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This is a transcript for dialogue with Ulysses. |
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Topics[]
| TOPIC | TOPIC TEXT / PROMPT | EMOTION | RESPONSE TEXT | # |
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| GREETING | GREETING | Neutral 50 | {Watching the perimeter of the temple, in combat} Not now. Let's settle things here. | 1 |
| GREETING | Neutral 50 | {Watching the perimeter of the temple} If we're done here, let's leave the Divide behind. If we get separated, I'll meet you above Hopeville, near the Canyon Wreckage. | 2 | |
| GREETING | Neutral 50 | {Remarked} Full circle, walked your road - now back again. | 3 | |
| GREETING | Neutral 50 | {Keep low-key, this line will be heard a lot} Something else in you needing an answer? | 4 | |
| GREETING | Neutral 50 | 5 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04EDETopic079 | Neutral 50 | You may not know my voice, but we've walked the same places. The Long 15 to Primm... that wasn't the only road you ever walked.{No Sound File} | 6 | |
| Neutral 50 | I've been to your home, the place you kept returning to... may not be the place you were born, was the place you gave life to, same thing. | 7 | ||
| Neutral 50 | People forget couriers can keep communities alive... until the day they're gone, and their breath catches in their throat. | 8 | ||
| Neutral 50 | For now, eyes alert, watch the streets below. There's still life in the Divide - threats other than the storms and wind... new inhabitants.{No Sound File} | 9 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04EDETopic126 | Anger 50 | Heard tales of you walking the Mojave. Casting off your disguise... yet you carried that Chip, determined to take it to Vegas... not Caesar.{No Sound File} | 10 | |
| Disgust 50 | You and that Chip deserve each other, 29 fewer coins than other traitors have carried, by history's mark. | 11 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04EDETopic127 | Neutral 50 | {Commanding} For now - find the trigger for the warheads, buried in Hopeville. Use it to keep moving... and keep alive. | 12 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04EDETopic128 | Neutral 50 | They'll start emerging throughout the Mojave in time, might be years. Probably less.{No sound file} | 13 | |
| Neutral 50 | They breed fast, hunt in groups, more than enough to bring down the strongest in the Mojave. Once they draw blood... | 14 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Seen them tear apart Deathclaws... Deathclaw might get some, but the rest will swarm it, tear it apart, like Denver hounds. | 15 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04EDETopic129 | Neutral 50 | Walked the East, too, before the Bull came. Then... much like the Mojave before the Bear... tribes, towns, clutching to life. Bull did a better job. | 16 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic000 | Maybe you better tell me who you are, and what you want. | Neutral 50 | {Slow, cold} I'm a courier. {Beat} Courier Six... was Courier Six. Like you - and {emph} not like you, in all the ways that matter.{No sound file} | 17 |
| Anger 50 | {Low, slight threat} Spent too many years looking for you - now, letting you come to me. | 18 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Thought carrying that Chip would end you, no... you got lives in you, hard to kill. Storms, bullets... sand and wind, yet still you walk. For now. | 19 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic001 | How are you speaking through ED-E? | Neutral 50 | {Disgust} The idea of a machine bearing a message new to you? Thought that was how House relayed all his messages... {disdain} through his robots.{No sound file} | 20 |
| Last I heard, Legion didn't use machines as mouthpieces to hide from their enemy. | Neutral 50 | {"You're hiding behind a machine," and Ulysses isn't sure what the player means at first} The machine... the robot. No, not Legion... less history than that.{No sound file} | 21 | |
| How are you speaking through ED-E? | Neutral 50 | {Frowns} The robot with {emph} you... {Beat, explains, disgust, hates ED-E} all of them are machines - radios, Old World tech reshaped with new hands. Historians. Couriers, carrying messages.{No sound file} | 22 | |
| Neutral 50 | Seen them as I've walked the Divide, tending other machines. {Frowns} That one... sealed inside the Hopeville silo. {Beat to himself} Sign America is waking up. | 23 | ||
| Anger 50 | {Cold, authoritative, hates ED-E} It will follow you, obey you. {Beat, low} Carry it until we are face to face, then there'll be no more need for it to carry {emph} my words. | 24 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic002 | The damage here looks like it was caused by underground detonations - on a scale I've never seen. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} [SUCCEEDED] America sleeps in the Divide - giants, beneath the earth. You saw one locked in the silo beneath you. {Beat, cold} There's more.{No sound file} | 25 |
| Neutral 50 | {DUPE} Only takes a few of them, locked below ground, to tear apart the earth... and cast dust, sand... ash... into the skies above. | 26 | ||
| There's something left down there? Town looks like it was bombed. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} [FAILED] Wasn't always like this. Old World wreckage's nothing new... after that, something you had your hand in - you'll walk it soon enough.{No sound file} | 27 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic003 | What is this place? | Neutral 50 | The Divide... this place is a slice of it. Old military. Can still smell the pride - and the fear.{No sound file} | 28 |
| Neutral 50 | {Introspective} Hope of the Old World, wrapped in fencing, covered in storm. Got new inhabitants now other than ghosts, more recent... recruits. | 29 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic004 | Are those the bodies I saw in the silo? The soldiers that look like they'd been flayed? | Neutral 50 | If you saw their corpses, you saw mercy. Got what they deserved, coming to the Divide.{No sound file} | 30 |
| Neutral 50 | The Bear and Bull - NCR, Legion - came in waves. Before. And after. Right into the invisible fires... the wind, ground... collapsing beneath them. | 31 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Once under different flags, now they are equal in their hatred of the trespassers. You and I. | 32 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic007 | Enough talking. You went to a lot of trouble to lure me here, so let's get on with this. | Neutral 50 | {Cold, introspective} America sleeps ahead of you, its nightmares filled with quakes, storms. You'll need to find your own path.{No sound file} | 33 |
| Neutral 50 | That means waking America's spears up from their slumber. There's ways - warheads set off the collapse, {beat} warheads could open the gates again. | 34 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Challenge} You're resourceful. {Disgust for machine} That machine, robot with you - can help you find the warheads you need to destroy... {a little slower, quest object} and their trigger, the detonator. | 35 | ||
| Neutral 50 | The way ahead is below. The tools are there. The rest - up to you. | 36 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic009 | What were the creatures in the underpass? | Neutral 50 | Tunnelers. Predators that make their own roads beneath the ground here.{No sound file} | 37 |
| Neutral 50 | {Somber} Divide broke their sky, showed them the world above - and the scent of new prey. | 38 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Be a slower death for the Mojave than bombs and fire... but they'll come for its people, from where they least expect - below. | 39 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic010 | I'm not planning to go into the Divide after you. | Neutral 50 | No Courier would go to the Divide... but you will. And that's what sets us apart - we walk roads no other Courier will walk.{No sound file} | 40 |
| Neutral 50 | And for you... you'll want to see your home one last time, see what happened. | 41 | ||
| Neutral 50 | You're curious. You walk, leave ruin in your path... you can't leave alone. Still, the choice is yours... what I offer, it's the last I offer you. | 42 | ||
| Neutral 50 | I don't care if you walk the Divide. Turn, walk the Mojave, fight beneath the flags... but you'll wonder. | 43 | ||
| Neutral 50 | If you don't, the Divide will come to you, and the Mojave. That will be my message to you, like the message you had for me. | 44 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic011 | Fine. I'll find this trigger - then I'll come find you. | Neutral 50 | The Divide will send its worst against you - it may break you. We'll see if you're stronger.{No sound file} | 45 |
| Neutral 50 | Road gets rougher from here... {slight disdain} Courier. Left marks for you, colors'll tell the way - if you're smart. | 46 | ||
| Neutral 50 | They'll lead you to your home one more time, lead to the ending of it - {slow, cold} maybe remind you why you wander. | 47 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic012 | [Legion] Those Legionnaires in Hopeville wore Legion armor - and strange masks and blades. | Neutral 50 | {Quieter} You haven't seen enough of the Legion yet to see what they worship... what they hold on to, even after what happened to them.{No sound file} | 48 |
| Those Marked Men in Hopeville - some had strange masks and blades I'd never seen before. | Neutral 50 | They bear false versions of Legate Lanius' mask, the one Caesar fashioned for him. Thought it was an insult at first.... {to himself} know better now.{No sound file} | 49 | |
| Neutral 50 | It's shaped from Divide metal, not with care and strength, but with hate. Keeps them anchored. | 50 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Crude, effective - like the blades they carry, distant mirrors of their Legate. A symbol they can hold on to - while the Divide tears at them. | 51 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic013 | [NCR] Those soldiers in Hopeville... were once NCR, I'm sure of it. Why were they with the Legion? | Neutral 50 | {Quieter} You see true. Not scavengers... it's what they wore {slight beat} before this all happened.{No sound file} | 52 |
| Some of the flayed Hopeville soldiers looked like NCR... but fought beside others in Legion armor. | Neutral 50 | Pain makes for strange allies... the hate the Bear and Bull shared across the battlefield, now turned against the Divide. Few survived... intact.{No sound file} | 53 | |
| Neutral 50 | Many NCR were already here when the destruction happened. Keeping the route East open, in fear of Caesar. Fear of the Legion. | 54 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic014 | If this is the High Road... where does it lead? | Neutral 50 | At the end of the High Road lies Ashton - its silo. | 55 |
| Neutral 50 | {Disgust, hates ED-E} That {emph} machine with you, it can open it, wake it up, {quieter} like it did the one in Hopeville. | 56 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic015 | When you say, "slower death for the Mojave," you mean they're spreading out from the Divide. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Nod} Death'll come from below. {Frowns} In the Divide, need to watch the sky {emph} and ground... {Dismissive, shakes head} Mojave'll be easy prey for them. | 57 |
| What did you mean, "slower death for the Mojave?" | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] Mojave needs to survive itself first... does that, Tunnelers will be next on the list. | 58 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic017 | You wouldn't have recorded those messages if they didn't matter to you. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Hesitant} Maybe not. {Beat} Who's to say. | 59 |
| Neutral 50 | {Answers his own question, more to himself} You, perhaps. Found them, heard them after I cast them aside - maybe there was purpose in that. | 60 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet, downnote} If they matter... if history matters... we'll see at the end of the road. | 61 | ||
| So... what, they weren't that important then? | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] {Dismissive} Words lost to history. {Beat, to himself, as if trying to convince himself of this} Wouldn't have left them on the road otherwise. | 62 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic018 | I was never a Legion agent. | Neutral 50 | I know that now. Doesn't change what was done. The Legion who died here. | 63 |
| Neutral 50 | Even if you were Legion, you would answer for those deaths by Caesar's law. | 64 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic019 | I haven't listened to them all. If there's time, I will. | Neutral 50 | As I said before... it's of no consequence. Never intended you to find them, never intended you to {emph} hear them. | 65 |
| Neutral 50 | Questions in those tapes I still haven't found answers to. You won't be the one to give them. | 66 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic020 | If you saw this happen, then how did you survive? | Neutral 50 | {Disgust, bitter, implication is that he wanted to die there} Should've died there... but now that I know you live... {bitter} the machines here... {implied quotes} saved me. I was the only survivor, {to himself} or thought I was. | 67 |
| Neutral 50 | Your package, the message inside, awoke medical machines... close to the one that shadows you... began to build themselves, then others. | 68 | ||
| Neutral 50 | They only take what parts they find in the Divide, never roam beyond it - can't even leave the silos without a human to shadow, like hounds. | 69 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Maybe they saw the flag on my jacket, thought I was of America. If so, history saved me. A sign. | 70 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic022 | This canyon is miles long - maybe longer. Where can I find you? | Neutral 50 | At the end of the Divide, through the trenches and wreckage - that's where you'll find me. My new home, here, amongst dead men.{No sound file} | 71 |
| Neutral 50 | You and that {slight sneer at 'machine'} machine, keep your eyes on the tower that cuts the horizon... you'll find your way. Made it this far... not much farther to go. | 72 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic023 | What happened here? | Neutral 50 | You delivered a package. Had markings that matched those in the Divide. Not all... but enough. | 73 |
| Neutral 50 | Military markings, from some place the Bear had savaged in the West. {Beat, trying to draw player out here} Maybe seeing those markings on it reminded you of home... made you carry it. | 74 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic025 | Forget this. What do you want? | Neutral 50 | An ending. To this road, you and I. First, you need to find your way. At the end, I'll be waiting.{No sound file} | 75 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic026 | Inhabitants? It doesn't look like anyone's alive down there. | Neutral 50 | These new inhabitants... not natives... most of them. Came with duty, purpose... ready to kill each other. {Beat, a little quieter} The Divide was stronger.{No sound file} | 76 |
| Neutral 50 | {Introspective, cont} Left marks on them, too. Not Bear, not Bull - now... radiation's marked them, made them equal in history's eyes. | 77 | ||
| Neutral 50 | As vicious as the storms are, these shadows of Legion, of NCR - {"they are"} silhouettes of things to come. | 78 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic027 | [NCR] Those bodies in the silo were NCR soldiers... some special forces. | Neutral 50 | Might have been. Once. To the Divide they came... in the Divide, they rest.{No sound file} | 79 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic028 | [Legion] The dead in the silo, some were Legion Frumentarii, scouts. Assassins. | Neutral 50 | Might have been. Once. To the Divide they came... in the Divide, they rest.{No sound file} | 80 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic029 | You were supposed to carry the Chip? | Neutral 50 | Meant to? No. Never. {Emph} Your burden.{No sound file} | 81 |
| Neutral 50 | Weigh you down long enough to let death catch up to you... but you survived. | 82 | ||
| Neutral 50 | There was death in that package, and while the Chip is important to Old World ghosts... no, you are more dangerous than that Chip ever could be. | 83 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Reflective} Maybe why you found each other, little piece of the Old World, speaking to you, waiting for you to wake something else up with it. | 84 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic030 | We've never spoken before - I'd remember your voice. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] Words aren't the only way couriers meet... sometimes it's the paths we walk. But no... we've never spoken before now.{No sound file} | 85 |
| It sounds like you know me, but I've never met you. | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] {Disgust, slight dismissive} I know you. What we have in common, though, isn't in the words we traded.{No sound file} | 86 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic031 | So you refused to deliver the Chip - what, to set me up to die? | Neutral 50 | {Cold} We {emph} all have death following us, only a question of how close. You dodged it - for a time. {Disdain} You're good at that, talent for it.{No sound file} | 87 |
| Neutral 50 | With that Chip weighing you down... a burden, lets death move a little faster without me pulling the trigger. | 88 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic032 | If you wanted me dead, why did you wait? | Neutral 50 | Promises to keep. To others. And the Mojave's dangerous enough - left to the land, the land has its way.{No sound file} | 89 |
| Neutral 50 | If I wanted you dead, we would have met sooner. Not sure that's the way this ends. | 90 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Quieter} Might be that history needs to have its say. If not, then messages will do. | 91 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic035 | I've never seen corpses mutilated like that. | Neutral 50 | Even as the fires here burned them from within... the winds of the Divide tore their skin, exposed them... screaming... to the sky.{No sound file} | 92 |
| Neutral 50 | And just as the Divide tears at them, so they tear at each other, for sport - like some tribal scarification. {Beat, to himself, referring to Legion origins} Falling back to their history, maybe. | 93 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Quieter} No matter what they suffer... {Reflective} the radiation, fire of the Divide, sustains them. Makes them stronger. | 94 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic038 | If they've become ghouls, the radiation would strengthen them. Heal their wounds - not the scars. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} [SUCCEEDED] {Nods, agreeing} There's truth in your words, {and} in what I've seen of their tactics, movements - recovery. Those wounds - they couldn't live otherwise.{No sound file} | 95 |
| Neutral 50 | {DUPE} The Divide winds have torn the skin from many of them - {beat} may be the radiation is the only thing keeping them walking. | 96 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {DUPE} Make camp near silos... warheads. {Thinking to himself} No way to cleanse the radiation - makes them hard to kill there, have to draw them out. | 97 | ||
| The rads in this place seem like they would do more damage to them. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} [FAILED] They're more beasts than men now. They clutch at their pain as they clutch at their weapons... anchors them.{No sound file} | 98 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic039 | Radiation may keep them alive in areas so physically punishing, it would kill others - even ghouls. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Nods, agreeing} There's truth in your words, {and} in what I've seen of their tactics, movements - recovery. Those wounds - they couldn't live otherwise.{No sound file} | 99 |
| Neutral 50 | The Divide winds have torn the skin from many of them - {beat} may be the radiation is the only thing keeping them walking. | 100 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Make camp near silos... warheads. {Thinking to himself} No way to cleanse the radiation - makes them hard to kill there, have to draw them out. | 101 | ||
