#bison steve hotel

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[bytesizeambs]

Fallout NV | Primm | Bison Steve #shorts #falloutnv #bytesizeambs #fnv

Fallout New Vegas - Chilling in Primm, watching the Bison Steve sign slowly spin and the clouds go by.

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As always this video is better quality when watched via YouTube.

[catschimericalcreationslore]

Cat's Chimerical Creations Lore: Minty

This is Minty the Minotaur:

Minty was the first ever Scrapbag Baby, i.e. a plushie made entirely from the leftover bits of other Chimerical Creations. He's also the first one to be born on a Tuesday.

Minty was born without the use of his back legs (I suspect because I messed up restuffing his donor body before he was born).

However, according to his personal Minty Canon, he did originally have full use of all four limbs and was in fact a renowned high speed runner.

One day he bumped into a dragon while out for a sprint, and the dragon put a curse on him that rendered him paraplegic.

Minty claims that his curse can be removed if he is given one hundred shark brothers, and also if all dragons would die.

He also claims that he used to own the Bison Steve Hotel in Fallout, but that Bison Steve stole it from him after the dragon curse. For this reason, he would also like Bison Steve to die.

When he was very young, he was badly scared by an advert for Schlage locks which was far too frightening for his taste. As a result, he decided to elect himself the Spookums King, so he could control all scary things and sentence all Schlage locks to die.

In December 2020, he became a joint Spookums Co-King with his younger brother Nublet, which tempered his tyranical rule somewhat (Nublet being more focused on spooky films and rainy days as opposed to just using his platform for murder)

He was involved in a (one-sided) blood feud with Santa Claus, but as of Christmas 2024, the two have reconciled.

His prize possessions are a blu-ray edition of Boardwalk Empire (which he enjoys guarding from anyone else and curling up on to sleep, not unlike a dragon...) and his bow, which was infused with Christmas Magic on 25/12/24 and allows him to float when he does good deeds.

He once invited Phil Collins to a sleepover. Though his arrival was initially delayed due to bad weather, Phil did manage to attend. They had a very nice time, but Minty eventually got bored of poor Phil.

At one point, Minty was also very impressed by meeting various Pacific Rim kaiju though, much like with Phil Collins, he tired of them once the shine of their "fame" wore off.

(the Pacific Rim kaiju, being kaiju with no concept of fame, were unaffected by this and bemused by Minty's starstruck fawning)

Minty enjoys "doughnut parties" (which is him eating doughnuts while dancing and singing "doughnut party!" over and over again), being "everyone's favourite", telling lies, doing crime, and "woeing", which is when he sighs dramatically and throws himself about in order to get attention.

On June 9 2023, which was declared a public holiday because it was Tynwald Day Minty is so great, we celebrated his 3rd birthday:

If you would like to help Minty gain 100 shark brothers, kill all dragons, reclaim his hotel from Bison Steve, get more famous friends, tell more lies, do more crimes and other "mint-tazing" "mint-tastic" and "mint-credible" things, please consider making a donation at https://ko-fi.com/catschimericalcreations

[aardvark-123]

Before her much-anticipated trip to Primm, Gracie spent a few minutes doing her make-up, and trying to get rid of the green tint around her mouth.

Gracie decided to investigate the abandoned cigarette factory added by "A World of Pain", since it was on the way to Primm. She spent half an hour tiptoeing through the tunnels, shooting geckoes and being chased by geckoes, until finally she emerged with a newfound appreciation for fresh air.

And twenty fresh gecko chops.

With her packed lunch secured, Gracie made her way to Primm. Most of the road signs had lasted since before the apocalypse, so finding her way there was simple enough.

Primm turned out not to be the holiday paradise Gracie was hoping for. (Why was she hoping for a holiday paradise? Who knows.) The wealthy side of town, with the casinoes and shops, was overrun by escaped prisoners. The other side of town, past the shacks and piles of rubble, was home to an NCR platoon keeping an eye on the road. Just the road, not the other half of the town.

Gracie soon had to take matters into her own hands, and spent a few minutes punching her way across Primm. She stumbled into the Vikki and Vance Casino, where a handful of townspeople were sheltering from the… you know. Everything.

Gracie soon found Johnson Nash (husband to Ruby Nash), the manager of the local Mojave Express branch. She told him everything she remembered about her delivery mission and getting shot, and asked about what to do next.

"...Since, presumably, I work for you. Is there a form I should write for lost deliveries?"

Johnson chuckled. "Nope, no form, but you don't get paid until the client's paid us for the package. Was a pretty strange job, all things considered - did you know there were six of you, all carrying something different?"

"Why, I had no idea." Gracie blinked in confusion. "Were all those parcels just a small metal trinket for somebody in New Vegas?"

"That they were. You ask me, somebody wanted to confuse his business rivals, and make it tricky to steal one particular thing..." Johnson pondered. "As for the other thing, you're more of a freelance deliverywoman, not contracted with the Mojave Express. You did do some jobs for us in the past, but there's not going to be much work in Primm for a while now."

"Because of the...?"

"Escaped convicts, yep. There's no goods moving through Primm since they murdered the sheriff," sighed Johnson. "We still have Deputy Beagle, but until there's an actual sheriff again..."

