Compare to an actual clever character from Fallout New Vegas. Mr. House.
He read the tea leaves about the coming war and began arming Las Vegas. How? He's rich and a computer genius. But he wasn't perfect, there were bugs in the Alpha of his defense system OS, so the drivers on primary weapons didn't work and targeting was off. Thus when the missiles came, a combination of hacking and point defense spared only part of Vegas.
When he recovered, he sent his robots out to scout and became familiar with the factions, recruited some families to run his casinos and supplement his forces (in exchange they get to come in out of the wastes), filled part of Vault 21 with concrete so its inhabitants would have to participate in the New Vegas economy and agreed to an NCR presence on the grounds that the troops had to be allowed to come gamble in the casinos. Their presence gave him cashflow, so he could go searching for the finished version of his OS to upgrade his defense systems.
His plan is not to beat the NCR, he knows he can't do that. His plan is to make sure he's too costly a target*. That means beef up his defense systems as mentioned above, do business with both the Legion and the NCR, and make sure that the Battle for Hoover Dam is not decisive for either side so they continue to be unable to afford to take New Vegas from Mr House. He plans to do that by enlisting help from the Boomers who command their own artillery. Once he gets the fusion plant activated, he even gains the option to blow up Hoover Dam, removing NCR and Legion's reasons for being here.
But he isn't perfect, which is good because that makes him more rounded. Benny is smart enough to see that Mr House has some great plan cooking. He may not be able to come up with amazing plans on his own, but he's smart enough to know that Mr House does and to figure out how to spy on House, ambush a Securitron Robot and get a hacker buddy to reprogram its AI to do accept your commands, then tell it to start decrypting Mr House's communications and steal his ideas for yourself. But Benny isn't perfect either, and his hacker buddy was only able to program the robot to take commands from everybody. Again, believable and rounded. And this set up gives you multiple logical ways of approaching the conflict that emerge naturally from the situation, all of which are supported.
How are you involved in this? Well, you were supposed to make that delivery to Mr House. But because Benny is spying on House he found you and shot you so he could get whatever it is you're delivering. So you're tracking him down either to get revenge, or find out what he's up to, or get your package back to finish your delivery because you take your job that seriously. You'll either meet up with House and he'll want to recruit you or you'll track down Benny and stumble across his plans. Or lets say you decide you don't want to face the man who shot you. Well if you get involved in other business in the Mojave, you'll eventually run into the Legion or the NCR who are all over the desert and since they're caught in the middle of this plot, you'll still eventually have a reason to get involved in the main conflict.
THAT is how you write this kind of stuff. You give us concrete details built on the foundation of your setting and support logical options rather than contriving a scenario where there's only one way to proceed and it makes sense because just take our word for it, it does.** (and that plan is essentially engage in coy babble and occasionally sneak away to poke around).
*As in, if one faction takes New Vegas from Mr House, they'll suffer to many losses and be too overextended to survive retaliation by opposing factions.
**Seriously, the blackmail material that is supposed to keep these people in check is amazingly flimsy. Eyewitness testimony from some merc and/or an elvish servant? Against an emperor/empress and the leader of a resistance movement? In Gascard's case, even if people do believe the merc, once Gascard is on the throne what does it matter? He denies it publicly and insiders know he can play dirty which actually strengthens his hand. And Briala? Well there are a half dozen ways she can explain sleeping with the Empress: "I was just trying to get information." or "I was hoping to convince her of our plight" or "You know how these nobles are. They use us for sex whenever they feel like it." And at most she loses a few agents and has to rebuild her resistance group a bit.
EDIT: Oh and IIRC, House lured the NCR into discovering Vegas and Hoover Dam because he knew the Legion was coming.
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. Also had the option of offering the dragon eggs to the demon in exchange for something or you could beat the drow at their game by accepting Solaufein's to swap the real dragon eggs with a fake, which the demon finds amusing.
was worth it.
