January has been wandering the Capital Wasteland for the last few days. It has been a long time since I have played FO3. I remembered that I need some points in Repair so I could fix the water pipes in Megaton. But I forgot that I would need at least a 25 in Explosives to disarm the bomb. So Jan was homeless for a long while while I ground her up to the next level, so I could put points in it.

I had also forgotten how your responses (and stats) to Moira determine the outcome of the Wasteland Survival Guide. I had to look it all up again to see how it all worked. I went with the generic response for one so far, the snide remark, and finally the tough option. The Tough book gives you a damage resistance bonus, so I think I will go with that from now on, Jan is very much a defender.

I have been using the Regulator and Compliance Regulator from New Vegas with her. I updated them with the Tesla Cannon projectile. They have been doing insanely more damage than I put in the Geck. I found it was the projectile itself. I had to make a new one, and reduce the Knockback effect on it. I put it to half a 10mm pistol. But they are still doing way more damage than they should. I have the Regulator set to do 12 points of damage, the same as a Laser Pistol. But in the game it says it does 57 damage. Which is just nuts.

Aw, Jan is homeless. Has she been sleeping in the Church of Atom quarters?

Funny thing about Moira Brown is she has a very Midwest accent, rather than a Maryland / mid-Atlantic one. I think I've mentioned this before. Beth should have known the difference!

Khajiit: Yes, Linda Hand does lend her hand quite a lot, or at least she tries to. Some quests in New Vegas are really frickin' tough.

I did some gaming with her yesterday.. Since I'm writing a story with Vicious, I need to have someone who I can just game with. Linda has a bunch of stuff she can sell, and her food supply is getting low. So she might have to head back to Post 181 or Novac soon.

Jan slept in the Bethesda Ruins one night. She slept in Minefield another night. She never actually slept anywhere in Megaton.

I decided to go back and start over, since I had not gotten very far. The second time around things went smoother. She disarmed the bomb soon after entering Megaton, and now has a place to stay. Jan just finished clearing out Bethesda. She is now on her way to Minefield for Moira.

It might be that Moira was supposed to sound how she does. I believe she was a caravaneer when she was younger, and later settled down in Megaton. So she might originally be from the Detroit or Cleveland Wastelands.

This. I always just assumed she wasn’t from the CW originally but found her way there. Like Tenpenny and the Russian guy.

Every time you guys say "The CW" I immediately think you are talking about the TV Channel

They have a good reason to be afraid.




Did she find any leaked info about TES VI?

Yes, it will come sometime after TES V...

Reinstalled 3 today because apparently I have the attention span of a gnat. I hate myself.

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Covered the S-E part of the map today and as usual we were over-encumbered so we sold some off to the merchant by the riverboat and to Moira back in Megaton.

As I also buy stuff when I sell, my pile of caps don't increase as much as they really should. But I like getting stuff back while simultaneously clearing the merchant of their caps.

Over-encumbered. Hmm, what does this term mean?

It's a Bethesda term, meaning I always have to walk instead of run because it annoys me

Unless you are playing Oblivion or Morrowind in which case you won’t be able to even walk, lol

Linda Hand is in Camp McReady. Trying to figure out how to get into the Vegas strip itself. She's found some NCR troops inside this one building, and there's a monorail, which we assume goes in and out of the Strip. But she can't access this monorail. They won't let her use it. So maybe she's going to join NCR just so she can use their stupid train? Hmm.

She doesn't really want to side with anybody. To be continued...

Can’t you get in if you have the caps?

Hmm, is that a hint, Khajiit? Maybe so, maybe not. Gives us some ideas, though. I specifically told Lopov in our private discussions not to give me specific details, but hints are okay. I like figuring stuff out on our own. I think he gets annoyed after awhile though. "Just follow the quest marker" he said last week. Ah, geez.

Oh sorry.
I just assumed you tried to get in through the gate.

It has been so long that I honestly cannot remember. It might be tied to a quest? I know there is an NCR quest where you have to stop someone from bombing the monorail. I do seem to remember riding it once though.

If Linda intends to use the monorail to get to the Strip, she can of course join the NCR, but they must really "love her" to allow her to use it. There are other ways how to use it, but that'd be a too big spoiler.

I'd say ditch the monoraila and go search for the entrance yourself - or follow the quest marker.

Thanks for your attention, everyone. Still have not found a gate into the Vegas strip, however this no longer matters. Linda has become incredibly busy in yesterday's gaming session.

In fact, there is a LOT to do in this game, right? It's surprising and overwhelming, but in good ways. So right now, she has not officially joined NCR, but she is doing some work for them. Lending her hand to rat out some fiends near Vault 3, trying to figure out who is stealing from Camp McCarran, and so on. I mean, it's suddenly a list of nearly a dozen things. I love it!