"These convicts," Gracie said thoughtfully. "They'd be from a prison operated by the New California Republic, wouldn't they? Much like the Powder Gangers. It seems to me," she declared, standing up, "that this Republic ought to be cleaning up its mess. See you in a bit!"

Gracie climbed up the roller coaster to sneak into the Bison Steve hotel and/or casino, where Deputy Beagle had last been seen. The casino and/or hotel was a stronghold for the rebel convicts, but Gracie was very light on her feet, and managed to sneak in unbothered.

In a weird turn of events, an NCR soldier was there, and he helped Gracie fight her way through the second floor. I think the game was being strange that morning, since you don't normally have an assistant for the Bison Steve. Gracie was glad of his help anyway, and together they shot or fatally punched nearly ten convicts!

"I do wonder how these people came to be imprisoned," Gracie said to herself, wiping blood off her knuckles with a frilly pink handkerchief. "Were they all murderers, robbers and whatnot, happy jump back into a life of mayhem and violence?"

"Do they have a leader, a grand plan for Primm and this hotel?" she went on. "It feels as though they're here simply for me to punch, with the justification that they're criminals - Bad People, in other words - who attacked the town first."

The NCR soldier scoffed. "Lady, you sound like a real riot at parties."

"What was that?" Gracie asked in honeyed tones, toying with a grenade she'd picked up.

"N-nothing, nothing! Jeez, how do I always get the crazy ones...?"

Sadly, the soldier perished on the way. Happily, Gracie found Deputy Beagle, untied him, and nothing interesting happened while she escorted him to safety.

Gracie had picked up a free dress somewhere in the hotel and/or casino. She changed into it before her trip to the Mojave Outpost, where hopefully there would be an NCR army bigwig she could talk to.

Gracie found her way to the Mojave Outpost, definitely not having been chased and nearly eaten by radscorpions on the way. She talked Major Knight into sending some soldiers to defend Primm, which wasn't especially hard. She also met Cass, an angry, melancholy woman who seemed to be stranded in the Mojave Outpost.

Apparently, Cass owned a caravan company, and despite not having a caravan, she legally was a caravan. For this reason, she wasn't allowed to leave until the roads were safe for caravans. Gracie consoled Cass and, feeling glad she was not a caravan herself, made her way back to Primm.

With more soldiers to work with, the NCR detachment at Primm agreed to appoint their own sheriff, and take responsibility for protecting the town.

"This is good news for Primm. As well as turning back the tide on those Powder Gangers, we'll be able to keep the town safe from wild animals, raiders and things like that," said Major Knight, not pictured.

"Yaaay!" cheered several Primm residents, also not pictured.

"Splendid!" cheered Gracie.

"Furthermore, now that you're living in NCR territory, each of you will be eligible to pay taxes," Major Knight continued. "Our regulations on gambling, outlaw-themed museums, delivery companies, elevated roads and salad naming conventions will also apply. For the forseeable future, Chicken Caesar Salad will be renamed as Chicken California Salad!"

"Y... yaaay?" the townspeople said cautiously.

"Oh, well," sighed Gracie. "At least they're being good sports about me borrowing a helmet."

[qualitysigns]

Primm, Nevada, USA

this casino has a now defunct roller coaster out front, and was the real world location that the Bison Steve casino and hotel in Fallout New Vegas was based on.

[timetot]

Shoutout to my brother @fritzwilhelm for watching me play 2 hrs of Fallout New Vegas and giving me a billion useful game play tips as I fumbled around the Bison Steve Hotel. One day I'll successfully rescue one of these npcs. RIP Ringo & Deputy Beagle 😔

The final frontier is having him explain Caravan to me.

[edgessunflower]

Last one standing

Pairing: El Generico x Fem reader

Description: You are the last member of your team and win for the future of ROH leading to you and Generico finally getting together

Everything was shit to say the least with everyone's careers and lives on the line along with your beloved company Ring of honor leading to the highly awaited and life staking survivor match of team ROH which includes you, Generico, Kevin, Adam Revolver, and Tyler Black against Daniels, Colt Cabana, Taeler Hendrix, Steve Corino, and Bison Smith who had made your lives a living hell since both teams had been formed after the match was announced three months back. The match started out with black and corino which went well leading to a tag to daniels and kevin with kevin taking charge of the match and followed up with generico and cabana and the match remained tied up until revolver got eliminated first but kevin immediately stepped in and thankfully eliminated smith with the match being fifty fifty for the next thirty minutes before you evened things up by eliminating taeler leaving you the only woman in the match as you took on corino, it felt like a blur when kevin got a eliminated due to an interference from cabana who helped daniels eliminate him before you eliminated cabana and soon things broke out in chaos when black and generico were eliminated after generico eliminated corino leaving you and daniels left which gave you a disadv due to his height advantage and strength but you made up what you lacked with skills, agility, and smarts. Your yells of pain echoed in the arena as you were tossed into the post but you weren't giving up as you swung and kicked despite the pain coursing through you crawling to the rope before getting up landing an enziguri before yelling as you speared daniels through the ropes laying in the ring as he laid on the floor but it was when the bell rang that you burst into tears realizing you saved ROH and the sole survivor of your team, the celebration at ROH's victory as you sipped on a cocktail after having water and soda when you were pulled aside by generico now out of character as his true self and your friend Sami but it was the look on your face that made you confused and your heart shake as the two of you walked out of the arena standing by the backdoor when his words made your heart stop. "I've always cared for you...but the last bit I've cared for you more than I've shown" your heart shook uncontrollably as you stared at him feeling warmth wash over you head to toe with the cool breeze hitting your face as he continued to pour his soul and heart out to you before the next thing you knew was him grabbing you by your face and pulling you into a sudden yet tender and soft kiss that you immediately lost yourself in and lost yourself in him as you wrapped your arms around him, the two of you left the arena hand in hand leading to the two of you having your first date at a local pizzeria and the rest of the night spent in your hotel room watching movies together with soft whispers and kisses being shared.

