Mirocu- Hello? I want to know. Pretty Please.

Oh, I'm sorry, I missed your question!


Here's the most recent data thus far:

Total hours: 709
Bottle cap count: 529839

He didn't do it right. Here, let me try.



There, that's better.

You think I was being a bit modest?

That is mind blowing....... wow!

Even the 709 hours is so cool. Fallout 3 does not have enough quests or interior cell resets to get to those hours without boredom. Of course with console command and mods on PC anything is possible!

Thanks Renee! That was so much better to read.

He's the one that usually goes for the bolded size 7 colored text! This time I had to get involved.

It does make me wonder though. My Cho Zen Wan Main Quest / Broken Steel game has been going since 2013. He was my first character. Despite this, I don't think I have that many hours in his game... maybe 200.

His bottle cap count right now is just over a thousand, and that's mostly because I've added some of my own content into his game so he could get extra money. If we divide a thousand by 200, we get 5 caps per hour.

If we divide 529,839 by 709, we get 747 caps per hour. How the heck are you pulling that off, Crow? *laughs*

Wait... are you talking about the total amount of caps found overall? Or how many caps Mirocu currently has on-hand?

I only do that when hitting an even number like 100.000, 200.000 and so on


Considering how long I've been playing, I don't think it's too much. Should be more


I pull it off by running around collecting loot, and I do that by hunting everything I can hunt and then sell it off. Gunny helps me carry extra loot so that helps. And to answer WW, I enjoy running around gunz blazing. In the early days I snuck around much and was careful so now it's fun not having to do that


Also; that is exactly how many bottle caps I have in total as of now. Expect that to increase

We have a new pet name for the crow- 747

Mirocu- How much fast travel do you use? Is it just load up and hit the shops by just going backwards and forwards as quickly as you can? in Oblivion I remember a friend of mine having plies and plies of loot all over the ground and he just had to sell every single item. Of course with companions we do need such craziness these days....!!

747 Crow Boi here!


I use fast travel quite a bit. Often to get to certain "starting points" from where I usually set off in a certain direction where I know enemies are. And then I may fast travel to Megaton or T. Tower to sell, and so on. But it's not a chore; I enjoy myself on the way and only fast travel when I get bored or have enough to sell.

747 you must be selling literally everything you can pick up, am I right?

In other words, with my guys & gals, they only pick up with I'd think they can realistically carry, Mirocu is picking up everything, and then Gunny also helps.

And Bingo was her name-o!


In the word of Dave Hester: YUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUP! ™


Well, there are items I don't pick up. For instance if the weight to value ratio is too low then I don't bother.

I like this idea and use it myself when playing a Beth game. It heaps keep things fresh rather than travelling over that same ground again and again and again....

As for selling items I have always used a 4:1 ratio (value gold/caps against weight) to decide if it was worth grabbing. It is second nature when playing Oblivion or Fallout 3.

Wandering the NW section of the Capital Wasteland. Got a bunch of stuff on mine and Gunny's persons *ahem* and we really need to sell it.

Technically, you don't *need* any more caps, Crow. How about donating some to the cause? Come. Help Cho Zen Wan defeat the Enclave. Just a small donation of.... oh .. how about two zillion caps? Then, you can write it off on your tax return!

I am returning to New Vegas this morning. I accidentally logged into Karen Aboucha's game instead of Linda Hand's. To refresh our memories (including mine) Karen is the less-adventurous gal I rolled last summer, while Linda is very quest-oriented. But it's good that I logged into Karen's game because I want to get back into NV one step at a time.

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Tuesday, 11.13.81, 10:55 AM

Karen Aboucha begins her night lazing around in one of the booths of Prospector Saloon. Listening to old-timey music on its juke.

"Esta es la vida," she mutters, and smiles.

"What?" It's Trudy, the saloon's boyish-sounding barmaid.

"Sorry. I mean to say, 'this is the life.'"

"Oh." Trudy smiles, as well. She returns to her latest task: wiping shot glasses with a clean rag. This task is needless, of course, since the saloon's shot glasses were already clean. Wiping glasses down gave Trudy something to do though, of course.

In an hour or two, Trudy and Karen leave the saloon, and go back to Trudy's place. In an hour or two, Sunny shows up, and the scene becomes awkward, but in a laid-back sort of way. Still, Karen decides she'll mosey off, and wanders back to Victor's Shack, where she'll have a nightcap. Maybe she'll then sleep until it's well past noon. Maybe then she'll mosey on back to Prospector Saloon.

