Why was the PC near Goodsprings?

[peadar1987]

I think the courier is just that, a courier. They deliver packages. At the start of the game, they can defend themselves against a fairly moderate threat, a small band of raiders, coyotes, ants, but aren't crazy badasses. If they were, they wouldn't be delivery boys, they'd be special forces, mercenaries, or bounty hunters, all of which pay far better than delivering letters.

 

Most mail traffic goes down the main roads, which had been kept clear by the NCR until the recent increase in Legion activity. If a courier has to deliver a package into a dangerous area, the client pays for an escort. It makes far more sense than all the postmen in the world being John Rambo out of necessity.

 

The Courier simply isn't familiar with the Mojave, normally working further west, which explains why they don't know any of the people there, or their way around.

 

Mind you, New Vegas is very good at leaving a lot of room for your own roleplaying, so if your own character is a former desert ranger, tribal warrior, or NCR commando, who has quit their life of action to become a courier (until the wrong person pissed them off), then that's up to you, and doesn't conflict with the story at all.

[Danny159]

I think the courier is just that, a courier. They deliver packages. At the start of the game, they can defend themselves against a fairly moderate threat, a small band of raiders, coyotes, ants, but aren't crazy badasses. If they were, they wouldn't be delivery boys, they'd be special forces, mercenaries, or bounty hunters, all of which pay far better than delivering letters.

 

Most mail traffic goes down the main roads, which had been kept clear by the NCR until the recent increase in Legion activity. If a courier has to deliver a package into a dangerous area, the client pays for an escort. It makes far more sense than all the postmen in the world being John Rambo out of necessity.

 

The Courier simply isn't familiar with the Mojave, normally working further west, which explains why they don't know any of the people there, or their way around.

 

Mind you, New Vegas is very good at leaving a lot of room for your own roleplaying, so if your own character is a former desert ranger, tribal warrior, or NCR commando, who has quit their life of action to become a courier (until the wrong person pissed them off), then that's up to you, and doesn't conflict with the story at all.

 

Couriers are usually to be left alone by Caesars order as well, if you go by Ulysses... XD

[peadar1987]

 

I think the courier is just that, a courier. They deliver packages. At the start of the game, they can defend themselves against a fairly moderate threat, a small band of raiders, coyotes, ants, but aren't crazy badasses. If they were, they wouldn't be delivery boys, they'd be special forces, mercenaries, or bounty hunters, all of which pay far better than delivering letters.

 

Most mail traffic goes down the main roads, which had been kept clear by the NCR until the recent increase in Legion activity. If a courier has to deliver a package into a dangerous area, the client pays for an escort. It makes far more sense than all the postmen in the world being John Rambo out of necessity.

 

The Courier simply isn't familiar with the Mojave, normally working further west, which explains why they don't know any of the people there, or their way around.

 

Mind you, New Vegas is very good at leaving a lot of room for your own roleplaying, so if your own character is a former desert ranger, tribal warrior, or NCR commando, who has quit their life of action to become a courier (until the wrong person pissed them off), then that's up to you, and doesn't conflict with the story at all.

 

Couriers are usually to be left alone by Caesars order as well, if you go by Ulysses... XD

 

 

Because Caesar found that the guise of a courier was a useful way for Frumentarii to move around NCR territory without arousing suspicion, so many couriers were actually working for the legion.

[zetenrisiel]

There is a (random?) Encounter near 188 that features a frumentaari dressed as a traveler/ courier. I arrived in time to see him get wasted by a couple of travelling merchants so I didn't get any dialogue but after a year of playing it's nice to still be surprised.

 

Tbh I never though much about this. I figured you were buried in goodsprings so that's where you start. The passage blocked north always did get to me. I don't know how many reloads I went through trying to sneak by the deathclaws.

 

On the topic of sloan, the infestation wasn't *that* recent since the bartender in boulder city mentions the town became deserted after sloan shut down. That wouldn't have happened in a few days, more likely a few weeks. If the courier had planned on going north, they would have been in for a surprise.

[Danny159]

I still think the Courier merely had a delivery in Goodsprings aswell... :\

Occam's razor, the simplist solution is usually the best... ^^

[Uragan907]

I still think the Courier merely had a delivery in Goodsprings aswell... :\

Occam's razor, the simplist solution is usually the best... ^^

 

Wrong.As we all know it was ambush.Probably on the central road.(The one that leads to Sloan)since it's

the short way to Vegas from the south.

[peadar1987]

 

I still think the Courier merely had a delivery in Goodsprings aswell... :\

Occam's razor, the simplist solution is usually the best... ^^

 

Wrong.As we all know it was ambush.Probably on the central road.(The one that leads to Sloan)since it's

the short way to Vegas from the south.

 

 

Nothing to say it wasn't an ambush as the courier went to make a delivery in Goodsprings though. Thing is, the game never establishes where the PC was ambushed, so everything we come up with is just speculation. Goodsprings delivery makes as much sense as on-the-road ambush, or the PC trying to find a way around the deathclaws.

[Fistandilius]

Nothing to say it wasn't an ambush as the courier went to make a delivery in Goodsprings though. Thing is, the game never establishes where the PC was ambushed, so everything we come up with is just speculation. Goodsprings delivery makes as much sense as on-the-road ambush, or the PC trying to find a way around the deathclaws.

 

 

How does that make sense? We already know what his delivery was. It was the platinum chip and he was headed to New Vegas.

[Uragan907]

 

Nothing to say it wasn't an ambush as the courier went to make a delivery in Goodsprings though. Thing is, the game never establishes where the PC was ambushed, so everything we come up with is just speculation. Goodsprings delivery makes as much sense as on-the-road ambush, or the PC trying to find a way around the deathclaws.

 

 

The delivery was headed to Vegas!!!Not Goodsprings!!!Go talk to House.

Second at the moment of the ambush there were no Death Claws.The guy at the Sloan says the showed up

after Powders blew up something and opened a passage from the caves.

[peadar1987]

 

 

Nothing to say it wasn't an ambush as the courier went to make a delivery in Goodsprings though. Thing is, the game never establishes where the PC was ambushed, so everything we come up with is just speculation. Goodsprings delivery makes as much sense as on-the-road ambush, or the PC trying to find a way around the deathclaws.

 

 

The delivery was headed to Vegas!!!Not Goodsprings!!!Go talk to House.

Second at the moment of the ambush there were no Death Claws.The guy at the Sloan says the showed up

after Powders blew up something and opened a passage from the caves.

 

 

Actually, he says that they showed up after the Powder Gangers stole all the explosives, and the quarry was temporarily abandoned: http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Quarry_Junction

 

There isn't an established timeline for when exactly the deathclaws showed up, and when the courier was shot in the head. They could either have been there already, or not, it's not established with any certainty in the game.

 

 

Nothing to say it wasn't an ambush as the courier went to make a delivery in Goodsprings though. Thing is, the game never establishes where the PC was ambushed, so everything we come up with is just speculation. Goodsprings delivery makes as much sense as on-the-road ambush, or the PC trying to find a way around the deathclaws.

 

 

How does that make sense? We already know what his delivery was. It was the platinum chip and he was headed to New Vegas.

 

 

The Mojave Express are trying to make money. It makes sense that they'd give their couriers more than one thing to carry, that way they get more than one delivery fee, but still only have to pay one set of wages. Your postman doesn't deliver one letter, then go back to the post office to collect the next one.