Plik's Safari

Plik's Safari is a side quest in the Fallout 3 add-on Point Lookout.
==Quick walkthrough==
==Detailed walkthrough==
When first entering the coastal grotto, there is a small room on the right which contains Plik's journal (on the desk), and some minor loot. Reading it awards the Ghoul Ecology perk, which gives a 5 point damage bonus when fighting ghouls. Plik is located further down the hallway, and offers a chance to join his small hunting club, but only if paid the entry fee of 1,000 caps. Pay the fee, and ask to join in the next safari.
===Join the safari===
Enter the door behind Plik, and meet the other contestants for this hunting excursion, Jacob Humboldt and Rip Smithy. After preparations have been made to begin the hunt, flip the switch on the block in the center of the room.
===Survive Plik's Safari===
Several waves of leveled feral ghouls, ranging from swamp ghouls to glowing ones will begin swarming the platform and immediate area. Jacob and Rip are hardly worthy allies, and will usually perish during the onslaught if not heavily supported. 
Wearing the ghoul mask does have an effect on the quest. Initially, the ghouls will not be hostile towards any of the contestants. However, upon attacking one ghoul, all ghouls will become immediately hostile to everyone, including the one wearing the ghoul mask. There is no Karma penalty to killing the non-player character battle mates as they are able to be killed in the hunt, as well. 
==Reward==
The Dismemberer and 100 XP. After the last feral ghoul stops breathing, the safari is over. Walk out, and talk to Plik to receive the reward: The Dismemberer, a unique axe Plik pilfered from one of his club members who "won't be needing it anymore."
==Quest stages==
==Notes==
* The Ghoul Ecology perk can be obtained by reading Plik's journal which one can find on a desk in his room.
* Plik can be killed, with his corpse containing The Dismemberer, as well as roughly 1,500 caps. 
** If Plik is killed before triggering the quest, he will not have the The Dismemberer on his corpse.
* Before hitting the switch to start, it is possible to leave and re-enter the room without having to pay another fee.
* If Jacob Humboldt and/or Rip Smithy do survive, they will disappear upon exiting the safari.
* The safari is repeatable every few days. Repeating the safari costs 500 caps but has no reward other than the minor loot the ghouls have and the experience points.
* Killing Plik for a "money back guarantee" won't result in a Karma loss, and he drops a finger if the Lawbringer perk is active.
* If the Lone Wanderer wears the ghoul mask, the ghouls will not attack either the player character or Jacob or Rip, because they are classified as companions (and as such considered by the game to be wearing the ghoul mask if the player character dons it). If the Lone Wanderer attacks the ghouls while wearing the mask, the ghouls will only attack the player character. Jacob and Rip will just stand/walk around without being attacked or helping the player character.
==Behind the scenes==
Plik's Safari was described by developer Joel Burgess as his "pet project" on Point Lookout.Fallout 4 Point Lookout Mod with Joel Burgess and Nate Purkeypile (1:22:20)Kenneth Vigue: "So, Plik's safari, who created Plik's safari, and uh, more importantly, who voices Plik?"Joel Burgess: "Yeah, yeah, this is... for better or worse, this is all me. I really wanted to do this, this was a little bit of a pet project for me on the side. So I did all the scripting and set up the cell, but... oh Christ, this line... so yeah, I wrote this character. And I remember like, we were debating whether or not we were gonna do it or if we could support it and this, that, and the other thing. And so it's like a little bit of an open question. Y'know, again, it was a short project, we have this thing in, and we get to the voice sessions. And the voice actor comes into studio and is sitting with the audio engineer and the voice director and, y'know, does all the lines for Desmond, or basically he comes in and does 'ghoul' voice type. And Plik was originally meant to be voiced by the same actor. A lot of times during direction you'll give the actors like, 'hey, just like, do this character with a Southern accent.' So even though it's the same voice type, they'll put in an inflection on it. So all of Plik's lines were on a few sheets of the script, and those sheets just like... didn't make it into the booth. So like, the day wraps up and the voice recording is finished, and y'know, the actor goes about their life. And we get the VO lines back, and it's like, 'welp, we don't have anything for Plik and we don't have pickups.' Right? Pickups are the term for when you have a voice actor come back. So I went in the booth and it's... awful. Like, the original lines for this are me just doing my best impression of Grover wishing he had Robitussin. It's just bad, bad ghoul voice acting. But hey, it made it in and I'm happy it's there."
==Bugs==
* If ghouls stop spawning you may be stuck in the cave; you can solve this by using the "Resurrect" command in the console on the ghouls' corpses and then killing them again. After doing this, ghouls should start to respawn (and attack you) again. 
* Occasionally when you enter the area, Plik may be running up and down the cave. He will never leave, so this isn't an issue, just inconvenient. 
* Jacob and Rip will not be attacked by ghouls, nor will they attack ghouls themselves during the safari. 
==See also==
* Safari membership card - A cut item which did not make it into the final version of the quest.
==References==
Category:Point Lookout quests
es:Safari de Plik
ru:Сафари Плика
de:Pliks Safari
uk:Сафарі Пліка