Mentats (Fallout)

Mentats are a chemical substance found in Fallout, Fallout 2, Fallout Tactics and Van Buren.
==Characteristics==
Mentats are most useful for characters with low Intelligence. Furthermore, they are one of the games' more valuable items yet are relatively easy to find. This also makes them useful as an easy source of funds, particularly when first starting.
===Fallout 2===
The +1 to Charisma can allow recruiting another companion if the new Charisma is an even number. The new member will stay once Charisma returns to the normal value.
Mentats are roughly a little bit less common than Buffout: a bit hard to find and a tad expensive, but nowhere near as rare as Psycho. However, the overall usefulness of Mentats, aside from being able to recruit additional companions, is a bit dubious. Even doubling up on Mentats will only increase a few skills marginally and is far more situational.
==Locations==
===Fallout===
* One in a locker in the storage section on level three of Vault 13.
* One can be found on a shelf in Killian's room in the Darkwaters.
* Sold by Mitch in the Hub.
* One on the shelves in a locked room at the Children's hospital in the Hub.
* One, hidden on the ground, in the Necropolis motel.
* Two can be found in a locker on level 3 of the the Glow.
* Lorri at Lost Hills carries two of these.
** One in the locker behind her.
* Carried by Talius.
* Sold by the shopkeeper in the Cathedral.
* One in a bookcase in a room in the Cathedral..
===Fallout 2===
World location 	Closest map marker 	Location description
Vault City 	Council building 	Joanne Lynette
Redding 	Painless Doc Johnson's 	Doc Johnson
Broken Hills 	Unknown 	Bookcase
Broken Hills 	Broken Hills Residential 	Eric
Broken Hills 	Broken Hills Residential 	Dan
Broken Hills 	Broken Hills Residential 	Professor
(Quantity: 5)
New Reno 	Renesco's Pharmacy 	Merchant: Renesco
(25% chance to restock 1 Mentats after 2-5 days)"Renesco Store Box" scripting file
Sierra Army Depot 	Level 4, bio storage and research	On the ground of "Genius Experiment Cell"
(Quantity: 3)
Sierra Army Depot 	Level 4, bio storage and research	"Lector's Office"
(Quantity: 3)
Vault 15 	Vault 15's entrance 	Khan raider
Mariposa Military Base 	 	Locker
San Francisco 	Flying Dragon 8 	Merchant: Lao Chou
(50% chance to restock 4-8 Mentats after 2-4 days)"Lao Cho's stock tables in san Fran" scripting file
San Francisco 	Jenna's general store 	Merchant: Jenna
(50% chance to restock 4-8 Mentats after 2-4 days)"Tanker Merchant's Table" scripting file
San Francisco 	Cal's gun shop 	Merchant: Cal
(50% chance to restock 4-8 Mentats after 1-2 weeks)"Tanker Gun Merchant's Table" scripting file
Random encounters 	See caravan master 	Merchant: New Reno caravan masters
(Quantity: 1-4)
Random encounters 	Rave party 	Rave party bartender
Various 	Various 	Sometimes carried by Enclave soldiers
Enclave Oil Rig 	Enclave Oil Rig trap room puzzle 	Possible "easter egg" reward
Environmental Protection Agency	Unknown 	Mr. ChemmieEPA design document
===Fallout Tactics===
* Inside a chest in a tent in Brahmin Wood.
* Hermit special encounter.
* Trader special encounter.
==Behind the scenes==
* 
* According to the Fallout Demo, the Mentats were syringes.Syringe graphic comparison of the two graphicsItem description in the demo: "A syrige filled with mind-altering drugs. Increases memory related functions, andspeeds other mental processes. Highly addictive." The Fallout and Fallout 2 graphic's filename SYRING2 reflect this.
==Gallery==
Fallout-SYRING2Demo.png|Mentats in the Fallout Demo
MentatsTactics.png|Mentats in Fallout Tactics
Icon FoT Mentats.png|Icon in Fallout Tactics
;Fallout
Vault 13 canteens lockers.png|Vault 13, level 3 store room
Shelves2 Darkwaters.png|Darkwaters
Leather armor Hub church.png|Hub hospital
Meds Necropolis motel.png|Necropolis motel
Lockers The Glow level 3.png|The Glow, level 3
Meds Dr Lorri Lost Hills.png|Lorri
Meds The Cathedral.png|The Cathedral
; Fallout 2
Sierra Depot experiment log disk.png|Sierra Army Depot, level 4
Fo2 lockers2 L2 MMB.png|Mariposa Military Base, level 2
==References==
Non-game
Category:Fallout consumables
Category:Fallout 2 consumables
Category:Fallout Tactics consumables
Category:Van Buren consumables
Category:Med-Tek Laboratories
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