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This is a transcript for dialogue with Edgar Blackburn. |
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BS02 Dialogue ValdezBlackburn V96 Offquest[]
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| 10 | 00605BDE | 00605BF9 | You will understand soon enough. |
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| 11 | 00605BFA | Nothing is over, no matter what you may think. |
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| 12 | 00605BFB | Everything I have planned will come to pass. |
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| 13 | 00605BFC | In time, you will realize the gift I have given you. |
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| 16 | 00605BE2 | 00605C05 | I have said enough at present. I am sure your officers will have plenty to ask of me when I am in custody at your headquarters. |
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| 17 | 00605C06 | Think of me what you will. It will change nothing. |
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| 18 | 00605C07 | There is nothing left for you here. I am certain your Paladin and Knight will extract any information they need once I am under guard at your fort. |
BS01_MQ01_Trust[]
| # | Dialog Topic | Form ID | Response Text | Script Notes |
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| 3 | 005C70CF | 005C7161 | Yes? Something I can help you with? |
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| 11 | 005D7F2F | More questions, I assume? |
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| 14 | 005D7F32 | Please, I do not wish to be disturbed. |
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| 37 | 005C70FD | 005C714E | As you will, then. |
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| 40 | 005C7101 | 005C7136 | Pardon my manners. I am...out of practice. Too much time alone. Still, unless this is important, I would prefer to be left alone. |
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| 41 | 005C7103 | 005C7154 | The severe gentleman in the power armor, yes? Doctor Edgar Blackburn, at your service. And what did Knight Shin want to know? |
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| 42 | 005C7105 | 005C713C | I am waiting to speak with a Brotherhood representative. I have no interest in small talk with strangers. |
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| 105 | 005C96CD | 005C972C | I am sure you have more interesting things to do than listen to a poorly-socialized Wasteland doctor talk about himself. |
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| 106 | In short, I trained in multiple specialties before the war, and had a brief career as a research scientist prior to the bombs dropping. | |||
| 107 | Finding myself fortunate enough to survive, I have continued my research, such as it is. Now I focus on the health of the people of Appalachia. | |||
| 108 | Please do not ask me to examine any strange growths. I am not that kind of doctor. | |||
| 109 | 005C96CF | 005C975A | It would be difficult to express it in layman's terms. No offense intended. |
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| 110 | In essence, I have been studying the illnesses of Appalachia. For too long, people have relied on folk remedies and makeshift medicines. | |||
| 111 | The long-term effects of this environment are concerning. Just because the radiation is survivable does not mean it is safe. | |||
| 112 | 005C96D1 | 005C9731 | Their hygiene standards are better than the lot at Crater, but no. I prefer to work in solitude. |
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| 113 | One day, perhaps, my research will be of benefit to them and all the other people of Appalachia. | |||
| 114 | 005C96D3 | 005C9762 | Very well, then. Perhaps we can be of assistance to one another, should our paths cross again. |
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| 134 | 005C96E3 | 005C972D | Don't blow me off like I'm making this up. These people have a responsibility to fix this! |
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| 135 | They had the power armor, and they said they were Brotherhood. Sorry I didn't make sure to ask for proof when they had me at gunpoint. | |||
| 150 | 005C96F6 | 005C9737 | Our job is to procure and protect technology, not fund civilian scientists in developing it. |
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| 151 | If the Doctor's research proves dangerous, then the Brotherhood will take a very pointed interest. | |||
| 152 | Until then, it is his problem. | |||
| 229 | 005DD1DC | 005DD1E6 | Very well, what did you wish to know? |
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| 230 | 005DD1DD | 005DD1DF | Thank you. Be well. |
BS01_Dialogue_ForgingTrustPetitioners[]
| # | Dialog Topic | Form ID | Response Text | Script Notes |
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| 1 | 005C9AA2 | 005CB469 | That was unnecessary, as I have said. I appreciate the vote of support, of course. |
