Talk:Arefu

Did no one notice the old traffic sign above the entrance that would say be careful or something like that with the C and the A missing? Leading me to belive that how the town got it's name. Careful - C and L = arefu


 * Wow I never noticed that. I'll have to check it out. That's cool.
 * Ju Juitsu 13:27, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Bug in Arefu
Ran across something else wierd out there. Came back to Arefu to pick up the bobble head, about two game weeks after I had done the quests. Nobody was around, no bodies, and here was an armed, hostile robot attacking me. I put it down (in King's house, it followed me inside), picked up the bobble head (and King's ammo, since it sppeared something had happened to the residents). When I stepped outside, the husband-wife pair were dead on the ground, the single girl was terrified of me. I ran into the Family vamp that was protecting the town, and he said "So you're King's killer, huh" and ran off. Oddly enough though, the Cannibal Kid reacted to me normally.
 * I went there to get the bobblehead and found the Enclave killing the residents. Only Ian West and Alan (from the Family) survived. Apparently Alan thinks it was my fault. Lucy West won't talk to me either. Paul (Evil) 04:37, 27 December 2008 (UTC)

Same thing appened to me except,i reverse pickpocketed tesla armor and plasma rifles onto ever resident and they killed the enclace guys,but the AI went nuts and decided to take a dip into the ground,however everyone there killed themselves so,no worry's at all(id finished the quest and witnessed lucy west fall to her death from a railing in megaton) Werewolfhell 21:02, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

Good Ol' Arefu Bugs
I just fast-traveled to Arefu, only to find a Deathclaw attacking the trader caravan that was there at the time. I killed the Deathclaw, and the entire town became hostile with me. They were convinced I killed Evan King, even though he was standing right there shooting at me... Rydiak 20:40, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Well, the other day I stopped by Arefu to get some "cookies" from Brailee for use in Nukanades. Unfortunately, an Albino Radscorpion (broken steel) had spawned by Alan's house, and killed Alan and the 3 brahmin. The townsfolk of Arefu seemed to blame it on me, and are now interminably hostile. I'm considering going in there and taking them all out, and then finishing off their vampire buddies in Meresti.--71.234.106.119 00:44, 23 June 2009 (UTC)Anonymous
 * Do it Do it!--Kingclyde 00:54, 23 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Yeah they went crazy on me for no apparent reason last time I fast traveled there, after all I had done for them! Luckily their vampire guardian was on my side and aided me in pumping Evan King full of lead.--81.151.48.129 18:13, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * Man,i hate Arefu,i save their asses and rescue their little friend,and when i save them from 4 albino scorpions,they turn hostile,being pissed i used Jingweis SHocksword to slowly kill them. Fiedoggist High Priest 18:23, 17 August 2009 (UTC)
 * I was fighting the Enclave on the other end of the broken Arefu bridge, and the Missile Launcher guy shot a missle at me and missed. The missile traveled to Arefu and i saw it zoom past evan king's head. This caused the town to become hostile and for me to fail the quest. so not only do they blame deaths on you, they blame you for shooting near them and hurting their feelings. I hate this damn town gun_with_utters 01:25, May 29, 2010 (UTC) GatlingBrahmin
 * I was fighting the Enclave on the other end of the broken Arefu bridge, and the Missile Launcher guy shot a missle at me and missed. The missile traveled to Arefu and i saw it zoom past evan king's head. This caused the town to become hostile and for me to fail the quest. so not only do they blame deaths on you, they blame you for shooting near them and hurting their feelings. I hate this damn town gun_with_utters 01:25, May 29, 2010 (UTC) GatlingBrahmin


