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.

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.

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

 * Cliff Briscoe's House
 * 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, former NCR and one of the snipers taking shifts 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 or you can buy it off Cliff Briscoe at the Dinky the Dinosaur Shop.
 * 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.
 * Another Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap in the last motel room of the second floor. The bottlecap is on the table to the right 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 Novac 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.

Related Quests

 * Come Fly With Me
 * They Went That-a-Way
 * One for My Baby
 * Classic Inspiration
 * 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.

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs

 * The free storage room given to you at the Dino Dee-lite Motel can sometimes become bugged. Trying to enter it will cause your game to freeze.
 * The nightkin that kills the brahmin in novac will respawn in the place that you kill it, great way to obtain an unlimited supply of miniguns

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