Walking up to the Mohave outpost you can't help but to see the two giant waste of steel as we kill the rad scorpions in our way. My new rifle makes it easier to kill them due to it being a pre-nam era rifle. A bigger bullet for more distance and stopping power. Once at the outpost I gave it a good look before heading to the bar. "So this is the infamous Mohave outpost. I've seen worse." I say to myself. A NCR Soldier casually walks past me and says. "Patrolling the Mohave makes you wish for a Nuclear winter."

Once in the bar it doesn't take long to find the bartender since it's right next to the door. "Just spit balling here, but you have any beers from out east?" I ask. "We don't trade with the Legion." "I meant east of the Mississippi." "That's pretty specific. We might have some pre-war beer you can take a look. Why don't you buy some other stuff while you're at it?" "Like what? Guns, ammo, food. We even buy stuff here." I don't find anything but I do buy more ammo and sell some of the junk I picked up on the way.

I notice a girl in a cowboy hat drinking herself to death. "What's up with her?" I ask. "She's just upset that her caravan was torched." "Give me one of what she's having." I am handed a full thing of whiskey and I walk over to her. "I will trade you a whiskey for a conversation." It takes her a moment but then she takes it and starts to drink from it. "Ask away." She tells me. "Let's start with your name, mine's Aaron." "It's Rose of Sharon Cassidy. But everyone calls me Cass. Anything else?" "What has you upset? Besides what see said about your caravan being destroyed." "Jackson doesn't want the caravans leaving the outpost because 'it's not safe' but the only thing keeping me here is the title." "Why not just shut down?" "What?" "Get out of the business it's not like you have the caps to buy a new Brammon." "I don't know how it works where you're from but that's not how it works in the NCR." "Tell me what else does the NCR do that hinder trade?" "Well they put tariffs on all of the border crossings and they have such a hard time protecting their territory that we have to spend money on guards." "Back in the Capital wasteland rivet city provides all of the security for the caravans as the Brotherhood is too busy trying to push the Supper Mutants out of the ruins." "The Brotherhood actually helping people don't make me laugh." "What's so funny about that?" "The Brotherhood of Steel are nothing more then a bunch of isolationist technology hoarders who for all of their advanced technology and training still got their asses handed to them at Helilos." "What happened at this Helilos?" "All I know is at Helilos One the Brotherhood was there and then the NCR took it from them." "I'll check it out when I go that way."

I go look for this Jackson to see if he had any jobs. It was just to clear out some ants that I already took care of. He 'supplied' me anyway. I decided that it was better to just head straight to Novac instead of staying here. Sure I could sleep for free and without fear of being robbed but I just get this feeling that there is someone waiting for me a few miles past Novac.