Forum:Companions?

Okay, I've been playing this game for roughly 500 hours, experimenting and doing things different ways. I have it on PS3 and am disappointed at no DLC. I exploited the follower glitch and got Charon first, no other way, experimented a lot with it. I then got Sergeant RL-3 with the neutral karma and fire Charon, rehire before speaking to Rl-3 after purchasing him trick. I immediately killed a few good people, as my karma was close enough to evil to allow it to drop down and then performed the same fire/rehire to get Clover. Having bad karma, i then went back to Megaton and discovered that no matter how you finagle or finesse it, Jericho will not follow you unless you fire one of your followers and then the follower stays fired as there is no option to walk away and rehire the follower before Jericho follows you. Butch, later in the game, is the same way. I chose to have: Charon, Clover, and Jericho. I knew they would be gone after vault 87, so i did almost all of the side quests before going to vault 87.

Ready for the fun part? I had a theory i wanted to test, I told them to wait inside my megaton house and completed vault 87 and raven rock by myself and immediately after exiting raven rock, allowed Fawkes to kill the Enclave soldiers, watching my threat indicator until they disappeared and fast traveling to megaton to collect my crew, knowing Fawkes would join no matter how many people I had. Big surprise, they were all gone!

Theory failed. But wait, there's more!

So I continued to ignore Fawkes, fast traveled to Underworld, found happy boy sitting in the chair in the ninth circle like he owned the place! I rehired Charon, ran out the door and made it halfway out before noticing he wasnt following. So I went back in, and he was still standing in the same spot. I talked to him, found out he was still in wait mode, told him to follow me, and fast traveled back to raven rock where Fawkes joined me. I then reduced my karma to neutral, fast traveled to Rivet city to get Butch. Had to fire Fawkes permanently. No biggie. I now had two followers again.

I decided to do some vault 87 exploring with these two, so i saved before entering and had made it halfway through the vault when I saw the messages pop up that jericho had gone back to megaton, and clover back to paradise falls. WTF? I then discovered that butch was gone. Thinking he was probably in some side room, and would catch up when i went through the next door, i continued on only to find him laying on the floor a couple of minutes later, eyes wide and blinking, but obviously dead by game standards as the game was telling me i could talk to him, but went into loot body mode when i tried to speak to him. Charon, the a hole, was pefectly fine. Not liking what i saw, i loaded my previous save and began wandering again. Still had neutral karma. I went to Canterbury Commons to try to catch a merchant traveling through and saw Doc Hoff after appearing from fast traveling and hurried towards him. I had taken no more than two steps when i saw the Clover/Jericho messages appear and realized that the messages were based on time passed after escaping from vault 87. A sudden inspiration caused me to swerve from Doc Hoff towards the tree that Sergeant RL-3 likes to hang around after you fire him. I spoke to him, and asked him to join me, less than 20 seconds after the Clover/Jericho message appeared. He agreed. I now have three followers again.

Interesting to me. Could'nt get anymore followers, i tried picking up fawkes again, but the time limit for adding additional followers must have expired.

Anyone else got anything to add? Highlander4450 02:17, 25 January 2009 (UTC)