The Outsider’s Pox, as it’s so affectionately named by the Boomers, has the potential to rampage through the agriculture industry and the effects on Humans are worrying.

It’s so worrying that you task Doctor Henry, The Department of Science and Technology and the Department of Health and Human Services to look into the blight. You’re not sure about how their expertise measures up to the NCR or if they’re even up for the task but these are the top scientific minds in the Mojave and if they can’t figure it out, it’ll be up to you.

But for the first time in a long time, you’re incredibly pleased by the noncombatants under your authority. Dr. Henry has sent you a plant along with his report on the Outsider’s Pox, but in keeping with that you assume is Enclave humor, the plant seems to be a miniature version of the Spore Plant that you have had the displeasure of encountering multiple times.

Closing your office door, you sit at your increasingly cluttered desk and read the note stuck to the pot first.

*Courier, this is a little something I’ve been tinkering with on the side. It’s not going to spot anything at you. In fact, it’s quite harmless unless you’re an insect. Think of it like a larger Venus fly trap.

-Dr. Henry*

Putting the note off to the side, you begin to see the similarities, though it’s much larger than the illustrations you’ve seen in old science textbooks. True to his word, the plant remains impassive at your presence, its jaws open and waiting for its next meal.

You pick up the thick manilla folder and begin flipping through the report, but not before you pull a flask out from the desk drawer.