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Enter Broken Hills and go south to the building guarded by shotgunners. Talk to the man in the cap and offer to shovel brahmin crap for five days to gain experience, a speech skill bonus, and $500.

Head east and speak with the minigun-wielding super mutant. Inquire about Broken Hills and the town's situation. Offer to find the missing people for free.

Go to the jail. Enter sneak mode (hiding) and use lockpicks found in Navarro on the northernmost cell door while the mutant guard is not looking. Open the cell and talk to the man in the cap. Decline his offer to blow up the mine, which will anger him.

Leave the jail and inform Marcus that the escaped convicts were planning to blow up the mine. You will receive experience.

Head east, then northeast to the farm and speak with the spore plant. Offer to move it to the old ghoul's home for experience. You will need a shovel.

Go southeast to the building with the scientist and the radscorpion. Offer to test your perception, agility, and intelligence against the scorpion. You gain experience if you succeed. To pass the perception test, you need six perception; for the agility test, ten agility. To defeat the radscorpion, you must have planted the spore plant in front of the ghouls' home. The plant will reveal a special move to defeat the radscorpion in chess. After defeating it in chess, it will attack; move away and end combat to receive significant experience.

Go to a house on the western part of the east side, inhabited by a ghoul. Offer to divert more power to his home.

Head west to the power station (west of the general store). Use the 'Science' skill on the computer to divert power and gain experience.

Return to Eric's home to receive your reward.

Go to the house east of the old ghoul's home on the east side. Speak with the worried man whose wife is missing and offer to find her.

To find the missing people, go to the southwest part of the eastern side and enter the small shack. Descend into the sewer. Kill any critters for experience. The dead bodies are in the northeastern area. Examine the body labeled "young Broken Hills woman" and take the letter. Read it, then climb a ladder to the surface.

Return to the worried man's house. Inform him of his wife's death and her involvement in a conspiracy to kill all mutants.

Go northwest to the building next to the mine and speak with Zaius, the mine foreman. Ask about available work; he will request an air purifier from New Reno.

Go to the west side and enter the bar. Speak with Francis (south of Marcus). If you have high strength and luck, you can arm-wrestle him for experience and a power fist. Losing makes you his gimp for the night. Inform him about the note and tell him to leave, gaining experience.

Speak with Marcus and tell him about the missing people. He will give you a scoped hunting rifle if you agreed to find them for free, or $500 if you did it for cash.

Head to New Reno.