[lizardperson]

come all sufferers

part 3: what's a chicken? [on ao3]

fandom: fallout new vegas characters: female courier/original male character rating: m wc: 542 prompts: chicken noodle soup for @sweetspicybingo; #252 spill the tea for @flashfictionfridayofficial

[hurt/comfort bingo masterlist]

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"Room service!" Mika's cheery voice sounded through the place when she entered, pulling Gabriel out of his daze. He sat up too quickly and everything spun around for a few long moments. When he finally managed to properly open his eyes, she had already placed a couple of pots and dishes on the table next to the bed, and was now frowning at him. "How are you feeling?" He waved it off, rubbing his face. "I'll live, don't worry about it." They had an unfortunate encounter with a couple of radscorpions earlier, and one actually managed to sneak up on him. Damn critters. Gabriel had taken an antivenom, so he would definitely survive it - but right now, he sure felt like dying. It would pass after a few hours of rest, not a big deal in the grander scheme of things, just very unpleasant. They were close to Primm when it happened, so Mika had dragged him to the Bison Steve Hotel for the night, despite his protests, but now he was quite grateful for the bed. She had been uncharacteristically nice the whole way too, not even teasing him about getting stung - though she was probably still saving a few jokes for when he felt better. She looked at him slightly doubting, but decided not to comment on it any further, and instead turned towards the things she brought. "Anyway, dinner! I told Mrs. Nash about your state, and she immediately went into overdrive," Mika chuckled. "Had to talk her out of coming up here to nurse you back to health herself. But she gave me some weird tea that's supposed to help with the poison side effects, and a big pot of soup." "That's awfully nice of her." "Told you, she either wants to adopt or marry you." Mika handed him a cup. "Hope this tastes better than it smells. I spilled a bunch of it on myself already," she reported. Gabriel took a sip and made a face. "Nope. Tastes pretty vile actually." But Ruby Nash was the resident radscorpion expert, so he tried to ignore the smell as best as he could and downed the whole cup. She sat down beside him on the bed, trading the cup for a bowl of soup. "Hey, what's a chicken?" "Some type of bird." "Do they have those here?" "Don't think I've seen any," he remarked, raising an eyebrow. "Then maybe let's not think too hard about what's in this 'chicken noodle soup', as she called it..." Mika took a spoonful and her face lit up. "Oh hey, that's actually pretty good." After they had finished eating, he laid back down again while she took care of the dishes, then joined him on the bed and snuggled into his arms. "Thanks for dinner," he murmured, getting drowsy again. It hadn't been easy to finish the whole portion in his state, but his body would probably be grateful for it tomorrow. "You're welcome. Now, would you rather have some peace and quiet to rest, or do you like company in your misery?" He pulled her closer, nuzzling into her hair. "Company sounds nice."

[eyepatchdate]

i feel like im betraying new vegas by thinking this but i really do think fallout 3 has a better city to explore.  ie more complex layouts and ways to move... im STILL exploring all the places the metro leads to and i find it so compelling.  there’s a lot of unmarked locations with little story beats, or just...a lot of streets etc in general.  fallout 3 truly does feel like you’re in the ruins of a major city.

new vegas has moments where it does, but it leans on the desert feeling--and let me tell you there’s more houses and buildings and neighborhoods in irl vegas than there is in new vegas by far.  which is to be expected but fallout 3 just captures the feeling more--theres so many closed off smaller areas that do a better job at suggesting the size of the whole city--the unseen--far better than new vegas does.

[mullbey]

Memoirs of a courier in Bison Steve Hotel.

[nightingaelic]

I love your companions react posts and thought of a good topic! Companions reaction to being told by their courier that they love them (platonic of course)

If I had a dollar for every time someone did this, anon, I'd be rich - you're fine, the fact that it's the courier saying it is enough context

It had been a long day. There had been trouble on the road to Primm, vagabonds and giant ants and an NCR patrol officer who refused to take "package delivery" as a good enough reason to go traipsing through the territory without an escort. In the end, the courier and their companion had made it through okay, but they were late to the Mojave Express outpost and barely managed to catch Johnson Nash before he closed up shop.

Rather than shell out the money they'd just earned for a room at the Vikki and Vance Casino or risk a night in the eerie Bison Steve Hotel, the courier and their companion claimed one of the outdoor fire pits and began to set up camp. There were few other travelers in the town at this time of year, so they had the windswept courtyard behind the main casino to themselves, with the occasional interruption from Primm Slim clanking by on rounds.

