Paradise Falls

Paradise Falls, a converted shopping mall found in Fallout 3, is a hub for nearly all Slaver activity in the Capital Wasteland and a constant source of fear for all its denizens. Led by Eulogy Jones, who regulates the purchase and selling of slaves, Paradise Falls is populated mainly by battle-grizzled, fearless slavers who have absolutely no qualms with the profitable business of slavery. Paradise Falls is infamous for its unabated incursions into Big Town, and into Little Lamplight on rare occasions. It is heavily guarded by its Slaver inhabitants, all of whom are armed with weapons and are not reluctant to use them. Paradise Falls is also often featured on the Daring Dashwood program on Galaxy News Radio.

Paradise Falls can be located by traveling nearly directly north from Vault 101 or Vault 106. It is north of Arefu and west of Minefield, and is recognizable from quite a distance by its most prominent landmark: a gigantic statue of a boy holding an ice cream cone.

Gaining entrance
Capture at least one of the VIP characters, or With a high enough Speech skill, "talk tough" to Grouse (the guard) to gain entrance before the quest is done.
 * The player can gain free entrance through conversation, provided a low enough Karma.
 * If the player has completed Head of State and chose to help Leroy Walker and the Slavers at the Lincoln Memorial, free entrance is available through Leroy's recommendation.
 * With a high enough Speech, the player can convince the guard to accept a bribe of 500 caps in return for entry.
 * Accept the Strictly Business quest and either:
 * If all else fails, the player can simply fight a path in; this will, however, turn the entire town (except for the slaves and the Brahmin) hostile, making it impossible to trade or perform any quests in Paradise Falls.

Quests

 * Strictly Business
 * Rescue from Paradise
 * Those!
 * Economics of Violence
 * The Kid-Kidnapper
 * The Nuka-Cola Challenge
 * Abolishing slavery

Slavers

 * Carolina Red
 * Cutter
 * Eulogy Jones
 * Forty
 * Grouse
 * Jotun
 * Pronto
 * Ymir

Slaves

 * Crimson and Clover, personal slaves of Eulogy Jones
 * Bronson, Miss Jeanette, Bleak and Breadbox in the slave pen
 * Sammy, Squirrel and Penny from Little Lamplight, in the kid's slave pen
 * Rory Maclaren, in The Box
 * Carter (running away for a very short time)
 * Frank (half-slave; bartender)
 * Any of Flak, Red, Susan Lancaster and Arkansas that you have captured

Notable Loot

 * Bobblehead - Speech - in Eulogy's Pad, on the table next to the terminal.
 * Pre-War Book - on a table in the slave house.
 * Nuka-Cola Quantum (5 total) - in Eulogy's Pad, under the stairs.
 * Vault 77 Jumpsuit (unique) - on a shelf inside the Slaver barracks, along with a holotape named "Burn this goddamn jumpsuit."
 * Power Fist - in a mop bucket inside the Slaver barracks.
 * The Break (unique pool cue) - on the pool table just outside Eulogy's Pad.

History
According to Herbert Dashwood's computer, former slaver leaders include Penelope Chase and Harmon Jurley. Harmon Jurley was leader around 2250.

Trivia

 * In the Slaver's Barracks, a pool table is set up with beer glasses set in triangles at either end. Small white balls are on the table, and in some of the glasses, with empty beer bottles littered around the object. This is most probably a reference to the popular U.S. drinking game, Beer Pong.


 * The Vault 77 jumpsuit is a reference to the Penny Arcade comic commissioned by Bethesda Studios and on display at their website.


 * North of Paradise Falls is a roadway clogged with derelict vehicles set in a pattern that causes a delayed chain reaction that eventually detonates all of them should one explode. It is believed that the game's level designers intentionally spaced them to achieve that effect.


 * While in "The Box", or once stuck (see "Bugs" section below), Rory will occasionally exclaim "Nobody can eat 50 eggs!" This line references the film Cool Hand Luke, in which Paul Newman's title character accepts a bet to eat 50 eggs in an hour, and was often locked up in "The Box" for his behavior. Rory also says "I guess I have to find my own way now," which is also a quote from the movie, from the last time Luke escapes and convinces his friend to continue on his own.


 * The spiky ball-shaped sign reading "Paradise Falls" in the shopping center is modeled after the sign that stood at Satellite Shopland, a small shopping center down the street from Disneyland in Anaheim, California. In the concept art at the top of the page, the sign is depicted exactly like the real-life Anaheim sign, reading "SATELLITE" instead of "Paradise Falls". Other real-life landmarks that can be seen in the concept art but did not make it into the real game are the sign from the original Edwards Cinemas in Costa Mesa, California, and the Unisphere and Sermons from Science Pavilion from the 1964 New York World's Fair.


 * Paradise Falls is the name of a television show.

Bugs

 * Once the children's pen is open, the player can jump on the debris to one side and reach the ledge above the pens. Using this to reach the adult slave pen will trap the player.
 * It is possible to continue along the ledge to the roof of the adult slave house, from where one could jump down through a hole in the wall. This will place the character outside the city itself, but still on the same map. The "ice cream boy" statue can be approached, and the ghostlike wasteland seems to go on for a bit. Activating the front door to the city enables the player to exit.
 * Rory McLaren may get "stuck" if left behind at any point. Once stuck, he will take weapons and armor and continue to fight any remaining slavers, but will not leave Paradise Falls. (Pushing him near the exit will trigger him to initiate dialogue, but with no new options).
 * If a character with a companion in tow sleeps in the Slaver barracks, the companion can block the stairway. Slavers may surround and attack the companion at this point, turning all Slavers hostile. To avoid this, take a bed far from the stairway when sleeping in the Slaver barracks.
 * Killing all Slavers in Paradise Falls will often result in "harmless" glitches. The surrounding area will become a more hostile environment, with Super Mutants and Deathclaws taking the area by storm. Eventually, Super Mutants may even guard around the front gate, but will not enter the shopping center.
 * Above the gated entrance to Paradise Falls, the hand of a large statue will, once "activated" by a character standing directly beneath, trap the character in place. The arm will follow the character's vertical motions, and although it is possible to see partially out of it, there is no escape.  The only way to continue is reloading a previous save.
 * It is possible for all of the town's Slavers to go hostile for no apparent reason (none had been killed, etc.)
 * Arkansas will keep his Sniper Rifle even after being enslaved.
 * It is possible to complete Head of State in Mr. Walker's favor without an update to the area, leaving only hostile raiders and no guards.
 * Forty has been seen holding his gun upside down in the XBOX360 version.
 * The player can mez Jotun without causing the slavers to turn hostile.
 * After a player with low enough Karma has been approached by a Slaver bearing a gift, the resulting conversation can be re-started with the same Slaver to repeat the gift-giving process. This does not work on sufficiently patched versions of the game.
 * Upon entry to Paradise Falls in the PS3 version, 20 skulls may appear in a horizontal line about 15 feet in the air in front of the entrance.
 * Random creatures have been seen to appear from nowhere at the entrance to Paradise Falls, occasionally killing Grouse and the unnamed Slaver who guard it.