| Why would they want to stay here if this place is killing them? | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] They're more beasts than men now. They clutch at their pain as they clutch at their weapons... anchors them.{No sound file} | 102 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic040 | Area looks like it was hit with earthquakes... or underground detonations. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] America sleeps in the Divide - giants, beneath the earth. You saw one locked in the silo beneath you. {Beat, cold} There's more.{No sound file} | 103 |
| Neutral 50 | Only takes a few of them, locked below ground, to tear apart the earth... and cast dust, sand... ash... into the skies above. | 104 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Slight accusation} You'll see the extent - the miles of it, soon enough. You need to see it... walk it. | 105 | ||
| What's here? This place looks wrecked. | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] Wasn't always like this. Old World wreckage's nothing new... after that, something you had your hand in - you'll walk it soon enough.{No sound file} | 106 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic043 | Other Marked Men had NCR gear - and they weren't carrying masks or blades. | Neutral 50 | For the two-headed Bear... NCR... they don't have symbols in the same way Legion does.{No sound file} | 107 |
| Neutral 50 | They revere their mines and explosives, guns... {emph} that is their religion - {disgust} death from afar, take pride in it. | 108 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic044 | So you're the one who sent the radio message - Ulysses. | Neutral 50 | {Conceding to player's request, a little less challenging. "My name is..."} Not my given name, close enough.{No sound file} | 109 |
| Neutral 50 | Took it from history, found it in a book. It's an Old World name. | 110 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Ulysses lived a long time ago, long before the Old World set fire to itself. He made a mark without being myth. | 111 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Had to fight during a time when his world had two flags, and he had to make them one. | 112 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic045 | "Ulysses." Not the myth. You're honoring history, not stories. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Conceding to player's request, a little less challenging. "Is this about history?"} History. Yes.{No sound file} | 113 |
| Neutral 50 | Ulysses walked a hard road. A general, like Caesar and Oliver. He was Brahmin-stubborn, gave him strength on the battlefield. | 114 | ||
| Neutral 50 | He led his side to victory, turned two flags into one. {Frowns} That's when {emph} he lost - when the fighting was done, the sickness took hold. | 115 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Lesson there, if history's to be believed. One you should heed. | 116 | ||
| Ulysses... that sounds like a Legion name... a Legion hero? | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] {Disdain} Search history, might find meaning in it.{No sound file} | 117 | |
| Neutral 50 | It's just a name - you have {emph} no idea who I am. {Beat, dismissive} You'll know by the end. | 118 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic046 | You chose Ulysses because of the "two flags" reference - is that tied to the war in the Mojave? | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Conceding to player's request, a little less challenging. "This is about the war, right?"} War. Call it that. {Correcting, Emph} Our part in it.{No sound file} | 119 |
| Neutral 50 | Ulysses wasn't made for the flag he followed. He wasn't made for peace. That's the lesson. | 120 | ||
| Neutral 50 | If you follow a symbol to the end, ask yourself what that means. More important, ask what happens {emph} after the end. | 121 | ||
| So... this is about fighting? Or...? | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] {Emph} Fighting? {Disdain} Yes... but different weapons than you're used to.{No sound file} | 122 | |
| Neutral 50 | You're wasting time. Stalling. Won't help you. | 123 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic047 | You brought me here to talk. If you wanted to kill me, you'd have waited until I came for the Chip. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Slight sneer} No... no, I couldn't. And I'm thinking you can't kill me, either. If you did, you'd answer for it, just as I would.{No sound file} | 124 |
| Neutral 50 | {Cold} Let the land do the killing for you, that's one of the things you taught me. | 125 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Killing is personal - so's vows, promises. Last bit's more important to me than the first. | 126 | ||
| Look, we don't need to fight about this - we can talk this out, right? | Disgust 50 | [FAILED] {Disgust, dismisses player} Talking... words won't settle this. The Road will. And the end.{No sound file} | 127 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic048 | Wait... so you swore not to kill me? Why? | Neutral 50 | {Smile/sneer} What kind of world would this be if Courier killed Courier.{No sound file} | 128 |
| Neutral 50 | You've got enough distance ahead of you - save your breath for the road, don't waste it on words. | 129 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic050 | Forget your name. Back to the job you refused. | Disgust 50 | {Disdain, dismissive} All right... Courier. If the why of it matters to you.{No sound file} | 130 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic051 | Brothers? So - you're Legion, too. | Neutral 50 | I hold Legion to be my brothers... even as misguided as they are. And you... more so than most.{No sound file} | 131 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic052 | A woman in the Legion surprise you? | Neutral 50 | It's not Legion - the Legion I know, but they change, even in small ways as they march West, with every tribe they break. | 132 |
| Disgust 50 | {Dismissive} But yes... last I heard, you needed a weapon between your legs to carry one for Caesar. | 133 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic053 | Is that why you're not Legion anymore, then? | Neutral 50 | {Slight surprise} What do you m... {"mean," then chuckles} I see the way of it. Have fight in you, at least. Save it for the road ahead.{No sound file} | 134 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic055 | Is New Vegas's power a threat to you? | Disgust 50 | {Dismissive} Power isn't strength. Power can wall off someone, when they {slight emph} believe it's freed them.{No sound file} | 135 |
| Neutral 50 | House's power... {Beat, lets it go} you've seen the wall around Vegas. He gains more power, that wall will grow. The Mojave'll become Vegas. | 136 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Little quiet, as if speaking of a haunted graveyard} But it's more lights than strength. You'll see the way of it soon enough. | 137 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic057 | You have a lot of hate for NCR. That kind of hate isn't new in the Mojave. | Neutral 50 | No... not new. And not new among all those in the shadow of the Bear.{No sound file} | 138 |
| Neutral 50 | {Frowns} You know their flag, a bear with two heads. Symbol's an Old World one, had one head then, better off for it. | 139 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Their flag speaks to their spirit. They're split like any two-headed animal, trying to go in different directions, ending up nowhere. | 140 | ||
| Neutral 50 | In the Mojave, that'll only get you sand between your fingers - or over your grave. | 141 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic058 | You've got a better way? | Neutral 50 | Yes. And any Courier could tell you the same, see it everywhere. The Bear...{No sound file} | 142 |
| Neutral 50 | ...Bear's too busy carving up the Mojave with knives, roads, borders, and how things {emph} should be to see how it {emph} is. | 143 | ||
| Neutral 50 | They're stretched thin, can't protect their frontlines, their towns, think paper's power, radio means control - all of it, useless. | 144 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic059 | At least they're trying to help the Mojave. | Neutral 50 | Trying doesn't hold much weight with me. Legion doesn't {emph} try to kill people, they do it. The Bear kills people trying to {emph} protect them.{No sound file} | 145 |
| Disgust 50 | Irony's sharp. And Legion... their flag may be old, but it's not at war with itself. | 146 | ||
| At least they're trying to help the Mojave. | Neutral 50 | No matter now. Bear couldn't hold the Divide. | 147 | |
| Neutral 50 | You and that machine, are all that remains of NCR here... {quieter, to himself} rest fell to radiation, fire... and what burrows below. | 148 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic060 | We're too far from Vegas to argue perspective on it. | Neutral 50 | {Judging} Maybe that's why you chose Vegas... the lights can blind, make people forget themselves. Their convictions - vows. {No sound file} | 149 |
| Neutral 50 | Not going to waste time trying to make the blind see. {Beat} Took a chance coming here - same as I did. Now we'll see how it plays out. | 150 | ||
| I'm not interested in your politics. | Neutral 50 | Maybe not. Maybe that's why you fell in with the Bear in the first place - can't see what you're following. | 151 | |
| Neutral 50 | Not going to convince a deaf man with words. Shown strength coming in here - if strength's what you respect, then you belong East of the Colorado. | 152 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic061 | As obsessed as you are about history, the future's what I prefer. | Neutral 50 | {Disdain} Your future with House has two roads. The road the tribals in Vegas walked... their spirits crushed... | 153 |
| Neutral 50 | ...or your face on a robot servant, smiling forever in a dead casino. There's future in neither. | 154 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic063 | What do you have against Vegas? | Neutral 50 | Vegas is Old World, filled with Old World ghosts. {Beat, slightly ominous} And ghosts need the living to do their work. | 155 |
| Neutral 50 | That's why the families are there, why the Bear stumbles there to lose itself. It's a dance, I don't know its purpose. | 156 | ||
| Neutral 50 | You've been, you've seen the Wall. It's what's inside that worries me. | 157 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic065 | What did you mean before, "it's a dance?" | Neutral 50 | {Frowns} That's the wrong word. "Theater" is better - the families, the Bear all on a stage. | 158 |
| Neutral 50 | House. He's the one watching. {Suspicious} The why... you'd know better than I would. If you don't - you will. | 159 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic066 | Vegas is one of the safest places in the Mojave, and that gives me hope. | Neutral 50 | You've been, you've seen the Wall. Safe? No... what's inside - that's what worries me. | 160 |
| Neutral 50 | Inside, Old World's waking up. No facts or history I've heard tells me that city ever went to sleep, and that makes me think. | 161 | ||
| Neutral 50 | The blue of the Mojave skies - isn't like the rest of the world. Don't hear a Geiger ticking there, more to fear from predators than rads. | 162 | ||
| Neutral 50 | The city - the whole Mojave, wasn't hit by bombs. Been my call, Vegas would be one of the first pieces of the Old World to burn. | 163 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Someone protected it. Wasn't chance, wasn't luck. Something larger - yet they let the rest of the world suffer. And they'll do it again. | 164 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic067 | Tribes? You mean the Vegas families? | Neutral 50 | Families of Vegas were once tribes. Got drunk on the Vegas lights, the spirit bled out of them. Old World history, under a different flag. | 165 |
| Neutral 50 | Whatever traditions or rituals they had, most likely squeezed out of them by now, turned into something else. | 166 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {To himself} And if not, then I'm afraid what's going to happen when they come creeping back. | 167 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic068 | House is more pragmatic than you might think. | Neutral 50 | {"I"} Believe that. Vegas runs, I've seen what it's done to those who oppose it. And I've seen its messengers. | 168 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic069 | I doubt you've ever met House. | Neutral 50 | No... only seen his works. Those he's broken with light and gold. His messengers. | 169 |
| I doubt you've ever met House. | Neutral 50 | But everything in Vegas speaks of someone who can't let go. | 170 | |
| Neutral 50 | House takes a shovel to history's graves, props up the dead, then puts words in their mouths. The tribes don't even know how they were broken. | 171 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Cold, ominous} Not a world I want to be part of, going through motions until we're all smiling faces on some robot's screen. | 172 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic071 | The Mojave is behind us. I want to know what's ahead. | Neutral 50 | The High Road... not the Divide yet, many more miles to walk. But you got this far. {Disgust, hates ED-E} You and that machine that shadows you. | 173 |
| Neutral 50 | Wasn't sure if both of you'd make it - above, then below the underpass.{No sound file} | 174 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic072 | If we share history, then before going forward, I want to know the past. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Smiles} "Who are you, who do not know your history?" | 175 |
| Neutral 50 | You came all this way for answers. Only currency I have, nothing else to be gained - {you} could turn around, walk away at any time. | 176 | ||
| Neutral 50 | If history matters to you... you'll need to earn it. {To himself, this is a hint} Any logs of mine I have already cast away in the Divide, they're lost to you. | 177 | ||
| Wait... there's more I wanted to talk about. About... all this. | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] {Dismissive} You want to know more, keep walking. | 178 | |
| Neutral 50 | I'll give answers as you go. {Beat, warning} Not before. | 179 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic074 | [Legion] You've been to Denver? That's Legion territory. | Neutral 50 | Mojave and the Divide aren't the only places I've walked. | 180 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic075 | Denver hounds? Denver's far to the East - Legion territory. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] Mojave and the Divide aren't the only places I've walked. | 181 |
| Denver? What's that? | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] Another city fallen to nations, in the east... not important. {Dismissive, player isn't much of an outdoorsman} Doubt you'll ever walk that far, you'd need the land to sustain you. | 182 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic076 | Radiation from the War might have created them. Then detonations, quakes, caused them to surface? | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Nod} Makes sense. Truth favors that, matches the history of this place. | 183 |
| Neutral 50 | {Reflective} Were signs they were here for a long time, before Marked Men, before what happened to the Divide cracked their sky. | 184 | ||
| Neutral 50 | If so, they were buried deep. Might have been born the day America's embers started to settle. {To himself} Seen worse things twisted by radiation. | 185 | ||
| Are you saying... they were here before all this destruction? | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] {Dismissive} Don't know the history of them - only their patterns, how they hunt. | 186 | |
| Neutral 50 | {Dismissive} Still, takes a long time for such patterns to develop. A longer history than what happened here. | 187 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic078 | You keep saying that, as if you know where I was born - you don't. | Neutral 50 | Home isn't where you're born into this world. You taught me that. Part of your message, whether you meant it or not. | 188 |
| Neutral 50 | {Reflective} Can be a place of mind, a moment where you know who you are, the history of it. {Beat, back to player} And they can be places you breathe life into. | 189 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic079 | Neutral 50 | Never would have known the Divide had it not been for you. {Deliberate, slow, little anger here} The road you made with your tracks, again and again. | 190 | |
| Neutral 50 | {Thinking} You were the only one willing to make the journey to and from here... a hard road. Kept the land before the Divide alive through seasons, storms... | 191 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {trying to convince himself} {emph} ...can't have been just a job. {Accusing} Was something more to you. Don't feel for a place that hard unless it's home. | 192 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic080 | The why of it? You're the one who needs to answer that - why are you doing this? | Neutral 50 | {Slow anger, being cagey here, doesn't want to show hand} Want to hear the answer of it. Not just history's answer... your answer for what happened here. | 193 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic081 | I've walked a lot of hard roads, Mojave and before. Doesn't mean anything. | Neutral 50 | {Anger} It means {emph} everything - even if you {emph} deny it, cast it aside, that speaks to what you are, {emph} proves what happened here. | 194 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic083 | You're crazy. Your head's messed up worse than the Divide. | Neutral 50 | {Cold, judging, low} And you've forgotten. Forgotten everything. {Beat, emph} Careless, as careless with futures then as you are now in the Mojave. | 195 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic084 | Whatever you believe happened, you have it wrong. | Disgust 50 | {Raises an eyebrow, contempt} Wrong? {Beat} No, I know the truth of it. | 196 |
| Whatever you believe happened, you have it wrong. | Neutral 50 | It was you walking that road that kept the Divide alive. It grew from what you did. Settlers... camps... filling that Old World city. | 197 | |
| Neutral 50 | {To himself} Chance for a new nation, new beginning. New way of thinking. | 198 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Bitter} Could've breathed new life into the Mojave, bridging East, West. Like Hoover Dam... but not Old World, something {emph} you made. Road was a supply line. | 199 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic085 | You're still making assumptions about all this. | Neutral 50 | No, recounting history. | 200 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic086 | There is no other supply line to the Mojave beyond the Long 15. | Neutral 50 | {Scoffs} Not any more. If one existed, the two-headed Bear would have claimed it. And it tried to. | 201 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic087 | Maybe you should tell me what happened. | Neutral 50 | NCR saw the worth in that road you made. {Disgust} Staked a claim, whether it was wanted there or not - {just like itâs} true elsewhere in the Mojave. | 202 |
| Neutral 50 | And where the Bear tries to cling to life, the Legion comes... bearing messages. Some brought by blade. Others... by Couriers. | 203 | ||
| Neutral 50 | You knew what was coming, as sure as I know what's coming for you. | 204 | ||
| Neutral 50 | This time {emph} you carry the burden. {Beat} Walk west into the sun, and keep walking until it dies. {Beat} There - I'll be waiting. | 205 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic088 | You've been to Denver? That's Legion territory. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} Mojave and the Divide aren't the only places I've walked. | 206 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic090 | You said I brought it from the West? | Neutral 50 | {Let a little bit of rage creep in here, this is what he hates} It was a device, a detonator. One I'd never seen before - {little quieter, to himself} or heard before. | 207 |
| Neutral 50 | {Emph} You carried that thing to the Divide. I know because I followed you as you walked the road, watched you do it. | 208 | ||
