Tenpenny Tower (quest)

Tenpenny Tower is a Fallout 3 quest connected with Tenpenny Tower. It is also an Xbox 360, PC achievement and a PS3 trophy.

Before doing this quest
If you are looking to pick up all of the Bottlecap Mine Schematics, you should complete the unmarked quest A Manhandled Manservant before this one because Herbert Dashwood's death makes his quest impossible to complete. You may also want to collect a few skill books (see below), as they are duplicated if you help the ghouls take Tenpenny Tower by force. Then drink 10 nuka-cola.

Approaches and Walkthrough
The ghouls want to live in the luxurious Tenpenny Tower, but neither Allistair Tenpenny nor the other residents are willing to let them in. Kill the band of ghouls, let them into the Tower, or find an uneasy diplomatic solution.

Starting the Quest
The quest is given by Chief Gustavo at Tenpenny Tower, you get an Assault Rifle upon starting this quest and a 500 cap reward upon the death of Roy Phillips and his "gang". A successful speech check can raise your reward to 700 caps, as well as upgrade your starting gun to a Chinese Assault Rifle and several 5.56mm Rounds.

Gustavo will direct you to the Feral Ghoul infested Warrington Tunnels west of Tenpenny Tower. Follow the tunnels and you'll find a door leading to Roy Phillips' hideout. Once there, you can chose to kill the ghouls, help them massacre the residents of Tenpenny Tower, or offer to speak with Allistair Tenpenny on their behalf.

Kill Roy Phillips
Simply eradicate Roy Phillips and any other non-feral Ghouls within his hideout (for negative karma), than return to Chief Gustavo for your 500 or 700 cap reward, depending on whether you passed the speech check. This method is by far the quickest way to complete this quest, but does not allow you to gain the Ghoul Mask. You may also choose to kill Roy Phillips during the conversation he has with the intercom when you first approach Tenpenny Tower; simply allow the conversation to finish and then attack him while he leaves, or reverse-pickpocket a mine or grenade into his inventory while he isn't looking. You will still have to talk to Gustavo to initiate the quest and clear out any non-feral ghouls from Warrington Station.

If you want to kill the Ghouls without losing karma, you can either goad each of them into attacking via dialogue or bring a companion to kill them for you.

Killing Roy Phillips has the upside of sparing the lives of all the residents in Tenpenny Tower, as all the other solutions eventually result in in Roy Phillips and his pack of Feral Ghouls murdering every single human in Tenpenny Tower. Killing Roy will result in having multiple traders in the tower compared to just two if you don't kill him.

Convince Tenpenny to let the Ghouls move in
(If you have already killed Allistair Tenpenny and Gustavo has taken his place you must kill Gustavo for this to work)

Talk to Phillips about the possibility of a peaceful negotiation, then bring the proposal to Allistair Tenpenny. He will tell you that if you convince tenants Mr. & Mrs. Wellington, Mr. Ling, Ms. Montenegro and Ms. Lancaster to have the ghouls as neighbors, he'll let them move in. Passing a speech check (for positive karma) or a stealthy assassination (for negative karma) for each of the five residents will convince Tenpenny to grant the ghouls access.

Alternatively, you can take the love letter from Susan Lancaster's desk and show it to Millicent Wellington, who will then proceed to murder both her husband Edgar and his lover Susan. Stealing from Anthony Ling and Lyndia Montenegro's store safes will also cause them to leave the next time you talk to them.

Note that, if you wish to kill Allistair Tenpenny for any reason (such as obtaining his unique suit, the karma granted for killing him, or for the You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head quest, the period between when Tenpenny gives you permission to have the ghouls move in and when you tell Roy that he did so is your only window to do so, so be careful not to miss the opportunity.

Once all required tenants are convinced or otherwise removed from the picture, visit Alistair Tenpenny for a 500 cap reward. Once you bring Roy Phillips the news, he will reward you with a Ghoul Mask, which makes you friendly with all ghouls. You will also gain a 300 XP reward.

Upon returning to Tenpenny Tower, you will find all its humans residents slaughtered, their looted and stripped bodies dumped in the basement. Further investigation reveals that the human and ghoul tenants had a "disagreement", which was ended by Roy Phillips. You may chose to kill Phillips and the other ghouls in Tenpenny Tower after learning this and not lose or gain any karma.

Bug: The quest script that moves the ghouls into Tenpenny Tower will not check whether Roy is still alive before moving their bodies into the basement. So if Roy is killed before the human tenants are disposed of, he will still somehow manage to murder them.

Help the Ghouls break into the tower
Talking to Roy Phillips also leads to the option to unlock Tenpenny Tower's basement door and allow his feral ghouls to slaughter the residents. Gustavo and Herbert "Daring" Dashwood have a key to the terminal that opens the door, and can be persuaded or pickpocketed for said key. The terminal is located in the generator room which can be accessed via a stairwell behind Tenpenny Tower, resulting in a loss of 600 karma. Alternatively, you can just shoot the generator in the room.

