Hole in the wall gen?

[holmdt]

Part way threw the quest I saw a Little pill in the right hand side not wearing any PW what is its meaning?

[steventirey]

A little red pill icon? That marks a debuff of some kind. Since you specified Hole in the Wall, that would likely be the Mole Rat Disease, which is scripted to be applied to you whenever a mole rat there hits any creature at all with its melee attack. Doesn't have to be you. Could be a companion, the robot, or another mole rat. Still applies the disease to you.

The only way to get rid of the mole rat disease (the only effect it gives you is -10 hit points) is to take the medicine you get, but that will also cause the child to die.

[Xenon The Noble]

You lost about 9 points due to Mole rat disease. Should have let Austin die and use the cure on yourself.
Those 9 points bought Sole Survivor:

• a room in the vault with a bobble head stand.
  
• Vault 81 people are less hateful, some even seem to like you a bit, at least for being their useful idiot.
  
• Curie as a companion if you want it. This gets you the opportunity to try for +10% stimpacks companion perk. Which, if you max out the medic perk, is useless (yes, I've played with 110% stimpacks)
  
• SS get one of his/her fusion cores back
  
• Austin says thanks and runs off.
  
• The Syringe rifle. I guess if the sleep Syringe works you can shoot the really big enemies and then use the kill 'em while they sleep perk. Never tried it cuz the real reason SS goes to vault 81 is to buy the Overseer's Guardian.

I mean, they're going to hate you if you use the cure on yourself, but they hate you anyway. You're not really losing anything, they just hate you more.

I've always taken the disease and saved Austin, because I play poorly.

[wtiger27]

There is a console command to give you a extra serum cure for the Mole Rat disease.

player.additem 00055F10

It is also possible to do the entire run without ever getting the disease. I have done it twice. The most recent, the run I am on now. On Very Hard. Save often and try not to rush thru it.

As others has stated, do not take a companion with you.

[holmdt]

To late. Dogmeat went with me. I stopped just after I picked up the piece of paper with the password on it. I did read about the console command and will use it because I like Austin. Even if he did not run in a strait line and I filed that part. In my defense I never lost site of him. I hope I still get my room and caps.

[Xenon The Noble]

Originally posted by wtiger27:

There is a console command to give you a extra serum cure for the Mole Rat disease.

player.additem 00055F10

It is also possible to do the entire run without ever getting the disease. I have done it twice. The most recent, the run I am on now. On Very Hard. Save often and try not to rush thru it.

As others has stated, do not take a companion with you.

Yeah, it's possible to save Ken in the Silver Shroud quest too. I can't save Ken and I can't escape Molerat covid.

[holmdt]

The phone rang and I missed were the overseer told me were my room was. I will keep looking but there are other things I would like do. Any know know where it is?

[Protoman]

Off the elevator, go into the next room, and to your left. It's the room across the Depot (where the guy is sweeping with a broom and his wife is selling stuff).

[DouglasGrave]

The disease is technically a temporary thing that you could wait out except that its duration is something like 999 days (I don't know if that's game days or real-world time).

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Xenon The Noble:

Originally posted by wtiger27:

There is a console command to give you a extra serum cure for the Mole Rat disease.

player.additem 00055F10

It is also possible to do the entire run without ever getting the disease. I have done it twice. The most recent, the run I am on now. On Very Hard. Save often and try not to rush thru it.

As others has stated, do not take a companion with you.

Yeah, it's possible to save Ken in the Silver Shroud quest too. I can't save Ken and I can't escape Molerat covid.

Saving Kent is even easier. Have a charisma of 9 or above and then tell them to attack you first before killing Kent during the conversation. Tough fight on Very Hard, but I did it on this run.