So I take it that Goodsprings is safe now? At least for the moment? I'm sure that being sneaky is very helpful when relying on fists and knife.

Looks like Trudy is having none of Joe Cobb's antics.

Joe brought a gun to a kung-fu fight?

Lee is pummeling him like Foreman vs. Frazier.

Down goes Cobb! Down goes Cobb! Down goes Cobb!

That is a colorful addition to the Goodsprings sign!

It said that a Shaolin Priest can walk through walls. Listened for, he cannot be heard. Looked for, he cannot be seen.

Hey, where are all the Lopov shots? Who are you and what have you done to Mr. Lopov?

Kidding. Lee looks like a tough guy, and I usually like tough guys. I like his bandana a lot for sure. Looks like his flurry of fists does him a lot of good too. Why do you need a gun to make this tough guy, just use custo, flurry of fists.

The saloon scene is just like something out of the Wild West. There's a fight, somebody gets pwned, life goes on for somebody else. Just another day.

@TheCheshireKhajiit - there will be more con-beating in the days ahead.

@Acadian - yes, Goodsprings is safe once you repel the attack. Powder Gangers leave the town at peace afterwards, though they remain present in surrounding areas (respawning).

@SubRosa - Alan Webb was my first character who hung Cobb's corpse over the Goodsprings sign. Since then, some of my morally-gray characters do the same.

@Renee - the bandana is a nice addition, I agree. It's mod-added, some bandanas exist in the vanilla game but they're very rare.

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In search of answers Lee Cyeng came to Primm, only to find out that the town was overran by more convicts. Even worse, the sheriff was killed and the deputy kidnapped. Lee Cyeng cleaned the town of vermin and punished the deputy, finding him unworthy of protecting the town.

No nonsense

What happened?

Lee happened

The call of the combat knife

Welcome home

What happened?

Amputation

The boss

Among friends

Deputy no more

Primm liberated

Tough day

Lee looks good in the No Nonsense pic

Did you use a mod to give all the Powder Ganger orange jumpsuits?

Lee has upgraded to a much cooler blade.

Lee disarmed a Powder Ganger

It looks like Lee stuck the deputy through the wall!

Khajiit always loved clearing the scum out of Primm.

Nice work in Primm for Lee and his knife. And finally, you close with a Lopov shot of Lee! Very neat through the fire.

Yes. What he said.

@SubRosa - me too thinks that the bandana combined with the mod added glasses suits him perfectly.

Yes, it's a mod that makes PGs orange, it isn't patched to match Breeze's body but it's not a big deal.

In Lee's eyes Primm is better off without Beagle.

I used the console commands to finish the quest and getting the town under the NCR control, I roleplayed that the soldiers moved in as soon as convicts were taken care of.

@TheCheshireKhajiit - so did Lee though he's getting annoyed because he always has to "do something" to find the information he's looking for, nothing goes smoothly.

@Acadian - the combat knife is definitely better than an ordinary kitchen knife.

He had to warm up by the burning barrel at night.

@Renee - quoted for truth!

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Falling ganger

Mutie with a broken nose

Midnight cinema

Abducted

In the game you step to the portal willingly but I roleplayed that Lee was abducted by scientists of the Big MT as he got too close because else he wouldn't step through the portal on his own.

Welcome to the Big MT

Pissed off

Lee put his new scientist glove to good use

And the proton axe quickly became one of his favorite weapons

Not to mention the throwing proton axe

Or the powerful saturnite fist

Big puppies and lobotomites aside...

...the Big MT isn't so bad because Lee got his hands on some very powerful weapons and equipment

There you go, two Lopov shots in the same set, I said I'd make it up. The screenies from the Welcome to the Big MT onward are from the Old World Blues DLC which is normally unplayable at low levels because it's recommended for character of level 15 or higher. But with a proper mod anything's possible.

Cool pics! Khajiit remembers the one time he tried to play Old World Blues, which was as soon as it was available, he was getting pwned over and over by the enemies there. He then reloaded a save and avoided the drive in like the plague, lol.

