Professor's radscorpion

The Professor's radscorpion is an intelligent radscorpion genetically engineered by the insane Professor from Broken Hills.

Background
The scorpion is an avid chess player. It communicates by clicking its pincers together.

Quests

 * Defeat the professor's radscorpion in three challenges: The radscorpion can be used to receive 1500 XP. total by talking to the professor and taking three different tests that give you 500 XP. each for competing with the radscorpion. The Intelligence test, the chess game, is won using the Flying Liver Attack, regardless of stats. The other two tests, which test your Perception and Agility, can be beaten by stealing and using the radscorpion's spectacles. If this is not enough, you can use drugs such as Jet and Buffout on the scorpion, then wait for their side effects to kick in.
 * Seymour, the talking spore plant, can help the Chosen One beat the radscorpion at chess by telling him or her to use the Flying Liver Attack. After defeating the radscorpion with the Flying Liver Attack, it will begin to attack the player, forcing you to either run or kill it. If you re-enter the building after fleeing, it should no longer be hostile. Killing the radscorpion will cause the professor to say "Why did you kill my radscorpion? I was so close, so close!" However, he will not attack you in revenge of his fallen scorpion.

Appearances
The Professor's radscorpion appears only in Fallout 2.

Behind the scenes
The Flying Liver Attack is a reference to a real chess opening called fried liver attack.

Скорпион Профессора