Into the Ark

/// - Its my very first mod, that's what !

This is a "New-Land" mod. It brings you up the old rail lines from Washington D. C.; to Philadelphia, PA; to Newark, NJ; etc. Feel free to explore the new land! Meet the people! Find the new items! There will be many quests that you encounter before you reach the end.

/// - YOU CANNOT GO BACK TO D. C. UNTIL YOU FINISH THE MAIN QUEST LINE

Make extra saves if you don't want to be stuck there. This will give you a few hours of game-play. It's a rough estimate because the people I've watched have taken drastically different lengths of time. Your character build directly affects the game. Your race/sex/SPECIAL/Perks will change dialog options, attitudes, and even objects and locations. For now, this is mostly seen in dialogue changes, but in future versions will be more pronounced throughout the game.

Also, if you feel confused as to what to do (or maybe there is no map marker) perhaps you should change quests. You will often have three or more open quests that you can jump between. This is intentional.

/// - What does this change ?

This only adds a tent outside the citadel with a NPC, and adds a train tunnel to the North West, near the tunnel to Pennsylvania. In the end, it adds a way to go back and forth just outside Canterbury Commons. After that, everything else is added. New lands, new NPCs, new items/weapons, new quests, new friends, etc. As of now, there are no new textures that affect the game. Vanilla or otherwise.

/// - What am I doing here ?

The simple answer to that is your first quest: Find a connection to New York City. However, in order to do that, you will need to locate the illusive "Ironbound Recluse".

From there, you will find yourself between two warring pre-war colleges. Well, it's a bit one-sided. Institute J, as it's become known as since the Great War, has devoted its services to advancing medicine and engineering for the betterment for the general population. They are peaceful researchers and doctors. On the other side is what has become known as "The Rut". The Rut is inhabited by raiders who would sooner tear down their own base than cooperate with Institute J. And subsequently, they have. Thus the giant rut in the ground.

There is also the Ironbound to the South East. A safe haven of Asian Americans, they are unknowingly the targets of the Enclav