Madison Li

Doctor Madison Li is a scientist working on portable fusion power and hydroponics experiments in Rivet City in 2277.

Early Life and Project Purity
Madison Li was born in 2229. Later in her life she met James and together they formed or joined a group of scientists. Madison used to have feelings for James but she never revealed her feeling them because James was in love with Catherine. Catherine had a dream, a dream about purifying water, then giving it to any and all. This became the group's big project and was soon dubbed Project Purity. Despite James' renewed efforts, Madison remained skeptical of the project. The project was going smoothly and even had the support and help of the Brotherhood of Steel, but soon it all went downhill. Super mutant attacks were more frequent and purifying water was much harder than first thought, and after James and Catherine had a child, things couldn't get any worse for the project as Catherine died. James then left with the child, to try and find a safe home for them. The Brotherhood and scientist also abandoned the project and Project Purity was put on hold.

Dr. Li is the first distinct face that the player sees, during the birthing scene, as she carries the newborn Lone Wanderer away while Catherine is going into cardiac arrest.

Rivet City
Madison Li then heads for Rivet City, hearing about its thriving scientific community set up by Horace Pinkerton. Soon after she arrived, she begin to argue with Pinkerton as they often had different views on the matters at hand. One day having enough of it all, Pinkerton leaves Rivet City and begins to live in the bow of the ship. Doctor Li soon becomes head scientist of the group and begins to grow healthy, radiation free produce like fresh apples and fresh pears.

Return to Project Purity
Madison Li's life was still going smoothly even 20 years after abandoning Project Purity. But her life was drastically changed when she got an unexpected visit from James, who had escaped from Vault 101 and returned to Rivet City. He tried to recruit Dr. Li in his efforts to revive Project Purity. She refused, thinking too much time had passed. Soon after her talk with James she meets the now adult Lone Wanderer and tells them the location of their father. James and the Lone Wanderer return some time later and James is finally able to recruit Madison to help him and with some other scientists they head for Project Purity.

There, the scientists begin to make things operational again. All is going smoothly then the Enclave arrive out of nowhere. She and the Lone Wanderer escape and make it to the Citadel where she then rests.

During the Waters of Life she tells the Lone Wanderer and Sarah Lyons that the project needs to be activated now or the facility would explode.

Later life
After the purifier is activated, Madison leaves the Capital Wasteland and travels to the Commonwealth to pursue other scientific purposes, allegedly because she could not stand the Brotherhood Scribes' involvement in Project Purity. However, it should be noted that it is mentioned in the game that she could be slightly tolerant to Scribe Rothchild.

Madison Li is never seen again.

Quests

 * Scientific Pursuits: Dr. Li points the Lone Wanderer in the direction of the Jefferson Memorial to further the search for James.
 * The Waters of Life: Shaken by the events in the purifier room, Dr. Li enlists you to escort the remaining scientists to the Citadel.

Other interactions

 * If the player passes a Speech check before going to Project Purity Dr. Li rewards them with 5 stimpaks.

Effects of player actions

 * If the player has killed Three Dog before completing the Galaxy News Radio quest, the player will need to talk to Dr. Li to resume the plot.

Appearances
Madison Li only appears in Fallout 3.