Wasteland captive

Wasteland captives are imprisoned humans captured by super mutants. They are found at super mutant encampments throughout the Capital Wasteland during 2277.
==Background==
The captives are wastelanders held prisoner by super mutants. During the quest Big Trouble in Big Town, humans from Big Town are captured by super mutants and held in the Germantown police HQ. These humans have been captured to be used as food. While in the building, a super mutant can be overheard conversing with Shorty, a captive who is about to be killed. The human asks why he is to be killed when there are plenty of human remains available surrounding them.Shorty: "You freak! You're going to eat me, aren't you? There's plenty of body parts laying around, why don't you eat those instead?"(Shorty's dialogue) The super mutant jailor reveals that they prefer their food to be from a fresh kill.
Uncle Leo, a friendly super mutant, suggests that captives could be used to create more super mutants.The Lone Wanderer: "You said "before I became this." What did you mean?"Uncle Leo: "Maybe you don't know where we come from. Super Mutants, I mean. We aren't born this way. We are created. In the cold, dark, metal place, where my brothers bring their captives, endlessly trying to make more of us. It was something I could not do. I tried to get them to stop. But they wouldn't listen. They would have killed me if I had not run away."(Uncle Leo's dialogue) Other super mutants remark that they need more new recruits to transform into super mutants using "green stuff."Super mutant: "This is boring. We should be collecting more humans. We need more of us! The bucketheads have killed too many... Have you found green stuff? I haven't found any. Ever. Maybe it's a lie. Maybe we're wasting our time. We could be out killing..."(Super mutant's dialogue)
==Interactions with the player character==
===Interactions overview===
===Other interactions===
* Releasing captives results in a Karma boost. If one frees a captive, they will express gratitude and offer some food, Rad-X, or ammunition. If one accepts these supplies, they will receive 50 Karma points and the supplies. Telling them to keep it will result in 75 Karma. There is no Karma penalty for leaving the captive to their fate. Karma is not lost for killing a captive. If surrounding enemies are not cleared out before freeing a captive, they could be killed while escaping.
* If one ignores a captive or chooses to leave them to their fate, a new captive will respawn along with new super mutant guards if revisiting the location. However, if one frees the captive, or if the captive is killed, no new captives will appear in that location.
==Locations==
* A captive is located north of the Anchorage Memorial, in a tent behind the trucks, guarded by a leveled super mutant and two centaurs. If escorting the captive after freeing them, they will run to the northwest of the map near Fort Constantine and will keep running beyond the northern map limit, remaining at a rock formation.
* There are two captives at clifftop shacks which is north of Minefield and west of Vault 92. This area is also the site of a 'Type B' random encounter, which may lead to a battle between the spawned encounter and the super mutants, potentially resulting in harm to the captives.
* A captive located at the eastern highway entering the city, accessible by progressing from Friendship Heights to Farragut West Metro station, enclosed in the city walls. The captive is guarded by a super mutant and centaur. 
* One is at the Hallowed Moors Cemetery. Up to six super mutants and traps are found surrounding the captive.
* A captive is at Mason Dixon Salvage surrounded by about eight super mutants.
* There is a captive between Mason District South and Hubris Comics guarded by six super mutants.
* There are two captives in the Roosevelt Academy escape tunnels and maintenance section.
* One is halfway between the Jefferson Memorial and Rivet City, on a boardwalk at super mutant bonfire. Three to six super mutants may be present. The mutant at the top holding a minigun stands next to the captive. Once freed, this captive runs up the Jefferson Memorial catwalk past the irradiated metro across the bridge, then past the Citadel, follows the road past Alexandria Arms, and stops next to a bus opposite the raider camp next to the flooded metro. After a while, they will disappear.
* There is a random encounter in which two super mutants are holding a captive that can be rescued. The encounter may spawn at 'Type A' encounter sites near either Vault 87 or outside the Germantown police HQ.
==Inventory==
==Notes==
* If one chooses to follow and protect a captive, they will eventually stop and do nothing, offering no other interactions with the player character. Their actual destination is merely a pre-programmed arbitrary location on the world map, sometimes beyond the normal map borders, and there is no benefit or reason to actually escort them.
* Captives may be heard sobbing quietly.
* Wasteland captives remain in the game files of Fallout: New Vegas.
* A wasteland captive may appear in the ending slides.
==Notable quotes==
==Appearances==
Wasteland captives appear only in Fallout 3.
==Bugs==
 A captive may, at times, not have ropes around their wrists while still acting as if they do. 
==Gallery==
FO3 wasteland captives.jpg|All wasteland captive models
FO3CaptiveA.jpg
FO3CaptiveB.jpg
FO3CaptiveC.jpg
FO3CaptiveD.jpg
FO3CaptiveF.jpg
FO3CaptiveG.jpg
FO3CaptiveH.jpg
FO3CaptiveE.jpg|Template model; not seen in-game
Wasteland captive Anchorage Memorial.jpg|North of Anchorage Memorial
Wasteland captive clifftop shacks.jpg|Clifftop shacks
Wasteland captive2 clifftop shacks.jpg|Clifftop shacks, in a shack
Dead wastelander Friendship Heights.jpg|West of Friendship Heights
Wasteland captive Hallowed Moors Cemetery.jpg|Hallowed Moors Cemetery
Wasteland captive Mason District.jpg|Mason District
Wasteland captive Mason Dixon Salvage.jpg|Mason Dixon Salvage
Wasteland captive1 Roosevelt Academy ME tunnel.jpg|Roosevelt Academy
Wasteland captive2 Roosevelt Academy ME tunnel.jpg|Roosevelt Academy
SMH captive.jpg|Super mutant bonfire
FO3 bad karma endslide 6.jpg|Wasteland captive and super mutant in an endings slide
==References==
Category:Fallout 3 human characters
Category:Wasteland characters
Category:Mesmerizable characters
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