| Neutral 50 | You brought it here, to the community you built. And you are responsible for what happened after - when the device opened, started to speak. | 209 | ||
| Neutral 50 | When it did, the Divide answered back. {Beat} Those missiles you've seen, buried in their silos. | 210 | ||
| Neutral 50 | They exploded beneath the ground, cracked the landscape. Sand, ash... the dead... the Divide skies became a graveyard. | 211 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic091 | This package... I don't recall it. | Neutral 50 | It was from the West. From deep in NCR. Whether made by them or not... it came here. Through your hands. | 212 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic093 | I'm not to blame for Ashton, the Chip, or the Divide. | Neutral 50 | {Slow, building anger} All these roads, {emph} you walked. These packages you carried. Think it wasn't your choice? | 213 |
| I'm not to blame for Ashton, the Chip, or the Divide. | Neutral 50 | {Snarls} Of course it was your choice. {Beat} You could have stayed in the Mojave. But you {emph} chose to come, couldn't let be - not in you to let go. | 214 | |
| Neutral 50 | Came for no other reason than you were curious, restless - always have been. {Beat} Had to know the why of it - {Beat} now, I'll show you. | 215 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic094 | I'm not responsible for this, there's no way I could have known. | Neutral 50 | {Emph} If you had been there when it happened. {Beat, quieter} If you had {emph} seen the Divide break, you would know it. | 216 |
| Neutral 50 | You carry death wherever you go - if the Mojave doesn't know it yet, it will. | 217 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic095 | You can't be sure it was me. | Neutral 50 | No... I'm certain. What I hadn't known was that you still {emph} lived after the Divide. | 218 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic096 | I don't understand how a package could have done this. | Neutral 50 | You will. I'll show the Mojave, Bear and Bull the way of it. How Couriers can break nations. | 219 |
| I don't understand how a package could have done this. | Neutral 50 | What happened here... can happen again. {Quiet, slight smug} You've already proved it, what you did in Ashton. The silo there. | 220 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic097 | I had no idea the silo was active until the missile was in the air toward Hopeville. | Neutral 50 | Didn't stop you, though. Like carrying the Chip to Vegas, Old World death in your hand. | 221 |
| Neutral 50 | Pieces of the Old World like that just need someone careless enough to take them where they need to go, to do their killing. | 222 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic099 | I've had enough of this - whatever your game, I'm done. | Neutral 50 | {Cold} No, {emph} you are. Cut off your retreat, {emph} your supply line. Ashton missile, turned Hopeville into a furnace. | 223 |
| Neutral 50 | You could walk back. Still can - {slow} but the Divide will mark you, sickness will set in. | 224 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Not immediate, maybe, but in time. Slow burn, a little faster than before. | 225 | ||
| I've had enough of this - whatever your game, I'm done. | Neutral 50 | The way ahead and below - leads to the heart of the Divide. | 226 | |
| Neutral 50 | And there... you and I, we'll have an ending to things. | 227 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic101 | There's nothing to keep me from walking out of here and letting you rot. | Neutral 50 | Spent years looking for you. If you head back to the Mojave, it's like nothing's changed. Can live with that. Had to. | 228 |
| Neutral 50 | Wasn't sure if history would matter to you. If it doesn't, that answers my question. | 229 | ||
| Neutral 50 | If you turn your back on your home, so be it. I'll remain here in the Divide for you to return. And you will. | 230 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic102 | You wanted me to come to the Divide, I'm here. Now what? | Neutral 50 | Your road's not done. Haven't walked it full yet, not nearly enough. | 231 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic103 | On the High Road, you mentioned NCR and Legion fought here... before and after the Divide? | Neutral 50 | The two-headed Bear made its claim, dug its claws into the trail you made. For once, it seemed like it might succeed - cut a route to the Mojave. | 232 |
| Neutral 50 | Couldn't let NCR stay in the Divide. Trade route, road the military could use... can't have two roads into the Mojave. | 233 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {To himself} Not after the work we'd done to cut off New Canaan, other routes, killing caravans... all we'd done to make the West bleed. | 234 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic104 | I'm not done talking to you yet, there's more I want to know. | Neutral 50 | Already heard you once, long ago and loud enough for history to hear. Tired of your messages. | 235 |
| Disgust 50 | {Slight snide} Still - curiosity drove you this far. Let's see what else it can do. | 236 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic105 | That's what made the Legion come to the Divide. | Neutral 50 | {To himself, echoing Caesarâs orders} Caesarâs orders. {Emph} Every supply line gets cut, every community that feeds the Bear... cut its throat, starve the Mojave. | 237 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic106 | So you are part of the Legion. One of their scouts? Assassins? | Disgust 50 | {Echo, insulted} Assassin? {Beat, low anger} If killing needs to be done, I'll face my victims... not kill from a distance, like you. | 238 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic107 | This is the first I've heard of Legion coming this far West of the Colorado. | Neutral 50 | No, when they come this far, they aren't Legion. They walk as Couriers. Like we do. | 239 |
| Neutral 50 | And the Divide is the reason no Legion has been seen. None belong to Caesar. Not in this place. | 240 | ||
| This is the first I've heard of Legion coming this far West of the Colorado. | Neutral 50 | {Quieter} The ones that came... were following orders. | 241 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic108 | So what happened? | Neutral 50 | Bear made its shadow felt here, more than I could handle. Heavy guard, watchful. I watched, waited. | 242 |
| Neutral 50 | And as I watched, studied the people. The flag, markings. Thought perhaps... if I got rid of the Bear... what you had given life to might come again. | 243 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Waited too long. Hesitated. A Courier isn't meant to stay in one place for long. And then you came, with the package. History. | 244 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic109 | I'm not interested in the history of this, we're done talking. | Neutral 50 | All right. Done with words, then, won't get you where you need to go. | 245 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic111 | So the Legion doesn't know what happened here? | Neutral 50 | No, they don't know the history of it. So send others to find out, more to die... at the hands of their brothers the Divide has claimed. | 246 |
| Neutral 50 | {Bitter} It doesn't matter, the Bear's reach was cut off. Now only the Long 15 remains. Once that's finished, Mojave will be under the flag of the Bull. | 247 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic112 | How were you planning to attack the Divide? | Neutral 50 | Didn't know, but Couriers can travel anywhere. They make roads into places no one else will go, guarded or not. Was going to watch, see. | 248 |
| Neutral 50 | The Legion... thought it might get into the community through me, just as I'd found the way by following you. | 249 | ||
| Neutral 50 | But you struck first, shattered the ground, and let your home burn instead. Nearly killed me. And everyone here, walking or still. | 250 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic113 | I found some recordings from you on the road. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} The tapes... {Shrugs} didn't think those would be found... weren't worth the words anyway, not like I'd forget what happened. | 251 |
| Neutral 50 | {DUPE} Had the tech from the Big Empty, recorder a woman gave me... on its last legs, didn't survive the road. Cast it and the tapes aside. | 252 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {DUPE} If you heard them... they're of no consequence. Ramblings, reminders for a man who doesn't need them. | 253 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic114 | You wouldn't have recorded those messages if they didn't matter to you. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Hesitant} Maybe not. {Beat} Who's to say. | 254 |
| Neutral 50 | {Answers his own question, more to himself} You, perhaps. Found them, heard them after I cast them aside - maybe there was purpose in that. | 255 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet, downnote} If they matter... if history matters... we'll see at the end of the road. | 256 | ||
| So... what, they weren't that important then? | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} [FAILED] {Dismissive} Words lost to history. {Beat, to himself, as if trying to convince himself of this} Wouldn't have left them on the road otherwise. | 257 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic115 | In the logs... you mentioned a tribe called the Twisted Hairs - your tribe? | Anger 50 | {Anger} Twisted Hairs are dead, lost at Dry Wells, died in Vulpes' smile. Won't discuss their fate with you, not now - their past is {emph} mine to keep. | 258 |
| Neutral 50 | Walk farther, see me face to face - you might earn more. Now, let the words keep you without me adding to them. | 259 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic116 | The logs of the Big Empty mentioned you'd spoken to history. | Neutral 50 | {Slow, thinking back} I had, did. It was madness... asked them a question in anger. {Beat} Got an answer, more than I expected. | 260 |
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet, to himself} Answer told me what happened here at the Divide, the how of it, and that was enough. | 261 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Resolved, closing this up} The tape has the telling of it, don't need me adding to the questions already there. | 262 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic117 | I found some recordings from you in Hopeville. | Neutral 50 | {Surprised} The tapes... {slightly impressed} didn't think those would be found... you know the Divide better than I thought. | 263 |
| Neutral 50 | Had tech from the Big Empty, recorder a woman gave me... didn't survive the road, on its last legs. | 264 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Cast it and the tapes aside... weren't worth the words anyway, not like I'd forget what happened. | 265 | ||
| Neutral 50 | If you heard them... nothing but ramblings, reminders for a man who doesn't need them. {To himself} Probably more, lying from here to the Divide. | 266 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic118 | When we first spoke in Hopeville, you mentioned you'd sworn not to kill me. Why? | Neutral 50 | {Frowns, slight testing} You know the why of it. If you don't - I do, and that's enough. {To himself, quieter} Shows trust only walks so far West. | 267 |
| Neutral 50 | {Beat, gives in} Earned more than that, though, getting this far. {Beat} We walk the same road, carry the same colors. Can't break that by making the road red. | 268 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Want more than that, walk the Divide. Answers'll come, closer you get to home... you and that machine. | 269 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic119 | I found more recordings from you on the road. | Neutral 50 | {A little uncomfortable} You scavenge words. Things I have no need of, no history there worth recounting. | 270 |
| Neutral 50 | Scour the Divide, claw at it for meaning - but my words will give you no answer. | 271 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic120 | No, there's a pattern. The more I hear, the more I understand your history. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Cold, final} They won't help you understand what happened here. | 272 |
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet, slight anger} And they won't help you understand me. {Disdain} Keep them, listen, study them - they won't help you here in the Divide. | 273 | ||
| I... think they tell me... where you were. Things you did. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} [FAILED] {Dismissive} Words lost to history. {Beat, to himself, as if trying to convince himself of this} Wouldn't have left them on the road otherwise. | 274 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic121 | You're going after the Long 15? That's more miles than Legion can hold. | Neutral 50 | {Sneers, contempt} Won't {emph} hold it. Divide taught me you don't need to - just cut it off. | 275 |
| Neutral 50 | Then the Mojave will fall, Bear will starve, its flag will burn. It's spent too long dying, the Long 15 will end it. | 276 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic122 | I found some recordings from you on the road. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} The tapes... {Shrugs} didn't think those would be found... weren't worth the words anyway, not like I'd forget what happened. | 277 |
| Neutral 50 | {DUPE} Had the tech from the Big Empty, recorder a woman gave me... on its last legs, didn't survive the road. Cast it and the tapes aside. | 278 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {DUPE} If you heard them... they're of no consequence. Ramblings, reminders for a man who doesn't need them. | 279 | ||
| I want to talk more about your recordings I found here in the Divide. | Neutral 50 | {A little uncomfortable} You scavenge words. Things I have no need of, no history there worth recounting. | 280 | |
| Neutral 50 | Scour the Divide, claw at it for meaning - but my words will give you no answer. | 281 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic123 | You wouldn't have recorded those messages if they didn't matter to you. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Hesitant} Maybe not. {Beat} Who's to say. | 282 |
| Neutral 50 | {Answers his own question, more to himself} You, perhaps. Found them, heard them after I cast them aside - maybe there was purpose in that. | 283 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet, downnote} If they matter... if history matters... we'll see at the end of the road. | 284 | ||
| {DUPE}So... what, they weren't that important then? | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} [FAILED] {Dismissive} Words lost to history. {Beat, to himself, as if trying to convince himself of this} Wouldn't have left them on the road otherwise. | 285 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic124 | I've been collecting them. Listen to you talk about history enough, maybe I'll understand. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Cold, final} They won't help you understand what happened here. | 286 |
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet, slight anger} And they won't help you understand me. {Disdain} Keep them, listen, study them - they won't help you here in the Divide. | 287 | ||
| {DUPE}I... think they tell me... where you were. Things you did. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} [FAILED] {Dismissive} Words lost to history. {Beat, to himself, as if trying to convince himself of this} Wouldn't have left them on the road otherwise. | 288 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic125 | Before I go any farther, I deserve some answers. | Neutral 50 | {Acknowledging, slow} You've seen the Divide, walked it - farther than I thought you would. {Beat, to himself} Not sure how much farther you have in you. | 289 |
| Neutral 50 | If you need answers, speak. You've earned them... {to himself} even if only you and I can carry them from here. | 290 | ||
| There's more I need to know. | Neutral 50 | {Frowns} If I have the answers, you've earned them. | 291 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic126 | I want to know more about this package I delivered. | Neutral 50 | {Disdain} You know what it was. {Remembering} Had the symbols of America on it. New markings. From after the Great War. | 292 |
| Neutral 50 | {To himself} Thought it might be America come again. {Beat} Promise of another future. Another flag. | 293 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic127 | What's our history? How do you know me? | Neutral 50 | I knew {emph} of you, your name. Your road, to and from the Divide, what that meant for the Legion. | 294 |
| Neutral 50 | We never spoke, knew you through your actions. Knew you'd walked the West as I'd walked the East. Learned different lessons. | 295 | ||
| Neutral 50 | And I would never have discovered the Divide without you. | 296 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic128 | [Legion] You didn't kill me in Primm because you still thought I was Legion. | Neutral 50 | {To himself} Promises to keep. 'Courier shall not kill Courier.' Always - let them live, spread the word. | 297 |
| You said you made a promise not to kill me. Why? | Neutral 50 | Caesar's orders. Some time before I realized the why of it. {Beat} Wasn't just you. {Emph} All couriers. | 298 | |
| Neutral 50 | No telling how many were Legion. Maybe all of them. | 299 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Wasn't sure about you. Until the Divide... all the NCR burning... that much death, it bears the mark of a Legion hand. | 300 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Frowns} But you killed like NCR. Like Hanlon, with mines, bombs... missiles. Killed Legion along with the Bear. Like a coward, kills from a distance. | 301 | ||
| Neutral 50 | If you were Legion, then NCR beat you, the West changed you. | 302 | ||
| I don't understand why you didn't kill me in Primm. | Neutral 50 | {To himself} Promises to keep. 'Courier shall not kill Courier.' Always - let them live, spread the word. | 303 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic129 | But what was it? | Neutral 50 | {Slightly dismissive, like not important} It was a piece of machinery... military, holding memories, codes, maybe. {Frowns} When it woke, made these sounds... words. | 304 |
| Neutral 50 | {Somber remembering} When it spoke, the Divide became fire, the ground... tore apart like the skies. {Beat, this is the punchline} Through it all, kept calling out - maybe calling for home. | 305 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic130 | You have a lot of hate for the robot with me. I can hear it in your voice. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] Hate? No. There's nothing to hate in metal... steel, gold. {Bold} Or platinum. | 306 |
| Neutral 50 | {Disdain} Your machine... it's just a tool, made of wreckage of the Divide... {to himself} all that was brought here. | 307 | ||
| Something wrong? You sound... mad... at my robot. | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] {Disgust} When I speak in anger, {emph} Courier, you'll know it. {Dismissive, trying to play this down} Your machine? Worth no more hate than any {emph} other machine. | 308 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic131 | What do you mean, "when it woke?" | Neutral 50 | Machine couldn't speak by itself. Needed a terminal to access it... like the terminals in the silos here, or the machine with you. | 309 |
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet} When it was connected, it started speaking. And the Divide answered. | 310 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic132 | [NCR] NCR would have needed this supply line open to reinforce the Mojave - and Hoover Dam. | Neutral 50 | {Agreeing} The Dam. That Old World Wall. | 311 |
| [Legion] The Legion would want to cut this road off if it had been a supply line to Hoover Dam. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} {Agreeing} The Dam. That Old World Wall. | 312 | |
| What do you mean? | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} {Agreeing} The Dam. That Old World Wall. | 313 | |
| What do you mean? | Neutral 50 | The why of it. Hoover Dam. | 314 | |
| What do you mean? | Neutral 50 | The Bear, NCR, couldn't be allowed to reach it easily. Long 15... Canaan... both bad enough. | 315 | |