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| 2 | Perhaps if we cross paths again, you will extend such kindness a second time. | |||
| 12 | 005C9AAD | 005CB483 | Did you need something else? |
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| 31 | 005C9AB8 | 005CB466 | Thank you for honoring my request. |
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| 32 | I can certainly continue my work alone for the time being. Let the Brotherhood look to the present, and I will tend the future. | |||
| 48 | 005C9ACC | 005CB467 | Very well, then. |
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| 49 | 005C9ACD | 005CB476 | I will be leaving shortly. Take care: the Wasteland holds many dangers. Keep your wits, and your health, about you. Farewell. |
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| 50 | 005C9ACE | 005CB46A | Your enthusiasm is refreshing. I could discourse on the subject for hours, if allowed. |
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| 51 | Regretfully, I am preparing to return to my lab, and do not have the time. Perhaps if we meet again in more congenial circumstances? | |||
| 52 | 005C9ACF | 005CB47A | No matter. I did tell you not to bother. |
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| 53 | Still, I regret that I have not convinced you of the import of my work. Should we ever meet again, perhaps I can remedy that. | |||
| 64 | 005C9AD2 | 005CB48E | Yes? |
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| 65 | 005CB48F | I am sorry I do not have more time to talk. Until we meet again, perhaps? |
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| 67 | 005EFE7A | Please, I do not wish to be disturbed. |
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| 73 | 005C9AD3 | 005C9AFB | Did you wish to speak with me? |
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| 74 | 005C9AFC | Speak, or go away. I do not tolerate eavesdroppers. |
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| 75 | 005C9AFD | What is it now? |
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| 77 | 005C9B01 | You lookin' at somethin'? |
lightly aggressive | |
| 78 | 005C9B02 | Hey, hey, here comes trouble. I hope. |
playful | |
| 106 | 005CFA62 | 005CFB03 | The California members show no signs of infectious disease from outside the territory. |
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| 107 | 005CFB04 | Local recruits appear healthy, if underfed. |
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| 108 | 005CFB05 | Radiation levels nominal...some strange readings from somewhere below. |
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| 109 | 005CFB06 | The efficiency of Brotherhood response to visitors is...lacking. |
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| 110 | 005CFB07 | Must get back to the lab soon. I cannot let the samples deteriorate in my absence. |
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| 111 | 005CFB08 | I imagine the Brotherhood would object to a collection of blood samples from all its members. Shame. |
BS02_MQ05_Catalyst[]
| # | Dialog Topic | Form ID | Response Text | Script Notes |
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| 3 | 005FA45F | 005FA462 | No need for that tone. I haven't run away thus far, have I? |
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| 4 | 005FA460 | 005FA464 | Stay where we can see you, doctor. | |
| 12 | 005FA461 | 00602C59 | My death will not prevent what is to come. |
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| 13 | 00602C5A | My colleagues already have everything they need to finish our work. |
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| 55 | 005FABAE | 005FABB5 | Now that that's over with... Nellie, prep the test chamber. They want proof of our success, I will give it to them myself. |
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| 57 | 005FABB1 | 005FABB6 | The guards are dead, Dr. Farha. This is the Brotherhood of Steel. I have been their... guest since they discovered our project. |
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| 58 | Regrettably, they object to what we are doing. | |||
| 93 | 005FB411 | 005FB417 | I will test the sample on myself, and be proof of our achievement. Anything you do to me after does not matter. |
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| 97 | 006028D7 | 006028D9 | I have been fully compliant with your questioning. Threats are not required. |
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| 98 | 006029CD | 006029EE | Then it's decided. Initiate, head for West Tek. We've no time to lose. See you there. | |
| 99 | 006029CE | 006029F4 | If I can prevent further loss of life, I will. |
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| 111 | 006029D6 | 006029ED | That is your goal, not mine. But I am not a soldier, and would not withstand... strenuous interrogation well. |
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| 112 | No minor delay on my part will change what is to come. My colleagues are already preparing. | |||
