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So in the New Vegas DLC, “Dead Money,” you work with a time to break into the Sierra Madre. That team consists of a Knight-Kin with a split personality, one of the original performers of the casino turned ghoul, and a Brotherhood of Steel assassin who’s voice was removed by the previously mentioned team member. All of this is at the whims of a disgraced Brotherhood of Steel elder who wants to use the casino to kill everything and everyone in the Mojave.

What I’m wondering though, is how did this come to be? You see, we learn that Elijah, the elder, is trapped in the Sierra Madre by the time we show up. We also know that Dean, the ghoul, shoved Kristine, the assassin, into an auto-doc to make her sound like Vera Keyes, long story. BUT, Kristine has a collar when we find her in that auto-doc, and we see that Dean also has a collar. With that, do we know when Dean had a collar put on him, and furthermore, how could Elijah orchestrate this while trapped inside the casino?

An update if you saw my last post about the Meat Constructor achievement, I finally got it after retrying and speed-running the first part of the game!

I only have one achievement left, however, it’s Artifact Sommelier and I can’t seem to get the last artifact I need: a “Firefly.” So I’ve restarted a second time, because I deleted my save for the Meat Constructor when I was trying to finish the game, and I need to either the Red Forest or the Army Warehouses as those are the only two places it’ll spawn. I just got to Cordon, but I was wondering what the earliest I could get to either location is?

I know you have to do the side quest in Yantar for the scientists to get to the Red Forest that way, but what about getting to the Army Warehouses through the Garbage? Do you have to do a lot of quests to unlock that or what?

What is the Timeline of Dead Money in New Vegas