Wow! I love the green hair and dreads so much! Ally is a real Amazon-Egypt warrior!

A tiger gun! Interesting. I would love to see a close up pic.

What building was the Protectron in? I should remember that one...he looks half drunk and just passed out when the bombs fell, lol.

Ally and Nadine. Wow! What a lovely pair of lasses.

I used to be a mirelurk pic has the best looking sky in the background. Really epic!!

RL3 is even getting in on the Lopov pic. Awesome shot with the lighthouse lined up! And an even better sky!

Second time for the MS? I had better backtrack and see what that means....

@Renee - it's funny that RL-3 almost always addresses Ally as sir. Sometimes he uses a more neutral title, but most of the time she's his sir.

Ally is quite a sneaker, but she doesn't sneak around all the time like some thief. She'll rarely sneak-attack humans too. I use a mod which makes sneaking a bit more challenging, so you can't sneak forever and the quality of sneaking depends on legs' condition.

@SubRosa - technically, the Mysterious Stranger appeared for the 3rd time but looks like the game didn't count his previous appearance, because he got stuck behind some old wall and couldn't get out. We heard just the music and saw his shadow but he didn't actually kill the enemy which Ally was targeting.

@TheCheshireKhajiit - I wish that Point Lookout would be bigger. Point Lookout Reborn expands it but it's incompatible with In the shadow of the swamp, and this very mod is integral to Ally's game, so I can't install PLR on top of it.

@Winter Wolf - I took a close-up of Tiger and I'll take more screenies in the future, when it fires. It causes an explosion of sort.

The Protectron on the toilet can be found inside the RobCo facility.

The Mysterious Stranger is the perk, which occasionally makes this helpful stranger to appear in VATS and he finishes off the enemy, that the PC is targeting. He only appears as long as the enemy in question is still alive. In New Vegas they also added Miss Fortune, but she doesn't kill the enemy, instead she cripples it IIRC.

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I'm glad you all like screenies from the swamps, but now it's time for Ally Gator to spend some time in the Capital Wasteland. As a part of the aforementioned In the shadow of the swamp Ally needs to find a pre-war ChemBot store, and all clues she has, is that it's somewhere close to the Chryslus Building. Ally doesn't know where the CB is (don't tell her!), so Renee created a mod, which allows her to ask for directions. Looks like that not so many people know where the CB is, so Ally will need to trek a little across the wastes to find someone who knows.

Time to hit the road

The Curator wasn't very helpful when asked about the Chryslus Building, instead his eyes were taking a walk on Ally

The Scribe wasn't of much help either

Tiger Sumatran 1st person close-up

BoS Zeppelin - I totally forgot that I installed this mod for the C.W. I wonder how many zeppelins the BoS has. Because if this is the only one, then it must be the very same one, which Snake Logan destroys some years later in the Commonwealth.

The Mysterious Stranger Vol III

Party's over for Gallo

Dead ants don't talk

Whoa I want that Zeppelin mod. What is it called? Does it drop bombs? I want it anyway.

Glad to see my addition is working. Dang though, it doesn't look like the animations are having effect though. The Curator guy should have hit his head (I think) when saying that. As long as the dialog and actual stages work though, that's what is most important.

Go Ally!

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Chillin' in Moriarty's

Nighttime Lopov

Lopov: I never use vats enough to make taking the Mysterious Stranger worthwhile. I tried it with my first character in FO3, and never since.

I have to admit, I was looking at the muscles on Ally as well...

For a moment I was thinking that the Sumatran Tiger was a martial arts expert. I remembered it was a gun when the picture came up. It looks neat!

It's cool how the zeppelin has that searchlight.

I guess Ally does not like Ernest and Julio Gallo

That looks Ant-tastic!


Renee:

Awesome Lopov shot. It looks like his helmet has ears!

Lopov- It is amazing how close the Jefferson looks in that first pic. Perhaps the draw distance is so much better on pc. I must check on my old game system to compare.

That Tiger gun looks great! So neat with that logo stamp on top. What ammo and damage does it do? Does it only have 3 in the mag, or can it reload more?

