Jeez permadeath hardcore New Vegas is absolutely brutal. Let me explain with the all the permadeaths I took a screenshot of.
Starting with the Ranger.
I was roleplaying a ranger and gave myself the clothing of one and gathered Boone and what I believed to be enough gear. She was ready to bring order and peace with the NCR and crush the legion under her boot. We hope to gain more rep with the Novac locals by clearing the repconn building of the ghouls threatening the town
With her trusting 5.56 revolver and sharpshooting companion she figures this would be a piece of cake.
They get in, talk to the intercom, and start blasting like normal. However, things get worse as they get upstairs.
The ghouls in the big hallway start to notice them and begin to overwhelm them. They get to the balcony area overlooking the lobby and two more ferals stands in front of the Ranger. While Boone deals with the ones behind us she deals with the two in front of her.
she starts shooting, downing the first feral with ease, as the other charges and scratches her up. Panic starts to set as she has to reload. After that she misses all her shots again and the ghoul continues to scratch. To avoid the feral attacks the ranger starts backing up before the claws grab her again. She neglects to notice the absent railing behind her as the ghoul scratches one last time and she falls off the balcony and time begins to slow. she hits the desk as her neck cracks and her lifeless body plops to the ground. Her pistol still in hand.
After Boone kills the ghouls, he notices the corpse of his new ranger friend. In his sadness of a fallen soldier, he walks slowly down the stairs and as walks out of the lobby. The Ranger's life fading as this all ends and, the idea of her on the dam protecting the mojave from the Legion, dies with her.
This was the Legionnaire.
I like to commit a lot, and this was my survival items focused melee, and explosives build.
It was a rough campaign for this guy. I made it 5 lives for each character as I was not used to or having fun on single life ending so soon.
He had lost my many lives 2 from dumb situations (can't recall) and the other 2 were from wanting to obtain the Nuka breaker (I have a mod that relocates the GRA weapons, and this one was in heavy fiend territory). He was officially on my last life and yet had not been inducted into Caesars legion. He was able to meet him and get to the point where House needed retribution, but wasn't fully ready to fight his secruitrons yet, so he heads for Dry Wells
(Dry Wells is a fun mod that adds more of Legion Territory) He get there and start doing some easy quests until tasked with dealing with a den of Yao Guai nearby. He agrees knowing the danger yet feeling ready to take them on.
The first few of them were easy with the Nuka Breaker making pastes of them until he gets deeper in the caves. A long cavern that split into multiple small rooms and the large bear at the end (there were more but only one attacked). Instead of chucking explosives like he would with a difficult foe he charges in. He swings at the beast, but it swings with him, and we both take our blows, but the legionnaire suffers the most. He should be chugging medicinal items and drugs to kill this thing, but the thrill of the fight kept taking over as fight overtook flight and before he can take another swing, he dies to the claws of the Yao Guai
The Legionnaire had hopes of being a centurion or even a Legate whose explosive weaponry would make the enemies of Caesar tremble in the mushroom clouds he would make. However, the Legionnaire would die in combat not against a Ranger or vicious human foe, but a beast who had a hunger deeper than his own. He dies and no one would fear his name.
More brutal and anticlimactic than saddening but I'm including it because 1. I worked hard on this character and 2. The fact the Yao Guai is mocking my corpse (it's not dead it is doing a lying down animation like what?!)
Last one and I'll head out.
A typical bring law to the lawless wastes type deal as he sported his rifle and revolver. Coming from NCR territory to bring some law to towns that need him and didn't want to worry about NCR bureaucracy to ring the bell.
He was pretty outgunned in most fights and would sneak around the ones he could, but sometimes he needed to. He had helped the folks of Goodsprings and now it was Primm's turn.
He had rescued the deputy and was given the options of possible new sheriff candidates. He decided to go for the NCR as the idea of a robot or a convict laying any good effort law sounded out of the question.
He heads for the Mojave outposts to convince them to reinforce the town and it's citizen. On the way he spots a Highway Patrol Station held up by raiders. He decides to go around them for the time being and finally makes it to the outpost.
After getting the reinforcements, he heads back to share the news and establish law to Primm. On the way he figures he should clear those raiders so the soldiers have no trouble in getting to Primm.
He sits atop a little cliff and starts to aim his sights when a feral ghoul from out in the desert jumps him. He manages to kill the ghoul but alerts the raiders of his presence. Instead of retreating and retain a new strategy, the sheriff pulls rifle back up and begins a firefight. He fires at them managing to hit them and even killing one charging at him with a knife. He is outnumbered however, and the bullets from the raiders pierce him too many times as he falls to his wounds.
With his gun clutched between his arm the sheriff looks one more time at the sun. Not an early sunrise, but a sun that had already rose and will keep doing so after he is gone. Although the sheriff may not be there to invoke the law on the lawless, he was able to help two new towns. With that thought, the sheriff stares at the sun till his soul leaves him basking in the desert.
Thank you for reading my post if you got to here! I wanted to share some of these stories and I legit had fun writing about their deaths.
Hope Y'all have a good day and happy trails!
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