How to find all Ask Your Mom poems in Quarantine Zone

Finding all of the Ask Your Mom poems in Quarantine Zone is a quest you'll receive when you wake up on Day 8, and the Major tells you that "some jackass" has been scrawling dirty poems on the camp walls. You need to work out who is the subject of this graffiti, then use that information to track down the artist. This process can be a bit confusing and will send you on a wild goose chase around the camp, so get to the bottom of the mystery quickly by following our guide to all of the Ask Your Mom poem locations.

Are you wondering who the Quarantine Zone skeleton guy was who passed through earlier? We've got the lowdown on their identity.

All Quarantine Zone Ask Your Mom poem locations

There are a total of six Ask Your Mom poems in Quarantine Zone, and we've marked their locations on the map above. Note that you need to find these pieces of graffiti in numerical order, as the next one won't appear until you've approached the one before and interacted with the Study prompt. While you can follow the red paint footprints on the ground from one poem to the next, they'll take you all around the houses and are often misleading, so we've laid out exactly where you need to go below:

Poem 1 - Command Center

The first Ask Your Mom poem is graffitied on the wall directly outside your Command Center shipping container base, so you'll see it as soon as you walk out. Make sure you have your Flashlight turned on to highlight it, then approach and follow the Study prompt to collect it.

Poem 2 - Garage

Head through the gate opposite into the garage area, then move forward and turn left. There's a vehicle gate that opens here, and across from that is a portable toilet with the graffiti on the wooden board behind it.

Poem 3 - Laboratory

Next you need to head directly across the central area to the Laboratory, and while the red paint footprints will lead you left and around the back the building, you can simply turn right instead to find the poem at the far end of this area.

Poem 4 - Command Center

For the next graffiti you need to return to your Command Center shipping containers, but this time go around the back where you'll find the poem scrawled on the container next to some broken crates.

Poem 5 - Watch Tower in Liquidation

Ignore the red footsteps going up and over the shipping container then round and round the pole in the central area, and make your way to Liquidation. There, turn left to go past the shipping containers and up the steps onto the Watch Tower gantry, where the poem is sprayed along the side of the walkway.

Poem 6 - Central Hub towards Laboratory

Finally, head back to the central passageway that connects all of the areas together, and the last poem graffiti is on the wall by the sign pointing toward the Laboratory. The complete Ask Your Mom poem reads as follows:

Knows it all, starts every fight,
Yells like justice is his right,
His tent is clean, but mind's a mess,
A zombie queen in Mom's old dress!
Can't stop gossip, what a show!
Still Mommy's darling, ol' Abe Crow!

How to find the vandal in Ask Your Mom

Now you've found all of the poems in Quarantine Zone, you need to track down the vandal who graffitied them. First, head to the Survivor Block and a tent at the far end to speak to the subject of this salacious campaign, Abe Crow. He's none too happy and expresses frustration that someone managed to get the paint from Storage, so go there next – it's opposite your Command Center area.

Inside Storage by the racking, you'll find a scientist fretting that they left the area unlocked and now some paint cans are missing. They reveal that the paint is almost impossible to remove and appears when lit with a flashlight, so make your way back to the Survivor Block and use this information to find the vandal.

The vandal isn't hard to identify, as they've covered in red paint stains when you shine your flashlight on them. After revealing their motivation, they promise to return the paint and offer you a bribe to not report them.

Should you take the money or report the vandal?

To complete Ask Your Mom in Quarantine Zone, you need to decide whether to take the money offered by the vandal or leave the residential block and report them. While handing them in may be the morally correct thing to do, you don't want to lose a healthy survivor counting towards the next evacuation if they get kicked out, so I advise you to go to the tent and take the money – you'll receive $1,000 to add to your balance and fund future supplies or upgrades.

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