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Update 8 ? A Less Stupid Radioactive Cult
Let's get movin'. First we go into this house on the left of the road towards REPCONN.
We can ask around about Boone's wife, but that's not what we're up to just yet. We can also just pick any random person and frame them, but we won't do that ? we'll investigate that properly.
No, we're here because this guy has a quest that is buggy but I manage to complete.
How's business?
We offer to catch whoever is responsible.
This quest is an annoyance because it has a time limit, and also because you have to talk to this guy, then wait until exactly midnight ? meaning you have to wait till 11:something PM and then just idle around until midnight rolls around, or it won't trigger properly.
This cloaked Nightkin across the way is responsible, by the way, but shooting him now won't complete the quest.
Okay. Fortunately I was at something45 so waiting wasn't too bad, and the Nightkin starts walking over to the Brahmin pen. You have to wait for him to decloak and start yelling before you it counts.
Here we go. He's been coming out at exactly midnight, shouting at Brahmin to stop talking to him, and minigunning them down. 
He has a holotape too.
We can now turn the quest in to Dusty for 75 caps and a bunch of Brahmin steaks. Yay?
It also bumps our Novac rep up to Accepted.
Plus I can break down his minigun rounds for small rifle primers!
Hand Load is such a good perk.
Some shots of That Gun, by the way.
I fuckin' love exploding Glowing One heads.
There's some ashed Nightkin around, so Courier poses with a Rebar Club before dropping it:
He also snipes some Feral Ghouls out front of REPCONN. For some reason lethal headshots feral ghouls results in positive karma gain.
A dead ghoul out front has a Laser RCW ? one of the new additions to Energy Weapons for New Vegas. Think a tommy gun, but lasers. Pretty fun.
Plasma Defender over here. All sorts of pricey energy weapons loot to take merchants later 
A horrible voice greets us as we walk in.
Go to the big room on the east side of this building and take the metal staircase all the way up. And hurry.
All right.
Get moving.
More dead Nightkin chilling. This one has a Stealth Boy by him for us!
Lots of Feral Ghouls inside. ED-E basically disappears on me and roams around killing them. Goooood robot 
Courier gets a level up.
Here and Now, also known as "I didn't really want a perk this level anyway"
I take Finesse.
A locked storage sorta room has some ammo, a safe with two Stealth Boys in it (yay)
And a revolver with a scope on it for god only knows. (Hunting Revolvers are pretty strong though). I run around a lot more and finally reach the room the intercom told us to go to.
Follow the staircase up, talk to the intercom to get in.
Hey, it's the voice! And he's standing with all the light source right behind him! 
Hey, you're not a ghoul!
Your pranks won't work on me, smoothskin. They won't work on Jason, either.
Smoothskin? Your skin looks pretty smooth to me.
Stop wasting my time, smoothskin. Go waste Jason's.
We'll find out more later, but basically Chris has a conflux of hypochondria, trauma, male pattern baldness, and an annoying voice.
Jason Bright on the other hand has an echo effect on HIS voice.
Have you come to help us complete the Great Journey?
Who are you?
I am Jason Bright, the prophet of the Great Journey. All the ghouls you see here are members of my flock.
Tell me more about these "demons".
The demons appeared from nowhere... except it might be more accurate to say they never actually "appeared" at all. The demons are invisible. Where one of them stands, the most one sees is the air shimmering, like sunlight on water...
My flock fought bravely, and killed a few, but at such cost. Nearly half of us died or went missing. The rest of us retreated up here. One of the demons raved at us, but they have not tried to attack us since. Still, their demonic presence brought all progress towards the Great Journey to a standstill.
Jason also knows Chris is a human!
You say one of the demons "raved" at you?
Yes, over the intercom. Threats of death should we step outside, guarantees of safety should we stay locked away. It went on for hours, and did not always make sense. But that was the first day only. Since then, silence.
Everybody always wants us to do things. We just wanna get our delivery back and done why this gotta be so hard 
I'll take care of the "demons" for you.
As soon as the underground has been rid of demons, preparations for the Great Journey can resume!
At least he's grateful!
TO THE BASEMENT
Aaand get ready for the only part of this quest I dislike. We're gonna do it peacefully, and there is only one way to accomplish this. Thankfully we got like 6 stealth boys upstairs.
Just be sneaky and hang a left at the first opportunity, then a right towards a door, behind which is this guy!
An assassin, more like! I say kill it, Antler. For safe's sake! ...Huh? ...Okay, Antler. I'll ask.
I came here on behalf of the ghouls upstairs.
A human who is friend to ghouls? Suspicious. You mean the ones upstairs. Antler used intercom, told them stay put. But they want to come down in basement anyways?
Your ghoul friends have to wait until you find what Antler brought us to get.
Maybe I can help.
Good. Antler brought us here for a reason... why was that, Antler?