| 113 | Perhaps my cooperation will allow us to make a case for the good we are about to do, and convince you of our cause. | |||
| 114 | 006029D7 | 006029E7 | My colleagues have a facility better suited to final testing and mass-production of the virus. |
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| 115 | As we speak, they are preparing for its release into the air and water of Appalachia. | |||
| 116 | Once dispersed, it will enter the precipitation cycle and groundwater, and then it cannot be stopped. | |||
| 117 | 006029D8 | 006029EF | My colleagues have a laboratory hidden beneath the headquarters of my former employer, West Tek. |
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| 118 | We intend to correct the FEV's mistakes at their birthplace. Poetically appropriate, would you not agree? | |||
| 119 | 006029D9 | 006029F2 | Preventing Dr. Blackburn's associates from taking this horror any further must be our priority, and we may need the doctor to convince them. |
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| 127 | 006029E1 | 006029F3 | Do you see? The arrogance. The self-justification. We should end him and be done with it. |
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| 128 | 006029E2 | 006029EB | I am not bragging. What I have done was necessary. I take no pride in those terrible acts. I will have to live with the shame of them forever. |
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| 129 | That weight does not, however, diminish that the ends were worth the means. | |||
| 130 | You will learn that soon enough. My colleagues will see that our creation, a vast improvement on the FEV, is distributed shortly. | |||
| 135 | 00602BB0 | 00602C48 | I am going in. Ready the tank. |
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| 137 | 00602BB2 | 00602C31 | I am sorry, but this must happen. You will see, and then there will be no more debate. |
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| 138 | 00602BB3 | 00602C30 | I apologize for the deceit, but I cannot risk you undoing all we have accomplished. |
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| 139 | Soon you will understand that I was right. | |||
| 172 | 00602BDF | 00602C13 | And that is precisely what is so concerning. | |
| 173 | 00602BE0 | 00602C43 | Paranoia ill suits you. I have complied with your every demand. |
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| 174 | 00602BE2 | 00602C2C | A trap I conceived, prepared, and executed entirely while in your custody? You give me too much credit. |
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| 175 | 00602BE4 | 00602C18 | Hm. Dr. Farha is nominally the head of their group. Headstrong. An old university colleague. |
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| 176 | Dr. Jain was a junior scientist at West Tek. Brilliant, but easily led. He shared my disgust at the Huntersville mistake. | |||
| 177 | Nellie Wright, on the other hand, is Dr. Farha's pet project. An adoptee of sorts. Very talented, despite her lack of formal schooling. | |||
| 178 | 00602BE6 | 00602C49 | Certainly. |
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| 179 | 00602BE8 | 00602C32 | As you wish. I am your prisoner, after all. I have little choice in the matter. |
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| 181 | 00602BEA | 00602C4D | I am not aware of the details of the defensive measures my colleagues may have taken. |
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| 182 | I would not, however, expect them to tolerate trespassers. | |||
| 201 | 00602BFF | 00602C25 | I'm afraid you'll have to give in on this one. If you truly want to stop our distribution process, I advise you to listen to the doctor's entreaties. |
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| 202 | 00602C01 | 00602C57 | I assure you, I have only a peaceful resolution in mind. |
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| 203 | 00602C07 | 00602C14 | Trust me or trust me not, the truth remains the truth. |
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| 204 | 00602C09 | 00602C44 | Perhaps in the end I am more willing to sacrifice the lives of strangers than friends and colleagues. |
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| 205 | I do not wish them to be harmed. My hypocrisy in this is only human. | |||
| 209 | 00602C0E | 00602C1D | Dr. Farha, please permit me inside as a sign of good faith from the Brotherhood. |
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| 210 | I am certain we can negotiate a peaceful resolution and perhaps preserve our work at the same time. | |||
| 212 | 00602C10 | 00602C39 | With your leave? |
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| 263 | 00602E0C | 00605A2B | Do you need something? |
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| 499 | 0060395A | 00603964 | Initiate procedure. Code: "Ascension." |
