Notes From New Vegas 59
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camwynNotes From New Vegas 59: STOP TALKING ABOUT BRAINS DAMMIT
When last we saw our heroine, Janice was on her way up to Jacobstown with Arcade Gannon the Worst Liar Ever and Rex the Abomination of Science in tow. And asking herself what the hell she had done with her life, that she was going this far out of her way to render medical assistance to a half-robot dog with its brain in a glowing glass dome attached to the top of its head. There was a lot of that kind of asking. You try surviving somewhere like Big Mountain, you'll have issues with anything to do with brains too.
At least the Legionary assassins didn't follow them very far, because the Legionary assassins were all dead. Between Arcade's plasma pistol and Rex's propensity for violence and Janice's holorifle they didn't really stand much of a chance, although I suppose the football gear they were wearing and pretending it was Serious Actual Legion Armor (Stop Laughing You Historian Assholes It's Totally Authentic) might have slowed at least some of the plasma fire down. The point is that they were dead, so once Janice and company were far enough along the road to Jacobstown that they couldn't see Vegas behind them any more, the only things trying to kill them were the giant mantises. Which were relatively harmless by comparison with everything else ever, and which can also be grilled with wine and honey mesquite pods if you're hungry. So it wasn't too bad of a trip at that point.
Naturally this meant that Janice just had to wonder about the mine tunnel off to one side. When an area has green growing plants and large placid herbivores- there were bighorners all over the place- that generally seems to indicate a lack of large non-placid predators. Plus she didn't smell the smell of horrible death that usually meant deathclaws, or hear the sound of rattledogs- and even if she did run across rattledogs they didn't bother her much ever since Big Mountain. Might as well have a look, right? The worst it was likely to hold was really old corpses.
Ah hah. Ha ha ha. Ah ha ha ha ha NO that is NOT what it held. No, no, this was Silver Peak Mine, and what she wound up finding inside was a deep and powerful motivation to get back to Big Mountain, find Dr. Borous, and take a Class IV industrial cutting laser to his tank of biogel specifically so she could PULL THAT BRAIN OUT AND THROW IT ON THE FLOOR AND JUMP UP AND DOWN ON IT. IN CLEATS. DIRTY ONES.
It was bigger than her. It was bigger than Arcade. It would have laughed at Arcade's plasma fire if mandibles were capable of laughter, because it was the Legendary Cazador, that's why.
(I really have to wonder how it got to be called that. It didn't strike me as the kind of creature to leave victims alive long enough for legends to get out. WHO WRITES THESE STUPID LEGENDS ANYWAY.)
There was a fight and somehow all three of our members of phylum Chordata survived, but other than a lot of running around screaming and shooting I don't recall that much. Assume that the whole scene was replaced with cartoon dust clouds and typographical symbols and a title card reading 'A Scene of Unimaginable Violence' and that at the end there was a pile of ash you could wade up to your knees in and you'd probably have it right. At the end of it Arcade sort of had to push Janice out of there because she was busy jumping up and down on the ash screaming "THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS", and then made her sit down with her head between her knees for a while. But hey, XP and some other stuff gathered up in the mine tunnels, so the traumatic experience of throwing down with a creature that was to other cazadors what Megalara garuda (fair warning, you may not want to Google Image Search that) is to ordinary wasps was totally worthwhile, right?
Once Janice stopped wanting to kill anything that moved and burn down anything that didn't, the party got back on the road. No more diversions even if they did see a radio mast off in a valley to their left. No. No. Just get to the end of the road, find Dr. Henry, deal with Rex the Abomination of Science's little brain issue, and then get as drunk as her liver and her wallet would allow. Fortunately the end of the road wasn't all that far, and led to an area that was both pleasant-looking and cool enough that giant insects didn't live there. And by 'cool' I mean 'cold', because the building with the 'Jacobstown' sign out front was a former ski resort just a little shy of the local mountain's snowline. Plus, even if the insects got over their issues with the cold, there was the part where Lieutenant Worf was out front.
The person who greets you when you arrive at Jacobstown is a supermutant named Marcus. He's originally from Fallout 2, and he's voiced by Michael Dorn. So if Worf were ten feet of muscle poured into eight feet of green skin, with a century or two to mellow his attitude and do a lot of learning, Marcus is roughly what you'd get. Janice was more than a little surprised by this. Pretty much all the supermutants she'd met up to that point in time had been chupacabras- nightkin- and most of them had been either insane or paranoid or both. Marcus was green, calm, sober, intelligent, happy to discuss the failings of the NCR and the Legion, and generally a decent guy. As far as he was concerned, as long as Janice behaved the way she would in any other civilized town and didn't stare at the nightkin too much, she could look around Jacobstown as long as she liked.
