Fallout 3 Easter Egg: Moby Dick

If the player visits Fort Independence and asks Defender Morgan, "What have you got against the Brotherhood?", she will call to Elder Lyons as "Ahab Lyons", who "is off chasing his super mutant white whale." This is a reference to Herman Melville's Moby Dick. If the player passes an Intelligence check, you can continue the reference by inquiring as to whether Morgan believes that Lyons will be killed by the super mutants, to which Morgan expresses surprise that the player has knowledge of the story.