some people have a hard time gettting out of vault 101 so i found this


After starting a new game, an intro scene commences. Then you witness your character's birth, where you have the first of two opportunities to choose a name, gender, race and customize his or her appearance. The sex you choose can change dialogue options with NPCs, but other than that gender has no significant impact in the game. After you are finished with your appearance you begin your first quest, Baby Steps.

Baby StepsMain article: Baby Steps
Simply a basic instruction on how to move and interact with the environment. Just follow the instructions, escape from your stall, select your attributes in the S.P.E.C.I.A.L. book (you will get another chance to change those at the end of Escape!). Following your father out of the room will end the "quest".

Growing Up Fast
Your birthday partyMain article: Growing Up Fast
Your father greets you at your 10th birthday party and is shortly interrupted by the Overseer who gives you your Pip-Boy 3000.

After you have received your Pip-Boy, walk towards Amata and she initiates a conversation with you. She gives you Grognak the Barbarian as a present (which you can read immediately). Next, talk to Stanley to receive a Pre-War Baseball Cap. Then talk to Old Lady Palmer and she give you a Sweetroll. Once Andy has destroyed your birthday cake, Butch DeLoria demands the sweetroll, leaving you with various choices to deal with the situation. If you get in a fight it is broken up by Officer Gomez and Butch gets in trouble.

Shortly after, the intercom rings and once your Dad has answered it he lets you know that Jonas has a surprise for you down on the Reactor level. Exiting the room where the party is being held, turn right down the hall, and then make the first left. Signs direct you towards the reactor, where Jonas is waiting. He asks you why you are down there, apparently making a joke. After a brief dialog, Dad comes down and gives you your surprise, a BB Gun with 50 BB's, which you can try out on a couple of stationary targets and a Radroach. After you kill the Radroach your father will tell Jonas to take a picture of you and him, simply stand in front of your dad and the camera flash will throw you into six years later.

Future Imperfect
G.O.A.T.Main article: Future Imperfect
The quest starts with your Dad talking to you about the G.O.A.T. you will have to take in class today. Head through the door (do not forget to grab the Bobblehead - Medicine on your dad's desk), or wait for Jonas to walk through the door. Head straight out to the Hall and turn right to get to the classroom.

You will encounter Amata being bothered by the Tunnel Snakes. This your first opportunity to earn either good or bad karma, depending on whether you choose to help Amata, do nothing or make things even worse for her.

After the encounter, follow the other kids into the classroom and approach Mr. Brotch. If you select certain options in this conversation you can skip the G.O.A.T. entirely and select your skills. Otherwise find a seat and sit down as you are told, answer all the questions and when you are done turn in your test. You get pre-set tag skills based on your results but you can change them to whatever you want by speaking to Mr. Brotch after the test. Leave the classroom when you are done.

Main questsEscape!
Vault 101's exitMain article: Escape!
Sweet childhood, gone so soon... You are woken up by Amata who fills you in on the situation: Your father is gone, her father is crazy, Jonas is dead, all the guards are out there looking for you and the vault is infested with radroaches. Time to grab your stuff and get out of here. According to her, your best chance is to make it to the Overseer's office and use her father's secret tunnel to the vault exit. Also before you leave your room be careful to take supplies from your room, you can be quick to forget that there is a first aid box behind Amata as you wake up, it contains 10 Stimpaks. Also to your left there is the BB Gun and the 50 BBs, plus there is a baseball, a baseball bat, and a catchers mitt. Plus there is a trunk even more to the left containing a Vault 101 Utility Jumpsuit which gives +5 in the "Repair" and "Lockpick" skills.

Once you are out of your room, head to the left. After a bit you will encounter Butch. Your favorite childhood bully wants you to help his mother who is being attacked by radroaches, and will reward you with a Tunnel Snake Outfit and good karma. Continue up the stairs, go past Officer Gomez and through the door to the Atrium.

When you enter the Atrium you witness the not very successful attempt of two vault dwellers to follow your father's footsteps out of the vault. You can kill the guards but the door behind them is locked beyond your lockpicking abilities. Go through the door next to the entrance corridor and up to the second level. Follow the signs to the Overseer's Office. After an encounter with the Security Chief you eventually hear the Overseer interrogating his daughter about your whereabouts. You can either get the Overseer's office key to enter his office or else pick the lock. There are various ways to get the key such as killing him, pickpocketing him, threatening to hurt Amata if he does not comply or simply finding the key in a locker in his room which is just across the entrance to his office. Once inside the office, log into his computer and open the secret tunnel. Don't forget to check the lockers in the overseers office, there's 120 10mm bullets in one of them. The password to the computer is in one of the lockers on the right hand side wall.

Follow the tunnel until you reach a door. Use the switch on the right wall in the small room on the other side. Go through the hole in the wall and into the large room, walk past the stairs and use the control pad. Sirens go off and the vault door opens. Amata comes down and says goodbye, promptly followed by a pair of guards trying to kill you.

Then you are home free to the Capital Wasteland. Upon leaving the vault, you have a last chance to change your stats, skills, gender and appearance before walking into the sunlight for the first time in your life.