Curie III

Mother Curie III is the leader of a small cult living in the Holy Light Monastery in Springvale in 2277.

Background
Mother Curie III is a former Child of Atom and Megaton local who took Megaton's entire Aqua Pura shipments and began irradiating it and distributing it as holy water to fulfill her perceived religious calling to spread radiation. She firmly believes that she is doing Atom’s will and helping the world grow, and they find that consecrated Aqua Pura is actually much more potent than any other “dirty water.” She has prepared a rich and varied history to read to her “flock.”

In the basement of her newly adopted home, she preaches to a pair of ghouls, and in the lower part of the basement she stores vast amounts of Aqua Pura along with a pair of tame feral ghouls: a feral ghoul reaver named Atom's Champion and a glowing one named Sun of Atom. <!--

I have to go now. Thank you for choosing wisdom over violence.

Dialogue paths not taken.

Dialogue whose parameters escape me

SpeechChallengeFailure You can't trick people into enlightenment. They have to accept it knowingly. You judge what you do not understand. By introducing them to Atom's Light, we are saving them from a life of misery.

Topic GREETING

Topic GREETING Oh, my! I wasn't expecting a pilgrim to our shrine! We're hardly prepared for visitors, I'm afraid. And you didn't come here with peaceful intentions, did you? Oh, poor Brother Gerard. He was rather too strident, but he deserved better than that. But that's no excuse for rudeness, now is it? I'm Mother Curie the Third, and I lead the Apostles of the Eternal Light. Why have you come to us?

Topic GREETING My Lord. I can not bear to look upon your shining face... I am unworthy...

Topic GREETING We will spread our word without this holy water. The Light of Atom need not be spread through deceit.

Conversation HELLO Be at peace, dear.

Conversation HELLO Strive for the Eternal Light.

Conversation HELLO May Atom be with you, always.

Conversation GOODBYE I have to go now. May you know Eternal Light.

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Quests

 * Holy Water: The Lone Wanderer has the choice of persuading Curie to stop distributing the holy water to others, or stopping her by killing her and her followers.

Effects of player actions

 * Mother Curie III appears as a hostile feral ghoul reaver if Megaton is blown up after Broken Steel.
 * Although holding a .32 pistol, Mother Curie III is an extremely peaceful character, and does not become hostile if you killed Brother Gerard in order to enter the monastery, or even if you flat out tell her that you're going to wipe out her cult. If threatened, she simply states that she expected some form of religious persecution and that she refuses to respond to violence with violence. If you initiate combat against the Holy Light cult, Curie will simply cower and flee. Her feral ghoul reaver and glowing one followers, however, are not so forgiving and will attack.

Appearances
Mother Curie III appears only in the Fallout 3 add-on Broken Steel.

Behind the scenes

 * Mother Curie III's name is a reference to Marie Curie, an early pioneer of the study of radiation who subsequently died of radiation poisoning.