Or maybe, she'll go off scavenging instead. Karen smiles. Goodsprings es impressionante. She knows she's got all the time in the world.
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Too bad there isn't another bed in Trudy's house.

But hey, Easy Pete would gladly host Karen...

I don't know, Easy Pete might talk her ear off...

Yes, I do not think Easy Pete's going to have that sort of company. Pete'll have to wait for some other character!

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*POP!*

Pipboy App ON

Date: Monday, 04.06.78, 3:53 PM

Cho here. "Here" being Olney Paperworks, that is. Looks like I've .... I mean we've, finally got this damn Tesla Coil thingie. Had a hell of a time getting in here. For anybody who follows, at least they won't have to deal with [censored] deathclaws, at least. Break.

Had to hack into several computers just to get in, man that was not fun. Starting to get the hang of it all though. Maybe if I can find Marge, she can program my Pipboy to do all the work. No more hacking. Break.

Looks like one final computer here. Let me grab my Mentats. Hope I don't get addicted to these things. ...

unidentified male voice: Ah, there he is! Talking into his arm again.

unidentified male voice 2: Cho, give it up. Nobody's ever gonna hear all these recordings a hundred years from now. What are ya, trying to get famous?

Ha ha, very funny. But now seriously. Shut the hell up. I gotta focus. Got another damn computer.

unidentified male voice 2: Oh yeah, by the way, we just thought of something Cho.

Soldier, you may speak.

unidentified male voice 2: What if you find that chick who programmed your Pibguy. Get her to make some program so you don't have to hack all these computers? That'd be fab, wouldn't it? .... What?

Yes soldier, what a great idea. Time for your promotion. How about I make you sergeant. How about we all start calling you "sarge?"

unidentified male voice: What if we start calling him whelp?

unidentified male voice 3: What if we start calling him lapdog? *unidentified sound*

Alright, seriously guys, shut the hell up. Daddy's gotta get to work again. Keep your positions. Stay in formation. We don't know if we're about to get ambushed by more Enclave fuckers.

unidentified male voices: SIR YES SIR!!!

*click!*

Pipboy App OFF

Date: Saturday, 03.28.78, 4:10PM


Hey I'm bored.

Let's go...

This one's mine!

Flank 'em!

Oh, you want somma this? You want sum?

Another one for the good guys.

Scoundrel'd

Sergeant Cho!

Awwwm, poor deathclaws...

Deathclaws breed like crazy. The Hobo just cleared Old Olney, now they're already back.

Cocked'n'locked.

I guess I could do that. If I wasn't a cheapskate

*POP!*

Pipboy App ON

Date: Saturday, 04.12.78, 12:48 AM

Hey y'all out there. Well it looks like we're going to the White House! Running back and forth in a place called Georgetown, trying to figure stuff all out. It's funny because according to our studies back in Vault 101, Georgetown was once a prosperous, gleaming center of the D.C. metropolis. Senators and top-ranked FBI agents had elegant homes out here. And I can see what they mean. Place must have been pretty fancy-*unidentified word* at one time. I wonder how many caps it'd take per month to rent one of these! ... What sort of monthly fees would one have to pay? Break.

And now look at the place. It's a dump. Infested by super-mutants. Until the C-team comes to town, of course. Break.

Seems like I found some sort of power box which is missing a fuse. Down there in the Metro area. Gotta say, the Presidential Metro is a lot cleaner than what we're usually been seeing. But I gotta find some [censored] fuse to power up the metro trains, to get to Adams Air Force Base. Always something, ya know? Break.

It really helps though, because one of the ... the Citadel scientist scribes came up with a pretty cool invention for my customized gun. He added some sort of simple computer toggle, or whatever. If I flip this switch, and my C-team is not around, it'll cause a small green light to show up on their power armor suits. And they know to come find me. Flip it back again, and now they know just to stay where they are, because a red light shows up for them. Pretty badass? Break.

I can't find this [censored] fuse or whatever. Gonna have to ... I don't know. I don't know what to do next. I do have some rather crappy pictures to upload though, whenever we get back to *unidentified word*


*click!*

Pipboy App OFF

Date: Saturday, 04.12.78, 12:55 AM


Welcome to Georgetown

Lazer Battle

Statue

Storming the Place

I have news for Cho. Everywhere in the Wasteland is a dump! That's why its called a wasteland after all...