I see Lee is augmenting his knife with warhammers, battleaxes, throwing axes and gauntlets of fisticuffs! And he's putting quite the beat down on his foes. I should think a magically returning throwing axe would be great fun!

Lee threw him off the mountain!

It's hammertime!

In Soviet Russia Nevada Wasteland, movie watches you!

Lee does not look happy to be in the Big Empty.

From the angle of that shot, it looks like there are bunch of spikes coming out of that Lobotomite's back.

I loved the proton axe and proton inversal axe

And a classic Lopov shot!

Oda Hidetaka walks the Nevada Wastes

Springing into action

Zen and the art of radio mechanics

No, I don't want to save money on car insurance!

Disarming a chinpira

Looks like a Hobo slept here

Welcome to Oda! I enjoyed reading her bio on the other thread - plenty of neat background there. Her look is fabulous and perfectly matches who you describe. Katana in the attack!

She looks great, even better than on the pic in the intro thread unless lightning in the opening screenie is different. She boasts a shiny armor too but it goes well with her PipSamurai.

In smiling company of Sunny Smiles.

The radio began working as it got afraid of being cut in two by Oda's sword.

Gecko's is everyone's first kill.

Barton got what he deserved - no one tricks a samurai like that!

A Hobo would feel at home in such a place for sure.

So while Lee is experimenting with fists and power-gloves, Oda has delved into the world of Zen while trying to bang a radio station to come in, and doesn't seem to like Geico commercials very much.

What would happen if Lee and Oda met up, do you two think?

@TheCheshireKhajiit - OWB can be difficult even at level 15 if not skilled enough in combat skills. Then again, by doing quests in OWB you level up very quickly, so you can invest more skill points in combat skills.

@Acadian - with mods some weapons get lodged in targets but the throwing proton axe isn't one of them as it explodes on hit. Throwing knives, hatchets or tomahawks stay in targets as long as you actually hit an NPC, if you hit a wall, they're destroyed. Lee also makes his own throwing weapons - shuriken and kunai, the first of the two will be seen in today's screenies but they get destroyed upon impact as well.

@SubRosa - indeed it looks like spikes are growing out of the lobotomite. It wouldn't be surprising to see something like this in the Big Empty. A proton axe quickly became Lee's favorite weapon but later the 1st place was overtaken by an inversal protonic axe. Lee wasn't happy to be in the Big Empty indeed, that's why he rushed through it as quick as possible.

@Renee - Oda and Lee wouldn't be hostile to each other, in fact Lee would be interested in meeting the real samurai. He respects true warriors so he'd respect Oda because she follows her own code of honor like himself though he's more Yakuza-like. His mother taught him Japanese so they might talk in their native language, that is if Japanese hasn't changed much since the time of Oda's birth.

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Shuriken, Lee's throwing weapon

Bite in the knee

Stealing the antenna

Against roboscorpions

The big boom

Revenge on the Think Tank

Back in the Mojave

Going to Nevada

"You're cute."

"You're cute too."

"Oh, wow, on your knees already. Just let me unzip my pants."

He got a blow but not the one he expected

Shuriken flies again

Target down

Falling Viper

Neck-breaker

The final image is blurry because I brightened it up with M. Office else it was too dark because I use a mod which darkens nights.

Lol, those Vipers are so stupid!

I think Lee and Hidetaka would team up for an awesome Kung-Fu/Samurai smackdown upon Nevada's evil-doers! But more than that, Hidetaka could sympathize with how Lee is caught in a life that is really not his own. I could see her trying to help him get free of his Senatorial masters. Be it by helping fake Lee's death, or killing the Senators.

I think they would make a cool team. Like Power Man and Iron Fist in the comics. In fact, I think a comic book starring them would be cool. Heroes For Hire in Vegas.

