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Solving anything in New Vegas

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Crucified? You mean like in fallout new vegas?

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Some sketches for New Vegas Black haired guy - Max, mercenary, my husband's OC

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“Truth is, the game was rigged from the start” is a very iconic line coming from someone who’ll call your boobs charlies later on

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it's too late captain, she's already asleep. this is a category-5 cozy in bed event. there's nothing we can do

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There's not a thing in the world that can hold me down

Courier 6

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When we last left our hero, she and the others were tasked with initiating the gala event, which for some reason is the only way to open the Sierra Madre Casino.

First Viv took Dog to his destination - or Dog took her, since she mostly hung back and let him take care of the ghost people. He seemed more than capable of handling them, and she didn't really have armor or stimpaks to speak of yet. To get Dog to stay with the switches, Viv wound up locking him inside. She didn't feel like talking in circles with him, and she wasn't about to go chop up mutated humans for him to eat either. She has a pretty strong stomach, but it was bad enough seeing and hearing him tear into the bodies along the way. And lbr, she doesn’t respect him as an equal. Into the cage you go. That’s a good nightkin.

Dean is the only one who can give her real information, between Dog being Dog and Christine being mute. He told her about Vera, about the history of the place, and the toxic clouds (a little late for that). When they got to their destination on the rooftop, Viv flirted with the idea of lying to him, but he's saved her ass multiple times already, and she knew they'd have to work together after this. Luckily it was easy to activate the holograms since she'd activated one by accident already. lol

Christine is a bit of a mystery, but Viv is undeniably impressed with her long list of skills. "Is that all?" She was also not so secretly pleased to make the woman smile. 

Before they wandered out past the Villa, Viv procured some police armor, a pistol (a 357 like her Colt), and shades 'cause why not.

But all the hazards - between the bear traps, ghost people, trip wires, poison, turrets - had her a little on edge. When Christine refused to go in the elevator, Viv's initial reaction was not understanding and kind words. "I don't have time for this. Get in the damn elevator!" My courier is not normally this harsh, but she just wants this to be OVER with. She's about as high strung as she gets, here, she doesn't want to go hunting for yet another workaround just because people are Scared. Like she isn't?

She even considered lying that she'd be right behind Christine if she went in, she was that fed up, but she knew in the same instant she couldn't make the lie believable; Christine isn't that stupid. And she IS sympathetic to Christine's trauma, I swear! Viv herself is kind of claustrophobic and she hasn't been subjected to an auto-doc. She's just having a very bad day.

So Viv agreed with a heavy sigh to figure something out, and eventually found the remote maintenance terminal password, letting Christine use the computer as a bypass. Christine gave Viv a thumbs up, and shook her hand in thanks. I chose the response "We'll get through this" over "I'll be back for you," because it felt right, but. Viv did steal one last look at her in front of the terminal before leaving the station.

I admittedly used a walkthrough video to aid me in the last stretch because the place is a gd maze and I don't have a lot of fun running around getting lost for an hour. Viv exploded and caught on fire a few times along the way. She was also running low on ammo and had to switch to a sledgehammer to whack the ghost people. Weird seeing her with a melee weapon.

I thought it was cute you had the option to tap back to Christine, but Viv opted to verbally check that she was alright, once getting to the belltower. The event was triggered a moment later. She stood there a while, not so much to appreciate the fireworks, but to get a breather before making the trek back alone. I suspect there will be a lot of frantic running.

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Dead Money makes me feel like I’m going crazy and I do wonder if I’ll be able to complete the game as is. The game kept crashing when I tried to enter a new area, and the work-around for this bug was completely nonintuitive. (Had to leave Dean at the fountain, go through to Puesta del Sol by myself, then return for him.) Then I find the Foremans Key to enter a locked door, save the game, return to the door... and it acts like I don’t have the key and it’s not in my inventory! I go back to the desk where I found it like, maybe there was a glitch, and I can’t find it. At that point I gave up for the night.

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daddy issues make u a people pleaser but mommy issues make u like. a sociopath

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there’s something deeply, fundamentally wrong with you. can we kiss

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Another chonky tiger boi

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Since it's taken me five years to get to Dead Money (I don't even know why), it would be fitting to say the DLC's events take place five years after the conclusion of the main game, but honestly, I never thought very hard about what happened post credits. I kind of rushed through my first playthrough, with Viv narrowly able to defeat the Legion at a quaint level 16. Sixteen!! Thank God for grenade launchers.

Despite her wild card path, she had no real interest in running things herself, and probably broached some kind of deal between the various Vegas factions and Freeside to get things stable and out of her hands. But hey, maybe she got the Lucky 38 up and running again and kept it as a main residence. She might not want the responsibility of being the sole proprietor like House was, but she sure likes the view. 

Point is. She hears this mysterious broadcast touting what she assumes is a pre-war casino, and her motivations for tracking it down aren't too complicated. She's always been naturally curious, and maybe, just maybe, it'll lead to a nice payday... or a trap. (She's not stupid, either.) But when you've taken on Caesar's Legion and lived to tell the tale, an old casino doesn't exactly get you shakin’ in your boots.

I knew you weren't allowed your companions for this quest, so I had Veronica and Rex stay at the Lucky 38. I can handwave that it's five years later - Veronica has her own life to lead and maybe Rex is getting a little too arthritic to take on risky ventures. And it's refreshing, in a way, exploring on her own again.

Then again, she hates being underground for long periods of time, so it's fitting that the trap is sprung pretty quickly once you enter the bunker. And then waking up- without her gear, in a dirty, rough jumpsuit, a heavy collar around her neck... She's shaken, confused, angry. She doubts Elijah will actually let her go even if he gets what he wants out of this heist, but maybe with enough time she can find a way out... a way to disarm the collar safely. Something. Unfortunately tech was never her strong suit.

I got her 'sploded pretty much right away, though, because I was too focused on what Dog was mumbling to notice the, uh, rapid beeping. Once she got her head back on and played the recording, summoning "God," she was inclined to keep this version around, but the nightkin himself convinced her that Dog's brutality and physicality would in fact be more useful, and she's nothing if not practical. So Dog it was. (I was afraid I'd encountered a glitch, because for a few minutes there I just seemed to be stuck in a never-ending dialogue loop with God with no way to end the conversation. I even googled it in a panic but eventually found a new path.)

Dean Domino strikes her as... useful but untrustworthy, in ways very different from Dog. I avoided the more hostile dialogue options in favor of her being level-headed, straight shooting, even wry. She even made him laugh. It wasn't hard to convince Dean they were stuck together.

Embarrassingly, when I finally got to Christine and she emerged from the Auto-Doc, for a split second I thought, "Hey, I finally get to hear her voice!" before remembering >> Half the time the text went by too fast for me to really grock what she was signing, and I imagine Viv is similarly bad at charades and probably has had a Time communicating with her. Not in a mean way, but Viv possibly got more frustrated with poor Christine than Dog. LOL But they muddled their way through an understanding of Christine's usefulness, and yes, I did choose the "How romantic" response.

And this is way more writing than I usually do in a sitting, so I'll leave it there for now. I can tell the next stretch with Dog is going to be harder, since one hit from the ghost people seems to kill me dead... Also, Windows has been going all blue screen of death on me, so that doesn't help. I'll continue Viv's Very Bad No Fun Day when I'm able.

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u call her a “war criminal” and “tyrant” ...i call her “babygirl”

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