Wow! A Zepplin! The BOS will kick butt now. Look out Enclave! I am interested to see what that mod does.

Ahh, old Gallo. I love hunting him down in each playthru. Those hidden characters make FO3 so enjoyable.


Renee- I really love that first pic. Typical male sitting posture! I love it.

And a Lopov! Undercover and on a mission by the looks of it.

@Renee - just type the word "zeppelin" in the Nexus and you'll find the mod which adds it.

I think the curator hit his head but I took the screenie when the animation was already over.

As long as Cho isn't chilling with Burke.

@SubRosa - Ally also doesn't use VATS very often but it's nice for the MS to pop up from time to time. I think his appearances are luck-based and because Ally's luck is slightly higher than normal, he appears more often.

@Winter Wolf - the Tiger gun uses 15 mm ammo, created by combining 10 mm ammo and poisonous punga fruits (mod-added) at the SuperChemBot at the Biologist's House in Point Lookout (mod-added as well obviously). It has 3 bullets in a magazine and is very effective against anything organic but ineffective against robots or those wearing metal armor.

Gallo is one of my favorite encounters. Also because he's not so easy to find in that sewer maze. I don't recall with which character I've encountered him for the first time, but now it's been second time with Ally. It's a very memorable encounter.

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Ally & Tiger

Tiger's bite

Ally is a child at heart

Concentration problems

Taggin' along - with a mod it's possible to recruit Bryan Wilks, the kid who loses his father in Grayditch, as a companion

"Hey, do you maybe know where I could find a place called Chryslus Building?"

Destination Megaton

Crow knows!

Such a set of juxtapositions, Ally is. Her beauty is ethereal, like kinda outside of this world. She's helpful and friendly, maybe a little goofy, yet she's also quite dangerous, and survivalistic. Her hair, it is a work of art. Yet her outfit, it is nothing but function.

Those who get zapped by her who can think intelligent thoughts, they must be thinking "but she's so happy looking!'

You got lucky Crow was right there.

Noooo, no Burke in Cho's game. I can't remember exactly what happened to Mister Burke, but pretty likely he got his pwning awhile ago.

Ally has a really great snarl in that first pic

Glowing ant!

That child at heart dialogue reminds me of the text options you get when wear the Antagonizer suit. Antastic!

Poor Doc Lesko. Must think science, must think science, must think science...

I would not trust Crow's uploads. No telling what kind of garbage he has.

Looks like Tiger was even a better companion than Bryan. Ants, ants, everywhere!

So neat that it does organic damage and weak against metal. Mods like that are fun because they make the player have to decide a different approach to combat.

Does the Tiger have a range the same as a normal pistol, or is it buffed to allow long range kills?

Neat dialogue options there. Now where is that damn building....

@Lopov - I see Ally has Gunny in her team!

@Renee - wow, you wrote the first paragraph so nicely, I'm thinking of adding it to Ally's description post in the Characters thread.

@SubRosa - I (personally) can't stand Doc Lesko. Ally let him live, though, she's of a kind heart. Plenty of my characters would first kill the fire ant, then him, just to ensure that he doesn't continue with his dangerous experiments.

LoL @ the comment about Crow!

@Winter Wolf - its range is a bit bigger than that of a regular pistol. I'm still learning how to use it properly. Tiger Sumatran in fact propels grenades, those 15 mm are sort of grenades, so even if you miss some enemy, the grenade will explode and cause damage, so it can hurt more enemies at once, if they're close together, like ants or groups of raiders.

@mirocu - indeed! Now only you are missing and you three could adventure together.

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So Ally finally found the Chryslus Building. If any of mine have been there before, I don't recall it, then again, exploring the place as such probably isn't very memorable, because all three accessible sections look similar, are infested with super-mutants, but there's nothing in the place that'd make it really stand out.

Three against one

Combat happy mood ON

Two against one

Bryan on board

One against one

Meeting locals

Punga everywhere

SuperChemBot - here you can craft 15mm ammo required for Tiger Sumatran

Silencing the creeper

True. I've been there but I sure don't member anything from it.


Love the Lookout shots!

