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Finally started New Vegas last night. Let's get right into it.

Arthur Carbuncle was a courier for the Mojave Express. His work meant spending more time outside than most folks could handle. Sometimes the stuff he carried was expensive, and bandits always thought we'd make an easy paycheck. His job title was deliveryman, but the bulk of his real work was in killing. He wasn't fond of killing people, he liked people, but it was what he was good at, and Art was not a man to waste the skills God gave him.

Today he woke up in a doctor's office with a bad headache and a bald man standing over him. The man called himself Doc Mitchell and filled Art in on what had happened over the last few days (he didn't remember so well himself.) Apparently a group of armed men had captured him, shot him in the head, and buried him in a shallow grave so they could take a package he'd been delivering. It was only the generosity of a robot named Victor who had dug him up and the Doc who worked on him that he was still breathing. He also had Art answer some questions about himself, like a shrink would, and made him use a machine to test his physical attributes:

Strength: 4
Perception: 6
Endurance: 6
Charisma: 7
Intelligence: 8
Agility: 6
Luck: 3

Traits: Good Natured, Trigger Discipline
Tag Skills: Explosives, Guns, Speech

He thanked the doc for his help and then stepped out into the town of Goodsprings. First he made a point of finding the robot who had dug him up and saying thanks to him too, and then, as the doc had ordered, he went and talked to a woman named Sunny Smiles who knew her way around a firearm. He felt a bit patronized when she had him fire at empty soda bottles, but he gave it a shot to see if his head injury had damaged his aim. He got through that alright, and then Sunny offered to pay him if he helped her round up some Geckos on the outskirts of town. That was easy enough. They found a woman getting attacked by some of the damned critters but between the pair of them they shot them down before she came to any harm.

Art figured he could use some more cash and supplies before he left town, so he went looking for any odd jobs he could do. Someone told him about an old safe in the schoolhouse which he managed to open electronically, and Trudy at the bar had him repair an old radio. The only other thing anyone wanted help with was fending off some thugs called the Powder Gang who were threatening this guy named Ringo who had been sheltering in Goodsprings for a while. The town had been good to Art, so he figured he owed them one. He rounded up some help and lent his own rifle to the cause, killing the attack force's leader and one other man on his own, and helping himself to the things they were carrying. He was now:

Idolized in Goodsprings
Shunned by Powder Gang

The extra experience helped sharpen his gun skills back up and gave him his first feat: Confirmed Bachelor (+10% damage against male humans and some unique dialog options with the same sex.)

A man just outside of Goodsprings told him that his girlfriend was stranded on top of some cliffs about to get killed by geckos. Art went exterminating but all he found was a fridge with some old meat inside and a 10mm pistol with some rounds. The man tried to kill him over this stash, but Art drew faster. Guy can't have been too bright - a few bullets were hardly worth dying over.

Now that he was feeling a little better, he decided he would track down the guys who had stolen his delivery, get it back, and bring it to its buyer. His job had its hazards, but it was still what he was best at, and he didn't want this incident hanging over his next employee review. He set off for the town of Primm, where there was a Mojave Express office. He found the place quick enough, but it wasn't in its best shape - some NCR guys told him a few escaped cons had shot the sherrif and taken over the town. The troopers didn't want to go shoot the place up without more supplies and some backup, but Art was in a hurry so he went in and dealt with the convicts himself.

There were two guys outside he had to take out to get into the Mojave building, but it was empty in any case - he found the man in charge, Nash, lounging around a casino across the street. The old guy told him that another courier had originally been given his assignment - to deliver a chip - but had chickened out for some reason when he saw Art's name below his on the list. He also asked him to free a deputy named Beagle who was being held in the local hotel, which he didn't mind doing. The bandits were a little thicker on the ground there, but he got through just fine on his own, and picked up a flamethrower from the leader's body. He wasn't sure he'd use it himself, but he could probably sell it for a decent price.

That deputy wasn't looking for a promotion, and asked Art to go find a new sherrif instead. They suggested a guy in some NCR jail as one option and just selling out the whole town to the Republic as another, but he decided to reprogram this old robot they had guarding the casino, called Primm Slim, to do the job instead. A robot had saved his skin before, so he figured another one might do the same for other folks. Only problem was, he wasn't good enough with computers to do the coding on the damn thing.

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