| Neutral 50 | {Disgust} Kimball, Caesar, House... you'd think their whole world was that wall, cutting the Colorado. {To himself} If I'd never laid eyes on it, never spoke of it... | 316 | ||
| Neutral 50 | ...but once found, it was all Caesar could see. That, and the flag beyond it, another symbol, big enough to challenge him. | 317 | ||
| Neutral 50 | And the Divide, one of the roads to it - Legion was tasked with cutting that artery. If you can't kill the Bear in one stroke, bleed it, starve it. | 318 | ||
| Neutral 50 | That kind of murder... it's what any of the {emph} Legion would have done. Now... the Divide belongs to history. | 319 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic134 | So you blame me for this? An accident? | Neutral 50 | {Anger, sneer} Blame? Accident? The names you hang on this... Courier... you carry death wherever you go, Mojave knows - or will. | 320 |
| Neutral 50 | I'll see you answer for this. The road doesn't end here, there's more to come, I swear to you. | 321 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic136 | So you're angry because I accidentally brought an explosive to the Divide? | Anger 50 | {Anger} Accident? Ignorance is a {emph} choice. The Chip - a choice. | 322 |
| Neutral 50 | {More to himself} As for anger... it is what I carry for the dead, and all that come here. | 323 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic137 | This is revenge for nearly killing you, then. | Neutral 50 | Not the name I'd give it. Not the name the dead would give it. | 324 |
| Neutral 50 | Soldiers of the Bear died here... Legion died, too, my brothers. Still dying, both of them, all around us. | 325 | ||
| Neutral 50 | None of the people that lived here survived... yet all of the West and the East, they hold on as the Divide tears at them. | 326 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Revenge isn't the message I have for you. More than that... Courier. | 327 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic138 | This package... you said it had markings? What was it? | Neutral 50 | Machinery. Simple on the outside, computer parts. Inside... more complicated. | 328 |
| Neutral 50 | Was the only time I'd heard a machine speak in the Divide, the only machine with a voice. | 329 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic139 | Why would I have brought it here? | Neutral 50 | I've walked the East. {Accusing} You've walked the West, more than I have. | 330 |
| Neutral 50 | Circle Junction. Reno. Vault City. Word of you at Fort Aradesh... Fort Abandon. Even further West than that, Brahmin drives on the Big Circle. | 331 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Whatever you saw out there, wasn't enough to make you stay. {Beat} Maybe the markings on the package reminded you of the road home. | 332 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic140 | Where is the package now? | Neutral 50 | {Slightly coy, knows where it is} Buried in the Divide. Part of it now. | 333 |
| Neutral 50 | Wherever it is, it's been silent... if it spoke again, we'd know. | 334 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic141 | [Legion] I didn't side with the Legion until the Mojave. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} I know that now. Doesn't change what was done. The Legion who died here. | 335 |
| Neutral 50 | {Slight threat} Legion doesn't know your history. I do. They find out what happened here, how many of their own died... {"they'll want justice"} they'll want an answer. | 336 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic142 | [Legion] I'll see that you answer for it. | Neutral 50 | {Disgust} Then Legion kills Legion. Farther you walk from the flag of the Bull, the more West creeps into you. | 337 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic143 | I'm no traitor, and when I walk, I don't hide my presence. | Neutral 50 | Legion wears many colors, East and West. You... maybe blinded by Vegas's light, or the promise of that Chip. | 338 |
| Neutral 50 | Or maybe you walked so far West, the Bear's sickness crept into you. We'll see. Your offenses before Caesar, the least of the crimes here. | 339 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic145 | Then you learned the wrong message. | Neutral 50 | {Smug, confident} Really. Who's to say the truth of it. You? No. You walked {emph} from this, turned your back on it. Now you and others will answer for it. | 340 |
| Neutral 50 | I'll start with the West. Let that burn. Then... if the East falters after, I'll bring the Divide there as well. | 341 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet} Burn away the flags. {Beat} Begin again. | 342 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic146 | You want the robot? Why? | Neutral 50 | {Taunt, derisive} It's a messenger. Like us... and it shares our history. | 343 |
| Neutral 50 | {Taunt, then cold, he's enjoying this} If you feel its loss... remember you could have turned away at any time. Gone back home, and none of this would have happened. | 344 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Taunt, edged} But you had to make one last delivery, and that's why I knew you'd come, Courier. Couldn't stay away, it's who you are. | 345 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic147 | What's so important about him? | Neutral 50 | What's {emph} inside that machine - that's all that mattered. All the machines here, made of wreckage from the Divide... and all that was brought here. | 346 |
| Neutral 50 | Inside its frame, it carries the message you brought here... and it'll do what it was programmed to do: {slow, pace this} whatever it can to get home. | 347 | ||
| Neutral 50 | The giants here will listen to it. I'll bring the Divide to your home, your nation. Let its flag burn, just like you let the Divide burn. | 348 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Speaking to console} Big Mountain access code... Ulysses. Command override... | 349 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Beat, quiet, like saying "launch" nukes} Navarro. | 350 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic148 | This road leads nowhere. There's nothing in the Divide. | Neutral 50 | Many in the Mojave think the Divide's nothing but canyon and storm. {Beat} Wasn't always. | 351 |
| Neutral 50 | {Starts getting nostalgic} There was life, a town, farther West... not talking about an Old World town like Hopeville... more recent. Something you saw in your lifetime. | 352 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Nostalgia increases} It had the name "the Divide," too. But rather than cracks in the earth, it was a road from the West into the Mojave, a supply line. | 353 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Comes back to present} Took a Courier to make that road. {Beat} You. Back then, you saw the road with eyes facing East. This time... the Divide's in the other direction. | 354 | ||
| Neutral 50 | And if your eyes try to make sense of it when you reach it... {cold, downnote} home's not what it was. | 355 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic149 | What makes you think this leads home? | Neutral 50 | All roads lead back to one's home. Not your birthplace maybe, but home. | 356 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic150 | What? ED-E? | Neutral 50 | {Derision} You gave it a name. What was it to you? Companion? Slave... weapon? All of that, nothing compared to its primary function. | 357 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic152 | If you think you can take it from me, try. | Neutral 50 | {Cold} The machine you brought is mine now, it's coming home. {Snarling, talking about torturing the robot} I'll reduce it to parts, just enough to function, to be aware of what's happening. | 358 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic155 | The Divide explosion... what, did I kill your family? Your wife - children? | Neutral 50 | {Derisive, echoes player's comment} My family? My tribe lives... {but} its history? Died long ago, fell under the shadow of the Bull... consumed by another symbol. | 359 |
| Neutral 50 | No, this isn't about family - or any common blood. It's blood shared by {emph} acts, not by chance. | 360 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic157 | When you speak of the dead - you mean the Marked Men? The Legion and NCR? | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} {Derisive} The soldiers of the Bear? They were dead already, their symbol... diseased. Deserved to die as my brothers did at Boulder City, mines, bombs. | 361 |
| Neutral 50 | {DUPE} {Sneers} I carry nothing for them. Their deaths here were a mercy - compared to the ones that still walk the Divide. | 362 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet, respectful} As for my brothers in the Legion... they deserved to die in battle, as do all beneath the flag of the Bull. | 363 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {DUPE} {Quiet} But no... the dead number more than my brothers. | 364 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic158 | [NCR] The dead? You mean the Republic troops who were here? | Neutral 50 | {Derisive} The soldiers of the Bear? They were dead already, their symbol... diseased. Deserved to die as my brothers did at Boulder City, mines, bombs. | 365 |
| Neutral 50 | {Sneers} I carry nothing for them. Their deaths here were a mercy - compared to the ones that still walk the Divide. | 366 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic159 | [Legion] The dead? You mean your brothers in the Legion - our brothers. | Neutral 50 | {Respectful for dead} The Legion who died here... they didn't deserve to die, like those that died in the fires of Boulder City... {sneering to self} bombs, Hanlon's gifts. | 367 |
| Neutral 50 | {Respectful} Their deaths were mercy compared to those who still walk. Any who die beneath the flag of the Bull... their death should be in battle. | 368 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet} But no... the dead number more than my brothers. | 369 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic162 | If you're Legion, are you angry because I destroyed the Divide supply line instead of you? | Neutral 50 | {Echoing player} The supply line - the artery for the West? {Disdain, player's missing the point} I have seen the blood of NCR at Legion hands many times. | 370 |
| Neutral 50 | {DUPE} {Quiet, accusing} I carry no hatred for duty... if that's what this was. The Divide was more than that. Its people, more than that. | 371 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic163 | [Legion] Killing NCR, cutting off their supply line at the Divide serves Legion, as do we all. | Neutral 50 | {Echoing player's statement} Serves the Legion? | 372 |
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet, accusing} I carry no hatred for duty... if that's what this was. The Divide was more than that. Its people, more than that. | 373 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic164 | If you blame me for what happened here at the Divide - why do you care? | Neutral 50 | {Reflective, Ulysses is getting to the core of the reason of why he's doing all this} The community that was once here... and the package you brought... both had markings of the Divide. Markings of America. | 374 |
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet, reminding the player} You've seen the marks, the symbol. As early as the Hopeville silo, maybe. Carried it etched on your weapons. | 375 | ||
| Neutral 50 | The Divide, its buildings, its people, were built around those same markings, surrounded them here... | 376 | ||
| Neutral 50 | ...markings like the flag on my back. When I {emph} followed your road to the Divide those years ago, I saw the symbol I wore all around me. | 377 | ||
| Neutral 50 | An Old World symbol. Strong, to survive here - its people, strong. {"Maybe," low} Outlast the Bear, outlast the Bull. Promise of something better. | 378 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Caesar was right to want it dead. NCR was right to want to rake their claws in it. | 379 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Seeing it... changed me, just as seeing Hoover Dam changed Caesar and the NCR. | 380 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet} Seeing it end changed me, too. | 381 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic167 | So you believed in this place. What it once was. | Neutral 50 | {Bitter} There was hope here, another chance. A new nation, stirring to life. {Beat} A place I could have set my flag. | 382 |
| Neutral 50 | Not the America of old. But something larger than the tribes of the East, something larger than the houses of the West. Something better. | 383 | ||
| Neutral 50 | The Divide... could have bridged both, like Hoover Dam. {Anger, dismissive} Now like the Dam, it's too covered in blood to see what it could have been. | 384 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Slow, accusing} You gave life to this place. I followed your road here, saw the Divide. You {emph} led me here, so that I could see. | 385 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Bring it down} Then, you brought it to an end. | 386 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic170 | And that's why you want me dead. | Neutral 50 | {Slight sympathy for the player, doesn't get it} My history isn't revenge, or hate. The road that brought us {emph} both here - isn't about that. | 387 |
| Neutral 50 | It's about the {emph} message you carried. The one in that package, whether you knew it or not. | 388 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Slow, ominous} The message that {emph} one can kill a nation. Can kill a symbol. And all that gather beneath its flag. | 389 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Slow} I don't blame you for the Divide. {Beat, punchline} I blame you for what you made me see. | 390 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Death sentence} Now you will see what you brought to the Mojave, and that will be {emph} my message to {emph} you. | 391 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic173 | I don't understand. What message? | Neutral 50 | The nations of the Mojave. Cracked and broken as the Divide... its people, the same. | 392 |
| Neutral 50 | I have walked at Caesar's command, across the East, into the West. Far enough to know Caesar's word did not drive me. Far enough to see the end. | 393 | ||
| Neutral 50 | You've seen it. No Courier, whatever their flag can ignore it. Why you didn't stay in the West. Why you wandered. | 394 | ||
| Neutral 50 | There is no future in the Bear or Bull. The Bear is diseased, barely clings to life. | 395 | ||
| Neutral 50 | And the Bull... when the Legion reaches the sea, it will turn on itself and die. | 396 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Killing one will end both. And you made me see how one could do it. Your ignorance, carelessness - can be used with a purpose. | 397 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic174 | Keep talking like that, I'll see you dead. | Neutral 50 | You already tried once, won't give you another chance. | 398 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic175 | At least I don't hide behind a machine like a coward. | Neutral 50 | Machines... bombs, things of NCR, are your tools, not mine. When we meet, this machine won't keep me from you. | 399 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic176 | [Legion] Legion doesn't kill Legion. Caesar's orders? | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} {Smile/sneer} What kind of world would this be if Courier killed Courier.{No sound file} | 400 |
| Neutral 50 | {DUPE} You've got enough distance ahead of you - save your breath for the road, don't waste it on words. | 401 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic177 | [Legion] You said you'd sworn not to kill me. If you're Legion, why are we at odds? | Neutral 50 | {Frowns, slight testing} You struck first. Not just at me... at the Legion. Or so I thought. Not sure of the history of it now. | 402 |
| Neutral 50 | Whatever flag you follow, or followed then... either way, you got too much of the Bear's sickness in you to live. Divide's proof of that. | 403 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Want more than that, walk the road. Answers'll come, closer you get to home... you and that machine. | 404 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic178 | [Legion] If I destroyed the NCR in this place, why do you care? | Neutral 50 | {Emph} Legion died here as well. {Beat, but...} What you did... that's not {emph} all that cuts at me. | 405 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic179 | [Legion] Are you angry that this explosion undermined the Legion's plans? It was an accident. | Anger 50 | {DUPE} {Anger} Accident? Ignorance is a {emph} choice. The Chip - a choice. | 406 |
| Neutral 50 | {DUPE} {More to himself} As for anger... it is what I carry for the dead, and all that come here. | 407 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic180 | [Legion] Seeing this place. It meant more to you than the Legion? | Neutral 50 | Yes. And it did to you once, I'm sure of it. | 408 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic181 | [Legion] So... when you called me traitor in Hopeville, that title belongs to you. | Neutral 50 | {Angry} No, it is a title {emph} you earned. Legion or not, you have betrayed more than you know. | 409 |
| NVDLC04DialogueEDENVDLC04UlyssesTopic182 | [Legion] Legion does not kill Legion - but you're not that anymore. I'm going to kill you. | Neutral 50 | If that's all that drives you, it won't last. The Legion... it won't last either. | 410 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic000 | The Divide couldn't stop me, the Mojave couldn't kill me - you don't have much chance. | Neutral 50 | I'll finish history's work. If the Divide couldn't kill you... perhaps these spears of the Old World can. | 411 |
| Neutral 50 | Let's end this, Courier, you and I. Here, with the Old World flag as witness. | 412 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic001 | I still don't understand - why are you doing this? | Anger 50 | {Cold} You've answered your own question. And you'll die with that question on your lips. | 413 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic002 | What about the Marked Men? | Neutral 50 | That's part of why I'm here. Watch them - if they attack me, try to enter the Mojave, I answer. {Little quieter} Not looking to kill them... save them, if I can. | 414 |
| Neutral 50 | There might be something saving in them. {Quieter, to himself} If not, then what I do is mercy, not murder. | 415 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic003 | Neutral 50 | 416 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic005 | Was hoping you could help me shape something. | Neutral 50 | {Nods} Let's see what gifts the Mojave has for us. | 417 |
| Was hoping you could help me shape something. | Neutral 50 | {Looking at player's inventory} Let's make something new from the old. | 418 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic006 | What are you doing here? | Neutral 50 | A question one could have asked you not long ago, before walking the road West into the storms. | 419 |
| Neutral 50 | Need to be here, see what was done. It's custom of the Bear to never see the marks it claws in the land... not {emph} my custom. | 420 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Maybe that's why you've come, too - need to see where the missile from Ashton touched ground down below, in Hopeville... the Courier's Mile. | 421 | ||
| Can you tell me again what you're doing here? | Neutral 50 | Need to be here, see what was done. In the Divide, in Hopeville... the Courier's Mile. | 422 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic007 | I wanted to hear more about Hoover Dam. | Neutral 50 | Old World wall, run red with blood of Bear and Bull. It'll bleed more before the sun sets on the Mojave. | 423 |
| Neutral 50 | That place and I have a past, owe it a debt - and it owes me. If your path takes you there, know you're not the only one. | 424 | ||
| Neutral 50 | It's the wall by which this age will be measured, the gravestone of the Mojave. Old World never meant it as such. | 425 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic008 | Dry Wells is destroyed - that was your birthplace? | Neutral 50 | No, opposite of that. It's where my tribe was taken. Where another history was put to the blade, lesson taught. | 426 |
