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. Walking on the graves will trigger faint, ghostly whispering.

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.

Straight out from the motel area is a gas station with both a workbench and reloading bench.

Buildings

 * Cliff Briscoe's House
 * Dinky the Dinosaur
 * Dino Bite Gift Shop
 * Dino Dee-lite hotel
 * Dino Dee-lite Front Desk
 * Jeannie May Crawford's House
 * Ranger Andy's House
 * Novac Houses

Inhabitants

 * Cliff, local merchant
 * Craig Boone, former NCR sniper and recruitable companion
 * Jeannie May Crawford, innkeeper
 * Manny Vargas, former NCR sniper 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
 * Ada Straus, a doctor with two elderly bodyguards

Nearby Locations

 * Gibson Scrap Yard
 * REPCONN
 * Helios One

Notable Loot

 * D.C. Journal of Internal Medicine on the bed in Ranger Andy's Room
 * Ranger Takedown is a learnable melee move taught by Ranger Andy.  (Warning!!! Beware the bug for Raul Tejada sidequest Old School Ghoul!!! (See Below)
 * 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.
 * 2 unmarked graves by road, heading from Jeannie May Crawford's house to Novac House.
 * Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap in Daisy Whitman's room, the last motel room of the second floor. The bottlecap is on the table to the right as the player enters. She wakes up when you try to steal it sneaking, and yells at you, but stops immediately if you dialogue her, then goes back to bed like a nice old lady who used to be a Enclave top gun.  Don't kill her because she is essential to complete Arcade Gannon's Enclave side quest, where she'll give you her Remnants Power Armor nicely.
 * Several mailboxes with skill magazines and other random loot.
 * Cliff Briscoe sells skill magazines in the Dino Bite Gift Shop, Locksmith's Reader, Meeting People, and Salesman Weekly.
 * Milsurp review skill magazine in mail box outside Jeannie May Crawfords house although it may be a random spawn

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.
 * You must speak to Ranger Andy with companion Raul Tejada before he teaches you Ranger Takedown, otherwise you will not be able to complete the quest Old School Ghoul
 * Talent Pool
 * Old School Ghoul

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.
 * Buying the key to the storage room in the dinosaur statue's gift shop and collecting the rocket souvenirs inside may cause your game to freeze. It may also cause previous saved game files to become corrupt. You may have to start a new game. It is recomended to buy the rockets individually.


 * There is a traveling merchant around the dinosaur statue, attempting to buy all her Caravan cards will cause the game to freeze (PS3).


 * You must speak to Ranger Andy with companion Raul Tejada accompanying you, before he teaches you Ranger Takedown or you will not be able to complete the quest Old School Ghoul. Raul won't open dialogue key.


 * If you are vilified by the legion, it is possible that a legion assassin, armed with a 12.7mm pistol, and occaisonally a super sledge, will respawn in the middle of town every 2-3 days.


 * The Nightkin which kills the McBride's Brahmin may spawn back where you kill him (Xbox 360)
 * This Nightkin is labelled as "Nightkin Master" and does not have a Talk option. He will permanently stand in one place, cloaked with a Stealthboy, but does not attack at 12:00AM. Killing him or pick-pocketing him shows that he, like the original Nightkin, has a copy of "Screams of the Brahmin".


 * On PC, there was a massive hole in the middle of town that caused my character to fall below ground level in to irradiated water. I had to use tcl console command to get out and find more stable ground.  I fast traveled to another location and waited 4 days and proceeded to return which seemed to fix the issue.

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