Head of State

 is a Fallout 3 quest. It is also a PS3 Trophy and Xbox 360 and PC achievement.

Talking with the Union

 * The quest is given to you in Temple of the Union by Hannibal Hamlin, who wants to relocate his slave haven to the Lincoln Memorial and restore it as a sign of freedom.


 * Hannibal requests that you travel to the Lincoln Memorial and see if it is still occupied by Super Mutants. He also asks you to talk with fellow slave Caleb Smith. Smith is a mason and will ask you to obtain a picture of the Lincoln Memorial in the Museum of American History so he will have reference materials that will help him repair it. The Lincoln Memorial Poster is at the top of the stairs on the wall above a desk in the Museum Offices area, right across the staircase to the topmost level. The poster will not be there until after you talk with Caleb, even if you have already been through the museum.

Scouting the Memorial

 * Lincoln Memorial is free of mutants, but occupied with slave hunters from Paradise Falls led by Leroy Walker. In talking with Leroy, the player is given the option to reveal the slave hideout in Temple of the Union.

Kill the slavers

 * You are required (it is an objective) to make sure the Memorial is safe and free of super mutants. However, you must enter the memorial to do this. As soon as you walk on the steps of the memorial, the slavers inside will become hostile and begin shooting.  Once you have killed the slavers and completed the objective you can return to Temple of the Union.

Alternatively...


 * The first time you talk to Walker he asks you to find items related to Lincoln. The second time you talk to him, OR after you trade the first Lincoln item, he asks you to locate Hannibal. (Hannibal is in the Temple of the Union and his location is your reward from Mei Wong in Rivet City, if you offer her caps to buy a gun). If you reveal the location of Hannibal, Leroy tells you that they will be waiting for your help there. He and his slavers leave the Memorial. Just follow the slavers and more than likely they will get finished off while traveling by the Super Mutants or any large explosives (Nuka Grenade, Mini Nuke). Speak to Hannibal and (if you have the Lincoln Memorial Poster) after an hour you can trigger their departure for the Memorial. (While they start their journey it's better to move away from them, in the opposite direction. By doing this you can avoid their deaths from random encounters and if you don't want to escort them. They arrive safe in Memorial

Escort Hannibal

 * If the player reports back to Hannibal that there are no mutants, he will gather up his group and head for the memorial. He tells you to wait an hour and they will be ready (press 'T', the 'select' button or the 'BACK' button during normal game play to activate the WAIT dialog). To ensure Hannibal has started the trip, you really should WAIT an hour after speaking with him at the Temple of the Union; after which, you may then fast travel to the nearby Mall Northwest Metro Station, where Hannibal will eventually arrive. If you fast travel to the memorial without Waiting an hour, the group will not arrive until you fast travel back and trigger their departure. However, even this may not work correctly. After telling Hannibal that Caleb is ready, you may have to fast travel to the Mall Northwest Metro station and wait a full 24 hours for the former slaves to appear.

Fast travel doesn't always seem to work. Sometimes they leave the Temple and just never show up at the Memorial. You can also escort Hannibal Hamlin (Lincoln's first Vice President) and his crew in person ensuring that they get there. This takes a long time and should involve many periodic saves.

If your strength is high enough you have an option to warn Hannibal about the slavers, at which point he'll tell you to take care of them by any means.

The Fight

 * Once the slaves arrive, they will ask for your help killing the slave hunters (unless you already killed them). If the player does not tell Hannibal to wait while you check it out (giving you time to go kill the slave hunters), then Hannibal will lead his group into battle. He is usually killed, which terminates the quest. However, if you "investigate" and kill the slave hunters, or have already done so, there will be no one to kill Hannibal when he leads the charge and the player can complete the quest.


 * Note that you can also go in with a Stealth Boy and pickpocket the ammo off each of the slavers, including Leroy. Pickpocketing NPCs of any ammo they have renders them unable to fire their weapons, and with only unarmed attacks to contend with, Hannibal and his crew will usually take out all of the slavers on their own with no losses.