| Neutral 50 | It is where we realized Vulpes did not approach us as equals. Where we realized the wolf had come, and we watched our history die. | 427 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Now it belongs to Legion... and all the death there now belongs to them as well. Not revenge... just the way of things when you {emph} own them. | 428 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic009 | The Long 15 is no more. The main supply line into NCR is cut. | Neutral 50 | No damage done, not yet. Maybe in years. Keeps the Bear fenced... if Caesar can't drive it back, fire might. | 429 |
| Neutral 50 | Only delays the end for the Bull, a new wall for them to scale and cross... once they're done with the Mojave. And Hoover Dam. | 430 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Never again do you or any other courier and caravan need walk that route. Let the Mojave breathe without that asphalt scar raking it. | 431 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic010 | I'll let your words answer it, from the tapes you left along the road to the Divide. | Neutral 50 | {Slow, surprise} My words? {Beat, contempt} And what do {emph} my words teach you. | 432 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic011 | Who are you, who do not know your history? | Neutral 50 | {Surprised} That question... {Beat, chewing it over} either you walked the Big Empty... {beat, nods} you found the last of the holotapes. | 433 |
| Neutral 50 | {Cold, not sure where the player is going with this} The words are mine. Whatever... "answer" you think they hold, you're wrong. It was a question, nothing more. | 434 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic012 | The Divide's irradiated... are you sure you want to stay here? | Neutral 50 | The invisible fires burn here, true enough. Still... to have helped carry out such an act, then not face it... | 435 |
| Neutral 50 | Not my way. If my life burns out here, so be it... until then, I wait and watch, see what the road brings. | 436 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic013 | I had other questions. | Neutral 50 | {Matter-of-fact} Questions have a habit of making others. | 437 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic014 | Is this where you're making camp? | Neutral 50 | Not a camp - vigil, maybe. Never claimed it as mine. {More a question} If anyone owns the Divide... {"well..."} your claim is stronger than mine. | 438 |
| Neutral 50 | Don't feel like adding a campfire to the ones that already burn below. {Beat, making offer} If you brought Mojave gifts, might be able to shape something for the road. | 439 | ||
| Any recipes you can teach? | Neutral 50 | Depends what history has to say about them. There's a lot the land can provide... if you know the road that led to it. | 440 | |
| Neutral 50 | Mojave's got ways of healing most ills - if not, some tribe's usually found a way you didn't expect. | 441 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Like Healing Powders. Tribes back West only use Xander and Broc flower. There's a way the Twin Mothers in the East used to brew it, though. | 442 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Called it Bitter Drink, mixed up the Xander and Broc in a bottle, added some kick to it so your head doesn't get all clouded. | 443 | ||
| Any more recipes.. or histories... you can teach? | Neutral 50 | {Thinking} Antivenom's helpful around the Mojave with the Bark Scorpions. Even one sting can kill you. {Beat} Tunneler bite can be just as bad. | 444 | |
| Neutral 50 | My tribe, Twisted Hairs, had a better way than Antivenom, if you act fast. | 445 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Snakebite Tourniquet - cuts off the venom, no need to scavenge glands and blood. {Himself, slight disgust} Or drink that mess. | 446 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Part of the reason we wore our hair like we did, {corrects self} like I do now. | 447 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Here's some for the road - trick to making it's not hard. {Beat} Get bit, hook and twist it. Fast as blinking, doesn't give poison time to sink in. | 448 | ||
| Any more recipes you can teach? | Neutral 50 | Nothing more than I've already shared. We'll have to keep with what we know. {Beat} Tired of history's lessons, anyway. | 449 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic017 | Find anything in the dust of Hopeville? | Neutral 50 | Nothing but wind, sand... ash. More may reveal itself in time, not now. | 450 |
| Neutral 50 | If you're determined, return, might be something new surfaces. | 451 | ||
| Find anything in the dust of Hopeville? | Neutral 50 | Wind and blood has uncovered more beneath the soil. | 452 | |
| Neutral 50 | If you want these Old World relics, they're yours... better you carry them than the Marked Men. | 453 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic018 | What's the Courier's Mile? Is that where the Ashton missile hit? | Neutral 50 | My name for it. If you have a better one, you grant it - my choice in names won't carry past you and I. | 454 |
| Neutral 50 | Lies along the road, running from the Hopeville silo... straight on to where the ground burns, and wind howls even stronger than here. | 455 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic019 | [Legion] Being Frumentarii kept you from killing me in the past. You have no such defense now. | Neutral 50 | I believed in what I followed then. Kill no Courier, Caesar's words. I honored them. | 456 |
| Neutral 50 | Other Couriers could have been Legion - like me. Now, our allegiances are reversed. | 457 | ||
| If you meant to kill me, you should have done it long ago. | Neutral 50 | Not if you believe in what you follow. Kill no Courier, Caesar's words. I honored them. | 458 | |
| Neutral 50 | Other Couriers could have been Legion - like me. The truth is, you serve nothing, believe nothing. Killing you... meaningless. | 459 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic020 | (Speech>=90) I need to know why you're doing this - not for my sake, for history's sake. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Thinking} The why of it... you taught me the why of it. | 460 |
| Neutral 50 | If you believe in something enough, you must be willing to let it burn, lest it claim you. | 461 | ||
| Neutral 50 | These governments of the two-headed bear... the Legion... they carry Old World ideas into an age that no longer needs them, where they cannot live. | 462 | ||
| (Speech<90) So... you think dropping bombs on the Mojave is going to solve things? | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] Yes, that is what you proved to me at the Divide - what is here, what you showed me... it is enough. | 463 | |
| Neutral 50 | You don't understand. {Beat} You will. | 464 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic021 | Your tapes prove you've walked the Mojave, yet learned the wrong lessons. | Neutral 50 | Comes down to perspective, how far one's walked, and what they've left behind. | 465 |
| Neutral 50 | {Challenging} If you challenge this moment, let's hear your perspective. If my words are all you have, let's hear them. | 466 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic022 | I believe destroying the symbol is never the answer. Changing it - that's something else. | Neutral 50 | {Chewing it over, slight hope here} It may be... that as much destruction has been written in the earth here... | 467 |
| Neutral 50 | One buried this place, yet it lived on between us. One may build it again - build others. Your history has proven this, here. | 468 | ||
| Neutral 50 | There is truth in your words. But even if there is hope in change... it may not matter. The Divide still stands against us. | 469 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic023 | (Speech=100) I'm not talking about NCR or the Legion, I'm talking about our history. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Slight confusion} Our history... {frowns} the Divide. That history has been written, its lessons learned. | 470 |
| Neutral 50 | There is nothing more to be dug from these cracks in the earth, no more fury to be torn from its sky. | 471 | ||
| (Speech<100) I don't think that's what's important here. | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] If those are your last words, they are weak ones. Actions would have had more voice. | 472 | |
| Neutral 50 | There is nothing more to be said between us. No words of yours will change what is about to happen. | 473 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic024 | The Legion doesn't abide traitors. What made you turn from the East? | Neutral 50 | {Echoing, mocking, shaking head} Even after the road you've walked, you only see a traitor {emph} before you. | 474 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic026 | I don't care what happens to NCR, but I can't allow you to harm the Legion. | Neutral 50 | Not all the East will burn. The Legion does not need to be destroyed, only... contained within new borders. | 475 |
| Neutral 50 | After that, it will fall as any culture bred on war, on forward momentum. It will falter, collapse. | 476 | ||
| Neutral 50 | I will start with their camp at Dry Wells... once my homeland. Justice of a sort. | 477 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic027 | Is this how it must end between us? You followed the East once, you can do so again. | Neutral 50 | I cannot go back. I wandered too far, far enough to know my home was lost to me. | 478 |
| Neutral 50 | {Resigned, a little sad} I could no more go back than you could return to the West. {Disgust} To NCR, and all its sickness. | 479 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic029 I'm heading back to the Mojave to settle some things. |
I'm heading back to the Mojave to settle some things. | Neutral 50 | {As player is about to leave} Can hear the weight in your feet - youâre bound for that Old World wall. Hoover Dam. Maybe not now - in time. | 480 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic033 You've wasted enough of my time. Get ready to die. |
I've heard enough. You're a Legion traitor, and now you'll die. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} I'll finish history's work. If the Divide couldn't kill you... perhaps these spears of the Old World can. | 481 |
| Neutral 50 | {DUPE} Let's end this, Courier, you and I. Here, with the Old World flag as witness. | 482 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic035 | Have you been to Hopeville since the Ashton missile hit? | Neutral 50 | {Reflective} Walk there sometimes, keep the walks short. Still... it's important to see. Something else to answer for. | 483 |
| Neutral 50 | Occasionally sift through the dust, the buildings... see if I can find some history. Marks of America. | 484 | ||
| Neutral 50 | If you want them, keep them... you've earned it. Nothing to be gained by me holding them, and more will surface in time. | 485 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic036 | What's the history of it? | Neutral 50 | {Smiles, "you want to know the history of it?"} History? Cures a wound, leaves the bitterness that caused it. {To himself, scorn} The Twin Mothers were always about lessons. | 486 |
| Neutral 50 | Caesar taught them the last one, though, so that's it for them. Recipe still exists, Legion uses it on forced marches with wounded soldiers. | 487 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Wouldn't have made it through Crimson River Trail a few years back without it - losing so much blood early on, was a Cazador feast. | 488 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Enough Xander root and Broc flower along the trail though, the Legion was able to keep pace and get where they were going. | 489 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic037 | Can you share the recipe with me? | Neutral 50 | Can do that and one better... {looking around} just enough around to mix some. Here - might make the Twin Mothers' history live a little longer, you carrying it. | 490 |
| Neutral 50 | {Warning} When you drink it, down it all in one shot, or your stomach's not going to want to keep going after the second drink. | 491 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic039 | Caesar is dead, I killed him. | Neutral 50 | {Thinking, slow} Name's died twice to history. If the West thanks you... the East won't, in time. Fall apart, back to the tribes, maybe. | 492 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic040 | Caesar is dead, died on the operating table. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} {Thinking, slow} Name's died twice to history. If the West thanks you... the East won't, in time. Fall apart, back to the tribes, maybe. | 493 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic041 | Neutral 50 | {Slightly doubtful} Too soon to tell what will happen, let history weigh what youâve done, if it gets that far. | 494 | |
| Neutral 50 | {Delivered as if "still" at beginning} Unless you do the same for the Legate that comes, you'll get no thanks from me. When {emph} that Monster arrives, he's not going to have a leash. | 495 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet} Caesar could command him. Not now. The Bear's going to burn, and burn slow. | 496 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic042 | Are you angry at all? | Neutral 50 | {Shrugs} He let another hold a knife to him. If he was weak enough to allow the knife so close to his neck, maybe it needed to be his ending. | 497 |
| Are you angry at all? | Neutral 50 | {Emph} Caesar would be history's hypocrite if he was angry about what happened. I'm not one for it, either. | 498 | |
| Neutral 50 | Seems you just proved his philosophy to him. If he'd been stronger, he'd be alive, and we wouldn't be talking. | 499 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic043 | I wasn't sure how you'd take it. | Neutral 50 | {Shrugs} Done with blame, and Caesar was big on strength making right. Seems to me you proved that philosophy to him. | 500 |
| Neutral 50 | If he was too weak to stop you, too weak to defend himself, then he needed to die with his beliefs. | 501 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic044 | I could care less about history - and even less about Caesar. | Neutral 50 | Wasn't his time, and wouldn't have been how he wanted to die. | 502 |
| Neutral 50 | {Himself} Not how most would've wanted him to die, either, Bear or Bull. | 503 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic045 | I reached Vegas, and I dealt with House. | Neutral 50 | {Choosing his words carefully} House spoke, acted through machines. Sometimes can judge a man by his messengers. {Referring to player} Sometimes the messengers judge him. | 504 |
| Neutral 50 | Wonder what happens to Vegas now. The tribes - families. We'll see. | 505 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic046 | You donât sound happy. | Neutral 50 | {Shakes his head, regretful, but player did right thing, "No..."} What you did was for the best. The Old World died long ago. Anyone who believes they can make it return and everything will be as it was... | 506 |
| Neutral 50 | ...it is a dangerous belief. {Beat} Needs to be silenced before their belief spreads. | 507 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic049 | Neutral 50 | {Quiet, bring this to a close} If you saw House, you didnât see a man. An Old World spirit, perhaps - filthy, diseased. If so, killing him was mercy, not cruelty. | 508 | |
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet, reverent, bring this to a close} Let House sleep in his chamber. Let him dream of the Old World {emph} he remembers, and keep those memories where they belong, in his head. | 509 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic050 | Neutral 50 | {Reflective} Bear and Bull shed too much blood there to let it go. {Beat, "but..."} Can't stop you from going, wouldn't. | 510 | |
| Neutral 50 | A warning, though - the Legate, Lanius. Whether Caesar stands or not, Lanius will come. | 511 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic051 | Who is Legate Lanius? | Neutral 50 | Lanius... the "Butcher." {Somber, recognizes name} Monster, Terror of the East. | 512 |
| Neutral 50 | Not even his slaves have seen his face - struck them blind so they can't. Wears a mask, don't even know if it's the same man. | 513 | ||
| Neutral 50 | He put Colorado to the sword, broke the Hangdogs by throwing their hounds upon the flames, so they might burn forever in the afterlife. | 514 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic052 | Enough. Whatever waits at Hoover Dam, I'm ready. | Neutral 50 | {Farewell} Then there is nothing more to be done. {Beat} The Mojave awaits. | 515 |
| {DUPE}Enough. Whatever waits at Hoover Dam, I'm ready. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} {Farewell} The Divide belongs to history now. {Beat} The Mojave awaits. | 516 | |
| Enough. Whatever waits at Hoover Dam, I'm ready. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} {Farewell} The Divide belongs to history now. {Beat} The Mojave awaits. | 517 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic054 | He's just one general. I can handle him. | Neutral 50 | Lanius carries all the terrors of the East with him. He's the myth, the weapon the Legion needs. | 518 |
| Neutral 50 | When he arrives, he'll fall on Hoover Dam like a hammer, {quiet} break the Bear in two. | 519 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic056 | Why is he coming West? | Neutral 50 | To take Hoover Dam, Legion will need something as big as the Old World itself - another symbol, forged by history. | 520 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic057 | Any idea on how to beat him? | Neutral 50 | {Slow, reflective} Nineteen tribes could not do it. All the lights in Vegas cannot. | 521 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic058 | He must have a weakness. | Neutral 50 | His strength lies in his title - and it is his weakness. He will not fight a losing battle and destroy what he represents. | 522 |
| Neutral 50 | Put the idea of loss in him. Convince him the Bear will not be the twentieth tribe beneath his heel, it will make him pause like nothing on earth. | 523 | ||
| Neutral 50 | You do not need to convince him alone. Draw upon history. The past of other Legates are not filled with victories. Remind Lanius of this. | 524 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic060 | Other Legates? | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} There are other Legates, and the one before Lanius couldn't take Hoover Dam for Caesar. | 525 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic061 | Other Legates? You mean Graham. | Neutral 50 | Yes. Graham was broken on the wall of the Dam. | 526 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic062 | I got your final message. | Neutral 50 | {Slightly amused} Didn't think I'd be breathing to hear you say that. {Beat, “Still...”} Message isn't important, meaning is. | 527 |
| Neutral 50 | Had to speak of it, in case the words got lost in paper, ink, or other's voices. Maybe even yours, in time. | 528 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Still, meant for you. Courier to Courier. {Beat} Belongs to you now, or history. Doesn't matter. | 529 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic063 | What do you mean? | Neutral 50 | There are other Legates, and the one before Lanius couldn't take Hoover Dam for Caesar. | 530 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic064 | Neutral 50 | That Legate's mistake is he didn't die trying. His name was Joshua - Joshua Graham. Answered for his failure - twice, some say. | 531 | |
| Neutral 50 | Caesar had him burned and cast into the earth, into the largest canyon you've ever seen. Watched the flames trail all the way to the bottom. | 532 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Somehow Joshua walked away from that, went beyond Caesar's gaze. His footsteps trailing fire, walking from one hell - maybe to another. | 533 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Thinking about self and player} When one is ruined like Graham was... sometimes home is the only place left. If so, he went to New Canaan, Caesar's anger written on him like a book. | 534 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Caesar's orders to the Frumentarii were to watch for him, find Graham. Kill him. {Beat} Didn't try. Could've, no good would have come of it. | 535 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet, introspective} Graham earned his life, and his nature... it'll kill him more surely than any blade of the Legion. | 536 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet, like let it rest} So if you've heard word of it or seen sign of him, let it keep. {Beat, downnote} Let his history keep. | 537 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic065 I'll remember that. |