Hidetaka does drink, but only rarely, and never to excess. Of course she does not smoke or use chems. Physical vices are for the weak. She does not gamble for the same reason. Her idea of excitement is doing her katas. Her relaxation is meditating. She is a Zen Buddhist, she seeks perfection in her Art as a swordswoman, and following the Noble Eightfold Path. I think she would bore most people. But some would doubtlessly admire her iron discipline and razor-sharp focus.

Lee is looking stylish in the Stealth Suit. I think that is my all time favorite item in New Vegas. I like how the suit talks to you. It is like having a companion, but without all the headaches of them running in front of your gun all the time, or shooting you in the back.

The Think Tank went down like Foreman in the Rumble in the Jungle.

I did not even notice Lee in that first Cute pic. He's photobombing the Vipers.

Great action shot of the shuriken in flight.

Acadian: I have been thinking about playing either New Vegas again for a while now. I was going over what kind of character I might play, and thought back to some of my FO3 characters who have not been to Nevada. Hidetaka won out, and so far she has been a lot of fun.


Lopov: Her shiny armor comes from a mod that feminizes the Mothership Zeta special armors. I forget the name of it, since it is just a mesh and texture replacer.

As long as she has Takizakura, Hidetaka can repair anything!


Badmen coming to town

The samurai charges out to meet them

All life is ephemeral

And more ephemeral than usual beyond this sign

Bad day to be a kobun

Hidetaka gets ahead

Cleaning up the local yakuza

Big or small, Takizakura chops them all

Head over heels

She slices! She dices! She makes coldcuts out of inmates! Remember, for all of your food processing needs, trust in Hidetaka! Number 1 in Japanese precision cutting devices!

Lol @ Khajiit's comments above!

I really love the Eastern philosophy theme you got going on with Oda, Miss Florens, especially now that I've read the Character bio you wrote up. Can you write us an update? Even a paragraph or two? I'd love to hear your thought-processes with this one in particular.

And good, I was thinking that she and Lee would get along.

@SubRosa - bad gangers, bad gangers, whatcha gonna do, whatcha gonna do when Oda comes for you...

She is really pretty and has a unique expression on her face, which isn't easy to achieve with the character creator.

Joe Cobb falls the first.

Better not wander too close to Quarry Junction, at least not yet.

No mercy for kobuns!

Looks like Oda did some correcting in the NCR Correctional facility.

The Lopov shot of the dead ganger for the end.

@TheCheshireKhajiit - no, Vipers aren't stupid, Lee's Sneak is high.

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At times Lee Cyeng can get too hot-blooded and that's what happened in Novac. He merely wanted some answers but once again a favor was required of him, only then he'd get his answers. This time Lee used force and as a consequence he's now vilified in Novac. I was expecting that the entire town would turn hostile after he killed Manny but only one settler attacked him and even this one is added by some mod.

Once there was a gang...

Novac

Unusual customer

Expectorated from the dinosaur's mouth

Should have stayed at home

Searching for clues

Reinforced armor & saturnite fist (the armor is from the Walking Box Cavern and the first from the Big MT)

Partying with Cazadores

In Boulder City Lee Cyeng caught up with some of the people who attacked him and completed the 1st part of his revenge.

Dead man walking

Punch!

At this point I thought that Jessup died but as Lee was done with his companion, Jessup stood up and ran out.

Beating the Khans

Mission Revenge pt. 1 completed

New bandana

Oh noes! Manny's been defenestrated!

Lee is armored up. Better use something with reach for those cazadores!

Lee is the last man standing.

And a classic Lee shot to finish it off.

Geez, Lee is a one man wrecking crew!

TheCheshireKhajiit: Hidetaka is the ginsu of the Wasteland


Renee: I would not even know what to write. Maybe about Joe Cobb and the Powder Gangers? I will think about it.


Lopov: Gojira is in Quarry Junction!

I think I started with one of the Asian presets with Hidetaka, and then went from there. Of course I created her in FO3 first, and used a face exchange program to transfer her face to FONV. After I played her a bit in NV I noticed her chin was a little too long, and tweaked that by shortening that up some to look more natural.



