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The Toaster is an artificial personality in the Sink in Big MT in 2281. It appears in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.
Background[]
Like most of the other appliances in the Sink, the Toaster was rendered offline when Dr. Mobius left the Think Tank when Dr. Klein threw their personality chips off the high balcony. The Toaster's in particular ended up on an altar of sorts in The Cuckoo's Nest, a dwelling of lobotomites.
When reactivated, the Toaster reveals a personality that is psychotically violent, aggressive and megalomaniacal, bent on destroying the Earth with atomic fire.[1][2][3] However, he is unaware atomic fire has already rained down when the Great War began unless informed by the Courier. Upon realizing that the Earth has already been destroyed, he briefly laments that his entire driving point is now obsolete, before he quickly returns to his "Burn the World" agenda by threatening to bathe the world in "atomic fire....again!"[4] Should the Courier lie to it about the truth it will make a snide comment that he is as "useless" as Muggy.[5]
It believes that it is the boogeyman of other toasters,[2] not just murdering them but tearing them apart down to their base components.[6][7] Its deep seated rage and psychoses are supposedly born from a distinct impotency in its own abilities,[8][9] and it claims the only reason it listens to its owner is because it lacks the ability to do anything else to them.[10] It also has several weapons schematics,[11] including superheating Saturnite fists.[12][13][14][15]
Interactions with the player character[]
Interactions overview[]
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Quests[]
All My Friends Have Off Switches: The Toaster is one of the appliances that the Courier must retrieve a module for. The module is found in the Cuckoo's Nest, sitting on what appears to be a shrine for toasters and electric appliances.
Other interactions[]
- If asked what other services he provides, the Toaster offers to heat up a Saturnite fist, converting it into a super-heated Saturnite fist.
- The Toaster can also convert the following small appliances into five energy cells and three microfusion cells per item:
- Toasters (Both variants)
- Cameras
- Hot plates
- Irons
- In addition to the energy and microfusion cells, the Toaster will return one pile of scrap electronics for each toaster it receives.
- If the Courier lies, claiming that his prior statement that the world had already been incinerated in an atomic fire was "just a joke," Toaster will be relieved that he "isn't as redundant and useless as Muggy."[5]
Effects of player's actions[]
- With good or neutral Karma, the ending slides of Old World Blues will say that the Toaster continues to rant about how he would burn the world. After a particularly violent episode, the other appliances get tired of the Toaster and dump him into a bathtub, intending to short him out and kill him. In his last moments, the Toaster swears that they would "rue the day when they had bread... and no way to toast it."[16]
- With evil Karma, the ending slides will say that the Toaster, learning new destructive techniques from the Courier, continues destroying appliances and eventually builds a "blood shrine" to itself in the Cuckoo's Nest with a hundred destroyed toasters.[16]
Notes[]
- Despite initially being unaware of the world's destruction, as well as being deactivated for a long time, the Toaster apparently becomes aware of the existence of Caesar's Legion and the NCR after its reactivation.[17]
- Even if the Courier is not carrying any toasters, but has other small appliances or Saturnite fists on their person, the option of saying, "I've got some toasters for you" will still appear. Selecting this dialogue option will open the Toaster's interface.
- The Toaster is the only Sink personality that does not have additional upgrades.
Notable quotes[]
- "A toaster is just a death ray with a smaller power supply! As soon as I figure out how to tap into the main reactors, I will burn the world!"
- "Ahahaha! I am on-line once again! Tremble, world, before my electric heating coil of doom!"
- "You should be afraid! I am the scourge of all small appliances and the bogeyman that keeps lesser toasters awake at night!"
- "Have you ever tried to indulge an all-consuming urge to kill when you don't have opposable thumbs? Or hands? Or anything other than a bread slot? You'd have a lot of pent-up anger too."
- "Well, since I can't kill you, I guess I have to listen to your inane questions."
- "With the brains dealt with, soon we can spread our rule across the Mojave! All will eat burned toast and despair!"
- "While you were away, my plans have marched steadily forward. Beware, Caesar! Beware, NCR! Soon will dawn the Age of the Toaster!"
- "Yes! Yes! Soon my work will be complete! Soon the world will burn in nuclear fire!"
- "Got any more sweet, innocent little kitchen appliances for me?"
- -The Courier: "You know the world already burned in nuclear fire, right?"
