Tranquility Lane

 is a Fallout 3 quest, an Xbox 360/PC achievement and a PlayStation 3 Trophy. The quest begins immediately after the completion of Scientific Pursuits, which ends when the player sits in a Tranquility Lounger in Vault 112 and begins the simulation that comprises Tranquility Lane.

Tranquility Lane is a virtual reality simulation housed in Vault 112. The player is tasked by one of the residents, Betty, with an ever-escalating series of violent jobs in order to free their father James from the simulation. As an alternative to completing the violent tasks, the player may free their father by activating the "Fail Safe" solution, which gives good karma instead of bad.

Bugs

 * For some reason Mrs. Rockwell can skip the argument with her husband if you decide to use the sexy sleepwear. She will just run away when she's within speaking distance of her former husband. One way to avoid this is to exit the basement before she does and make sure Mr. Rockwell is not too close to the basement door.


 * When leaving the simulation you may lose your hotkey bindings, forcing you to reset them. On the Xbox 360, you will lose the hotkey bindings.


 * On the Xbox 360 version, it is possible to cause the game to hang by pressing B after either finding the rolling pin or being killed by Betty/Braun.
 * On a rare occasion, you may have to do 3 games for the girl before you can get to the failsafe.Possibly because she has to finish the song before you can go forward.
 * Rare- sometimes when the player hits Betty, the character freezes as if in speech, but is able to move the camera; Betty runs off like normal children and the player must reload the game. (found this when an attack aimed at Martha Simpson hit Betty instead)
 * If you killed Mrs. Henderson in game 3 of Betty, Mabel Henderson will nevertheless appear again alive while doing game 4 for Betty if you decide to massacre all and chase down everyone of Tranquility Lane - this has no special influence to the game, just a logical flaw (note from reader: This is not a logical flaw. Logic does not exist in a virtual reality. She reappeared because Braun made it so that, while the Fail Safe is still active on their pods, no one will actually die in real life.)

Trivia

 * This quest refers to the post-apocalyptic short-story I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream where a rogue supercomputer tortures the last remnant of humanity for its own satisfaction.
 * The Thaw, an episode of Star Trek: Voyager, has a similar premise involving an alien artificial intelligence.
 * Game Informer rated Tranquility Lane as being among the ten most memorable moments in 2008 games.
 * Attacking Braun (as Betty) in the simulation will cause him to use his god-like powers to kill you, similar to what happens in the Shivering Isles expansion pack to The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion (another Bethesda Softworks game) if you attack Sheogorath, the "god" of the Shivering Isles realm
 * The musical theme of the level can be heard beforehand in a bit of foreshadowing as the lullaby musical player during the 1-Year-Old sequence during character generation.

Videos
Tranquility Lane Activate Chinese Invasion SimulationVideo:Tranquility Lane

Four part video of this quest: