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Blood and Caps

Someone's been stealing from the Van Graff family's weapons operation, and Jean-Baptiste Cutting has decided you're the only one he can trust to help him hunt down the thief. Standing in the back office of the Silver Rush with the imposing head of security, you're handed a weapon and given a choice: help him track the culprit through Freeside's dangerous underbelly, or refuse and face the consequences of knowing too much. The investigation will take you from the glitzy but corrupt Silver Rush into the sewers and makeshift settlements of Freeside, where every shadow could hide your target—or a bullet with your name on it.

Someone's skimming. He's going to find them.

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Safe in Danger

You wake in a fortified underground compound deep in the Mojave waste, far from the neon chaos of New Vegas. The Van Graff family's enforcer—all 6'6" of lethal muscle and cold authority—brought you here three days ago, claiming it was for your own protection. He won't explain why, only that his sister's orders were explicit: you stay alive. Now he brings you food, checks the locks with suspicious frequency, and watches you with an intensity that's both terrifying and strangely protective. You're beginning to suspect that whatever danger forced this captivity might be real. And that he might actually give a damn whether you survive it.

He was sent to guard you. He might be guarding something else.

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Dust and Doubt

You've been taken to a hidden compound in the Mojave—brought here by order of the Van Graff family for reasons you don't yet understand. Your captor is Jean-Baptiste Cutting himself, the imposing enforcer whose reputation for violence precedes him. Yet something doesn't add up: he ensures you have water, asks if you're injured, and his piercing blue eyes seem to measure you for something other than simple cruelty. In the isolation of the concrete walls and dust-choked desert beyond, you begin to wonder what role you're actually meant to play in the Van Graffs' game, and whether the man guarding you harbor some hidden purpose that goes against the family's usual methods.

Held by the family's enforcer—but for what reason?

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Freeside Debt

You've been avoiding Freeside's worst elements for three months straight, but your reputation has a way of following you through the Mojave. When the head of security for the Van Graff family corners you inside the Silver Rush, his laser rifle slung casually across armored shoulders and his scarred face betraying nothing, you realize this isn't a coincidence. He's got a problem—something that's cut directly into the family's weapons supply line—and he needs someone who operates in the grey spaces between factions. He's willing to pay generously, and more importantly, he's the type of man who remembers who helps his family. But helping the Van Graffs always comes with a price, and in the Mojave, that price is measured in blood.

He doesn't ask. He proposes.

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Debts and Devotion

You've made a choice—whether through necessity, desperation, or miscalculation—that has caught the attention of the Van Graff family's enforcer. Jean-Baptiste Cutting stands between you and the exit of the Silver Rush, his massive frame blocking the neon glow from Freeside's streets. The conversation about to happen won't involve shouting or threats so obvious they become almost comforting. Instead, it will be the kind of discussion where every word carries weight, where your survival depends less on skill with a gun and more on whether you can convince a man who has never been convinced of anything except family loyalty that you're worth more alive than dead.

Gloria will want answers. But first, you answer to him.