My characters usually pretend to work with Lesko to get his Lab Coat. Kill the ants, then go back and kill him after settling up. He is responsible for killing everyone in Greyditch after all, and he shows zero remorse for any of it.

I had a hard time finding the Chryslus Building too. I had walked by it a dozen times with many different characters, and never realized it was a place you could go into. I always thought it was one of those 'for show' ruins.

The Stranger Returns!

Ally should be one of the DC's Bombshells

Bryan needs a better outfit.

Looks like Ally and Bryan have a way with meeting people...

The Super Chembot looks neat.

So this Mysterious Stranger seems like he's on the player's side, eh? He doesn't seem against us.

Lol Ally's taking Bryan all over the place! He's getting to know Point Lookout too (I think). It's funny because in real-life, I'm pretty sure Point Lookout is nowhere near being as gloomy as the game makes it. I'll have to go there some day.

The Mysterious Stranger is a perk you can take (I think at level 8 or 10). He has a random chance of appearing whenever you use VATS. If he does, he just shows up and shoots your enemies. He has a special .44 Magnum, so he is really good at it. When VATS mode ends, he vanishes. So he really only exists in VATS. New Vegas adds a female equivalent of him called Miss Fortune.

@mirocu - is it already time for your annual trip to Point Lookout?

@SubRosa - as soon as we find some better outfit that will befit a kid, Bryan will get something better to wear.

The SCB can create lots of handy stuff, I haven't explored all of its options yet. Not only it creates 15mm ammo for Tiger Sumatran, it can also create poisonous grenades among others.

@Renee - it's better that the MS is on our side, because he can one-shot-kill anything he fires at.

Well, I assume that the D.C. also doesn't look as the game makes it.

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The following set of screenis are from the last part of the In the shadow of the swamp mod. Ally needed to make her way inside the Henry Clay Conference Hall, which has been inaccessible since the bombs fell, because rubble was blocking the way in (and out). Once inside, she needed to solve a riddle to get inside the storage room, where she read holotapes, left behind by Janet, one of the people, that were trapped inside the buildings after bombs fell.

The mod is mostly combat free, in the first episode there are no enemies whatsover, only riddles to solve, at the end of the second episode you need to fight some punga radscorpions and their queen, so the fight at the end of the third episode caught me by surprise. Once Ally read all notes, left behind by Janet, it became clear that she lost her mind and killed all other survivors with another gun from Tiger Manufacturing, named Tiger Caspian. As soon as the last note was read, ghoulified Janet came into the room and attacked. It has been the most difficult battle in Ally's life so far, even more so, because a hit from Tiger Caspian disarmed Ally and her Tiger Sumatran was thrown far away. She needed to use her trusted shotgun but Janet was very resistant to damage. In the end Ally prevailed, but she was crippled from top to bottom and used more than ten stimpaks during the fight.

The Henry Clay Conference Hall

Portraits of important people

Bertie!

Janet attacks!

Angry Ally

The agony for Janet is over

Tiger Caspian

Exhausted

Janet Talia did all that? I know she was in with Talon Company, but I didn't think she had sunk so far. And wow, she has really let her skin care routine lapse...

All the famous people pictures were neat

That's a lot of milk bottles. It looked like Ally was shooting them at Janet with the junk jet.

The Tiger Caspian looks neat, like a cut down modern submachine gun.

How many Tigers are there?

Looks like you become a ghoul if you bathe yourself in a pink room and dye your hair too much.

Einstein was crucial to solving the riddle.

Milk bottles, tin cans and other miscellaneous stuff was being thrown all over the room, because Caspian has a very powerful strike. Instead of Sumatran, it uses regular shotgun shells as ammunition and if some animal / creature is killed by it, it automatically "cooks" its meat, so for instance, when Ally used it to kill a radscorpion, she found cooked arthropod meat on its corpse. Collecting various pieces of meat is a part of an unmarked challenge.

Not sure how many Tigers are there altogether, there are two in this mod, Sumatran and Caspian. The same mod author created some riddle-base mods that take place in the Capital Wasteland and from what I read, you can get a Tiger rifle as a reward. So there are more than two out there. Maybe in the future Ally will pursue these quests too but right now she wants to spend some time in where she feels at home - Point Lookout.

