“There are some fire geckos in the lower levels of the Vault. We need to get them gone so we can get to the sulfur.”— Samuel Cooke
为什么我们不能成为朋友? is a side quest in Fallout: New Vegas.
Quick walkthrough[]
| Side Quest: Why Can't We Be Friends? | |||||||||||||
| Speak with Samuel Cooke and/or Philip Lem in the overseers' offices in Vault 19. | |||||||||||||
| Enter the sulfur caves beneath the vault. | |||||||||||||
| Cooke's objective: Kill all the fire geckos within the caves. | Lem's objective: Find a way to block off access to the sulfur caves. | ||||||||||||
| Report back to Samuel Cooke or Philip Lem. | |||||||||||||
| Lem or Cooke: Ask Papa Khan about the Powder Gangers joining the Great Khans. | Lem only: convince Philip Lem to surrender the group to the NCR. | ||||||||||||
| Report back to Samuel Cooke or Philip Lem. | |||||||||||||
| Reward: 300 XP Powder Gangers fame | |||||||||||||
Detailed walkthrough[]
Speak with 塞缪尔·库克 and/or Philip Lem in the overseer's offices in Vault 19 to receive the two quest options - the offices are located on either side of the vault entrance. Then travel through either the Red or Blue sector living quarters of Vault 19. There are a few frag mines and fire geckos the Courier have to worry about once you enter. From the living quarters, find the common room with the pool tables and a hole in the floor. It will bring the Courier down to the Sulfur Mines. The Courier may either chooses to kill all of the fire geckos for Samuel Cooke, seal the caves for Philip Lem, or blow up both the caves and Vault 19.
塞缪尔·库克[]
信使杀死所有蜥蜴之后，向塞缪尔·库克报告，and the Courier will receive some Powder Ganger fame and caps. He then sends you to the 红岩峡谷联系大汗帮, 劝说父汗 和19避难所的炸药帮合作。玩家完成劝说之后，回去找到塞缪尔·库克完成任务。
Philip Lem[]
In the caves, follow the path to the right into a large cave. To the left is a large yellow rock formation peppered with lumps of gray rock. This is the “Microcline Rock”. If the Courier activates it, the rock contains enough potassium to create an explosion large enough to block the caves or destroy the vault. The Courier will need a Science of 40 or more to receive the options. Choose to "Plant enough C4 to blow up the caves" (Explosives skill of 60 and 3 C-4 plastic explosives). Return to Philip Lem and let him surrender the gang to the NCR to finish the quest, or with a Speech of 40. The Courier can convince Philip Lem to join the Great Khans, although speech check is not required if the Courier has a "liked" reputation among Great Khans. Philip requests that the Courier acts as a liaison and requires them to visit Red Rock Canyon and talk to Papa Khan to secure their alliance.
C-4[]
Here the Courier can find four packs of C-4 within the vault:
- Between filing cabinets in the clinic, behind the front desk.
- Located between the two vending machines in the cafeteria.
- Outside the underground entrance to the overseer's office elevator near the doorway with the fire hose box. When facing the fire hose box turn left towards the junk pile, the C4 is on the left side of the junk pile.
- Located under a couch in the Blue Sector living quarters (not the first floor). Go to the second room on the right, then to the couch left of the door. The C-4 should be next to the right front leg of the couch (looking at it; left leg sitting in it). However, it may be completely invisible or disappear when the player approaches it. It can easily be found by crouching and inspecting the floor close to the leg.
Blow up Vault 19[]
In the caves, find the Microcline Rock and activate it. Choose to "Plant enough C4 to destroy the caves and the vault then run like hell." (Explosives skill of 50 and 5 C-4 plastic explosives).
