Tenpenny Tower (quest)

Tenpenny Tower is a Fallout 3 quest connected with Tenpenny Tower. It is also an Xbox 360, PC achievement, and a PS3 trophy.

Before doing this quest
This quest complicates the quest Manhandled Manservant, so refer to the page "Manhandled Manservant" if you are interested in obtaining the loot found in Herbert 'Daring' Dashwood's safe, including Schematics - bottlecap mine. You may also want to first collect a few skill books and Schematics - dart gun (see below), as they are duplicated if you help the ghouls take Tenpenny Tower by force.

Approaches and walkthrough
The ghouls want to live in the luxurious Tenpenny Tower, but neither Allistair Tenpenny nor the other residents are willing to let them in. You can: kill the band of ghouls, let them into the Tower, or find an uneasy diplomatic solution. Note that the decisions you make in this quest can have permanent and major effects on the fate of a major city and obtaining some of the most useful items in the game.

Starting the quest
The quest is started either by speaking with Chief Gustavo at Tenpenny Tower or by Roy Phillips in the Warrington Tunnels.

If you start with Chief Gustavo, you'll get an assault rifle and a promise of 500 Caps for the death of Roy Phillips and his "gang". A successful speech check will raise your reward to 700 Caps, as well as upgrade your starting gun to a Chinese assault rifle with some 5.56mm rounds. Attempting and failing the speech test means you will get a 10mm SMG instead.

Gustavo will direct you to the feral ghoul infested Warrington Tunnels southwest of Tenpenny Tower. Follow the tunnels and you'll find a door leading to Roy Phillips' hideout. Once you find Roy and his gang, you can choose to kill the ghouls, or say to Roy that you will help him and his ghouls enter Tenpenny Tower through the secret underground entrance to massacre the residents of Tenpenny Tower, or find a peaceful way for the ghouls and humans to live together in Tenpenny Tower. One way the ghouls will take over and occupy Tenpenny Tower, and the other way the ghouls will be dead and the humans will continue living in Tenpenny Tower.

Kill Roy Phillips
After you kill Roy and his gang, return to Chief Gustavo and he will reward you with 500 or 700 caps, depending on whether you passed the speech check. You will not gain the ghoul mask if you chose this method.

Killing Roy Phillips has the upside of sparing the lives of all the residents in Tenpenny Tower, as all the other solutions eventually result in the death of every human in Tenpenny Tower (killed either by you or by Roy Phillips and his pack of feral ghouls). Killing Roy will result in having multiple traders in the tower compared to just two if you allow him in, but, then again, you will not gain the ghoul mask.

Ways to kill Roy Phillips and his gang
Simply eradicate Roy Phillips and any other non-feral ghouls within his hideout (for negative karma).

You may choose to kill Roy Phillips during the conversation he has with the intercom when you first approach Tenpenny Tower. Simply allow the conversation to finish and then attack him when he leaves, or reverse-pickpocket a mine or grenade into his inventory while he isn't looking. You will still have to talk to Gustavo to initiate the quest and kill Roy and his gang.

Without losing karma
If you want to kill the ghouls without losing karma, you can allow the feral ghouls to follow you into the room containing Roy Phillips and Bessie Lynn. Roy, Bessie and Michael Masters will attack you even if you haven't harmed the ferals. If you then kill them your karma will not suffer, but Three Dog will still verbally savage you afterward.

You can goad Roy Phillips, Bessie Lynn or Michael Masters into attacking you via dialogue choices, and then kill them without losing karma.

Roy Phillips and his gang can be killed without losing karma if you have the Mister Sandman perk. To do this, first wait for the three ghouls to go to sleep. Murder Bessie Lynn first, she will scream but this will not wake Roy Phillips or Michael Masters. Either Roy or the other ghoul can be killed next (preferably Roy because he is closer to Bessie Lynn). After you do that, the third ghoul will wake up and turn hostile, so you will then be able to pick him off without incurring loss of karma.

Helping the ghouls move into Tenpenny Tower
Talk to Roy Phillips about the possibility of a peaceful negotiation, then bring the proposal to Allistair Tenpenny. He will tell you that if you can convince tenants Edgar Wellington II, Millicent Wellington, Anthony Ling, Lydia Montenegro and Susan Lancaster to have the ghouls as neighbors, he'll let them move in. You can also get rid of them by murder to accomplish this task.

There are several methods of getting the five residents to cooperate. The first is passing a speech check (for positive karma), which forces them to accept the change or leave. Stealthy assassinations (for negative karma) also work. Alternatively, you can take the Love Letter from Susan Lancaster's desk and show it to Millicent Wellington, she will then proceed to murder both her husband Edgar and his lover Susan. Millicent will then leave the tower, leaving only Anthony and Lydia. These two can be convinced to leave by stealing from their store safes and speaking to them after doing so.

Once all required tenants are convinced or otherwise removed from the picture, visit Alistair Tenpenny for a 500 cap reward. Once you bring Roy Phillips the news, he will reward you with a ghoul mask, which makes you friendly with all ghouls. You will also gain a 300 XP reward.

Upon returning to Tenpenny Tower, you will find human and ghoul residents living together. Inquiring among residents will indicate that both sides are getting along well. A few days later, however, all the human residents will be gone. Further investigation reveals that the human and ghoul tenants had a "disagreement", and that Roy Phillips decided to "take out the trash". The human residents have all been slaughtered, and their looted and stripped bodies dumped in the basement. Former residents of Tenpenny Tower such as Mr. Ling and Ms. Montenegro will also die and disappear at this point, even if they have moved to the entrance of Megaton. You may choose to kill Phillips and the other ghouls in Tenpenny Tower after learning this, but doing so will earn negative karma.