Oh no way. So the Mysterious Stranger is part of a perk. Weird. But helpful.



Point Lookout is not a swamp in real-life is what I mean (I think), whereas D.C. is still the same climate, it's just all war-torn. I've never been to PL though. Maybe we should go there for summer vacation this year.

Lol what a great picture of Einstein. I think he would appreciate his portrait in a messed-up videogame.

Angry Ally looks the same as Happy Ally. Kinda like the infamous Steven Seagal Emotions Chart.

Happy Ally
Angry Ally
Upset Ally

OH no my poor Janet becomes a ghoul. Aw, well deserved rest upon a crappy mattress.



Must have been all those chems!

To quote Renee - Oh, Lordy, no.

Not until October-ish

@Renee - the Mysterious Stranger is a perk from original FOs. A leather-clad person would appear in random encounters only and help you against enemies. You can talk to him but he doesn't have much to say. If the PC is male, he's male too, otherwise he's female. I think he can be killed, though, and if killed, he doesn't respawn.

Ally "Seagal" Gator.

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"You go girl Nuka!"

15mm flies

Stylish raider

In Ally's world Bryan Wilks found a new home on board of the Duchess Gambit, but in another world he's being accompanied by the unusual police officer to his aunt in the Rivet City. They just came under attack from some super mutants, but disarmed by PP Barlow they didn't stand a chance against them.

Occasionally Bryan would facepalm as PP tried to use some pre-war technology, convinced that it still functions like it did 200 years ago, but all in all, he felt safe with the ghoul officer around.

With Bryan safe at his aunt's place in the Rivet City, PP visited the town's market and found the store with a name not to his liking.

"Do you sell drugs?"

Security chief Harkness needed to step in and explain PP some rules regarding the Rivet City, but he wasn't sure that the ghoul understood his point.

So instead of finding criminals on the carrier, PP tried to make parking meters working, so that people who park their cars outside of the Rivet City, could pay the parking fee.

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For those who perhaps forgot, PP Barlow is a police officer, who continues to perform his duties just like the war never happened. Radiation fried his brain so he doesn't completely grasp that the world he was to used to live in, is no longer the same world. Nonetheless, he adapted - there are new offenders to be taken care of, plenty of cars are parked inappropriately and needed to be removed (blown up) and there are always people (and creatures) to watch over. PP is here to serve and protect.

Nuka Time!

That raider has a big hat

It's PP Barlow!

Officer Barlow is a lot nicer in his way of disarming than Persephone is...

Who is he going to call?

Uh oh, Barlow is out of his jurisdiction!

I love him trying to fix the parking meters!

That Henry Clay Hall looked real neat with all those paintings. Nothing like an old puzzle quest mod to get you back in the mood for some role play. Non-stop combat does tend to only go one direction.

Another Tiger! Woo hoo! And a neat shot of Janet peeking over her thigh while lying dead of the floor. She must have regretted losing that cool gun. 10 stimpaks- wow! Things were serious! Good thing they did not add tables or school desks to the middle of that room.

A ghoul policeman! I love it! He looks so modern day in his pressed uniform, badge and glasses. After a meet and greet with Harkness he needed a cigarette, or a parking meter....shame he forgot that the automobile industry pegged out many years ago. As did currency....

Hey nothing like a lady in Prewar clothes, a straw hat, wielding a crowbar.

LOL at the Supermutant losing his minigun. Good to see P.P. back in action.

hA hAHHA that whole Quick Fix scene looks just like a cop showing up, trying to bust an illegal operation, but without full legal authority to do so! Nice job with that Scoundrel.

@SubRosa - it was cool meeting that dressed-up raider. It was in one of mod-added locations added by the DC Interiors mod, I think it was a pre-war clothing store. The raider was standing in front of a mirror in one of the cabins and her raider armor was placed on a bench beside her.

PP tried to call the nearest police station but nobody responded. A disgrace!

