Reilly's Rangers (quest)

 is a Fallout 3 quest. It is also an Xbox 360 and PC achievement.

Obtaining the Quest
This quest can be started in two ways:

Picking up the Ranger Emergency Frequency from the stranded Rangers asking for assistance. The signal can be heard while exploring near the National Archives building at the Mall Northeast map marker, but also on Pennsylvania Avenue and Vernon Square near the Statesman Hotel.

Finding Reilly in Underworld, the Ghoul City situated in the Museum of History in D.C. (near the Washington Monument). She is lying unconscious in the Underworld hospital, The Chop Shop. You must either convince Doc Barrows to wake her (speech skill), or do so yourself (60 medicine skill). Reilly explains that she was wounded by super mutants while trying to exfiltrate and get help for her team, who are stranded on the roof of the Statesman Hotel. (Speaking to Reilly is the only way to learn about Theo's ammo cache and obtain the code to the lock.)

The Rangers
Reilly's Rangers are a mercenary group operating in the Capital Wasteland of Fallout 3. Their current missions are the ongoing eradication of Super Mutants, and the mapping of locations in the Capital Wasteland. There are five members of Reilly's Rangers, they are:


 * Reilly: Leader of the Rangers
 * Donovan: Reilly's Rangers' engineer
 * Brick: Reilly's heavy weapons woman, uses a Minigun, which at the time is the special weapon Eugene, and therefore will take the 5mm Round found on Theo's person
 * Butcher: The Rangers' medic
 * Theo: The Rangers' quartermaster, who was carrying most of the Rangers' ammo when he was killed in action.

Objectives & Walkthrough
1. Locate the Our Lady of Hope Hospital in Vernon Square. There are several entrances to the hospital, including the front and side entrances in Vernon Square. There is also an entrance from the nearby sewers, and a service/basement entrance.

2. Cross over to the upper floors of the Statesman Hotel. Make your way through the hospital, fighting or sneaking past the Super Mutants and Centaurs. First Aid Supply boxes are plentiful, as are medical braces and surgical tubing. Watch out for traps including gas leaks and grenade bouquets. In one stairwell, you will find the body of Theo, the Rangers' quartermaster, and a locked ammo box (if you received the quest from Reilly, you will have the code needed to open it). Cross over to the Statesman Hotel by walking across the toppled crane, and drop down into the hotel.

3. Make your way to the roof and meet up with the surviving Rangers. Proceed through the ruined hotel. There are a few items scattered about, but one is linked to another quest. The holotape labelled, 'A Message from Little Moonbeam's Father,' is related to Sydney, the relic hunter from Stealing Independence. A Nuka-Cola Quantum is in the bar of the Alfresco Lounge.

4. Repair the elevator to the ground floor. As you arrive on the roof, you will hear a final round of explosives taking out the latest wave of Super Mutants. Butcher waves you in, but admits you're stuck there with them unless the elevator can be repaired by Donovan. Be sure to speak to each team member and offer them ammo, then ask Donovan about the elevator. He will tell you that he needs a fission battery; if you aren't carrying one, he mentions that he saw a broken Protectron in the restaurant below. Once you give the battery to Donovan, he will repair the elevator and the Rangers will leave the roof.

5. Exfiltrate with the Rangers and return to the Ranger HQ in Seward Square. Fight your way out of the Statesman Hotel lobby. Butcher (if he survives) will tell you to drop by Ranger HQ, where you will find Reilly and the surviving team members. Through conversation, you can obtain a secondary quest from Reilly, where she will pay you for mapping locations throughout the wasteland. (An informal quest regarding the fate of Reilly's sister can be obtained by looking through the Rangers' computer.)

You will be offered a set of Ranger armor or Brick's minigun, Eugene. (The armor is the better choice, as it's the best available short of the T-51b Powered Armor.)

Strategy & Tactics
Reilly's directions to Statesman Hotel: "Using the Metro tunnels, head north from here to Metro Central. Then look for the tunnels to the Dupont Circle Station. Exit from Dupont Circle Station into the Dry Sewers and follow to Our Lady of Hope Hospital." These directions require a little interpretation: after leaving Dupont Circle station, you need to find East Dupont, which is a short overground walk away. At East Dupont there is a flight of steps leading down to a door marked "Hospital Maintenance", which leads into the Dry Sewers.


 * If you've completed the Galaxy News Radio portion of the main quest and you used the back door of the station, you've already discovered Dupont Circle Station. There is an entrance there to the Dry Sewers, which lead into Our Lady of Hope Hospital.


 * Despite Reilly's directions, an alternate (possibly easier) way to get there is to go to the Vernon Square North Station near Vault-Tec Headquarters. Go into the tunnels and head south to Vernon Square Station. Exit there and you will be in the plaza with the hospital and hotel.


 * Check out every room you pass in the hospital, as well as hacking any terminals you encounter. The terminals will be able to open the nearby safes, which contain a few stimpaks and miscellaneous other medical items, and a few caps. (50 science required to hack terminal, 75 lockpick required to open safe without using terminal). Most rooms that you pass will have a first aid kit on the inside wall. You can get about 20 stimpaks just on the first floor.


 * You can only reach the rooftop of the hotel by going through the hospital first. However, it would be wise to clear the entrance immediately inside the hotel as this will make the battle as you leave the building with the rangers much easier. After doing this, proceed to the hospital.


