Fort Defiance, formerly known as 阿利根尼精神病院, is a location in the Cranberry Bog region of Appalachia in 2102. It is located west of Watoga and east of the monorail elevator, on the edge of the boundary with the Savage Divide.
Background[]
Originally built in the mid-19th century to provide treatment for the region's mentally ill, based on the theories of Thomas Story Kirkbride. The Kirkbride Plan maintained that the environment which provided natural light and circulation was essential to the healing of the mind, and so adopted a unique, "bat wing" floor plan with wings sprawling outward from the central building and used to house the patients. The building was intended to care for under three hundred patients, but even exemplary planning and performance by the staff was insufficient with occupant numbers closer to three thousand by 2061. The resulting horrible conditions in the hospital were amplified by neglect on part of the personnel and caused undue suffering for the patients.[1]
The truth of the conditions at the Asylum was revealed in an expose by Eleanor Tarquin of the Charleston Herald, who volunteered to go undercover and learn the truth - following the trail blazed by Nellie Bly with her landmark investigation of the Women's Lunatic Asylum of Blackwell's Island. A month spent in the facility revealed horrific mistreatment: Many of the asylum patients may have been misdiagnosed and institutionalized without a significant presence of mental health issues. She reported that patients were kept restrained for long periods of time in tight confines with other patients. They had breaks from this imprisonment only for treatment, meals, and sleep. Treatment was largely forcing patients to be immersed in ice cold water. Basic needs were fulfilled at the lowest possible criteria, with no process for patients to request humane accommodations for things like vegetarian meal plans or additional blankets.[2]
Before she could commit her experiences to paper, she still had to be released from the Asylum. In Bly's case, it was a relatively simple matter organized by her paper. However, Tarquin's editor had to file multiple times for her release from the institution into his care. Apart from putting the daring journalist through unnecessary misery, it also indicated that family members who were willing or able to care for relatives in the facility were left in the cold because they were unable to pay for fees associated with the release procedure. The intent of Miss Eleanor's assignment was to remain in the facility for ten days, but even with aggressively documented and funded attempts to release her, she remained in the facility for a month - all the while any interested individual could pay the hospital for a guided tour of the facility. Ostensibly this was intended for doctors and health professionals, but this was not always the case: Family members were not allowed to visit patients unless they could pay for this expensive and secretive "Lunatic Tourism" offering, and there was no guarantee that they would be able to see their family member without paying additional fees.[2]
Once the article was released, the revelation of the Asylum being used by its management as a money-making scheme and the abuses perpetrated in the name of "healing" forced its closure. However, although the Asylum closed down on March 17, 2061, the effect on the patients' welfare was marginal. Patients who didn't qualify for a move to Watoga's facilities were discharged en masse with only a perfunctory attempt to contact their living relatives. Hospitals and doctors throughout the region were suddenly overwhelmed with all of the cases that they had quietly swept away over the years, and unsurprisingly some just swept them away again.[2] This caused a massive swell in the region's homeless population, resulting in a public health crisis - swept under the rug by Watoga and the rich as a problem that did not affect them.[1]
As for the people responsible for these heinous acts, like Doctor Kessle and the rest of the hospital administration? No charges were pressed against them, even as the already high population of homeless, itinerant workers in the region swelled. The stigmatized mental patients were further victimized by the endless media coverage about the threat that they posed to the region.[3]
The Great War saw the closed-down Asylum gain a new lease at life for a few months, as a field trip organized by Clara Duran, the history teacher from Watoga High School, became the new tenants. The Asylum was still fully furnished, with numerous facilities to ensure its self-sufficiency, including a water treatment plant, dairy, and of course, strong walls with intact windows providing shelter from the deadly Appalachian winter.[4] By January, having survived the winter, the former Watogans were looking at a brighter future thanks to intense training, a dairy cow captured the previous year, and even some chickens. They were even starting to make forays into other survivor communities to trade the chem stock found at the Asylum for essential supplies. Barring domestic issues, things were looking good.[4]
Their luck ran out in March 2078. The fledgling collective was attacked by a group of raiders from the bog town north of Watoga, killing the dairy cow and all the chickens for meat, then taking off. The Allegheny survivors split into two groups in the aftermath. One half left for Monongah, unwilling to continue working with Watogans. The other half, uniting behind Duran, decided to make a break for Harpers Ferry and beyond to look for survivors there.[4]
The Asylum lay abandoned for several years, until the Appalachian Brotherhood of Steel moved in to secure the premises, in order to use the building as headquarters for their expanding organization. Renamed Fort Defiance, it served as headquarters for the newly-established Appalachian branch of the Brotherhood of Steel.[5] It continued to thrive, eventually becoming part of the front line established to contain the scorchbeasts. However, Defiance has fallen, not due to a lack of martial prowess, but due to the Brotherhood's reluctance to work together with the Responders and Free States. Isolated from the rest of Appalachia, Fort Defiance fell in a daring last stand on August 18, 2095. Its bounty would lay undisturbed until 2102 and the emergence of Vault 76 dwellers.[6]
Layout[]
Exterior[]
The outer courtyard contains a large fortification surrounding an automated surface to air missile and a sonic generator which must be defended during Line in the Sand. The guardhouse at the gates contains a fixed hunting rifle spawn, while the dead paladins within will typically carry weapons and have another weapon spawn by them. The entire area is filled with feral ghouls and Scorched.
Interior[]
Fort Defiance's interior consists of four floors with the fourth one only accessible through an elevator protected by a laser grid which is unlocked by completing Recruitment Blues and obtaining a military ID card.[7] The right wing is infested with feral ghouls and is mostly in disarray because the Brotherhood never decided to repair and clear out that section. A wendigo spawns in the room with the breaker panel.
