Once my eyes adjust to the bright outdoors I behold the glory of Goodsprings, a nice enough town with nice enough looking robots wandering the streets. My Pip-boy has a little fit as it suddenly sees radio stations on this side of the door. Doc must have his house set...

I may not need anything from the general store, but I do appreciate a free soda. Or 12. I help myself, with an internal promise to shop there someday. Eventually. And of course I clean up the empties. Boxes you can carry AND put things in, what a concept. Now you...

I stare at the fancy robot for an awkward moment, and he stares back. You'll have to forgive an old gear-head for waxing poetic here but "fancy" doesn't fully express the sight in front of me, I mean this bot is fa-an-cy. Detailed paint job, in cherry red, with some...

My stomach rumbles as I squint at the hand-painted white letters. "Warning: Deathclaws ahead!" they say, and the silhouette next to them is fearsome. As a level 1 drifter I've only heard of deathclaws, of course. But never anything good. Hello. I'm Johnny Smash....

In search of more-than-just-jalepeno garden starts for transplant to Wattsworth Gardens (I like that name, don't you? It's WW's joint, after all), I find myself in yet another dark hole in the ground, Goodsprings Cavern. Goodsprings has a couple of these nooks to...

I can't say we've got the crowd I expected now that Wattsworth Gardens is open for business, but I'm choosing to count the two hunters that frequent the area around the fuselage shack and the war memorial- so, we got something. Were they already out here? Possibly....

Special thanks to Acroterion for graphics source photography and Jokerine for the amazing Newline Town mod! Maybe I'm overthinking this. Deathclaws are nasty sure, but this landmine I picked up in Goodsprings Cavern should shred up anything living, right? It's a...