 * You may also want to clear the building diagonally across the street from the hotel and hospital as it contains Super Mutant riflemen in the windows.

The Fission Battery that can be found on the broken Protectron in a supply closet in the main room of the Statesman Hotel Restaurant can be tricky to locate. Make sure you use your quest indicator on your map. Once in the main room of the Restaurant, The supply closet is underneath the stairs in the Southwest corner of the room. There is a pillar in front of the supply closet door. If you run by you won't see the door, walk around the area and you'll find the closet!

Follow the quest map indicator. Or you can just bring one. (Note: One can be found on your way through metro station in a back room. This room is located in the long hall, back right corner, before you reach the main platform. It takes an average skill of lock picking to unlock the door.).


 * Reilly's note on the location of Theo's body is a bit misleading. The note says Theo's body is in a stairwell on the 2nd floor of the Statesman Hotel.  However, this is not technically true as the 2nd floor of the hotel can be accessed through the ground floor entrance and accessed via internal staircases and balconies.  Reilly is actually referring to perhaps the 3rd floor of the hotel, which is the first floor you get to after crossing the crane boom from the hospital. (This assumes the ground floor is the same as the 1st floor, which is not the case everywhere in the world.)

Theo's body and ammo box is at the very south west stairwell of Statesman Hotel Mid-Level.

Alternatively, instead of wasting time clearing the lobby before going to the hospital, just give each of the Rangers some ammo when you finally meet them on the roof - there's a dialogue option. With ammo (and your help) they'll have no trouble clearing the supermutants.


 * Easiest way to the compound from the underground tunnel near Rivet City, enter Anacostia Crossing DONT go down, just straight across the ticket booth on the right side, jump over the sandbags down the ramp, just follow it and go to Seward Square exit.

Rewards
The quest rewards for this are either a suit of Ranger Body Armor (which can be repaired using any combat armor) or Brick's special mini gun: Eugene. It is highly advised to take the armor as a reward, as you can always steal Eugene from Brick using a Stealth Boy, this method however is extremely difficult. (Prepare to take at least 100 tries to pickpocket Eugene).

After rescuing Reilly's Rangers and offering Reilly your help for their mapping service once you return to the Ranger Compound, she will give you a Geomapper Module. As long as have the module in your inventory, it will record every new location you discover, for which Reilly will pay you 30 caps per location every time you return to the Ranger Compound and talk to her. Don't forget to speak to her right away, after receiving the Module. She will pay you for the locations which you already have on your map.


 * In the XBOX version upon talking to her about new locations she explains that all the locations you've previously mapped before receiving the module were already found and that you need to find "new" locations to receive any payment. This was verified by a friend using the PC version as well.  Apparently you can ask again and she'll pay you (unverified).

The Rangers themselves will also offer services, if they lived through the journey back to their headquarters of course.


 * Donovan offers to repair your weapons and apparel; however, he charges caps for the service.
 * Butcher will emulate a normal Doctor as he can heal wounds (For free on top of that), but he cannot cure radiation poisoning or clear any addictions.
 * You can randomly encounter Donovan while traveling through the Capital Wasteland. When you talk to him, he will give you a Mini Nuke and say that Reilly sent him.

Bugs

 * If you kill the doctor in the Ghoul underworld, the quest is broken and you can't revive Reilly no matter what. This isn't always the case however, some players have been able to revive her if their medical skill is high enough.


 * There is a minor bug near the conclusion of this quest. You are tasked with retrieving a Fission Battery to repair the elevator (any Fission Battery will do). If you have a Fission Battery in your inventory, do not select a conversation topic to give it to Donovan and elect to repair the elevator yourself, you will still have a quest objective to give the battery to Donovan until you end the quest by debriefing Reilly. This does not seem to have any effect on the quest itself; just a quest objective that does not update properly.


 * Reilly may not pay you for locations you have already discovered until you leave the compound and return. Speaking to her immediately after getting the Geomapper Module gets a response to the effect of "we already know about all of those locations". Since she will pay you for all of the locations on your map, you can complete this quest at any time, depending upon your need for caps. Note: Got paid retroactively for all discovered map markers by engaging Reilly in another conversation right after ending the quest. (Xbox360 version)


 * In almost all of the hotel some of the Super Mutants (the ones that Reilly's Rangers had killed beforehand) are suspended in mid air by the waist, but all their limbs can be shot off (if they aren't already gone). This bug does not affect any part of the quest, and it has happened to more than one person.


 * The fallen mutants on the rooftop will have disappeared if the site is revisited, and a new spawn may occur. If taking the elevator to the roof, be prepared.


 * There have been bugs reported regarding how the quest is started. These involve not activating the quest though the radio signal or Reilly and may result in glitched endings, dead Rangers, or even making the Rangers hostile.


 * If you loot Donovan's Wrench off his dead body after he has repaired the elevator, there is no way to drop it (even if you do finish the quest). The game still thinks you need the item to fix the elevator yourself because Donovan died.


 * On PS3 when you enter the Riellys Rangers HQ whenever you talk to someone the dialouge will go extremly fast as if you are tapping X repeatidly. not sure about other version or if there is any fixs.Note(This has been fixed in the latest update)


 * PS3 If you Kill Rielly When she is lying on the bed in Underworld, The Ranger Will Become Hostile Towards you when you encounter them, With a Message, the Rangers Are now Hostile Towards you, and you instantly fail the quest.