A Broken Robot

=Accepting The Quest= Speak to a scavenger which can be randomly encountered throughout the Capital Wasteland. If you wait before talking to the scavenger, you will hear an interesting conversation between the robot and the scavenger, about how the robot thinks the scavenger should go to his local furniture store and buy some furniture as none is detected in the vicinity. As it turns out, the robot believes itself to be in a house and the scavenger cannot seem to be able to fix it. If your repair skill is high enough you can offer to fix it. If you then succeed in a speech challenge, he will offer some caps for your trouble.

You can also persuade him to give you an increased reward, then blow up the robot and lie (Speech) that he was about to blow up. You will get the reward if you succeed the speech check and can also loot the robot for items.

The Scavenger and his Mr. Handy can later be found outside the gates of Megaton, if they survive the journey. They will be under the protection of Stockholm, Deputy Weld, and whateever merchant happens to be outside of the gates.