Speedrunner Completes All of Fallout: New Vegas While Waiting In Secret Lair Queue

Albaquerque, NM – Local Twitch streamer Chance Edgerfell, more commonly known by the screen name ThatRealBl0ke, released a video of an attempt to speed run the post-apocalyptic sandbox game Fallout: New Vegas while waiting to purchase New Vegas Magic: The Gathering Secret Lair cards.

The video, posted this past weekend and taken last Monday during the Secret Lair release, shows Edgerfell doing an unassisted any-percent run in the time that he was waiting in a digital line for real playing cards.

“Hey chat, got a new one for you here this week,” began the video, with Edgerfell narrating it in a fake British accent. “As you might know, aside from playing New Vegas I also dabble in Magic: The Gathering, and recently the company released a set of cards based on everyone except for Bethesda’s favorite Fallout game. Unsurprisingly they managed to release the cards through an incredibly buggy and unreliable Secret Lair online queue system, because nothing gets done in New Vegas without glitches. Since I knew I’d spend upwards of ninety minutes waiting in a digital line for real playing cards, I had an idea that led me to ask: Can you beat Fallout: New Vegas, DLCs and all, while waiting in the Secret Lair queue?”

From the introduction the nearly 40-minute video condenses the in-line playtime, highlighting the best moments of his stream and the worst moments of the queue. Unfortunately Edgerfell couldn’t complete the game in time.

“It’s crazy that I got to this point: at the 3-hour mark of waiting for the cards I’d made it out of the Sierra Madre with all the gold, only died from a glitching car hitting me once, and the whole time I had to drink a Sunset Sarsaparilla every time my character did for immersion. I got myachievement for killing Mr. House with a golf club, beat cancer to the punch by killing Caesar, and nearly finished killing everyone at Hoover Dam before I made it to the end of the digital line for real playing cards.

“At this point I’m exhausted, full of Red Bull, and mad that I was so close yet so far, but then I saw it: the ten-minute purchase timer. After waiting in a fake line you’re told you have ten minutes to make your purchase before you’re kicked out. That’s normally another headache in this long line, but this time it saved me! After 3 hours and 29 minutes of waiting I rolled credits and got my foil Built to Last Everything bundle at the same time! So yes, you can complete all of New Vegas in the Secret Lair line while almost constantly needing to pee, but I wouldn’t suggest doing any of it.”

At press time Edgerfell began his search for new gimmicks like seeing how long he could play MTG: Arena Standard before seeing a deck that wasn’t Izzet Lessons.