But Stealth Boys must be in the one room we don't search yet ? the one we can't search.
Why can't you search the last room?
A ghoul. But not squishy like others. This ghoul is tough. I thought Antler said send my kin into that room, but three died. Ghoul is a crack shot and set traps too. After, I realize I heard Antler wrong. So I lock the door to keep kin out and wait for Antler to tell me what to do.
Can nobody in the entire wasteland do their own work?
I'll find this StealthBoy stockpile for you if your kin will leave this place.
Yes, Antler says we leave here as soon as we get Stealth Boys. Let me give you key. Antler had me lock the door. The ghoul inside not expecting a human. Maybe he don't shoot you. Maybe he will.
Well okay then! You see, all Nightkin (former spec ops basically of the Master's army waaaay back Fallout 1) have gone insane. Some combination of the effects of FEV and their extremely long lifespan (basically immortal unless killed and that's tough) allows Stealth Boys to make them insane. Except not always regular insane ? sometimes it's Malkavian insane, with insight. The example is the Nightkin we killed earlier; the one who was killing Brahmin. He says things when companions are around:
"Head voices say smart man also metal man. Don't like metal men."
"Book girl has hard decision to make."
"Head voices say quiet man knows more than he says about horns."
"Head voices say they knew flower girl's father."
There's a few more, but those are the strongest examples. I've left out who he says it about to minimize spoilers.
Anyways, we sneak out of Davison's room and take a right, down to this previously locked door (it's not key locked though, we could have picked it)
We open it up and the ghoul starts talking. Good sign!
Hey! You're not one of those things out there. Who the hell are you?
Jason sent me down here to get rid of the "demons".
And I bet he told you it's the creator's will for you to risk your ass, instead of him, right? Well good luck with that! I'd give you a hand, but no thanks. I may look like a corpse, but I'm partial to living!
How did you end up trapped down here?
I'm no match for those things out there, so I found a good defensive position, and I've been defending it, right? ...Aw, who am I fooling? I'm trapped. Name's Harland. Pleased to meet you.
Most of the fight was upstairs, but some folks panicked and made for the basement. And I went after them. Well, turns out there were even more of those bastards down here than upstairs, and things went to shit fast. I couldn't find the others, so I fell back to this room and set up a nice little kill zone. End of story.
How have you survived?
I'm not delicate. Radroach meat for protein, condensation off the pipes for water, and I do my business over in the far corner. I wouldn't say it's been comfy.
You don't look like the other ghouls from Bright's group.
Guess the outfit gives that away, huh? I never did buy into that religious mumbo-jumbo with the robes and all that shit. It gets lonely out in the wastes, okay? And I don't have to tell you that Bright's group has got some fine-looking ghoulettes in it!
Anyway, I helped them out, and they kept me supplied with ammo and pleasant company.
How can I help you out of this room?
Ha! Well, you're polite, I'll give you that. If this was just between you and me, I'd do as you ask. But it's not. I had a friend with me when those mutant bastards came out of nowheres. She panicked and ran the wrong direction ? further into the basement.
You, on the other hand, seem pretty resourceful. Find my friend, and I'll get out of your way.
Uugghhh guess we're finding his friend. This sucks. Our only other option is to shoot him.
Time to sneak. The door at the end of this hallway is a dead-end with stuff in it; check it later if you care.
Stealthin' around, not too bad, this is an okayish stealth sequence I guess. I've played worse, that's for sure.
We're close to that quest marker now!
SHIT
FUCK
GOD FUCKING
AUGH
Back up stairs. I could kill the shimmer here for the key, sometimes, but it's best to not kill anyone at all so Davison doesn't go hostile on you.
There's a desk on the floor above what the quest marker points to, it has the key that guarantees peaceful passage.
All that for a corpse. Welp. Tell Harland.
Yes, unfortunately.
I see. Well, spare me the details. Damn it, I'm going to miss that crooked, yellow smile...
We head up to the floor where he was, access a terminal by some crates.
Long story short, the StealthBoys were sent here in error and sent back. This was all a waste!
Hope Davison isn't too mad when we tell him 
There is no stockpile of Stealth Boys in this building.
Liar! The invoice said Stealth Boys here! Antler read it out loud to me!
The Stealth Boys were sent here by mistake, then sent back.
But invoice note said Stealth Boys were here! Why can't that note be true?
Oh, Antler... You trust so easy...
Whew! The Nightkin sneak off. They're no longer hostile to us, we can run circles around them if we feel like even. And all that without a single death!
...Oh.
I'm SURE nothing bad will happen if I do this!
That is, uh, not what I was expecting. I was expecting something to be mildly buggy because Harland was dead-alive. But whoops. I'm not above looting him twice! 
The "demons" are gone.
Praise the creator! And bless you, wanderer! The way is clear. I will lead my flock through the basement to the sacred site!
We're not done with this shit, mind you.