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This is a transcript for dialogue with Colonel James Hsu. |
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Topics
| TOPIC | TOPIC TEXT / PROMPT | EMOTION | RESPONSE TEXT | # |
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| BitterSpringsTroopers | Captain Gilles at Bitter Springs needs reinforcements. Can you spare any? | Disgust 30 | {Baffled, this is a bizarre request} What? Why on earth would you think you can walk in here and make troop deployment recommendations to me? | 1 |
| Captain Gilles at Bitter Springs needs reinforcements. Can you spare any? | Happy 20 | I appreciate your concern for Bitter Springs. You've already been quite helpful to the NCR, I suppose it's only right to return the favor. | 2 | |
| Captain Gilles at Bitter Springs needs reinforcements. Can you spare any? | Happy 30 | {Thoughtful} Well, you have been a great help here, and with the saboteur dealt with... Yes, I think we can spare a few men. Consider it done. | 3 | |
| GREETING | GREETING | Neutral 50 | Anders showed up here not too long ago. I'm told you're the one who got him out of the vault. | 4 |
| Neutral 50 | I can't tell you how relieved I am. Sending him on that mission was a mistake. | 5 | ||
| GREETING | Neutral 50 | We're all impressed with the work you've done for us. I thought you might be able to make use of this. | 6 | |
| Neutral 50 | It's a key to a little hideaway south of here. We've used it as a place for Rangers to rest and resupply. I thought you might get good use out of it. | 7 | ||
| GREETING | Neutral 50 | I know who you are. I'm a patient man, but you'd better have a damn good reason to be standing here right now. Spit it out. | 8 | |
| GREETING | Neutral 50 | Look who it is. I haven't had the privilege, but I'm told you've been an angel on our shoulder. What can we do for you at Camp McCarran? | 9 | |
| GREETING | Neutral 50 | Well. I'm glad we could finally meet. My sources tell me you've done some good work for us. What brings you to Camp McCarran? | 10 | |
| GREETING | Neutral 50 | I'm usually good with faces, but I don't think I've seen you here before. What brings you to Camp McCarran? | 11 | |
| GREETING | Neutral 50 | What happened? | 12 | |
| GREETING | Neutral 50 | Yes, what is it? | 13 | |
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic000 | I'm here to provide support. Is there anything I might be able to help with? | Neutral 50 | Hmm... you don't cook by any chance, do you? Farber's doing his best, but it's hard to manage an army with half my staff in line for the latrine. {Wryly.} | 14 |
| Neutral 50 | Honestly, we're fighting a lot of fires right now. The Fiends keep pressing their position from Vault 3. {emphasize "a lot"} | 15 | ||
| Neutral 50 | We've got the Legion breathing down our necks across the river. We actually took an officer alive last week, but so far he hasn't spoken a word. | 16 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic001 | I'm up for hire if you need some extra manpower around the base. | Neutral 50 | There are a lot of things I can't spare troops for right now. If you can help us, we can definitely pay you for your work. | 17 |
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic002 | How are things going for the NCR around here? | Neutral 50 | Could be better, I'll say that much. | 18 |
| Neutral 50 | We set up here with our sights set on annexing New Vegas. That's a lot of resources that could do a lot of good for us. But that hasn't happened. | 19 | ||
| Neutral 50 | If anything, they annexed us. They rake in the profits from our soldiers and we're stuck protecting them from the Legion. Not exactly the plan. {emphasize slightly "they" and "us" to indicate it's the opposite of the expected outcome.} | 20 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic004 | The Fiends? | Neutral 50 | As in chem fiends. Biggest gang of raiders I've ever seen. Nothing like addiction to swell your numbers. Psychotic, and completely unpredictable. {Emphasize "chem."} | 21 |
| Neutral 50 | They've set up shop in Vault 3 to the west. Every day they attack our positions and my men repel them. | 22 | ||
| Neutral 50 | But every day there's more of them and less of us. I sent one of my rangers after their leader to try and destabilize them. He didn't return. | 23 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Hell of a thing, losing a ranger. You come to depend on them. And they come through for you so often, you forget it can happen. | 24 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic005 | I bet I could make the Legion prisoner talk. | Neutral 50 | I have Lieutenant Boyd on that already, and she's excellent. But I think she's hit a wall. | 25 |
| Neutral 50 | Talk to her, if you like. See if she has any use for you. | 26 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Her office is right above mine, but I think she might be interrogating right now. So she'd be upstairs on the other side of the building. | 27 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic006 | I could look into who's leaking NCR intelligence. | Neutral 50 | You? I think you've done enough. | 28 |
| I could look into who's leaking NCR intelligence. | Neutral 50 | Hmm... Well, why not? Given your recent arrival, at least I can safely rule you out as the leak. {agreeing} | 29 | |
| Neutral 50 | I'd like to have absolute trust in my men, but that's just not practical right now. Go ahead and look into it. See what you find. | 30 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic007 | Let's talk about something else. | Neutral 50 | Sure. I'm all ears. | 31 |
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic008 | I know who bombed the monorail. | Neutral 50 | What? Who? | 32 |
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic009 | You won't be having problems with intelligence leaks anymore. | Neutral 50 | No? What happened? | 33 |