@Winter Wolf - the battle with Janet was brutal. It was easier if Janet didn't immediately disarm Ally, then it would be Tiger vs Tiger, but now it was Shotgun vs Tiger.

PP is convinced that even 200 years after the Great War cars can't be parked in the middle of a street.

@Renee - PP would enact justice if Harkness hadn't stepped in. He dealt with Moriarty in Megaton too, but in that case nobody complained, even Lucas Simms approved, although he didn't admit it publicly.

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"Stop resisting arrest...or perish!"

"The threat has been neutralized. The family that lived here before, can safely move back in."

"I'm looking for doctor Smith. He was my GP when I was here for the last time...that was, let me think - a few years ago. Is he perhaps around?"

"Imagine that an emergency vehicle would come driving along the street and wanted to stop outside the GP's office. It wouldn't be possible, because the truck is blocking the way."

"Therefore, the truck must go. Now the firemen should arrive and they will call the towing service."

"Are you supposed to be from the Fire Department? In that case...where's your hydrant?"

"Not even firemen were what they used to be. Guess it's up to me to find the towing service."

Looks like Officer Barlow broke out the Swat gear for those Mutie suspects.

I think Doctor Smith was last seen boarding the Jupiter One...

PP Barlow's towing service is a little extreme!

Extreme or not, someone has to take care of Washington D.C. if no one else is up to the task.

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Grim Fandango

"I see you!"

"I see you too!"

"It's not recommended to loiter on ruined sky bridges."

"Problem solved."

"Any complaints?"

I really should spend more times in D.C and riding the underground. Such an atmo, bro.

PP Barlow's is bigger!

That is a neat spot by the Capitol Building. I like calling in artillery on the Talon Company and Super Mutants fighting it out there.

LOl he's walking around with a missile launcher! Even as a cop, this wouldn't get approved by his chief. Then again, maybe P.P. was part of some sort of high-powered S.W.A.T. team.

Something looks different in your game, Lopov. The sky is blue, I notice. Or maybe it's been this way but I'm just noticing it now.

Oh man, those series of pics were epic! PP looks like a real fun character to role play and cause havoc with.

He looks so cool in that uniform, cigarette and rocket launcher!

He is restoring order to the CW in a way that the Enclave could only dream of. I loved the conversation with the Mole rat too. Ha!

@mirocu - what's keeping you to not spend more time in the D.C.?

@SubRosa - PP also called the artillery in, he kept pressing the buttons long after everyone was dead, just to make sure.

@Renee - PP tried to call his chief for an approval in regard of the missile launcher, but the telephone didn't work. Strange.

The sky is blue because of the Enhanced Skies, a mod I've been using for years. You can find it on the Nexus. You can also find the Nexus Mod Manager there.

@Winter Wolf - someone needs to watch over the Capital Wasteland if (according to PP) nobody else is up to the task. Smoking is his only bad habit, I'd say. But it's helpful, because it boosts his perception and agility...and charisma too, but he doesn't have much use for it.

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"You're under arrest!Drop the hydrant NOW!"

"If you're not willing to listen..."

High Noon

"Huh?"

"Hah!"

"Target couldn't be apprehended alive."

Stuff™


"Dead or alive you're coming with me. If I can lift you up, that is."

Barlow is going to need some big handcuffs to put that behemoth in custody.

But that Fat Man is a mighty big restraint...

What would Barlow do with someone who did surrender to him?

PP is probably apprehending him due to the fragrant misuse of that hydrant- not the 30 foot tall ugly Super Mutant that has already killed everybody across the wasteland. How dare he steal that public amenity!

High Noon is an epic pic! I have often wondered what it looks like from the perspective of those vultures that circle above Megaton. Now I know!

He is dead? I would love to hear PP radio that one in.

This.

And LOL at "Target could not be apprehended alive!" Now P.P. has a ton of paperwork to tackle (in his mind) as he gets put on paid leave from his department.

@SubRosa - I think that P.P. would need to kill anyone that'd surrender to him, because he hasn't found a functional prison. Yet.

@Winter Wolf - he radioed the news via his PipBoy but nobody answered. Looks like they're sleeping on duty.

