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<span class="mu-g"><LAS VEGAS, DECEMBER, 2271></span>
<span class="mu-g"><MISSION PARAMETERS: INFILTRATE THE MOJAVE REGION AND LAS VEGAS, PLANT SEEDS OF DISSENT AGAINST THE NCR AND BOS, GATHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE POLITICAL SITUATION THERE, AND ATTEMPT TO MAKE CONTACT WITH ANY MEMBERS OF THE MOJAVE CELL></span>
<span class="mu-g"><MISSION RESULTS: NOMINAL SUCCESS, LOCAL OPINION OF NCR AND BOS HAS BEEN DEGRADED,POLITICAL STATUS QUO IDENTIFIED, NO CONTACT MADE></span>
<span class="mu-g"><RECOMMENDED ACTIONS... COMPUTING... NO FURTHER ACTIONS REQUIRED AT THIS TIME></span>
Seeing as this wasn't the first time that Gerald and his team had been to Vegas they opted to take up for the majority of time their already established cover at the NCR outpost. There task was however this time a bit more complicated than simply getting information on the outpost itself. Rather now they'd have to gather information about the political state of Las Vegas while sabotaging the NCR and Brotherhoods reputations. They'd be lucky to find the time to even attempt their tercerary objective of contacting the Cell in Las Vegas.
Sabotaging the NCR was simple, all one had to do was encourage the bored youths at the outpost to go rabble rouse, and there was an abundance of bored youths at this base. Many had signed up for the pacification of the Mojave, and many participated in it, however most of the fresh faces here had not as they joined on the tail end of that conflict. Even worse they were away from the only remnant of fighting the NCR had to deal with, the Brotherhood War by miles. Frustration could not begin to describe the feelings of these recruits.
So when an older charismatic fellow and his buddies promises to show them a night of adventure they were none the wiser to the motives behind it. Frankly they were deserving of the reprimands they would get in response to these actions. Going to villages, getting hammered and making asses of themselves, some even being goaded into pushing around some of the locals. Yes most of the towns near the outpost didn't exactly have a sterling opinion of the NCR at the moment. That said Gerald knew he was only accelerating a time table here, with discipline like that it would have happened regardless of his intercession.
As for smearing the Brotherhood of Steels reputation, that was a bit more complicated, best that could be done was to sell them as techno-raiders, 'you saw how those NCR boys acted in your town? Well the Brotherhood of Steels even worse, they'll take every scrap of comfort from you <span class="mu-i">for your own good</span> as they'd put it.' and other such lines were fed to the locals. It was close enough to the truth that it should sour their first impressions if they ever have cause to meet them.
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