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| 508 | 006052D9 | 006052E0 | Only partially. A code is required. My helping you is not. |
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| 509 | It is only natural that I use wit to resolve such a situation in my favor. If your life was on the line, you'd have done the same. | |||
| 510 | 006052DC | 006052DE | Then you're free to enjoy the view as my colleagues distribute our creation among the populace. |
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| 513 | 00605714 | 00605731 | I will fix this! But first, you die! |
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| 514 | 00605732 | You look very... tasty... now... |
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| 515 | 00605733 | I will grind you into paste! |
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| 516 | 00605734 | You will not stop the future! |
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| 517 | 00605735 | Rage... uncontrollable rage! |
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| 518 | 00605736 | You forced my hand too soon! |
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| 519 | 00605737 | I must kill you! For SCIENCE! |
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| 520 | 00605715 | 00605728 | My nerves! On fire! |
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| 521 | 00605729 | I will kill you! |
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| 522 | 0060572A | Arrgh! |
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| 523 | 0060572B | You cannot defeat me! |
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| 524 | 0060572C | The pain! |
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| 525 | 0060572D | Uggh! |
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| 526 | 0060572E | No. No! |
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| 527 | 00605716 | 00605738 | No! I was so close! |
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| 528 | 00605717 | 0060571B | This is your fault! |
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| 529 | 0060571C | You must die! |
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| 530 | 0060571D | You cannot stop me! |
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| 531 | 0060571E | This will not end here! |
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| 532 | 0060571F | Death! Death to the Brotherhood! |
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| 533 | 00605720 | Rarrr! |
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| 534 | 00605721 | Smash! |
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| 539 | 00605937 | 00605944 | It's no joke at all. |
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| 542 | 0060593B | 0060594A | Allow me to explain. |
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| 543 | My colleagues couldn't stop production if they tried. It requires a code. I am the only one who knows the code. | |||
| 544 | I set this plan in motion, and I am the only one who can stop it. | |||
| 547 | 0060593E | 0060594B | You'll have to forgive Dr. Farha. She didn't know. I added this functionality to our distribution program. As insurance, you might say. |
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| 549 | 00605940 | 00605943 | So there you have it. I am willing to help you, in exchange for sparing my colleagues' lives. But you will have to let me in there with them. |
BS02_MQ04_Conscience_HolotapeQues[]
| # | Dialog Topic | Form ID | Response Text | Script Notes |
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| 1 | 00604798 | 006047A4 | Research Log, Doctor Edgar Blackburn. Number One Hundred and Forty-Eight. | |
| 2 | I can feel the end approaching. The equations fall into place, and I can see the shape of it, the perfected FEV, even in my restless dreams. | |||
| 3 | That vision of the goal is the only succor now. What I have done to reach it can never be washed away. I have been right, but that is small comfort. | |||
| 4 | I give them numbers now, and try not to listen when they speak to me, pleading. I prefer to sedate them when removing them from their holding cells | |||
| 5 | Unconscious, they cannot weep, or stare accusingly at me. I cannot make them understand that we are alike part of a greater destiny. | |||
| 6 | They think me inhuman, uncaring. I know I would be no different, were our roles reversed. I do not blame them for hating me. | |||
| 7 | I lie in my cot at night and see their faces. I remember them all, and wait for sleep to carry me to the visions of when I can finally stop. | |||
| 8 | Final candidate number three is ready for verification. I am within two, perhaps three iterations of success. | |||
| 9 | Will I be able to sleep untroubled when this is over? Or will punishment for what I have done be a mercy, freeing me from its memory? | |||
| 10 | End log. | |||
| 11 | 00604799 | 006047A6 | Research Log, Doctor Edgar Blackburn. Number One Hundred and Twelve. | |
| 12 | My work's demand for human subjects has increased dramatically as I make ground toward my ultimate goal. | |||
