Luckily all I lost was about 20 minutes of my time. I hadn't even saved my game yet, and my only autosave thus far was still after the scorpion had failed the questline for me, so my only recourse was to just start the whole game over. I don't know how that Radscorpion made it to Goodsprings less than half an hour into my playthrough, or why it decided to murder every living thing within range, but I laughed my ass off. With my pathetically low Guns stats and a fairly low-condition Varmint Rifle providing no benefits, it killed Cobb and then took me down in two hits too. A Giant Radscorpion was sitting on the front porch, several dismembered corpses strewn around it, with Cobb from the Powder Gangers pointlessly firing shots at it. I made it back to the Saloon, and immediately everything became clear. I was very confused, because not only had I not done anything to fail the quest, I hadn't even spoken to Trudy or Ringo to trigger it yet. While walking through the streets of Goodsprings, the music sting played, and "QUEST FAILED: GHOST TOWN GUNFIGHT" swept across the screen. I went up the hill to kill some more Geckos for him, survived his ambush, and then started to walk back to town.
After clearing out all the Geckos, I ran into Barton Thorn, an NPC I somehow managed to miss every single time I've played this game in the past. I finished the immediate intro and then headed to the Prospector's Saloon, and when I got there I decided to do Sunny Smiles' tutorial missions to get the free Varmint Rifle, even though my Guns stat is so low I likely won't be able to do much damage with it for a while. It was like coming home, especially compared to the aborted Skyrim replay I started and abandoned less than two hours in a week before. Almost immediately everything started rushing back to me, from the layout of Goodsprings to the locations of the skill magazines and snow globes I would need to pick up. I built myself a Speech/Lockpicking/Science character with a heavily INT-focused SPECIAL build and got started. After reinstalling it and all the DLC, I started a new playthrough last night. After my 4000-word essay on Fallout 4 from a few weeks ago, I got a bit nostalgic for the good times I had in Fallout: New Vegas.
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