Temple of Trials

"Underground Troubles"

The Temple of Trials is a pre-War structure just outside the tribal village of Arroyo.

Background
The purpose of the trials is to prove if someone is worthy of their role in the village as a leader of society The Temple of Trials requires the Chosen One to use a variety of their skills to complete.

Layout
The temple is infested with giant ants and radscorpions, and contains a few treasures including healing powder, an antidote and a spear, though the player character already has one. The following skills will be tested:
 * Combat skills.
 * The door from the chapel to the passage must be lockpicked.
 * The door from the passage to the sanctuary must be blown apart with explosives (which can be found nearby), with the Traps skill.
 * Several traps can be found and disarmed, or if triggered, can be avoided.

In the temple's final room is the tribesman Cameron, who challenges the Chosen One to a battle as their final challenge. However, bear in mind that he can be bypassed in other ways depending on the player character's skills:
 * With a high Speech skill Cameron can be talked out of fighting.
 * The Chosen One can steal the key to the door off of him.

When the temple is completed, the Chosen One will earn 300 XP and emerge outside clothed in the familiar vault jumpsuit, ready to start the next quest.

Inhabitants

 * Cameron

Appearances
The Temple of Trials appears in Fallout 2.

Behind the scenes

 * According to the Fallout Bible, the Temple of Trials was built on the ruins of an older pre-War building, likely a church or museum. The document also explains how the Vault Dweller's daughter took the test, a key ingredient of which is several pots worth of hallucinogenic plants from Hakunin's garden. She ran the gauntlet in the Temple of Trials, using her charm to pass most of the tests after her handgun jams (and is ruined) on the first level.
 * The Fallout Bible notes the beginning of Fallout 2 as 2241, starting with the Chosen One starting the trials.
 * The game's developers stated the trials were included due to a tutorial section requirement from Interplay.