As a result, we suddenly gained a perk that meant our crippled limbs would grow back if we exposed ourselves to a certain level of radiation.
The chatty author was happy to heal us up – but then she informed us that we’d suffered “a teeny weeny mutation”. In no time at all we were critically irradiated, and trundled back to Moira to collect our reward. Then we had a brainwave: we started drinking from the toilet, which gave us a hefty dose of 18 rads per go. Unfortunately we needed a minimum score of 200 to complete the quest, so it looked like this method was going to take ages. Each time we hit the A (we tested the Xbox 360 version) button, our vault-dweller took a sip and increased his level by one rad.
We had previously noted that Megaton’s water supply was less than crystal-clear, so we headed to the public toilets and started drinking from the sink. She set us a choice of two exposure levels – one dangerous, the other borderline lethal – and sent us on our merry way. Here’s the story: Moira wanted us to research radiation poisoning by getting thoroughly crisped up.