The courier unrolled their bedding and smoothed some lumps out before settling down on it close to the campfire. The stars were a little dimmer thanks to the lights of the town, but they still winked and turned overhead like so many dancers at a party the rest of the cosmos wasn't invited to. The courier watched them for a moment before turning to their companion with a peaceful look. "I love nights like this. Sometimes I forget that, or at least forget to say it. And I love you. You know that, right?"

Arcade Israel Gannon: "Um." Arcade rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly, then adjusted his glasses. "Yeah. Yeah, I know it. I mean, there are things you do that people I used to... people who care about me have done, in the past. You notice things about me, and you remember them."

"I'm not overstepping, am I?" the courier asked. "You're as red as a tato."

"No, I'm just not good at this." Arcade took his glasses off and started to clean them furiously, just to give his hands something to do. "The last person I said that to... never mind. I... appreciate you, Six. Truly, I do."

The courier smirked and raised an eyebrow at him. "That it?"

"Are you gonna make me say it?"

"Nah." The courier laid back on their bedding and tucked their arms behind their head. "That's good enough."

Craig Boone: Boone bounced a little on his heels as he crouched before the fire, then straightened up abruptly. "Perimeter check. Be right back," he said, before stalking off between the nearest pair of shacks.

The courier sighed and settled in for a long wait. It had been a long day though, and by the time Boone came back to the campfire, they had fallen asleep. The sniper stood for a while and stared into the embers, then settled down for his watch.

"I know," he murmured. The reflection of the dying fire's light danced over the sunglasses he tapped against his leg.

The courier muttered something in their sleep and turned over.

Lily Bowen: "Of course I know that, dearie." Lily smiled. "Grandma loves you, too."

"Just checking." The courier smiled back. "We're both so different now, compared to where we started out. It's just nice to know that some things don't change."

Lily scooted over and put her arm around them. "Grandma will always be here for you, pumpkin. Don't forget that."

"I won't."

Raul Alfonso Tejada: Raul chuckled. "What did I do to earn that, boss?"

"You keep me out of trouble."

"Imposible."

"You keep me out of real trouble." The courier grinned. "Just say it back, viejo. Tell me you're glad I broke you out of the State of Utobitha."

"Te quiero, Six. But I would have gotten myself out just fine, if you hadn't come calling."

"Sure you would've."

Rose of Sharon Cassidy: "Stop it." Cass smacked their arm. "None of that touchy-feely shit unless we're about to die."

"I'm not waiting until we're in the middle of a swarm of radscorpions just to tell you that I care about you, Cass," the courier argued. "Besides, you told me you loved me yesterday, when you were two-and-a-half bottles deep at the Mojave Outpost and getting real misty about your caravan troubles. I'm just returning the favor."

Cass unearthed the half-bottle of whiskey she'd saved and pointed it at the courier. "If I tell you I love you, it is most definitely not a favor, Six. I'm cursed. Bad luck down to the bone. So watch out, or you'll wind up burned to ash, too."

"Haven't you heard?" The courier grabbed the bottle from her and uncorked it themselves. "I'm invincible."

Veronica Santangelo: "Oh." Veronica wrapped her arms around her knees and rocked back and forth on her own bedding, blushing furiously. "I... I guess I love you too, Six."

"You guess?" the courier teased. "Fine, I take it back."

"No no, I do! It's just that nobody's... nobody's said that to me in a really long time." Veronica bit her lip. "We're close in the Brotherhood, even the black sheep of the family like me, but we're not always emotionally open, if that makes sense. And the people I wanted to be open with... couldn't. For reasons."

"Sure." The courier scooted closer and put an arm around her. "Well. I love you. I should say it more, but I won't if it makes you uncomfortable."

"Here's fine. But maybe not in public." Veronica smiled gratefully. "People might get the wrong idea. I might not look like it, but I do have a reputation to maintain."

ED-E: ED-E beeped and tilted its speakers forward solemnly. The courier ran a careful hand up its chassis, leaned in to press their forehead to the eyebot's dome. "I don't want to be that person who doesn't really care about their bots. I love you, ED-E. You make my life better, especially my life on the road. I'll take care of you as long as you'll let me."

Rex: Rex whined and snuggled closer to them, rubbing his nose into their hand. The courier chuckled and stroked his fur, before turning back to the sky. "Yeah, you know it, buddy. You're the best dog someone like me could ask for."

[deepest-dope]

OCs as Companions - Cave Mann Fallout New Vegas

Basic info:

Race*: Human

Gender*: Male

Affiliation: None but likes the Kings, the Great Khans and the Followers of the Apocalypse

Role: Weird Ex-Raider mom friend or guy who carries a swiss army knife, lighter and first aid kit at all times

Location: Nipton on a cross on first meeting, squatting in the Bison Steve hotel if dismissed but not sent to the lucky 38

Base SPECIAL: S 8 P 1 E 9 C 3 I 8 A 6 L1

Tagged skills: Medicine Survival Unarmed

Perks: Cannibal, Ghastly Scavenger

The Courier will meet Cave at Nipton, angrily screaming and cursing out legionaries, he’s been crucified and you have to cut him down and help him get his weapons out of a stash just outside of town. With a couple speech checks he’ll share some stuff from his stash with you, and with no speech required he’ll help you kill Vulpes and his dogs with his grenade rifle. After that he’s basically ready to go!