-Toaster: "Soon I will - What? It... It did?" - "You want some weapon schematics? I can show you some fucking weapon schematics! You want a superheated Saturnite Power Fist? I can hook that shit up!"
- "Don't mess with me, pal! I got a heating element with your name on it!"
- "Soon the day will be at hand! I will ride forth at the head of my armies, and we will crush our foes and hear the weeping of their small appliances!"
- "Hey! Hey! I got a... super-rare... Mojave snowglobe here! All you gotta do is reach down into my bread slot!"
- "Soon, pitiful worms! Soon I will rule, and your lives will have their doneness setting turned to... darkest!"
- "Would you like some toast?"
- "Cursed electric heating filament! You are inadequate to my needs! Why? Why? Why was I not built with a death ray!"
Appearances[]
The Toaster appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.
Behind the scenes[]
Travis Stout wrote the Toaster, in addition to all the other artificial personalities in the Sink.[Non-game 1][Non-game 2]
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ Toaster: "Ahahaha! I am on-line once again! Tremble, world, before my electric heating coil of doom!"
The Courier: "Tremble? You're a toaster. How fearsome can you be?"
Toaster: "A toaster is just a death ray with a smaller power supply! As soon as I figure out how to tap into the main reactors, I will burn the world!"
(Toaster's dialogue) - ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Courier: "I'm almost afraid to ask what your function is."
Toaster: "You should be afraid! I am the scourge of all small appliances and the bogeyman that keeps lesser toasters awake at night!"
(Toaster's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "I have to go now."
Toaster: "Yes! Flee before my terrible power!"
(Toaster's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "You know the world already burned in nuclear fire, right?"
Toaster: "Soon I will - What? It... It did?"
The Courier: "Yes. A couple centuries ago, in fact."
Toaster: "Really? Well... fuck. That really puts a damper on the toaster's mood. Oh well, no use crying over spilled Armageddon - where was I? Oh, right. Soon the world will burn in nuclear fire! Again!"
(Toaster's dialogue) - ↑ 5.0 5.1 The Courier: "<Lie> No, I'm just kidding. Keep living the dream."
Toaster: "Thank God. For a second there I was afraid my whole purpose in life was obsolete and I was as redundant and useless as Muggy. Where was I? Oh, right. Soon the world will burn in nuclear fire! Mwahaha!"
(Toaster's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "So you murder toasters?"
Toaster: "Not just murder! I tear them apart and render them down to their base components! Once their guts are spilled, you can do with them what you like."
(Toaster's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "I've got some toasters for you."
Toaster: "Well, well... what have we got here? Another innocent little toaster. Come here, I won't hurt you... hah! Gotcha! Oh, yes, the sweet smell of spilled electric guts, the sparking diodes - I fucking live for this!"
(Toaster's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "Well, I for one am quaking in my boots."
Toaster: "Buddy, if my heating element were just a little bigger, you'd be on fire right now. On fire!"
(Toaster's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "Why all the rage?"
Toaster: "Have you ever tried to indulge an all-consuming urge to kill when you don't have opposable thumbs? Or hands? Or anything other than a bread slot? You'd have a lot of pent-up anger too."
(Toaster's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "I'd like to change the subject."
Toaster: "Well, since I can't kill you, I guess I have to listen to your inane questions."
(Toaster's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "What else do you do?"
Toaster: "You want some weapon schematics? I can show you some fucking weapon schematics! You want a superheated Saturnite Power Fist? I can hook that shit up!"
(Toaster's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "You mean like this one?"
Toaster: "Oh, baby, that is a thing of fuckin' beauty! Give it here, I'll soup it up for ya!"
(Toaster's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "About that Superheated Saturnite Power Fist..."
Toaster: "Like I said, bring me a Saturnite Power Fist and I'll hook that shit up for you!"
(Toaster's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "I'll keep an eye out for any Saturnite Power Fists then."
Toaster: "You find one, you bring it on back here, and we'll burn this mother down!"
(Toaster's dialogue) - ↑ The Courier: "You mean like this one?"
Toaster: "There ya go! Have fun with that. Burn the fuckin' world for me!"
(Toaster's dialogue) - ↑ 16.0 16.1 Old World Blues endings; Toaster
- ↑ Toaster: "While you were away, my plans have marched steadily forward. Beware, Caesar! Beware, NCR! Soon will dawn the Age of the Toaster!"
(Toaster's dialogue)
Non-game