| 13 | To this end, I have contracted with a group of mercenaries calling themselves the Hellcat Company. Trustworthy, if such a term applies here. | |||
| 14 | They display a useful moral flexibility. They do not question the nature of my work or my need for human subjects, and I do not illuminate them. | |||
| 15 | Already they have begun acquiring new subjects at far greater pace than I could, and a contingent remain to guard the Vault itself. | |||
| 16 | I must be careful. A mercenary is only as loyal as their pay, after all. My control of the Vault security systems keeps them in check for now. | |||
| 17 | End log. | |||
| 18 | 0060479A | 006047A9 | Research Log, Doctor Edgar Blackburn. Number Fifty-Seven. | |
| 19 | I begin to doubt my own sanity at times. My efforts, while not without progress, continue to fail to bear real fruit. | |||
| 20 | The FEV seems almost deliberately malignant, as if it had a consciousness and rejects my every attempt to bend it toward a benevolent end. | |||
| 21 | I have come to recognize the signs of imminent metastasis and conversion to the so-called "Super Mutant" state. | |||
| 22 | I am ill-equipped to deal with the product of such failure, and have taken to disposing of these unfortunates outside the Vault itself. | |||
| 23 | I regret that my current methods of disposal may, in the short term, increase the Super Mutant population in Appalachia, but it cannot be avoided. | |||
| 24 | End log. | |||
| 25 | 0060479B | 006047AE | Research Log, Doctor Edgar Blackburn. Number Thirty-Eight. | |
| 26 | The capture of human test subjects is itself less difficult than I imagined. | |||
| 27 | The people of Appalachia are in bad need of medicine, and lone travelers are easy to approach when one is a doctor. | |||
| 28 | I tell myself these acts are necessary - the work too important, and I cannot complete it without living human subjects to experiment upon. | |||
| 29 | Yet as I compound failure upon failure, in my quiet hours I question what I have made of myself in pursuit of this goal. | |||
| 30 | I began this enterprise fully cognizant of what it might take, but even with that foreknowledge I could not comprehend the weight of it. | |||
| 31 | Have I become no different from that fool Elias, a font of monsters with no humane end in sight? Am I deluded in believing myself capable of success? | |||
| 32 | These moments pass. I push aside those doubts and focus on the work before me. The people of Appalachia need this. The world needs this. | |||
| 33 | Let them vilify me when they learn what I have done. I will make a better future for them, even if I do not live to see it myself. | |||
| 34 | End log. | |||
| 35 | 0060479C | 006047AA | Research Log, Doctor Edgar Blackburn. Number Twenty-Two. | |
| 36 | In retrospect, my enthusiasm for the cryogenically-preserved specimens in the Vault was excessive, if not actually misplaced. | |||
| 37 | I am down to the last four viable test subjects. Further research is at an impasse unless I move to human subjects. | |||
| 38 | Obtaining volunteers will be impossible. The necessary experimentation to even approach a functional result will be unavoidably fatal to some. | |||
| 39 | I will have to take extreme measures to obtain subjects. Thousands, perhaps millions of lives will be saved. Utility trumps sentimentality. | |||
| 40 | End log. | |||
| 41 | 0060479D | 006047A5 | Research Log, Doctor Edgar Blackburn. Number Seventeen. | |
| 42 | I am no longer alone in this endeavor. Against all odds, I have made contact with a former colleague, Doctor Farha, whom fate preserved as it did me. | |||
| 43 | Doctor Farha was reluctant when I first described my aims. The testing that will be required, and the failures, give her pause. | |||
| 44 | Even at university, we clashed on the ethical boundaries of research. Regardless, I have convinced her to aid me despite her doubts. | |||
| 45 | I will continue to work here in Vault 96, in secrecy. Doctor Farha, meanwhile has established a laboratory suitable for mass-production. | |||
| 46 | She has acquired a foundling of sorts, a young woman by the name of Nellie Wright. She seems something of a prodigy. | |||
| 47 | I believe it was Ms. Wright's enthusiastic support of my ideas that convinced Doctor Farha to acquiesce to my request for aid. | |||
| 48 | Farha has also brought in Jain. I knew him from university, and our time at West Tek. This work is his chance at redemption as much as my own. | |||
| 49 | End log. | |||
| 50 | 0060479E | 006047A7 | Research Log, Doctor Edgar Blackburn. Number Thirteen. | |
| 51 | Whatever the prior occupants of this Vault may have done, I must thank them, especially Chief Engineer Doctor Memling. | |||
| 52 | The good doctor, while a respectable scientist in his own right, had the classic engineer's idiosyncratic approach to maintenance. | |||
| 53 | His additions to the Vault reactor and electrical subsystems provide me with ample points of connection to directly access mains power. | |||
