Notes From New Vegas 38
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camwynNotes From New Vegas 38: Goodbye to Utah and the MORMON OF DOOM
When last we saw our heroine, Janice had told Daniel that she agreed with him and that they should evacuate the Sorrows tribe from Zion National Park rather than destroy the White Legs the way Joshua wanted. Maybe not the best long term solution in case Daniel turned out to be wrong about the White Legs' viability, but really, Janice just didn't want to slaughter an entire tribe of people. Given that the game faded to black just after that and faded back in on a shot of Joshua I Don't Care Who You Are, He's Harder Core Than You Graham, the first thing Janice and player alike did was flinch- but Graham just made some particularly growly comments about how we had to get mmoving and get everybody out of there. Janice opted not to push her luck with an apology and just started running.
This bit was somewhat less eventful than might have been expected. It was mostly a case of running like maniacs and shooting anybody with face paint and dreadlocks, which... did not really appreciably distinguish it from any other quests in Zion, except for the part where my companion was neither an eager young scout in tattoos and a baseball cap nor an overly naive bald bikini chick who hit gunmen with body parts taken from bears, but was instead the MORMON OF DOOM. Seriously, when Joshua Graham gets angry he does things with his .45 pistol that would make Lamont "Kent Allard" Cranston wince. There were some side missions like 'release prisoners' and 'retake bridge' and 'hey, those bastards are going after the burial mounds' but in the end they amounted to GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH *bang bang bang*. Basically picture someone throwing a bowling ball down an alley with multiple pin grouping set up, only there are two balls and the pins are bleeding and flailing as they go flying. That's what it was like.
We made it to the Pine Creek area, which was apparently the only reliable way out of Zion in the direction Daniel wanted to go, and found a couple of Sorrows and Daniel trying to fight off White Legs there. Daniel's pretty badass for a guy in a plain hat and a plaid shirt and jeans, being sensible enough to carry a .45 automatic SMG and know how to use it, but there were kind of a lot of White Legs and one of them was Salt-Upon-Wounds, their leader. Who is, to put it bluntly, an ass, but an ass with a power fist of deeeeep hurting, so it's not a good idea to get close to him if you can avoid it. Janice was setting up to draw a bead on him for a headshot when he suddenly called off the fighting and started making threatening noises in her direction. Bla bla I am MIGHTY bla bla my fighters are FIERCE bla bla crunch your BONES bla bla Caesar loves ME and not YOU etc. Janice... was not particularly impressed, but also wanted to see just how idiotic this numb-nuts was, and flat out told him that the Sorrows weren't worth killing by such miiiiiighty and terrifying warriors. I don't think she could have been more sarcastic if she had been bitten by a radioactive Dennis Leary.
And would you believe he bought it? Seriously, Salt-Upon-Wounds went 'yes! Yes, they are pathetic! I should TOTALLY go find somebody more badass!' and pulled out.
Janice.... really and truly could not believe that worked. Just- what. WHAT. Oh, man. Caesar was gonna be so pissed.
Anyway, after that Daniel asked her if she had done everything she could for the Sorrows, so she said yes, and he and everyone else booked on out of there. Janice got to pull the C4 detonator trigger that sealed the pathway to the Grand Staircase behind them, and the final movie began. To sum up:
The White Legs partied in Zion for a while and then went to Caesar to ask for assimilation. Caesar mooned them for being a bunch of miserable failures who couldn't even eradicate the New Canaanites and sent them away. Well, not so much the mooning. But you get the idea. Within a few years all that was left of the White Legs was a couple of petty raiding bands.
The Sorrows got to move to the Grand Staircase successfully with Daniel's help, and they settled in pretty well.
The Dead Horses went back to Dead Horse Point and built a community there, learning more from Joshua Graham and the other New Canaanites. They revered Joshua personally, as a legend (perfectly reasonable given that he was the MORMON OF DOOM), but never really picked up his faith.
Follows-Chalk decided to go check out the civilized lands to the west despite his family not liking the idea, and nobody in the Dead Horses ever saw him again.
Waking Cloud mourned for a while but took comfort from her tribe, and eventually married a Dead Horse. She told him to stay close to home, dammit, so he did.
Happy Trails Caravan Company had a hard time of it, having lost a lot of their assets, but the New Canaanites did what they could to trade with them regularly after Daniel reported how outstanding their employee the Courier was. It wasn't enough on its own but it did make things somewhat easier for the company in bad times.
Daniel settled into things okay and spent his life evangelizing and working with the Sorrows, but tended to regret having to leave Zion and had dreams about it the rest of his life.
And that... was pretty much that, except for Janice finding a footlocker with a bunch of stuff in it- Daniel's clothes and Scripture, the MORMON OF DOOM's favorite .45 and armor, Follows-Chalk's hat, Salt-upon-Wounds' power fist, etc.- before taking her map and leaving Zion. The idea of hanging around for a while did occur to her, but ultimately she pretty much just wanted to get back to the Mojave and see if the whole thing with the platinum chip and the rest of the A-plot had resolved itself in her absence.
Which it hadn't. The Legion was still making scary noises on the banks of the Colorado, you still had to pass a credit check to get into the Strip, everybody was still tense and unhappy... the hell. Seriously. Could these people do nothing right?
Needless to say, finding the whole situation in the Mojave completely unchanged from when she'd left had Janice in a sour mood indeed, so she decided that she'd go check out a radio broadcast she was picking up on her Pip-Boy. Somebody had gotten a drive-in movie theater working south of Nipton. Considering how much damage the Legion had done there, the idea that anyone was trying to operate there again was probably a sign of trouble, and might possibly be a Legion trap. Somebody should go check it out.
Which is code for 'and then the THIRD piece of downloadable content became available, which we will start on in the next Notes segment, after Janice is done cursing me up and down as a horrible horrible player'.
