This quest is a simple 'follow the leader' quest that will guide the player character across a small area near Outpost Zimonja, starting at a house by the railroad tracks. Upon taking the note at the house, the player must follow a trail of Quantum splatters on the ground until they reach a hunting camp with another note. Once the player takes the note and Manwell rifle, they will be guided to a nearby pond with a few irradiated barrels nearby. Pour a bottle of concentrated Nuka Quantum into the pond, then hide in a nearby brush and wait for the Quantum radstag to appear. Once it appears, the player character can either kill it or feed it the second bottle of concentrated Quantum and send it to a settlement to end the quest.
If spared, the Quantum radstag will be marked as a settler. Killing the Quantum radstag in a settlement will cause any nearby settlers to turn hostile, and companions will give the usual reactions that they would if one killed a normal settler.
Quest stages
Quest stages
Stage
Status
Description
Log Entry
5
West of Outpost Zimonja I found a note left by a hunter. Evidently he and his son were hunting a Quantum Radstag at a nearby pond. I found the corpse of the hunter and some bait for the stag. Beside him was a trail of quantum blood. I can follow it to find the stag.
The northern part of the Commonwealth has always been full of dense forests and wildlife. While the trees are barren, perhaps there's still some game worth hunting.
Following the trail, I tracked the beast down to his watering hole, and filled it with the hunter's bait.
90
Kill the Quantum Radstag
Following the trail, I tracked the beast down to his watering hole, and filled it with the hunter's bait before hiding in the brush. The Quantum Stag then took the bait and I was able to kill it.
100
(Optional) Feed the radstag more Quantum
Not wanting to harm the stag, instead of killing the beast I fed the animal more Concentrated Quantum.
Notes
Codsworth and Curie both like giving concentrated Nuka-Cola Quantum to the Quantum radstag.
After looting the stag hunter's corpse, one can go directly to the hunter's campsite.
