The Sink is an artificial personality residing in the Sink in Big MT in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.
Background[]
Like other systems in the Sink, the computerized Sink was given a personality module by Dr. Mobius but was disabled around the time he left the Think Tank for the Forbidden Zone when Dr. Klein hurled all the modules off the balcony. The Sink's module ended up inside the magnetohydraulics complex, where it can potentially be recovered by the Courier in 2281.[1]
As according to its role, the Sink was programmed to want to provide clean drinking water and help clean any matter placed in it.[2] However, it is obsessed with cleanliness to the point of hysteria, especially against diseases.[3] However, even if reactivated, it cannot immediately use its function for filling bottles, as its circuits for filling non-organic containers with water have burned out years ago and would require a replacement module.[4] If this were to happen, the Sink would be happy to fill almost any bottle brought to it, provided that the bottle itself is clean.[5][6]
Interactions with the player character[]
Interactions overview[]
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This character is essential. Essential characters cannot be killed. | |
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This character is involved in quests. | |
Quests[]
- All My Friends Have Off Switches: Its personality matrix must be retrieved.
- Influencing People: An upgrade holotape must be located and installed.
Effects of player's actions[]
- The Sink, with its basic function, provides the player character with an unlimited source of clean drinking water. With the water production upgrade, it is able to fill empty bottles with water, turning them into bottles of purified water. The types of empty bottles that can be made into bottles of purified water include:
- Empty Nuka-Cola bottles
- Empty soda bottles
- Empty Sunset Sarsaparilla bottles
- Empty whiskey bottles
- Large whiskey bottles
- Milk bottles
- Despite most of the bottle types being made of glass, the resulting purified water is always stored in a plastic bottle.
- If the Courier reactivates the Sink before completing Old World Blues, the endings reveal that the Sink continues to "ruthlessly scrub any particulate matter" near it, until it eventually gains access to the magnetohydraulics complex and tries to clean the entirety of Big MT, nearly flooding the crater.[7]
- If the Courier discovers the Z-43 innovative toxins plant before completing Old World Blues, the Sink will gain an extended ending, revealing that it gains a new purpose after learning about the plant; from then on, it seeks to neutralize the chemical contamination in the soil by developing anti-toxins to flush down its drain.[7]
Notes[]
- In Hardcore mode, when the Sink's personality matrix is on, drinking from it will reduce Dehydration by 25 per drink. When the personality matrix is off, it reduces dehydration by 200 per drink. If the Courier also has an eligible container that can be filled and selects the choice to have it filled, the Sink gives the choice of filling the container(s) or drinking. If "drink" is chosen, hydration will be reduced by 200, not 25.
- The Sink expresses a strong dislike of the Biological Research Station and those who interact with it due to its function involving plants and dirt-filled planters.[8]
Notable quotes[]
- "You're back! And the brains didn't lobotomize you! Well, not any worse, at least. Hooray!"
- "Oh God, look at you! You're... filthy. I suppose you'll... want to clean up then?"
- "Why, you poor dear! Come over here and have a drink, wash off some of that... horrible, sticky... blood."
- "You can have as much as you like! Just, eh... please don't put your lips on the faucet? It's so unsanitary."
- "Between you and me, I think the Central Intelligence Unit is a bit of a snob."
- "It was getting lonely without you here. Clean, eh, but lonely."
- "You've been working with that Biological Research Station, haven't you? I suppose you'll want to... clean up?"
- "Well, hello there! Can I get you a drink?"
- "Ugh, it's just so... unsanitary! Do you know how many germs are in one cubic centimeter of dirt? Seventy... hundred... gajillion! Would you want that getting washed down your gullet day in and day out? I didn't think so!"
Appearances[]
The Sink appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.
Behind the scenes[]
Travis Stout wrote the Sink, in addition to all the other artificial personalities in Old World Blues.[Non-game 1]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Events of Old World Blues
- ↑ The Courier: "I'm okay. Talk to you later."
Sink: "Come back any time you want a drink. Or to get... clean."
(Sink's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "You seem kind of worried about dirt. What's wrong?"
Sink: "Ugh, it's just so... unsanitary! Do you know how many germs are in one cubic centimeter of dirt? Seventy... hundred... gajillion! Would you want that getting washed down your gullet day in and day out? I didn't think so!"
(Sink's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "I just came over to fill some of these empty bottles."
Sink: "Oh, I'd love to, darling, but the circuits that allow me to dispense water into non-organic containers burned out years ago. You'd have to find a replacement for that module."
(Sink's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "I just came over to fill some of these empty bottles."
Sink: "You're going to need to find yourself some empties first before I can fill them for you. Any empty bottle will do... eh, just not too dirty, okay?"
(Sink's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "I just came over to fill some of these empty bottles."
Sink: "I can do that! They... they've been thoroughly washed, haven't they?"
(Sink's dialogue) - ↑ 7.0 7.1 Old World Blues endings; Sink
- ↑ Sink: "You've been working with that Biological Research Station, haven't you? I suppose you'll want to... clean up?"
(Sink's dialogue)
Non-game