Adventure Twenty-Four: There's A Star Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere


 * There are unusual furrows in the concrete by the entrance of the gatehouse that indicate low-caliber firearms being shot from the inside. The damage is fairly recent.
 * P0P1 charges the gatehouse and crashes through the steel door (which was unlocked). There are dozens of super mutant bodies inside, a mix of the ones with and without helmets, that have been killed by gunfire.
 * Behind the front desk, a robot with a Sentry Bot behind it greets us, “Welcome to Poseidon Energy Beaver Dam.” It asks whether we are the dam inspectors, pest control, or Boy Scout tour group. Vania identifies us as pest control, and we are informed that we are over a century late for our appointment. The appointment date is well after the bombs fell.
 * The Sentry Bot, A48, guides us down into the dam, where we find a mirelurk colony. The Sentry Bot becomes suspicious of us, and Ruth shares her military credentials, causing the Sentry Bot to believe we are a surprise dam inspection.
 * Ruth pulls up the dam’s records and learns that it was supposed to be set up to deliver power to a US government facility at a separate location. Without power being stored, it has run low enough now that the spillway doors cannot open. One of the doors also has a mechanical error in addition to the lack of power.
 * P0P1 investigates the damaged door and sees that it bows inward due to some massive impact. The records indicate that this happened over 80 years ago, long before the power issue. Sentry Bot accesses the dam’s records and determines that there was a seismic event at that time.
 * We borrow the facility’s reserved nuclear power cores in order to provide enough power to open the spillway doors.
 * The Sentry Bot takes us on the rest of the inspection, culminating in a commemorative photo on top of the dam, after which it attempt to murder us to suppress the poor results of the inspection.