Mr. House

Robert Edwin House is the master of the city of New Vegas in the Mojave Wasteland in the year 2281. House is responsible for the creation of Mr. New Vegas.

Appearance
He lives in the Lucky 38 and is in charge of the Securitrons that roam New Vegas. At some point after emerging from stasis, House won the leadership of Vault 21 in a bet, stripped it of all useful technology, and then planned to permanently seal the Vault away by filling it with cement. At the pleadings of Sarah Weintraub he left the top section of Vault 21 as it used to be, and she converted it into a hotel (all the casino equipment was already there from the vault experiment).

Robert is also extremely interested in the collectible snow globes found in the game, and he will pay greatly for each. The snow globes can be given to Jane to exchange them for 2000 caps each. Once the Courier has sold a snow globe to Jane it is placed on display(on a mantle) in the Lucky 38 Presidential Suite.

Mr. House is extremely physically decrepit and can only live inside a self-contained life support unit. The Courier later has the opportunity to break through his security and see his true form. However, opening his isolation chamber, even for a second, means that Mr. House will die within a year from exposure to outside contaminants.

Interactions with the player character
Mr. House hires the Courier to eliminate local New California Republic activity in order to maximize his influence over the strip.

Mr. House can be killed. When facing the screen on which he appears, turn left. Access the computer terminal and open the door. (This will make all of Mr. House's robots hostile). Go through the door and access the next terminal to unlock the elevator. This will take you to Mr. House himself. If you refuse to give Mr. House the platinum chip later in the game these terminals can be accessed without a Science skill check. Access the next terminal and open the case he is preserved in. You then can talk to him in person. You can leave him there (but he will no longer have control over anything), or you can kill him, which will automatically fail all of Mr. House's quests. Make note that killing Mr. House or leaving him totally helpless is an act of evil, making the player lose Karma.

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes

 * In casino parlance, the house refers generally to the gambler's opponent, the casino itself, as in the idiom, "The house always wins."
 * "He's very much inspired by Howard Hughes," says J.E. Sawyer in the Game Informer Fallout: New Vegas preview article May 2010.
 * Jane, House's computer companion, is likely an allusion to the filmstar Jane Russell, who was under contract to Howard Hughes and also his lover for a time.

Bug
Talking to Mr. House on the start of the quest "The House Always Wins" you're given the option "Who exactly are you, Mr. House?" He will tell you his background some what and then the option for "You appear to be a computer, not a man," will open, if your medicine is high enough (35) you can choose the option "The lifespan you're claiming is impossible, except for ghouls and super mutants." Passing this will give you +35 xp. You can repeat this step as many times as necessary to level up.

Doing this bug too many times will make your game randomly freeze while in the conversation. so if you do this then save before you do it and save after each level. (This has been fixed on the PC and soon on the consoles)

Additionally, a barter check of 50 can be accessed as many times as you want, giving you 50XP every time you do so.

If you decide to kill or disable Mr.House, Jane (The securitron acting as his wife) disappears, and you can no longer remove snow globes from your inventory.