 * Apparently if anything happens to any of the residents of Arefu, the town and the Family will immediately become hostile to the player and will never "forgive & forget" like other towns will. I went back for something (I think a skill book in Alan's house) and found some Yao Guai slaughtering the Brahmin at the foot of the bridge. I killed the Guai and ascended the bridge to the town and found Evan King and two of the other men shooting at me, so I was forced to kill them. I neither killed nor even attacked Alan, the vampire guardian from the Family. Next time I went to Meresti Metro Station, to try to reverse-pickpocket Vance's Longcoat Outfit off of him, all the Family members were hostile, so I had to kill them, too. I was kind of sad; I liked Vance. 19:37, July 10, 2011 SleeperAgentZzz

Explosion is a Scripted event?
I was going into Arefu for the first time in my second playthrough, knowing that Evan King would attack me at first I decided to test it out a bit. I entered the town in a [HIDDEN] state while I had my sights on Evan King. The explosion seems to go off after approaching the town, not upon Evan King sighting the player. I know that he didn't see me or move either, was watching him with my sniper's scope the entire time, just in case I saw him make a move I could shoot the grenade or the rifle off him. Master Glink 01:28, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, it's scripted. AlbinoTitan 01:29, 23 July 2009 (UTC)

Scavenger's Shack.
Does anyone know if the scavenger's bed becomes free if you kill the scavenger? His shack is just east of Arefu on a hill.--Дикий Человек Вампира 19:47, 25 July 2009 (UTC)

Location Trivia
I don't agree that there are no bridges near where Arefu is in real life. 495 runs over the Potomac in a location fairly analogous to Arefu. --Archild 14:30, October 7, 2009 (UTC)
 * Would you be able to post a 'comparison' of real life DC vs. the FO3 map? That would be great! ThePog 12:29, January 6, 2010 (UTC)
 * the game is set 200 something years in an alternate future, so certain things with the landscape and buildings will obviously be different.
 * On top of that, remember that the game also assumes considerable changes in US and world history after the end of WWII. So I think you could assume that anything built after, say, 1950 in the area might have been built differently in this alternate history. Wunengzi 00:20, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

I always thought Arefu sounded like a phonetic spelling of RFU, like Radio Frequency Unit...what we used to call the adapters to hook up our atari or genesis through the coaxial port on the old school TV sets. Then I read about the real place called Arefu. --Namelesswalaby 20 Jan 2010 1456hrs

Arefu gets its name from a crumbled sign that should have said C AREFU L 78.148.1.185 12:26, March 29, 2010 (UTC)

Arefu Where: 104 miles northwest of Bucharest / 11 miles north of Curtea de Arges Note: access by car only Next visit Arefu, where many of the villagers trace their ancestry back to the loyal minions of Vlad Tepes himself (in the movies, these are the ones who are always busy loading up Dracula’s coffins with Transylvanian earth). Legend has it that when the Turks attacked and took over the Poenari Castle in 1462, it was the villagers of Arefu who helped Vlad escape. Spend the night with the locals camping around a fire and listening to centuries-old folk tales. Homestays and B&Bs are available in Arefu and nearby villages.

http://www.romaniatourism.com/dracula-legend.html

Wiping out Arefu -- some enemies aren't.
I made the mistake of trying to sneak into the vampire base, not realizing that they would immediately attack even if I was not hostile and had my weapon holstered. So, I ended up killing the whole lot and freeing the captive afterward. He seemed OK with that.... at least he didn't attack me or scream at me.... but after he left I was told that he and everyone else in Arefu were now hostile to me. That's a bit odd, after freeing their prisoner and killing the Family that was harassing them, but... whatever. Much later, I went back there to settle accounts with them. It was quite easy to snipe them from a distance (especially since I'd completed The Pitt and was using the Perforator) and all of them showed up as enemies in VATS, but on shooting two of them, I lost karma (100 points each). I'm not sure exactly which two, but Brailee Ewers was almost certainly one of them. Wunengzi 00:44, December 18, 2010 (UTC)

Should i list The Family as factions? I'm kind of undecided on this one but i added it anyway.

More Cowbell :) 16:40, August 18, 2011 (UTC)