Memory Interrupted is a Railroad side quest in Fallout 4.
Quick walkthrough
| Railroad side quest: Memory Interrupted | |||||||||||||
| Talk to Desdemona | |||||||||||||
| Listen to P.A.M. | |||||||||||||
| Agree with P.A.M. and Carrington | Agree with Desdemona | ||||||||||||
| Go to the Memory Den | |||||||||||||
| Speak to Dr. Amari | |||||||||||||
| Pick up H2-22's holotape from the table | |||||||||||||
| Go to Malden Center | |||||||||||||
| Team up with Glory | Tell Glory her help is not required | ||||||||||||
| Clear the area | |||||||||||||
| Report back to Desdemona | |||||||||||||
| Reward: 300 XP 200 caps Two Railroad Stealth Boys Railroad Stealth Boys for sale | |||||||||||||
Detailed walkthrough
Back at Railroad HQ, in the back room with P.A.M., Desdemona and Doctor Carrington can be found discussing a safe way to transport H2-22 after his memories were altered by Dr. Amari. P.A.M. will tell the group about increasing Institute activities, which will start a discussion between Desdemona and Carrington on how the Railroad should react. While Desdemona suggests rerouting the path, P.A.M. and Carrington will state that the safest way is to eliminate any synths blocking the original route. The Sole Survivor will have the option to side with one of the two parties. However, even if they side with Desdemona, she will concede that rerouting is not an option and go with Carrington's plan to eliminate the synths on the original route.
The Sole Survivor is sent to Dr. Amari to tell her about the new plan. After a conversation, Amari will tell the Sole Survivor to grab the Goodbye from H2-22 holotape from the table, which contains a personal message from H2-22 (although the conversation with Amari may take place elsewhere, "the table" in question is the round one with the red tablecloth behind Irma on the first floor stage).
The Sole Survivor is then sent to Malden Center to eradicate any Gen 1 synths in the area. Before entering the station, they run into Glory, who was accidentally sent to accomplish the same mission, by Griswold safehouse rather than HQ. She will request to work together with the Sole Survivor to clean out the synths and will act as a temporary companion; she can also be turned down with no consequences and will simply return to Railroad HQ, leaving the player character to clear the area themselves.
In any event, the objective inside Malden Center is simply to kill all of the synths, ending with the synth leader in the final room with Helter Skelter and the surviving raiders (if the location had not been cleared previously). If Glory is present, she will have some ambient dialogue commenting that she believes even Gen 1 synths should be rescued (e.g. asking if they couldn't just scare them away), and will have an additional conversation after killing the synth leader, thanking the Sole Survivor for a successful mission.
Afterward, the Sole Survivor should return to Desdemona for the reward: 200 caps and two Railroad Stealth Boys. Railroad Stealth Boys will also be made available for sale in Tinker Tom's inventory. Separately from the quest completion rewards, Desdemona can be spoken to anytime afterwards and has a few lines commenting about the quest. In one of these lines, Desdemona will state it is Railroad tradition for an agent to "raise a glass" after their first successful synth run, and will give the player character a bottle of alcohol as a reward.[1]
Quest stages
Notes
- Valentine, Hancock, Piper, Deacon, and Strong all like it if the player character decides to team up with Glory to clear out the Malden Center; MacCready and Cait dislike it, but Cait and MacCready like it if the player character decides to dismiss Glory; Strong dislikes it.
- If the player responds to Amari with "I didn't get to say goodbye," when speaking to her in Goodneighbor, Curie likes it and Deacon loves it.
- Glory will be at the location where the synths are located and will accompany the Sole Survivor through the mission.
- If the player character is in good standing with the Institute, the synths will not be hostile to them.
- It is possible to initiate this quest by simply clearing out Malden Center of synths and raiders. The quest will initiate from the quest marker 'Report back to Desdemona' once the synth leader is killed, whereupon one may go back to Railroad HQ. On arrival, the player character will find Desdemona and Doctor Carrington discussing the situation, and the dialogue will proceed as if the quest was being given for the first time. However, Desdemona will have a quest marker above her head (if the quest active is active). At this point, both her quest marker and 'Talk to Doctor Amari' will be active and the player character may either talk to her and complete the quest OR ignore her/back out of dialogue and continue the quest as per the full quest markers, meeting Amari, the encounter with Glory, etc. The synths and a few of the raiders will respawn and this stage of the quest can be repeated, the only difference is that even when all the synths are dead, one will still have both 'Report back to Desdemona' and 'Eliminate the Gen 1s' will still be active. Talking to Desdemona will complete the quest as normal.
- The synths will respawn if they are cleared before the quest. The raiders and synths outside will still be dead. The elevator down to the synth leader will be still accessible.
- Glory is considered essential during this quest but that ends the moment the last synth is dead. If raiders are still alive, they can then kill Glory and one will have to report her death to Desdemona. If she dies before the player character has completed Emergent Behavior, then an alternate caretaker takes her place.
- Should Glory be alive and Emergent Behavior is active with the quest stage indicating to talk to the synth caretaker which would be Glory, she will not be present at Malden. The player has to then continue the quest on their own.
Bugs
Desdemona does not have dialogue for reporting back to her if The Molecular Level is active and the stage where a supporting faction must be chosen has been reached, making it impossible to finish this quest until one proceeds in The Molecular Level. [verified]- Under rare circumstances, Memory Interrupted may fail to start even if all of the prerequisite quests (namely Butcher's Bill 2) are completed, and will not start even if console commands such as startquest or setstage are used. This may be caused by a quest Reference Alias (an object that the quest refers to, such as a quest NPC or location) not being filled, preventing the quest from running. The console commands clearquestaliases 000A8BAF and then setquestaliases 000A8BAF followed by startquest or setstage may fix the problem, but setquestaliases may also return a failure. In this case, it may only be possible to fix the issue by flagging all of the Reference Aliases in the quest as "optional" using the Creation Kit or a third-party tool such as FO4Edit (and then using the traditional quest console commands). [verified]
References
- ↑ Desdemona: "H2-22 made it out of the Commonwealth. It's a tradition to down a glass for your first successful run. Well done."
(Desdemona's dialogue)