Yeah, the nightkin. Apparently Marcus had founded Jacobstown (and named it after a Brotherhood of Steel paladin he used to know) after things went sour for his mutant community at Black Mountain. Something about a nightkin named Tabitha rallying a bunch of some other kind of mutant and taking over the place, so he moved up here and tried to establish an area where he and the others could live in peace. The nightkin and the regular mutants had all been made by somebody called the Master, and the nightkin had severe mental issues if they thought people could see them, so don't piss them off. Ellen didn't really fancy having to deal with angry chupacabras so she agreed not to cause trouble or stare, and Marcus waved her through.
Dr. Henry was a cranky old man- there are always cranky old men in Fallout, it's a thing- who was working with a ghoul assistant, trying to find a cure for the nightkin schizophrenia. Apparently he had a long and storied past that also extended back to Fallout 2, but I didn't know it so Janice didn't either. He bitched at Janice for interrupting his research for a while, made some grumpy noises about his work, and then told Janice that Rex was very definitely showing neural degradation and that if she wanted to help him, he could assist, but she was gonna have to provide a replacement brain.
WHAT. BRAIN. DOG. WHAT. EW.
Fortunately he didn't demand she agree on the spot or Janice would have had a breakdown. He did mention that the Fiends used fighting dogs, and so did the Legion, and that the last time he passed through Novac they had some good dogs there, so if she was interested she'd be best off going to look for a candidate among the PLEASE CAN WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE INSTEAD OF FINDING BRAINS TO PUT INTO THE ABOMINATION DOG. PLEASE.
He was fine with that, and started telling her about his schizophrenia research. Apparently the nightkin used Stealth Boys a lot and didn't feel comfortable without them; they really needed to not be seen. Unfortunately the stealth field caused some kind of interference with their neural structure that led to schizophrenia. It didn't happen to humans, just nightkin, so the research into solving the problem was more than a little tricky... but then he'd always been a researcher even back when he was with the Enclave. (Which I don't think Janice recognized at that point, and even if she'd heard of them in a prior conversation somewhere I didn't remember writing about it, so let's just assume that the memory slipped her mind after Big Mountain. You'd forget things too.) Not that it mattered, because he left them to pursue his own research, and if she was interested in helping there were some oddly mutated nightstalkers in the area who seemed to have weird stealth-fu themselves so would she please go and have a look and bring him back some indicator of how or why that happened. Conversation over now mmkay bye.
Janice didn't mind the brusqueness because it meant no further discussion of brains, so she went outside to see if she could find her way to the rattledog den in the mountains. Hey, they didn't attack her, it was no skin off her nose to investigate, right? She got interrupted, though; Marcus came running up to her and said there were NCR mercenaries coming to cause trouble for the mutants and run off their bighorner herd, and could she have a word with them, since they were more likely to listen to a human and he didn't really want things to get violent right now.
Fine. Not a problem. Unless the mercs started talking about brains, anyway. Which they didn't; the interaction with them was something like this:
Merc: We're here about the muties.
Janice: They're not bothering anybody. Do you know who I am?
Merc: Uh-
Janice: I'm a hero with the NCR and I like these guys.
Merc: ...
Janice: GRAAAAAAA.
Merc: Leaving now!
Ladies and gentlemen, JANICE FURIOUS AND HER POWER OF BOUNDLESS RAGE.
So, yeah, they ran off and Marcus was happy. Janice and Arcade headed up into the snow, which Janice did not like much, and found a cave, which had her on edge because she was waiting for the Legendary Ambulatory Cave Fungus to attack her or something. Fortunately, nothing legendary was to be found. Just the horde of invisible rattledogs- seriously, there was a good-sized pack of nightstalkers in there and they all had stealth field action going on. Which I would say was unnerving and weird and not really possible but come on, we are talking about a CAVE FULL OF RATTLEDOGS. Big Mountain managed to produce a viable cross between class Mammalia and class Reptilia. The fact that the creatures developed the ability to turn invisible after chewing on a dead nightkin's cracked Stealth Boy- no I am not kidding, that is exactly what Janice found and what Dr. Henry said was almost certainly the source of the stealth mutations- is really just the icing on the cake wreck of science.
