Continuing on in Fallout 3, I headed back to Megaton and started doing some quests for some annoying woman putting together a guide to surviving in the wasteland, which involved heading to a nearby supermarket and clearing it out of bandits. It’s a sign that I’m finally getting better at surviving that I can take on a group of them now, albeit not all at once.

After that it was mainly just some exploration, discovering the area of Grayditch, taking care of the super mutants with the missile launcher I mentioned earlier (a tough fight, but there were only two of them and I could dodge the missiles), and I went back to the Springvale school, where I’d earlier been chased off by bandits.

This time I was able to clear the outside and inside of the school of bandits, and cleared out an ant nest underneath the school as well. Allegedly there’s another Vault down there somewhere, but I can’t figure out how to get up this ledge I saw. I guess I’ll have to come back later.

Between the supermarket and the school, I’ve been able to collect a fair bit of equipment, sell off a bunch of it for bottle caps, and repair my weapons and armour enough that they shouldn’t be in danger of falling apart for a while. I’m still only level 4 now, but my survivability is gradually getting better and better.