I started by taking the trip from Sanctuary to Medford Hospital on foot. I knew I hadn't been walking around Sanctuary for a while so I might run into a few things. The first place I stopped was Thicket Excavations because I never got around to fixing Sully's pump. I have the perk where I take no rads when swimming and can breathe under water (aqua boy I think) so that was easy. From there, Nick and I headed further east towards the Malden area only really encountering a few re-spawned ferals at the railroad junction near the drive-in and lots of Radstags. Eventually we found the Wildwood Cemetery which had a lot of ceramic in vase form but there was only 1 Raider there. After climbing the hills past the cemetery, we found a trailer with a sentry bot parked in front. This was my first time having to fight one and it took 4 or 5 tries. Those things are tough. I resorted to laying down frag, cryo, pulse and plasma mines with a bottlecap mine next to a car as my fallback. I finally was able to lure him to the car but poor Nick was caught in the ensuing blast.
Just over another hill from the trailer was the hospital but the nearby lake or damn was infested with bloodbugs. I died once here while being swarmed by 6 of them. We made it into the hospital after that and were able to clear it of all the super mutants and find the tech Haylen wanted. We fast traveled back to the Cambridge PD where I put on my Vault-Tec lab coat to get the most out of the XP from Rhys and Haylen. Just completing a mission for each of them took me from barely above level 27 to 3/4 of the way to level 28.
From there, Nick and I left for Goodneighbor and I was determined to finally have Kellogg's brain-piece examined. We met Hancock upon entering and then Daisy and KLEO. After selling what we didn't need, we found Dr. Amari and starting to re-live Kellogg's memories. A trip to the Glowing Sea is inevitable. Just before leaving Goodneighbor we stopped inside the Third Rail. We met Magnolia (who I went on my first "date" with) and then MacCready. I also ran into the Vault-Tec Rep in the hotel after my date so I sent him to Sanctuary.
Just before dismissing Nick, he gave me the Eddie Winter quest and two holotapes. I already had a couple from the Malden Police Station and somewhere else, maybe Cambridge PD. At that point I was full of supplies so MacCready and I fast traveled back to Sanctuary. I put the Vault-Tec Rep to work at the Drive-in with Nick and I had hit level 28 wooing Magnolia which I put into Armorer 1.
It was a pretty successful session but I've opened more than I closed. I received new side quests from Rhys (National Guard) and Haylen (Blood Clinic), I opened the Eddie Winter quest, I have to find Virgil in the Glowing Sea, and I still have not visited Finch Farm for Preston. In fact, we ran into Preston at Sanctuary and he asked me to clear Taffington Boathouse and somewhere else that I forget now. Needless to say, I still have a lot to do and I'm loving it.