| 54 | Between this and certain defects in reactor shielding, I have invaluable resources for my research. | |||
| 55 | My first attempts in this area are more disappointing, however. Lacking Memling's expertise, my electrical impedance tests failed dramatically. | |||
| 56 | The unintentional discovery of a new method of rapidly cooking a mole rat fails even in that regard: | |||
| 57 | Molerat exposed to several thousand volts at significant amperage does not make for an appetizing sight. | |||
| 58 | Nonetheless, these results are duly recorded and I believe my understanding of the system is sufficient to produce more useful results in the future. | |||
| 59 | End log. | |||
| 60 | 0060479F | 006047A3 | Research Log, Doctor Edgar Blackburn. Number Five. | |
| 61 | The creators of the Forced Evolutionary Virus were idiot savants. They saw weapons, soldiers to win a war that would end almost as soon as it began. | |||
| 62 | They had discovered a means by which we could seize the reigns of human evolution, and all they could envision was more efficient death. | |||
| 63 | My colleagues at West Tek were likewise fools. They made the virus a plaything and Huntersville their ant farm, shaking it to watch them scurry. | |||
| 64 | The FEV was never meant to create abominations. At its core is something wondrous and hopeful. I will free it from what they made of it. | |||
| 65 | Humanity will have the future it should have had, and a better human will build that world, free from fear. | |||
| 66 | End log. | |||
| 67 | 006047A0 | 006047AB | Research Log, Doctor Edgar Blackburn. Number One. | |
| 68 | Under any other circumstance, it would feel foolish to begin recording these before my work has even meaningfully begun. | |||
| 69 | I developed this habit during my graduate studies. A tool, helping me as much to retain insights as to preserve my failures. | |||
| 70 | Here, when nothing about what I am to undertake is normal, I break with tradition and start these logs now. Posterity requires this moment be kept. | |||
| 71 | What I am about to do will almost assuredly make of me a villain in the eyes of many. My work is distasteful, and must be conducted in secret. | |||
| 72 | Here, for whatever person may one day hear this, I say for the record that what I will do I do out of love. An unselfish love that knows no rest. | |||
| 73 | Not for a person. No clichéd deceased spouse or lost child motivates me. Humanity is my love, though none would accuse me of excess sentiment. | |||
| 74 | We are a species tormented by the ravages of the Great War, reduced to vermin eking out an existence in the rubble of the world that was. | |||
| 75 | The mistakes of my past are writ on the face of every survivor living in fear of the mutated horrors that stalk the Wasteland. | |||
| 76 | I can correct this. I must. We are not meant to live like this. There is a way forward, to free us from the horrors we...I...created. | |||
| 77 | Yet, I fear the failures that lie between me and the future I see. They will be many, and they will cause a great deal of pain before I am done. | |||
| 78 | The sins of West Tek must be undone. The price will be extreme, but it must be paid. If my life is included in that price, I will pay it gladly. | |||
| 79 | I record this log not to seek forgiveness. I neither deserve nor require it. | |||
| 80 | I ask only that you, my hypothetical listener, know that the things to come are not the product of ill-intent or a sadistic mania. | |||
| 81 | One day, good will come of the evil I am set to do. I hope that you are there to see it, and understand. | |||
| 82 | End log. | |||
| 83 | 006047A1 | 006047A8 | Personal Log, Doctor Edgar Blackburn. Huntersville. | |
| 84 | I should never have allowed Dumont to convince me to stay with West Tek when they shuttered the Greenhouse Initiative. | |||
| 85 | The Pan-Immunity Virion was intended to shield us from biological warfare and make the population safe from the horrors war could unleash. | |||
| 86 | The Greenhouse Initiative turned the same work to feeding the ever-increasing starving masses. Noble goals and worthy science. | |||
| 87 | The discovery of the FEV abandoned all that. The awesome potential of the virus, what it could do if harnessed to those same ends - ignored. | |||
| 88 | Instead they saw a weapon. Super soldiers. Small-minded bureaucrats and their pet scientists had the keys to human evolution and saw profit and war. | |||
| 89 | Dr. Khan - a disgrace to that title, in the end - took over, and even those miserable goals were cast aside in favor of the perverse. | |||
| 90 | Infecting the water supply of Huntersville just to observe the effects - why? We knew the virus in its current state produced horrors. | |||
| 91 | Had we been looking for a cure, perhaps it could have been justified. But Khan had no such interest. He did it because he could. | |||
| 92 | Were I a better man, a better scientist, I would have left immediately. My belated resignation does me little credit. | |||
