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* ShownTheirWork: The gun safety rules Wishman tells you are standard procedure for handling firearms, even if he concatenates "always treat a gun as if it's loaded" and "don't point it at anything you don't want to destroy" into one bullet point. Mike and Zach are both ex-US military, with Zach being a former SMR[[note]] Small Arms Repairman [[/note]] (and continuing his work with guns in various civilian occupations).

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* ShownTheirWork: The gun safety rules Wishman tells you are standard procedure for handling firearms, even if he concatenates "always treat a gun as if it's loaded" and "don't point it at anything you don't want to destroy" into one bullet point. Mike and Zach are both ex-US military, with Zach being a former SMR[[note]] SAR[[note]] Small Arms Repairman [[/note]] (and continuing his work with guns in various civilian occupations).
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* ShownTheirWork: The gun safety rules Wishman tells you are standard procedure for handling firearms, even if he concatenates "always treat a gun as if it's loaded" and "don't point it at anything you don't want to destroy" into one bullet point. Mike and Zach are both ex-US military, with Zach being a former armourer (and continuing his work with guns in various civilian occupations).

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* ShownTheirWork: The gun safety rules Wishman tells you are standard procedure for handling firearms, even if he concatenates "always treat a gun as if it's loaded" and "don't point it at anything you don't want to destroy" into one bullet point. Mike and Zach are both ex-US military, with Zach being a former armourer SMR[[note]] Small Arms Repairman [[/note]] (and continuing his work with guns in various civilian occupations).
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* HappinessInSlavery: The mod adds a slave woman to the Fort who will give you food if your reputation with the Legion is good. While she admits the life of a Legion slave isn't necessarily an easy life, she still considers it preferable to poverty in [[WretchedHive New Reno]].
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* DamnedByFaintPraise: The Caravan card thief does this to himself at one point, proclaiming that he "rarely ever get[s] court-martialed".


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* MythologyGag: One of the responses to the NCR soldier in [=McCarran=] asking what a civilian does in a military base is proclaiming you're there to steal all their corn, referencing a RunningGag from Mike's [[LetsPlay/MikeBurnfire Let's Play series]].
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* ButThouMust: One of the quests [[spoiler:("These Things Happen", the quest to kill the captured Powder Gangers for the Annoyed Legionary)]] seems to give you a skill check for an outcome that lets everyone live, but even if you max out the relevant skill, the quest giver rejects the offer.

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* ButThouMust: One of the quests [[spoiler:("These Things Happen", the quest to kill the captured Powder Gangers for the Annoyed Legionary)]] seems to give you a few skill check and faction checks for an outcome that lets everyone live, but even if you max out the relevant skill, skill/reputation, the quest giver rejects the offer.
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* BreakTheHaughty: The Van Graff crier near the Gun Runners gleefully advertises energy weapons in front of the biggest producer of conventional guns in the wasteland, knowing full well the Gun Runners can't hurt him without Van Graffs' retaliating. A sufficiently well-rounded Courier can point out enough drawbacks of energy weapons to humble him for good.


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* FetishesAreWeird: One of the throwaway [=NPCs=] added to Gomorrah talks at length about the attractiveness of feet, making him come off as a weirdo at best.
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* ShownTheirWork: The gun safety rules Wishman tells you are standard procedure for handling firearms, even if he concatenates "always treat a gun as if it's loaded" and "don't point it at anything you don't want to destroy" into one bullet point.

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* ShownTheirWork: The gun safety rules Wishman tells you are standard procedure for handling firearms, even if he concatenates "always treat a gun as if it's loaded" and "don't point it at anything you don't want to destroy" into one bullet point. Mike and Zach are both ex-US military, with Zach being a former armourer (and continuing his work with guns in various civilian occupations).
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** When you meet Wishman for the third time, he mentions he's pursuing a dangerous bounty -- Marko Booth, the overarching villain of ''VideoGame/TheSomeguySeries''.

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** When you meet Wishman for the third time, he mentions he's pursuing a dangerous bounty -- Marko Booth, the overarching villain of ''VideoGame/TheSomeguySeries''. Decanus Magnus also namedrops Firebase Zulu.
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* ButThouMust: A "picking the 'wrong' answer has no effect" example: One of the quests [[spoiler:("These Things Happen", the quest to kill the captured Powder Gangers for the Annoyed Legionary)]] seems to give you a skill check for an outcome that lets everyone live, but even if you max out the relevant skill, the quest giver rejects the offer.

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* ButThouMust: A "picking the 'wrong' answer has no effect" example: One of the quests [[spoiler:("These Things Happen", the quest to kill the captured Powder Gangers for the Annoyed Legionary)]] seems to give you a skill check for an outcome that lets everyone live, but even if you max out the relevant skill, the quest giver rejects the offer.
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* ButThouMust: A "picking the 'wrong' answer has no effect" example: One of the quests [[spoiler:("These Things Happen", the quest to kill the captured Powder Gangers for the Annoyed Legionary)]] seems to give you a skill check for an outcome that lets everyone live, but even if you max out the relevant skill, the quest giver rejects the offer.