It is also possible to help the ghouls enter the tower by obtaining the key to the generator room from either Herbert "Daring" Dashwood or Chief Gustavo. To obtain the key, you can either pickpocket or kill Chief Gustavo, and may either pickpocket, kill, or choose certain dialogue options with Dashwood, including, 'I don't have time for games'. The door to the generator room is on the exterior of Tenpenny Tower around the back.

If you kill all the humans in Tenpenny Tower then you can tell Roy that him and his ghouls can move in. If you do this, remember that Lydia Montenegro has the key to Le Chic Boutique, Chief Gustavo has the key to the Tenpenny Tower armament, Anthony Ling has the key to New Urban Apparel, Shakes has the key to the liquor cabinet, Doctor Banfield has the key to the medicine cabinet, and Herbert Dashwood has the key to his safe. In sum, you'll obtain Schematics - bottlecap mine (from Dashwood's safe), Schematics - dart gun (from Le Chic Boutique inventory), and a bunch of other stuff like caps, medicine, Tenpenny's sniper rifle, some weapons and ammunition from the armament, a bunch of armor and assault rifles from the guards, and so forth.

To receive two copies of dart gun schematics, first buy it from Lydia Montenegro or kill her and use her key to raid the Le Chic Boutique inventory. Then after letting the ghouls take over the tower, buy it from Michael Masters.

Bugs

 * After you've let the ghouls move in using the "diplomatic method" and Roy killed the human residents, if the bug happens where there is no human body present and there is just a lot of blood stains, sometimes a feral ghoul would appear and attack you on sight unless wearing the ghoul mask when entering.
 * After killing Roy and his companions, head through the door in the back of Roy's room that's labeled "Metro Access & Generator." Walk into the room, and shoot a missile at the wall where the door generator is on the other side. Doing so may cause your Xbox to lock up entirely, requiring restart.
 * The quest script that moves the ghouls into Tenpenny Tower will not check whether Roy is still alive before moving their bodies into the basement. So if Roy is killed before the human tenants are disposed of, he will still somehow manage to murder them.
 * Sometimes after letting the feral ghouls into Tenpenny Tower the assault on the Towers residents will never end. If Susan Lancaster was sent to the slave pens, attempt to kill her in her pen then return to the tower and personally scour each level to ensure all residents are dead. After confirming this, talk to Roy and if he thanks you for your part in the siege, leave the tower, wait 24 hours and return and the tower should be functional again. An alternative solution to this bug is to kill all the ghouls yourself. Roy will not attack the player if he attacks the ghouls. After Michael Masters and Bessie Lynn arrive at the tower wait 24 hours and the tower should be functional.
 * Killing Roy Phillips will complete the quest, but if you fail to kill all three, the remaining ghouls will move into Tenpenny and will still mention Roy Phillips, as if he were alive.
 * The game has been known to lock-up after killing all of the ghouls and residents from Tenpenny Tower; if the player attempts to load the Tenpenny Tower lobby via elevator and front door.
 * If you tell Roy that you'll let the ghouls in and then kill him and his friends, GNR may report that you've let them kill everyone in Tenpenny Tower, despite this never happening.
 * Sometimes, upon re-entering Tenpenny Tower (after convincing Tenpenny to allow the ghouls to live in the tower), all levels of the building will be completely devoid of all life. To solve this, reload a save.
 * After allowing the ghouls to move in, the standard 'Tenpenny resident' ghouls will sometimes refer to Chief Gustavo, even if you have killed him or the human residents moved out.
 * If the "kill the ghouls" option is followed, the Tenpenny residents may occasionally give the player speech options indicating that the player had instead brokered the deal to let the ghouls move in. When starting conversations repeatedly, they may first greet you correctly (praising you for killing the ghouls), then incorrectly (as if you had let the ghouls in peacefully), then give you a generic greeting for all subsequent chats.
 * Giving the love letter to Millicent Wellington while she is sitting and eating with Edgar will still cause her to stand up and acquire the 10mm pistol, but she will not shoot Edgar while he is eating. Even after he finishes eating and stands up, Millicent just stands there and will not talk to you again.
 * If you help the ghouls get into Tenpenny Tower by force, Lydia's and Antony's safes are hard difficulty to pick, however if you access it by using the terminals, and successfully disengage the locks, it will still say it is locked with hard difficulty but will allow you to open them.
 * If you complete the quest by convincing Tenpenny to let the ghouls live in the Tower, and then proceed to blow Tenpenny's head off (as for the quest "Shoot 'em in the Head"), BEFORE telling Roy that he can move into the Tower, will result in Three Dog reporting that you allowed the ghouls to slaughter all the residents; despite this never happening. Ironically, Three Dog will tend to praise you and then insult you as if you were able to complete the quest both ways.
 * If you convince Tenpenny to let the ghouls live in the tower and going to Roy with the good news and killing Roy and his friend but still allowing the ghouls to live in the tower, everyone will be slain in the tower, when asking the sole survivor what happened, she will say "Roy did it," regardless if Roy Phillips has been killed.
 * If you take the short path (via Metro&Generator Access Door) AFTER killing Roy Philips and manage to pass somehow through "Containment Door" (lockpick skill 100 or blow the electric generator that keeps the door shut with a grenade), when entering Tenpenny Tower, a nice pack of feral ghouls will be there attacking the residents.
 * If you enslave any of the Tenpenny security guards, then choose to unleash the feral ghouls on Tenpenny Tower, the tower will be stuck in the attack mode forever. The game tries to check if the security guards are dead; however, as they have left the game world, they are never counted as dead. The only solution is to load a save from before enslaving them, or to finish the quest peacefully instead.
 * If you kill Chief Gustavo, and then kill Roy Philips, the quest will be stuck with the objective "Report back to Chief Gustavo".

Тенпенни-Тауэр (квест)