Kills bugs dead

Disarming a Raider

Hidetaka has a new arquebus

Zen and the Art of Solar Energy

This makes Noh dramas seem exciting

Now this is more like it!

A waterfall of cherry blossoms

Ooh that Vault was so creepy! Looks like the Sentrybot was no match for Japanese steel!

Oda Hidetaka is moving fast through the Mojave - yesterday in Goodsprings and today already in Vault 11. Did she take a shortcut like Primm Pass? Probably not, though, if she was at Nipton Road Reststop.

Disarming in its purest form!

Giant radscorpions stood no chance against the samurai.

Even the modern arquebus goes well with Oda's antique armor. How about a hat for Oda?

Where did she send the solar energy?

Her sword cuts even through the thickest steel of sentry bots.

That final Lopov shot IS quite the classic! Total Bruce Lee-looking deadpan in that one.

Florens: Is she watching a film there in Noh dramas? And I apologize if I was being pushy. I just see all these pics and wonder what the story is (from your character's view?) You must be roleplaying to some extent? I'm just super curious about Oda for some reason. If you're busy or whatever I get it.


So we have Lee, and we have Oda. Now time for Cho. That's right. Cho Zenwahn's game made it from Xbox to pc today.

@SubRosa - the proton axe does wonders against flying bugs as long as you start swinging it fast enough.

@TheCheshireKhajiit - there will be lots of wrecking in the days ahead.

@Renee - welcome to PC, Cho - looking good.

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There is a vanilla quest in Freeside where you have to find out why travelers to the Strip prefer hiring one particular bodyguard (Orris) over others and the King hired Lee Cyeng to pose as a traveler and see what would happen when hiring this bodyguard.

While in the vanilla game you don't need a disguise, Lee Cyeng figured that if he must pose as a traveler, it doesn't make much sense to wear high-tech reinforced combat armor and the axe on his back so he disguised himself as a simple tourist...

Lee and the King

Just another tourist

"Are you for hire?"

Through Freeside

Orris kills the attackers

But...

Fake corpses

The plan failed and the tourist must die

The problem, however, is that this is not a simple tourist

This time they're dead for good

Back in armor

Lee was then asked to do some more missions for the King and he wasn't very subtle either...

No password needed

Against disguised troopers

Good customer

Freesiders realized that it's better to have Lee on their side so on behalf of the King they handed him a key to the bando.

Taking a bath

Ha ha yeah, you know? It's like when some of mine (Kahreem, Janet, probably a couple others) wear disguises. They usually don't NEED to, but it helps with immmmmmersion purposes. Actually, in Janet's game when she dressed a a bandit, this was mandatory for awhile. Taking off that outfit would have put her out of the Bandit Faction....

It's weird, but somehow I knew something was wrong when Lee walked up on those "corpses." Something about the way they were positioned seemed all to convenient. So it's good Lee broke out his power-fist, or whatever that is.

He has also added to the list of Fallout toons with bathing pics in these threads.

TheCheshireKhajiit: Hidetaka is a killing machine.


Lopov: Hidetaka discovered Hidden Valley shortly after clearing out the prison. So she decided to head east through Scorpion Gulch, and came out of the mountains north of Helios One. Thankfully I had enough Sunset Sarsparilla's stocked up to heal up from the scorpion stings.

That hat looks like it would be great for the Nevada sun. But it's the wrong color for Hidetaka.

Since she really does not care about the NCR or its plans, Hidetaka sent the energy equally throughout Nevada.


Renee: It is sort of a film in the Noh picture. It's a scripted event that happens at the end of that Vault. I don't want to give away spoilers. Because the first time was a real surprise.

The Cho Zen Wan has come to a real gaming platform! Cool!


Lopov: Lee the tourist looks like such a geek!

That is some tourist!

Lee's about a subtle as a fist in the face!



Low blow

Shocking

Scratch one more 'demon'

Bad men

Hidetaka brings them redemption

On Benny's trail

Mongols!

