Berkeley Springs Spa

Berkeley Springs Spa is a pre-War business that operated in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.

Background
Operating since at least 2075 the Spa was owned and operated by Edna. Looking to increase productivity she sought to purchase a Mister Handy. The salesman assured her that it would do the work of two employees, she hoped it would, otherwise she would rather have spent the cash on a new sauna for the spa. On February 22, 2075 Edna received the new Mister Handy she purchased to help around the Spa. When she turned it on it stated that its name was "Z43126." She decided to rename it "Beckham" after the dog she owned in her teenage years.

Everything was going well until October 6th, 2075, when Beckham accidentally used a loofah instead of the requested pumice-scrub for a client. The client enraged said that they were "unhappy with the level of service they were receiving," despite everything else with their spa visit going perfectly. By November 18, 2075, the honey treatments became so increasingly popular that she added it to the menu. She tried ordering the stuff by the jar, but it was still too expensive, she tried sending Beckham to collect honey from a few nearby apiaries looking for a reliable and cheap source. They to were too expensive for her. At the end of the day, she ended up sending Beckham out to look for natural hives in the area. This worked, she got all the honey she need, and as a bonus it couldn't get stung. This arrangement would work out perfectly.

In the slower months of January and February she would normally offer discounts for her services. This was not to be in 2076, with the costs of business going up she decided by February 4th to no longer offer the seasonal promotion. This didn't go over to well with her clientele, specifically noting that she never heard so much complaining in her life. They claiming that she was trying to "take advantage of them." She would continue to lament her clients audacity and pettiness, noting that if she had known that her clients were that petty she wouldn't have opened the business in the first place. May 10, 2076, Beckham knocked over a tray of lotions, in response Edna called the company. They gave her ideas on how to calibrate its hover jet and more importantly how to modify its sensors. They also told her how to modify the Handy further, particularly its expressed opinions, and reactions. She decided to test this by making Beckham fearful of bees so that she could watch it squirm the next time it had to collect honey. She appreciated that for its entertainment, the little things in life. The business would effectively be closed as a result of the Great War, its storefront would lie abandoned for the next two decades.

Some time in 2103 with the return of people to the region following the exodus caused by the Scorched Plague a band of Blood Eagles would construct a fortified camp on several rooftops. Its center would be above the Spa. Beckham would be stuck in that routine for the next twenty seven years, where it would be helped by the residents of Vault 76.

Appearances
Berkeley Springs Spa appears only in Fallout 76.