Strictly Profitable

 refers to an unmarked and repeatable quest in Fallout 3.

After receiving the Mesmetron from Grouse in Paradise Falls, the player has the option of enslaving NPCs other than the four VIPs required to complete the quest Strictly Business. For every slave the player captures and sends to Paradise Falls, Grouse will pay out 250 caps and give a new slave collar to continue the "recruiting." He also sells Mesmetron power cells at the steep price of 200 caps for 10 rounds. It's possible to offset the high price if all 45 rounds he initially gives out are carefully utilized, since he also pays out caps for turning in the VIPs.

Reward

 * Caps

Enslavable NPCs
A list of known NPCs that can be enslaved with the Mesmetron. This may not be all of them.


 * Alejandra Torres
 * Angela Staley
 * Arkansas
 * Ben Canning
 * Bill Seward
 * Brock
 * Brotherhood of Steel soldiers (generic)
 * Brotherhood Outcasts (generic)
 * Bryan Wilks
 * Captives
 * Caravan guards
 * Caravan merchants
 * Cherry
 * Chinese Remnant soldiers
 * Christie Young
 * Diego
 * Enclave
 * Escaped Slave (Character)
 * Fantasia
 * Flak
 * Flash
 * Grandma Sparkle
 * Henry Young
 * Hitmen
 * Hunters
 * Initiate Pek
 * Jacob Humboldt
 * Junders Plunkett
 * Kimba
 * Lug-Nut
 * Madame
 * Megaton Settler
 * Mei Wong
 * Mel
 * Mister Lopez
 * Moira's Merc
 * Pappy
 * Paulie Cantelli
 * Pitt slaves
 * Plik
 * Prime (only technically; he can't normally be mezzed since he spawns dead)
 * Raiders (including generic Pitt raiders)
 * Regulators
 * Red
 * Rip Smithy
 * Sam Warrick
 * Scavengers
 * Shorty
 * Simone Cameron
 * Slavers (Random Encounter)
 * Slaves
 * Snowflake
 * Susan Lancaster
 * Talon Company mercs
 * Tammy Hargrave
 * Tenpenny Tower security guards
 * Trinnie
 * Underworld residents (generic)
 * Wasteland junkie
 * Wastelanders
 * Water Caravan Drivers
 * Wild Bill (only technically; he can't normally be mezzed since he spawns dead)

Bugs

 * Certain characters (like Angela Staley or Bone from The Pitt) may cause the game to freeze if they are mesmerized and collared.