{DUPE}I'll remember that. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} {Farewell} The Divide belongs to history now. {Beat} The Mojave awaits. | 538 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic066 We'll leave it to history, then. |
{DUPE}We'll leave it to history, then. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} {Farewell} The Divide belongs to history now. {Beat} The Mojave awaits. | 539 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic067 | In the logs of the White Legs, you mentioned your tribe, and its past. | Neutral 50 | My tribe? That log... {disgusted at White Legs} no, it concerned the White Legs, training them to kill. For Caesar. | 540 |
| Neutral 50 | There is no meaning there beyond the road to New Canaan. The history of the murder of its people. And Caesar's past. | 541 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic069 | [NCR] Even if you have no faith in the NCR, I do. My actions have proven it. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Hesitant} Your actions have carried strength. | 542 |
| [Legion] The Legion is stronger than you know. If you would judge them, hear me first. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Hesitant} There is conviction in your words, enough to rival a Legate, perhaps Caesar. You believe what you say. | 543 | |
| [Vegas] Even if you have no faith in Vegas, I do... and my actions have proven it. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Hesitant} Your actions have carried strength. More importantly, not for House, but for the families on the Strip. | 544 | |
| [NCR] You might not believe in nations. I do. | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] Words are not enough to bear the weight of your flag - {disdain} if you follow anything at all. | 545 | |
| Neutral 50 | Speeches are things of NCR, words without strength. Your actions have shown nothing. {Beat} Your flag will burn. The Mojave will follow. | 546 | ||
| [Legion] You might not believe in nations. I do. | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] You came from the West, walked there. You carry its sickness East to the Legion - and do not believe their cause enough to honor them. | 547 | |
| Neutral 50 | What I give the Legion is a swifter death than the disease you bring. You have not the strength to bear a Legion standard. | 548 | ||
| [Vegas] You might not believe in nations. I do. | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] You serve Vegas ghosts, not the tribes Vegas devoured. House is not the people of Vegas - you have walked the Strip, yet have seen nothing. | 549 | |
| Neutral 50 | Your carelessness for the paths you walk - it has destroyed the city you serve. {Beat} NCR will burn. Then the walls of Vegas will follow. | 550 | ||
| [Rep] You might not believe in nations. I do. | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] {Cold} Yet you follow nothing at all. | 551 | |
| Neutral 50 | You have walked the Mojave, let the shadow of flags fall upon you, yet walk carelessly, no allegiance. Your words - empty as your actions. | 552 | ||
| You might not believe in nations. I do. | Neutral 50 | If you speak for the two-headed Bear, I'll hear your words. Even if I will be the only one to hear them. | 553 | |
| Neutral 50 | If you believe it should not die this day... then answer me why. | 554 | ||
| You might not believe in nations. I do. | Neutral 50 | {Suspicious} If you feel I do not know the Legion's strength - then I will listen. | 555 | |
| You might not believe in nations. I do. | Neutral 50 | If the ghosts of Vegas have come from behind their wall to speak for the West, I'll hear their words. | 556 | |
| Neutral 50 | If you believe that Vegas does not deserve to die as the Bear does... then answer me why. | 557 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic070 | Nothing more to say, I've already won. Everything you hate about me, you've become. | Neutral 50 | {Frowns} If you seek to anger me, words won't be enough. Your moral ground is weak here in the Divide. | 558 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic071 | If you blame me for the Divide, then let me answer for it, not others. | Neutral 50 | {Scoffs} Blame you? No, {emph} learned from you. Both the weapon to kill a nation, and the strength to do it. | 559 |
| Neutral 50 | You showed me a road, a way to carry my message. {Beat, slight snide} You've already answered for what you've done. {Cold} Now the flag you follow will answer for it. | 560 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic072 | What happened at the Divide, what I did, was an accident. What you're doing - it's madness. | Neutral 50 | {Angry, low} No, now there is {emph} purpose. {Disgust} I believe you when you say you were... careless. The Divide... the Chip... the machine you brought here... | 561 |
| Neutral 50 | {Emph} Many messages can be taken from that, intended or not. What I do now is an act of conviction. | 562 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic073 | So, what - you intend to bomb the Mojave? | Neutral 50 | No, the West. The East. It doesn't matter - the death of either one kills the other, Vegas along with it. {Beat} The West shall answer first. | 563 |
| So, what - you intend to bomb the Mojave? | Neutral 50 | No, not the Mojave. The West, all that's been built since America died. Same symbols as before the war, now a flag carried by a tribe of children. | 564 | |
| So, what - you intend to bomb the Mojave? | Neutral 50 | You walked the West, didn't stay. You know the reason... the Bear grows without structure, follows a symbol without knowing its history. | 565 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic075 | This is between you and me, not anyone else. | Neutral 50 | No... the paths we've walked. The roads, and the flags above them, carry equal blame. | 566 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic076 | You can go home again, Courier. Not a message for me, for you. | Neutral 50 | {Cold} My home in the East, Dry Wells, is no more. It is part of the Legion. | 567 |
| Neutral 50 | The only other home... the chance of a home... was what you built at the Divide. Then you destroyed it. | 568 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic077 | Neutral 50 | And knowing that you believe in the Bear's sickness and have given it strength... then that gives more reason to lay waste to your homeland. | 569 | |
| Neutral 50 | The sickness of the Bear already lies within you, even if you uphold the East. If there were time, I would let you kill the Legion. | 570 | ||
| Neutral 50 | But no, the Legion will burn as well. Without the West to challenge it... its shore will be closer than before. It will feed on itself, die. | 571 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Without NCR to support it, Vegas will fall to the Legion. That grave of lights, back to dust and ghosts, as was meant. | 572 | ||
| Neutral 50 | After this, only one flag will remain over the Mojave. Let that one fly, or destroy itself. | 573 | ||
| Anger 50 | You don't see, listen - even when it's all around you, no matter if I nailed it into your head like a gift from Caesar. | 574 | ||
| Neutral 50 | You brought the Divide to life, Courier. You walked the road. Brought the Bear, then the Bull, brought me, following your tracks. | 575 | ||
| Neutral 50 | And when I saw the Divide you made, I saw a second chance, a new way of thinking. {Beat} My world - no longer the East. | 576 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Then you brought the West in that package. Destroyed it all. Nearly killed me, flesh and spirit. | 577 | ||
| Neutral 50 | You destroyed something larger than the Bear, greater than the Bull. And even when you could have turned away, you brought it again, in that machine. | 578 | ||
| Neutral 50 | You destroyed a nation taking its first breath. {Low} A place that could have been my {emph} home. {Beat} Now, I'll destroy yours. | 579 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic078 | You can't destroy the West, even with all the missiles here. | Neutral 50 | {Scoffs} No need to destroy the Bear, just cut its throat. | 580 |
| Neutral 50 | You taught me that at the Divide - only need to cut off the supply line, the road, to watch something greater die. | 581 | ||
| Neutral 50 | I'll turn the Long 15 into miles of fire, cut off the Mojave. NCR will fall back, lose Hoover Dam... and leave their throats exposed to the Legion. | 582 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic079 | Do you think I care if you fire missiles at NCR? Go ahead. | Neutral 50 | You destroyed your own homeland. Seeing a nation burn? Didn't think that would matter any more to you. | 583 |
| Neutral 50 | There's a strength in that... lack of attachment. Still, you're here now. If there's no more answers you want, then we'll end this. | 584 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic080 | One can build a community, make it stronger. You saw it at the Divide, even blamed me for it. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] {Reluctant} History has proven this. Our history. | 585 |
| Neutral 50 | {Slight disdain} And you think that you have this strength? Enough for {emph} all of NCR? | 586 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Prove it} The West is not the Divide, and nothing you can do can prevent the missile's launch. {Testing, slow in the middle} Convincing me - changes nothing. | 587 | ||
| Because it should be given a chance? Its people don't deserve what's about to happen. | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] No... your answer is not enough. | 588 | |
| Neutral 50 | {Cold} They deserve what comes... and should answer for it, as you should. The Bear is a thing of the people that gather to it, as are all symbols. | 589 | ||
| Neutral 50 | You believe. Yet... you believe in the wrong symbol. {Slightly sympathetic} Let it give you what strength it can... soon, it will be no more. | 590 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic081 | When all seemed lost, you asked it even though you feared the answer. | Neutral 50 | Fear? No. Anger. | 591 |
| When all seemed lost, you asked it even though you feared the answer. | Neutral 50 | {Derisive, player failed} If you've heard my words and that's all you've taken from them, then I was right to cast them aside. | 592 | |
| Neutral 50 | {Disgust} If you ever had any ability to hear anything beyond your own footsteps... the Divide silenced it. Now, its voice will end you. | 593 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic083 | Well, I just said all that because I'm betting you have some way to stop all this. | Neutral 50 | {Cold} So... you resort to trickery. You were hoping that you could deceive me, reveal that somehow I can {emph} stop all this. | 594 |
| Well, I just said all that because I'm betting you have some way to stop all this. | Neutral 50 | {Cold, player blew it} Fire will rain on the West and the East, as intended, and the last words of the messenger of the Bull - nothing but lies. | 595 | |
| Well, I just said all that because I'm betting you have some way to stop all this. | Neutral 50 | {Cold, player blew it} The West will burn, as intended, and Vegas will follow. The last words of its messenger, were not for the people of the city, but lies and deceit. | 596 | |
| Well, I just said all that because I'm betting you have some way to stop all this. | Neutral 50 | {Cold, player blew it} Your nation will burn, as intended, and the last words of its messenger, were not for its people, but to beg for mercy. | 597 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic084 | I believe that one person can make... or break... a nation. You already know this. | Neutral 50 | {Chewing it over, slight hope here} It may be... that as much destruction has been written in the earth here... you may build something else, as you built the Divide. | 598 |
| Neutral 50 | You have spoken truly. There is a shadow of a nation behind you, the hope of a people... yet it may not matter. The Divide still stands against us. | 599 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic085 | Even if the missiles launch, and I die here - if I can convince you, that's enough for me. | Neutral 50 | {Player has convinced him, nods, slow, quiet} It is... enough. | 600 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic086 | The Divide? What do you mean? | Neutral 50 | {Thinking, resolved to die} Our enemies gather outside... shadows of the Bear and Bull... they will have found their way in, just as you did. | 601 |
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet, rueful} It was always my intention - in case I could not kill you, the Marked Men would flood this place, cut off your escape. | 602 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {This is the end sequence} If we cannot prevent what comes, then let us make our stand here. {Beat, final, somber} Two Couriers, together, at the Divide. | 603 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic089 | You told me once I gave life to the Divide. I can do it again, and give life to Vegas. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} [SUCCEEDED] {Reluctant} History has proven this. Our history. | 604 |
| Neutral 50 | {Slight disdain} And you think that you have this strength? Enough to hold up NCR, long enough so that Vegas may live again? | 605 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Prove it} Even if you speak for Vegas and its ghosts, nothing you can do can prevent the missile's launch. {Testing, slow in the middle} Convincing me - changes nothing. | 606 | ||
| Vegas earned its right to survive, its people don't deserve what's about to happen. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} [FAILED] No... your answer is not enough. | 607 | |
| Neutral 50 | {Cold} They deserve what comes. Vegas is born of the corrupt, the blind, lost, that gather to it. Without them... it would fall dark. | 608 | ||
| Neutral 50 | You believe. Yet... you have been blinded by the wrong symbol. {Slightly sympathetic} Let its light give you what strength it can... today marks its end. | 609 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic091 | It was all you could say to prevent from being killed. That's what I'm hoping for here. | Neutral 50 | When I asked that question, death was certain. I wasn't begging for mercy. | 610 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic092 | There is no honor in murder from a distance, NCR or Legion. You know this from the Divide. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} [SUCCEEDED] {Reluctant} History has proven this. Our history. | 611 |
| Neutral 50 | {Slow, considering} You seek to use your own crimes to prevent mine. There... is a strange honor in that. Perhaps the shadow of the Bull does walk with you. | 612 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Prove it} The West, the East - they are not the Divide, and nothing you can do can prevent the missile's launch. {Testing, slow in the middle} Convincing me - changes nothing. | 613 | ||
| If you bomb the West and East... is this how things should end? | Neutral 50 | [FAILED] {Scoffs} You answer me with questions. {Sneers} Doubt. You were strong enough to come here - but not strong enough to speak for all the Legion. | 614 | |
| Neutral 50 | {Cold} This is the ending they deserve... a flag is a thing of the people that gather to it, as are all symbols. | 615 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Acknowledging player's strength, but...} You believe. Yet you do not see that killing a symbol with its own weapon carries justice of its own... just as it will when the East dies as well. | 616 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic095 | You were trapped, needed to escape, and needed the distraction. It was the key. | Neutral 50 | I never sought to escape. I went to them to get an answer or die. | 617 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic096 | The question reminded the ones you spoke to of their purpose, why they cared. | Neutral 50 | {Cold, appraising} I spoke those words in anger, and I did not expect an answer. All was lost... I thought it was the end. | 618 |
| Neutral 50 | {Reflective} Past their graves of failed technology, they had cared about the flag they had followed... and the people beneath it. Even with them dead and gone. | 619 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Rallying} But there's no answer in that. I do this because I care, because I believe it must be done. | 620 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic097 | Do you really think these missiles can kill everyone? | Neutral 50 | Kill them - no. The symbol they follow? Yes, as surely as you did at the Divide. | 621 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic098 | If you believe the destruction of the Divide was just, then I cannot stop you. | Neutral 50 | {Anger, "Justice"} Just? {Beat, spits this out} There was no justice in it, it was an act of carelessness, a coward. Killing an idea, before it had a chance... | 622 |
| Neutral 50 | {Stops, realizing} I see your meaning. You're tying this to {emph} our history... but it is different. The symbol I destroy, it has already proven itself wrong. | 623 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic099 | You said in the logs yourself that technology's a dead road. These missiles will solve nothing. | Neutral 50 | Those are my words. After what happened with the Brotherhood... talking with them. | 624 |
| Neutral 50 | Then with the rulers of the Big Empty. {Beat, rallying} But it is their philosophy that was flawed - their weapons, used with new perspective... | 625 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Those weapons can be used to kill a symbol that has already proven itself wrong. | 626 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic100 | You said a home is a place you breathe life into, a moment where you know who you are. | Neutral 50 | {Weighing the player's words} There is truth in that. History has proven it. | 627 |
| Neutral 50 | {Frowns, player's throwing words back at him} But Mojave's proof that no homeland is sacred... until the larger symbols are destroyed. | 628 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Whatever is built, the Bear, Bull... even Vegas... will tear it apart, convert it, either with purpose, or by accident. | 629 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic101 | By your standards? Or history's? | Neutral 50 | Both. {Snarls} Why do you care. | 630 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic102 | It hasn't proven itself wrong. That's why the Legion and NCR conflict must continue. To test it. | Neutral 50 | Test it. As you test me? As if you believe there is some other road here. | 631 |
| It hasn't proven itself wrong. That's why the Legion and NCR conflict must continue. To test it. | Neutral 50 | Nothing can prevent what comes. The missiles will launch. {Beat} These questions - your words, or mine - what do they matter to you. | 632 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic103 | Any symbol deserves a chance to defend itself, by words or acts - not... this. | Neutral 50 | As you defend it now? | 633 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic104 | But your tribe was New Canaan. | Neutral 50 | {Disdain, player has it wrong} New Canaan? My tribe? | 634 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic105 | The White Legs might as well have been your people. | Neutral 50 | {Disdain, player has it wrong} The White Legs? To even claim they were shadows of the Twisted Hairs... | 635 |
| Neutral 50 | No, whatever words you heard, they were not mine. | 636 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic106 | I'm talking about the past, in the respect they showed you. | Neutral 50 | {Slight confusion, doesn't understand what the player meant} Respect...? | 637 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic108 | In the log, you said they were shadows, in the way they wore their hair. | Neutral 50 | {Recognition} The braids I wore. They took that from me, thought it made them more like me, more willing to have Caesar listen. | 638 |
