Agatha's Song

 is a Fallout 3 quest. It is also an Xbox 360 and PC achievement.

Retrieve the Soil Stradivarius from Vault 92 for Agatha, an old woman living alone in a house in the Capital Wasteland

Meeting Agatha
Her house is Northeast of Meresti Metro Station and west of the Scrapyard and can be tricky to find since it is surrounded by rock piles except for the small passage from the west over a suspension bridge. the suspension bridge is located south of a pair of raised road ruins. If you are having troubles finding it, then look for caravans in the area with your Pip-Boy since they are often positioned right in front of the passage to her house.

Agatha is a talented violin player who broadcasts her music through her late husband's old radio gear. She wants you to find her great-great-grandmother Hilda's Soil Stradivarius violin, which she believes is still in Vault 92. She doesn't know the location of the vault, but if asked can give you the location of Vault-Tec Headquarters on your Pip-Boy. At this point, going to Vault-Tec Headquarters is entirely optional. You can get the location of the vault while doing the quest Picking up the Trail or just by stumbling on it.

Locate Vault-Tec Headquarters (Optional)
There's several ways to reach Vault-Tec Headquarters.
 * Travel to Vernon Square Station from Chevy Chase East. From GNR go through the abandoned school, through the corridor, and past the super mutants. There You will find Chevy Chase North Station across the street, don't go that way. Instead, hang a right and follow the road a very short distance to Chevy Chase East. Once inside the station go down to the metro rail and follow it a bit until you reach a sign that says <---GNR Radio Metro Mall--> go left toward the mall. Stay on the tracks and go under the upper platform, till you reach a service door on your left. It is the only way you can go, enter the service door, exit the station, and poof, you are in Veron Square Station . You can also find Our Lady of Hope Hospital and The Statesman Hotel in this area. From the station, turn slightly left, and make your way to the road, at the corner, hang a left, and then you'll see a cinema, at the corner of the cinema, turn right, and stick to the building on the left. You will see a sign pointing you to Vernon Station North. Go through the short corridor and blast away any super mutants, at Vernon Station North turn right, and Voila! you have now completed the awful journey getting to Vault-Tec Headquarters. This path involves a certain amount of resistance from Super Mutants in the Vernon Square area, but you are there now, so enjoy!! Alternately, once you reach the platform before the service door, you could go up the platform, and hang a left, and exit to Vernon Square North which has a lot less resistance from the Super Mutants.

--misconception-- there is NO way to get from Chevy Chase North to Vernon Square at all. I spent hours and hours and hours looking for a way through. There is none. Do not be fooled folks. Go through Chevy Chase East or you will spend ungodly amounts of time trying to get to Vault-Tec.

Discover the location of Vault 92 (Optional)
Once inside Vault-Tec Headquarters, make your way to the Vault-Tec Mainframe. The building is divided into 3 sections. The Guest Relations (Lobby), the Corporate Offices and the Administration. The building is still protected by several automated units such as Protectrons, Robobrains, Turrets and depending on your level and the game difficulty level Sentry Bots. There's also a few remaining Super Mutants when you come in, but they seem to have their hands full.

The Mainframe is located in the Administration section. To gain access to it, you will need to obtain permission from System Operation Station 1, 2 and 3. The terminals are scattered across the Administration. Once you gain access to the Mainframe, you'll be able to download the location of Vault 87, Vault 92, Vault 101, Vault 106 and Vault 108 on your Pip-Boy.

Recover the Soil Stradivarius from Vault 92
Vault 92 itself is infested with Mirelurks, Mirelurk Hunters, Mirelurk Kings, Bloatflies, and Radroaches. The Soil Stradivarius is located in the Sound Testing section of the vault.

Entering the vault, go straight, and the room should have 3 doors. The door in front leads to the Atrium, the door on the left has signs that say Classroom and Lab and leads directly to the Sound Testing section. The door on the right is unmarked and leads to the Living Quarters (where you can find a piece of Sheet Music Book, see below). You can move through the vault in at least two ways:


 * If you can pick Average locks, you can go left, directly to the violin, and either ignore the Sheet Music Book or get it after the violin. If you choose this path, enter the door on the left, which shortly leads to the Sound Testing area.  Once there, if you're noisy, you'll have several Mirelurks on you.  On Hard you'll face 2 regular Mirelurks and 2 Mirelurk Hunters.  Once you've dealt with the Mirelurks, take the corridor on your right.  At the intersection, go right around a corner.  On your left will be a staircase leading down with a sign saying Lab above it.  Be careful, there are 2 Mirelurk Kings down there.


 * If you cannot pick Average locks, you'll need to go right, through the Living Quarters, to get the violin. Once in the Living Quarters proper, if you're noisy, you will quickly be engaged by several Mirelurks.  On Hard, there were 3 Mirelurk Hunters and 1 Mirelurk to the left.  Since you're already here, you might as well get the Sheet Music Book, which can be found in the Male Dorm bathroom (straight ahead from where you entered) in a closed stall behind the toilet.  Once you have the Sheet Music Book, continue through the Living Quarters until you are on the upper floor of the Atrium.  There should be a door to the Reactor section and an unmarked door that leads to the Sound Testing section.  Go through the unmarked door to the Sound Testing section.  Once there, immediately to your right should be a staircase with the sign Lab above it leading down.  Be careful, there are 2 Mirelurk Kings down there.

At the bottom of the staircase and around a corner is a 4-way intersection. In front of you is an Average-locked storeroom with a Stealth Boy ammo boxes, medical supplies, an Average-locked safe. To your right is a room with the first Mirelurk King, a juke box, a soda machine, a refrigerator, and a Pre-War Book. To your left is a T-intersection. The computer terminal that grants access to the music studio (and the second Mirelurk King) is to the left of the T-intersection. It also contains an Energy Weapons skill book: Nikola Tesla and You. The violin is to the right of the T-intersection, with a Laser Pistol and an Easy-locked safe with another Stealth Boy If you didn't do so already, you may want to go to the Living Quarters section and get the Sheet Music Book there (see above).

Return to Agatha
Upon completion of this quest, Agatha will give you the frequency to her radio channel for your Pip-Boy. It plays violin music and can be heard across the entire wastes.

If you bring Agatha back a Sheet Music Book, which can be found in Vault 92 and several other locations (see: Sheet Music Book), she will give you the Blackhawk, a unique, modified .44 Scoped Magnum and 12 .44 magnum rounds that was her husband's property. To get the Blackhawk, you must ask for the reward (second option). Watch out, if you're rude towards Agatha your Blackhawk's condition will be halved. If you don't have any Sheet Music Book when talking with Agatha again, she'll tell you that she needs Music Paper to write her music on and asks you to retrieve some for her.

Alternatives

 * You can bring the Soil Stradivarius to Ahzrukhal at The Ninth Circle in Underworld. If you tell him it's one of a kind, he'll buy it off you for 200 caps (or Speech him for 300 caps) and you will get the achievement for finishing the quest.
 * It's also possible to sell the violin for caps to Abraham Washington in Rivet City.