Most Fallout 76 players visit the Mountainside Bed & Breakfast in Appalachia to grab loot and move on. It’s a popular spot for farming springs, with several clipboards, typewriters, and Vault-Tec Bobbleheads scattered across the area. But the location hides something far more sinister if players choose to stay longer.
When Fallout 76 players speak to the innkeeper, they can immediately tell that something’s off. She nervously asks if they’d like to rent a room for 5 caps, and the way she delivers the line feels very shaky and suspicious. If players accept the offer and go upstairs to sleep in the bed, it triggers a surprise encounter with cannibals. While the player’s character is sleeping, cannibals will come up to the room’s door and talk about how tasty the sleeper looks.
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Here’s How the Cannibal Encounter Goes
Once the cannibals arrive, players can choose to investigate the disturbance outside the door, and that unlocks several possible outcomes depending on their character build. If the player has the Cannibal perk equipped, a special dialogue option in Fallout pops up where they can threaten to eat the intruders instead. The cannibals freeze, realize they’ve just broken into the wrong dinner party, and panic. One of them mutters, “He’s one of us,” and the whole group immediately bails. Apparently, it’s only fun when they’re doing the eating.
For Fallout players with Charisma 12 or higher, a different option appears. They can convince the cannibals that there’s a nearby group of settlers who are way meatier and far less alert. The cannibals, apparently not the brightest bunch, fall for it instantly. They nod, thank the player for the hot tip, and politely excuse themselves to go hunt someone else. If the player doesn’t have either the perk or the stats or chooses not to investigate the creepy whispers, the encounter turns violent. The cannibals break into the room, and a close-range fight breaks out. After they’re killed, the innkeeper and her husband run up as well and become hostile, and players are forced to kill everyone to survive.
The Basement Makes the Encounter Even Darker
If players make it out of the encounter alive, they can head down to the basement of the inn. This area reveals what was really happening at the Mountainside Bed & Breakfast. The lower level turns out to be a prep room where cannibals stored their victims in preparation for consumption. The room is filled with grim details: surgical tools, a bloodied bucket, chunks of flesh, a dead body, and a meat cleaver sitting near the workbench. This confirms that the encounter wasn’t a one-time event. The inn was being used as a regular trap for unsuspecting travelers. The basement is also one of the few locations in Fallout 76 where players can find a Meat Cleaver as a throwable weapon.
Players Can Also Ambush the Cannibals First
With the right stats, players can kill the cannibals without ever having to sleep at the Bed & Breakfast. If they have maxed out Fallout Perception perk along with other high stats, a new dialogue option becomes available during the initial conversation with the innkeeper. Instead of going along with the offer to rent a room, players can press the innkeeper about her strange behavior. She becomes visibly nervous, hesitates, and eventually confesses what’s going on.
She explains that she’s not running the inn by choice. A group of cannibals has been forcing her to lure travelers inside, where they wait to attack while the victims are sleeping. At this point, players have a choice. If they want to avoid a fight, she quietly lets them leave. The ambush never happens, and no one enters the room. But for players who want to take action, there’s a second option. They can ask her to point out where the cannibals are hiding. She agrees, and this allows players to ambush and eliminate the cannibals in Fallout 76 before the trap is ever sprung.
Fallout 76
5/10
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November 14, 2018
- ESRB
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M for Mature: Blood and Gore, Drug Reference, Intense Violence, Strong Language, Use of Alcohol
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Creation