Friday, April 23, 2278 -- Janet Telia is on The Mall, sneaking round mostly, but taking care of any mutants should they notice her. Her entire mission: see if it's possible to activate GNR's radio dish (without doing the quest). And the only reason she's doing this is so the radio's not all crackly in Moriarty's Tavern.

Edit: a super mutant walked right NEXT to her. Couldn't resist slipping a grenade in his pocket .. "Mother BOOM!!!*

Please let us know if you got the dish fixed without having talked to 3Doggiedog

I've never tried the Shady Sands Shuffle myself. Mostly I think it's because I start shooting from a mile away

“Too bad man. It was really fun.”

Seriously though, it’s surprisingly satisfying.

I wonder if that's possible but I guess it is...just like it is possible to skip the quest with the 3Dog entirely.

I did play Janet's game a couple days ago, and she successfully pulled the Virgo II satellite dish from that lunar module in the Museum of Technology. But the way into the Washington Monument is off-limits right now.

But that's okay. I'm going to play around in the GECK and slove that problem. I consider my gameworlds combined, which means Cho Zen Wan would've already paved the way into the Monument, gotten the GNR mission done, and so on. So I can just roleplay that somehow.

No gaming for me today so no dogs, Three or otherwise.


Last session saw yet another big selling of stuff and 30.000 caps has been breached. This has been a good season indeed, much better than last, and I wouldn't be surprised if I hit 50.000 before the hiatus

Right, one needs a password to open the door to the Washington Monument and you can only get the password from 3Dog, if I recall correctly. This means, that the quest can't be officially completed unless one talks to 3Dog first.

Holy cow! A Lopov appearance! Hi Lopov!

Hi, Khajiit! Nice to see you too!

Another session and more caps in my pocket. Nothing special worth mentioning other than we visited areas of the wasteland not often patrolled. This time we sold stuff at Tenpenny's and right now we're at the empty HQ of Talon Company; the big compound roughly in the middle of the map.


Also; hi, Lopov!

Hi 'rocu.

Is Tenpenny still alive in your game?

Nah, he's long gone

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Edit: We've now sold stuff and have 36.000 caps+ after a visit to Tenpenny. Collected some things at Bethesda just prior. Now we've headed east from Tenpenny chasing after more stuff/things to collect and sell

Justin Tyme, a toon character I rolled a while back, finally got his game running. Running without crashing after speaking to Doc Mitchell, that is. Anyway, I decided he'll probably just do the Main Quest and whatever other missions/quests he wants, until whatever. Playing him dead-is-dead though, on Normal difficulty.

Now that I've got this game running on PC I'm gonna [censored] it up, baby! Nah, I won't add too many mods. I do want to mess around with leveled creatures though. And add locations! NV needs more places to explore.

Congrats on finally getting it running.

Congrats Renee. It’s crap that one has to do so much just to get the game working, but I remember enjoying my time with New Vegas on the XB360. I particularly liked the Dead Money and Honest Hearts DLCs.

Thanks. Thing is, I have NO idea why the game kept crashing / freezing after speaking to Doc, no idea at all. And I did nothing different.

Was thinking of installing an autosave disabler; maybe that'll help, but I forgot to do this yesterday. All I did was start a brand-new game. *shrug* I did this because I figure the extant saves had become corrupted somehow. Even though no mods are involved yet.

Don't go Dead-is-dead, the game of your next character if Justin dies, might crash again after exiting Doc's house.

Joke aside, I'm glad that you got it running. Welcome Justin!

Great news, Renee!


As for me, today I broke 41.000 caps and yes we ARE coming close to when it's time for Point Lookout. Couple more weeks...

Bah! It’s always time for Point Lookout!

Sunday, April 26, 2278 -- Janet, my Talon Company agent, just defeated Sam Warrick. Anyone ever encounter this guy? He's also known as Ken Rollins. Anyway, he was an excellent shot. Kept hitting Janet with his sniper rifle, even as she's running full speed and zig-zagging.

But she got him in the end. Stunned the guy and then sliced him up with Hiss, a knife Lopov made which also poisons its victim.

She's headed to Vault 108 but sheesh, her armor's torn to shreds. Maybe a good time to backtrack. ALL because of Ken Rollins/Sam Warrick.

Sam Warrick was a first random encounter that my first character in FO3 Ronny encountered. I immediately looked up the guy on the Wiki. IIRC he's at first chasing some wastelander and when he kills him, he turns on you.

Yeah, my characters usually run into him at the little destroyed farm up the hill from the Super Duper Mart early in the game.

Just like Christmas, Point Lookout comes but once a year


And it's closing in! We're currently at Rivet City. We always stop by here before making our way to the Dutchess Gambit. Guns have been selected and collected and I'm ready to once again roam the marshlands and hunt some ghouls in the grotto up north.


Soon.... Very soon.....

The anticipation is killing me.

Janet just met Uncle Leo, a friendly super mutant. Didn't kill the guy outright, and I'm glad she didn't. Never met a friendly mutant before.

I hope not! It's gonna be a riot at the cave and then we're gonna hunt all the local yokel!


You've never met Uncle Leo before?

Maybe we have met Leo, and I'm just not remembering.

Tuesday, April 28, 2277 _- Janet was on her way to Chaste Dairy Farm to find an outlaw named Bam the day before (Monday). But Temple of the Union is nearby, and it was getting dark. She's stayed with the escaped slaves before. For some reason though, they attacked her this time! Wouldn't let her past their little gate.

