¡La Fantoma! is a skill magazine in Fallout: New Vegas.
Background[]
A comic book that focuses on ¡La Fantoma!, a master stealth infiltrator.[Non-game 1]
Characteristics[]
Reading this magazine raises the player character's Sneak skill by 10 points (20 points with the Comprehension perk) for 60 seconds (180 seconds with Retention).
Published by GP Comics, this particular issue of ¡La Fantoma! has two blurbs on the front reading "Ella acecha de noche" (she stalks at night) and "Como es que una chica tan hermosa obtuvo poderes tan especiales?" (How is it that such a lovely girl got such special powers?).
Crafting[]
This item can be crafted by the Courier.
Creation requirements
| Materials: | Requirements: | Produces: | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Wonderglue (1) Blank magazine (2) |  | Repair: 25 Picking up a copy of ¡La Fantoma! after the Voracious Reader perk is chosen. |  | ¡La Fantoma! (1) |
¹ Craftable without a workbench via a dialogue option with Veronica, or with ED-E once the add-on Lonesome Road is installed.
Locations[]
Below is a list of all fixed locations of the ¡La Fantoma! skill magazines in Fallout: New Vegas and its add-ons. For an overview of magazines per location, see the main overview page.
| Closest map marker | Location description |
|---|---|
| Bitter Springs recreation area | Recreation office, inside a desk in the northeast corner. |
| Boulder City | Two - One on the bottom of the conveyor belt by the train station office. Another is found in the second to last building to the south, inside Boulder City ruins on the first floor, bottom of the stairs behind the chair. |
| Camp McCarran | In one of the tents underneath a bunk bed along with a Milsurp Review, from the middle doors into the terminal building head north, it is the second tent on the left. |
| Camp McCarran | Contents of the MP confiscated goods trunk, given by Carrie Boyd as a reward after successfully completing the quest The White Wash. |
| Crimson Caravan Company | Caravaneer barracks, on a desk. |
| Followers safehouse | Laying on the leftmost bed in the safe house with an advanced radiation suit. |
| H&H Tools factory | On a bookshelf on the left of the entrance room. |
| Lucky 38 | Lucky 38 cocktail lounge, in a Hard-locked briefcase on a table in the western outer ring. |
| Nellis Air Force Base | Nellis Boomer museum, on Pete's bed. |
| Powder Ganger camp west | To the southeast, down in a radioactive puddle with a doctor's bag and a box of Mentats. Follow the road south past the camp to the backward Corvega billboard on the left, turn left into a small ditch that leads right into the puddle. |
Puesta del Sol North  | Puesta del Sol switching station, on a locker (near Ennis's locker) |
Ruined highway interchange  | Just south of the map marker on the highway, in a blue and orange striped trailer, together with a Patriot's Cookbook, Milsurp Review and Future Weapons Today. |
| Sierra Madre Casino | Sierra Madre lobby, on a table near the Cantina Madrid entrance. |
| Sierra Madre Casino | Cantina Madrid, four in garbage cans in the kitchen. |
| Sierra Madre Casino | The Tampico, next to a fallen cabinet in a stage corner. |
| Sierra Madre Casino | Executive suites, on a nightstand in the bedroom of Vera Keyes. |
| South Vegas ruins | Zapp's Neon Signs, next to a couch. |
| Villa police station | In the third cell in the row at the back of the station, behind a locked door. |
X-13 research facility  | Two in the X-13 testing facility - One in the room opposite the entrance, inside the lab with the X-13 gloves under a pre-War book next to the terminal. Another under a pre-War book in the research area next to the desk to the right when entering this area. |
Behind the scenes[]
- The image is a flipped and recolored version of the front cover of Adventure Comics 428, by DC Comics. It is the origin issue of the character Black Orchid; this character was a master of disguise and imitation, hence the link to sneaking.
- ¡La Fantoma! translates as The Phantom!, which lends verisimilitude to the idea that the magazine would give the reader ideas about how to sneak more effectively.
- The exclamation mark style points to the idea that this would be a Spanish phrase. La Fantoma, although sounding Hispanic, under closer inspection the phrase actually only translates to the desired phrase The Phantom! (as an outcome of direct translation) from Romanian - this makes the first exclamation mark redundant. In Spanish, it would actually be ¡La Fantasma!
Gallery[]
References[]
Non-game
- ↑ Fallout: The Roleplaying Game Rulebook p.172: "An issue of a pre-War comic book, detailing the adventures of ¡La Fantoma!, a master of stealth and infiltration."