When last we saw our heroine, Janice had told Daniel that she agreed with him and that they should evacuate the Sorrows tribe from Zion National Park rather than destroy the White Legs the way Joshua wanted. Maybe not the best long term solution in case Daniel turned out to be wrong about the White Legs' viability, but really, Janice just didn't want to slaughter an entire tribe of people. Given that the game faded to black just after that and faded back in on a shot of Joshua I Don't Care Who You Are, He's Harder Core Than You Graham, the first thing Janice and player alike did was flinch- but Graham just made some particularly growly comments about how we had to get mmoving and get everybody out of there. Janice opted not to push her luck with an apology and just started running.
This bit was somewhat less eventful than might have been expected. It was mostly a case of running like maniacs and shooting anybody with face paint and dreadlocks, which... did not really appreciably distinguish it from any other quests in Zion, except for the part where my companion was neither an eager young scout in tattoos and a baseball cap nor an overly naive bald bikini chick who hit gunmen with body parts taken from bears, but was instead the MORMON OF DOOM. Seriously, when Joshua Graham gets angry he does things with his .45 pistol that would make Lamont "Kent Allard" Cranston wince. There were some side missions like 'release prisoners' and 'retake bridge' and 'hey, those bastards are going after the burial mounds' but in the end they amounted to GRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARGH *bang bang bang*. Basically picture someone throwing a bowling ball down an alley with multiple pin grouping set up, only there are two balls and the pins are bleeding and flailing as they go flying. That's what it was like.
We made it to the Pine Creek area, which was apparently the only reliable way out of Zion in the direction Daniel wanted to go, and found a couple of Sorrows and Daniel trying to fight off White Legs there. Daniel's pretty badass for a guy in a plain hat and a plaid shirt and jeans, being sensible enough to carry a .45 automatic SMG and know how to use it, but there were kind of a lot of White Legs and one of them was Salt-Upon-Wounds, their leader. Who is, to put it bluntly, an ass, but an ass with a power fist of deeeeep hurting, so it's not a good idea to get close to him if you can avoid it. Janice was setting up to draw a bead on him for a headshot when he suddenly called off the fighting and started making threatening noises in her direction. Bla bla I am MIGHTY bla bla my fighters are FIERCE bla bla crunch your BONES bla bla Caesar loves ME and not YOU etc. Janice... was not particularly impressed, but also wanted to see just how idiotic this numb-nuts was, and flat out told him that the Sorrows weren't worth killing by such miiiiiighty and terrifying warriors. I don't think she could have been more sarcastic if she had been bitten by a radioactive Dennis Leary.
And would you believe he bought it? Seriously, Salt-Upon-Wounds went 'yes! Yes, they are pathetic! I should TOTALLY go find somebody more badass!' and pulled out.
Janice.... really and truly could not believe that worked. Just- what. WHAT. Oh, man. Caesar was gonna be so pissed.
Anyway, after that Daniel asked her if she had done everything she could for the Sorrows, so she said yes, and he and everyone else booked on out of there. Janice got to pull the C4 detonator trigger that sealed the pathway to the Grand Staircase behind them, and the final movie began. To sum up:
The White Legs partied in Zion for a while and then went to Caesar to ask for assimilation. Caesar mooned them for being a bunch of miserable failures who couldn't even eradicate the New Canaanites and sent them away. Well, not so much the mooning. But you get the idea. Within a few years all that was left of the White Legs was a couple of petty raiding bands.
The Sorrows got to move to the Grand Staircase successfully with Daniel's help, and they settled in pretty well.
The Dead Horses went back to Dead Horse Point and built a community there, learning more from Joshua Graham and the other New Canaanites. They revered Joshua personally, as a legend (perfectly reasonable given that he was the MORMON OF DOOM), but never really picked up his faith.
Follows-Chalk decided to go check out the civilized lands to the west despite his family not liking the idea, and nobody in the Dead Horses ever saw him again.
Waking Cloud mourned for a while but took comfort from her tribe, and eventually married a Dead Horse. She told him to stay close to home, dammit, so he did.
Happy Trails Caravan Company had a hard time of it, having lost a lot of their assets, but the New Canaanites did what they could to trade with them regularly after Daniel reported how outstanding their employee the Courier was. It wasn't enough on its own but it did make things somewhat easier for the company in bad times.
Daniel settled into things okay and spent his life evangelizing and working with the Sorrows, but tended to regret having to leave Zion and had dreams about it the rest of his life.
And that... was pretty much that, except for Janice finding a footlocker with a bunch of stuff in it- Daniel's clothes and Scripture, the MORMON OF DOOM's favorite .45 and armor, Follows-Chalk's hat, Salt-upon-Wounds' power fist, etc.- before taking her map and leaving Zion. The idea of hanging around for a while did occur to her, but ultimately she pretty much just wanted to get back to the Mojave and see if the whole thing with the platinum chip and the rest of the A-plot had resolved itself in her absence.
Which it hadn't. The Legion was still making scary noises on the banks of the Colorado, you still had to pass a credit check to get into the Strip, everybody was still tense and unhappy... the hell. Seriously. Could these people do nothing right?
Needless to say, finding the whole situation in the Mojave completely unchanged from when she'd left had Janice in a sour mood indeed, so she decided that she'd go check out a radio broadcast she was picking up on her Pip-Boy. Somebody had gotten a drive-in movie theater working south of Nipton. Considering how much damage the Legion had done there, the idea that anyone was trying to operate there again was probably a sign of trouble, and might possibly be a Legion trap. Somebody should go check it out.
Which is code for 'and then the THIRD piece of downloadable content became available, which we will start on in the next Notes segment, after Janice is done cursing me up and down as a horrible horrible player'.
