Riverside Manor is a location in the Forest region of Appalachia in Fallout 76.
Background[]
Constructed in West Virginia overlooking the drained Summersville Lake, Riverside Manor stands as a memorial to the fading grandeur of Appalachia's old money. Its only known owners were the members of the Rivers family: Frederick, Shannon and their daughter Olivia in the late 21st century.
Unknown to the American public, the Rivers' home has a secret: a vast high-tech facility in the basement, designed by Frederick as an impossibly grand gesture to help his wife prepare for her role as the fictional superheroine, the Mistress of Mystery for the pivotal Silver Shroud TV serial, including acquiring a custom RobCo computer mainframe called Cryptos that was originally built for the Defense Intelligence Agency to outfit the facility as the "Hall of Trials" in order to help Shannon get into her physical prime, efforts that initially seemed for naught after backroom corporate deals led to the role being given to a younger actress.
Headquarters of the Order[]
In the immediate aftermath of the Great War in 2077, the basement facility served as a protected shelter for the Rivers, safeguarding them from radiation as well as the disintegration of society.
Over time, as Shannon realized the potential of a protective persona like the Mistress, she and Frederick worked to turn their home into a functioning base of operations, becoming the nucleus of the Order of Mysteries. The Hall of Trials became the foundation of the Order's ability to take young girls orphaned in the apocalypse and turn them into trained assassins, dedicated to protecting the people of Appalachia by eliminating threats such as raiders and super mutants. Advanced fabricators helped provide functional outfits and weapons for the growing Order, with Frederick as their gadgeteer support.
By late 2286, following Olivia's rampage and the slaughter of numerous Order members after they uncovered her betrayal and siding with David Thorpe's raiders, the manor was vacated and abandoned with the Order's disintegration and the deaths of Olivia and Shannon during their confrontation at Seneca Rocks.
Layout[]
Situated south of the Charleston Capitol Building, Riverside Manor is a large manor house built near the banks of the now-dry Summersville Lake. Down the road to the west are three Pulowski shelters which hide a secret elevator to the Riverside Manor basement. A large fountain sits in front of the house and stone lion statues flank the stairs to the main entrance. Rhododendrons and soot flowers grow in the garden. The eastern wing of the house containing Olivia Rivers' former room is connected to the main house via a second-floor walkway, with the driveway passing underneath the walkway. There is a man-made pond with a small dock and a boat near the entrance to the east wing. The pond contains some snaptail reeds.
A large portrait of Shannon Rivers in her role as the Mistress of Mystery is the centerpiece of the manor's foyer. A set of stairs leads up to the second floor and directly east of the foyer is a sitting room with an upright piano that hides a secret entrance to the basement. The rest of the first floor contains various living areas, a laundry, and a kitchen and dining area containing a pool table and grand piano. There is a locked (Picklock 2) pantry in the kitchen which contains a refrigerator and some spices.
The second floor contains several bedrooms and a study. The master bedroom is directly opposite the top of the main staircase and features an ensuite and walk-in wardrobe containing a locked (Picklock 3) safe. Down the corridor to the east is Olivia Rivers' room which is destroyed, save for her terminal which is locked and requires her login details to access. The corridor to the west leads to a study and some guest rooms. A set of stairs on this floor leads to the roof. The roof houses some junk, a toolbox, and a locked (Picklock 2) safe.
Facility[]
The Order of Mysteries facility is accessed through the parlor room. To open it, one needs the worn veil (found on dead women with a black dress and two green chevrons on it; there are twenty of them and the closest is in the wine cellar of the Hornwright Summer Villa). After reading the entry on the study terminal describing the facility, the folding screen on the left corner of the parlor will pull back and reveal a corridor leading downstairs. Past the laser beams and the fake wall is the Order facility.
The facility is centered around the Cryptos mainframe in its heart, which is used to obtain promotions and advance the quest. There are two main floors to the facility. The upper floor contains the infirmary on the north side, with a chemistry station, terminal, and a locked safe, the council chamber with a terminal on the southern side, and the Headmistress' office in the western corner. The headmistress' office requires Mistress-level access, which requires completing Seeker of Mysteries.
The lower floor contains the production wing on the south side, together with the fabricator terminal (used to manufacture Mistress gear) and three crafting stations (armor, weapons, tinker's). On the west side is the hall of trials (defunct), with a dressing room next to it. On the northern side is the depository (storage room). The long corridor to the northwest leads to a chamber with several Pulowski Preservation shelters. The Pulowski Preservation shelters outside of the manor are secretly elevators into the basement. Once Into the Mystery is completed, simply activating the door while inside of the shelter will teleport the player character into the basement, but a worn veil or Veil of Secrets must be equipped to pass the laser grid. Using these shelters bypasses the Scorched inside and outside of the manor but mole rats spawn near the shelters.
Notable loot[]
- Holotapes and notes
- Order of Mysteries - Production log 194 - Holotape, in the lower southern room on the fabrication terminal.
- Order of Mysteries - Production log 209 - Holotape, in the same room, next to the weapons workbench on crates.
- Order of Mysteries - Production log 212 - Holotape, in the same room, next to the weapons workbench on a terminal.
- Order of Mysteries - Rank: Initiate, Order of Mysteries - Rank: Novice, Order of Mysteries - Rank: Seeker, Order of Mysteries - Rank: Mistress - Holotapes, dispensed by Cryptos.
- Order of Mysteries - The Blade of Bastet, Order of Mysteries - The Phantom Device, Order of Mysteries - The Voice of Set, Order of Mysteries - Cryptos holotape - Holotapes, also dispensed by Cryptos.
- Order of Mysteries - Council recording - Holotape, on the council chamber terminal.
- Order of Mysteries - Infirmary log - Holotape, underneath the manor in the infirmary accessible from the password-locked terminal.
- Collectibles
- Two potential Vault-Tec bobbleheads:
- On the second floor, along the west wall of the corner bedroom.
- On the second floor, on the bureau outside the master bedroom.
- Four potential magazines:
- In the small laundry room close to the south exit onto the back porch, placed vertically between the washing machine and suitcase.
- In the northeast corner of the library, next to the dark red leather sofa, with an upturned coffee table in front of it, on the lowest bookcase shelf.
- On the second floor, in the corner bedroom, in the open green footlocker at the foot of the bed.
- In the upstairs guest bedroom, on a desk next to the guest bedroom terminal.
- Other loot
- Veil of Secrets, Garb of Mysteries, Blade of Bastet, Voice of Set, Phantom Device - Obtained from the fabricator.
- Fusion core - Sitting on a cart with a microscope in the basement near the weapons workbench.
Appearances[]
Riverside Manor appears only in Fallout 76.
Gallery[]
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