Kamikaze

@Renee - it helps with immersion to wear disguises sometimes. Otherwise the bodyguard should get suspicious why someone in combat armor and a proton axe on his back needs a bodyguard in the first place.

@SubRosa - Lee looks like a school boy indeed.

I forgot about the shortcut through Hidden Valley. Still, the radscorpions were probably a better choice than the lone blind deathclaw of Primm Pass.

Oda Hidetaka grabbed his mutie balls! Oh wow, that sent electricity through his body!

Super-Beheaded.

I always enjoy that ambush close to El Dorado. Is Hidetaka's sword the modded variant of the katana or a completely different sword?

Japan vs Mongolia.

They shot her in the head so she cut off their legs - sounds like a fair trade.

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Most visitors to the Strip wear like this gentleman...

...or like this sexy lady.

Visitors usually don't wear like this man.

Neither they carry BIG weapons on their backs.

"Hey, hey, fella!"

Five words

"We'll see about that."

Throwing hatchet

"Eh?"

And now...let's dance

Chop chop

Ruuuuun!

Make way

More chop chop

Fancy-pants on the floor

*I thought that Benny died at this point but when taking this screenie, there he is in the background*

No mistakes allowed

The fall of Bugsy Siegel

Peace for Benny...

...or Benny in pieces

"Happy gambling."

"T-t-thank you, sir!"

He has something of Lee's

Now it's truly over

And so sayeth Lee, "Vengeance is mine!". And he looked upon his foeman, with his sundered limbs and head strewn before him on the card table, and he knew justice, finally, had been served.

Wow, Hidetaka's really got a real samurai outfit there.

Ha ha Lee looks really out of place in that happy casino. It's so cheerful in there... Lee's got this scowl upon his face.

Sorry I can't comment on every pic; busy life this week. Hopefully I can do some gaming with Cho later today.

It's Fu Manchu!

Lee definitely looks out of place.

That is exactly the same dialog options Hidetaka chose!

Looks like Lee wanted to Ax them a question...

Maybe Benny has a body double?

Looks like Benny had his deck shuffled.

Benny really went to pieces

I love how everyone just keeps gambling after you kill two dozen people.

Lopov: The radscorpions were not too tough, and Hidetaka had plenty of Sunset Sarsparilla to keep up her health.

The electricity around the super mutant are an effect from his stealth boy. He's the invisible monster that was killing the Novac ranchers brahmin.

Hidetaka's sword is from Masamune Katanas. It was originally the Ayame Katana, but I renamed it to Takizakura, and added the GRA katana's special move to it (and renamed that too to Waterfall of Cherry Blossoms).


Renee: Hidetaka's armor is from Mothership Zeta. I used the console to give it to Hidetaka, though I did start her in MZ back when I played her in FO3.


A classic Lopov shot

They lost their heads over Hidetaka

This won't require 47 Ronin

Samurai vengeance

Tell Caesar no

Things in Nipton look bad

The welcoming committee

Looks like Hidetaka's fame has proceeded her

But it was Hidetaka who hit the jackpot

Hidetaka Lopoved - pretty as a picture.

The scene with killing Benny would make a good action movie - a samurai from the long ago era enters the casino to enact vengeance on the man who tried to kill her.

As much as it's nice to see Benny dead, beheaded Vulpes is an even better sight.

Gabban is the one that appears if you don't head to Nipton on the way to Strip or in Hidetaka's case, if you kill Vulpes on the Strip, right? In vanilla game Gabban, Dead Sea and Alexus have the same face but Dead Sea and Alexus wear masks at all times.

I was confused at first why the chairmen wear white suits because in my game they wear black (grimy pre-war businesswear). By default they were supposed to wear black but developers made some mistake and all black suits were overwritten by white. I use a fix to bring back the black suits.

So what's next for Hidetaka?

I know exactly what you mean about the synergy between playing a character and writing for her.

