Rescue Tandi from the Raiders

Rescue Tandi from the Raiders is a side quest in Fallout.

Quick walkthrough

 * 1) Return to Shady Sands after stopping the radscorpions.
 * 2) Go to vault 15
 * 3) Talk to either Seth or Aradesh.
 * 4) Travel to the Khan's base.
 * 5) Negotiate, through words or force, for Tandi's release.
 * 6) Return Tandi to Shady Sands.

Detailed walkthrough
After completing the Stop the Radscorpions quest, and exploring Vault 15, Seth or Aradesh in Shady Sands will ask you to save Tandi from the nearby raiders, known as the Khans.

If you talk to Razlo before you leave, he will sympathetically give you 2 stimpaks.

Solutions
There are numerous ways to rescue Tandi. You can:
 * Kill all of the Khans and break her out.
 * Fight Garl in Unarmed combat for her.
 * Buy her from Garl.
 * Intimidate Garl for her release (45% speech).
 * Quietly kill the two guards at the rear of the building and pick the lock on Tandi's cell.
 * If you enter the raider's camp while have a high amount of Luck, the raiders will think you are Garl's father who Garl killed to take control of the Khans. You can try and bluff Garl with this ruse and demand Tandi's release.

The first and second entail a lot of risk, the second especially if you are still a low level. Garl is a highly competent brawler and of a level much higher than his men.

Tandi can be used as a party member if you never take her back to Shady Sands, but she is undoubtedly the weakest one you can get. When you do bring her back to the village you will receive 500 experience and 500 bottle caps once you talk to Aradesh.

Reward

 * 500 XP
 * 500 bottle caps
 * 2 stimpaks (optional)

Bugs

 * You need a Bag or Back Pack for this. Now when you are at the Raiders camp for freeing Tandi, ask Garl to barter for her release. On the barter screen, buy her head and put it in the bag. When ending the dialogue Garl won't attack and Tandi's barter head will remain. But Tandi isn't free yet. For freeing her you can talk to Garl again and barter, fight or talk her out of her cage. You can also keep on going with the Tandi trick and get more of them. The Tandi head weighs 10 pounds and looks very strange when thrown on the ground. This also works with the Light, Medium and Heavy Healing you can get from Razlo. Once you've got the head you can talk to Garl with the head in your inventory and say nothing at all; Tandi will be released and you get to keep the head.