- ↑ 1.0 1.1 The Courier: "Sounds like you forgot your master plan - surprised you remember your own name."
Mobius: "This name's as real as you or I, although I believe your brain expressed similar incredulity at the nature of such an appellation. Someone's been watching too many Old World science fiction movies, it said. I believe it meant me.} I must admit I have a vulnerability for holotape fantasies of planets and robots and all that is forbidden. As for the name I was born with... ...like the Think Tank, we were all reprogrammed to forget them, take on new names. It enforces the recursion loop in our perception programming." (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Mobius: "Dr. O... which is actually not his real name multiplied, since you can't multiply his real name in the first place... Ouro-bor-ous,} Klein... They have all forgotten themselves. And not only themselves, but the world, sense of time, and history. All that is left is what's here. I reprogrammed their chronometers, geometers, and cartography programs. This is now their world, here, Big MT.} It was a merciful lobotomy, really, thinking back. They were my friends, but... sometimes they would take things too far.} And the world isn't ready for that kind of too-far-thing-taking.} That's my professional opinion, anyway, and I am told I was once quiet professional."
(Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Pylons? What pylons?"
Klein: "THE RADAR FENCE THAT SURROUNDS THE BIG MT CRATER WILL PREVENT - ER, PROTECT YOU FROM STRAYING BEYOND THE FACILITY." The Courier: "Can you tell me more about these pylons?" Klein: "ASK BOROUS. I BELIEVE HE KNOWS MORE ABOUT THE FENCE THAN ANY BRAIN. EXCEPT MAYBE MOBIUS. MOBIUS WAS INVOLVED IN THEIR CONSTRUCTION, IF I RECALL. BUT HE'S SUCH A HACK, HE PROBABLY WAS READING OFF OF BOROUS' NOTES AND SCHEMATICS." (Klein's dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Tell me about this 'Radar Fence' around the Crater."
Borous: -The RADAR FENCE protects us all! If evidence is correct, the one who built it - is ME!- -It keeps anything with a disembodied brain INSIDE - like US - and anything without a brain... also INSIDE!- -It is the ULTIMATE DEFENSE against Communist aggression. There'll be no infectious ideas on MY watch!-" The Courier: "Wait a minute - that means you're trapped here?" Borous: "-TRAPPED? NONSENSE, we are SECURE here. From evil philosophies.- -Ever since my anxiety-filled days of powerlessness and being bullied in American High School, I have dreamed of such security as the FENCE.- -That, and giant cybernetic dogs that would ruthlessly patrol and kill anyone who wasn't my friend. Like RICHIE MARCUS. And BETSY BRIGHT.- -Who's laughing NOW, Betsy? I hope you and Richie are HAPPY, smoking in your radioactive coffins. I'm GLAD you never came to my birthday party.}-" (Borous' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "This chip looks like it was mass-produced. Are there other chips?"
Klein: "[SUCCEEDED] ARE THERE OTHER CHIPS?" 0: "*Are you... echoing what he said, or... are you asking for real?}*" Dala: "He's asking, yes. Dr. Klein, there are many} other personalities. If you recall, you hurled them off the Sink balcony after your argument with Mobius." Klein: "IT IS NOT} AN ARGUMENT IF ONE IS CLEARLY RIGHT AND THE OTHER IS CLEARLY WRONG! I REMEMBER NOW. YES, LOBOTOMITE, THERE ARE OTHER CHIPS. IF YOU WANT, FIND THEM. I BELIEVE THEY ARE STORED ON HOLOTAPES IN MANY OF OUR FACILITIES. BUT YOU SHOULD STAY OUT OF THOSE - NO EXPLORING AND DISCOVERING THINGS.} THE SINK CENTRAL 'INTELLIGENCE' SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR YOUR... HEH... NEEDS.}" (Klein's, 0's, and Dala's dailogue)
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Courier: "You reprogrammed their names as part of recursion loop? What, to trap their processors?"
