Blamco Brand Mac and Cheese, Blast Radius Board Game, Blue Paint, Boiled Water+, Bone Cutter, Cafeteria Tray, Camera, Coffee Cup+, Coffee Pot, Coffee Tin, Combat Armor Helmet, Dandy Boy Apples, Dinner Plate, Dirty Black Suit, Enamel Bucket+, Eyeglasses, Fusion Core, Hot Dog, Hot Plate, Instamash, Glass Jar+, Glass Pitcher, Globe, Loose Screws, Luxobrew Coffee Pot, Key to Holbrooke’s Stash, Medical Liquid Nitrogen Dispenser, Mountain Honey, Nuka-Cola, Nuka-Cola Bottle+, Pack of Cigarettes, Paintbrush, Pepper, Pillow+, Potato Crisps, Purified Water, Salisbury Steak, Salt, Screwdriver, Shadeless Lamp, Short Laser Pistol, Sledgehammer, Sugar Bombs, Surgical Tray, Sweet Roll, Tall Drinking Glass, Telephone, Toilet Paper, TV Dinner Tray, Typewriter+, Vodka Bottle, TVU Coffee Cup, Walking Cane, Whiskey Bottle, Willow Vaulted Vase
The pride of Appalachia was this temple to legislation, an edifice of limestone with a gold-topped dome that’s more robust than many survivors expected. The dome is still intact, though the interior of the three main Capitol structures have been ransacked almost beyond recognition, and there is a sizable amount of rubble (thanks to the bursting of the dam) to trek across. There are three separate structures (a fourth is inaccessible) with entrances to the interior, which provides access to all three buildings beneath the rubble. There’s an entrance via an office exposed by a large hole in the exterior of the main building (northeast corner). There are also entrances on the domed roof, two in the central courtyard near the bell (one to the DMV, the other to the Capitol Courthouse via a tunnel of trash), and another into the courthouse at the narrow (south) end where the trash is piled the highest (near a quest-related Responders button).
Starting inside the Capitol DMV, perhaps the most important object in this chamber is the Overseer’s Cache, which gives you information and an immediate influx of items. Then methodically check all other rooms for junk, paying special attention to stairwells, fallen ceiling ramps, and other methods of getting to every nook and cranny within these structures. Expect three floors and a basement to explore.