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic011 | You seem calm given that things are as bad as they are. | Neutral 50 | Calm is what you have to be when people look to you. And it's all you can be when things are out of your hands. | 34 |
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic012 | [Speech] I've been fighting for the wrong side. Let me prove myself to you. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] I'll believe it when I see it. You've got one shot, and you're on a tight leash. I'll be watching. | 35 |
| [Speech] I've been fighting for the wrong side. Let me prove myself to you. | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] Forget it. We have no use for you here. | 36 | |
| [Speech] I've been fighting for the wrong side. Let me prove myself to you. | Neutral 50 | We don't have much to go on right now. Lately every raiding party in New Vegas seems to have a map of our troop movements. | 37 | |
| Neutral 50 | It derails everything. Supplies, reinforcements. And it'll only get worse, the longer we let it go on. | 38 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Captain Curtis is heading up the investigation right now. He can fill you in. | 39 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic013 | Private Crenshaw. He's dead now. | Neutral 50 | Crenshaw... I've met Crenshaw. At his disciplinary hearing. Still, this is hard to imagine - he was just a prankster. {Thinking. "At his disciplinary hearing" is damning evidence.} | 40 |
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic014 | He had explosives and plans for the operation bearing Caesar's emblem. | Neutral 50 | I was afraid of this. Caesar's reach is longer than anybody guessed. | 41 |
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic016 | [Speech] He confessed it to me before he died. He used the word "frumentarius." | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] That's what the Legion calls their spies. I was afraid of this. Caesar's reach is longer than anybody guessed. | 42 |
| [Speech] He confessed it to me before he died. He used the word "frumentarius." | Neutral 50 | If only we'd caught this sooner, before he got to the monorail... | 43 | |
| Neutral 50 | Still, this investigation has been valuable to us, and you deserve to be compensated for it. | 44 | ||
| Neutral 50 | The NCR appreciates the work you've done. Will there be anything else? | 45 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic017 | [Speech] He confessed it to me. Right before he died. | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] That's not exactly airtight. {disbelieving, angry} | 46 |
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic018 | You'd be surprised what some people are capable of. | Neutral 50 | That doesn't implicate Crenshaw any more than it does anyone else. | 47 |
| You'd be surprised what some people are capable of. | Neutral 50 | This isn't the resolution I was looking for when I assigned you to this. | 48 | |
| Neutral 50 | Given the dubious circumstances under which the confession took place, the NCR can't compensate you. | 49 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Ordinarily I'd have to arrest you for this. But we can hardly afford to waste resources in the wake of all that's happened. | 50 | ||
| Neutral 50 | I think your freedom is compensation enough for whatever it is you've done here, don't you? | 51 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic019 | I'll be right back - there's something I need to double-check. | Neutral 50 | I'll be waiting. | 52 |
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic020 | Motor-runner is dead. I brought his helmet as proof. | Neutral 50 | Unbelievable. That man has given us so much grief since we set up here. This may be a major turning point for us. {awestruck} | 53 |
| Neutral 50 | I can't tell you how many times we thought we'd taken him out, only to have him show up again later, taking more heads off of fallen troopers. | 54 | ||
| Neutral 50 | This is for the bounty. And this is from a pool me and a lot of the soldiers around the base had going. You may not be NCR, but hey, it's only fair. {emphasize the second "this."} | 55 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic021 | [Attack] I did. Right before I assassinated the colonel. | Neutral 50 | You're getting ahead of yourself. {defiant, about to pull his gun and start shooting at a guy} | 56 |
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic022 | It was Curtis. He's in the Legion. I can prove he tried to blow up the monorail. | Neutral 50 | Curtis? He's been in the NCR long before our conflict with the Legion. There's just no way... {incredulous} | 57 |
| Neutral 50 | I hope you're mistaken, but somehow I don't think so. It'd explain a lot. This is much worse than anyone expected. There could be others, too. | 58 | ||
| Neutral 50 | You've done everything that was asked of you. You have my personal thanks for this, and I'll make sure you receive the credit you deserve. | 59 | ||
| It was Curtis. He's in the Legion. I can prove he tried to blow up the monorail. | Neutral 50 | I'll have Curtis taken into custody. If he lets himself be taken alive, that is. | 60 | |
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic023 | I caught Curtis radioing intel to Caesar's Legion. I had to take him down. | Neutral 50 | Curtis? Something's not right. He came to me today saying he was worried about the monorail. Had me put him in charge of the inspection crew. {stunned by the name} | 61 |
| Neutral 50 | Listen, you've got to get to the monorail. If it's been sabotaged, we're completely crippled here. Go! | 62 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic024 | The monorail is destroyed. | Neutral 50 | Goddamn it! How could I have let this happen? | 63 |
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic025 | I don't understand how you could be so careless with the life of a ranger. | Neutral 50 | I'd hoped he'd be able to slip past their security and be out before anyone knew he was there. | 64 |
