The Train Job

The Train Job is the first main story quest $$

Quest Objectives

 * Rescue the guard from the crowds outside Diamond City and obtain a meeting with Mayor McDonough.
 * Travel to the attacked caravan and return whatever supplies they can to Diamond City before the crowds begin to riot.
 * Discover who was behind the caravan attack.

Scene One: A Growing Hunger
As the player characters approach Diamond City, they see a large crowd gathered around the gates, and armed guards with batons drawn trying to keep the group back as they begin closing the massive shutter. As the mob attempts to get to the safety inside before the gate closes, various members of the crowd are crushed against oneanother, and the player characters notice one woman, beaten and bruised, trying to break through the crowd and claiming to need to talk with Mayor McDonough. The woman, whose name is Evie, is in danger of being overwhelmed by the crowd, and the player characters can attempt to either intimidate or fight the crowd to try and protect Evie, or to leave her as she is. Regardless of intervention, Evie is bought inside by Diamond City guards, and shortly afterwards the Player characters are escorted inside on request of either Evie or Mayor McDonough.

Scene Two: Mayor McDonough
The player characters and Evie are escorted to Mayor McDonough's office by the guards, where the Mayor begins to question Evie with a dour expression. It is revealed that Evie was a guard for a caravan that was due to arrive in Diamond City days ago, however Evie explains that the caravan was attacked, and that she is the only survivor. Upon hearing this news, Mayor McDonough requests the player characters to travel to the site of the caravan attack and try to recover any supplies, offering citizenship in Diamond City as a reward (and by extension, the right to enter and sleep in Diamond City). In addition to his request of the supplies, McDonough would also like to know the cause of the caravan attack, although notes that this is a secondary priority, as Diamond City needs the food to help it survive the harsh winter. Upon questioning Evie about the circumstances of the attack; she can inform you that the caravan was a functioning train, travelling along span of railroad until the group were attacked near the end of the line while offloading the train's cargo for the final on-foot portion of the delivery. She also mentions that the group picked up a stanged robed traveller a few days ago, but thinks the attackers were probably just simple raiders, albeit well-armed. Should Evie be healthy enough to travel, she will escort the players to the attack site.

Scene Three: The Derailed Train
The attack site is made obvious by a large plume of smoke that is visible even from a distance. Observant player characters are able to notice that the site is still being actively scavenged. Once the player characters reach the toppled two-car train, it is made immediately clear that the train was blown off its tracks by an explosion, which has caused small craters where they detonated, and small fires that still burn upon their arrival. In addition to this, bullet holes in the side of the train and strewn bodies show that a battle occured here, and the freshness of the blood implies that it occured quite recently. Not long after they reach the train, 4 scavengers emerge and try to threaten the player characters away from their find, willing to defend it with their lives. Upon interrogation, the scavengers will reveal that they were not the ones responsible for the attack, the attackers were a group of raiders that live in a nearby bunker. They also plead that they're only doing what they need to in order to survive, due to the frigid conditions. Inside the train car, the player characters can find a thin man wearing long white robes and a peculiar pendant chained to the inside of the train car. Despite this however, he does not seem panicked and hums peacefully. The man, Brother Landon, is a member of an emerging sect within the Children of Atom led by a man called The Last Son of Atom, and the symbol on the pendant he wears is an insignia of his design that he hopes the church will officially adopt. Brother Landon is easily freed, and will thank the player characters for doing so, before quickly departing for Diamond City.

Scene Four: The Bunker
If deciding to tackle the raiders that attacked the train before returning the supplies, the player characters can progress to the bunker they inhabit. It is a concrete structure, guarded by a lone sentry turret by the door. If the attack is heard by the raiders inside, they will be alerted and join the fight. If the turret is disabled or otherwise dealt with quietly, the raiders inside the bunker will be unaware of the player characters' presense, and will continue talking amongst oneanother. They reveal that they are exiles from various wasteland settlements who are trying to simply survive the harsh conditions in any way they can, their leader Silt being an exile from Diamond City, and has a deep hatred of Mayor McDonough because of it. If the player characters wish, they can attempt to barter with the raiders to leave the bunker in exchange for bringing them supplies periodically to aid them in surviving the winter.

The Fallout
If the player characters return with Diamond City's supplies, Mayor McDonough will thank them for their work, granting them citizenship to Diamond City and 1 rank of settlement reputation with Diamond City by extension. In addition to this, if the raiders were killed and the player characters have proof, returning it to Mayor McDonough will lead to him paying them an added 150 cap bounty for their trouble (Not killing the raiders and instead merely informing him of the bunker's location will only afford the group 50 caps). If the player characters decided not to return Diamond City's supplies however, they gain the food and drink for their own inventories, but lose 1 rank of settlement reputation and Diamond City's food supply becomes limited. If the player characters also refused to help Evie in addition to taking the food supplies, they will lose an additional rank settlement reputation. Due to the default settlement reputation rank of Diamond City being 2, this action will reduce the rank to 0, resulting in Mayor McDonough banishing the player characters from Diamond City, considering them no better than raiders.

Enemies

 * Wastelander
 * Scavenger
 * Machine Gun Turret Mk I
 * Raider