Human Error mission and moral choice (spoiler, of course)

[Falaris]

Well, darn it.

I'm with Dan standing before the Doctor, and I'd kind of decided to, for once, let the doctor continue doing her thing.

I heard the screams of the tortured on the way, and the psycopath Blythe listening to the concert of screams for fun. The girl begging for her life. Well, sheet.

Accept the deal or not... nope, no deal. *sigh* Again.

These guys has tortured and killed lots and lots of people. They find people they suspect are synths, and interrogate/torture them until they've gotten all they can from the test, then kill and dissect them to see if they were right in that being a human or a synth.

Now, that will also result in having to fight covenant... or does it? Actually, it doesn't - I never have to go near there again. With the project shut down, they should stop abducting people for the Compound, and at least some there were trying to help people.

Now, Amelie is a synth. Fair enough. She's escaped through the railroad (thus her asociation with Stockton and cover as his daughter), hasn't killed anyone as far as I know, and does not know she is a synth anymore.

What did you guys do?

[ⒸⒶⓁⒸⒾⓊⓂ]

I kill them all and kill everyone in covenant

[Zee_]

I kill the doctor nice and slow with a bleeding switchblade, just hit her every now and then to make it last longer, sadly Honest Bob (or whatever his name is, I haven't paid attention to his name the last couple playthroughs) will usually help her have a faster death than she deserves. Then I go and clear out Covenant and send my known synth settlers there to live out there lives in peace, for a nice sense of irony.

No regrets about taking out the mayor and the guards, they were all in for the project, a couple of the other residents I feel for, since at least a couple of them were having doubts about what they were doing was right. But with all of the Covenant residents being so quick to start firing on the player you have to figure they would likely start firing on whoever happened to come from the direction of the compound, so by clearing out Covenant, you're likely saving a few more innocent lives... well... innocent lives by Fallout standards.

[DrNewcenstein]

First time I let the girl go. Second time I let them kill her and had to kill Dan. 3rd time I let her go and she died on her own while exiting the compound and Dan went bananas on me and died in the water. I never did find out what happened to cause this, but that was it.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

I kill them all, but spare covenant because the town isn't really implicated the same way. Yeah, it means I lose out on a perfectly walled settlement, but whatever, I have my Vault 88.

[DrNewcenstein]

It's not that great of a settlement anyway. Even if you build it up and replace the turrets and bring people in, it's just not worth it. You can only build upwards, and then you're limited to the existing rooftops, which aren't that high.

And they're definitely in on it. The chick with the store, the mechanic chick, the "mayor", the gate dude, and the guy who just moves from chair to chair. The people who do actual work may or may not be directly involved, but most seem aware of it.

[IronSquid501]

My first time I didn't wanna kill anyone in the town as there was two unique traders, but the settlement is kinda bugged with the unique NPC's so it's best to destroy it anyway

[lp0rc]

I've not had any qualms whatsoever in putting down the Doctor, and of the residents of Covenant, the only ones that bug me are the engineer and the trader.

The engineer shows not so much as a true believer but as a PTSD case with a heart in the right place. I feel bad about putting her down, but hey, she fires on me first.

The trader, although showing no outward signs other than some gossip, is noted from terminal entries from her own peers as being more focused on the business than the mission. She also fires on me first, which is sad because I think she has a greater calling as a trader than for the mission. Then I remember that a lot of her merch is the less traceable goods from abductees, and I don't feel that bad anymore.

The doctor in town actually came from the compound and resents being in Covenant rather than doing the important work.

If you don't take out Covenant, I'd imagine the town doctor would start up the program again and the Mayor would keep doing his thing.

I always spare Deezer and the cat, they are the only beings in town that don't go hostile. I wish I could get Deezer and Dr Goodfeels together.

[Zee_]

Yeah, I always take care to avoid damaging Deezer (free lemonade for life! now I just need to know where he finds these so called lemons...), and as a general rule I don't kill cats.