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This is a transcript for dialogue with Sergeant Bitter-Root. |
Topics
TOPIC | TOPIC TEXT / PROMPT | EMOTION | RESPONSE TEXT | # |
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GREETING | GREETING | Neutral 50 | I'm Bitter-Root. First Recon. You got a reason to talk to me? {quietly suspicious, not confrontational} | 1 |
GREETING | Neutral 50 | {Moving into position} Can't talk now. Got to keep my eyes sharp. {in the middle of a mission - doesn't want the player to bother him} | 2 | |
GREETING | Neutral 50 | {In position} {quietly warning, it's a combat situation} Eyes sharp, now. | 3 | |
GREETING | Anger 5 | {Nephi dead, Bitter-Root got a hit} Wish I'd gotten a bullet in that Fiend... | 4 | |
GREETING | Neutral 50 | {Nephi dead, Bitter-Root got a hit} That's one less drugged-out waster. Best part of this job - shooting folks who deserve it. {believes he means it} | 5 | |
GREETING | Neutral 50 | {Gorobets dead} I've never lost a {see-OH: commanding officer} CO before. It doesn't feel right. | 6 | |
GREETING | Neutral 50 | Didn't think you'd be back. What's this about? {quietly suspicious of player} | 7 | |
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic000 | Not too friendly, are you? | Neutral 50 | Guess not. I don't mean nothing by it. | 8 |
Not too friendly, are you? | Neutral 50 | You really want to talk to somebody, try 10 of Spades. He's always got plenty to say. | 9 | |
Neutral 50 | Me, I'm here to do my job. For now, that job is shootin' Fiends. | 10 | ||
Not too friendly, are you? | Neutral 50 | {10 of Spades dead} 10 of Spades always had plenty to say, before he got himself killed. Me, I'm just here to do my job. | 11 | |
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic001 | Where can I find some work around here? | Neutral 50 | You a merc? Then I guess you'd want to talk to my, uh... father. Major Dhatri. He's our CO. {Dhatri isn't his real father} | 12 |
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic002 | Your father is your commanding officer? Is that allowed? | Neutral 50 | Yeah, look... he's not my real father. He just looked after me, for a while. | 13 |
Neutral 50 | It's a long story. And I'd get tired of talking before it was through. | 14 | ||
Your father is your commanding officer? Is that allowed? | Neutral 50 | It's like I told you. Dhatri's not my real father. He just looked after me for a while. | 15 | |
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic003 | How long have you been with the First Recon? | Neutral 50 | A while, I guess. I don't keep too careful track of time. | 16 |
Neutral 50 | I like to keep things simple. Just focus on now. That's why they made me a sniper. | 17 | ||
Neutral 50 | You let your mind wander back a ways, and you lose sight of what's in front of your eyes. Good way to miss a mark. | 18 | ||
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic004 | Bitter-Root. You have an unusual name. | Neutral 50 | You trying to start trouble? Or do you really not know where I got that name? {thinks the player is trying to find an excuse to harass him} | 19 |
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic005 | I didn't mean to offend. You don't have to tell me, if you'd rather not. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] It's a Khan name. You know... the "Great Khans." That's what my parents were. {A little reluctant to reveal this. Hates the Great Khans.} | 20 |
Neutral 50 | I figured I grew up around the bastards... they owed me a name, after all they put me through. {quietly bitter} | 21 | ||
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic006 | What happened to your parents? | Neutral 50 | They're dead. Got themselves killed at Bitter Springs. Served them right, if you ask me. {quietly bitter} | 22 |
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic007 | What do you know about the Great Khans? | Neutral 50 | They're scum. Lazy, trumped-up Raiders. Most of the time, they're drunk or high, and when they're not shooting chems, they're selling them. {bitter - thinks he means it} | 23 |
Neutral 50 | Used to have a settlement up at Bitter Springs, 'til they pissed off NCR and got slaughtered for their trouble. {bitter} | 24 | ||
Neutral 50 | Lot of us got killed at Bitter Springs. Lot of them, I mean. My parents died, too. {misspeaks - he accidentally includes himself with the Khans, who he despises. Also has convinced himself that he hates his parents.} | 25 | ||
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic008 | Tell me about happened to them at Bitter Springs. | Neutral 50 | It was massacre. That's what a lot of NCR folk will tell you. Most of them feel plenty bad about what happened. | 26 |
Neutral 50 | But I was there. Saw it myself. I don't care what anybody says. The Khans asked for Bitter Springs. They wouldn't leave the NCR be. {quietly bitter - he's talking about the people who raised him, but he's convinced himself he hates them} | 27 | ||
Neutral 50 | My damn parents, too. They were just as bad as the rest. | 28 | ||
