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The Vault 22 camp[1] is an unmarked location in Zion Canyon in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Honest Hearts.
Background[]
In 2096, after earlier escaping the disintegrating situation in Vault 22 in the Mojave Wasteland, a group of 118 former dwellers armed themselves and traveled north into the former American state of Utah, ending up in Zion Canyon. There, they encountered a group of Mexican refugees who had been living there for weeks. For unknown reasons, whether hostility on one or both sides, or compelled to by the fungus growing inside them affecting their mental states, the Vault dwellers killed most of the refugees, including all of the men and some of the women, and took the survivors prisoner, later killing and devouring their dead bodies.[2][3]
Unbeknownst to the Vault dwellers, their massacre had been observed in secret by Randall Clark, a survivalist and former US soldier who had been helping the refugees. In anger, Clark retaliated against the expeditioners in a months-long guerilla war that claimed 24 lives, around a third of their entire group in the first 10 days. Despite expanding their patrols to cover large parts of the canyon and setting up sentry camps, the expeditioners never discovered who it was that was killing them off, ultimately concluding that it could only be a spirit of the canyon that they had angered.
Ten months later, after losing a total of 80 people to the unknown killer and their fungal sickness, the incumbent overseer J. Hendricks ordered the surviving Vault dwellers to abandon the canyon and left behind a holotape with a warning for anyone who came to Zion after their departure.[4][5][6][7][8]
Layout[]
The canyon trail leading to the camp
Situated in a long canyon northwest of Caterpillar's Mound, there are two ridges along the southwest and far northern sides of the canyon that are lined with spore plants, while there are also several spore plants on the ground along the canyon.
The campsite itself is located in a clearing at the western end of the canyon, through a narrow passage between two rocks (if entered from the canyon ground level). Near the end of this passage is a skeleton with a pouch of healing powder and a single banana yucca fruit nearby, suggested to have fallen to their death as evidenced by the only nearby banana yucca plant being on the ridge above. Otherwise, the campsite has little loot of note and is littered with skeletal remains, with two nonfunctioning generators and overturned flood lights around the log benches and central campfire. A hollow log can be found near the campsite. Tribal graffiti can be found painted on a rock to the south of the campsite. There is also a small section of barbed wire fence near the campsite, seemingly used as a holding pen.
At the farthest western corner of the canyon, past the campsite, is a skeleton with a sack containing a randomized amount of pre-War food, chems, and specifically a 75% chance for two stimpaks and a 25% chance for a super stimpak. There are also two bottles of purified water near the skeleton.
Notes[]
- The marked location named the Vault 22 dwellers' guard camp can be found in the canyon northeast of the Ghost Den and is inhabited by more spore carriers and spore plants. The difference in both camps' names plus the unmarked one containing a small pen made of barbed wire fence suggests that it was the original campsite of the Vault 22 dwellers where they kept the Mexican prisoners as mentioned in Randall Clark's journal.
- If the area is cleared of enemies, they are scripted to respawn after three days.
Appearances[]
The Vault 22 camp appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Honest Hearts.
Gallery[]
Canyon, passage to campsite
An unfortunate banana yucca picker
A skeleton with a sack
References[]
- ↑ Name taken from the script marker object NVDLC02V22CampSpawn01MarkerREF (xx0119A5) as well as other script objects with similar reference IDs in cell Wilderness -2, 5 and the surrounding cells
- ↑ Stone Bones cave terminal entries - Year: 2096
- ↑ Year: 2096
- ↑ Stone Bones cave terminal entries - Year: 2096 (II)
- ↑ Year: 2096 (II)
- ↑ Cueva Guarache terminal entries - Year: 2097
- ↑ Year: 2097
- ↑ BEWARE - A VENGEFUL SPIRIT STALKS THESE CANYONS
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