Peoria

The tribal village of Peoria (also called Preoria) is now only a mockery of the once big city of Peoria, Illinois, located halfway between Chicago and St. Louis.

Overview
After the War, only a small, primitive village was living here. They built their homes over a pre-war storehouse of fusion batteries, which they believe was a gateway between life and death. Whachutu tribals knew about the battaries, but they don't understand their function. The storehouse was guarded by automated turrets and inhabited by radscorpions and giant cockroaches (considered to be "evil spirits" by the tribals).

Around 2197, a Midwestern Brotherhood of Steel squad led by the warrior was sent to retrieve the batteries. The Tribal Father and village Elder at that time was Chevron, a strong believer in peace and equality and the shaman was a man called Dhal, who claims he was able to see the future. The warrior and his team was granted passage to the storehouse, where they found three battaries and battled all its inhabitants, including the most dangerous of them, Roachor. The team used the facility's generator and switches to move deeper. Depending on how they used the last switch, automated turrents on the entrance could either remain nonfunctional or became activated and shoot all the villagers. If the village survives, Chevron reveals that he was using the squad to avoid his people being "cursed" by the "spirits". However, he gives the warrior fourth battery.

There are many radscorpions hunting outside the village, and some corpses of their victims, including raiders.

Mission walkthrough
Here you will need at least 2 characters to accomplish all the objectives.

For this mission take JHP bullets, as your only enemies will be animals (cockroaches and some radscorpions). A shotgun is very useful, but don't forget your hunting rifle. Talk with the elder, then the shaman, and just then open the chest inside the tent.

Then go room to room in the bunker. The defense system will be activated, and laser turrets will hunt all life-forms. They come up and go down repeatedly. Use your ears, as they make different sounds for the two positions. Make use of every corner to hide from them: run, than lie down behind a pack of crates, hide behind wall-collars - this way you can avoid being shot at all, and the same time you can get access to all the lockers.

If you want, you will be able to destroy some of these towers with grenades (and later on you can come back, if you need this little exp.). A hint: the turrets can't aim too well!

The hardest point is when you reach the 3rd room in a row, filled with turrets. You can disable them for 10 seconds, but on the other side there won't be a switch. You can repeat the process, if you want, but it's not necessary. Be cautious, however: just before the room filled with radiation (take 2 Rad-X pills and send only 1 man inside) is a trapped shelf. Inside the glowing room you'll find the main boss - Roachor, an even really giant cockroach (without the patch it doesn't do anything), and the 3rd fusion battery.

If the surface-turrets didn't shoot any of the villagers, you get 1 additional battery from the elder, better karma, a promotion and new recruits. When you're finished, talk with the shaman again to hear a prophecy. After this mission you will be able to recruit Target - good PE, good IN, good throwing, good small guns, can sneak.

As of v1.27, acquiring the fourth fusion battery is bugged: you must drop the first three batteries onto the ground before talking to the elder to get the fourth. Then pick the other three back up.

Appearances in the games
Peoria appears only in Fallout Tactics.

Inconsistencies
In the game, the name of the town is often misspelt (and mispronounced by R. Lee Ermey) as "Preoria".