Bug-Free Method
Due to bugs being commonly reported on this quest (involving Hannibal Hamlin's final speech should the player help him), here is a step-by-step walkthrough to insure the player does not experience any issues:


 * 1. Start the quest by talking to Hannibal Hamlin at Temple of the Union.
 * 2. Talk to Caleb Smith in Temple of the Union about obtaining the Lincoln Memorial Poster.
 * 3. Fast Travel to the Museum of American History and obtain the Lincoln Memorial Poster (NOTE: you have to walk about a hundred feet from the Temple of the Union before you can fast travel)
 * 4. Exit the Museum and walk to the Lincoln Memorial on the way you will also discover the Mall Northwest station.
 * 5. Kill all the slavers at the Lincoln Memorial.
 * 6. Fast travel back to Temple of the Union.
 * 7. Speak with Hannibal Hamlin and tell him that you have killed the slavers.
 * 8. Speak with Caleb Smith and give him the Lincoln Memorial Poster
 * 9. Speak with Hannibal Hamlin who will tell you that he will depart shortly for the Lincoln Memorial.
 * 10. Exit the Temple of the Union and wait for 1-2 hours just outside the door.
 * 11. You will notice a caravan of former slaves has formed, make sure they start walking.
 * 12. Fast travel to the Mall Northwest metro station.
 * 13. Wait 24 hours (if the caravan has not arrived keep waiting until they do); you could also sleep for 24 hours in the Memorial itself
 * 14. Hannibal Hamlin will thank you for your help, you will complete the quest and receive the achievement/trophy as well as Schematics for the Dart Gun

It is advised to save at the important "points" of this quest, in case you still experience this bug. If you do, you may need to reload the game.

Talking with the Slavers

 * The quest can also be started by speaking to Leroy Walker in the Lincoln Memorial Maintenance area without speaking to Hannibal. Talk to Silas (the only person you can get to without being shot) to have him escort you to Leroy.


 * The player will be asked to retrieve artifacts related to Lincoln in the History Museum. (Warning: Leroy may go onto the restricted part of the memorial thereby preventing you from selling the artifacts to him because the slavers will turn hostile, including Leroy.) Alternatively, the same items can be sold to Hannibal (comparison below).


 * The quest can also be initiated by speaking with Leroy Walker first and passing a Speech check, bypassing the requirement to loot any Lincoln memorabilia for the Slavers. You will then be tasked with finding the Temple of Union, and Hamlin.

The Massacre

 * It is possible to tell the slavers where the Temple is and have a battle occur there if the player has not completed Caleb's section of the quest (retrieving the poster). In this case the slavers will leave the memorial and run to the Temple.  It helps to fast-travel and do other things in the meantime as it can take them over one in-game day to get there.  Several slavers will also appear sneaking outside the Temple immediately after its location is revealed, but most of them will likely be killed by random encounters before Leroy arrives.

=Kill Them Yourself=


 * You could just kill all of the slaves and their brahmin as soon as you discover the location, but then you wouldn't have even started the quest, making it impossible to finish.


 * When the slavers finally arrive they will start the attack when you talk to Leroy (or possibly on their own). From here, the player can pick a side.  The slavers greatly out-gun everyone in the Temple building, so they will likely wipe them all out unless the player double-crosses and kills them.  Opening the door with the Temple key Hannibal gives you will allow the slavers to rush in and finish the job (killing everyone including Four Score and the Brahmin).  Once this is done, Leroy tells you that he will put in a good word at Paradise Falls for you and you will be allowed access without having to pay or do the Strictly Business quest, along with a large negative Karma hit.

Selling Lincoln Artifacts
The eight Lincoln artifacts can be sold either to Hannibal Hamlin or Leroy Walker or Abraham Washington.

Note that selling at least one artifact to Leroy Walker will grant you access to the memorial without being shot. Just ask him if you can peek around the memorial. If you choose to eventually kill all the slavers then access to the memorial can be handy to set mines before attacking them.

Trivia

 * When entering the Temple of the Union, there is a dog right inside named Four Score, an obvious reference to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address.


 * Leroy Walker is named after the Confederate Secretary of War who ordered the firing on Fort Sumter, starting the Civil War.


 * Many of the former slaves at the Temple are named after men who served in Lincoln's cabinet.
 * Bill Seward - William H. Seward, Secretary of State, 1861-9.
 * Caleb Smith - Caleb B. Smith, Secretary of the Interior, 1861-2.
 * Simone Cameron - Simon Cameron, Secretary of War, 1861-2.
 * Hannibal Hamlin is named after Lincoln's first Vice President.

Unable to Finish Quest (with fix)
Make sure you kill all slavers around the building.

