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.
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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.
- Boston slumsThe Boston slums, marked Area 5 on military maps, are the poor district of the Boston quarantine zone where the smugglers run an open black market. You walk through them in The Slums section of The Quarantine Zone while hunting the smuggler Robert.
- 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 6 in the chapter's collectible list.
- Missable: take it before talking to the man at the gate and moving on to Robert's men.
- Issued by the general in charge of the Boston quarantine zone to a resident named Alex Brennan.
What it says
Brennan is ordered to report to the main office on Charles Bridge at 6:30 a.m. on December 15 for work duty. Skipping it risks cut rations or losing the right to live in the zone. Brennan has scrawled an angry two-word reply over his own name and address.
Life in the zone
It shows how FEDRA keeps civilians in line: labor is compulsory and rations are the leverage, which fits the tense, hungry slums you are walking through.
Related collectibles
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Wanted Poster
The Wanted Poster is a FEDRA notice pinned to a bulletin board in the Boston slums. Past the bus where Malick stops Joel, head straight to the fence where a man and woman stand talking; the poster hangs on the board to their left.
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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.
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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.
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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.