... I was trying to get a Portal reference in there somewhere but the sentence got away from me. I'm sorry.
Anyway, Dr. Henry did some poking and checking and then said to go find Lily, who was tending the Jacobstown bighorner herd, as she wanted to help with his research and he wanted to test a new model of Stealth Boy that would let the nightkin go invisible without worsening their schizophrenia. Janice went out to find Lily, and discovered that she was a chupacabra in farmer's overalls and straw hat. Oh, and when Janice approached her she boomed out "JIMMY? LITTLE JIMMY, IS THAT YOU?" in that voice-of-the-receptionist-for-Malephar-the-Duke-of-Hell all nightkin have. Yeah, apparently Lily had been somebody's grandma before the Master grabbed her and turned her into a nine foot tall purple skinned mutant commando with a sword the size of a helicopter rotor on her back. Go figure.
(It is possible to recruit Lily as a follower and have her come with you and do a personal quest and all, but you can only have one human-shaped and one non-human-shaped follower at a time. Janice was too creeped out by the grandma chupacabra to want her around ICly; OOCly, I liked Arcade plenty.)
Anyway, Lily happily scampered off to Dr. Henry, and if you have not seen nine feet of purple skinned chupacabra grandma scamper then I don't know what to tell you. It's hard to describe what she did any other way. Janice came along to watch the experiment, and while Lily liked the new Stealth Boy's effect Dr. Henry didn't think it was anywhere near ready, and just as he was starting to talk about what else had to be done Keene, the biggest and grumpiest of the nightkin, showed up with all his purple homeboys in tow to demand that Dr. Henry hand it over. It didn't really look like it was going to end well, but Janice was still the chosen of Ferris Bueller, God of Liars; she made a few comments to Keene about the importance of getting the thing right if he was serious about helping his followers instead of getting them killed, and he believed her.
(I didn't take notes on what she said exactly. It was a high difficulty Speech check and it went by very quickly. My apologies.)
Keene and company left, grumbling and threatening Dr. Henry if he didn't get some results soon. Janice rolled her eyes some and had a little bit more of a chat with Dr. Henry, but there really wasn't much reason to stick around; she and Arcade and Rex the Abomination of Science left after that. I'm pretty sure Janice was looking for a place and a reason to just shoot Rex and put him out of his neurodegenerative misery on that trip back out of the mountains, but nothing really arose, so she found herself in the position of having to either go and find the Abomination of Science a fresh brain or-
Yeah, she just kinda stalled out there. I honestly can't say why she wound up going through with it, because that kind of thing is an Issue for her. The best justification I can think of is that she was going to be going into Vegas again at some point, and that meant she'd be seen by one or more of the Kings, and if word got back to Elvis Prime that she hadn't solved his dog's problems she'd be descended upon in the night by a horde of tributary Elvi. If it was either make her psychological issues worse or get beaten to death by ALL THE ELVI IN NEW VEGAS, she'd just have to deal with the extra issues. Hell, maybe Dr. Henry would have some chems to help her not think about it after it was all over, since he was working with brain chemistry.
She went to look for the Fiends. They were the closest source of good dogs, and she had no desire to walk up to Old Lady Gibson in Novac and say 'hey, do you have a dog you don't want any more? Because I could really use the contents of its skull.' There really isn't a way to make that request without triggering an investigative visit by the post-apocalyptic version of Dexter Morgan, but the Fiends tended to get all violent and killy anyway so hopefully she'd be able to just take one of their dogs down and bring the body back without a problem. This is more or less what happened. (In truth, there is only one dog in Fiend territory that you can get the brain quest object from, and it belongs to Violet- the Fiend whose head Janice was paid to bring back to the NCR guys at Camp McCarran. Janice had killed that dog already and just had to go find the corpse object and raid its contents, but game mechanics make for lousy story.) I'm guessing she had Arcade take some measures to preserve the dog's head as best he could before going back to Jacobstown and having Rex's surgery done. By the time it was all over, Rex was a very happy dog with improved attacking and killing skills- his brain was, after all, the brain of a murderin' animal skull hat person's favorite pooch- and Janice was...
Oh God.
Janice was fresh out of sidequests.
It was time to go and track down Evil Chandler Bing.