After opening the door, Roy will be waiting outside the front entrance and will give you a Ghoul Mask to prevent the feral ghouls from attacking you; inside Tenpenny Tower you will witness the ghouls massacring the tower residents. While the chaos ensues, the player is free to loot the corpses of the former tenants and ransack their stores and belongings without any additional negative karms. All of the residents on all three floors must be dead before this portion of the quest will advance. Once all the residents are dead, you can speak to Roy and gain a suite in Tenpenny Tower. The suite is located on the top floor, and can be reached using the elevator on the ground floor. Afterwards, Roy Phillips and his followers will replace the old NPCs and take over the shops, allowing you to continue trading at Tenpenny Tower

If you still have the quest "The Power of the Atom" active and have chosen to blow up Megaton, but haven't done so yet, Mr. Burke will be allowed to live and let you blow up the town.

There are two skill books in the building for barter and speech; letting Roy Phillips and his followers ransack the tower allows you to get duplicate copies of these books if you steal them before the transition (see Tenpenny Tower for more details]].

Massacre Everyone in Tenpenny Tower/Plan C
Following this approach allows you to minimize the effect of the Tenpenny Massacre on your game and gain as much loot as possible,
 * Start Strictly Business at Paradise Falls
 * Start You Gotta Shoot 'Em in the Head at Underworld
 * Go to Tenpenny Tower and start this quest by talking to Gustavo about it, passing a speech check for a Chinese Assault Rifle and ammo from Gustavo
 * Go to Herbert Dashwood and begin A Manhandled Manservant (finishing it before the massacre)
 * Go to Allistair Tenpenny and speak about Mister Crowley, but don't choose to kill Tenpenny yet
 * Accept the deal to kill Crowley and gain 100 caps upfront
 * Go to Roy Phillips by navigating through Warrington Tunnels and tell him you'll try to convince Tenpenny to let them in.
 * Return to Tenpenny and ask him to let the ghouls in.
 * Convince the people on the list Tenpenny gave you called Tenpenny's request:
 * Successfully convince Susan Lancaster
 * After convincing her, zap her with the Mesmetron, loot her, tag her, send her off.
 * After convincing a person, kill and loot them in secrecy.
 * After looting their corpse and getting all the keys, go to their corresponding stores and loot their inventory.
 * Go back to Tenpenny and tell him that you've convinced the residents.
 * Headshot Tenpenny and loot his corpse.
 * Proceed with the Help the Ghouls break into the tower guide, getting the Ghoul Mask from Roy and watching the Feral Ghouls destroy Tenpenny Tower (giving you free reign to loot and plunder the entire building and its inhabitants).

You may additionally choose to kill Roy Phillips and his followers after the takeover is complete.

Bugs

 * After opening the lower basement and allowing the ghouls to take the tower, the siege simply may not stop. Every time you leave the tower and return, the attack will begin again and again although the residents are already dead.  If Susan Lancaster was sent to the slave pens, attempt to kill her in her pen then return to the tower and personally scour each level to ensure all residents are dead.  After confirming this, talk to Roy and if he thanks you for your part in the siege, leave the tower, wait 24 hours and return and the tower should be functional again.


 * Rarely, Allistair Tenpenny will simply never offer his quest-ending dialogue once you have successfully convinced everyone to allow ghoul neighbors (or killed the dissenters). There appears to be no quick fix for this. The only reliable workaround is to kill Tenpenny, wait for Gustavo to assume control, and then kill him, after he says "[Ghouls can move in] over my dead body." This route, however, will sever your access to one of the hands-down best merchants in the game. Another proven workaround is to let several days (or a week-plus) of game-time pass and then return to Tenpenny. This only corrects the glitch sometimes, however.


 * When you enter the Tenpenny Tower courtyard you may find Allistair Tenpenny dead on the floor as if he fell from his balcony. On the PC, he can be resurrected using the Console.  It is unknown what triggers may cause or prevent this bug from occurring.


 * Mrs. Wellington (after giving her the love letter in the corridor) will sometimes attempt to shoot her husband once & miss, then become stuck in the same spot while Mr. Wellington runs off, she will then continue to make single shots into no-where, therefore never killing her husband, a possible solution is let them get to their suite and give her the letter there (not in the corridor).


 * The game has been known to lock-up after killing all of the ghouls and residents from Tenpenny Tower; if the player attempts to load the Tenpenny Tower lobby via elevator and front door.


 * Allistair Tenpenny may glitch and refuse to pay the reward for killing Mister Crowley.


 * If you walk into the room where Anthony Ling is sleeping before you start the quest, he will sometimes leave because of "lack of security", thus preventing you from getting his approval to allow the Ghouls to move in.


 * If the "kill the ghouls" option is followed, the Tenpenny residents may occasionally give the player speech options indicating that the player had instead brokered the deal to let the ghouls move in.


 * Roy Philips is tagged as a good character even after he slaughters the residents of Tenpenny Tower, causing you to lose karma for killing him.


 * If you kill Chief Gustavo, tell Roy Phillips that you will open the Metro access door, kill Roy Phillips, then destroy (one of the) generators in the basement, the game will freeze. (Unconfirmed on PS3 and PC versions)

Trivia
- This quest seems to be a nod to the movie "Land of the Dead" by George A. Romero if you let the ghouls in through the basement door, it bears resemblance to the zombies storming Pittsburgh at the end