O'Leary Mountain Safehouse
The O'Leary Mountain Safehouse is the converted Forest Service fire lookout Deacon and Boozer live in at the start. It is your first safe place to sleep and save, and it has a stash of crafting loot.
- Type
- Landmark
- Region
- Cascade
Found in
- CascadeCascade is the northern starting region, in the Farewell wilderness around Copeland's Camp at Peaceful Lake. It is where you learn the game, and it still has 8 Hordes and 4 NERO research sites to come back for.
- O'Leary MountainO'Leary Mountain is where Deacon and Boozer's lookout-tower safehouse stands at the start of the game. It is home turf early on, with a small Horde on its trails and a nest zone at its foot.
Good to know
- It is in the Cascade region, on top of O'Leary Mountain.
- It is a fire lookout tower turned into a home.
- Loot includes kerosene, rags, beer bottles, a gas can, gunpowder, a spark igniter, a sterilizer and a bandage.
- It features in Drifters on the Mountain, Bugged The Hell Out and No Starving Patriots.
What's there
The loot is enough for early Molotovs and a bandage or two.
StorySpoilerShow
The tower is abandoned once Deacon takes Boozer to Iron Mike's Camp in Lost Lake for treatment.
Bugged The Hell OutBugged The Hell Out is an early story mission. Boozer's arm is badly burned, so Deacon heads to a NERO checkpoint to search its mobile medical unit for sterile bandages.- Sounded Like EnginesBoozer heard gunfire on O'Leary Mountain. Deacon climbs the radio tower west of the mountain to look at the safehouse and see what is going on.
- Give Me a Couple DaysBoozer's burned arm is getting worse at the O'Leary Mountain safehouse. Sarah once taught Deacon to make a burn salve from wild lavender, so you go out and pick some.
- No One Saw It ComingThe mission that closes out the opening act. Deacon rests up at the safehouse with Boozer, then the two of them leave O'Leary Mountain and ride south toward Lost Lake.
- Riding The Open RoadDeacon heads back up to O'Leary Mountain to fetch Boozer's bike. He could not leave it to rust at the old safehouse while Boozer recovers at Lost Lake.
- BoozerBoozer is Deacon's best friend and riding partner, and a former Sergeant-at-Arms of the Mongrels MC. He rides with you from the first mission as the two hunt bounties in the Cascades. What happens to him in the opening hours drives much of the first half of the story.
Deacon St. JohnDeacon St. John is the player character: a former soldier and Mongrels MC enforcer who now works as a drifter and bounty hunter in post-outbreak Oregon. You play as him from the opening hunt for Leon. He still grieves his wife Sarah, whom he believes died early in the outbreak.
Related places
- Camp
Jefferson Rail Tunnel Ambush Camp
Jefferson Rail Tunnel Ambush Camp is a Cascade story job at an old rail tunnel. Clear it for Copeland's Trust and the Superior Club recipe in the bunker, a strong early melee upgrade.
- Checkpoint
Little Bear NERO Checkpoint
The Little Bear NERO Checkpoint at Little Bear Lake in the Cascade is the first checkpoint you open. You do it during the story mission Bugged The Hell Out. It teaches the power-and-speakers routine and gives your first NERO Injector.
- Infestation zone
Logging Camp Infestation
The Logging Camp Infestation is the first nest zone you burn, at the logging camp at the foot of O'Leary Mountain in Cascade. You clear it in Clear Out Those Nests to keep Freakers away from the safehouse while Boozer heals.
- Horde
O'Leary Mountain Horde
O'Leary Mountain Horde is a 25-Swarmer Horde in Cascade, one of the Horde Killer targets. It opens after We've All Done Things. Clear it for 2,000 XP and 1,600 Trust at Copeland's Camp.