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic009 | I've heard enough. Let's talk about something else. | Neutral 50 | Yeah. That's probably best. | 29 |
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic010 | Losing your parents must have been hard for you. I'm sorry. | Neutral 50 | You're sorry? Well, that makes one of us. Bitter Springs was the best thing that ever happened to me. {thinks he means it} | 30 |
Neutral 50 | Best thing that ever happened to my parents, too. They were as bad as the rest. Worse, maybe. {thinks he means it} | 31 | ||
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic011 | You don't really mean that, do you? | Neutral 50 | Don't I? Mister, you never met my parents. | 32 |
You don't really mean that, do you? | Neutral 50 | Don't I? Beg pardon, ma'am, but you never met my parents. | 33 | |
You don't really mean that, do you? | Neutral 50 | My dad, he got himself fucked up, every chance he got. Always started with folk for no reason. {bitter} | 34 | |
Neutral 50 | Hell, he was the one who taught me to shoot. You know how? By taking potshots at NCR. And not just soldiers. Civilians, too. Even kids. {bitter} | 35 | ||
Neutral 50 | Then he'd get high with his buddies and swap tales about the folk they killed. Bunch of animals. {bitter} | 36 | ||
Neutral 50 | And my mom... couple times she tried to sell me to some waster, just to score some Jet. Even the other Khans said she was useless. {bitter} | 37 | ||
Neutral 50 | Only reason they kept her around was because she was a... how'd my dad say it... "a smokin' piece of ass." {bitter} | 38 | ||
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic012 | So your name... it comes from Bitter Springs. | Neutral 50 | In the Khans, you're not fully grown 'til you've taken a beat-down. Everybody gathers round and hits you until you're damn near dead. | 39 |
Neutral 50 | After that - if you haven't begged for mercy - you get to choose a new name. One you'll use for the rest of your life. | 40 | ||
Neutral 50 | When NCR slaughtered the Khans at Bitter Springs, I hadn't got my beat-down yet. I was still too young. | 41 | ||
Neutral 50 | Way I see it, Bitter Springs was my beat-down. So afterward... I gave myself a name. It's all I've got from the Khans, and it's all I ever want. | 42 | ||
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic013 | How did you survive the massacre? | Neutral 50 | Guess I could tell a pretty good story, if I had a mind. But the truth is, I don't know. Just got lucky. | 43 |
Neutral 50 | They brought me to Dhatri after the battle. He was just a Captain, back then. Guess he saw something in me... knew I didn't belong with the Khans. | 44 | ||
Neutral 50 | Maybe he felt bad, too. About how his men killed my folks. I told him he did me a service, but he didn't believe me. Still doesn't. | 45 | ||
Neutral 50 | He's a good man, Dhatri. Doesn't act like it sometimes, I know. But he didn't have to take me in. | 46 | ||
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic014 | You're not telling me something. You couldn't have forgotten the whole massacre. | Neutral 50 | It's like I tell Major Dhatri. Best not look under a rock, if you don't really want to know what's there. {player is getting into dangerous - and deeply hidden - territory} | 47 |
Neutral 50 | Could be that NCR found some blood on me, and none of it mine. Could be that a few of those Khans didn't die from NCR bullets. {player is getting into dangerous - and deeply hidden - territory} | 48 | ||
Neutral 50 | I had scores of my own to settle... deeper ones than NCR ever had. Don't bother asking who they were with. {player is getting into dangerous - and deeply hidden - territory. Might have been his own parents that he killed.} | 49 | ||
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic015 | I really don't know. Come on, Sergeant, you can tell me. | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] No. What's it matter to you? Why's everybody care so much about other people's business? | 50 |
Neutral 50 | Just leave it lie. And leave me be. | 51 | ||
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic016 | Never mind. Forget I mentioned it. | Neutral 50 | Okay. I will. Guess that's something I'd rather not talk about, that's all. | 52 |
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic017 | Goodbye. | Neutral 50 | All right. Goodbye. {quiet, disinterested} | 53 |
VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic020 | I'm trying to get Corporal Betsy to go see a doctor. I heard you saw Usanagi yourself. | Neutral 50 | 10 of Spades really ought to keep his mouth shut, but he's right. There were a lot of things in my past I just couldn't leave behind. | 54 |
Neutral 50 | It helped. {grudgingly} A little. Well, more than a little. Betsy ought to pay a visit to Usanagi since it can't hurt none. | 55 |
Conversation
TOPIC | TOPIC TEXT / PROMPT | EMOTION | RESPONSE TEXT | # |
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GOODBYE | Goodbye. | Neutral 50 | All right. Goodbye. | 56 |