Strength in Numbers Fallout 76 Quest
Group: Main Quests (Wastelanders)
You will receive this quest when you complete the "Hunter for Hire" quest. Duchess will ask you to help her find the two missing persons.
Track down Duchess' missing people.
Related points of interest
The Wayward
Appalachia / West Virginia
Gauley Mine
Appalachia / West Virginia
Summersville
Appalachia / West Virginia
Prior quests
To begin Strength in Numbers you must first complete Hunter for Hire.
Quest stages of Strength in Numbers
1. Speak to Duchess
Duchess will ask you to help her find the two missing persons - Sol and Polly. To find them you can use your radio to locate the transmitter that Polly has.
2. Tune to your Pip-Boy Radio to "Transmitter Signal" to track the guards
To find Duchess's missing guards, I'll need to tune my Pip-Boy radio to the "Transmitter Signal" station. That should get me pointed in the right direction.
3. Use the signal to find Duchess's guards
When you turn on the radio, the map will show where you should go.
4. Search the area for clues to the whereabouts of Duchess's guards
I found the source of the transmitter signal - a severed robot arm - but there's no one here. I should look around for any clues to their whereabouts.
There you will find the robot's arm, which was the source of the signal, and in the corpse lying next to it you will find the Gauley Mine Production Log.
5. Search Gauley Mine for Duchess's guards
I found a note on one of the Scorched corpses suggesting they came from Gauley Mine. Maybe Duchess's people are there.
Head to the Gauley Mine.
6. Speak to the wounded man
You'll find a wounded man in one of the mine corridors, this is Sol.
I found a man - alive but wounded - inside Gauley Mine. Could this be Sol? I should speak to him.
7. Find the other missing guard / Find Polly
I spoke to Sol and sent him on his way back to the Wayward. Now I just have to find Duchess's other guard, Polly.
8. Talk to the head
I think that severed robot head is yelling at me. Is that Polly? Only one way to find out.
9. Wipe out the Scorched
I've found Polly, but it sounds like the Scorched Polly was pursuing have regrouped. We can put them out of their misery together.
Kill all enemies who will start attacking you. The last one will be their boss. You can use any weapon.
10. (Optional)
If you haven't saved Sol yet.
I took care of the Scorched. Now I just need to rescue Duchess's other guard, Sol.
11. Return to Duchess / Draw "Polly's Assaultron Head" / Place Polly in the moonshine jug / Listen to the crew
I've collected all of Duchess's people. I should head back and speak to Duchess.
Return to The Wayward, equip the Polly's Assaultron Head (Weapon) and place it in the moonshine jug.
Duchess suggested I place Polly's head in the moonshine jug sitting on bar. I can now add that to the growing list of sentences that vault training never prepared me to write.
I've deposited Polly's head in the moonshine jug. Seems Duchess, Sol, and Polly might still want my help, though. I should listen to what they have to say.
12. Attach Sol's transmitter to a pristine Assaultron body
I've agreed to help find Polly a pristine Assaultron body. There's a shop in Summersville where Sol believes I might be able to find one.
Travel to Summersville and enter the Duncan & Duncan Robotics shop. You have to use the entrance card reader. Inside you'll meet a robot named Skinner. If you can convince him, you'll receive an Assaultron Showroom Acces Card from him.
In one of the rooms on the ground floor you can find a key that will allow you to get to the rooms on the top.
The pristine Assaultron robot is in a room that you can get to using the Assaultron Showroom Acces Card.
12.1. (Optional) Attach Sol's transmitter to any pristine robot
It seems Skinner, the shopkeeper here, has bodies other than Assaultrons here. Those might be options if I can't figure out how to acquire an Assaultron body for Polly.
You can also activate the robot in the first room. To prevent the alarm from being triggered, you can access it through a hole in the ceiling.
13. Return to The Wayward / Speak to Polly / Learn about Crane from Duchess
I've tagged a body for Polly. I should head back to the Wayward and let Duchess and crew know how it went.
After completing Strength in Numbers you will get or will be able to get The Elusive Crane.