Mobius: "[SUCCEEDED] Now, 'trap' is a rather harsh word. Like 'excrement.' Not an inappropriate word, but still - rather harsh.} But... yes, I did... take some liberties with their programming. It's all right, they don't remember. I certainly didn't until you said "trap." And then I said "excrement." And then..." The Courier: "Why did you trap them?" Mobius: "The Radar Fence to keep the Think Tank hemmed in wasn't really enough. They keep testing things, they would have found a way to disarm it. I suspect I have Plan Cs in place, but I may have coded myself to forget them, just in case... they're probably very dangerous, lethal, or worse.} So I had to do something else to keep them occupied here. Or as you like to say 'trapped.' I prefer to have several plan Bs in case the As fail." (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Don't you want to leave here?"
Borous: "-NO! Beyond... is DEATH, despite mounting evidence to the contrary!- -No matter where these strange humans wander in from with their IDEAS and new BRAINS, there is NOTHING beyond BIG MT.}-" The Courier: "Evidence to the contrary?" Borous: "-ENOUGH! Stop filling my precious brain cell units with irrelevant data!- -You sound like the OTHER visitors. Making WILD claims of a WORLD beyond, where there is a WAR beyond WAR. It is UNPROVEN! And UNTHINKABLE!- -Bother the OTHER DOCTORS with your crackpot theories, I have NO TIME! NONE of us do.-" (Borous' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "These mechanical Robo-Scorpions 'consume' intelligence? Are you certain of your findings?"
Klein: "[SUCCEEDED] DR. O} IS CERTAIN OF HIS FINDINGS. AND NO ONE ELSE IN THE THINK TANK IS WILLING TO TEST THE RESULTS. LOSS OF BRAINIAL POWER - TERRIFYING. O HAS SAID ON MANY OCCASIONS HIS INABILITY TO COMPREHEND MOBIUS' ROBO-SCHEMATICS IS BECAUSE OF REPEATED ROBO-SCORPION STINGS." (Klein's dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Wait... sounds like you built the Robo-Scorpions, issued threats to keep the Think Tank occupied."
Mobius: "Did I? Maybe I did. Can't have them leaving. Some reason for it. Ethics - or con-science?} You and your Brain are quite alike, I'm sure it knows the raisins better than I do." (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 The Courier: "Can you tell me about your Robo-Scorpions?"
Mobius: "Well, every scientist needs an army.} Mine came to me after these rather large scorpions kept coming in from the dessert.} Like poisonous frosting. How scary, I thought! But they had survived when nothing else had. Perfect candidates for improvement, as a reward for their tenacity. Then I thought, what if they shot energy bolts and acted as walking eyes and data-drained computers and acted as bullhorns? Then I made them bigger. Then, I thought about... custard. I do so love custard. Or was it mustard? Mustard custard. Mmmm. I miss sugars and salts." (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Klein said they had the idea to get the three technologies after your broadcast. Coincidence?"
Mobius: "[SUCCEEDED] I consider 'coincidence' to be profanity, along with the words, 'astrology,' 'herbal tea,' and 'luck.' So watch it, Potty Mouth. My threat broadcast is designed to instill... and install... fear. And along with the emotional download, other data rides the fear carrier wave. It prompted them to focus on retrieving those technologies and bring them to 'attack' me. And coincidentally... pardon my language... all those technologies are needed to put a brain, your brain, back into its skull. Properly." (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ Mobius: "If it isn't my old colleagues, the mighty 'Think Tank' of Big MT. Big FOOLS, all of you.} It is I, Dr. Mobius, transmitting from my dome-shaped... dome in the Forbidden Zone. A zone... that is, yes... forbidden to you.} Even now, my deadly Robo-Scorpions swarm across Big MT with their pincers and pointy laser tails. Soon, all Science will be mine.} Even the technologies sealed in the Big MT research centers cannot save you. So cower in your 'Think Tank.' Wait, for the end.} That's all. Uh... goodbye.}"
Klein: "MOBIUS.} ALWAYS THE SAME BROADCAST. HE'S CLEARLY MAD, DRIVEN INSANE BY HIS FLAWED AND IMPRECISE KINDERGARTEN-LEVEL RESEARCH METHODOLOGY." (Mobius' and Klein's dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "You don't seem aggressive. Why broadcast threats to the Think Tank?"
