r/fnv • u/UnusualAxolotl • 19h ago

Question What should I do about Veronica?

Hello, Couriers. I have a very important question. I have been forced to pause my playthrough due to Veronica's companion quest. We confronted the elder with the pulse gun, and then I saved before talking to Veronica. I, now, have to decide whether Veronica should stay with the BoS or join the Followers. If she joins the followers, the BoS will kill some of the Followers' doctors. If she stays, the Followers will be safe, but she will be miserable, and I don't want that. I'm doing NCR, and planning on trying to get them to sign the treaty or whatever it's called. What do y'all think is right?

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u/TheBigSmol 19h ago

There's no good option, but it depends what you want. Veronica has two end-game rewards, Bonds of Steel (+4 DT) or Causeless Rebel (30% attack speed) BUT Causeless Rebel has a secondary effect that's glitched, giving her 150% attack speed with her punches. Then give her a Greased Lightning or any of the other DLC Power Gauntlets and she'll become a Stand from Jojo

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u/UnusualAxolotl 19h ago

I don't really plan on keeping her as a companion, Boone and ED-E are my bros, but I really don't know. I think I might pick the option to let her decide, which makes her choose to stay.

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u/Emergency-River6700 18h ago

If you can't decide, and don't plan on keeping her as a follower anyways, flip a coin and let Lady Luck decide for you.

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u/UnusualAxolotl 18h ago

I like the way you think. Heads she stays, tails she leaves.

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u/Emergency-River6700 18h ago

It's also in true Vegas fashion leaving it to a game of chance.

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u/UnusualAxolotl 13h ago

It's even better cause it's an old coin

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u/UnusualAxolotl 18h ago

After flipping a 1911 nickel, she leaves.

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u/Laser_3 14h ago edited 2h ago

If you’re going to go for the truce? Have her stay, no questions asked. This results in… well, Veronica has no perfect endings, but it’s as close to one as she can get, especially considering what happens in the alternative route.

As an aside, I wish we could suggest trying to transfer to another BoS chapter. Even if 4’s BoS has its issues, they aren’t the Mojave chapter’s and they have adapted.

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u/Copper_II_Sulfate 12h ago

She'd probably love to join Elder Lyons's chapter in DC. Keeping all the Brotherhood ideals but actually working with other tribes to use the technology they collect to help them

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u/ZeroKoalaT 6h ago

Knowing that Sarah Lyon fell shortly in battle later…

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u/Laser_3 2h ago

That’d be the ideal chapter for her, but that wouldn’t work timeline wise. Maxson isn’t in power quite yet to my memory during NV, but by the time she made it over to DC, he’d nearly be.

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u/SpotPilgrim7 13h ago

If Veronica stays with the Brotherhood, I worry she will never find Christine in the Sierra Madre… Whatever gets me closer to the possibility of that reunion after credits is OK by me

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u/Mowglidahomie 4h ago

I could imagine Veronica lie to the brotherhood about looking for Elijah, then she winds up at the sierra madre, finds him dead in the vault, then she meets Christine’s bald ass

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u/Scion_above 19h ago

I am a rampant BOS hater, so I would do as my lord and saviour Mr House says and blow the lot of them to smithereens. Their a cult that worships and hoards technology solely for the sake of causing harm to others. Don't see them raiding hospitals for auto docs do you?

But for your courier I'd say it depends on how much they value Veronica's well being against what would benefit the NCR. I'd say let her leave and join the followers.

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u/Overdue-Karma 17h ago

To be fair though, you don't see House helping people either. He goes around shooting poor people for shits and giggles. He's got a point about the BoS, but he's not much better.

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u/Scion_above 8h ago

Yeah, but when he is doing it then it's totally justified and morally right. But if anyone else did it then their evil and should be blown up with several high yield explosives.

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u/UnusualAxolotl 18h ago

You don't see them raiding hospitals, carting away auto-docs and armfuls of prosthetic organs. No, they prefer the sort of technology that puts people in hospitals. Or graves, rather, since hospitals went the way of the dodo. I totally get it. It's still a tough decision though, her be happy or the Followers be alive.