| Neutral 50 | They didn't know what the braids meant, the mark of my tribe before Caesar came... before Vulpes came for them at Dry Wells. | 639 | ||
| Neutral 50 | There was death in that meeting, even while Vulpes smiled - asked for our help against the other tribes. | 640 | ||
| Neutral 50 | All the while, they were looking to cast our history on the fire. And did. Another tribe, consumed by the Bull - nothing left. | 641 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic109 | In the death of that history, another was born, and you grew to respect the White Legs. | Neutral 50 | {Disdain} Respect the White Legs? That tribe of jackals? Never. | 642 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic110 | But the Twisted Hairs survived, even after Caesar. | Neutral 50 | No, they didn't. They were ended, completely. Became part of history's march. | 643 |
| But the Twisted Hairs survived, even after Caesar. | Neutral 50 | If you feel there is meaning in the White Legs taking the braids of my tribe... what they did... insult, not respect. | 644 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic111 | So you carry two symbols then - the mark of America and the Twisted Hairs, neither dead. | Neutral 50 | {Frowns} Both... both survived, pieces of them. Remnants, nothing more. | 645 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic112 | It's proof that killing a symbol is going to be harder than you thought. | Neutral 50 | Back to symbols and history, then. Hard to kill... like Couriers. | 646 |
| It's proof that killing a symbol is going to be harder than you thought. | Neutral 50 | You're saying when the meaning gets lost - that what happens here, can make things worse. {Beat} Happened in the Mojave. Flags of the Bear and Bull. | 647 | |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic116 | You're planning to kill a nation from a distance, just like NCR - just like you accused me of. | Neutral 50 | {Frowns} What do I care for your perspective. You walk blindly, foolishly into death, your own and others. | 648 |
| Neutral 50 | You do not rule my actions, and do not mistake my acts for yours. | 649 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic119 | If my words won't change your mind, what about the messages in the Eyebot? | Neutral 50 | The machine made from the parts of Navarro? It had only one message in its core - to get home, at any cost. | 650 |
| Neutral 50 | It echoes its master... and soon the missiles here will as well. | 651 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic120 | The Divide survived in you. If it felt like something fighting for, you can rebuild it. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} Nothing can prevent what comes. The missiles will launch. {Beat} These questions - your words, or mine - what do they matter to you. | 652 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic121 | Look, just the fact we're talking should mean you don't want to do this. | Neutral 50 | No. You are wrong. Words will not bridge this. | 653 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic123 | Don't even suggest we're equals. You couldn't have done this without me bringing you what you need. | Neutral 50 | {Sneers, anger, player's getting to him} You were tricked. Still, you take pride in it. | 654 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic124 | No danger there. You skipped past where you build the community, moved onto killing one. | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} Nothing can prevent what comes. The missiles will launch. {Beat} These questions - your words, or mine - what do they matter to you. | 655 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic125 | I want you to die knowing you're wrong, and that's what history will remember. | Neutral 50 | {Cold} We fight over how we will be remembered, then. | 656 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic126 | It has history inside it. The logs of what's left of "America." | Neutral 50 | {Slight anger, what is this nonsense} There is nothing inside the machine except the means to awaken the missiles in the Divide. {Emph} That is its only message. | 657 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic127 | Its logs tell of a place where America survived... may still exist. And it's falling apart. | Neutral 50 | {Frowns, suspicious} You lie. There was only one message in the machine, only one message in the package you brought. | 658 |
| Neutral 50 | The Divide bore the symbol of America... as did the package from Navarro. The origins of the machine is... of no importance. | 659 | ||
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic129 | The package I brought was from Navarro, the Divide scanned ED-E's logs from the Mojave. | Neutral 50 | {Angry} What do you seek to gain by telling me this. If you think that the symbol I wear is a weakness... | 660 |
| NVDLC04DialogueUlyssesNVDLC04UlyssesTopic131 | I believe the missiles can't be stopped. If you believe me, though, we might get through this. | Neutral 50 | If we must survive to carry its message... then that is what shall be done. I will not let America die here. | 661 |
| Neutral 50 | But... it may not matter. Even if we lay down our weapons, the Divide... it still stands against us. | 662 | ||
| NVDLC04EDEUlyssesTopic001 | {Ulysses Cut-In 1} | Disgust 50 | {NCR Opening} There's your signal... faint, but there. {Beat, slight condemnation} Just like NCR - voice without fire, without strength, sick.{No sound file} | 663 |
| Anger 50 | Heard tales of you walking the Mojave. Giving the two-headed bear strength. Giving hollow men like Kimball, like Crocker, half the life Hanlon had. | 664 | ||
| Disgust 50 | Now... let's test that strength. That... "conviction." {Disgust} Courier. | 665 | ||
| {Ulysses Cut-In 1} | Disgust 50 | {Legion Opening} There's your signal... faint, but there. {Beat, slight condemnation} A woman in Caesar's service. Looks like the Bear has had its victory, after all.{No sound file} | 666 | |
| {Ulysses Cut-In 1} | Disgust 50 | {Legion Opening} There's your signal... faint, but there. {Beat, slight condemnation} Charging ahead, like the rest of our brothers, blood in your eyes.{No sound file} | 667 | |
| {Ulysses Cut-In 1} | Disgust 50 | {Vegas Opening} Taking your chances, coming here. {Disgust} Just like bringing the lord of Vegas his tribute, bending your knee to Old World ghosts.{No sound file} | 668 | |
| Anger 50 | You and that Chip - deserve each other, twenty-nine less coins than other traitors have carried, if history's true. | 669 | ||
| Disgust 50 | Now see the road the Old World paves... and what the lights of New Vegas promise, if they haven't blinded your eyes. | 670 | ||
| {Ulysses Cut-In 1} | Disgust 50 | {Normal Opening} There's your signal. Faint, but there. {Beat, matter-of-fact} You came, good. Curious, maybe.{No sound file} | 671 | |
| Anger 50 | You walked the Mojave without a flag on your back. That'll end soon, can't walk the Long 15 and not have a nation's shadow fall on you. | 672 | ||
| Disgust 50 | Maybe you just need to be tested. Or you believe in nothing. {Cold accusing} We'll see. | 673 | ||
| NVDLC04EDEUlyssesTopic002 | {Ulysses Cut-In 2} | Neutral 50 | {Contacting player through radio} There you are, you went quiet for a time... knew killing the Bear wouldn't prove easy... {slight disgust, hates ED-E} you and your machine, you survived. | 674 |
| Neutral 50 | There's a lesson here, in the Divide. Old World history about paving and intentions could teach the Republic a thing or two - if they listened. | 675 | ||
| Neutral 50 | They have an idea of trying to do what's right, never quite getting there. Maybe you've seen it - Nipton, elsewhere. | 676 | ||
| {Ulysses Cut-In 2} | Neutral 50 | {Contacting player through radio} Picking up the signal from your machine... was quiet for a time, thought the Road had claimed another of the Legion.{No sound file} | 677 | |
| Neutral 50 | Too many of the Bull have already fallen here... to radiation, fire... and what burrows below. | 678 | ||
| {Ulysses Cut-In 2} | Neutral 50 | {Contacting player through radio} There you are, you went quiet for a time... thought you might have returned to Vegas, its comforts. {Slight disgust} Maybe you took that machine with you.{No sound file} | 679 | |
| Neutral 50 | There's a lesson here, in the Divide. Old World history about holding on to something so tightly it breaks... or falls apart. | 680 | ||
| Neutral 50 | May have seen the cracks in Vegas's walls already. If so, they'll grow, in time, no matter how much you back House. | 681 | ||
| {Ulysses Cut-In 2} | Neutral 50 | {Contacting player through radio} There you are, you went quiet for a time. {Beat, slight disgust for machine} Then that signal came in strong from your machine, like a heartbeat.{No sound file} | 682 | |
| Neutral 50 | Made your way through Old World towns, the tunnels that join them... now, the High Road. | 683 | ||
| Neutral 50 | For all you've seen behind you - {quieter} there's worse along this stretch. Deathclaws - hunt the Marked Men, {even quieter, for emphasis} and they also hunt what burrows below. | 684 | ||
| NVDLC04EDEUlyssesTopic003 | {Ulysses Cut-In 3} | Neutral 50 | Hopeville, High Road, Ashton... tiny cracks in the Earth, {emph} nothing compared to the road carved ahead.{No sound file} | 685 |
| Neutral 50 | Before you... this is the {emph} edge of the Divide. Ahead lies your work, the history you burned in the earth. {Beat, emph} What you brought to the people here. | 686 | ||
| NVDLC04EDEUlyssesTopic004 | {Ulysses Cut-In 4} | Neutral 50 | {Cold} Thought that explosion, that building falling deep in the Divide might have been your work... wouldn't kill you, maybe close. {AUDIO: Need more distortion here, Ulysses just cut in.} | 687 |
| Neutral 50 | Knew you'd survive... but no need to go any farther. You've brought me what I need - that machine with you, sealed in the Hopeville silo. | 688 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Needed someone to unlock it - bring it home. {Cold} Now the signal's strong enough, no need for you to carry it anymore. I can call your machine to me. | 689 | ||
| NVDLC04EndingSlideDivide01 | NVDLC04EndingSlideDivide0 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Male} As for the Courier... he turned his back on his home for the second time and made his way back, navigating the treachery of the Divide. | 690 |
| NVDLC04EndingSlideDivide0 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Female} As for the Courier... she turned her back on her home for the second time and made her way back, navigating the treachery of the Divide. | 691 | |
| NVDLC04EndingSlideDivide02 | NVDLC04EndingSlideDivide02 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} Tunnelers and the Marked Men... avoided the lone figure, as if recognizing the Courier's right to passage... or out of fear. | 692 |
| NVDLC04EndingSlideFinale | NVDLC04EndingSlideFinale | Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Draw it to a close} And this road - has reached its end. | 693 |
| NVDLC04EndingSlideSingleMissileLaunch01 | NVDLC04EndingMissileLaunchNCR01 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Target: NCR} ...missiles fell on NCR and the Long 15 caravan route beyond the Mojave Outpost, the road the Courier had been walking when the tale began. | 694 |
| Neutral 50 | {Narration} Caravans and NCR outposts along the route were reduced to ash, an Old World gift from the Divide. | 695 | ||
| NVDLC04EndingMissileLaunchNCR01 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Target: Legion} ...missiles fell on the East and the Legion encampment at Dry Wells... where the Twisted Hairs had allied, then been betrayed by Vulpes and Caesar. | 696 | |
| Neutral 50 | {Narration} Legion soldiers died, their silhouettes blasted into the ground and earth, the last word of the last of the Twisted Hairs. | 697 | ||
| NVDLC04EndingSlideSingleMissileLaunch02 | NVDLC04EndingMissileLaunchNCR02 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Target: NCR} As catastrophic as the damage was for NCR, the act made the Courier stronger for having no history, and no retreat. | 698 |
| Neutral 50 | {Narration} It was an ending to things - a way of erasing the road that had led to this point and the history that had walked with it. | 699 | ||
| NVDLC04EndingMissileLaunchNCR02 | Neutral 50 | {DUPE} {Narration} {Target: Legion} It was an ending to things - a way of erasing the road that had led to this point and the history that had walked with it. | 700 | |
| NVDLC04EndingSlideStart | NVDLC04EndingSlideStart | Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Wild Wasteland} {Target: Both Factions} The Couriers finally, really did it. They blew up the lands West and East of the Mojave... damning them all to hell. | 701 |
| Neutral 50 | {Narration} The act was discovered 200 years later, as other Couriers explored the Mojave wastes. | 702 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Narration} There, they saw NCR relics, reminders of their once proud history. | 703 | ||
| NVDLC04EndingSlideStart | Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Target: Both Factions} The Divide erupted in fire, violent, red, as the last message of the two Couriers arced into the sky... | 704 | |
| Neutral 50 | {Narration} The missiles rained like spears down on the land, burning flags and communities alike... destroying all they struck. | 705 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Narration} The history of the West was erased for the second time, thorough and complete... and America slept once more. | 706 | ||
| NVDLC04EndingSlideStart | Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Target: One Faction} The Divide erupted in fire as the flame trail of the two Couriers' last message arced into the sky... | 707 | |
| NVDLC04EndingSlideSunset01 | NVDLC04EndingSlideSunset01 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} It's said war - war never changes. | 708 |
| NVDLC04EndingSlideSunset02 | NVDLC04EndingSlideSunset02 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Male - correcting the previous statement} Men do, through the roads they walk. | 709 |
| NVDLC04EndingSlideSunset02 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Female - correcting the previous statement - war never changes} Women do, through the roads they walk. | 710 | |
| NVDLC04EndingSlideUlyssesAlive01 | NVDLC04EndingUlyssesAlive01 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} Hopeville burned lightless in the night, invisible fires of radiation scorching it from within and without. | 711 |
| Neutral 50 | {Narration} It is said a man still walked its streets, with a tattered jacket, an Old World flag etched on the back... | 712 | ||
| NVDLC04EndingSlideUlyssesAlive02 | NVDLC04EndingUlyssesAlive02 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} He remained there, perhaps as punishment for the scars he left on the wastes - or a reminder of a history he could not forget. | 713 |
| Neutral 50 | {Narration} For Ulysses... his journey was over. The Courier had been the end of {"emph" refers to Ulysses} his road. | 714 | ||
| NVDLC04EndingSlideUlyssesDead01 | NVDLC04EndingUlyssesDead01 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} At the end of the struggle, only one Courier remained in the heart of the Divide. The {emph} true Courier, Courier Six. | 715 |
| Neutral 50 | {Narration} The Courier tore the ancient flag of the Commonwealth from its cables, and cast it over the corpse... | 716 | ||
| NVDLC04EndingSlideUlyssesDead02 | NVDLC04EndingUlyssesDead02 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} ...though whether done as a sign of respect, or in anger for what had been endured to reach this moment - that is unknown. | 717 |
| Neutral 50 | {Narration} Interpretation is something best left to history, and only the surviving Courier would ever know for certain. | 718 | ||
| NVDLC04EndingSlideVista01 | NVDLC04EndingMissileLaunchLegion01 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Male} The Courier walked until he stood again upon the edge of the Divide, the last road he would walk before the second battle for Hoover Dam. | 719 |
| Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Male} There, beside his feet, was a final package, from one Courier to another - a footlocker, bearing a gift, and a message. | 720 | ||
| NVDLC04EndingMissileLaunchLegion01 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Female} The Courier walked until she stood again upon the edge of the Divide, the last road she would walk before the second battle for Hoover Dam. | 721 | |
| Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Female} There, beside her feet, was a final package, from one Courier to another - a footlocker, bearing a gift, and a message. | 722 | ||
| NVDLC04EndingSlideVista02 | NVDLC04EndingMissileLaunchLegion02 | Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Knowingly, confidentially} But that message - it is something for Couriers to carry, and for them alone. | 723 |
| Neutral 50 | {Narration} {Bring it to a close} The lights flickered across the Divide, reminders that the Old World histories persist, and find meaning in the present. | 724 | ||
| NVDLC04UlyssesBigMT1HolotapeNote | NVDLC04UlyssesBigMT1HolotapeNote | Neutral 50 | ...back again. Left that crater behind. Got a few holotapes left, ones from the medical center. | 725 |
| Neutral 50 | The woman... she fixed the recorder. Said it wouldn't last, repayment for me fixing her. She doesn't like debts, can respect that. | 726 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Payment enough, just to hear someone who believes in the Brotherhood of Steel. Not Elijah. Different view. Same madness. | 727 | ||
| Disgust 50 | She answered me on their philosophy, their way of seeing - the roads they walk. {Disgust} Dead-ends. Empty... as if technology can solve anything. | 728 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet, reflective} Big Empty's proof where that road leads. {Beat} Just like the Divide, and all the roads that lead to it. | 729 | ||
| NVDLC04UlyssesBigMT2HolotapeNote | NVDLC04UlyssesBigMT2HolotapeNote | Neutral 50 | Big Empty - there's something hidden there, a crater, past wind and sand - so deep in the desert, there's no turning back. | 730 |
| Neutral 50 | Finding the crater was an accident, was following the weather patterns - the Divide sky torn like that, man's violence, not nature's. | 731 | ||
| Neutral 50 | That violence in the sky, had a source. Tracked it. Like following a river current. | 732 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Left the colors to mark my way, like always, case someone finds them, learns the pattern - the Courier might. | 733 | ||
| Neutral 50 | When I thought sand and wind would never end... came to the crater. | 734 | ||
| Neutral 50 | And there... there was an Old World facility, a weather station, at the edge, still raking the sky with electricity and generators. | 735 | ||
| Neutral 50 | And beyond it... saw the rest of the Old World hell there, all carved up like garden plots. Had to see what was there, couldn't leave it be. | 736 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Slight irritation} Things sleep in the Big Empty, the Brotherhood woke them up - can't move quiet, any more than the two-headed Bear can. | 737 | ||
| Neutral 50 | And when they woke up, it was like all of history waking up at once. Almost didn't make it out. {Beat, quiet} Almost. Left with answers I never intended. | 738 | ||
| NVDLC04UlyssesBigMT3HolotapeNote | NVDLC04UlyssesBigMT3HolotapeNote | Neutral 50 | Have you ever wanted to speak to history - just to know the why of it? {Beat} I don't. Not any longer. | 739 |
| Disgust 50 | There's old stories about gods and men, past history, into myth - where the gods, they're like children... petulant, cruel. | 740 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Emph} Those were the voices of the Big Empty, the past. Couldn't leave well enough alone, had to ask. Had to ask the why of it. | 741 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Slight frustration} Their answers were madness. And power, stronger than me, would take a hundred Elijahs... someone tougher than him or I to best them in their Dome. | 742 | ||
| Neutral 50 | They didn't know why they were there, what had led to that point, their names - like serpents devouring themselves, cannibalizing their own thoughts. | 743 | ||
