So, you joined the Brotherhood of Steel, but you didn't get a membership card, or even a handshake? Do you feel like a hired gun? Want somewhere to hang your hat in knightly style?

Ladies and Gents, I give you...The Annex. This is mainly a house/companion mod, but it adds quite a bit of content to various parts of the game, just to enrich the overall experience, and tie the DLCs to the main game a bit more. This includes quests both marked and unmarked, and little hooks into the game lore and back-story. Your new companion blends into the backdrop of FO3, and the Annex itself changes to reflect your adventures. As your character becomes more powerful, The Annex goes from being a bare-bones squat to a high-tech Palace fit for a post-apocalyptic overlord like you!

This mod adds new ingestibles, new collectibles, skill magazines (of a sort) and a lot of crafting and concocting options I can't begin to enumerate here. The best way to enjoy this is with a new or young character. If you really want the spoilers, you can look at these detailed articles:

Data Terminal (May contain spoilers)

• New Ingestibles


• Companion Dossier


• Reading Materials

PLEASE ENDORSE if you like it. It's pretty much all modders get for their efforts.

If you are having issues with this mod, please check the F.A.Q. and comment there if you don't see your issue.

Content Overview

• A lore friendly player home in the Citadel, for characters who have reached the appropriate stage of the game
• A new companion with a unique background, dialog, and abilities
• Throwback items from past/subsequent Fallout games
• New ingestibles
• New marked and unmarked quests
  

House Features

The Annex is a partially renovated area on an upper floor of the Citadel. Once used by Dad, the Annex is now yours! This area is lore-friendly, fits in the Citadel environment and has dynamic lighting due to the number of windows. During the course of the day, the lighting will change. Due to holes in the structure, the outside environment is visible from the inside, and the interior is reasonably matched to the exterior for better immersion. NPCs with sandboxes for their free time will study, eat, sleep, wander and work on projects.

Integration with MajorKrupps' Historical Action Figures Mod

Collect historical trinkets and items and display them in your home.

Upgrades for Sale

Purchase upgrades to enhance your home's appeal, including a vintage Nuka Cola fridge, and armor display mannequins.

Weird Science!

Your home evolves as you do. Use your personal mainframe to begin new research projects, unlocking crafting options and adding new gear to your kitchen, laboratory and armory as your character becomes more powerful.

Personal Touches

Your home comes equipped with a treasure vault, lab area, master suite, guest room, dining area, Kitchen and many display surfaces, storage options, dynamic trophies, and Bobblehead Stand. Enjoy a bottle-washer and sink to refill water bottles, and other modern conveniences!

Privacy Options

Containers marked as “My” such as “My Trunk” are for your use only. You also have the option of locking the Master Suite and Kitchen doors, so that companions loafing in your home don't eat all your chow and drink all your booze!

New Companion Features

This mod is companion friendly, and adds new dialog options to Dogmeat and Star Paladin Cross, allowing you to dismiss them to the Annex, rather than their previous rally points. Quality 3rd party companion/follower mods should integrate nicely.

This mod also adds a new recruit-able voiced NPC with a unique background and flavor. It may or may not remind folks of a companion from years past. This is NOT another generic milquetoast follower, trust me! To say too much would spoil it, but if you need to know more, see this article on the subject, recovered from an Enclave terminal:

http://fallout3.nexusmods.com/articles/21/

This NPC can be found in the Taft Tunnel area. If your game has progressed to the point that the Enclave have already appeared, you may go back into this area and locate him. As you will learn, this character has an agenda of his own. But win his trust, and you will have no truer friend in the Wasteland.

• Tactical Intelligence: Companion will not charge in if you are sneaking near enemies and undetected.
• New perks: The companion has special abilities commensurate with it's background, and confers a FO:NV style companion perk on the player.
• New companion quest and voiced dialog
  

This new NPC is NOT a cute under-age Asian girl in crotchless panties. It doesn't wear Sailor Moon stockings, and won't have sex with you. It will however fit in the Fallout universe, and rip enemies into tiny pieces.

Requirements

This mod requires all five Bethesda DLC add-ons, as well as this fine resource for collectible objects by MajorKrupps, available here:

http://fallout3.nexusmods.com/download/84918

Details of this mod and possible conflicts:

http://fallout3.nexusmods.com/mods/17676


Be sure to get the MASTER, not the plugin.

All other required masters have been included. You need to activate them all. I suggest placing the .esp file for this mod fairly low in your load order, and after MMM for sure.

Credits

Mannequin Textures: AndyW1384
Vintage Nuka-Cola Fridge: x BattleHeart x
Cat's Paw Magazine Textures: CptJoker71
Mutfriut Resource: d_ivanov


Note: NO ASSETS from prior or future Fallout games have been used in the making of this mod. Any such game items have been re-created by myself or other modders.

This mod may place a load on older machines, though I have done what I can to keep the performance up, so it may not. YMMV. I am happy to help fix bugs, if they are reported politely and completely. This mod has been tested, cleaned, and bit-flipped for better NPC pathfinding.


To Install

Uncompress the contents to your data directory. Ensure you have MET THE REQUIREMENTS. Activate all masters and The Annex.esp.

ALWAYS use the latest .esp file prior to starting up the mod. It will keep your saves cleaner.


Enjoy!