Companion Perk: Pack Animal, Cave is used to being the reliable one out of any group he runs with, and he’s more then willing to help you out. Rank 1 you can give him the items needed for any recipe and he’ll make them for you at any campfire. Rank 2 all consumables are 20% stronger while he’s with you. Rank 3 Crafting items while he’s with you will give you extra items. Rank 4 Talking to him with certain dialogue options now let you use him to craft stuff like food, chems, and healing items.

Cornered Animal: If the player has Cannibal or Ghastly Scavenger choosing certain dialogue options will lead him to teach you about “soft spots” on bodies you can attack to bring your opponent down easier when you’re in a hard spot. It’s An Unarmed technique that you can use at low health or when crippled. The attack is rushing forward to bite your enemy’s throat.

Companion Comments:

Use Melee: “Sure, one sec, gotta tape my hands.”/”I can and do hold my own with nothing but hand to hand, if you’re worried about that”

Use Ranged: “Alrighty then just be careful about getting too close to any grenades yeah?”/”Uh should we get your ears checked? I have been blasting them.”

Open inventory: “Don’t worry man I’m used to being Designated Pack Brahmin”[giving him any chem or sugary thing]”You’re a real sweetheart you know that? wait I CAN have this right?”[giving him fixer, cigarettes or alcohol] “......uh thanks...I’m not ungrateful but... uhh... yknow never mind really thank you”

Overburdened: “Buddy I don’t think I’ve got room in my bag or in my pockets to put anything else in unless you’re suggesting we shove it somewhere sun don’t shine”

Stay close: “What? Cold? I’d give you my coat but all my craps in it”

Keep distance: “Aight, just watch you’re ass so I don’t end up blowing your limbs off on accident”

Be Passive: “I’m gentle as a bighorner lamb”

Be Aggressive: “Kay, stay out of the blast radius if you don’t like gore”

Wait here: “Wait? For how long? HEY! FOR HOW LONG?!?!”

Follow me: “Finally! what were you even doing?!”

Sneaking: “Good old fashioned ambush, alright!”

“Let’s travel together”: “Sure, don’t got anything better to do yet”

“Let’s travel together” (already have a companion): “Not that I’m saying you got bad taste in friends but your pal doesn’t seem like the kinda person I like to take trips with, understand?”

Leaving companion at the Lucky 38: “Wait around in an air conditioned room for an undetermined length of time? Hell yeah, go ahead and take your sweet time coming back for me too”

“I wanted to ask you some questions”: “Bout what?”

“Tell me about yourself”: “I...don’t really LIKE talking about myself though...”[speech check] “Aw fine I guess it couldn’t hurt, I was born in a vault out east but I don’t really remember much from it, got kidnapped age 6 by legion and enslaved, escaped legion slavery with one of the other slaves, had a shit time on the run till we met up with his family who turned out to be Jackals that didn’t like me much, got kicked out by the old man’s son eventually, tooled around for a while until I got arrested, and then escaped with the powder gangers to nipton and now I’m here with you”

“What do you think of the NCR?”: “They act like they’re better then the legion but they aren’t, just called slavery a different name, NCRCF was as much a hellhole as the Slave camp I grew up in”

“What do you think of the Legion?”: “I think they’re a bunch of stupid evil cunts who’ve gotten way too lucky so far and are due for an ass kicking. If I could crush Little Caesar and his roman themed raider gang out of existence I fucking would. I grew up in one of their slave camps and the shit they did to me there isn’t something I can ever forgive”

“What do you think of Mister House?”: “That cunt who kicked the Khans outta Vegas? He needs to get out more, specifically pull his head out of his ass, this ain’t the old world and it won’t ever be, playing dressup with the gangs that bent the knee isn’t making anything better for anyone”

“What do you know about Benny?”: “I think he’s one of the casino owners in New Vegas but thats about it”

“What do you know about the platinum chip?”: “Besides what you’ve told me? Sweet fuck all.”

Death: Before his personal quest “...Finally”/After “No no no no not now not after I-”

Trivia and additional information: Yeah I unfortunately don’t have anything I can even try to draw him with so putting a description of him here: He’s a 5′3 albino dude in raider badlands armor with a real loose trenchcoat over it and a prewar bonnet on his head to keep the sun off, and though it wouldn’t show up in game he has sharp ass teeth, I’m talking double canines here. He has anisocoria which along with the albinism makes him sensitive to light. He also has frequent nosebleeds from a multitude of problems such as being dry as the mojave itself because he does not drink enough water in the desert, eating way too much sugar on the rare occasion he does eat of his own volition, high blood pressure from stress, and the occasional punch to the face when he gets into a fight.

You may have noticed the cannibalism up there and yeah he has eaten people before but it isn’t something he likes doing, he was raised for the latter part of his childhood by a hardcore jackal survivalist though so his opinion is essentially “you gotta eat and if it’s all you have then don’t waste it” he wouldn’t risk kuru if he had any other options but a childhood of malnutrition and food insecurity has given him some impulse control problems to put it politely. If you imply do it because you like eating it you will fail the dialogue that gets him to teach you Cornered Animal. He thinks cook-cook is fucked up in general but is especially insane for cooking people when he has other options.