If you kill the slavers first and then tell Hannibal about it, the quest can be bugged. Save your game before talking to Hannibal, talk to him, and wait 1 hour, then go outside and stay there till they gather and start marching. Then, do not fast travel to Memorial itself, instead, travel to nearest metro station (Mall Northwest). It's also shown as a quest marker on your map. When you travel there, he and his pack will be there and you will get quest completed (If he and his men are not there, just WAIT around for a couple of hours and he'll be there. They'll appear at the intersection near the top of the escalator outside the metro.) And be sure that the metro station entrance is clear, otherwise, he'll attack whatever is nearby and start marching in the completely wrong direction.

nb: After having the problem with the quest, went to the nearest metro (meeting point on your map) and waited inside for a few hours, after going outside the group was finally there. It has to be noted that in some instances you may have to wait over 18 hours. You can also follow the progress of the group from your Pip Boy.

(wait about 3 days)

Easy fix for the above bug: I tried the solutions mentioned above, and the manumitted npcs just wouldn't show up for me. I decided to try and simply escort them the whole way since I had some time to kill (and it killed a lot of time, seeing as they walk very slowly). After fending off mercs, raiders, radscorpions, robots, feral ghouls, radroaches, super mutants, and even a deathclaw, the party got stuck at Farragut NW station above ground, apparently lost. Maybe this is where they were all those times I tried waiting for them at Mall NW, who knows. So I tried what I should have done in the first place, which is this:

Fast Travel to Mall NW. Open your console and teleport Hannibal to you (prid 239dd, moveto player). He will then talk to you, you'll get the quest complete, and he'll run off to the monument. If you like, you can then go to the monument and warp the other slaves there, just for the aesthetics of it. They're 27fa8 (Four Score), 239da (Alejandra Torres), 278e0 (Caleb), 239dc (Bill Seward), 8b5ff (the brahmin), and 239db (Simone). You may need to kill them and resurrect them if you first tried waiting and they died on their journey, but if you do the warp trick from the beginning this shouldn't be necessary. Now when you come back to the memorial, they'll all be there, and they even have their own little tents set up automatically.

Alternate bug: Sometimes, if you kill the slavers before collecting the map from the museum, Hannibal and the rest of the group will get to the metro station as normal but will then state that the slavers are in control of the memorial, even though they are all dead. If you allow Hannibal to attack, he and the group will get to the memorial but will keep their weapons drawn, and the quest will never complete. This is because the game has not correctly registered Leroy as being dead.

A solution to this bug is to resurrect Leroy, so he can be killed properly. To to this go into the room below the memorial where Leroy was originally found. Press ~ to open the console. Then type:

prid 00027fba

resurrect

press ~ again to close the console.

Leroy will now respawn and attack you. Kill him and the quest will complete correctly. (Note: tried this, and after several kills, reloads and other strategies such as console killing the slaves, the quest still stalled here. It may be possible that re-killing ALL the slavers is necessary in some cases.)

If you choose to escort the slaves and they get stuck at any time, tell them to wait where they are. They tell you that they give you six hours before moving on anyway. Wait six hours and they should start going in the correct direction.

Index of Slavers
However, what you might want to try first (if you are not playing the PC version and still have the opportunity) is kill all the slavers in Paradise falls. I was unable to complete te quest. Hannibal stormed the monument but noone was there. I'm sure I had killed all the slavers. However, when I later decided to massacre Paradise falls, and killed all the slavers there, a message suddenly appeared that the Head of state quest had been completed. Because this solution does not require console-commands it might come in handy on the XBOX360 PS3 versions.

Unable to unlock Xbox 360 Achievement (with fix)
The way Hannibal took me to the monument resulted in us going across a bridge, but there was an energy shield across the bridge. He glitched through it and i jumped around it. Well I encountered another one, this time across the street at the end of the bridge. I can't go around it and neither can they. The entire party is just standing there.

If you kill the slavers and the mutants first, when you first arrival at the Temple of the Union, you can have a step (Talk to Hannibal Hamlin) that never gets updated, preventing you from getting the achievement. This happens when Hannibal Hamlin first talks to you if you ask him questions before receiving the Head of State quest. The workaround:

When you first go up the steps and Hannibal Hamlin talks to you automatically, feel free to talk to him but do not ask "why are you holed up" as this is what creates the bug. Tell him you are done and you will receive the Head of State quest. Then speak to him again and you will receive the update for talking to Hamlin. At this point you can talk to Caleb to complete the next step, and then move on to collect the poster. Mention the mutants being dead to Hannibal before turning the poster in to Caleb, then turn the poster in, then tell Hannibal that the slavers are dead, then wait an hour and fast travel to the memorial or NW Mall and speak to Hannibal to get the quest completed and the achievement.

