I was down on the Strip (for real) last week. Good to see nothing's changed!

As the old saying goes Acadian, the more things change, the more they stay the same...

I have yet to have a character to go beyond killing Benny either. Lonesome Dove is the only one who followed the main quest even that far. She didn't give a hoot about New Vegas or Mr. House and his platinum chip either. They can all roast under the Nevada sun for all she cares.

Indeed, that's where the questline ends for my characters too. I like catching up on Benny and get revenge, but that's it. Though I did the MQ once, with my first character, just to experience it.

Blondie killed both Yes Man and Victor, BTW. Yes Man is essential but he couldn't avoid being vaporized. It's still possible that he'll respawn, though. And she killed Victor just outside the Lucky 38, probably making the House's questline impossible to complete because Victor is supposed to open the main door.

Blondie's game will focus on the magnificent New Vegas Bounties Mod and anything that happens in between.

Joe King found a grandma to hang out and drink with. I forget her name, but she lives right on the river across from several Metro stations.

Joe is supposed to be doing the mirelurk quest for Moira, but he's currently taking a break. He hates mirelurks.

Grandma Sparkle! She runs Wilhelms Wharf, and says her sons are off huntin' 'lurks. I wonder if her sons are the ones inside the Anchorage Memorial?

I always wondered whether her sons are actual NPCs or are they just mentioned, yet they never existed.

Mirelurks can be dangerous at low to mid levels, especially mirelurk hunters that have a nasty habit of appearing even at low levels. Make sure that Joe is prepared to deal with them because they can cripple him quickly.

This post has been edited by Lopov: Aug 27 2014, 06:40 PM

This is truth about the 'lurks. I have found that the secret to killing them is to always go for the face. It is the only part of their bodies that are not armored.

Of course lots of mines works fine too. Especially Bottlecap Mines.

Correct, Joe aims for their face. They still manage to knock him around though. That would actually be cool if Grandma Sparkle's kin could somehow meet up with Joe. He's actually kind of aimless at the moment. He doesn't know what he wants to do, other than hang with Gran'ma.

I'd say that it's good that Joe is aimless because he can do some random traveling which usually turns out to be fun.
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Blondie made it to Goodsprings via the northern road, leading from Bonnie Springs through cazador-infested hills to Goodsprings. It feels like she was to hell and back! She killed two young deathclaws and twelve cazadors. Now her leather armor is barely wearable, she's almost out of energy cells, she used one Super Stimpak, 5-6 regular stimpaks and one antivenom. She hopes that Chet, the merchant of Goodsprings, has some energy cells available else she'll have to rely on her combat knife until she finds some proper ammunition.

After she'll rest and resupply, she'll head to Primm to enlist as a bounty hunter.

This post has been edited by Lopov: Aug 28 2014, 06:17 PM

Only one antivenom! That would probably be a record for me against Cazadors. I hate those things. The way they flop around makes them hard to hit, especially at long range. Lonesome Dove took to using explosive rounds for her .50 cal rifle against them. The area of effect damage did the trick.

Well, she had no more than one.

But she was poisoned afterwards again, and had to use stimpaks and sarsaparillas to prevent death.

P.S.
I once had a character that died on this road. He was poisoned by cazadores and another one attacked and he attacked him in VATS, I spent all of his AP so he had around 4-5 hits on that cazador. The beast didn't even touch him but after the VATS sequence was over, he just fell to the ground, definitely because of the poison but VATS lasted so long that there was no time to heal in between.

This post has been edited by Lopov: Aug 28 2014, 07:25 PM

So...

Joe King is completely useless. Seriously, all he wants to do is hang out in the Megaton area, and for some reason he enjoys the company of Grandma Sparkle. So (RP wise) he'll probably spend a lot of time in this general area of the Wasteland. He might occasionally go raid some raiders, but it seems like he's not really interested in quests.

But this is not a bad thing. I thought of Cho Zen~Wahn, my original FO3 character who was created before Margey. As soon as I thought of Cho I got this sort of 'pick me!' feeling. He's doing the Main Quest after all, looking for his father. So I'm returning to Cho's game today. Cicadas sing outside my door, and it's sunny outside. What a backdrop to play some Fallout.

Are you saying that Joe King was just goofing around...?

At least you had a character to fall back on in case this happened

The clue (apparently) is in his name, right? It's weird. As soon as I thought of Joe I got this sort of serious, determined feeling. I wish I had his birthday so I can have a peek at his astrology.

Wow, he's only Level 3. I am glad I abandoned his game last year, at least I know plenty of things about how FO works compared to last year.

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Aug 31 2014, 03:33 PM

FO3's main quest is interesting and it'll keep you entertained for a while, because knowing you, you won't just rush through it. And the best thing is that you can keep on playing even when you're done with it.

Oh of course. Very true. Cho is already sidetracked into doing the landmine quest for Moira. He can't follow his dad's trail because stupid Moriarty wants 300 caps for this information about Cho's dad. Which, of course, saddens me. Cho tried going on Moriarty's computer when nobody was looking, unfortunately his Science, which is rather high at 40, is not high enough (50 is needed). I dumped a lot into Science and Small Guns and gave him the Lady Killer perk for some reason.

Last I saw Cho, he was headed toward Minetown or whatever it's called.

It's OK if you're going to the Minefield, it's an interesting quest but...

there are many other options to get the wanted info from Moriarty, you don't need to pay him, just exhaust all of his dialogue options or pay attention to who in the saloon really dislikes Moriarty and he / she might help Cho.

EDIT: I tried using spoilers on the text above but for some reason the text disappears when I put it into spoiler tags.

This post has been edited by Lopov: Sep 1 2014, 08:06 AM

It's okay, I blurred my eyes so I wouldn't actually read it. I read the first few words, but my goldfish-style memory will easily lose that bit of ROM. I like that Moriarty is being a hard-ass. I want this to not be too easy.

I am in no rush to beat this game, in other words.

This post has been edited by Renee Gade IV: Sep 1 2014, 06:37 PM

If you search the entire wasteland, you will eventually find more clues to where Dear old Dad is!

I bet you have to follow the MQ for that? I found him by accident, I didn´t find any real clue.