I have no idea what happened. It's not like she joined the slavers. She even killed Sister!

Unfortunately it seems that Leo has disappeared from my game as it has been a few years now since last I saw him which btw was at an Outcast camp up north not far from some of the large disc projector things. I saw him walk off westward and after that he's not been spotted.


Weird. Did Janet accidentally take something from them last time she was there?

Uncle Leo

GREETINGS FROM POINT LOOKOUT!

Pics, or it didn’t happen.

No pics but things have been sold to madame Panada and I even killed three mole rats and Toby one smuggler before I even got off the boat


Next up is going into the isles on they way to the grotto.

Wow, smugglers actually got that close to the boat?

I always see one or two after a trek around the isle, but seeing one immediately was new. Good thing the protectron is there but here's a thing; when I come back to the boardwalk he's always missing. Always! He's not destroyed or anything, just missing. Then the year after he's always back

That's nice! Nice that there are subtle variations from year to year.

And he can say the same about you! Always missing, always back in a year.

Only one thing that still makes it fun

Bahahahaha!

Yesterday I took Plik's safari but since the game crashed before I saved, I had to redo it


After that I took the coastline back to the boardwalk and I once again saw that smuggler stepping on the plank high above. The whole thing played out years ago but I guess his ghost still haunts the place. Oh, but it can't be a ghost because I could light him up with the Chinese fire pistol!
Then he fell down onto some rocks where I couldn't get to him. I even tcl:d up to him first but he had NO GREETING


After that it was on to the detention camp. It usually has some bots patrolling but this time only a bunch of ghouls even though I resurrected all the bots last year before leaving.
Now it's nighttime and I'm close to Trapper's shack and will deal with whoever's inside next session.

Trapping trappers at the Trapper’s Shack?

Saturday, October 19, 2281 -- Justin Tyme is in Goodsprings House, a mod-added home just down the street from Doc Mitchell's place. I don't know much about Justin yet but he already has proved himself to be a thief. Stole a beer, a Stimpak, and some food from this house.

I've only added three mods into New Vegas so far: all three are locational add-ons. Novac Resomething (removes the boards from several motel rooms so we can use them), More NV Locations, and Vault 25, I think. My goal is to make the U-shaped travel from Goodsprings to Primm to Nipton and up to Novac not so predictable. New places to explore should hopefully add some extra places to explore, although I also don't remember the Mojave too well. Haven't played NV since 2021. 🤠

I created mods that add player homes in Goodsprings and in Novac. I think they are both on the Nexus. Yes, Novac Player Bungalow is here and Goodsprings Small Player Home is here. Both have a bed, safe storage, and all the crafting stations. I also made Simplified Ammo Crafting. As the name says, it streamlines the process of crafting ammo by reducing the number of different types of materials you need.

Awesome, thanks so much! The Bungalow, I can already see a future person I've got in mind living there. Her name will be Jen X.

Hey do you (or anyone) know of something which makes "Hardcore" mode into a bunch of sliders? Like an MCM we'd see in Skyrim or something similar?

Every fricking hardcore mode mod I've seen tries to make the experience MORE H4RDC0R3, like a life-or-death experience every hour, which is not what I'm after, and doesn't accurately portray the Mojave 100%. Although I've never lived there, I have driven thru Nevada in fall & winter months, and I've done research using this Historical Almanac Archive. Nevada in October (when the game starts) is not enormously dangerous with the temperatures and such, not in the way some modders portray it.

I'm now back in the Capital Wasteland but still aboard the Dutchess Gambit. Point Lookout has once again been cleared, a little less action-y than usual (or so it feels), and now it's time to run back to Megaton with Gunny for hibernation.

On note: I will not hit 50.000 caps as I thought I'd do; with everything sold I've landed at 45.000 and there's no way I can get another 5000 right now. But it's close enough and if I hadn't been more active this year than last I wouldn't even have hit that.

Upon arriving in the Capital Wasteland I collected Gunny and headed straight back home to Megaton. No resistance other than a lone raider close to the shore and a Giant Rad Scorpion close to home.
After selling some stuff in Megaton, as much as I could, I reached a final result of 47097 caps collected this season. Not quite 50.000 but still pretty good!

Then I chose some new guns and put everything I didn't want to carry in their proper drawer and after three nights' sleep and some healing at the healing station I now sit in my chair upstairs, once again ready to head out.


Well met in 2025!

47,000 caps, that's incredible.

Sunday, October 20, 2281, 3:22 AM: Justin Tyme got lost in the desert but has finally found his way back to Goodsprings.

I get the sense that he's a bad boy. Just... sort of out for himself. He was looking at some Powder Gangers thinking "those guys got it going on!"

I installed a couple mods. A darker nights mod (it's the desert!) and New Vegas Proper Re-Animated, which overhauls walking & running. I never had a prob with the Karen Aboucha and Linda Hand move, but Justin shuffled along like a zombie! 🧟‍♀️ With the mod he still shuffles a bit, but it's not quite as stiff.

Anyway, have no idea what this guy's up to. Powder Gangers, eh?

Cho Zen Wan just spoke to an Enclave soldier! Just so you know, Cho is Brotherhood; technically all Enclave are his enemies. So it's just like Lothran in a way, who keeps meeting friendly bandits.

Lothran, holy cripes. He's about to head to Bruma, ain't he?

Yes, but that's a story for another time..


But interesting Cho found a friendly enemy. That's always a treat