When last we saw our heroine, Janice was on her way up to Jacobstown with Arcade Gannon the Worst Liar Ever and Rex the Abomination of Science in tow. And asking herself what the hell she had done with her life, that she was going this far out of her way to render medical assistance to a half-robot dog with its brain in a glowing glass dome attached to the top of its head. There was a lot of that kind of asking. You try surviving somewhere like Big Mountain, you'll have issues with anything to do with brains too.
At least the Legionary assassins didn't follow them very far, because the Legionary assassins were all dead. Between Arcade's plasma pistol and Rex's propensity for violence and Janice's holorifle they didn't really stand much of a chance, although I suppose the football gear they were wearing and pretending it was Serious Actual Legion Armor (Stop Laughing You Historian Assholes It's Totally Authentic) might have slowed at least some of the plasma fire down. The point is that they were dead, so once Janice and company were far enough along the road to Jacobstown that they couldn't see Vegas behind them any more, the only things trying to kill them were the giant mantises. Which were relatively harmless by comparison with everything else ever, and which can also be grilled with wine and honey mesquite pods if you're hungry. So it wasn't too bad of a trip at that point.
Naturally this meant that Janice just had to wonder about the mine tunnel off to one side. When an area has green growing plants and large placid herbivores- there were bighorners all over the place- that generally seems to indicate a lack of large non-placid predators. Plus she didn't smell the smell of horrible death that usually meant deathclaws, or hear the sound of rattledogs- and even if she did run across rattledogs they didn't bother her much ever since Big Mountain. Might as well have a look, right? The worst it was likely to hold was really old corpses.
Ah hah. Ha ha ha. Ah ha ha ha ha NO that is NOT what it held. No, no, this was Silver Peak Mine, and what she wound up finding inside was a deep and powerful motivation to get back to Big Mountain, find Dr. Borous, and take a Class IV industrial cutting laser to his tank of biogel specifically so she could PULL THAT BRAIN OUT AND THROW IT ON THE FLOOR AND JUMP UP AND DOWN ON IT. IN CLEATS. DIRTY ONES.
It was bigger than her. It was bigger than Arcade. It would have laughed at Arcade's plasma fire if mandibles were capable of laughter, because it was the Legendary Cazador, that's why.
(I really have to wonder how it got to be called that. It didn't strike me as the kind of creature to leave victims alive long enough for legends to get out. WHO WRITES THESE STUPID LEGENDS ANYWAY.)
There was a fight and somehow all three of our members of phylum Chordata survived, but other than a lot of running around screaming and shooting I don't recall that much. Assume that the whole scene was replaced with cartoon dust clouds and typographical symbols and a title card reading 'A Scene of Unimaginable Violence' and that at the end there was a pile of ash you could wade up to your knees in and you'd probably have it right. At the end of it Arcade sort of had to push Janice out of there because she was busy jumping up and down on the ash screaming "THIS IS WHY WE CAN'T HAVE NICE THINGS", and then made her sit down with her head between her knees for a while. But hey, XP and some other stuff gathered up in the mine tunnels, so the traumatic experience of throwing down with a creature that was to other cazadors what Megalara garuda (fair warning, you may not want to Google Image Search that) is to ordinary wasps was totally worthwhile, right?
Once Janice stopped wanting to kill anything that moved and burn down anything that didn't, the party got back on the road. No more diversions even if they did see a radio mast off in a valley to their left. No. No. Just get to the end of the road, find Dr. Henry, deal with Rex the Abomination of Science's little brain issue, and then get as drunk as her liver and her wallet would allow. Fortunately the end of the road wasn't all that far, and led to an area that was both pleasant-looking and cool enough that giant insects didn't live there. And by 'cool' I mean 'cold', because the building with the 'Jacobstown' sign out front was a former ski resort just a little shy of the local mountain's snowline. Plus, even if the insects got over their issues with the cold, there was the part where Lieutenant Worf was out front.
The person who greets you when you arrive at Jacobstown is a supermutant named Marcus. He's originally from Fallout 2, and he's voiced by Michael Dorn. So if Worf were ten feet of muscle poured into eight feet of green skin, with a century or two to mellow his attitude and do a lot of learning, Marcus is roughly what you'd get. Janice was more than a little surprised by this. Pretty much all the supermutants she'd met up to that point in time had been chupacabras- nightkin- and most of them had been either insane or paranoid or both. Marcus was green, calm, sober, intelligent, happy to discuss the failings of the NCR and the Legion, and generally a decent guy. As far as he was concerned, as long as Janice behaved the way she would in any other civilized town and didn't stare at the nightkin too much, she could look around Jacobstown as long as she liked.
