H&H Tools Factory

The H&H Tools Factory is a building located directly to the west of North Vegas Square in the Mojave Wasteland.

Background
This large pre-War tool factory was the legacy of the House family. When a freak autogyro and lightning accident claimed the lives of the parents of Robert House and his half-brother, Anthony, the latter cheated his younger sibling out of his inheritance. Undaunted, Robert started his own business in robotics. As RobCo Industries prospered, Anthony slowly started losing his grip on reality.

Anthony's deteriorating mental health manifested in increasingly bizarre and erratic security measures implemented at the factory after 2020 and 2023. Subsequent years didn't help his mental state, as RobCo Industries came after H&H Tools on the trading floor, mopping the floor with its stock.

The situation peaked on the eve of the Great War, as the elderly Anthony (now styling himself Alexander) fired all of his employees, locked down the plant, and deployed heavy security measures.

Layout
The building consists of two floors with sporadic placements of traps and frag mines. Throughout the building are a number of terminals with correspondence between one another. While most correspondence is business-related, in one room the messages between each computer are humorous and sexual in nature. Part of the bottom floor contains an industrial area leading up to the top floor. The top floor contains the office of Anthony House.

The double doors to the left of the entrance lead to a hallway. The first room to the left is a kitchen containing a variety of loot. The door at the end of the hallway is protected by five frag mines in front of the door. There is also a rigged shotgun on the desk connected to a tripwire on the other side of the door. If the mines are detonated, the tripwire will consequently be broken. Going to the right, the Courier will encounter a crazed Mister Handy. The next two doors to the left are guarded by two level-dependent automated turrets. The door to the right has a pressure plate-based steel girder trap and leads to a room flooded with radioactive liquid.

Going forward from the entrance is a large metal room guarded by two robobrains, and is flooded with irradiated water. Proceeding up the metal steps on the second landing are four frag mines. Progressing all the way up will lead to a metal catwalk. The room ahead has two frag mines at the doorway and contains a suspicious terminal that holds the journal entry 04/15/2077. The office to the left is Anthony House's office guarded by a shotgun trap tied to a tripwire directly inside the doorway. On top of his desk lies a red Lucky 38 VIP keycard. The computer in this room provides the ability to perform an executive override in the Lucky 38 penthouse after it is hacked. Down the hallway to the right leads to some offices with a terminal holding the journal entries 04/06/2068 and 12/27/2074.

Notable loot

 * Lucky 38 VIP keycard - On Anthony House's office desk on the second floor.
 * Four H&H Tools journal entries - Found on terminals.

Appearances
H&H Tools Factory appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes

 * H&H Tools Factory is a reference to the real world Hughes Tool Company, namesake being the founder Howard R. Hughes Sr., the father of Howard Robard Hughes Jr., of whom the character Robert House is based. The logo for Hughes Tool Company and H&H Tool Company bears a strong resemblance.
 * Several of the computers have messages between co-workers. There appears to have been quite the sordid set of affairs going on. Each of the members of the affair suggests an esoteric collection of items to be brought to the rendezvous to remember old times. These items are a reference to the sexual shenanigans of the Nazis in the British comedy "'Allo 'Allo".
 * There is a reference to the card game Tragic the Garnering, from Fallout 2, in one of the human resources messages sent to employees. The email states that employees found associating with Tragic players will be dismissed.