| 93 | End log. | |||
| 94 | 006047A2 | 006047AC | Personal Log, Doctor Edgar Blackburn. Return to Appalachia. | |
| 95 | After all these years, I have come back. Back to Appalachia. To West Virginia. To the home of my greatest personal and scientific failure. | |||
| 96 | Academic research was a dead end; the world was descending into riots and ruin, food shortages were increasing... | |||
| 97 | Generating papers in a university lab to attempt to secure tenure seemed pointless. It felt irresponsible in the face of everything happening. | |||
| 98 | West Tek approached me about joining the Greenhouse Initiative. Genetic engineering to produce new crops and multiply production. | |||
| 99 | It swept away my concerns about joining the private sector. Here was a chance to be on the cutting edge and solve real problems at the same time. | |||
| 100 | Doctor Dumont described the goals of the Pan-Immunity Virion and the Greenhouse Initiative in terms that set my mind ablaze. | |||
| 101 | There was satisfaction to be had there. Doing the best work, advancing humanity, making the world better than it was. | |||
| 102 | Then the funding vanished. The research staff was being cut, with no explanation, simply "a shift in priorities". | |||
| 103 | Dumont begged me to stay, promising the new work would be vital and challenging. To my everlasting shame, I did. | |||
| 104 | End log. |
BS02_MQ04_Conscience[]
| # | Dialog Topic | Form ID | Response Text | Script Notes |
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| 8 | 005F5A4E | 005FACE2 | We meet again. |
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| 9 | 005FACE3 | It would be pointless for me to resist at this stage. What will you do now? |
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| 15 | 00605FDA | Yes? |
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| 16 | 00605FDB | I am prepared to continue our discussion, if you are. |
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| 78 | 005FACB6 | 005FACDF | And yet you will not, will you? |
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| 79 | The Brotherhood is an iron fist when enforcing its mission, but you did not come all this way simply to put a bullet in my skull. | |||
| 80 | Besides, my death can no longer stop my work. | |||
| 83 | 005FACB9 | 005FACDD | Yes, I assumed as much when you entered. Very well. |
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| 84 | Consider me arrested, if you must. I am ready to face any judgment the Brotherhood wishes to mete out. | |||
| 85 | My work here is complete, regardless, and it is too late for you to stop it. | |||
| 86 | 005FACBC | 005FACE5 | It appears neither the Vault defenses nor the Blood Eagles were a match for you. Quite formidable. |
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| 87 | You can lower your weapons. It would clearly be futile for me to struggle, and I surrender willingly. | |||
| 94 | 005FD57B | 006036A5 | Do you believe I did this all blindly? Groping madly in the bodies of the innocent for some unknown and hallucinatory secret? |
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| 95 | With each iteration, each test conducted, I identified flaws in the virus and calculated their removal. | |||
| 96 | I have no doubt in my work. | |||
| 148 | 0060363D | 006036C0 | It seems I have an excess of visitors today. |
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| 149 | Ah, yes. The one I met at Fort Atlas. I did hope we would meet again under more convivial circumstances. | |||
| 150 | These are not they, unfortunately. I have no quarrel with the Brotherhood, but I must ask you to leave immediately. | |||
| 151 | Please leave me be. I cannot be responsible for what may happen if you remain. | |||
| 225 | 00603671 | 006036D0 | Contrary to what you may think, I did not lie to you when we spoke at Fort Atlas. |
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| 226 | I did say it would be difficult for a layperson to understand. | |||
| 227 | 00603673 | 006036B4 | What you call insanity is merely the regrettable necessity of my work. |
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| 228 | That it condemns me in your eyes or consigns me to whatever Hell may exist is a price I pay willingly. | |||
| 229 | I have ensured the future of humanity, not just in Appalachia, but the world! No cost is too high for this. | |||
| 230 | Were it possible to achieve it without the suffering of innocents, I would have done so. | |||
| 231 | 00603675 | 006036A0 | FEV was never intended to be a source of abominations and grotesqueries. |
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| 232 | It was to be the next step in human evolution! Our refinement into something greater and better. | |||
| 233 | Certainly the fools at West Tek were more obsessed with observing its failures than correcting them, but its true purpose was for good. | |||
| 234 | And now it will fulfill that purpose. Because of me. | |||
