Nova

Nova is one of the residents of the Capital Wasteland town of Megaton. She works as the local prostitute at Moriarty's Saloon. For 120 Bottlecaps, you can rent a room with her.

When you inquire about hiring Nova's services she advises you to hire a room. When you inquire about the cost of the room she replies "Well... for you? A room and some company will run you 120 caps. Up front". After paying for the room she directs you to the room with the "big bed" and straight after finishing your conversation she walks up the stairs to the room, lies down on the bed and appears to fall asleep. Attempting to speak with her at this point will result in the usual dialogue choices. However from this exchange you do get access to sleep in that bed for a period of time.

Nova is not picky, both male and female players can acquire her services. If the player is male and possesses the Lady Killer Perk, the dialogue and innuendo from her becomes more evidently playful and suggestive. Some of Nova's dialogue, and comments from other Megaton dwellers, suggests she may have considered leaving the life of a whore and trying to move on with her life even though she supposedly owes Moriarty some caps, but no quest or dialog options exist to try and convince her to do this beyond a single mention. However, she will stop selling herself if Colin is killed by the player as she becomes free of her alleged monetary debt to him and will take over running the saloon.

When questioned if she's ever "serviced" Gob, she simply replies that while she knows he'd like it, he is below her standards, even for a whore. She has given him oral sex, however. This information can be found in her diary/personal record book in the basement. (This needs confirmation/ detailed location of diary; Moriarty's bar does not have a basement...)

Following in His Footsteps
After inquiring about Colin Moriarty and completing a successful Speech check, she will give you the password for Colin's terminal, which contains valuable information about your Father.

Bugs

 * On the PS3 version of the game, there is a glitch where, occasionally, Nova will start going down into the floor, and it will appear that she is spinning, up to the point where only her neck and above can be seen. At this point, the PC can still talk to Nova, and she usually just goes up and down and most likely will not stay there for the rest of the game and such.


 * On the Xbox 360 version of the game, a glitch may occur when you ask to "get a room" with Nova. She will make her way towards the stairs and instead of walking up the stairs and into the room with the "big bed", she will walk directly through the stairs and get stuck on the wall behind them.


 * On the Xbox 360 version of the game, there is a glitch where Nova will be engaged in conversation with various residents of Megaton, and as Nova replies, her neck will turn a set amount of degrees degrees downwards, whilst still facing them. She does this without any change in expression, and it doesn't effect any of the Megaton residents either. Jericho will make her do a 180, while Moriarty will make her head turn about... 170 degrees, and get stuck in that obtuse angle with her body.

Appearances
Nova appears only in Fallout 3.