I Could Make You Remember to Forget

I finished the companion quests for Veronica Santangelo and Craig Boone today.

For Veronica's quest I had to visit the BoS bunker and then go off to find a piece of tech that would convince them that hiding out in a hole and hoarding energy weapons is not a solid long term plan. I had 3 options for how to do this, either check out the heat ray at the power plant, investigate the super plants the NCR are experimenting with, or get a super gun from the Boomer's vault. Since they all gave the same results I went with finding the gun (may come in handy), and then I spent 20 minuets running around a vault maze being irradiated all to heck to find it. When we got back though the BoS still refused to change their tactics, dismissing the gun as a 1 off, and the guards out front of the gate said they didn't want to see Veronica around any more. Kind of a downer ending for such a upbeat companion.

To start Boone's companion quest was a little more tricky, I had to fight with Caesar's legion in several locations but I had already finished most of them before picking him up. Fortunately there was just enough story flags left to trigger the mission by stopping a legion spy in the NCR and killing a whole town of legion troops. At this point Boone finally explains that he had to kill his wife when she was about to be sold as a legion sex slave, and he thinks it was karma for the innocent people he killed while in the NCR. So we then went to the site of the battle where he killed those civilians just in time to fight off a large group of legionaries looking to make slaves of the near by town. The quest ends when Boone is convinced that his job is to pay off his bad karma by killing off the legion to prevent what happened to his wife happening again.

Tomorrow it's on to helping another schizophrenic Nightkin.