Boston Q.Z. Map
The Boston Q.Z. Map is the first artifact in the game and you cannot miss it: it is already inside Joel's backpack when you pick the bag up off a table in the smuggling tunnel during Beyond the Wall.
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- BostonBoston, Massachusetts is the first region after the time skip and the city where Ellie grew up. You play The Quarantine Zone and The Outskirts here, and Left Behind's flashbacks with Riley take place in the same city. FEDRA holds the North End as one of the last working quarantine zones in the country.
- Quarantine zoneQuarantine zones are the walled, military-run safe areas FEDRA set up across the United States after martial law was declared. Most have since fallen to infection, revolt or abandonment. Boston's North End zone is the one you live in and play through at the start of Part I, and you pass the dead zones of Pittsburgh and Salt Lake City later.
Good to know
- The Quarantine Zone (chapter 2), Beyond the Wall section, number 1 in the chapter's collectible list.
- Collected automatically, so it cannot be missed.
- Produced by FEDRA and owned by Joel, who has marked it up.
What the map shows
It lays out the FEDRA quarantine zone in Boston's North End, split into five areas, with the wall and its gates, checkpoints, civilian and military housing and the green zone. Joel's handwriting adds patrol routes, smuggling tunnels and where rival smugglers work: Donovan in Area 1, Robert in Area 2 and Tess in Area 4.
Why it matters
Robert, the smuggler marked in Area 2, is the man Joel and Tess are hunting for the rest of the chapter, so the map doubles as a quick primer on the zone you are about to cross.
Related collectibles
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Docks Note
The Docks Note is a gripe from one of Robert's smugglers, lying in the big warehouse at Mission Hill Pier where a fishing boat hangs over the loading bay. Look on the right side, against the railing behind a blue trash bin.
- Artifacts
Drafting Notice
The Drafting Notice is a FEDRA work order lying in a heap of papers in the Boston slums. After the bus where Malick confronts Joel, walk straight on between a vendor's stall on the left and a canopy on the right; the notice is on the ground at the corner.
- Artifacts
Note to Brother
Note to Brother is a handwritten letter on a table upstairs in the spore-filled building of Beyond the Wall. After the first infected fight, climb the stairs, turn left before the hole in the wall and open the closed door; the note sits in the next room.
- Artifacts
Shipping Manifest
The Shipping Manifest is a sailor's note at the Mission Hill Pier docks. After you vault the wall down among Robert's patrolling men, go right to the railing above the water; it lies by a fishing net behind a blue trash bin.