The main entrance leads to the hallway flanked by two offices for the staff (and the Brotherhood after the takeover). Until the player gains access to the Brotherhood areas, they can only explore the derelict southern wing of the Asylum.
The southern wing encompasses three floors filled with the remnants of the asylum's dark past and the survivors who tried to make it their home. Among the derelict cells is a power switch that activates the doors leading into the northern wing of the facility, which was used by the Brotherhood of Steel as headquarters. The three floors include numerous storage rooms, personal rooms, and workbenches.
However, the top floor, where Paladin Taggerdy's office is located, is inaccessible until the player becomes a member of the Brotherhood of Steel during Recruitment Blues. The final room, containing the Paladin's chambers, does not become available until the player locates Taggerdy's ID in glassed cavern during Belly of the Beast.
Scorched occupy the outside of the building while feral ghouls occupy most of the first and second floors while the third floor is infested by multiple radroaches and a few ants as well as multiple bloodbugs and possibly bloatflies and mole rats. The real danger of this area however is the upper floors which are patrolled by a wendigo that can sometimes stray to the bottom floors.
值得注意的物品[]
- Fasnacht Man mask - In the second left room in the hallway to the right through the double doors on the second floor.
- Power armor chassis with T-series armor pieces - On the fourth floor at one of the two power armor stations.
- Three mini nukes:
- On the third floor, on the bottom row of a metal shelf with a footlocker above, in the locked armory room near the overseer's cache.
- Two on the fourth floor, in the locked armory near the overseer's cache, on the middle row of a metal shelf.
- Fusion core - Can be found inside the locked armory on the third floor.
- Potential Vault-Tec bobblehead - Inside Paladin Taggerdy's room, on a desk, located behind the laser grid on the fourth floor.
- Potential magazine - On the top floor of the Brotherhood base of operations, in the game room with the pool table to the right of the laser grid, on the ornate side cabinet.
- 设计图：兄弟会侦查步枪 - 大门旁边的终端机下载。
- 辐射极琉矿动力装甲设计图 - 从4楼坦格蒂圣骑士的终端机学到，就在有激光栅栏的房间里。
- 冒险营武器室钥匙 - 四楼东南角的房间，手术台车底层。
- 冒险营储藏室钥匙 - 门口进来左边第一个房间，角落的柜子上。
- Plan: Artillery - On Paladin Taggerdy's desk, located behind the laser grid on the fourth floor.
- Potential plan - On the large tool chest on the third floor with the crafting stations.
- Two potential recipes:
- On a table with a coffee maker inside the mess hall just inside the sealed Brotherhood of Steel section on the first floor.
- On the fourth floor, on a table in the middle of the kitchen.
- An armory full of level-dependent weapon spawns is right next to the third floor elevator door, requiring either lockpicking or hacking a level 2 lock/terminal.
- Potential armor mod - On the fourth floor, in the same room as the power armor chassis, on a cabinet with a large toolbox.
- Large quantities of aluminum and ballistic fiber.
Holotapes and notes[]
- 兄弟会档案库：ARP背景 - 四楼厨房旁边的寝室里。
- 克雷儿·杜兰的笔记77/11 - 三楼医院区东侧走廊的金属桌子上。
- 克雷儿·杜兰的笔记77/12 - 上述笔记旁边的房间桌上。
- 克雷儿·杜兰的笔记78/1 - 同上区域，走廊尽头的房间里，附近地板是塌陷的。
- 克雷儿·杜兰的笔记78/3 - 二楼医院区东侧走廊的卧房里。
- 德西尔瓦的侦查报告 - 大门进来左手边第一个房间桌上。
- 麦克森长老的最后对话 - 四楼伊丽莎白·坦格蒂的房间桌上。
- 大门警卫入门 - 钉在要塞外头院子大门边警卫室墙上。
- 医院报告：员工事件 - 大门进来右转第一个房间桌上。
- 医院报告：暴力事件 - 一楼医院区一个可以从二楼塌陷地板跳下来的房间桌上。
- 我是骑士 - 四楼电梯对面的寝室。
- 最后的雷霆 - 四楼的寝室。
- 没有卫星了 - 三楼电梯附近的房间。
- 出不去 - 同上。
- 瓦托加行动 - 三楼兄弟会区域修补工作台附近。
- 监管人日志：阿利根尼 - 三楼电梯旁监管人库房。
- 监管人日志：反抗要塞 - 四楼电梯旁监管人库房。
- 保存科技 - 三楼电梯附近。
- 感应器模组规格 - 四楼有动力装甲工作台的房间里。
- 格兰特学士的请求 - 一楼刚进去兄弟会区域的布告栏处。
- 核子选项 - 四楼坦格蒂圣骑士的房间。
- 台球桌规则 - 四楼休息室墙上。
- 驱逐通知 - 有四张散落在要塞院子大门前。
注释[]
- 最终据点 - A note that's pinned to a bulletin just off the front entryway.
- 任务099-01指令 - A folder that can be found on a dresser in the bedroom next to the kitchen on the fourth floor during Heart of the Enemy.
- 伊芙琳扈从的日记：第16页 - Can be found in a bunkroom on the third floor.
Appearances[]
Fort Defiance appears only in Fallout 76.
幕后[]
反抗要塞回原了现实西维吉尼亚州韦斯顿的Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum，又称作韦斯顿州立医院。
Gallery[]
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.jpg "FO76 Fort Defiance (Fasnacht Man mask).jpg (3.12 MB)")
.jpg "FO76 Fort Defiance (Hospital report. Staff incident).jpg (2.3 MB)")
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