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The H&H Tools factory is a location in the Mojave Wasteland in Fallout: New Vegas.
Background[]
Long before the Great War, when a freak auto gyro and lightning accident claimed both of their parents, the young Robert House was cheated out of his inheritance by his half-brother, Anthony House.[1] Undaunted, Robert pulled himself up and founded RobCo Industries as the lead in the field of robotics. As one House-owned business waxed, another waned as the H&H Tools Company went on a steady decline as Anthony slowly started losing his grip on reality, struggling with severe paranoia fueling his belief that his half-brother would eventually come to repay him for the original theft.[Non-game 1]
Anthony's deteriorating mental health manifested in increasingly bizarre and erratic security measures implemented at the factory after 2020 and 2023. Subsequent years did not help his mental state, as RobCo Industries came after H&H Tools on the trading floor, mopping the floor with its stock.[2] 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 to protect against all perceived threats.
By 2281. long after Anthony's death, the factory has gained a reputation among the locals of New Vegas as equal parts an alluring treasure for scavengers and a deathtrap to the unprepared as the security systems remain active and programmed to eliminate all intruders.[3]
Layout[]
Situated directly to the west of North Vegas Square, the factory consists of two floors with sporadic placements of traps and frag mines. Throughout the facility are a number of terminals with correspondence between one another; while mostly business-related, in one room the messages between each terminal are humorous and sexual in nature. Part of the bottom floor contains an industrial area leading up to the top floor, containing the office of Anthony House.
The double doors to the left of the entrance lead to a hallway, where the first room to the left is a kitchen containing a variety of loot, and the door at the end, protected by frag mines, leads to a larger room protected by a rigged shotgun just past the door. Going in, a crazed Mister Handy will be encountered, with the two doors to the left being guarded by two automated turrets. The door to the right has a pressure plate with a swinging 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, with frag mines deployed on the metal steps leading 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, while the terminal in the room provides the ability to perform an executive override for the Lucky 38 penthouse after it has been hacked into. 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. Can be used to enter the control room from the penthouse in the Lucky 38 (if one does not have the platinum chip or a high Science skill).
- Four H&H Tools journal entries - Found on various terminals scattered across the factory.
Notes[]
- The company and locations alternate using the distinction "H&H Tool" and the plural "H&H Tools" for their name.
- There is a non-hostile Mister Handy on the second floor of the building that will, due to its pathing, trigger a tripwire that releases a grenade bouquet in the east wing. This will destroy both the Mister Handy and the automated turret that reside there after about 50 seconds of entering the building. It will stay non-hostile if the traps are disarmed and the player is undetected by the other robot security while in its presence.
Appearances[]
The H&H Tools factory appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.
Behind the scenes[]
- The fictional H&H Tools Company that owns the factory is based on the real-world Hughes Tool Company, its namesake being the founder Howard R. Hughes Sr., the father of Howard Robard Hughes Jr. that Robert House himself is based on. The logos for Hughes Tool Company and H&H Tool Company bear a strong resemblance to each other.
- There appears to have been quite the sordid set of affairs going on between the factory workers, with each of the members of the affair suggesting 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, stating that employees found associating with the game will be immediately dismissed from the company.[4]
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- The Lucky 38 Executive Override option on the terminal in Anthony House's office was originally supposed to factor into The Moon Comes Over the Tower, but that section of the quest was cut before release. See the quest's notes section for further details.
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Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ A tragedy has befallen all mankind
- ↑ H&H Tools factory terminal entries; terminal, E-Mail from Alan Dalton
- ↑ The Courier: "What is there to do here?"
Crandon: "Keep your nose to the ground, stranger, that's what. Mind your own business and let us mind our own, are we clear? If you've got a mind to loot the old H&H Tools factory, don't even bother. That place is sealed tighter than a Radscorpion's bunghole. Every salvager who tries gets blown up, flattened, or gutted by traps. Then he starts to stink up the town and we're the ones to clean up the mess."
(Crandon's dialogue) - ↑ H&H Tools factory terminal entries; terminal, HR E-mail 11/08/2023
Non-game
- ↑ Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collectors Edition p. 305: "[2.06] H&H Tools Factory
Long before the war, H&H Tools Company provided Nevada and California high-quality robotics equipment. Owned by the half-brother of Robert Edwin House (the founder of RobCo, and—were it not for the 200 year gap—the same man who lives in the Lucky 38 Casino). When their father was killed in an accident, the elder brother swindled Robert out of the family fortune, and assumed control of the company.
Robert went on, through his dealings with RobCo and their lucrative contracts, to become one of the wealthiest men on earth. His half-brother meanwhile, became increasingly paranoid, seeking to guard himself against a vengeance that never came, and inflicting all manner of strange HR rules on his workforce. The remains of this factory still stand, surrounded by husk-like remains of North Vegas' industrial area."
(Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition Tour of the Mojave Wasteland)
