Miss Fortune's Bad Luck Bringer is a non-playable weapon in Fallout: New Vegas.
Characteristics[]
The weapon is identical in appearance to the playable Mysterious Magnum, a unique .44 Magnum revolver. It only differs from the standard .44 Magnum in that it does very little or no damage to enemies, instead inflicting a random effect (see the Effect section below).
Durability[]
The weapon only fires normal .44 Magnum rounds, but its condition never degrades.
Effect[]
The weapon generates a "fortune" percentage for the target per shot:
With a fortune of less than 35:
- Inflicts a "knockdown" effect for 10 seconds.
- Any of the following will detonate if they are in the inventory and are at least 1 game unit further away from the player character than the max splash damage range, with an appropriate explosion:
- Incendiary grenade; creates a 40mm incendiary explosion.
- Frag grenade, dynamite, or bottlecap mine; creates a 40mm explosion.
- Plasma grenades or mines; creates a plasma grenade explosion.
- Pulse grenades or mines; creates a pulse grenade explosion.
With a fortune between 35 and 65:
- Any of the grenades or explosives before will detonate, as well as:
- Flamer, incinerator, or heavy incinerator; creates a 40mm incendiary explosion.
- Grenade launcher, grenade rifle, grenade machinegun, missile launcher, or Securitron missile launcher; creates a 40mm explosion.
- Recharger pistol, recharger rifle, plasma pistol, plasma rifle, multiplas rifle, plasma caster, or Plasma Defender; creates a plasma grenade explosion.
- Pulse gun; creates both a plasma and a pulse grenade explosion.
- If any of these detonate, the weapon will be broken and the NPC's right arm will be crippled. If none of the weapons are present, a "cripples" percentage is set instead:
- Less than 10 cripples the head.
- 10 - 25 cripples the left arm.
- 25 - 40 cripples the right arm.
- 40 - 55 cripples the left leg.
- 55 - 70 cripples the right leg.
- Above 70 cripples the torso.
- If all limbs are crippled beforehand, the target is paralyzed.
With a fortune above 65, only the limb crippling is applied.
Because Miss Fortune fires six shots with the weapon per appearance via the associated perk, a total of six fortunes will be generated against the target.
Locations[]
The weapon is owned by Miss Fortune and is only obtainable via using console commands.
Bugs[]
The script does not check for frag mines or long-fuse dynamite, even though normal dynamite is checked, and the other two "main" grenade types include their mine counterparts. [verified]