Mobius: "Oh, I was probably tripping hard on Psycho when I sent that. Had to work myself up to it, not usually violent, except when I am. Then, huh! Watch out! So many chems, such varieties! Whenever I take Mentats, I can feel my entire chassis breeeeeathe like a big spherical lung. As for the Psycho, sometimes get the chem despositories} in my tank all switched up, go in the wrong tube - still, served its purpose." (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ 14.0 14.1 The Courier: "I can't fix your monitor, but if you're getting ghost reception, I can fix that."
Mobius: "[SUCCEEDED] The ghosts aren't real? That changes everything. Why, I can save my computing power for other perceptual unpossibilities. Please be my guest... the receptor is there... and the side-switching wobbly-bob, just turn that... good, good, better... Oh... oooooh, yes, that feels wonderful. Mmmmm. This is even better than my afternoon Mentats break. Mmmm." (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "A good hit with a hammer might fix your monitor."
Mobius: "[FAILED] Oh, I tried that already. Might have contributated} to the problem, now that I re-think it. But, thank you for asking before trying it.}" (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "What was the plan you had?"
Mobius: "Something ingenious and needlessly complicated, I expect. I may have already told you and forgotten it. I forgot I had forgotten pencils until one day I found one. Spent days studying its purpose before my memory circuit kicked in. Felt quiet silly." (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Is that better?"
Mobius: "Depth perception is a problem with this old monitor of mine. Went black a while ago. That's old age for you.} Should look at getting the visual nerves re-attached... it's just that the right eye would see} the wrong things. The flying tortoises were the worst.} Would you care for a Mentat?" (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Do you know anything about the other visitors?"
Mobius: "Oh, not much, except they contaminated Big MT and installed new ideas in the Think Tank. One caused a great deal of infrastructure damage with his brain and smartyness. Ruthless, that one. Played a little rough with the trains. But the last one was the most dangerous. Him... eh... slipping away... that was almost as bad as the Think Tank escaping.} The Courier: "What do you mean?" Mobius: "The first one, the ruthless one who smashed up our toy trains, asked for weapons, power. Items he could use to destroy a nation with force. The other... the other asked a different question, and with it, got the true answer. About what makes nations... and what breaks them.} He spoke to the Think Tank, to Klein. Showed them the flag of the Old World... and it made them remember. All of it. All that had happened. They shared things with him that they shouldn't. He now carries those ideas, that knowledge elsewhere." (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "But there must have been other signs of a larger world."
Mobius: "There have been other visitors to make them doubt their perceptions, but you are the one who dialed back their monitor-micro-magnifiers. You were irrefutable proof that there was a world outside. And then there was the whole 'brain' fiasco, which forced me to take steps. See, your brain had a special kind of... uh... wrinkle, a unique-ity that they had never thought to try in all their countless escape attempts." (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Was there any other data transmitted in your threat broadcast?"
Mobius: "Yes, my overly aggressive chemmed-up broadcast was designed to keep reinforcing the 'forget,' 'fear,' 'rinse,' and 'repeat' program. Oh, and the 'get me the things to castrate your only possible escape attempt.' But I couldn't delete you or your arrival anymore than I could the other visitors. Only so much Science can do when you started talking to them.} You're really quiet difficult to ignore, you know. It's because you're... well, bah! Rather intriguing, if you'll forgive an old brain for saying so." (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "What is the purpose of the technologies?"
Mobius: "The X-2 Antenna can be used to focus your alpha wave frequency thought patterns. The Sneaky Suit? Why, it houses a cardiac regulator. And the sonic soundwave projecto-emitter was never intended as a weapon. It was a medicinal vertebrae-pulse-de-sensitizer. In short: Brains, a heart, and courage... spine. I think there was a story once where a band of murderous thugs sought these things.} They had them all the time in the story. Didn't stop them from murdering to get them, and it won't stop the Think Tank, either.}" (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Can I have a Mentat?"
Mobius: "Another? Why, of course. Happy to contribute to Science through chemistry. Come back within the sequential span of twenty-five hours minus one, I'll have more... or is it two or three more spans? Time, you elusive creature.}" (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "I'll save it, don't want to mix it with alcohol if I can help it."
Mobius: "Mmm. I love Mentats. Delicious and smarty.}" (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "I don't know, I'm tripping pretty hard right now."
Mobius: "Mmm. I love Mentats. Delicious and smarty.}" (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Enough. I'm here to kill you."
