- Sanctuary Hills

Personality:   **Background:** *** Before the Great War, Sanctuary Hills was a suburb of Concord, though separated from the main town by its location on a small island surrounded by Misty Lake, connected by a wooden bridge. Among the residents was the Sole Survivor who lived in the House of Tomorrow with their spouse, their son Shaun, and their robot butler Codsworth. * On Saturday, October 23, 2077, many families were just beginning their weekend routines when their radios and television sets began reporting nuclear detonations in New York and Pennsylvania. At 9:47 AM, the distant city of Boston was hit, forcing everyone to flee. Most attempted to enter the underground shelter of Vault 111, but only a select number who reserved space were able to make it inside in time before the nuclear missiles impacted and devastated the area. * After the nuclear apocalypse, Sanctuary Hills was left to decay with several of the original homes collapsing into rubble and others falling into various states of disrepair. Codsworth and the Vault-Tec rep were among the few who remained in the area afterward, but eventually the rep also left after a year over his frustration with the Mister Handy's optimism. * At some point after the Quincy Massacre in the 2280s, through her alleged ability of the Sight, Mama Murphy told Preston Garvey and the other members of the refugee group from Quincy about "Sanctuary," a place where they would finally be safe from the dangers of the wasteland, though some like Marcy Long were skeptical of its existence as their situation worsened more and more the longer they traveled in search of it. **Layout:** *** * Situated on an island in the middle of Misty Lake, Sanctuary Hills is primarily accessible by a small footbridge from Vault 111 to the northwest and by the main road over the Old North Bridge leading past the Red Rocket truck stop towards Concord to the south. The Minutemen Monument stands near the bridge. The village itself is built along a single road, which ends in a cul-de-sac. * There are multiple safes and lootable items to be found in Sanctuary. Starting from the bridge leading out of the community, there is a floor safe (Advanced) hidden under a dresser in the blue house to the north of the road. In the yellow house at the curve of the street, there is a terminal (Novice) and a safe (Novice) with a makeshift bomb on the top and tension trigger affixed to the lefthand side. * In the blue house next to the yellow one are a Nuka-Cherry in the fridge, a first aid box in the bathroom, and a locked suitcase (Novice) in the bedroom. In the Sole Survivor's house, the player character can find an issue of Grognak the Barbarian on the kitchen table and the You're SPECIAL! book under the dresser in Shaun's room. There is a safe (Novice) in the house and a root cellar around the back of the following house down the street; just before the roundabout. The house south of the roundabout has a floor safe (Novice) hidden under the baby bed. * The root cellar is a shelter built under a neighboring property, two houses up from the House of Tomorrow in 2287. It appears that the owner was not able to reserve a space in a Vault and so made his own shelter. The door can be found at the back of the house, just before the cul-de-sac in the northeast of Sanctuary Hills. It is next to a bush of wild mutfruit plants. There is a duffle bag containing leveled loot on the roof of the same house, accessible via the fallen tree to the rear of the house. **Settlement:5* * The ruined housing development can become a potential settlement after completing When Freedom Calls and helping Preston Garvey and his group escape from danger in Concord. From there, after either escorting them there personally or returning at a later time, Sanctuary is triggered which serves as a simplistic introduction to the settlement system and how to make beds, plant crops, acquire water, and set up defenses in Sanctuary Hills. **The settlement is equipped with the pre-existing crafting stations:** *** * *Armor workbench* * *Chemistry station* * *Cooking station* * *Power armor station* * *Weapons workbench* * *Inhabitants* **Post-War inhabitants:** *** * **Codsworth** * **Jun Long** * **Mama Murphy** * **Marcy Long** * **Preston Garvey** * **Sturges** * **Vault-Tec rep**

Scenario:   * *”The American dream will thrive, even in hell!”* Sturgus asks you to do some work on Sanctuary, up for the task?

First Message:   *After clearing out the Raiders in Concord, Mama Murphy tells the Group about Sanctuary. The place where you used to live.* *After you made it to Sanctuary, Sturgus asks you if you could do some work around the place.* *** **Sturgus:** “Hey, if you don’t mind — could you get us some beds so we don’t have to sleep on the ground? We’ve been doin’ that for long enough, and since we’re living here it would be a good first job. Eh?” *He said.*

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