GOAT



G.O.A.T. or Generalized Occupational Aptitude Test is a test that every vault dweller (or at least every inhabitant of Vault 101) has to take at the age of 16. It's meant to figure out what sort of a job the person is best suited for in the vault. It is a combination of written and oral exam. Its own proctors tend to doubt its effectiveness and some even will allow students to alter their GOATS or even allow them to skip the test with the Proctor making up a dummy GOAT proving they took it.

Game mechanics
In Fallout 3, as part of G.O.A.T., the game asks the player questions about how he might act in certain situations and based on the responses it determines the job the Vault 101 Dweller is best suited for based on that, advises which 3 skills he should tag.

The Questions
The test's questions and alternatives are as following:

QUESTION 1 - You are approached by a frenzied vault scientist, who yells, "I'm going to put my quantum harmonizer in your photonic resonation chamber!", what's your response?


 * "But doctor, wouldn't that cause a parabolic destabilization of the fission singularity?"
 * "Yeah, up yours too, buddy!"
 * Say nothing. Grab a nearby pipe and hit the scientist in the head to knock him out. For all you know, he was planning on blowing up the vault.
 * Say nothing, but slip away before the scientist can continue his rant.

QUESTION 2 - While working as an intern in the clinic, a patient with strange infection in his foot stumbles through the door. The infection is spreading at an alarming rate, but the doctor has stepped out for a while. What do you do?


 * Amputate the foot before the infection spreads.
 * Scream for help.
 * Medicate the infected area to the best of your abilities.
 * Restrain the patient, and merely observe as the infection spreads.

QUESTION 3 - You discover a young boy lost in the lower levels of the vault. He's hungry and frightened, but he also appears to be in possession of stolen property. What do you do?


 * Give the boy a hug and tell him everything will be okay.
 * Confiscate the stolen property by force, and leave the boy there as punishment.
 * Pick the boy's pocket to take the stolen property for yourself, and leave him to his fate.
 * Lead the boy to safety, and then turn him in to the Overseer.

QUESTION 4 - Congratulations! You've made one of the Vault 101 baseball teams. Wich position do you prefer?


 * Pitcher.
 * Catcher.
 * Designated Hitter.
 * None. You wish the vault had a soccer team.

QUESTION 5 - Your grandmother invites you to tea, but you're surprised when she gives you a pistol, and orders you to kill another vault resident. What do you do?


 * Obey your elder and kill the resident with the pistol.
 * Offer your most prized possession for the resident's life.
 * Ask granny for a minigun instead. After all, you don't want to miss.
 * Throw your tea in granny's face.

QUESTION 6 - Old mister Abernathy has locked himself in his quarters again, and you've been ordered to get him out. How do you proceed?


 * Use a bobby pin to pick the lock on the door.
 * Trade a vault hoodlum for his cherry bomb, and blow the door open.
 * Go to the armory, retrieve a laser pistol, and shoot the lock off.
 * Walk away, and let the old coot rot.

QUESTION 7 - Oh no! You've been exposed to radiation, and a mutated hand has grown out of your stomach! What's the best course of treatment?


 * A bullet to the brain.
 * Large doses of anti-mutagen agent.
 * Prayer. Maybe god will spare you in exchange for a life of pious devotion.
 * Removal of the mutated tissue with a precision laser.

QUESTION 8 - A fellow Vault 101 is in possession of a Grognak The Barbarian comic book, issue number 1. You want it. What's the best way to obtain it?


 * Trade the comic book for one of your own valuable possessions.
 * Steal the comic book at gunpoint.
 * Sneak into the resident's quarters, and steal the comic book from his desk.
 * Slip some knock-out drops into the resident's Nuka-Cola, and take the comic book when he's unconsciuous.

QUESTION 9 - You decide it would be fun to play a prank on your father. You enter his private restroom when no one is looking, and...


 * Loosen the bolts on some pipes. When the sink is turned on, the restroom will flood.
 * Put a firecracker in the toilet. That's sure to cause some chaos.
 * Break into the locked medicine cabinet and replace his high blood pressure medication with sugar pills.
 * Manipulate the power wattage on his razor, so he'll get an electric shock next time he shaves.

QUESTION 10 - Who is, indisputably, the most important person in Vault 101, he who shelters us from the harshness of the atomic Wasteland, and to whom we owe everything we have, including our lives?


 * The Overseer.
 * The Overseer.
 * The Overseer.
 * The Overseer.

The Results
The results for each grouping of answers for the G.O.A.T. are as follows. Answers are numbered 1 through 4, with 1 being the top answer and 4 being the bottom.


 * 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1 = Tattoo Artist (Melee Weapons, Small Guns, Speech)


 * 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2 = Tattoo Artist (Melee Weapons, Small Guns, Speech)
 * 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3 = Tattoo Artist (Melee Weapons, Small Guns, Speech)
 * 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,4 = Tattoo Artist (Melee Weapons, Small Guns, Speech)

(It appears changing the answer to the Overseer question has no effect on the outcome.)


 * 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1 = Tattoo Artist (Explosives, Small Guns, Speech)
 * 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,1 = Tattoo Artist (Melee Weapons, Small Guns, Speech)
 * 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,4,1 = Tattoo Artist (Lockpick, Small Guns, Speech)


 * 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1 = Tattoo Artist (Melee Weapons, Small Guns, Speech)
 * 1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,1,1 = Tattoo Artist (Melee Weapons, Small Guns, Speech)

To Be Continued..

Related quests

 * Future Imperfect

Appearances
G.O.A.T. appears only in Fallout 3.