The Mall

The Capital Mall is an open-area national park in Fallout 3. It is based on the real-life National Mall in downtown Washington D.C, except that it is much smaller and has different museums.

Background
The Mall is now a bombed-out war zone occupied by super mutants. The park itself has been replaced by a series of trenches, fences and bunkers in fortified positions where the super mutants are entrenched. Crossing this part of the Mall will involve enduring firefights, but the various Metro stations on either side of this zone offer a relatively safe passage underground.

Layout
The Brotherhood of Steel holds a defensive position around the Washington Monument in the center of the Mall, and Talon Company is taking the offense against super mutants to the west toward The Capitol Building.

The Reflecting Pool, found between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial, is full of wrecked cars and shopping carts and its radiation is strong enough to reach a few feet away from the water.

The Mall is a key location in Fallout 3 that connects several important buildings and subway systems together. However, because of this, it has the second largest concentration of super mutants in the Capital Wasteland, first being Vault 87.

Points of interest

 * Museum of History Charon can be recruited here. He and Fawkes will also go here when dismissed. Also a ghoulified Moira Brown goes here if Megaton is blown up.
 * Museum of Technology
 * Lincoln Memorial
 * Washington Monument
 * National Archives
 * The Capitol Building
 * Mirelurk nesting hole
 * Super mutant bunker
 * Museum Authority Building - added with the Broken Steel add-on.

Notable loot

 * Duck and Cover! in the super mutant bunker.
 * Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual and Nuka-Cola Quantum in the mirelurk nesting hole.

Appearances
The Mall only appears in Fallout 3.

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