Jury Street Station
This location is located almost directly west of Vault 101. A marker appears on the PB-3000 screen after completing the "Museum Spoils" mission at the Polytechnic Museum in downtown Washington, D.C. It's home to Dot's Diner, where poor Prime's body is discovered, the Golden Ribbon store, several abandoned buildings, and a radio tower. Activating the latter will cause it to broadcast the "Oscar Tango" signal in Morse code.
The Golden Ribbon store is a fascinating demonstration of the game's physics capabilities, featuring a working Rube Goldberg machine. According to Webster's Dictionary, the term "Rube Goldberg machine" is defined as a specially designed, technically overcomplicated device "that performs by an extremely complicated, roundabout means a task which is supposedly or actually capable of being performed very simply"... phew!
In a number of other cultures and languages, the same semantic load is conveyed by terms such as usine a gaz, "chindogu," "Pythagorean switch," and so on. The machine is launched to seize otherwise "unattainable" trophies on the body lying on the second floor to the left of the store entrance.
It's recommended to save your game before experimenting with the installation, as the Machine doesn't always work properly, and even if it does, not all the loot drops successfully on the first floor. So, method one (activating the Machine): follow the arrows to the left of the entrance and step on the pressure plate.
Then: a battering ram with a skull on the end will go off and – collapse a long row of boxes of washing powder – another pressure plate will go off – activate a tarring machine and – push a fire extinguisher right onto a bear trap and – it will snap shut and tear off a bunch of grenades, which – will fall and explode and – ignite a gas cloud from a faulty generator, which – will reach the second floor – will push a child's skateboard into the hole in the floor – and onto the floor will fall (ideally): several grenade launcher charges, a nuclear charge, "Nikola Tesla and You," Tumblers Today, and the skeleton of the former owner of all this stuff. Yep. Yeah. And who has it easy these days?
Method two: shoot the fire extinguisher from a safe distance or throw one of the grenades from the defused bunch into the gas, or the easiest way is to shoot the edge of the skateboard with a JJJ hunting rifle. The result is absolutely the same, just the thrill is not the same.
Besides the very thing we worked so hard for—countless boxes of laundry detergent and sugar bombs, and various small items. Incidentally, despite its insignificance, this location is a place where numerous encounters can occur. I could witness various scenarios: a battle between a Brotherhood Outcast patrol and five Raiders, a clash with Talon Corporation mercenaries, a yao guai attack, and so on.
Dead Man's Signal: If you head west at the intersection and turn south toward the radio mast, you'll find a manhole cover on the asphalt near the last house on the right, leading to a small sewer. In fact, the sewer disguises the entrance to a small pre-war bunker.
In the sewer's technical room, you can collect a number of trophies, including a Large Science Book, a pre-war book, non-radioactive chewing gum, and lozenges. On the table is an amateur radio station broadcasting the very same "Oscar Tango." The walls of the room are covered in Raider graffiti, but the Raiders themselves are not visible until the hatch in the floor leading directly into the bunker is opened with a wall switch. Then, two Raiders rush from above, responding to the noise.
Inside the bunker are the skeletons of two original inhabitants, the Raiders' victims, as well as a bed and several bottles of beer. Several trophies can also be found in the surrounding area, including a nuke on a shelf on the second floor of the hayloft halfway from Vault 101, the "Illustrated Guide to Fist Fighting," a Lying, a Congressional Style, and a nuke in the Calverton Church southwest of the location.
The Raiders' main habitat is the tunnels of Jury Street Station. Besides bandits, it's home to mole rats and Ryan Brigg, a man who disguises himself as a Raider but is actually creating the recipe for Amazing Meat—a combination of mole rat meat and amazing glue. Brigg lives deep in the tunnels, in a room with a friendly mole rat named "Pumpkin," a machine that produces Amazing Meat, and a large supply of his own meat, mole rat meat, and amazing glue.
His notes can be found in two terminals on the way to his room. A locked safe in his room contains random loot (weapons and ammunition). The location is named after the real-life Judiciary Square Metro Station in Washington, D.C.
Source: stopgame.ru, Orcidea
See also:
Fallout 3: Underworld
Fallout 3: The Mall and its environs
Jury Street Station