Yeah, the nightkin. Apparently Marcus had founded Jacobstown (and named it after a Brotherhood of Steel paladin he used to know) after things went sour for his mutant community at Black Mountain. Something about a nightkin named Tabitha rallying a bunch of some other kind of mutant and taking over the place, so he moved up here and tried to establish an area where he and the others could live in peace. The nightkin and the regular mutants had all been made by somebody called the Master, and the nightkin had severe mental issues if they thought people could see them, so don't piss them off. Ellen didn't really fancy having to deal with angry chupacabras so she agreed not to cause trouble or stare, and Marcus waved her through.
Dr. Henry was a cranky old man- there are always cranky old men in Fallout, it's a thing- who was working with a ghoul assistant, trying to find a cure for the nightkin schizophrenia. Apparently he had a long and storied past that also extended back to Fallout 2, but I didn't know it so Janice didn't either. He bitched at Janice for interrupting his research for a while, made some grumpy noises about his work, and then told Janice that Rex was very definitely showing neural degradation and that if she wanted to help him, he could assist, but she was gonna have to provide a replacement brain.
WHAT. BRAIN. DOG. WHAT. EW.
Fortunately he didn't demand she agree on the spot or Janice would have had a breakdown. He did mention that the Fiends used fighting dogs, and so did the Legion, and that the last time he passed through Novac they had some good dogs there, so if she was interested she'd be best off going to look for a candidate among the PLEASE CAN WE TALK ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE INSTEAD OF FINDING BRAINS TO PUT INTO THE ABOMINATION DOG. PLEASE.
He was fine with that, and started telling her about his schizophrenia research. Apparently the nightkin used Stealth Boys a lot and didn't feel comfortable without them; they really needed to not be seen. Unfortunately the stealth field caused some kind of interference with their neural structure that led to schizophrenia. It didn't happen to humans, just nightkin, so the research into solving the problem was more than a little tricky... but then he'd always been a researcher even back when he was with the Enclave. (Which I don't think Janice recognized at that point, and even if she'd heard of them in a prior conversation somewhere I didn't remember writing about it, so let's just assume that the memory slipped her mind after Big Mountain. You'd forget things too.) Not that it mattered, because he left them to pursue his own research, and if she was interested in helping there were some oddly mutated nightstalkers in the area who seemed to have weird stealth-fu themselves so would she please go and have a look and bring him back some indicator of how or why that happened. Conversation over now mmkay bye.
Janice didn't mind the brusqueness because it meant no further discussion of brains, so she went outside to see if she could find her way to the rattledog den in the mountains. Hey, they didn't attack her, it was no skin off her nose to investigate, right? She got interrupted, though; Marcus came running up to her and said there were NCR mercenaries coming to cause trouble for the mutants and run off their bighorner herd, and could she have a word with them, since they were more likely to listen to a human and he didn't really want things to get violent right now.
Fine. Not a problem. Unless the mercs started talking about brains, anyway. Which they didn't; the interaction with them was something like this:
Merc: We're here about the muties.
Janice: They're not bothering anybody. Do you know who I am?
Merc: Uh-
Janice: I'm a hero with the NCR and I like these guys.
Merc: ...
Janice: GRAAAAAAA.
Merc: Leaving now!
Ladies and gentlemen, JANICE FURIOUS AND HER POWER OF BOUNDLESS RAGE.
So, yeah, they ran off and Marcus was happy. Janice and Arcade headed up into the snow, which Janice did not like much, and found a cave, which had her on edge because she was waiting for the Legendary Ambulatory Cave Fungus to attack her or something. Fortunately, nothing legendary was to be found. Just the horde of invisible rattledogs- seriously, there was a good-sized pack of nightstalkers in there and they all had stealth field action going on. Which I would say was unnerving and weird and not really possible but come on, we are talking about a CAVE FULL OF RATTLEDOGS. Big Mountain managed to produce a viable cross between class Mammalia and class Reptilia. The fact that the creatures developed the ability to turn invisible after chewing on a dead nightkin's cracked Stealth Boy- no I am not kidding, that is exactly what Janice found and what Dr. Henry said was almost certainly the source of the stealth mutations- is really just the icing on the cake wreck of science.