Cannibalism aside he has some problems with disordered eating and general lack of appetite. He’s so used to barely eating he just hardly ever notices hunger at this point. He also has a somewhat hard time eating regular meat but he can’t really afford to be picky. He tries to remember to keep himself fed to prevent,, unfortunate accidents from happening though hes not too good at it.

He’s an actually damn good cook when he’s cooking for other people though, which is one of the things he used to do for his old gang along with making chems and patching people up when needed. He likes the job too! He loves collecting recipes he can feed other people later, I like to think there’d be a dialogue option to give him your bloatfly slider recipe since the player seems to be the only one who makes those in game and in return he gives you his recipe for desert stirfry. Also stealing Cook-cooks fiends stew recipe in his quest.

Unmarked Quest: Straighten up and Fly Right: Help or hinder Cave’s attempts to quit chems by putting any chems available or fixer and optionally bubblegum into his inventory. The fixer being for withdrawal symptoms and bubblegum to help him build up a new habit to replace chems with.

Personal Quest: Why don’t you do right?

Quest Triggers: Walking into Fiend territory, specifically Driver Nephi and Violet’s areas or taking Three card bounty from Major Dhatri. Cave will initiate dialogue and tell the courier that he has friends in the fiends who joined after he got arrested  and sent to NCRCF and his chapter of the Jackals completely fell apart. He’ll have an extra line asking you to try and spare Nephi and Violet if you took Three card bounty.

Quest Description: He’ll tell you about how for a brief time after the death of the old man the leader of their chapter of the Jackals tried to kill him, causing a split in the gang and ending in Cave briefly becoming leader of it. In this time he met and befriended escaped mormon Nephi and one of the few surviving free hangdog tribe members Violet, allowing them to join his gang, that they weren’t originally fiends and probably only joined after his incarceration for their own safety. He’s sure if you just get them away from cook-cook and motor-runner they’ll be able to recover! (like him if you did his unmarked quest)

You can either let him talk to them both, helping him figure out what to say to convince them to leave the fiends and get help, or talk to them yourself with some high speech or medicine checks, and sending them to either the mormon fort or the great khans depending on how hard you want to press for getting violet to quit chems or Nephi to join a faction. Maybe even get Dhatri to get their bounties taken down.

Violet has the easier speech checks, being quickly convinced to abandon the fiends for her dogs safety, or medicine checks to convince her that psycho is affecting her ability to care for her dogs. The have Cave talk to her dialogue is essentially [Speech 50 Just tell her you care about her dumbass]. She can also be convinced along with Nephi to help you deal with Cook-cook and Motor-runner to still get some rewards off Dhatri. After this you can send her and her dogs to one of 3 locations after talking to one of the leaders, The Thorn to train dogs for Red Lucy, Red Rock Canyon to join the Great Khans, or the old mormon fort with Julie to guard the place.

Nephi is the harder to convince of the two, requiring higher speech checks to convince him of your good intentions. He’s just paranoid as shit about getting sucked into another cult after leaving mormonism. you need high as shit medicine or speech to get him to go to the followers or the great khans, though the check for getting him to help you fight cook-cook and motor-runner is comparatively low. The Cave option is actually easier here as Nephi already trusts him. I imagine you’d need 75 in medicine to convince him to get therapy to you know recover from leaving a cult. It’d take 80 speech to get him to join the Great Khans as you need to convince him its nothing like a cult. The lowest check is probably the one that gets him to go to the Thorn where he’d become champion fighter.

After get them to leave the fiends and optionally help you kill Cook-cook and motor runner after theyre dead you can do some optional things, like if queenie and Motor-runners dogs survive the fights you can also send them to any of the options you sent Violet, her dogs and Nephi to, with dialogue heavily implying you just lead the animals into the fort/camp/underground fighting arena handed the leads to someone and left without explaining anything.

Outcomes: Obviously you fail the quest if you kill either violet or nephi and lose Cave as a follower but if you got them to leave the fiends and go somewhere else they’ll be where you sent them, wearing wastelend wanderer outfits if in the fort or khan armor in red rock, keeping the fiend outfits if in the thorn. BoneGnash, Ghashbone and Queenie will also be seen in these places if you sent them there.

Endings

He hates basically everything but Independent Vegas lol. I’ve been writing all day so just going to give short summaries instead of trying to write anything that sounds like it could be read aloud by Ron Pearlman

NCR endings: If you don’t help him quit chems or do his personal quest and kill his friends he gets deeper into chems before eventually committing suicide by NCR soldiers. If you help him with his chem problem but don’t do his personal quest or kill Nephi and Violet he dies getting shot down trying to convince them to leave the fiends. If you do both his unmarked and personal quests and sent them to the followers he ends up joining them and getting an actual practicing medical license before getting arrested along with Nephi and Violet when the Followers are pushed out of Vegas. If Nephi and Violet joined the Khans he goes with them to Idaho. For the Thorn they just stay there laying low, fighting in matches waiting for the NCR to find them.

