Shock Value



Shock Value is a Fallout 3 quest and achievement that is added to the game in the Broken Steel add-on.

Talk to Paladin Tristan
Right after completing Death From Above you are told to talk to Paladin Tristan in the Citadel. Tristan briefs you on your next mission, which is to retrieve a pre-War experimental device called Tesla coil from the remains of Olney Powerworks. The scribes need the coil to finish a little surprise for the Enclave: the Tesla cannon.

(Optional) Use Enclave-controlled deathclaws to your advantage
If you ask Tristan for a little help, he tells you to talk to Scribe Vallincourt in the Citadel laboratory. She gives you a deathclaw control scrambler which allows you to "hijack" Enclave-controlled deathclaw so long as you are within range of an Enclave transmitter.

South-east of Old Olney is an Enclave camp where you can test the controller. All you have to do is unlock the deathclaw cage and let it kill the Enclave soldiers. You can also sneak up the nearby collapsed bridge and get within range of the deathclaw and watch it attack the Enclave soldiers. Although a lot of the time you never get the 'completed' notification for this (Optional) task and the marker stays on radar until you enter the Olney sewers.

Find the ruins of Olney Powerworks
Once you get to Olney, bring up the local map on your Pip-Boy and look for the entrance to the sewer. Once you get into the sewer, find the ladder which leads to Old Olney underground. Arriving there, you are greeted by the ghouls Wint and Kidd who are the last survivors of a group of ghouls which tried to establish a settlement here - a plan the deathclaws apparently did not approve of. The ghouls leave after your conversation, deducing that it's safe to leave the way you came.

From here on, the way to Olney Powerworks is pretty linear. Navigating the deathclaw-infested Old Olney underground, you will find Wint's and Kidd's dead comrades, like Badger, Connelly, Dunbar, Carl and Sanders, and eventually reach a door to Old Olney S. Wilson Building. In the building you encounter a couple of Enclave soldiers and a door on the second level (behind two Enclave soldiers) that leads to Olney Powerworks.

Find a Tesla coil
The old power plant is guarded by sentry bots which can be deactivated from a couple of security terminals. You can take the short way by going through a door on your left after you enter the area, and then hacking the very hard terminal there, or take the long way by veering to the right. Either way, you will eventually reach the room with the tesla coil, which is inside the bright electrical chamber. Removing the coil while the power is on will cause a large amount of damage. To acquire the tesla coil without power damage, jump down into the Tesla Coil chamber, enter the adjacent room, and use the hard terminal to shut off the power. Then go back into the chamber and remove the tesla coil from its base.

Another way to sustain less damage is to jump into the Tesla Coil chamber and activate the three emergency switches inside the chamber. You still receive a shock, but it is not as harmful. If skill level prevents access to the shutdown switch, throwing a few pulse grenades into the chamber will knock out the power and allow you to access the three switches.

Take the tesla coil to Paladin Tristan
Once done, a nearby ladder takes you out to a street north of Old Olney. Here you are likely greeted by a couple of deathclaws, and upon defeating them you can fast travel back to the Citadel. Hand the coil over to Tristan and receive your next assignment, Who Dares Wins.

Reward

 * 1400 XP