Seems like an unfortunate design flaw of the first game. In all likelihood, the same thing happened to me to where they showed up the first time I went there and I honestly just didn't notice or something. Well the good news is that shortly after making this thread I managed to beat Fallout 1 so...
I'm currently near the end of the first Fallout game and I know there's a way to recruit people from the Followers of the Apocalypse to help out with that but for the life of me I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong. I talked to Nicole who told me to find the spy they had planted in the...