| Neutral 50 | When all seemed lost, thought it was the end - my anger gave me strength to ask them my last question. | 744 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Echoing the question he asked the Think Tank} "Who are you, that do not know your history?" | 745 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Slight reverence} And they awoke. For... a short time. | 746 | ||
| Neutral 50 | The flag you wear, they said. We remember. America. | 747 | ||
| Neutral 50 | It wasn't just a flag to them... it was a place, an idea they had {emph} cared for. Once. | 748 | ||
| Neutral 50 | They told me what it was like to grow in that world... all they had done to lift it up... protect it. They... didn't know it was gone, that... | 749 | ||
| Neutral 50 | ...yet they had cared once. Before forgetting their history. | 750 | ||
| Neutral 50 | As they were talking... kept seeing the Courier's shadow behind them, giving each their words weight. History cast aside... a home, left behind. | 751 | ||
| Neutral 50 | I listened. I asked. Was there anything left? {Emph} Anything that still carries America's voice? | 752 | ||
| Neutral 50 | And they told me I had already been there. I and one other, walking right out of history deeper than we knew. | 753 | ||
| Neutral 50 | They told me what lies in the heart of the Divide, what can be found there. And the words to awaken it - and the one to speak them. | 754 | ||
| NVDLC04UlyssesCombatEyebotDestroyed01 | NVDLC04UlyssesCombatEyebotDestroyed01 | Neutral 50 | {Dismissive/contempt} Destroying my machines won't help you. This facility will make more. | 755 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesCombatEyebotDestroyed02 | NVDLC04UlyssesCombatEyebotDestroyed02 | Disgust 50 | {Dismissive contempt, under his breath} Don't need Old World medicine to kill you. | 756 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesCombatEyebotsAllDestroyed | NVDLC04UlyssesCombatEyebotsAllDestroyed | Neutral 50 | {Slightly surprised, player destroyed all his robots} Didn't think you'd outlast the machines. {Slightly pleased, they can settle things personally} Good. | 757 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesCombatEyebotsDisabled01 | NVDLC04UlyssesCombatEyebotsDisabled01 | Neutral 50 | {Ulysses Fighting Eyebots have been disabled, matter-of-fact} Just you and me, then. {Slight beat, firm} Always was. | 758 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesCombatEyebotsDisabled02 | NVDLC04UlyssesCombatEyebotsDisabled02 | Neutral 50 | {Ulysses Healing Eyebots have been disabled, dismissive} Can't stop the Old World's return, Courier. | 759 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesCombatEyebotsHostile01 | NVDLC04UlyssesCombatEyebotsHostile01 | Surprise 50 | {Ulysses Fighting Eyebots have been turned against him, slight surprise} Took my machines? {To himself} Hnh. Underestimated you. | 760 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesCombatEyebotsHostile02 | NVDLC04UlyssesCombatEyebotsHostile02 | Anger 50 | {Ulysses Healing Eyebots have been turned against him, slight anger} Machines might keep you alive, but they won't save you. | 761 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesCombatMarkedMenAllDead | NVDLC04UlyssesCombatMarkedMenAllDead | Neutral 50 | {All the Marked Men have died.} No more echoes of the Bull and the Bear. The rest will share their fate. | 762 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesCombatMarkedMenEnter | NVDLC04UlyssesCombatMarkedMenEnter | Neutral 50 | {Marked Men enter the temple, dismissive} The dead men of the New World... they've come for you. | 763 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesCombatMarkedMenKilled01 | NVDLC04UlyssesCombatMarkedMenKilled01 | Anger 50 | {Marked Men have been killed, cold contempt} Kill as many as you want - the Divide will birth more. | 764 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesCombatMarkedMenKilled02 | NVDLC04UlyssesCombatMarkedMenKilled02 | Disgust 50 | {Marked Men have been killed} Killing them is mercy. | 765 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesCombatTaunt01 | NVDLC04UlyssesCombatTaunt01 | Anger 50 | {Taunt, snarl} I'll end you - and your history. | 766 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesCombatTaunt02 | NVDLC04UlyssesCombatTaunt02 | Disgust 50 | {Taunt, dismissive} Come all this way - to die alone. | 767 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesCombatTaunt03 | NVDLC04UlyssesCombatTaunt03 | Neutral 50 | {Grim, taunt} Running out of time, Courier. | 768 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesFinalMsgHolotape | NVDLC04UlyssesFinalMsgHolotape | Neutral 50 | Last tape, last message. In case... you best me. If you're hearing this, you have, through blood or word. | 769 |
| Neutral 50 | This message, and all that lies with it - it is for you, Courier. If you want to know the... why of things. | 770 | ||
| Neutral 50 | This world, I've walked a good part of it... I stopped only because of you. What you did - gave me pause. | 771 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Long ago, I crossed the Colorado, the first among the Legion to see Hoover Dam in all its glory... an Old World wall, yet bridging two sides. | 772 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Quieter} And beyond it, a symbol of a two-headed Bear, an idea great enough to challenge Caesar himself. | 773 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Might kill him, taking it, whether he won or lost. The Bull needs to fight, needs the challenge, without it... it falters, dies in the dust. | 774 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {To himself} Might be a lesson there, in you and me. {"I'll"} Leave the thought behind the message to you. | 775 | ||
| Neutral 50 | My message is this - the destruction that has been wrought, at the Divide - or elsewhere, if you couldn't stop me... | 776 | ||
| Neutral 50 | It can happen again. It will {emph} keep happening. | 777 | ||
| Neutral 50 | If war doesn't change, men must change, and so must their symbols. {Beat, quiet} Even if it is nothing at all, know what you follow, Courier... | 778 | ||
| Neutral 50 | ...just as I followed you, to the end. Whatever your symbol... | 779 | ||
| Neutral 50 | ...carry it on your back, and wear it proudly when you stand at Hoover Dam. | 780 | ||
| NVDLC04UlyssesForceGreetDUPLICATE001 | NVDLC04UlyssesForceGreet | Anger 50 | {Irritated, player hasn't given up} Even in this place, NCR's shadow falls. {Beat} Or is it just, you, {speaking title} Courier, without the Bear's corpse to weigh you down. | 781 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesForceGreet | Anger 50 | {Irritated, player hasn't given up} So you came, {disgust} Frumentarii, {beat, title} Courier - whatever you are now. {Slight mocking} Come to carry out Caesar's law? His voice carries no weight here. | 782 | |
| NVDLC04UlyssesForceGreet | Anger 50 | {Irritated, player hasn't given up - hates Vegas} Your city, Vegas, lies in the other direction... with the rest of its slaves. {Beat} Or is it just, you, {speaking title} Courier, without the lights and ghosts. | 783 | |
| NVDLC04UlyssesForceGreet | Anger 50 | {Irritated, player hasn't given up} So you came, {disgust} Courier, to what - watch your homeland burn one last time. Kill me, perhaps. | 784 | |
| NVDLC04UlyssesForceGreet | Disgust 50 | {Beat, disgust, a little quieter - notices player's got ED-E with him} Judging by your shadow... maybe you can't let your machine go. Doesn't matter now. | 785 | |
| Neutral 50 | Either way, the Divide giants are awakening. The missiles here, on their way home. {Cold} There is no way to stop them. | 786 | ||
| NVDLC04UlyssesForceGreet | Neutral 50 | You are too late. The Divide is awakening - the package, and the message within, have come full circle. | 787 | |
| Neutral 50 | The sequence has begun, just as before. Except this time, the missiles will touch the sky instead of being locked beneath the ground. | 788 | ||
| NVDLC04UlyssesFriendMMUsesStealthboy | NVDLC04UlyssesFriendMMUsesStealthboy | Neutral 50 | {A Marked Man uses a stealthboy} Watch the shadows - the beasts cloak themselves in Old World tech. | 789 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesFriendMMWithSatchelCharge | NVDLC04UlyssesFriendMMWithSatchelCharge | Neutral 50 | {A Marked Man is throwing satchel charges} Watch the floor. Mines. {To himself} Tactics of the Bear. | 790 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesFriendMarkedMenAllDead | NVDLC04UlyssesFriendMarkedMenAllDead | Neutral 50 | {All the Marked Men are dead, combat is over.} We've broken them. The Bear and the Bull have no more shadows to throw at us. | 791 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesFriendMarkedMenEnter | NVDLC04UlyssesFriendMarkedMenEnter | Neutral 50 | {Marked Men enter the Temple, combat starts} They come for us, East and West alike. | 792 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesFriendMarkedMenHalfDead | NVDLC04UlyssesFriendMarkedMenHalfDead | Neutral 50 | {Half of the Marked Men have died, combat is half over} We've shown them fear, but not enough. More will come. | 793 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesFriendSentryDies01 | NVDLC04UlyssesFriendSentryDies01 | Neutral 50 | {To himself, robot is destroyed} Another Old World soldier falls. | 794 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesFriendSentryDies02 | NVDLC04UlyssesFriendSentryDies02 | Neutral 50 | {To himself} Old World's running out of machines. | 795 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesFriendTaunt01 | NVDLC04UlyssesFriendTaunt01 | Neutral 50 | {Dismissive} Beasts from the Divide. To the Divide, they return. | 796 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesFriendTaunt02 | NVDLC04UlyssesFriendTaunt02 | Neutral 50 | Mercy killings - let them rest. | 797 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesFriendTaunt03 | NVDLC04UlyssesFriendTaunt03 | Neutral 50 | You have forgotten all you were, traded glory for savagery. {Thoughtful} Fitting. | 798 |
| NVDLC04UlyssesWhiteLegs1HolotapeNote | NVDLC04UlyssesWhiteLegs1HolotapeNote | Neutral 50 | {Studying weather, log to himself, thinking back} Emptiness here - like the sands of the Great Salt Lake, echoed. {Beat} The beating in the Divide sky... like storm drums of the White Legs. | 799 |
| Neutral 50 | {Introspective} Ran with them on the salt beds, at Caesar's command - {recalling Caesar's orders, echoing them} cut the throats of the two-headed Bear, cut all communities off. | 800 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Use storm, sky. Disease. Fire, starvation... and the violence of the ignorant to ruin all who {emph} could... might stand against him. | 801 | ||
| Neutral 50 | But the White Legs... they couldn't live on their own, like most scavengers. So gave them purpose - turned their hunger into a weapon. | 802 | ||
| Neutral 50 | The wall of New {CANE-in} Canaan... too high for Caesar. Too proud, maybe - {quiet} or maybe something there, from his past, that needed killing. Memory of Graham. | 803 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Helped them dig out Canaan supply caches, and other secrets the sands hid - bunkers, filled with powered weapons even the Brotherhood might desire. | 804 | ||
| Neutral 50 | They called these new weapons "storm drums" in the firing of shells. Taught them the power in the casings... to channel the spirits in their guns. | 805 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Me... they called me the Flag-Bearer. Glory in my hand, in my staff that still bore the weight of the Old World just as the symbol on my back did. | 806 | ||
| Neutral 50 | I learned their weapons as a means of respect. And when it came their turn to pay respect to me... history came rushing back. | 807 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Quiet, bring to a close} Can't escape what's been done. History's there... no matter how far you walk. | 808 | ||
| NVDLC04UlyssesWhiteLegs2HolotapeNote | NVDLC04UlyssesWhiteLegs2HolotapeNote | Neutral 50 | I walked the Great Salt Lake as Caesar's eye, then his hand. | 809 |
| Neutral 50 | Mongrels there, two-legs and four. Saw the walls of New Canaan the scavengers circled... hadn't the strength or fire to take. Too high, too strong. | 810 | ||
| Neutral 50 | White Legs, they were born for war, they run to it, hungry for battle... yet their hunger is to be a part of history, something larger. | 811 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Like the Legion. As always, brought them a message - from Caesar. | 812 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Paraphrasing message from Caesar} If New Canaan burns, Caesar might {emph} see them. {Scoffs} "Might." Even the chance was a lie. | 813 | ||
| Neutral 50 | To honor Caesar - destroy the {emph} history of New Canaan, and the way they {emph} carry it - in their generations and family. | 814 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Caesar respects such strength, I told them. That - that was truth, even if "strength" wasn't the word. {Correcting} Obedience. | 815 | ||
| Neutral 50 | You must be willing to kill {emph} anyone, children, mothers, the weak, elders... if these New Canaanites value the generations, that is what you must kill. | 816 | ||
| Neutral 50 | It was like Vulpes was speaking through me. Use the night, silence, and fire to change their words to pleas, to screams. | 817 | ||
| Neutral 50 | No need for bombs when hate will do. | 818 | ||
| Neutral 50 | I... asked the White Legs to destroy a people with ancestry, going back thousands of years - another death of history, lost to time. | 819 | ||
| Neutral 50 | The New Canaanites... they supplied medicine. Food, traded with others. Civilization, a hand from the past, not history... | 820 | ||
| Neutral 50 | ...but maybe a past deeper, farther than that to a place where this... {beat} God really exists. | 821 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {Dismissive} If so, his handiwork and people belong elsewhere, not in this place. Another symbol, like Bear and Bull, with no meaning in the present. | 822 | ||
| NVDLC04UlyssesWhiteLegs3Holotape | NVDLC04UlyssesWhiteLegs3HolotapeNote | Neutral 50 | The White Legs... meant to show respect, bribe me for Caesar's favor, echoing mannerisms and words... | 823 |
| Neutral 50 | Showed them tech caches, taught them the workings of chamber and powder, spoke of Caesar's {emph} pride in those that used such things... lies. And... | 824 | ||
| Neutral 50 | {quiet disgust} ...and then... they tried to honor {emph} me - not the Legion. | 825 | ||
| Neutral 50 | They brought me before the campfire one night, showed me how they changed themselves, how they wore their hair now. | 826 | ||
| Neutral 50 | It was like my entire dead tribe in the firelight, teeth grinning red in the dark - eager corpses, blood-covered ghosts. | 827 | ||
| Neutral 50 | They... had taken my braids, the way of the Twisted Hairs, as if it showed they were {emph} like me, {emph} of me... | 828 | ||
| Neutral 50 | ...while every knot in their braids spoke of raping, violence - and ignorance of what the knots {emph} meant. They thought to show respect... defiled it. | 829 | ||
| Neutral 50 | Lost myself in trying to read the braids they wove, when I remembered they had put no meaning in it. They had no history of what it meant. | 830 | ||
| Neutral 50 | They didn't even know the insult in the twists, knots... and Dry Wells came rushing back, the White Legs circled like that... | 831 | ||
| Neutral 50 | It was like looking at the dead of my tribe, reborn as ghosts - hateful, hungry, bowing to Caesar. {Quiet, bring to a close} Another history... gone, carried by me alone. | 832 | ||
| PLAYERFIREWEAPON | PLAYER FIRE WEAPON | Neutral 50 | Clearing the chamber? | 833 |
| PLAYER FIRE WEAPON | Neutral 50 | Better off saving ammo. | 834 | |
| PLAYERINIRONSITES | PLAYER IN IRON SITES | Neutral 50 | {Player pointing gun at him} Fire, and I won't take it lying down. | 835 |
| PLAYER IN IRON SITES | Neutral 50 | {Player pointing gun at him, grim} Better be sure. | 836 | |
| PLAYERLAYMINE | PLAYER LAY MINE | Neutral 50 | {Sees a player lay a mine, scorn} A tactic of the Bear. | 837 |
| PLAYER LAY MINE | Neutral 50 | {Scorn, player laid a mine, "Hanlon's" a famous mine-layer} Worthy of Hanlon. | 838 | |
| PLAYERTHROWGRENADE | PLAYER THROW GRENADE | Neutral 50 | {Player threw a grenade} Watch the blast! | 839 |
| PLAYER THROW GRENADE | Neutral 50 | {DUPE of AvoidThreat: Player threw a grenade} Explosive! | 840 |
Conversation[]
| TOPIC | TOPIC TEXT / PROMPT | EMOTION | RESPONSE TEXT | # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GOODBYE Goodbye. |
Nothing more to say. I'll be going. | Neutral 50 | {Farewell} The Divide belongs to history now. {Beat} The Mojave awaits. | 841 |
| HELLO | Hello | Neutral 50 | {Acknowledging} Courier. | 842 |
Combat[]
| TOPIC | TOPIC TEXT / PROMPT | EMOTION | RESPONSE TEXT | # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AcceptYield | AcceptYield | Neutral 50 | {Warning} Watch yourself. | 843 |
| AcceptYield | Neutral 50 | Next time, you won't get mercy. | 844 | |
| Assault | Assault | Neutral 50 | {Angry} If that's what you wish. | 845 |
| Assault | Neutral 50 | {Firm} Then let's settle this. | 846 | |
| Attack | Attack | Neutral 50 | {Attack grunt} | 847 |
| Attack | Neutral 50 | Let's see what you stand for. | 848 | |
| Attack | Neutral 50 | The Divide'll be your grave. | 849 | |
| Attack | Neutral 50 | Let's have an ending to this. | 850 | |
| AvoidThreat | AvoidThreat | Neutral 50 | {Scorn} Bombs won't save you. | 851 |
| AvoidThreat | Neutral 50 | Explosive! | 852 | |
| Death | Death | Neutral 50 | {Death sound} | 853 |
| Death | Neutral 50 | {To himself} So it's to be my ending, then. | 854 | |
| Death | Neutral 50 | {To himself} End of the road. | 855 | |
| Death | Neutral 50 | {To himself} My flag rests here. | 856 | |
| FireExplosive | FireExplosive | Neutral 50 | I'll answer fire with fire. | 857 |
| FireExplosive | Neutral 50 | {Snarl} Gift from the Divide. | 858 | |
| Flee | Flee | Neutral 50 | {To himself} Need to get some distance. | 859 |
| Flee | Neutral 50 | {To himself, about player} Stronger than I thought. | 860 | |
| Hit | Hit | Neutral 50 | <grunt.> | 861 |
| Hit | Neutral 50 | <grunt.> | 862 | |
| PowerAttack | PowerAttack | Neutral 50 | {Power Attack Sound 1} | 863 |
| PowerAttack | Neutral 50 | {Power Attack Sound 2} | 864 | |
| Steal | Steal | Neutral 50 | {Disgust} Scavenger. | 865 |
Detection[]
| TOPIC | TOPIC TEXT / PROMPT | EMOTION | RESPONSE TEXT | # |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AlertIdle | AlertIdle | Neutral 50 | {To himself} Something's here. | 866 |
| AlertIdle | Neutral 50 | {Keeping voice down, to himself} Checking for movement. | 867 | |
| AlertToCombat | AlertToCombat | Neutral 50 | {Spotted player} Movement. | 868 |
| AlertToCombat | Neutral 50 | {Spotted player} Found you. | 869 | |
| AlertToCombat | Neutral 50 | {Spotted player} There. | 870 | |
| AlertToNormal | AlertToNormal | Neutral 50 | Comes back, I'll be ready. | 871 |
| AlertToNormal | Neutral 50 | Courier'll show soon. | 872 | |
| CombatToLost | CombatToLost | Neutral 50 | {Quiet, to himself} Must've taken cover. | 873 |
| CombatToLost | Neutral 50 | {Quiet, to himself} Gone to ground. | 874 | |
| CombatToNormal | CombatToNormal | Neutral 50 | {To himself} Gone. | 875 |
| CombatToNormal | Neutral 50 | {To himself} Must've took off. Won't leave - not yet. | 876 | |
| LostIdle | LostIdle | Neutral 50 | {Himself} Don't see anything. | 877 |
| LostIdle | Neutral 50 | {Himself} Can't be far. | 878 | |
| LostToCombat | LostToCombat | Neutral 50 | {Grim, determined} Won't lose you again. | 879 |
| LostToCombat | Neutral 50 | Didn't walk through ash and hell to lose you now. | 880 | |
| LostToNormal | LostToNormal | Neutral 50 | {Quiet} Whatever it was, gone now. | 881 |
| LostToNormal | Neutral 50 | {Quiet} Comes back, we'll deal with it then. | 882 | |
| NormalToAlert | NormalToAlert | Neutral 50 | {Quiet} Something nearby. | 883 |
| NormalToAlert | Neutral 50 | {To himself} Hear something. | 884 | |
| NormalToCombat | StartCombat | Neutral 50 | {Got a target} Got you. | 885 |
| StartCombat | Neutral 50 | {Going to} End you. | 886 | |
| StartCombatResponse | StartCombatResponse | Neutral 50 | Got you. | 887 |
| StartCombatResponse | Neutral 50 | Let's end this. | 888 | |
| StartCombatResponse | Neutral 50 | {To player} End of the road. | 889 | |
| StartCombatResponse | Neutral 50 | We'll see what you stand for. | 890 |