Caesar’s Legion endings: No matter what you did for him before he tries to kill you if you let the Legion take vegas

House endings: If you don’t do either of his quests he joins the fiends attack on Camp Mccarran and dies fighting a securitron. If you help him but not his friends he goes to Freeside after they die to securitrons alongside the Kings. If you help him and his friends out and sent them to the fort he becomes a legit doctor and doesn’t get arrested by the NCR though he isn’t quite happy under House’s rule. If with the Great Khans he either goes with them for their last stand at the Dam or follows them to Wyoming, living a decently happy life where he doesn’t have to deal with house running things. In the Thorn he becomes a Champion fighter alongside Nephi eventually taking over with Violet when she expresses dissatisfaction with how Red Lucy treats her dogs

Independent Vegas: Doing neither of his quests causes him to follow Violet and Nephi there taking over the camp even if Motor-runner is dead, becoming their designated chem guy before eventually dieing of an overdose. If he successfully quits chems but his personal quest isn’t done he ends up joining the Kings, spending most of his free time outside of that trying to get Violet and Nephi to come to freeside to. Both quests complete and his friends are at the Thorn you get the same ending as House basically. If they’re with the followers he ends up dragging Nephi and Violet through a crash course on medicine and getting them to help the Followers with him and is unbothered by the influx of patients mostly happy neither the NCR or Legion won. He still leaves with the Khans if thats where Nephi and Violet are.

[until-the-brahmin-come-home]

Yeehawgust Day 18: Bandolier

Like all great performers of her kind, Courier’s mother had a unique weapon. 271 words.

A/N: hi. i know it is january. but i finally got motivation to fill out another prompt, so i did. will i keep this up and finish it? unclear. regardless, enjoy

After the whole mess with the powder gangers and the deputy sheriff is done, Courier makes their way back into the Bison Steve Hotel.

It’s nothing at all like what it once was, the whole building a skeleton that hasn’t figured out it’s supposed to have crumbled by now. The ceiling has caved in in places; most of the furniture is rotten.

But in what was once a gift shop, a safe sits solid as it had the day the bombs dropped.

Courier stares at it.

This hotel, this little town living off of Vegas’s scraps, had been the last place their mother had performed. She hadn’t even gotten to die in Vegas, her shining city. No. She had died, out here, in the shadow of her legacy.

And she had left her gun behind.

Courier crouches down and, with deceptively steady hands, picks the lock. Inside waits their inheritance.

Lucky.

The wave of nostalgia crashes into Courier so hard that they sway, so they shift on their heels and rise up from their crouch.

The ivory handle – the gold engravings – the clover-club-callsign stamped on the side. It’s everything Courier remembers, and the gun weighs heavily in their hand.

They could never stand to retrieve it before. Never in the area, and when they were, the wound still felt fresh. Even now, two centuries gone by, Courier almost wants to put it back. Sacrilege, to take a dead woman’s weapon.

But it was their mother’s gun, and now it is theirs. Was always meant to be theirs.

They slip the revolver into the holster at their hip and leave the building.

[queencryo]

Red and I finally arrived home a few nights ago! I was gonna write this post last night but tumblr fucking ate it and this phone hurts my wrists when I type SO. here's some fucking bullet points!!!!!!!!!!!!!

- pengis

- We spent a really long time, cumulatively, avoiding mountain passes and driving out of our way to go to particularly mild or not-high ones. Shoutout to the wahwah pass in southeast utah for not killing us!!!!!!!!!!

- Plumas national forest in California is fucking BEAUTIFUL. Just jaw-dropping. Red fucking hated it because I took the corners a little hard, but the entire thing was absolutely beautiful. Just this gorgeous canyon that we were going through the middle of.

- My 18-135mm lens broke, so I was left with my 18-55mm kit lens that would come with this camera body if you bought it new like a loser. honk honk ::( Still, I think at least some of the pictures I got were good! And certainly I'll keep around most of the jpegs ::)

- We stayed in Reno. It fucking sucked, honestly, because the town was basically shut down because of unhistoric snow, and our hotel was bizarelly under construction? Like... walk between two pieces of plywood three feet apart to get between the front desk and the elevator sorta under construction. The room was nice though ::) 

- As mentioned previously, we also stayed in Laramie Wyoming for two days. It was a good recharge, plus a developed an addiction to gas station coffee (yay?)

- Before going to Laramie, we went over a strange mountain highway that used to be the Lincoln Highway. It was beautiful, but I spent a large portion of our time on it musing about death, memory, and human life. Red didn't like it very much, since I was driving at the time. Also, apparently the guy who was involved with planning the highway route was an outdoorsman who specifically asked to be buried on this one hill. At the rest stop we stopped at, there was a plaque saying "yeah we didn't bury him on that hill lmao" huh???????????????

- If you're ever in Trinidad, CO, USAmerica, look up Trinidad's Higher Calling U, pretty sick weed shop. They seem overpriced but also like really cool folks. While you're there, look up the art cartopia, which is a warehouse where some weird folks keep a ton of art cars. Absolutely thrilling!

- Our stay in Primm, NV was pretty nice. We stayed in the Buffalo Bill resort/casino (inspiration for the bison steve hotel from NV!!) and saw the Bonnie and Clyde Death Car (a hilariously gauche attraction if ever there was one), I took pictures in front of it! The hotel room also was not super expensive and had a very large bath tub so we took a hot bath together (because we are gay), it was lovely as can be.

