Forum:Skipping through the main storyline

ok so, after I finally got to Rivet City,(to find Doctor Li) i stopped with the main quest for a little. After exploring the wasteland i then found Little Lamplight, i got into it through the quest where you have to save thoes two kids from paradise falls. i heard about vault 87 being in Little Lamplight so i ventured in through little lamplight.

A couple of passageways and super mutants later, i realized i was in vault 87. Looking it up, the door to the vault is supposed to be locked. for me however, it was already unlocked. so, i decided it would be fine if i saved hawkes. i immediatley got an update for the G.E.C.K quest. Not 100% what to do, i followed Fawkes and retrieved the G.E.C.K. i still ddnt know where the original G.E.C.K quest came from. so it was a suprise for me when i was leaving that the enclave attacked me. after i killed many enclave soldiers and reached the presidents room, i refused to follow through with his plan and convinced him to destroy himself. i assume when i "activated" the poison that i threw it away cuz its not in my inventory and theres no quest for it.

so, and after i talked to the president and escaped, Fawkes wouldnt join me cuz i have really really bad karma. and since i never found and went into the "citadel" (brotherhood of steel) before, they wont let me in, even though when I first approached the "paladin" guarding it, he told me to go in quickly cuz there was a meeting. there was also another quest that told me to go to the jefferson monument and find my dad's purity project. but there are no entrances on the island. can anyone help me??

i would prefer to not have to restart cuz i like my guy and ive gotten pretty far with him and i don want to have to do every thing over again —Preceding unsigned comment added by Redd1 (talk • contribs). Please sign your posts with ~ !

Well if you have been chacking this post you made then this might help you although you probably aren't so you won't see this. You have managed to skip through over half of the main questline, which most of us have done the first time through accidently through exploring. In order to go back and do the main quest correctly you must reload a previous save from before you ventured into vault 87 or you can just keep playing and use the early power armor glitch to get into citadel. (Look it up on youtube it's the only way to get into citadel without going through the main entrance) The entrance to the jefferson memorial in located on the side of building towards the river Potomac it is very easy to miss single door that says enter giftshop. If there are big blue energy shields preventing you acess to the jefferson memorial then you need to do the glitch I mentioned above. That's pretty much it. It's a pain in the ass. LumberjackElf7 14:43, February 14, 2010 (UTC)