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This is a walkthrough of the A Valuable Lesson side quest in Fallout New Vegas (FNV). Read on to learn how to unlock A Valuable Lesson, where to find Festus, the quest rewards, and the best dialogue choices for completing the A Valuable Lesson side quest.
List of Contents
A Valuable Lesson unlocks as soon as you complete the previous side quest The Legend of the Star.
The Legend of the Star Side Quest Walkthrough
| Objectives | |
|---|---|
| 1 | Go to the Sunset Sarsaparilla Prize Vault |
| 2 | Defeat the Protectrons |
| 3 | Drop Down the Ceiling and Go Through the Double Doors |
| 4 | Collect Allen Marks' Items |
After completing The Legend of the Star, make your way to the Sunset Sarsaparilla Prize Vault to collect your prize. Exit the room through the northern door and enter the door directly in front then climb to the second floor through the hole in the ceiling.
Upon getting up the hole in the ceiling, there will be Protectrons in the hall. Take them out then take the first left.
Continue straight down the hall until the last room and down down the ceiling through the hole then open the double doors to get to the prize vault.
Head to Allen Marks' body on the left corner of the room and collect the items off his body which include a holotape and the unique weapon Pew-Pew. There are also chests in the room you can loot that have varying amounts of bottle caps. This side quest concludes after you pick up the holotape.
| Rewards for Completing A Valuable Lesson |
|---|
| ・1500 XP ・Pew-Pew |
| Basic Information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
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| Location | Quest Giver | Coordinates | |
| Sunset Sarsaparilla Headquarters | Festus | 2.17 | |
| Difficulty | Follower | Reputation | |
| ★★★☆☆ | - | None | |
| Anywhere I Wander | Back in Your Own Backyard | Bitter Springs Infirmary Blues |
| Boulder City Showdown | Can You Find It in Your Heart? | Climb Ev’ry Mountain |
| Eye for an Eye | Flags of Our Foul-Ups | Hard Luck Blues |
| I Don’t Hurt Anymore | I Put a Spell on You | Keep Your Eyes on the Prize |
| Left My Heart | Medical Mystery | No, Not Much |
| Pressing Matters | Restoring Hope | Return to Sender |
| That Lucky Old Sun | There Stands the Grass | Three-Card Bounty |
| You Can Depend on Me |
| Cold, Cold Heart | I Hear You Knocking | The Finger of Suspicion |
| We Are Legion |
| Beyond the Beef | Birds of a Feather | Bye Bye Love |
| Classic Inspiration | Debt Collector | G.I. Blues |
| How Little We Know | Talent Pool | Wang Dang Atomic Tango |
|
Ant Misbehavin’
(Boomers) |
Sunshine Boogie
(Boomers) |
Volare!
(Boomers) |
|
Young Hearts
(Boomers) |
Eyesight to the Blind
(Brotherhood of Steel) |
Still in the Dark
(Brotherhood of Steel) |
|
Tend to Your Business
(Brotherhood of Steel) |
Ghost Town Gunfight
(Goodsprings) |
Run Goodsprings Run
(Goodsprings) |
|
Aba Daba Honeymoon
(Great Khans) |
Don’t Make a Beggar of Me
(Great Khans) |
Oh My Papa
(Great Khans) |
|
Come Fly With Me
(Novac) |
Booted
(Powder Ganger) |
I Fought the Law
(Powder Ganger) |
|
Why Can’t We Be Friends?
(Powder Ganger) |
|
ED-E My Love
(ED-E) |
For Auld Lang Syne
(Arcade Gannon) |
Heartache by the Number
(Cass) |
|
I Could Make You Care
(Veronica) |
I Forgot to Remember to Forget
(Boone) |
Nothin’ But a Hound Dog
(Rex) |
|
One For My Baby
(Boone) |
| A Valuable Lesson | Bleed Me Dry | Crazy, Crazy, Crazy |
| Guess Who I Saw Today | My Kind of Town | Pheeble Will |
| Someone To Watch Over Me | The Coyotes | The Legend of the Star |
| The White Wash | Unfriendly Persuasion | We Will All Go Together |
| Wheel of Fortune |
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