Novac

 is a town located in the Mojave Desert south of Helios One.

Background
Novac was a motel before the bombs dropped. It follows in the naming footsteps of Arefu and The Pitt; Novac's sign originally said "No Vacancy" but the last 4 letters have fallen off making the name "Novac". It is under threat by Caesar's Legion. It is now led by Jeannie May Crawford, who also gives you a permanent Dino Dee-Lite Hotel Room at 100 caps. If you have high enough reputation with Novac and then talk to Jeannie May, she will say that she can't charge you for the room after all that you've done and gives you the key for free. If you complete One for My Baby correctly, which results in Jeannie May's death, you will be given the hotel room from Cliff Briscoe free of charge to be used as a permanent place of residence by the Courier, provided you have been (Accepted) by Novac.

Layout
Novac consists of a residential area with many houses, including Jeannie May Crawford's house, the McBride house, No-bark's shack, and a couple of normal Novac houses with Novac settlers living in them.

The main part of Novac is the motel area. Here you can find the Dino-Bite Gift Shop, 8 motel rooms, and the Dino Dee-lite Front Desk where you can buy a motel room for 100 caps from Jeannie May Crawford (or if you do enough quests for Novac the room will be free). Across the street is a gas station with some spare parts and a work bench. Down the road is the Gibson Scrap Yard and the HELIOS One power plant (with the quest That Lucky Old Sun, which gives you an achievement. The lady at the junk yard has a unique shotgun called Big Boomer.

There are two graves you can open with a shovel beside one of the residences that runs parallel to the Hotel's Main building, as well as a Kitchen Tent where Various Traveling Merchants rest in front of. Near the grave site is a shanty that contains a usable Workbench.

The room you can acquire is located up the stairs on the immediate left once entering the Hotel Compound. Inside is a bed and storage facilities that are safe to store your items in.

Buildings

 * Dinky the Dinosaur
 * Dino Bite Gift Shop
 * Dino Dee-lite Front Desk

Inhabitants

 * Cliff, local merchant
 * Craig Boone, former NCR sniper and recruitable companion
 * Jeannie May Crawford, innkeeper
 * Manny Vargas, a sniper in the dino's mouth
 * No-Bark Noonan, a crazy gossiper
 * The McBride family, Alice McBride and Dusty McBride
 * Daisy Whitman, a former Enclave Vertibird pilot
 * Ranger Andy, a former NCR ranger
 * Bruce Isaac, a runaway singer

Related Locations

 * Gibson Scrap Yard
 * REPCONN
 * Helios One

Notable Loot

 * D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine on the bed in Ranger Andy's Room
 * The gun That Gun is inside Dinky the Dinosaur's Shop inside a locked closet behind all the Rocket souvenirs on a metal shelf.
 * Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap in the kitchen of a house called "Novac House" on the west side of Dino Dee-lite near the rear, before the shack. The bottlecap is in the kitchen on the table to the left as the player enters
 * 2 Random skill magazines. One in mailbox outside of Novac House with the bottle cap near No-bark's Shack, and the other in a mailbox next to the Novak house by the train tracks on the west side near the mag below.
 * Meeting People skill magazine in mailbox on road towards south on west side outside of town.
 * Patriot's Cookbook skill magazine in mailbox next to McBride house.
 * Cliff Briscoe sells skill magazines in the Dino Bite Gift Shop. Locksmith's Reader, Meeting People, and Salesman Weekly.
 * The Trail Carbine can be found in an average locked footlocker in Ranger Andy's home.

Related Quests*

 * Come Fly With Me
 * They Went That-a-Way
 * One for My Baby
 * Talking to Dusty McBride about the Brahmin on his ranch sets you on an unmarked quest for Midnight Ranch Attacks.
 * Talking to Ranger Andy sets you on a unmarked quest for Ranger Station Charlie.

Behind the scenes
Novac has no real-world equivalent in Nevada. The length of US 95 between Searchlight and Boulder City does not pass through any other occupied towns or settlements. There is, however, a real-life equivalent dinosaur sculpture in Caifornia. Mr. Rex the dinosaurs at the Cabazon Dinosaurs in Cabazon, CA is shaped like Dinky the Dinosaur in Novac.

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

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