Snitching Out the Brotherhood to the NCR

Filthy powder ganger!

[cdcdrr]

Oh no! I'm hated by the people who strapped a bomb to my neck and sent heavily armed thugs to kill me for seeking help from someone capable of disarming it. However will I live with myself?

[GlidyBun]

"No-one's seen 'em for years"
*Whole ass platoon literally behind you*

[simbachvazo]

*kills four Paladins, experiences the death of a 1st Recon sniper*

"Okay so you weren't kidding"
Very nonchalant about all that huh Dobson

[Mikey-xzvn]

The BoS slapping a collar on me on my first playthrough pretty much ensured that I ended up killing them on almost _every_ playthrough

[MetalDrummer]

"POWDER GANGERS could be here" he thought, "I've never been in this valley before. There could be POWDER GANGERS anywhere." The cool wind felt good against his bare face. "I HATE POWDER GANGERS" he thought. Johnny Guitar reverberated his entire radio, making it pulsate even as the 9 cap wine circulated through his powerful thick veins and washed away his (merited) fear of gangers after dark. "With a gun, you can go anywhere you want" he said to himself, out loud.

[camiloo]

"Fuck them Paladins"
-Colonel Autumn.

[benjaminoechsli]

I imagine Dobson talking to his superiors.

"Hey, there's a Brotherhood of Steel base in Hidden Valley."
"Ranger, do you have any proof?"
_Dobson drops a charred BoS helmet on the desk_
"That proof enough?"

[coolnamebro]

It strikes me now that I've barely ever held the slave collar thing against the brotherhood despite doing far worse to other for far less. I mean christ, I locked Elijah in a coffin and listened to him keel over for doing EXACTLY the same thing but never the brotherhood.
Fallout 3 really gave me Stockholm syndrome I guess.

[Gabriel-ipme]

Wait... You can you rat them out?! I thought for sure that collar was going to explode!

[clan]

This makes even more sense when you realize rangers likely also have experience deactivating bomb collars of escaped legion slaves so this isn’t just an ass pull. God this game is amazing.

Edit: lmao why is everyone arguing fallout nv vs fallout 4 in the replies?

[Mecceldorf]

Courier: The Brotherhood of Steel sent me after you.
McNamara: He immediately betrayed us. Taggart, you may detonate at will.
Taggart: It’s uh, still warming up sir.
McNamara: Warming up? A remote detonated explosive *is. Warming. Up???*
Taggart: Just a second more... aaaand just a tippy tap tip tap tap tippy tap
McNamara: The ranger just detached the collar.

[PookieQDB]

The fact that Boone died in order for you to be free really makes his death hit hard in this vid.

[Patrick.Weightman]

_"A Brotherhood base? Here?? Do you have a shred of evidence to back up those claims?"_
Nah you're right, I forget it's normal for boulders to have vault doors and operational air vents to be on the ground a mere quarter mile from HELIOS. Silly me

[entropicflux]

can't believe you let boon die to a bunch of nerds in battery operated pajamas

[noneedtoknow]

I'm pretty sure Veronica is a companion so you don't immediately murder the BOS when you meet them.

[SonicChaocc]

I originally thought this quest was broken in my recent playthrough. I always remember Dobson being in his little bunker, not outside. I guess he just wonders outside during the day

[nobodyyouknow]

Boone died! Now who will bore us without cease about his wife being dead?!

[Drakrath]

See here's what I don't get, if you convince the ranger to leave peacefully McNamara will say he was listening through the built in microphone so how are you able to tell the ranger. If you pointed or something and stayed silent that would make a lot more sense.

[lordinquisitorsec]

There's an even simpler solution, take a chainsaw to the Brotherhood. After all, chainsaws don't care how armoured their target is.

[gabeslist]

Maybe the Brotherhood was listening on mic and thought the Ranger wouldn't know how to take the collar off. Then when he did they sent the squad out to get the two of you.