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It didn't take too much corporate espionage to expose Crimson Caravan and the Van Graffs. They both had a safe lying around in their offices containing letters which discussed all the murdering they liked to do to keep down competitive businesses. Art and Cass handed those letters over to the C.O. at the Mojave Outpost who promised to send word back east and start the process of prosecuting them. Cass seemed satisfied enough with that. They also made the trip back to Jacobstown to finish Rex's brain transplant. With those tasks taken care of, Art had Cass and Rex return to the Lucky 38 so he could travel with ED-E and Arcade again.

He got the sunken plane out of the water and the Boomers promised to take his side in the battle for Hoover dam, so he told Yes Man about that. He spent some time looking into the Omertas while he was in town. They were up to something, but he couldn't tell what just yet. Next he made contact with the Great Khans in their base at Red Rock Canyon, which was tough to track down because it was surrounded by mountains on most sides. They didn't seem very powerful or important, but they were in the process of making an alliance with the Legion so he thought he'd try and convince them out of it. He needed to convince four advisors that the Legion didn't have their best interests in mind. Three of them were pretty easy - he just pointed out the kind of things the Legion did to people - but the last guy, who was the same one who asked him to help dismantle the alliance in the first place - needed hard evidence he couldn't find around the Khans camp. He did find a journal from the Legion's emissary there talking about how the Legion would kill all the Khans, but no one would read it - he didn't know why.

That just left the Brotherhood of Steel. He went back and checked on their bunkers again, and when he poked into the one with the tree stump on top three guys in power armor charged out and threatened to blow his brains out with energy weapons. They made him give up all his weapons, take off his clothes, and then marched him into their base, put an explosive collar on him, and forced him to run errands for them. He couldn't decide if he liked their hospitality or the Boomers' better. His first task was just to talk an NCR ranger who was camping out in one of their bunkers into hitting the road. After that, they took off the explosive collar and asked him to seek out some dead paladins and then make contact with a few of their scouts. He found all the scouts, but decided to run some other errands before he went back to the Brotherhood's base. He helped find a spy for the NCR, not because he wanted to help them any more but because it was an interesting job, and he fought through the Fiends' territory near Vegas to find Vault 3, but couldn't figure out how to get the door open. He also went to Vault 23. An NCR big wig asked him to look into how they grew plants so effectively. The whole place was overgrown and everyone inside it had been turned into these gross plant-like monsters. It turned out that whatever growth method they'd been using on the crops had also gotten into the creatures they were using for pest control, resulting in giant Mantises, Venus Fly Traps, and mushrooms that could take over the minds of human hosts - which was what happened to everyone in the vault. Art worked together with an old ghoul scientist to destroy the fungus, but he talked her into letting him bring the data back - she had wanted to destroy it.

It had passed by almost without him noticing during all the excitement when he first met Benny, but the Legion had contacted him and asked that he come meet with Caesar, giving him a mark that would let him pass through their territory. They also knew that Benny was headed their way. He was trying to find Mr. House's secret bunker which the Legion's camp had been built over, but there was no way he'd make it with the Legion already onto him. Art would have to go there and butter up the big man until he could find a way to get the Platinum Chip and get out.

New Perks since last time: Robotics Expert (extra damage to machines and a stealth instant kill on them) Life Giver (+30 HP) Light Step (invulnerability to mines and floor-based traps) Sniper (increased headshot accuracy in VATS) Grim Reaper's Sprint (Action Point restoration when killing enemies in VATS)

Reputation Update: Idolized by Boomers, Liked by Followers, Great Khans, NCR, Accepted on The Strip

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