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She is lobotomized and loses only the ability to hack computers. Making her the second most successful brain extraction known. Maybe--other successes were not noticed, or were forgotten. Maybe her brain was taken by Mobius too, and now it sits in a vat of mentats laced gel, being all snarky...

Somehow Old World Blues just gets more confusing the closer you look at it. One might assume that it's what happens when a story centers around senile mad scientists, whose memories and senses were altered to confuse them. However, the weirdest part of OWB has nothing to do with such handwaves...

"Their answers were madness. And power, stronger than me, would take a hundred Elijahs... someone tougher than him or I to best them in their Dome." So I spawned Ulysses in the Think Tank, set him to my faction, and punched Klein once to get them to attack each other. It took three full Think...

"Evidence to the contrary?" Courier "-You sound like the OTHER visitors. Making WILD claims of a WORLD beyond, where there is a WAR beyond WAR. It is UNPROVEN! And UNTHINKABLE!-" Borous What is a war beyond war? He has to be talking about the NCR-Legion war. It can't be mere hyperbole because...

It does electric damage as far as I can tell. Not sure how protons factor into that, or what inversal would even mean. If it was just inverse, then wouldn't they call it the inverse proton axe instead? Or is this just pure, unadulterated, science-themed gibberish? Wild speculations welcome.

For whatever reason the Think Tank can't just blow up the radar fence. The recursive programming loops are given to explain this (I'd say), so that part makes sense, but why can't you do it? There's even a giant artillery cannon you could ostensibly re-aim if portables are too weak, to damage...