Vernon Square

Vernon Square is a section of Washington, DC. Reilly's Rangers are trapped in this area. Vault-Tec Headquarters and/or radiation emitted from a crashed rocket are likely attractions for the unusually numerous super mutants found here. It contains four Metro exits.

Layout
The entire outer rim of the location is overall nothing but piles of rubble, chaos, and Vault 87 super mutants. In the Northern part of Vernon Square through a small alleyway between two buildings and guarded by a few super mutants, you will find several locations being the Metro Tunnels in the direct North-part of the area, the Vault-Tec Guest Relations to the East, as the main building, and Takoma Park/Vernon East, which is impossible to get to unless through the Vernon Square East. The real 'hotspot' of the entire area is in fact the Middle of Vernon Square, where not only a large amount of super mutants reside in the area, but also a rather large Delta IX rocket has crashed landed, where despite the thick radiation, has opened a new passage called the Sewer, where you will encounter a few more super mutants and possibly loot. The center region is possibly the most devastated part of the location, with a demolished building from the rocket, and a toppled what seems to be a support beam, through the second floor of Our Lady of Hope Hospital and through the Statesman Hotel. If you continue downward past the hospital, you will only find the rear of the hospital and several buildings, which the rubble makes the area impassable. However, taking a left, and up the stairs (after you fight through more super mutants) will lead you to another Metro Tunnel and Freedom Street Station.

Points of interest

 * Our Lady of Hope Hospital
 * Statesman Hotel
 * Vault-Tec Headquarters
 * A small radioactive (2 rad/sec peak) sewer used as a base by the super mutants.
 * Outside of the sewer entrance is a radioactive crater with a wrecked Delta IX rocket in the center. The rocket is the probable source of the radiation, as the rads peak at 43 rad/sec near the rocket's severed nose cone.
 * To ease in entering the sewers, there is a Pulowski Preservation shelter next to the subway entrance with a radiation suit inside
 * An old pre-War cinema still stands around the radioactive crash site. The cinema depicts, among others, an advertisement for the movie "P.S. I Hate You", a reference to real-life movie "P.S. I Love You."

Notable loot

 * D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine on the shelves in the radioactive Sewer.
 * A Stealth Boy as well as a scoped .44 magnum on the other shelves, in the Sewer.
 * Dean's Electronics in a hard to find "second sewer" at the end of an alleyway with a Nuka-Cola machine, by the side of the cinema (see map for "Sewer Entrance" location, more information is here ). Dean's Electronics is behind an Average locked door, on a table next to some glue and a conductor.

Appearances
Vernon Square only appears in Fallout 3.

Bugs

 * Fawkes may not enter the sewer.
 * When exiting the sewer located at the bottom of the rocket crater, Fawkes may get stuck in the area right at the very bottom of the stairs next to the sewer entrance and will run in place or back into the sewer. This can be fixed if the player manually pushes him up the stairs and out of the crater. Be warned though if you don't have a radiation suit, or enough Rad-X or Radaway you may succumb quickly to radiation poisoning.(Patched on PS3, unknown for Xbox360)
 * After entering the sewer and advancing to the right, you can become stuck after climbing over the first barricade. You can go around it and not climb over.  Reload saved game if you become stuck.

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