Time Borrowed, Stolen, or Otherwise Misplaced
Despite living in a city full of flashing neon and enormous personalities, Robert House captures attention like no other. It’s as if he has his own gravitational pull; when he wants something, the world bends to make it so. It’s this willpower, combined with his impressive intellect and considerable wealth, that makes his survival of the apocalypse an absolute certainty.
Following House into this next age are Jane Alderidge and Victor Laughlin, his dutiful employees and longtime friends, with optimistic plans to resume their normal lives when Vegas is finally reborn, but what these three don’t realize is that their saving grace - the Platinum Chip - will be 536 miles away when the bombs drop a day earlier than expected, violently altering the course of House’s predictions.
In the post-war wasteland, there are tales of times that fate plays favorites. These rare individuals are called many things - chosen ones, wanderers, survivors - but what these heroes all have in common is their actions always define a generation. The Mojave already has one such person, but fate is about to deal in a new player.
Not that Johanna Barnes would consider herself one of fate’s favorites at the moment. One minute, she was an up-and-coming Hollywood actress reconsidering both her career and her choice in friends, the next she was waking from forced cryogenic freezing in the distant future, trapped in a sealed bunker with only a radio to piece together what happened on that disastrous day two hundred years ago.
Fate is about to place the Platinum Chip in Johanna’s hands, bringing her face to screen with the enigmatic House and pulling them into a precarious partnership that'll change the face of the Mojave forever. With a murderous NCR sniper hot on her heels, mutated monsters descending from on high, and the treacherous leader of the Chairmen Benny ahead, the odds seem stacked against Johanna Barnes and Robert House, but if they manage to stop bickering for five minutes they might just survive.
That is, until the second courier shows up with plans of their own.
Find out what happens next in: Time Borrowed, Stolen, or Otherwise Misplaced!
(Or: How would Fallout: New Vegas play out differently if there were two couriers working against each other?)