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* NoNameGiven: The Legionary giving you the "These Things Happen" quest is only labelled in game as "Annoyed Legionary".
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: In the Legion quest ''Join or Die'', the Legion has leads on three potential recruits: an NCR soldier whose parents were killed at the behest of a CorruptPolitician, an NCR officer who thinks a military dictatorship is a great way to run a nation and was demoted for shooting a civilian who threw a rock at him, and an incel named Chad who is interested in joining the Legion because of their [[NoWomansLand enslavement of women]]. If you send the three of them to Cottonwood Cove to join up with the Legion, the Legion gladly accepts the two ex-NCR soldiers, thinking they have the potential to become great Legionnaires. Chad, on the other hand, disgusts even them, so they kill him and feed him to their dogs.

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* EvenEvilHasStandards: In the Legion quest ''Join or Die'', the Legion has leads on three potential recruits: an NCR soldier whose parents were killed at the behest of a CorruptPolitician, an NCR officer who thinks a military dictatorship is a great way to run a nation and was demoted for shooting at a civilian kid who threw a rock at him, and an incel named Chad who is interested in joining the Legion because of their [[NoWomansLand enslavement of women]]. If you send the three of them to Cottonwood Cove to join up with the Legion, the Legion gladly accepts the two ex-NCR soldiers, thinking they have the potential to become great Legionnaires. Chad, on the other hand, disgusts even them, so they kill him and feed him to their dogs.



* ReassignedToAntarctica: First Sergeant Righty got reassigned to the Aerotech refugee camp after responding to the local children spitting on him by shooting at them.

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* ReassignedToAntarctica: First Sergeant Righty got reassigned to the Aerotech refugee camp after responding to the local children spitting on him and throwing a rock at him by shooting at them.
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* EvenEvilHasStandards: In the Legion quest ''Join or Die'', the Legion has leads on three potential recruits: an NCR soldier whose parents were killed at the behest of a CorruptPolitician, an NCR officer who thinks a military dictatorship is a great way to run a nation and was demoted for shooting a civilian who threw a rock at him, and an incel named Chad who is interested in joining the Legion because of their [[NoWomansLand enslavement of women]]. If you send the three of them to Cottonwood Cove to join up with the Legion, the Legion gladly accepts the two ex-NCR soldiers, thinking they have the potential to become great Legionnaires. Chad, on the other hand, disgusts even them, so they kill him and feed him to their dogs.
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* CarnivalOfKillers: On top of base game's NCR and Legion assassins, you might end up facing Powder Ganger, Great Khan and Brotherhood of Steel hit squads.

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* CarnivalOfKillers: On top of base game's NCR and Legion assassins, you might end up facing the old (1.0) version of the mod added Powder Ganger, Great Khan and Brotherhood of Steel hit squads.squads, sent after you if your reputation with the given faction falls too low.
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* PunnyName: [[UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci Leo Nardo]], the mechanic added to Michael Angelo's workshop.

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* PunnyName: [[UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci [[Creator/LeonardoDaVinci Leo Nardo]], the mechanic added to [[Creator/MichelangeloBuonarroti Michael Angelo's Angelo]]'s workshop.
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* DeconstructionFic: ''Thief of Kings'' takes the popularity of Caravan to its logical conclusion -- you can't play any other card game besides Caravan because it's impossible to keep a complete 54-card deck around because people keep stealing selected cards for ''their'' Caravan deck, creating a vicious cycle.



** When you meet Wishman for the third time, he mentions he's pursuing a dangerous bounty -- Marko Booth, the overarching villain of ''VideoGame/TheSomeguySeries''.

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** When you meet Wishman for the third time, he mentions he's pursuing a dangerous bounty -- Marko Booth, the overarching villain of ''VideoGame/TheSomeguySeries''.''VideoGame/TheSomeguySeries''.
* ShownTheirWork: The gun safety rules Wishman tells you are standard procedure for handling firearms, even if he concatenates "always treat a gun as if it's loaded" and "don't point it at anything you don't want to destroy" into one bullet point.
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** When you meet Wishman for the third time, he mention he's pursuing a dangerous bounty -- Marko Booth, the overarching villain of ''VideoGame/TheSomeguySeries''.

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** When you meet Wishman for the third time, he mention mentions he's pursuing a dangerous bounty -- Marko Booth, the overarching villain of ''VideoGame/TheSomeguySeries''.

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* EvilCounterpart: "Their Kind of Town" and "These Things Happen" are designed to be evil versions of the quests to retake Primm from bandits and free the Powder Gangers enslaved in Nipton respectively.

