Not So Lonesome Road 33 Cracking The Safe

For now though I was looking over my Skills list wonder what to put my 15 points into because I finally leveled up again as the rockets were launching.

I put 5 into Lockpicking to finally get it to 50 so I can open the safe with the slavery receipt without having to waste a magazine.

Then I put 3 into Sneak also raising it to an even 50. One of things I've noticed while upgrading my skills over the months was that at 25, 50, 75, and 100 all of my skill had huge upgrades in their effectiveness. So for the near future I decided on upgrading all of my skills that were close to one of those watersheds.

I had 7 Skill points left to use and put six of them into Unarmed making it 25. I thought it was a good investment since it was a skill that saved my life not too long ago.

And as for the last point I put it into Survival making it 20.

Now that I was done with my skills it was time to pick a new Perk! Looking over everything it was obvious what perk I should get.

I unlocked the Weapon Handling perk that reduced the Strength requirements for all weapons by 2.

Now I could finally use That Gun without it almost breaking my wrist and flying out of my hand. Not to mention I was getting closer to New Vegas where I could buy a Anti Material Rifle from the Gun Runners and that thing has a ma.s.sive Strength requirement of 8.

So the minus will really help their, I'm still one point short but, I can just buy a Strength implant after I make a bit of money so I don't have to waste another perk on Intense Training.

My new stats looked like this.

Level 17

Special

S 5

P 6

E 5

C 5

I 10

A 5

L 5

Skills

Barter 35

Energy Weapons 15

Explosives 19

Guns 100

Lockpick 50

Medicine 30

Melee Weapons 15

Repair 80

Science 80

Sneak 50

Speech 50

Survival 20

Unarmed 25

Perks

Confirmed Bachelor, Intense Training(1), Friend Of The Night, Commando, Comprehension, Sniper, Adamantium Skeleton, Action Boy, Weapon Handling

The next day after we got back to Novac I introduced Chris to Manny Vargas as he would probably need some help getting started in town. When I met him Manny seemed oddly excited to see me.

Apparently he told everyone what I said about the ghouls and when the rockets blazed overhead yesterday they all knew exactly what it was. It was the most interesting thing that had happened to the town in ages not to mention that they could go back to looting everything at Repconn.

I left Chris in his care and went back to my motel room where I met Ca.s.s. From what she told me she got back into town yesterday not long after I left.

She Confirmed that the Legion had wiped both of the stations out and brought the fallen Rangers dog tags to Ranger Andy. He gave her, her payment and thanked her for returning the dog tags.

I spent the rest of the day relaxing and explaining everything that happened to her and ED-D. And she ended up pretty upset that I got to go on such an adventure while all she did was walk through the desert for a couple days.

Once the sun set I snuck out of room after ordering ED-D to keep lookout for me.

It was easy getting back into the motel lobby because Jeannie didn't bother to lock it. And it didn't take long to find the floor safe hidden underneath a rug. It seemed pretty careless of her to leave the slavery receipt somewhere so easily accessible but, then again the average person wouldn't have even bothered looking for a safe here. Of course if I was her I would have already destroyed the receipt long ago.

After a couple minutes of Lockpicking I had the safe open. Inside were several large bags of cap and some paperwork. I went through all of the paperwork but, still couldn't find what I was looking for. It was just piles of regular receipts and some contracts for caravans to get a free place to stay while they're here in exchange for discounts.

So I went back to looking and removed all of the bags of caps leaving only an empty safe.

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It didn't add up the receipt should be there. In desperation I started searching the walls of the safe for some kind of hidden compartment. I knocked around until I heard a hollow area in the bottom of the safe.

There was actually a thin piece of metal sitting on ledges attached to the sides of the safe and it acted as a false bottom! Because it was so dark in the safe you wouldn't be able to notice it was there unless you were looking for it. And any normal thief wouldn't do that they'd just take the money and run.

The hidden compartment was on 1/4 of an inch tall but, still plenty big enough to hold a single piece of paper.

I finally found it! The paper was crinkled and brown but, the writing on it was still clearly visible.

This Writ of Sale issued to Jeannie May Crawford to the effect of 2,500 Caps. This sum of money is to be given in response to information provided that allowed Legion slaves to sneak into Novac and kidnapp one Carla Boone wife of former NCR Sniper Craig Boone as well as her unborn child.

I frowned in disgust as I read on. The receipt continued on to outline exactly how much they were worth. There was even extra money given for the emotional damages this would cause to Boone.

I folded the receipt up and put the rest of her papers back in the safe. But, I decided to keep all of the caps there were around 1,000 inside and since she was going to die anyway there was no point in leaving them here.