- During the secnd to last night of travel, we were pushing hard and drove until like 2 AM. At one point, I drove us to the end of a mountain pass and once we were finally flat again I turned to Red and said "So. Now that we're at the end of that. I think it's safe to tell you that I think I've been hallucinating for the last 30 minutes." I also had a lot of sexual fantasies about the 18-wheeler next to us during a lot of that time. Not the driver, the truck itself, as it existed in motion. Not sure how to explain it. The real will recognize.It was quite frightening in retrospect.

- of the gas station chains we stopped at, I think Maverik was my favourite (this is something I have a preference on now). Every maverik we stopped at at least had hot dogs and decent selection, and none of them disgusted me.

- As far as independent gas station go, I think the one in Dunsmuir, CA, is my favourite, because it felt like a dream and also the guy working there was very nice to me and gendered me correctly (in that sort of intentional way when someone isn't quite sure what to make of you, I think). Gold star.

All in all I'm genuinely a little surprised we made it home safe. More because I catastrophize than anything else, but... yeah, lmao. 

Sometime, I need to chart out our route for the whole trip. Just so that I have it around. I don't think I'll share it though, because it's... kind of embarrassing, how bad a route we took lmfao.

[fallout-lou-begas]

Related to my last reblogged post about how nobody in the Fallout universe never seems to clean up their living areas, I love how the Bison Steve Hotel in Primm was a functional, working, inhabited hotel run by a woman named Old Laurie that only closed down a few months before the start of the game (according to dialogue with Johnson Nash), a hotel that even Cass is well familiar with and can probably be assumed to have stayed in at some point (given her location bark if you visit it with her), but if you go inside the Bison Steve Hotel and check out the rooms on the upper floors, there are literally SKELETONS EVERYWHERE

[datura-tea]

oh i gotta know everything about companion moz

what perk would they give the player?

what's cookin good lookin? - moz gives a bonus to survival skill + everything you craft at a campfire or hot plate adds 50% more hp!

how do you recruit them? are there multiple methods?

you find moz at primm, hiding in the vikki and vance casino with the rest of the primm residents. she’s courier two, back from the strip to complete her delivery, and she was traveling with daniel wyand, who is now dead in front of the mojave express building. he was moz’s friend :( moz wants to give him a proper funeral but she can’t do that with the escaped convicts running around the place. she’ll help you take on bison steve hotel if you want. she becomes a temporary companion if you agree. once you two take on the escaped convicts and all of them are gone, she’ll stop being a companion, but you meet her again at the thorn! she’s in the audience but she’ll come talk to you after you talk to red lucy. you can recruit her from there!

what raises and lowers their affinity?

raises affinity: using campfires, discovering locations, giving her sunset sarsaparilla, taking her to festus will raise the affinity crazy high, doing particular things during some quests idk what those are yet though

lowers affinity: high legion fame, high ncr fame, being unnecessarily mean and violent, threatening regular people, disparaging comments about tribals, murder, cannibalism

how do they react to certain things? what do they say? (eg. lockpicking, grabbing junk, killing?)

moz reacts positively to lockpicking and grabbing junk; killing non-violents is a big no-no though

do they periodically give the player items? what kind of items?

hmm she always has sunset sarsparilla with her but she’ll give the courier her star bottlecaps :)

would they be able to do specialised task? (eg. repairs, hacking)

moz can craft food recipes for you!

would they be romancable?

hell yeah!!! she can be romancable by male, female, and nonbinary couriers

do they have a unique outfit or weapon?

her green jacket made from cactus leather with its many many pockets can only be replaced by a high dt armor (except power armor) or be looted from her corpse. as for unique weapons, she’ll have special spiked knuckles

what would be their personal quest, if they have one?

i’ve been thinking about this a lot and i think her personal quest will have to do with her tribe, the painted heads. whether or not she should go home and help with the family restaurant, drive away the ncr who’s slowly but surely making themselves known, or continue with her traveling, something like that? what do you think, courier?

what are their opinions on certain factions? (eg. brotherhood, NCR)

she dislikes the legion for obvious reasons; ncr, because they’re slowly encroaching on the small town where her tribe settled; the brotherhood of steel and house because they’re both Weird about technology and she just doesn’t trust them. meanwhile, she likes the great khans, the followers of the apocalypse, the kings, the boomers (somewhat), the folks at the tops, among others! she just thinks they’re all swell.

general voice lines? (in reaction to companion wheel selections)

use ranged: yikes, really? [sighs] your funeral, babe. use melee: oh, now we’re talking! open inventory: sure, i think i still have space here... / i swear, if you’re gonna make me bring more trash.... stay close: y’know, my lola always told me if i stood too close to someone else, we’d switch faces. [pause] with you? i’d take it keep distance: holler if you need me! back up: aw, sick of me already? be passive: ok! i’ll try not to provoke anything :3c be aggressive: locked and loaded, baby use stimpak: ay salamat, i was about to handle it my damn self wait here: sure, i’ll be sitting pretty ‘til you come back / good thing i brought a book follow me: that’s the plan :) / where to, amigo? talk to: what’s up? / ooohh what’s the news?

where would you find them in the world?

primm at first, then the thorn

which game would they be from?

fallout new vegas, baby! i can’t imagine her anywhere else.

miscellaneous facts?

she lapses to tagalog when mad/annoyed/near death! also, if you convince her to stay with her family, she gives you a special special recipe