Wonderful to see Hidetaka get her well deserved vengeance vs the checked suit dude who put a bullet in her head!

Off to Nippon Nipton - looks like Samurai’s work is never done.

After dealing with Benny, Lee Cyeng took a brief trip back to the Big MT and thanks to the pre-war cosmetic enhancing machine fulfilled his wish which he had since childhood.

Front

Back

Right arm

Left arm

New outfit

Super-heated saturnite fist

Proton Inversal Axe

Miss Florens: Hidetaka is so striking. I love that determined look she's got on her face, and her olive skin complexion. This is gonna sound weird but I think I'm falling in love with your toon.

Scoundrel: WHOA. Holy [censored] those tattoos like way more detailed than I was thinking!!! I was expecting the quality of a tramp stamp, or some such.

Thank you, I think they look great too. I used textures from this mod but I assigned them only to Lee's race which is custom, so only he is tattooed, otherwise every male NPC in the Mojave would have exactly the same tattoos.

Nice job with Lee's tats! And looks like he's got some new weaponry as well.

Lee's got some creepy tats!

He looks really good in his new outfit + the tats.

Does that saturnine fist make toast as well?

Lopov: Hidetaka would make a great anime character, sort of like rouron kenshin or afro samurai.

Killing Vulpes is always a very satisfying moment in every game. I love how no one on the Strip even blinks an eye when you do it.

Since killing Benny, a lot of the focus has gone out of Hidie's game. Since she basically declared war upon the Legion by killing Vulpes, she has been fighting that. She's gone from Cottonwood Cove up to Nelson killing Legion scum. I think the Divide might be next though.


Acadian: There is always plenty of killing for a samurai to do in Nevada...

The funny thing is Nippon is Hidetaka's real goal. Ever since I started her again in New Vegas, I can sense that she really wants to get back to Japan.


Renee: Hidetaka came out really well. I wish we could make characters this Asian-looking in the Elder Scrolls games. OTOH, I tried to give her a somewhat golden cast to her skin. So maybe she is part Altmer?


Hidetaka is now packing a Magneto-Laser pistol

Getting hot under the collar

Hot Asian Girls

Ashes to ashes

Welcome to Primm Pass

The way is blocked

Face off

Sniper's vengeance

Ready, aim, FIRE! Hidetaka does look funny with a pistol - even a whiz bang one. That katana looks like it absolutely belongs in her hand - a part of her.

Ha ha I clicked on "Hot under the collar" expecting to see somebody fawning over Oda. Then I clicked on "Hot Asian Girls" expecting cute Asian girls.

Face Off is interesting because most of the pic is focused on not your character. It's what the art nerds call 'negative space.' Yet (for me) one's eyes get drawn immediately toward the bottom.

Hope you're doing well.

@Acadian - you're correct, the super-heated saturnite fist is an upgraded / heated variant of an ordinary saturnite fist. A pre-war robotic machine called the Toaster heated it for Lee and now it's more powerful and on critical hits sets enemies on fire. On the other hand, it deteriorates much more quickly.

@SubRosa - the only thing the fist is lacking is to make some freshly burnt toasts in the morning.

I didn't expect to see Hidetaka with a gun. It suits her but the sword suits her more. Is the first pic taken in Nopah Cave?

The deathclaw just wanted to caress Hidetaka's hair but she brutally cut him off.

Jeannie May got what she deserved and Hidetaka has a new beret to wear.

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Who laughs now?

Watch the skies, traveler.

Shy gecko

No toast for you!

Killed by shuriken

Shuriken flies again

Small yet devastating

Throwing kunai

I think I have something in my ear.

Unfinished business

Enjoying the view

Burn!

Lee visits Quarry Junction!

That Deathclaw in the second pic looks like it is dancing.

Vorpal Shuriken!

Lee has become an ear, nose, and throat surgeon!

Are those Van Graff thugs in the black armor? Or are they from a mod?

So Lee has throwing weapons now? That looked like a throwing star and throwing dagger? Neat!