Lucky Hole Mine

The Lucky Hole mine is a location in the Savage Divide region of Appalachia in 2102.

Background
On the surface, it's an innocuous, abandoned lead mine used by smugglers before the Great War. However, Lucky Hole mine contains a dark secret. Before the Great War, the miners were scared away by a group of strange people demanding to delve into the depths of the mine in search of mysteries. When the foreman and the rest of the miners left, giving the strange folk free reign over the mine as long as they stayed away, the cultists wasted no time in excavating the tunnels and unearthing traces of an antediluvian civilization: Cyclopean statues and... Something else. They quickly turned the mine into a secret chapel to the Father of the Wood, as they called the dark presence that whispered into their ears.

Layout
Inside this mine there are multiple notes and altars relating to the Cult of the Mothman that had been performing sacrificial rituals to an unknown deity referred to as "The Firstborn of the Wood" or "The Interloper." In one of the chambers, tentacles that slowly move and resemble wooden tree roots can be found near the skeletal remains of many members of the cult.

Throughout the entire mine there are several lead and crystal ore veins that can be activated to obtain one or more lead ore or crystal ore.

A locked security gate inside the mine can be opened with the combination code that is on the smuggler's stash note that can be found in one of the wooden cabins outside of the entry to the mine. The combination code is 238963.

Points of interest

 * Exterior
 * The Lucky Hole mine is innocuous enough outside. Just three abandoned huts with makeshift bedding, a quonset hut covering the entrance to the mine and assorted machinery. The real fun begins inside the mine.
 * Interior
 * The mine opens into a staging area, which includes a bed and a cooking station up the stairs, a power armor in the storage room below, and the locker rooms with the usual mining loot. Further down the corridor, strange things begin to happen. The corridor leads to a junction, with corridors branching off left and right. The left-hand corridor is obstructed by a security door closed from the other side, so players need to pass through the right-hand tunnel. The winding tunnel eventually leads to another junction. The southerly direction leads to a mining corridor that terminates in a passageway that leads eastwards, into the dark chapel. The "altar" consists of a podium and a coffin that, apparently, contains the corpse of the cult's priestess. Behind it is a large statue sitting in the middle of a small basin of water... In front of a cyclopean statue, buried in the stone and covered with the rot of a myriad centuries.
 * The area behind the waterfall, visible if the player climbs up the stones, is accessible via the small tunnel that leads away from the chapel, the first on the right when backtracking through it. The hidden corridor that leads to the chemistry laboratory and the location's steamer trunk is obscured by vines and is located on the right (hugging the wall helps fall into it).
 * The real mystery of the mine is found down another secret tunnel, which leads from the one leading to the chem lab. It's completely obscured by vines and leads to what appears to be a burial chamber, with an eldritch monstrosity laid before five monstrous statues... And traces of a ritual sacrifice committed with a sickle.
 * Now, backtracking through the narrow corridor, there's a locked security door inside. The code is 238963 and can be found in the Smuggler's Stash note in the hut outside the mine, nearest to the entrance. There are several duffle bags of pre-war money and some shotgun ammo.

Notable loot

 * Holotapes and notes:
 * Smuggler's stash - Note, outside the mine in the wooden cabin closest to the mine entrance, on a metal shelf.
 * He agrees - Note, found on a desk to the right when entering the mine.
 * The Chosen - Holotape, found on raised area close to entrance, next to a sleeping bag.
 * His birth - Note, found further into the mine by two sleeping bags on a wooden crate.
 * His blood - Note, on a table in front of a red locked door halfway into the mine.
 * His home - Note, found past the locked red door to the right and by an oil lantern and two floor mats.
 * His springs - Note, further into the mine by a pool next to the lit candles.
 * His Priestess - Note, on top of the coffin alter in the main cultist shrine at the end of the mine.
 * Potential bobbleheads
 * On the bottom lip of the chalkboard, in the hidden chem laboratory inside the mine.
 * On the metal table with the beakers, right of the chalkboard, in the hidden chem laboratory inside the mine.
 * On top of a control panel in the hidden chem laboratory.
 * Potential magazine
 * On the lectern at the main cultist altar with the pews, in the dead-end tunnel at the end of the mine (interior).
 * Potential power armor
 * Inside a chained room that can be accessed by going upstairs and dropping off the edge of the platform.


 * Other
 * Cultist blade - Two can be found attached to the wooden lectern by the coffin altar at the end of the mine.
 * Ritual bindings - Inside a yellow container within the hidden room next to the altar shrine. The room is accessed via a small tunnel, obscured by some foliage when taking the first tunnel to the right out of altar room (17 steps along the tunnel on the right).
 * Cultist dagger - On a control panel in the hidden room.
 * Ritual mask - On top of a control panel in the hidden room.
 * Lucky Hole key - On a shelf of the wooden lectern by the coffin altar.
 * Random magazine - On top of the podium in the main Cultist shrine.


 * Junk
 * Numerous lead and crystal veins can be found inside.
 * Decent amount of bone shards from antlers on ceiling outside of the Interloper room and from Cultist gear.
 * Glass from numerous specimen jars.

Appearances
The Lucky Hole mine appears only in Fallout 76.

Behind the scenes
Some of the sacrificial altars, statues, and tentacles may be a reference to H.P. Lovecraft's writings about Cthulhu.

Gallery
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