| 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}
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| 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}
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| GREETING
| Neutral 50
| {In position} {quietly warning, it's a combat situation} Eyes sharp, now.
| 3
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| GREETING
| Anger 5
| {Nephi dead, Bitter-Root got a hit} Wish I'd gotten a bullet in that Fiend...
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| 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}
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| GREETING
| Neutral 50
| {Gorobets dead} I've never lost a {see-OH: commanding officer} CO before. It doesn't feel right.
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| GREETING
| Neutral 50
| Didn't think you'd be back. What's this about? {quietly suspicious of player}
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| VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic000
| Not too friendly, are you?
| Neutral 50
| Guess not. I don't mean nothing by it.
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| Me, I'm here to do my job. For now, that job is shootin' Fiends.
| 10
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| 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.
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| 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}
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| It's a long story. And I'd get tired of talking before it was through.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| I like to keep things simple. Just focus on now. That's why they made me a sniper.
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| 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.
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| 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}
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| 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.}
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| Neutral 50
| I figured I grew up around the bastards... they owed me a name, after all they put me through. {quietly bitter}
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| 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}
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| 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}
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| Neutral 50
| Used to have a settlement up at Bitter Springs, 'til they pissed off NCR and got slaughtered for their trouble. {bitter}
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| 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.}
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| 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.
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| 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}
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| Neutral 50
| My damn parents, too. They were just as bad as the rest.
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| VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic009
| I've heard enough. Let's talk about something else.
| Neutral 50
| Yeah. That's probably best.
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| 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}
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| Neutral 50
| Best thing that ever happened to my parents, too. They were as bad as the rest. Worse, maybe. {thinks he means it}
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| VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic011
| You don't really mean that, do you?
| Neutral 50
| Don't I? Mister, you never met my parents.
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| You don't really mean that, do you?
| Neutral 50
| Don't I? Beg pardon, ma'am, but you never met my parents.
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| 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}
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| 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}
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| Neutral 50
| Then he'd get high with his buddies and swap tales about the folk they killed. Bunch of animals. {bitter}
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| 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}
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| 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}
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| When NCR slaughtered the Khans at Bitter Springs, I hadn't got my beat-down yet. I was still too young.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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.}
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| 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?
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| Neutral 50
| Just leave it lie. And leave me be.
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| 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.
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| VFreeformMcCarran31ESergeantBitterRootTopic017
| Goodbye.
| Neutral 50
| All right. Goodbye. {quiet, disinterested}
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| 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.
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| 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.
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