- 警告: 这样将视为任务失败，玩家不会得到任何经验。当玩家安放炸弹后将会被传送出去，然后任务失败的提示将会出现
- This will also leave the ending for Vault 19 unchanged:即使基地被炸毁，炸药帮仍然在袭击乡村。
Quest stages[]
For Philip Lem:
For Samuel Cooke:
Notes[]
- 尽管居民是从NCR惩戒所逃出的，但他们不属于炸藥幫的一部分 and while they will comment on the Courier relative to their Powder Ganger reputation, it has no effect on being able to obtain and complete this quest (the convicts will (usually - see talk) not attack the player with low Reputation). However, either convincing 菲利普·莱姆 to join the 可汗帮 or agreeing with his decision to surrender to the NCR after destroying the caves都会提高炸药帮名誉。
- 杀死父汗会立即导致任务失败。
- The doors to Philip Lem's overseer's office will be locked after completing the quest by helping Cooke, and the only way to get in is through the cave. Upon entering the room, there is only a puddle of blood with unidentifiable body parts. Going back and talking to Cooke reveals that he has killed Philip Lem.
- The doors leading to Philip Lem may not always be locked.
- 不管玩家支持塞缪尔·库克投奔大汗帮或者Philip Lem 投奔NCR，玩家下次来到避难所后里面将空无一人。
- 如果玩家炸毁避难所， the car park at the entrance will become a small mound of debris with smoke billowing out of it.
- 克雷格·布恩如果跟随玩家可能会擅自袭击大汗帮, 造成任务失败。
Behind the scenes[]
The name of the quest is a reference to the 1975 song Why Can't We Be Friends? by War.
Bugs[]
If following the Lem quest line, the map marker will tell you to go to the "Sulfur Caves" entrance (now blown up and billowing smoke) to find and talk to Lem about joining the Great Khans after talking to Papa Khan. Lem is actually located in the Overseer's Office, and if you've opened the stairs leading to the sulfur caves he can sometimes be found stuck there. [已验证]- If you kill Motor Runner it will overwrite this whole quest and end it for an unknown reason. [已验证]
- If you enter the Overseer's Office from the elevator entrance (Hard Lock) in Sulfur Cave and open the Overseer's Office with the Average terminal, or just go through this route at any time, you may have some issues with your companions as mentioned above in less detail. When you ascend the stairs into the office your companions become confused and instead of following you up will run out the door back into the caves. If you are at the top of the stairs with a companion and run down they will run back into the vault. It is possible, however to keep your companions with you during this if you manually "push" your companion up and down the stairs. Just crouch and slowly move them and they will glide up, or down the stairs from your push. [已验证]
- This seems more like a path finding issue. Your companions will go back the way you came and reappear by your side a few minutes later, the same way they will if you jump from a ledge.
- If the player chooses to destroy the sulfur caves and the vault, but didn't kill Cooke personally, then the ending sequence will still show Cooke still alive and the Powder Gangers terrorizing the Mojave. [已验证]
- After speaking to Papa Khan for Cooke and returning with the news, it is possible to enter Lem's office through the main door (not the overseer tunnel) to see the piles of bloody entrails. Returning to Cooke will not trigger the dialogue where Cooke admits to killing Lem; he asks you once again to go and speak to Papa Khan on their behalf even though this is now impossible. [已验证]
- This can sometimes lead to problems gaining full rewards for the quest, as the final option of informing Cooke will be marked as incomplete even though the mission will be marked as completed.
- The dialogue options can be gotten by viewing the entrails first before telling Cooke about Papa Khan's decision. If you talk to him again after finding out he killed Lem, he will still ask you to go to Papa Khan.
- If you have initiated the quest Oh My Papa and haven't triggered the conversation with Regis, the option to ask Papa Khan about Philip's/Samuel's group is not a dialogue option, making it impossible to finish the quest. [已验证]
- A detonator is not required to detonate the C-4 plastic explosive, although it is required to use C-4 during regular combat. [已验证]
- If you close the Vault 19 door then climb the ladder into The Wasteland before the door closes, the next time you try to open the door it won't work. You will have to climb back out and re-enter. [已验证]
- Sometimes when entering Lem's room via the passage under the Overseer's desk you will not be able to enter even though you have disengaged the lock from the terminal on the wall. An invisible barrier will keep you from entering. If you go back to Lem's room and walk down the stairs you can then leave the same way. [已验证]
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