Booted

 is a side quest in Fallout: New Vegas.

Quick walkthrough
Find Boxcars in the general store in Nipton, who tells you about the slaves taken by the legion. You must head east until you find the legion camp, then kill all Legion soldiers there and untie the two slaves to complete the mission. Killing Boxcars or the two slaves fails the quest.

Detailed walkthrough
During your visit in Nipton you notice that something isn't right. Upon entering, a very strange man who seems to be over-excited about winning "The Lottery" runs into you and keeps repeating that he has won. When you go further into the town, the Legion have taken over the town and killed almost everyone. While searching through the the town, you find a man called Boxcars in the general store.

Boxcars thinks you're going to kill him. His legs are crippled by the Legion and tells you about the lottery that the legion plays with the town of Nipton. The mayor of Nipton had the lottery ticket to be burned in a pile of tires. Boxcars was lucky that he was alive but they smashed his legs, and he is now a cripple. He explains to you that some of the Powder Gang were enslaved by the legion and headed east. He mentions that his legs are in much pain and needs Med X. You then have the option to spare some for him (You get a choice of up to five doses). You eventually get to the Enslaved Powder Gang members at the Legion Raid Camp. There are numerous ways to free the slaves in this camp.

There is no Negative Karma for killing the slaves after the quest is completed. Note that freeing the Powder Ganger slaves usually results in a positive increase in rep with them with no effect on your reputation with the legion, unless you kill them.

Alternatively, If you see no faction standing at all in your Pip-Boy 3000 with the Legion, then they may turn hostile once a Powder Ganger is untied. As mentioned above, you will still be able to kill the freed prisoners without a penalty to your Karma.

Bugs

 * Sometimes the player will see the Powder Gangers up and walking freely, they will flee (although not far) if you get into combat with the legions. After you defeat the legions, the Powder Gangers will keep walking around, when you try and "talk" to them, you will get an option to untie him or leave him tied regardless of them walking around freely.
 * Sometimes after you kill the Legion Guards, you can't untie the Powder Gangers, just wait and it should be fine.
 * Rarely, a Legion Guard may be tied up and the prisoner standing next to him. Talking to the guard makes him speak as usual. You still have the option to untie the prisoner standing next to the guard.
 * It is probably wise to leave ED-E parked a bit over the hill if it is with you when you do this quest. ED-E doesn't really understand the concept "prisoner" and may fail the quest for you by killing both the Powder Gangers before you can get to them and release them.
 * It is possible to attack the Veteran legionary while he sleeps but no damage will be done, and he wont stand up to fight back, nor will any other Legion members become hostile. (This happened while using the melee weapon Chance's knife.)

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