Mod:Fallout: The Frontier/Sometimes the Stars

Sometimes the Stars is The Hanged Man’s companion quest in Fallout: The Frontier.

Upon partaking this quest you will discover that his real name is Joseph Drag and that he was a sniper at First Recon.

Activating the quest
The Courier must have the Hanged Man with them as a companion to activate this quest. In order to trigger the quest, one must do 3 out of these 4 possible things:


 * Travel with him to The Gallows (near Portland Library) and talk to him there
 * Travel with him to the Bright Town Ruins and talk to him there
 * Visit the memorial created via Dreaming of Bright Town quest and there to him there (the memorial is just left of the Arlington Heights icon on the map)
 * Kill Elliot during Home Sweet Home

Detailed walkthrough
Once these history points have been triggered the Hanged Man will then get your attention and by showing you various pictures will express that he wants help finding his sister, Star. You can then interpolate that a good place to start is by talking to Jackson back at Camp Phoenix. Jackson can be found leaning against a wall near Burns and Vince.

Jackson will express disbelief that the Hanged Man (real name Joseph Drag) is alive. Jackson will tell you that Star was his fiance and one day she disappeared. Jackson will then tell the Courier that Temperance, the Hanged Man’s ex-girlfriend, Temperance may know more.

Temperance is located at the Portland Royal Casino, south east of Irvington. Unlike Jackson, Temperance will not be happy at seeing Joseph again and the player will either need a speech check of 60 or pay her 100 caps for her to tell the player that Star had an affair with Josiah Zurich who may know where she is. Josiah can be found at The Wasted Angel.

Josiah will tell the player that he get the occasional message from her and points you to Dead Wolf Cave. Inside the cave you will be ambushed by three mercenaries, one of which will have a contract against the Hanged Man and the Courier from Josiah. After confronting Josiah he will confess that Star is dead and he accidentally killed her. After insisting that they were in love and marking the spot where he buried her, the Hanged Man will execute Zurich.

Star’s gravestone can be found south of Northwest Industrial just below the place where the player character first met the Hanged Man.

Responding with “What did you expect? People suck, that’s just the way the world works.” or “We’re done here, let’s get going.” will cause the Hanged man to lose his faith in humanity and earn him the The Moon perk.

Responding with kindness will reward the Hanged Man with the Judgement perk and he will speak to the player character for the first and only time.

Bugs

 * During the confrontation with Zurich, the player control will be disabled and if The Hanged Man is equipped with anything but his default weapon then he will not be able to fire his weapon to kill Zurich. Thus soft locked the game. There may also be a softlock if the player acts rudely to the Hanged Man after he kills Zurich.