9 Best Video Game Quests Triggered At Random

4. Democracy Inaction - Fallout: New Vegas

One of the most interesting quests you can stumble upon in New Vegas’ wasteland concerns Vault 11.

If you don’t trigger this one by finding the front door you might come across it through the Brotherhood of Steel quest called Still in the Dark which also has you visit the vault. You’ll need to go into the atrium of the vault and access an audio log that tells you more about what went down there. You’ll battle your way further in and discover that the inhabitants had been instructed to sacrifice one person each year to ensure the survival of the rest. The small society then evolved to casting the overseer as the sacrifice. Voting blocs formed, manipulations ensued, a lot of murders took place as laws shifted through each administration, and finally only five people remained.

In the end, the survivors discovered that choosing not to sacrifice anyone actually caused the door to open which is, yeah, really depressing.

Given most players won’t see this quest coming at all since there’s a good chance you’ll just randomly happen upon it while trying to complete a different mission, it’s especially painful to unravel how it all went down.