Mod:Fallout: The Frontier/Spectre of the Past

Spectre of the Past is a side quest in Fallout: The Frontier.

In order to start the quest the player needs to find the remains of a "Man In Strange Armor". It is located East-Northeast from Council Crest Park Facility, slumped under a tree. Once in range the player will receive a mysterious numbers radio broadcast. The player can use the distortion in the broadcast to pinpoint the location more precisely. Picking up the note "Note in Chinese" from the corpse will start the quest.

Detailed walkthrough
Head to the Happy Emperor Tea House The player is tasked to go to the Happy Emperor Tea Shop. When entered the player is confronted by Liquid Cazador in which he states that this is official COS business and the player should leave.

The player can:


 * [Intelligence 7] Tell Cazador that that's not a good way to talk to someone with information. Explaining that he is looking for pre-war tech and the player has the instructions for it. Cazador will tell the player to go upstairs and help Knight Sun to open the hatch in the walk-in refrigerator.
 * Threaten Cazador. This will turn everyone hostile towards the player and fails the quest.


 * Tell about the body he found in the woods with a note. After giving the note Liquid Cazador will state that it is in Chinese and will ask the player if he can read it.

With a speech skill of 60 or higher the player can make "noises that sound like an exotic language". This will fool Cazador in thinking you can read it. Cazador will tell the player about the secret bunker hatch in the kitchen. Because of the hatch being electronically locked and made of reinforced steel it cannot be broken. The player is asked to go upstairs and help Knight Sun to open the hatch in the walk-in refrigerator.

With a speech skill lower than 60 the player will say various foreign and Chinese sounding words. Cazador tells the player to get lost and the conversation will end. The player can either leave the area, in which nothing will happen or talk to Cazador again. Him and his team will become hostile and the quest will

Speak with Sun The player walks upstairs to find Knight Sun in the backroom. She tells the player that she accidentally overheard your conversation.

The player can:


 * Ask what is so special about the bunker. Sun will tell that according to their reports a special stealth armor is in the bunker that can make you invisible.
 * Ask about the names from the team if they are from a Grognak the Barbarian comic book. Sun will tell that this has to do with the distrust of Ravi (Cazador) for outsiders and people in general. Her and the rest of team ignore him.
 * Ask about the Legion. Sun will tell that she thinks they are a joke and finds it funny that the NCR has trouble fighting men in skirts. If they were to challenge the Brotherhood, the Brotherhood would give them the most glorious ass kicking in history
 * Ask about the Frontier NCR. Sun will tell that they are the same crap, different shovel. Blackthorne is just as guilty as any other NCR "jerkass. If there is one point Ravi and Knight Sun agree on is that all should be killed for what happened at Helios One.
 * Ask about that they were trying to open a secret hatch inside the walk-in refrigerator. Sun will tell that she repaired the terminal but that is locked with a password that she cannot find. The mission progresses into tasking the player to find and give the password to her. If the player found the password holotape earlier Knight Sun will mention it and continues with opening the hatch.
 * [Perception 7] Ask about things don't adding up; that there are for more valuable tech in other places in the Frontier. Sun will say that the basement thing is just a little bonus. The COS isn't about tech hunting but are more like internet affairs.

With a speech skill of 75 the player can continue the conversation into Sun telling the details about their mission. Sun tells that there is an evil lady, a NCR spy that infiltrated the Mojave BOS to steal secrets. She managed to ambush and kill a BOS scouting team and even impersonated a apprentice knight to gain entry. They believe that she is in the Frontier and possible could working for the NCR. This will start the quest From NCR With Love. The player can choose one of the other options to continue the dialogue.

Without a speech skill lower than 75 Knight Sun cant tell anything more and the player can choose one other conversation options to progress.

Find and give Sun the Password The player can find the password called "old holodisk" under a wooden box filled wit Baijiu, in the south west corner of a room that the player passes earlier.

Giving the holodisk to Knight Sun, she will tell the player that because of her grandmother deciding to share her culture with her and learning Chinese in the progress, Sun will enter the password in the terminal. The player is asked to return to Cazador.

Report to Liquid Cazador After saying that the job is well done, he mentions that we should be careful when entering the tunnels. Ghouls, robots, turrets, mines could be present. The player is asked to lead the party and enter the bunker to find the armor

Head to the Bunker and locate the armor Inside the bunker the player has to open a hatch with the terminal that opens the door to the underground passage way. Various spiders and/or other creatures can be found in the tunnel. Near the end is a tripwire. The COS members can trip this wire which results in a grenade bouquet being dropped. This could potentially kill the members of the team and fail the quest. Use the hard locked terminal to go into the Chinese bunker. The armor is located in the first room the left. When entering the room Cazador will thank the player by letting him keep his life.

The player can:


 * Part way with the team. This will finish the quest and the player wil receive 113 XP.
 * Demand the armor. (Both remaining options have the same dialog) Cazador will say its ridiculous and asks why he would give you the armor. After explaining (with three speech checks with a maximum skill of 75) that he is trapped in the tunnels because of the NCR eyes in this area and that transporting the armor would be difficult because of this. The player tells Cazador that the NCR is a lot more dangerous than some damn spiders. The final straw is telling Cazador that he can have the location of the "man in a strange armor."

Cazador agrees and will tell that they have better tech anyway. This will complete the quest and reward the player 250XP. The player still has to hack the very hard terminal to remove the force field.

Bugs

 * The holodisk containing the password can get stuck between the wooden box and the counter. Climbing on top of it or using tlc is needed to find it.
 * Getting the holodisk password before the quest tells you to do, can result in a quest soft lock where after giving Sun the password she wont go to the terminal.
 * After Knight Sun opened the hatch, the player can go inside and get the armor for himself. Though being asked by Cazador to give it back on the way out, the armor remains in the inventory. A science skill of 100 is still needed to hack the terminal that removes the forcefield but the player does not need a high speech skill or kill the COS members.
 * Talking with Knight Sun is bugged after finishing the Spectre of the Past quest. Several tries may have to be made to get dialogue options.