Neat laser battle.

Cho is the Laser Commander.

Is that vanilla helmet he's having equipped'

Usual running around here. Started mid-map and then southwards past the Corvega factory where we came across an Outcast (Hey-Ya!) patrol which we followed a bit until they did a 180. Gunny and I are now by the subway station near the recruitment center close to D.C.

I'm yet again on a mission to try and find Firelance. The encounter happened years ago but at the time I didn't bother. Some time later I tried finding it using Dogmeat and I tried again today. Didn't get Firelance but I finally picked up the regular Alien Blaster anyway, plus the energy cells.

I know in what general area it happened, I just need to return there with Dogmeat again and be more methodical.

I've only seen this encounter once but I can't remember in whose game it was.

Are you sure the Firelance is still somewhere out there? Could it happen that it got 'deleted' when the cell reset?

That is a possibility, I don't know. It could also have taken a dive into the ground mesh. I wanna give it another try though in case it's still there.

Where did you have the encounter, just curious? In my case it was close to the Roach King location.

Just by MDPL-13 powerstation. Went there again with Dogmeat but it must be too late by now. I covered a huge area but wherever I tried getting him to search for a weapon, upon leaving the conversation he immediately engaged me again, indicating there is nothing around.

10.25.81, 12:53 -- Linda Hand is in Primm, where she's trying to find the people who shot her, but now she's getting shot at! Damn convicts.

Rleplay-wise, she's trying to find her brother, Les Havva Hand (sorry if I'm repeating myself; trying to get into the story here!) Anyway, she and Les came to the Vegas area some weeks before. Her brother had gone missing, and presumably the people who tried to kill her may have kidnapped her brother. Who knows, maybe he's now part of some forced entertainment. Les is an entertainer, after all.

There's a sort of urgency to Linda's game, because of all this extra stuff. She pretty much ignores all quests so far, unless they deal with trying to find the men who tried to pwn her, and may have captured or killed her bro.

But she just discovered some binoculars!!! Really nice to have these! I had no idea binocs are in this game.

Sounds like you are in the right place then. Even the down and out can find their shelf here in Vegas.



Are you running Couriers Stash? They always pop up at the start when a new game is started. Make sure you grab all DLC if you can- including Gun Runners Arsenal. The one thing of many that Obsidian did right was the add-ons. They are all awesome!

I love the binoculars in NV. It was one of the first things I modded in FO4.

It makes sense to have an urgency to the main quest, especially since it's your first time of going after Benny. My first character would also ignore most quests that popped up on his way to catch Benny.

Binoculars are a nice addition, I agree. I think I know where in Primm you found them, right above the hotel entrance?

Wolfie: Her brother, Les Havva Hand, will be a future character I'll roll once I'm playing the game on PC, and can choose alternate start options. I have a feeling Les either got kidnapped (as Linda fears) or maybe he even ditched her, because she's the "big sis" who he had to deal with all his life in whatever vault they came from, and he's sick of her for some reason.

Hmm, I'm not sure what Courier's Stash is. Do I have all the DLC installed? I'm not sure. I'll have to check. Linda's game is on Xbox though, so one thing's for sure, if Courier's Stash is a mod.

Lopov: Yes, binocs were found right above the hotel entrance. *DING* Interesting that your first also ignored some quests. Honestly it's quite overwhelming, all the stuff being thrown at Linda. I can feel her mind going a little bonkers.

Sounds like his name should be changed to Les Needa Hand...

The Courier's Stash is a group of 4 mini-dlc. Each gives you a few extra items to start with that are better than normal. A pair of binoculars are in one. The canteen in another one is almost a super-item, as it basically gives you a slow form of regeneration, especially if you play on Survival, where water matters. I bought the GOTY version of New Vegas, and it came with the Courier's Stash, and all the other dlc.

Today me and Gunny covered the north-western part of das map. Got plenty of Mirelurks and Giant Radscorpions. We also got a few Talons up in the mountains which helped weigh me down with the result I can now only walk instead of run.

Currently we're heading downwards in search of any caravan and if none is found we're heading to Megaton.

Talon(s) in those parts?

