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For an overview of this item's appearances, see Tumblers Today. |
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Tumblers Today is a skill book in Fallout 3.
Background[]
Tumblers Today is a book containing information about the art of locksmithing or rather information of the latest in mechanical locks found in safes, footlockers, and doors. The information inside was intended for commercial purposes, but can be applied to picking locks as much as it can be applied to making locks.
Characteristics[]
Reading this book permanently improves your Lockpick skill by 1, or by 2 with the Comprehension perk.
Locations[]
| Closest map marker | Location description |
|---|---|
| Arlington Library | Media Archives: The desk flanked by two sets of microfiche readers in the room with the safe (it's the southern-most room) that is very close to the Children's Wing door. A battle with raiders may knock the book off the desk; check the floor if there is nothing on the desk |
| Broadcast tower KB5 | In the drainage chamber, on the floor in front of a locked door |
| Broadcast tower KB5 | To the west-northwest, in the ruins of a house occupied by raiders, on a shelf along the wall that is shared with a freezer filled with gore. It's next to the plates on the shelves. Note that a car exploding outside can knock the skill book off the shelf, making it very hard to find |
| Cratered hamlet | Inside of a bathtub in one of the demolished houses |
| Drowned Devil's Crossing | In the red truck trailer near the bridge |
| Falls Church | Southernmost office building, on a desk. In the room with the bear trap |
| Falls Church/Mason Dst Metro | In Franklin Metro Utility, on the lower floor to the right of the turret. It is on top of the average locked mine box |
| Flooded metro | Outside the southern map marker (West of Arlington Library), in the raider encampment. A copy is located on a raised platform, where the raider that carries missile launcher usually stands |
| Freedom Street station | On a table where the scavenger resides. Must be stolen |
| Germantown Police HQ | Basement: in the Average locked weapons closet |
| Jury Street Metro station | After completing the unmarked quest Rube's Gold Ribbon inside Gold Ribbon Grocers |
| L.O.B. Enterprises | East Wing on CEO's desk. Be careful if using explosives against the robots, as they may cause it to fly into the terrain |
| Mama Dolce's | At the Food Distribution section, in the dug-out basement, next to two locked safes (one average, one hard) and three upturned desks |
| Mason Dixon Salvage | On the floor next to the footlocker in the abandoned shack, the one that doesn't have the broken refrigerator inside |
| Meresti trainyard | In the Meresti service tunnel, on the table near Robert's bed (the guy who guards the entrance to the Family gang encampment). While it is amongst owned goods, the book itself can be taken without a Karma penalty |
| Minefield | In Gibson house, sitting in the office on the desk |
| Nuka-Cola plant | In the factory floor area, in the closet with the easy locked safe, in the room with the computer that has the shipping manifest |
| Roosevelt Academy | In the Arts and Athletics Hall, on a desk near a locked safe of the third floor |
| Shacktown | Outside the center enterable shack. In a turned over refrigerator to the left of the door |
| Seward Sq. North Metro | In the sewer, which is northeast of the map marker. Near the debris area on the southeastern tunnel - the hidden stash note will lead to it |
| Sewer waystation | To the southwest of the sewer waystation is Talon Company camp, where the book is in the storeroom on a shelf |
| Smith Casey's garage | In the open safe behind the counter, located on the immediate right as one enters the garage |
| Tenpenny Tower | Southeast of the tower, on a bookshelf on the second floor of a wrecked building |
| Vault 106 | The science area: after going down both flights of stairs, there is a room to the right with two visible lockers. In the back of this room on the left |
| Vault 108 | Entrance floor in a small storage room adjacent to the malfunctioning generator. Behind several yellow metal crates is a metal ladder on top of which is a Nuka-cola Quantum, the book is under the ladder, may need to be knocked free |
Bugs[]
The Vault 108 location of Tumblers Today is bugged. The best way to get this book is to place a lot of frag mines (usually 15) on the closest corner of the previous room. With a frag grenade as trigger, the book should be blown to an accessible position (see [1]). Another way to access this book is by wedging an explosive under the stepladder to move it. This last method is an extremely trial-and-error prone process, as the collision box for the stepladder will prevent you from interacting with it in any way, including the 'grab' button, despite being clearly visible and close enough for taking. On the PC version, it is straightforward to gain access to this book by simply disable clipping (tcl) in order to gain access to the book. [verified]
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