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* EvilCounterpart: "Their Kind of Town" and "These Things Happen" are designed to be evil versions of the quests to retake Primm from bandits and free the Powder Gangers enslaved in Nipton respectively.respectively -- you're tasked with killing the main candidates for restoring the law in the former and executing the captured Gangers in the latter.


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* LeaningOnTheFourthWall: Wishman's justification for why he works alone is that partners have a tendency to push him out of cover and walk into his line of fire -- something that's bound to occur with NV companions due to ArtificialStupidity.
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''Mikeburnfire's [=NPCs=] and Quests'' is a ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' mod by LetsPlay/MikeBurnFire.

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''Mikeburnfire's [=NPCs=] and Quests'' is a ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' mod by LetsPlay/MikeBurnFire.
Creator/MikeBurnFireAndZachHazard.
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* CrazyEnoughToWork: Larry's plan to impress Emma hinges on the Courier fetching his parents' clothes from Vault 34, believing them to be the edge he needs to make a move. [[spoiler:He doesn't back down once it turns out one of the clothing items is a ''dress'', puts it on, and talks to her -- she finds herself in awe of his boldness and the two hit it off.]]


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* PunBasedTitle: One of the missions is called "Voyeur Eyes Only", a pun on "for your eyes only".
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: An addition of a doctor to Primm means you're no longer forced to backtrack to Goodsprings or NCRCF in order to heal your crippled limbs in Hardcore Mode.

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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: An addition of a doctor to Primm means you're no longer forced to backtrack to Goodsprings or NCRCF in order to heal your crippled limbs in early game Hardcore Mode.



** When you meet Wishman for the third time, he mention he's pursuing a dangerous bounty, Marko Booth, the overarching villain of ''VideoGame/TheSomeguySeries''.

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** When you meet Wishman for the third time, he mention he's pursuing a dangerous bounty, bounty -- Marko Booth, the overarching villain of ''VideoGame/TheSomeguySeries''.
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* NominalImportance: Averted -- [[spoiler:the guy that stole the Caravan cards]] is labelled the same way the other generic [=NPCs=] around them are.


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* ReassignedToAntarctica: First Sergeant Righty got reassigned to the Aerotech refugee camp after responding to the local children spitting on him by shooting at them.


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** The quest to gather ten gecko pelts for said tailor is named [[VideoGame/{{Gex}} "It's Tail Time"]]
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* AntiFrustrationFeatures: An addition of a doctor to Primm means you're no longer forced to backtrack to Goodsprings or NCRCF in order to heal your crippled limbs in Hardcore Mode.
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** The Wild-Wasteland-exclusive blonde-haired King is a send-off to WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo.

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** The Wild-Wasteland-exclusive blonde-haired King is a send-off reference to WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo.
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''Mikeburnfire's [=NPCs=] and Quests'' is a ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' mod by LetsPlay/MikeBurnFire.

Rather than focusing on a specific narrative, the mod adds a few dozen [=NPCs=] scattered around the Mojave, some of them offering new quests.

The mod can be downloaded [[https://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/70988 here]], provided you have a Nexus Mods account, since the mod is marked as adult content.

!!Tropes demonstrated by the mod:

* BountyHunter: Wishman, the ghoul added to Goodsprings. You can find him pursuing a bounty later on.
* CarnivalOfKillers: On top of base game's NCR and Legion assassins, you might end up facing Powder Ganger, Great Khan and Brotherhood of Steel hit squads.
* EvilCounterpart: "Their Kind of Town" and "These Things Happen" are designed to be evil versions of the quests to retake Primm from bandits and free the Powder Gangers enslaved in Nipton respectively.
* {{Expy}}:
** The newly-added Primm doctor, a kid nameed Dougie, is an expy of Series/DoogieHowserMD.
** The Wild-Wasteland-exclusive blonde-haired King is a send-off to WesternAnimation/JohnnyBravo.
* InCaseYouForgotWhoWroteIt: ''Mikeburnfire's'' [=NPCs=] and Quests.
* MrExposition: A few [=NPCs=] are specifically designed to introduce the players to specific concepts and topic the base game didn't exposit on, like ghouls, toxins or Caravan strategies.
* OneSteveLimit: Wishman falls victim to an aversion: when looking for [[VideoGame/TheSomeguySeries Marko [=[=]Booth[=]=]]], he follows a lead pointing him to Westside and finds Marco (with a C), the guy running Casa Madrid Apartments.
* PunnyName: [[UsefulNotes/LeonardoDaVinci Leo Nardo]], the mechanic added to Michael Angelo's workshop.
* ShoutOut:
** Tim Toolman, traveling tailor, alludes to [[Series/HomeImprovement Tim Taylor]], complete with the grunt.
** When you meet Wishman for the third time, he mention he's pursuing a dangerous bounty, Marko Booth, the overarching villain of ''VideoGame/TheSomeguySeries''.

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