Edit: This applies if you're trying to do the good karma route. After about two hours of experimenting with this scenario, the simplest way to complete the quest and acquire the achievement is as follows (this is assuming that you collected all the Lincoln gear at the Natural Histroy Museum):

1. Go to the Temple of the Union, this will prompt you to talk to Hannibal Hamlin as your next duty. 2. Talk to Hannibal but DO NOT talk to Caleb (even if you have the picture) yet. 3. Return to and approach the Memorial. Silas should escort you to talk to Leroy. 4. When speaking to Leroy, choose "I wouldn't tell you if I did." and then choose the speech option. 5. Assuming you succeed with the speech option, kill both Silas and Leroy (I prefer sneak attacking them both). 6. Kill the rest of the slavers. 7. Deactivate the traps at the Memorial. 9. Talk to Hannibal Hamlin. 10. Talk to Caleb. 11. Talk to Hannibal Hamlin again. 12. Wait until the entire group has walked out and start walking the opposite direction. 13. Fast travel to NW Mall and kill anything hanging about. 14. Walk to the Memorial and sleep for 24 hours in one of the beds. 15. Walk over to the NW Mall and they should be waiting for you.

I was able to successfully get the mission done two times with these steps, a second time for verification. Any of the other choices with Leroy only complicate the situation and talking out of order seems to affect things down the line in terms of actually getting the achievement or completion or both.

Auto complete Quest in PC
My problem is the game just complete the quest itself. What I have done was found slavers and accepted quest during my GNR quest to replace the disc array. I recalled that after accepting the quest, those slavers run to a metro station and disappeared (I was not aware at that time). I then focused on other quests afterward. When I was near Temple of the Union, I heard a big missile bang noise. I thought slavers lost because they were running away from building. But when I approached and discovered the place, I found slaves' corpses (including Caleb Smith, Four Score, a bi-head cow). While I was investigating the others, those slavers come back and told me they didn't trust me and killed those slaves themselves. Quest was forced to be completed with 390XP. NB: I'm not sure whether it's related to my Karma...as my karma was always "Very Good"...


 * This seems obvious. You told the slavers where they were, or at least agreed to do so, and then left them alone. After enough time passed, they went and attacked themselves. The world doesn't always stop when you ignore it. It only stops if you never triggered it in the first place, heh. --DarkJeff 10:17, 6 December 2008 (UTC)

I had a problem that the map said the group was there above the metro but it wasnt, so i went back to the union home and went to were i killed the slayers and there was only the master slayers body there so i blew it up fast traveled to metro and there was the group. celty7

Bug on Slaver's Side
I received the quest from Hannibal, but went to the memorial and sold them to the slavers. Then they told me they were going to take care of the Temple of Union and i could go with them if i wish. Traveled some time with them (there's a tricky ambush with super mutants and grenades in the path) but they don't fight alongside you against raiders so I fast traveled when I lost them and had to wait until they arrived. They camped outside the Temple and when I talked to Leroy he triggered the attack. The slavers stormed in the Temple under some heavy crossfire and i took a sniper and began shooting slaves firing from the windows, I killed Hannibal myself and when the place was safe and cleared I found the slavers up and down the stairs eternally searching for victims. I had to resurrect Hannibal and let him be killed by Leroy's troops to get quest completed.

Also, If you fast travel back to the memorial after telling Hannibal that its all clear for them to stay there, there is glitch that he wont show up at all, even if he tell you to meet him there and he sets off. But this might be my computer so it needs to be confirmed. I waited over 120 hrs for him and he didn't show, and I even loaded an earlier game and it still didn't work.

Paradise Falls
If you take the quest "Head of state", Then go to little lamplight and get the quest to rescue the Children from the slavers at paradise falls.(assuming your karma's good and you kill all the slavers)Head over to the Museum of history, get a Artifact to sell to Leroy walker. Upon coming back to the the Lincoln memorial, The slavers will become hostile and your only choice is to kill them. when you do the quest Head of state updates and says find the runaway slaves.

A quick Fix
If Hannibal's group fail to disembark and end up standing around/moving in circles, begin physically pushing them. I did this after waiting a day and a half both at the Temple of the Union, and at the Memorial itself, along with walking the entire Pip Boy route...I got frustrated and started pushing into all of them, and as I pushed the Brahmin, the entire part began moving. Hurray for frustration!

Lincoln's Head
After having the quest complete successfully, the slaves should set up tents outside the memorial and the statue of Lincoln should have it's head back. It is possible the brahmin never shows up, even though everyone else did, and they do not set up tents and the statue remains headless.