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.
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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.
- Mission Hill PierMission Hill Pier is the wharf in the Boston slums where the smuggler Robert runs his trade. Joel and Tess fight through Robert's men here at the end of The Slums section of The Quarantine Zone, then chase him through the area.
- 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), The Slums section, number 10 in the chapter's collectible list.
- Missable: once you follow Robert into the office at the far end of the bay, Tess closes the door and the docks are gone.
- Written by one of the smugglers working for Robert.
What it says
The writer is fed up: Robert bosses his crew around, still has not paid them, and wears a ponytail the writer hates. Worse, some of the most dangerous people in the city are after Robert, and the writer worries what happens when they learn who helped him.
Tie to the story
Those dangerous people are Joel and Tess. Joel's reaction on reading it is a dry remark that Robert annoys everyone he meets.
Related collectibles
- 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.
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Warehouse Key
The Warehouse Key unlocks the back door of the S&B Co. repair shop on the way to the docks. After Joel and Tess drop through a hole in a fence toward the wharf, four of Robert's smugglers appear; whoever you take down last drops it.
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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.
- 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.