Bob admires his work one last time
before rummaging through Ringo's things, and, not content with just that, he also grabs everything he can find on his corpse. He also takes off his clothes.. and put Ringo's on.
Bob has quite the cunning plan, really. By wearing Ringo's clothes, he can actually fool the inhabitants of Goodsprings Not-good! and the Powder Gangers into thinking he is Ringo, and, as long as they don't come too close, with a little careful manipulation, convince them to slaughter each other. COMFY CLOTHES! WOO-HOO or maybe not.
Sometimes I forget this is the guy that decided to trek dangerous wastes, all the way to the Strip, while wearing courier clothes. While bringing a tribal armor that provides much more protection without limiting movements with himself. Uh, but he made very sure that no distinguishable feature was visible while wearing those clothes.
Anyway, our courier friend Bob isn't quite so satisfied with the exploring and killing he's done so far. He spots a hill, opposite to the gas station he was visiting before, and rushes there as fast as he can. Up on the hill he finds some graves and some bloatflies. Their meat is delicious and so Bob decides to rip them open with his bare fists to grab some.
After doing so, he scavenges stuff left on the graves, presumably by mourning people. Well, duh, my bad, but who leaves food on a grave? Bob also finds an open, shallow grave. The grave that was meant to be his final resting place. GRAVE UNFINISHED. BAD WORKED. DUH. MAYBE-FAMILIAR? NAH. NOT-FAMILIAR. There's no food on it, but some cigarette buds on the side of it. Bob grabs one to eat it but sadly discovers that it's not really edible. Disheartened he decides to keep the cigarette buds anyway, hoping to find some kind of sauce that would go well with them.
Now Bob's lust for adventure seems to be finally sated. With his head somewhat clear, Bob remembers. "ME GO PREEM." Yes, Bob, you'll go to Primm in due time, I'm sure. Not knowing the road to that town, Bob visits the Saloon and again and asks Sunny MAYBE-MATE Smiles.
ME-GO PREEM. TELL-ME PREEM-ROAD?
Sure can. Take the road south-east out of town till it hits the freeway. Primm is the town with the roller coaster, straight south. Can't miss it.
ROLLER COASTER! DOO-DOO-DOO! Excited about the prospect of seeing a real roller coaster and not just a graffiti of it, Bob rushes out of the saloon, and forgets to rip out Trudy's intestines again. Oh, you're such a forgetful fellow Bob! Somehow he still had time to steal a pool cue though. After this visit to the saloon, Bob starts walking through the main road, the scars on his head urging him to Primm. Before he can hope to see it on the horizon, though, he gets distracted by a guy on the side. JOECOEB!
The leader of the Powder Gangers. A guy who takes no shit and doesn't afraid of anything. Except being shot by Ringo from a window, I presume. Bob and him chat for a bit. Joe Cobb informs him that the town is now part of their territory, something Bob swallows without batting an eyelash. He also informs him of his desire to shoot up people in Goodsprings. This piques Bob's interest.
Bob's proposal is simple. DAKKA-DAKKA SPRINGS-NOT-GOOD. THEN SPRINGS-GOOD! Well, the way Joe Cobb sees it, Bob is proposing him to conquer the town, but sees no reason to do that. ME-FIND FOODSTUFF HERE. GOOD FOODSTUFF! Joe Cobb's as good as sold. Before doing that, though, Bob needs to take care of Ringo first. Bob sighs disappointed. With Ringo already dead, how can he do that? Surprisingly for Bob, Joe Cobb seems pleased with the news though, and decides to call his friends to take the town. Before they raze the town though, there's more stuff to do: convince Must Mitchell and Chet to hand over supplies.
First, Bob goes to Doc Mitchell (LIAR-MUSTACHE) and tries to deceive him (LIE LIAR-MUSTACHE) into handing some medical supplies. Predictably, the approach fails, so Bob takes a more, aehm, direct one. Results: the pool cue gets stained with blood, Doc Mitchell dies (LIES BE BAD LIAR-MUSTACHE, AHAH!), medical supplies are obtained. Not a bad job at all.
It's time to get Chet's supplies. He goes in his store (open literally 24/7.. this Chet fella is a hard worker, you have to give him that) and tries to convince him. This time, instead of a lie, Bob tries a silver tongue approach. Predictably, he fails again, and resorts to his pool cue, hoping for Chet to have his supplies on himself. Unfortunately, Bob can't manage to find them, so he just grabs everything he finds in the store.
At this point Bob is ready to go back to Joe Cobb and inform him. His reaction is, unsurprisingly, pleased, and the attack on the town begins immediately after Joe Cobb informs Bob that some Goodsprings settler have formed an improvised militia. Nothing that can stop Bob and his Powder Ganging back-up though.
But now Bob is in front of a PATENTED MODERN RPG DAY MAN DILEMMA. To punch or not to punch? With some lateral thinking, Bob reaches the solution.. BOTH!
He punches Easy Pete to death, his cowboy hat not enough to save him, then takes out is precious sticks of dynamite to roast Trudy's ass with. When it comes to Sunny, Bob lets his Powder Gangers friends do the work. She's a Goodsprings settler, sure, but she's also his MAYBE-MATE, and his feelings for her haven't quite vanished yet. Seeing her corpse falling on the floor, covered in blood, stirs a profound feeling of discomfort in the courier, a feeling that gets quickly forgotten in favor of a far greater pain.
Just near the body of Sunny, another body, that of Cheyenne, symbolizes the change of regime in Springs-not-good. Awesome.. awesome.. awesome-puppy now.. dead-puppy... what me done? Me.. not-likey Powder Gangers... Me no-kill no-second-puppy. Uh, me-kill evil-puppies though. A tumbleweed rolls in the background as Bob swears this confusing oath.
, you get to pick a perk every other level, so as Bob's first perk I chose.. Confirmed Bachelor. Because there's nothing more hilarious than a straight dumb guy accidentally hitting on a gay guy, with the possible exception of groin shots, but they removed them since Fallout 3.Comments
