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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?
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| I can't tell you how relieved I am. Sending him on that mission was a mistake.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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?
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| 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?
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| 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?
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| GREETING
| Neutral 50
| What happened?
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| GREETING
| Neutral 50
| Yes, what is it?
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| 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.}
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| Neutral 50
| Honestly, we're fighting a lot of fires right now. The Fiends keep pressing their position from Vault 3. {emphasize "a lot"}
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic002
| How are things going for the NCR around here?
| Neutral 50
| Could be better, I'll say that much.
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| 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.
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| 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.}
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| 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."}
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| Neutral 50
| They've set up shop in Vault 3 to the west. Every day they attack our positions and my men repel them.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| Talk to her, if you like. See if she has any use for you.
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| 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.
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| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic006
| I could look into who's leaking NCR intelligence.
| Neutral 50
| You? I think you've done enough.
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| 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}
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| 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.
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| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic007
| Let's talk about something else.
| Neutral 50
| Sure. I'm all ears.
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| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic008
| I know who bombed the monorail.
| Neutral 50
| What? Who?
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| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic009
| You won't be having problems with intelligence leaks anymore.
| Neutral 50
| No? What happened?
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| [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.
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| [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.
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| Neutral 50
| It derails everything. Supplies, reinforcements. And it'll only get worse, the longer we let it go on.
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| Neutral 50
| Captain Curtis is heading up the investigation right now. He can fill you in.
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| 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.}
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| [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...
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| Neutral 50
| Still, this investigation has been valuable to us, and you deserve to be compensated for it.
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| Neutral 50
| The NCR appreciates the work you've done. Will there be anything else?
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| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic017
| [Speech] He confessed it to me. Right before he died.
| Neutral 50
| [FAILED] That's not exactly airtight. {disbelieving, angry}
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| Given the dubious circumstances under which the confession took place, the NCR can't compensate you.
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| I think your freedom is compensation enough for whatever it is you've done here, don't you?
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| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic019
| I'll be right back - there's something I need to double-check.
| Neutral 50
| I'll be waiting.
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| 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}
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| 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.
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| 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."}
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| 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}
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| 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}
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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}
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| Neutral 50
| Listen, you've got to get to the monorail. If it's been sabotaged, we're completely crippled here. Go!
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| VMS08ColonelHsuTopic024
| The monorail is destroyed.
| Neutral 50
| Goddamn it! How could I have let this happen?
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| But I underestimated the Fiends. Should've known better, given the hell they've caused for us.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| Although my options were certainly limited with most of our forces tied up garrisoning this place.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| I agree with Crocker that a more peaceful solution is preferable, especially for the long term.
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| So somebody's getting the word out.
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| And in the meantime General Oliver won't approve any offensive maneuvers because he doesn't want to risk losing our positions.
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| Neutral 50
| So we're in a holding pattern here. And Caesar's on the other side of the river, planning.
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| From here we handle most of the logistics for our operations in Nevada. Troop allocation, supply distribution, intel.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| It sounds like they've run into overwhelming resistance, and supplies just aren't reaching them.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Neutral 50
| But the man you're looking for is Bryce Anders. Anders was trying to find the leader, Motor-runner.
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| 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"}
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