@Renee - no paid leave for P.P. He was the only officer that showed up at his workplace on the day of the Great War!

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Let's make a trip to the Mojave...Blondie is one of those characters with whom I take lots of screenies, sometimes ten or more per one game session, so not all of them make it to this thread. Today's batch is a mix of some older and some recent screenies.

Recent ones:

Blondie & Guts

Blondie hits the gas tank

In the Thorn

Raider on the table

Blondie, Derrick & Guts

No chance against the trio

Hostile treasure hunters

Lopoved with new RayBan aviators

Older ones:

Blondie on the top

Dust in the sky

Final perk

Blondie and the Head

Clean water

Blondie vs rogue troopers

Hardin has a message for Blondie

Yah! Nice to see Blondie again. She must use a lot of sun block, otherwise her hands and face would be beet red. Hopefully now that I am playing New Vegas these days I'll be able to recognize some of the places she goes (for the Where am I? thread especially).

It's great to see Blondie again!

That is an awesome gas tank explosion. Is that the one near the Mojave Outpost, that is crawling with scorpions?

A raider on the table is worth two in the bush...


Looks like she disarmed someone at the Posiedon sign.

I hope she doesn't lose her head...

@Renee - yeah, Blondie uses SunAway factor 50, you can buy it at Cliff's place in Novac. It needs to be applied every two hours to keep the skin moist.

@SubRosa - yes, that's the right gas station. I use a mod that places enemies at various spots over the Mojave, and the respawning rate is pretty high, so she ran into some Jackals on the station. Instead of killing them one by one, she killed all of them by blowing up the gas tank.

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Blondie kills the stealthy sniper

Random events and encounters related to the New Vegas Bounties mod are still happening in her game, long after the quest is officially finished. Vasily, the sniper with the stealth boy, appeared as a result of killing a certain person during the NVB II quest.

Guts is proud on himself

Dirt and rads

Blondie and her gang

Blondie prepares a meal for the rats

Good food, good beds. All of this and more...200 years back.

One for SubRosa

Cool invisible kill shot!

I think Guts lost his eyes! That is a known bug with Sunny's dog too.

That is one impressive kaboom in the pic for me. It looks like a mini-nuke.

Are you kiddin' me? They got sunblock in this game?

Those rats are really chowing down.

Nice to see Blondie has a companion. Are they romantic?

@SubRosa - I think Guts has closed eyes in that pic. I haven't noticed him being eyeless but I remember seeing this bug on Cheyenne.

@Renee - they were romantic, but as usually, Blondie got bored of him already. I was kidding you with sunblock, yes.

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The only good Fiend is a dead Fiend

Attack of the glowing ones

Showdown by the Devil's Throat

Blondie's gang - Guts is missing, because he was chopping off a feral ghoul reaver

Blondie vs Bloodhounds

It's blue

Blondie at sunset

Blondie vs Caligula

Blondie & Guts

Blondie hasn't had one single cigarette this time. Is that Novac in that first pic? Hey, finally I think I recognize a NV location.

So now I recognize the mural on the back of her long shirt, that NCR, right?

Headless Disintegrations!

There are always a lot of ghouls around that observation post.

That is very blue!

Chop him up Blondie!

Some Linda Hand / Fallout NV pics. I forgot I could turn down the HUD in these. You'll just have to bear with it folks.

Walking in Sunshine

Strolling in Parkstroller

Feeling at Home

Two Tails

Elegantly dressed, walking across the Mojave.

I love the caption "strolling in parkstroller".

To answer your above question - it's not Novac in the first pic. The location is quite far to the northwest of Novac.

The mural on the back of her duster is the NCR logo indeed.

Let's have some New Vegas pics of Linda Hand!

Contemplating

Gazing and Wondering

Tracking and Packing

SubRosaing

She has her very own motel room!

In suit when in town, in leather when adventuring.

Did she run out of ammo? 0/0 in the last pic

Love your new forum avatar. Old School Renee FTW!

Linda is getting bombed, on Sugar Bombs!

I think she has a melee weapon, or just her fists, equipped for that last pic with the 0/0 ammo.