| Neutral 50 | But I underestimated the Fiends. Should've known better, given the hell they've caused for us. | 65 | ||
| I don't understand how you could be so careless with the life of a ranger. | Neutral 50 | Regardless, what you did for Anders isn't something he or any of us around here take lightly. We're all glad to have him back. Thank you. | 66 | |
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic026 | You did the right thing. If you'd sent more, they'd have been killed. | Neutral 50 | That's probably true, but I wonder if I should've taken a different strategy entirely. | 67 |
| Neutral 50 | Although my options were certainly limited with most of our forces tied up garrisoning this place. | 68 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic028 | Ambassador Crocker said to come see you about the situation with the Kings in Freeside. | Neutral 50 | Ah, that. I'm surprised he didn't send you to Colonel Moore. That'd be her jurisdiction. | 69 |
| Ambassador Crocker said to come see you about the situation with the Kings in Freeside. | Neutral 50 | I've already received a communique from Colonel Moore saying that she's sent a squad down to Freeside. | 70 | |
| Neutral 50 | If you'd come to me first, I might have been able to do something. But at this point, my hands are tied. Sorry. | 71 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic029 | He said those were his official orders, but suggested seeing you anyway. | Neutral 50 | Because he's looking to avoid a bloodbath. I get it. He knows me. | 72 |
| He said those were his official orders, but suggested seeing you anyway. | Neutral 50 | All right. Moore's not gonna like it. But that's for Crocker to worry about. | 73 | |
| Neutral 50 | Go to the leader of the Kings and tell him that I'll make sure Freeside gets more water, power, and food as long as the violence there stops. | 74 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic030 | He said you might have a better way of dealing with the issue. | Neutral 50 | Well, I do get to make the calls on the distribution of supplies there. | 75 |
| Neutral 50 | Crocker was probably counting on me being able to offer the Kings a carrot. And that's what I'm inclined to do. | 76 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic031 | The ambassador didn't think Colonel Moore would handle the situation correctly. | Neutral 50 | Moore's got her hands full right now, and she's not a subtle person in the best of times. Her solution would be quick and dirty. | 77 |
| Neutral 50 | I agree with Crocker that a more peaceful solution is preferable, especially for the long term. | 78 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic032 | Any other problems? | Neutral 50 | Yeah. On top of everything else, I can't send a patrol on a bathroom break without it being ambushed by someone who heard they were coming. | 79 |
| Neutral 50 | So somebody's getting the word out. | 80 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic033 | Where does that leave you? | Neutral 50 | Now we're trying to secure the Strip and the Dam at the same time, and it's costing us. | 81 |
| Neutral 50 | And in the meantime General Oliver won't approve any offensive maneuvers because he doesn't want to risk losing our positions. | 82 | ||
| Neutral 50 | So we're in a holding pattern here. And Caesar's on the other side of the river, planning. | 83 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic034 | What's Camp McCarran's role in NCR operations? | Neutral 50 | It's our main base. We took it because it lets us keep an eye on the Strip. And it had already been fortified before the Great War. | 84 |
| Neutral 50 | From here we handle most of the logistics for our operations in Nevada. Troop allocation, supply distribution, intel. | 85 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Usually General Oliver runs the show here, but he's on his way to the Dam now, so I've taken on a lot of his duties here. | 86 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic035 | Are things mostly quiet between here and the Dam? | Neutral 50 | Unfortunately, no. In fact, the word from the Ranger stations has been especially concerning lately. | 87 |
| Neutral 50 | It sounds like they've run into overwhelming resistance, and supplies just aren't reaching them. | 88 | ||
| Neutral 50 | It's been so bad I asked Sergeant Reyes at Camp Forlorn Hope to look into it and see how it is that things could be so fouled up there. | 89 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic036 | What challenges does the NCR face here? | Neutral 50 | Everything was going according to President Kimball's plan at first. We met minor resistance from local troublemakers. | 90 |
| Neutral 50 | But our two main objectives are still contested. Mr. House controls the Strip and he won't so much as meet with our ambassador. | 91 | ||
| Neutral 50 | And we're holding Hoover Dam, but Caesar's Legion is positioning itself to overrun it. If it falls, so will New Vegas. We'd be forced to withdraw. | 92 | ||
| VMS08ColonelHsuVault3Accept | I'll go to Vault 3 and see if I can find your ranger. | Neutral 50 | That Vault is a hornet's nest. If you have second thoughts, no one would think less of you for it. But if you can get him home, it'd mean a lot. | 93 |
| Neutral 50 | Watch for civilians, too. The Fiends have been kidnapping locals. They just walk right into people's homes in the middle of the day and take them. | 94 | ||
| Neutral 50 | But the man you're looking for is Bryce Anders. Anders was trying to find the leader, Motor-runner. | 95 | ||
| Neutral 50 | You hear something like a chainsaw, you've found Motor-runner. Put a bullet in his head, and you'll have some new friends around here. {emphasize "his"} | 96 |
Conversation
| TOPIC | TOPIC TEXT / PROMPT | EMOTION | RESPONSE TEXT | # |
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| GOODBYE | Goodbye. | Neutral 50 | Bye. | 97 |
| HELLO | Hello | Neutral 50 | Something I can do for you? | 98 |