Were they lurking in one of satellite arrays or were a part of a random encounter?

They have a spawn point roughly NW of Fort Constantine, or slightly NE of where the Outcasts have a small base.

Right, now I remember. The Hobo encountered them there as well.

Fun fact: I have a permanent marker there so I can always find those Talons for more l00t

11:03:81, 4:31: Linda Hand arrives in Novac. Okay, we get it now: No ... Vacancy!

I got that years ago and I don't even have the game

Wednesday, 11.07.81, 1:25 AM -- Linda Hand is exploring REPCONN Facility, where she's supposed to get rid of a Nightkin in its basement. Some ghouls who live in REPCONN"s top floor have given her this assignment. We are apprehensive about it, of course.

Thing is, I am thinking they're not really invisible all the time, unless (whoa) this actually means they've taken so much StealthBoy, or something. I have noticed there are lots of StealthBoys to be found here.

EDIT: cripes! Nightkins not only are invisible, but they don't show up as red dots???? Well, Linda just got one with her 9mm handgun. The thing jumped on her, just about, so she had no choice but to rain bullets on it, while backing up.

I always liked this quest - Come fly with me. I remember that a lot of members at the old Beth forums would abhor this quest, apparently because it's not lore-friendly. But I like it so much that most of my characters complete it.

Good luck with nightkins, Linda Hand. A nightking jumped on her? That's not very friendly, is it?

Absolutely not, it was not friendly at all when that nightkin jumped on her.

Why is it supposedly not lore friendly?

I can already see how many twists and turns New Vegas adds to quests. My gosh, first she got the quest from the guy who stands in the dino's mouth (lol) then she finds out not all ghouls are bad. She met the non-feral ones in the top of REPCONN and decided not to attack them. But they send her into the basement, where the top nightkin guy demands she figure out something about some StealthBoy shipment. But in doing so, she meets yet another non-feral ghoul who wants her to save a female friend of his....

It seemed like it would just keep getting more and more complicated! This is an effect of Linda having high Charisma, right? Everybody doesn't mind talking to her ... maybe if her CH was lower they'd just attack?

The final ghoul guy (the one who wanted her to find his friend) did eventually attack her though. Which was his mistake. But she did manage to make a peaceful resolution for everyone else in REPCONN so far.

That is not a result of her charisma. All those people meet you and want you to do those things for them.

Apart from influencing Barter & Speech skills, Charisma has an impact on companion nerve, which the higher the charisma, the more dangerous and damage-resistant your followers are. Having a high charisma also unlocks a few dialogue options in some specific dialogues, but only at a few occasions, not with every NPCs.

Too bad that Linda Hand had to kill Harland. He's an interesting chap, when I met him for the first time, I was hoping that he can later on be recruited as a companion. He can be quite easily provoked, however, and if making a step too close to his hideout, he gets hostile immediately, so it's easy to get on his wrong side.



I don't remember anymore but some members at old Beth forums would write essays regarding this quest and the lore. I don't think I ever bothered to read it in whole.

I think I know why some people might think it is not lore friendly, but don't want to give out any spoilers. Once Renee is finished with the quest, I'll say more.

Why thank you. Let' see if I can get Come Fly With Me done today.

Blondie reached 300 hours! To celebrate this occasion, I installed two mods for her, one short and the other one medium in length. The shorter one, Peace in the valley, is about a mysterious murder that took place in Outer Vegas. Together with her new companion and part-time lover Derrick, Blondie needs to uncover the mystery.

In the second one, Treasure for a traveler, Blondie, Derrick and her faithful German shepherd Guts must follow clues, left behind by an unknown person, to uncover the mythic gold stash. Blondie suspects that in the end they won't find any gold, but that it's in fact a trick played on them but it remains to be seen.

Blondie was created in August 2014 and has been around for more than five years. She survived a major disk crash in 2016, and went through a lot of stability game issues, mostly due to excessive mods. At 300 hours her game is more stable than it was, so we're looking forward to many more hours together.

Nicely done! Time for some cake.

Seriously, when we "met" in 2012 Lopov, I think your record was somewhere between 40 to 80 hours, for Falador's game. I know 300 is just a number,but it is rather nice to have a few who have been around for awhile, and you have some history with them. I need to have a look at how long Cho's been around. He was my first Fallout character, who I rolled in summer of 2013.