... I was trying to get a Portal reference in there somewhere but the sentence got away from me. I'm sorry.
Anyway, Dr. Henry did some poking and checking and then said to go find Lily, who was tending the Jacobstown bighorner herd, as she wanted to help with his research and he wanted to test a new model of Stealth Boy that would let the nightkin go invisible without worsening their schizophrenia. Janice went out to find Lily, and discovered that she was a chupacabra in farmer's overalls and straw hat. Oh, and when Janice approached her she boomed out "JIMMY? LITTLE JIMMY, IS THAT YOU?" in that voice-of-the-receptionist-for-Malephar-the-Duke-of-Hell all nightkin have. Yeah, apparently Lily had been somebody's grandma before the Master grabbed her and turned her into a nine foot tall purple skinned mutant commando with a sword the size of a helicopter rotor on her back. Go figure.
(It is possible to recruit Lily as a follower and have her come with you and do a personal quest and all, but you can only have one human-shaped and one non-human-shaped follower at a time. Janice was too creeped out by the grandma chupacabra to want her around ICly; OOCly, I liked Arcade plenty.)
Anyway, Lily happily scampered off to Dr. Henry, and if you have not seen nine feet of purple skinned chupacabra grandma scamper then I don't know what to tell you. It's hard to describe what she did any other way. Janice came along to watch the experiment, and while Lily liked the new Stealth Boy's effect Dr. Henry didn't think it was anywhere near ready, and just as he was starting to talk about what else had to be done Keene, the biggest and grumpiest of the nightkin, showed up with all his purple homeboys in tow to demand that Dr. Henry hand it over. It didn't really look like it was going to end well, but Janice was still the chosen of Ferris Bueller, God of Liars; she made a few comments to Keene about the importance of getting the thing right if he was serious about helping his followers instead of getting them killed, and he believed her.
(I didn't take notes on what she said exactly. It was a high difficulty Speech check and it went by very quickly. My apologies.)
Keene and company left, grumbling and threatening Dr. Henry if he didn't get some results soon. Janice rolled her eyes some and had a little bit more of a chat with Dr. Henry, but there really wasn't much reason to stick around; she and Arcade and Rex the Abomination of Science left after that. I'm pretty sure Janice was looking for a place and a reason to just shoot Rex and put him out of his neurodegenerative misery on that trip back out of the mountains, but nothing really arose, so she found herself in the position of having to either go and find the Abomination of Science a fresh brain or-
Yeah, she just kinda stalled out there. I honestly can't say why she wound up going through with it, because that kind of thing is an Issue for her. The best justification I can think of is that she was going to be going into Vegas again at some point, and that meant she'd be seen by one or more of the Kings, and if word got back to Elvis Prime that she hadn't solved his dog's problems she'd be descended upon in the night by a horde of tributary Elvi. If it was either make her psychological issues worse or get beaten to death by ALL THE ELVI IN NEW VEGAS, she'd just have to deal with the extra issues. Hell, maybe Dr. Henry would have some chems to help her not think about it after it was all over, since he was working with brain chemistry.
She went to look for the Fiends. They were the closest source of good dogs, and she had no desire to walk up to Old Lady Gibson in Novac and say 'hey, do you have a dog you don't want any more? Because I could really use the contents of its skull.' There really isn't a way to make that request without triggering an investigative visit by the post-apocalyptic version of Dexter Morgan, but the Fiends tended to get all violent and killy anyway so hopefully she'd be able to just take one of their dogs down and bring the body back without a problem. This is more or less what happened. (In truth, there is only one dog in Fiend territory that you can get the brain quest object from, and it belongs to Violet- the Fiend whose head Janice was paid to bring back to the NCR guys at Camp McCarran. Janice had killed that dog already and just had to go find the corpse object and raid its contents, but game mechanics make for lousy story.) I'm guessing she had Arcade take some measures to preserve the dog's head as best he could before going back to Jacobstown and having Rex's surgery done. By the time it was all over, Rex was a very happy dog with improved attacking and killing skills- his brain was, after all, the brain of a murderin' animal skull hat person's favorite pooch- and Janice was...
Oh God.
Janice was fresh out of sidequests.
It was time to go and track down Evil Chandler Bing.
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Date: 2013-10-19 05:04 pm (UTC)I <3 Janice so much.