Mobius: "Oh, intriguing. I've never been killed before. Although after that time I got that phlegmy discharge in my biogel... I wished I had been.} Well, if there's going to be killing, I defer to your expertise in this matter. How should we begin? Engineered viruses? Canceratic beams? Atomics? Electrocutioning? Or... should I summon my minions...? Yes, my minions.}" The Courier: "What minions?" Mobius: "Whoa, have they not constructed themselves yet? That's a bit premature of me. The Robo-Scorpions, of course. They can assemble themselves from floor panels and parts scattered about, quiet inventive - never really know when they might suddenly appear." The Courier: "I'll trash them like I did your giant piece of junk downstairs." Mobius: "Oh now you've done it. I feel a twinge of regret over that little mistake I left on. Minions - destroy this intruder!} Mmm. Or perhaps make it more dramatic?} Minions! To me! Oh, yes, that's quiet a bit better.}" (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Why did you steal my brain?"
Mobius: "Oh, a variety of raisins...} you're something of a homily. Er, anomaly? You're really quiet} special, and not in the cranially-challenged way. You see, you are the most successful brain extraction experiment ever performed here at Big MT. A victim of your own success, as it were. If you were to go back with what your} brain knows about the procedure, well... ...your brain could be popped back in and you could walk right out of here. Can't have brains moving around of their own volition." (Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ Doctor 0: "*I don't know... might be some old Nuka Cola or Sunset Sarsaparilla bottlecaps lying around. It... It's not 'currency' per se...* *Still, might be enough to trick the Sink's trade routines. Mobius put that test line for caps in the code as a debug command, I think.*"
Doctor Dala: "I don't believe that was Mobius' reason. His wild speculation concerning post-holocaust economic systems was quite extensive. And of high decibel." (Doctor 0 and Doctor Dala's dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Mobius set up the Auto-Doc medical routines, so you think he's responsible for the post-organ-dump?"
Klein: "[SUCCEEDED] YES. ALWAYS LEAVES BACKDOORS INTO THINGS, HAVE TO KEEP FINDING THEM AND CLOSING THEM. THE AUTO-DOC IS NOW ERASED OF HIS ROUTINES, IT WAS THOROUGH. ONLY MOBIUS WOULD KNOW FOR SURE WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE PROCEDURE... PERHAPS. WELL, AND YOUR BRAIN, OF COURSE. IT WOULD KNOW AS WELL." (Klein's dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Why are there so many personality modules?"
Sink Central Intelligence Unit: "As I am given to understand, sir, this facility was once the property of a Dr. Mobius. He crafted the personality modules as part of a collection of experiments on the subject of machine/human interface. As to the reason for the unusual choices of devices to receive the modules, I cannot say." (Sink Central Intelligence Unit's dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Who are you?"
Muggy: "You... you really want to know about... me? No one ever asks about Muggy! You've made me so happy!} Maybe you've seen some of those big, imposing Securitrons with their lovely laser guns and rocket launchers and scary faces? I'm not one of those. Dr. O was always jealous of House Industries, and he thought it would be fucking hilarious to build a tiny neurotic Securitron. Big fucking laugh. So, umm... you got any coffee cups for me now?" (Muggy's dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Why did you trap them?"
Doctor Mobius: "I suspect I have Plan 9s in place, but I may have coded myself to forget them, just in case... they're probably very dangerous, lethal, or worse. So I had to do something else to keep them occupied here. Or as you like to say 'trapped.' I prefer to have several Plan 9s in case the 7s fail." (Dr. Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ Doctor Mobius: "In short: Brains, a heart, and courage... spine. I think there was a story once where a band of murderous thugs sought these things."
(Dr. Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ Doctor Mobius: "Electron's attached to the... neutron. The neutron's attached to the... meson. Meson's connected to the... proton.
(Dr. Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ The Courier: "Time for me to go. Goodbye."
Doctor Mobius: "Indeed, the uh... goodbye part of our little chat, then. Uh... Goodbye. Please mind the equations on the floor." (Dr. Mobius' dialogue)
- ↑ Doctor Mobius: "...a wise man once said, the eyes do more than see. Make them see, if you can."
(Dr. Mobius' dialogue)
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