Water Beggars

Water Beggars is an unmarked and repeatable quest in Fallout 3.
==Quick walkthrough==
==Detailed walkthrough==
A lot of wastelanders are suffering dehydration and need purified water, which when given to them rewards the Lone Wanderer with positive Karma (+50). Denying them water causes them to die at the next map change, even if they were given purified water before. However, telling them to find their own water, and then giving them water is fine, and they live on. They do not die if they are not explicitly told to find their own water, however, and their death inflicts no karmic penalty on the player character. There are three eligible beggars: Micky, found outside Megaton; Carlos, found outside Rivet City, and Willy, found outside Tenpenny Tower.
With Broken Steel, Aqua Pura can also be given, with the same positive Karma reward. However, if the modified FEV was used to infect the water as part of Project Impurity, giving Aqua Pura will instead subtract 50 Karma. Furthermore, due to unfinished scripting, giving a beggar Aqua Pura (no matter whether it is infected or not) will kill them on the next map load; see below for more detail.
==Rewards==
* Karma +50
* Karma -50 (With modified FEV in Aqua Pura)
==Notes==
* Destroying Megaton during The Power of the Atom will remove Micky from the game. Furthermore, Micky is scripted to die during Holy Water if the player triggers a conversation scene outside the entrance of Megaton; this can be avoided by other methods in the quest.
* The wastelander never drinks the water they are given and it can be pickpocketed back.
* Ben Canning, a wastelander who appears in a random encounter, can be given purified water or dirty water in exchange for good Karma, but is not part of the same quest.
* Individuals can be heard saying that the beggars are scammers and trick people into giving them money.
* Despite the beggars stating that irradiated water now makes them physically ill, implying a high level of radiation poisoning, there is no option to present them with RadAway.
==Bugs==
Giving Aqua Pura to any beggar will cause them to die upon the next map load, even if the water was not infected with FEV. The beggars' script (WaterBeggarNPCScript) does not check for whether or not the water was infected, only whether they have a bottle in their inventory.
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