He thinks whatever he is doing in Zion is righteous and in the will of god. It comes off as nutty because unless he is metaphorical or something similar, it seems a bit zealot-ish.
This has got to be the beginning, I'm calling it: You hear a radio broadcast coming from the Crimson Caravan company asking for a bodyguard/help with a trade route through Zion. You go talk to the person and yada yada.
Whether you get your stuff taken away is pretty straight forward (in my mind). There is no way a trade caravan is going to take your stuff away, so either were keeping it, or when we get ambushed our stuff is taken away (this seems likely).
Oh, one more thing. Please add the rain to the main game :fallout:
Yeah, there is reputation. It's likely going to be a different caravan company that is going there. Far Go Traders would be awesome... but yeah. I also doubt you will hear about it through radio, unless they are anticipating that the caravan will be unusually dangerous. One more thing, rain doesn't fit in the main game too well . . . If it were realistic, it would be incredibly uncommon and not really worth coding.