| 235 | 00603677 | 006036D9 | This is true. I wish it could have been avoided. |
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| 236 | It was easier and safer, for myself if not for others, to release those failures before their metamorphosis was complete. | |||
| 237 | I had work to finish, and I knew the Brotherhood was out there to deal with the errors. | |||
| 238 | 00603679 | 006036B9 | I am sure your Brotherhood will happily interrogate me until I have no tale left to tell. |
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| 239 | I will be entirely forthcoming, though I expect you will want to conduct your inquisition within confines more...amenable to the Brotherhood. | |||
| 240 | As for the contents of this Vault, the Brotherhood is free to collect anything they like. My work here is finished. | |||
| 241 | 0060367D | 006036DE | I have no doubt that you do. As you wish. |
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| 243 | 0060367F | 006036A9 | Despise me if you will. I took no pleasure in what had to be done. |
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| 244 | 00603680 | 006036E3 | Listening to this is making me understand Shin's point of view. | |
| 246 | 00603682 | 006036AD | Is that so? It seems my failures were indeed steps on the road to success. |
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| 247 | That level of coordination suggests an increase in cognitive development over the typical example. | |||
| 248 | Still, I bear the Brotherhood no ill will. My apologies for that. | |||
| 251 | 00603685 | 006036B0 | There are...steps being taken, as we speak. |
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| 252 | Any miscalculations that might exist are minor and will be addressed shortly. | |||
| 253 | 00603687 | 0060369D | I am at your disposal, then. |
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| 258 | 0060368A | 006036A2 | Have I given you any reason to believe I have not already taken the necessary action? |
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| 262 | 0060368E | 0060369C | I understand what your opinion of me must be, but believe me when I say you are blameless. |
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| 263 | Do not take it as a light to your intellect when I say you must allow your ignorance to be solace in this. | |||
| 264 | 00603690 | 006036CE | Simply that I have achieved my goal. The FEV is perfected, and it is too late for you to change that. |
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| 265 | My sacrifices...the terrible things I've done to accomplish this...it has been paid in full, and now salvation awaits humanity. | |||
| 266 | 00603692 | 006036B3 | I have completed it. I turned a flawed miscreation into something that will heal an ill and wounded humanity. |
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| 267 | But if by that you mean, "what have I done with the result?" | |||
| 268 | It is no longer here. I have...associates. They are even now finalizing the mechanisms of its distribution. | |||
| 269 | You are too late. | |||
| 270 | 00603694 | 0060369F | Let me go? Had I committed any offense of which you could possibly have been aware? |
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| 271 | 00603696 | 006036D8 | Do you think I take any pleasure or pride in that fact? Think what you will, but I am not inhuman. |
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| 272 | Had I been capable of accomplishing my goal without them, I would have done so. I am neither a sadist nor a homicidal maniac. | |||
| 273 | I do not expect forgiveness, but I am certain what I have done will bear sufficient consequence without fabricating new sins to hang upon me. | |||
| 274 | 00603698 | 006036A4 | Ah, yes. The interrogation before my interrogations continues. Go on. |
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| 301 | 006039EA | 006039F0 | Though it seems futile, I ask one final time: leave this Vault and the things you have seen. You cannot change what has happened here. |
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| 302 | Leave me to this cold and lonely place. | |||
| 308 | 006039ED | 006039F1 | Your persistent refusal to depart is a distraction I do not need. Please, I am asking you again, leave this place and do not return. |
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| 309 | There is nothing for you here but sorrow. Whatever you think you will accomplish here, I promise you that you will not. | |||
| 310 | 006039EE | 006039F9 | This Vault was a biological research facility, originally. They locked a small team of geniuses inside, lying to them about why. |
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| 311 | Perhaps it is fitting that I found this place. I have been honest about my purpose, after a fashion, but less than forthcoming about its nature. | |||
| 338 | 00605BE0 | 00605BEA | Too far? Does that term even apply when the goal is the permanent protection of humanity from the horrors of the Wasteland? |
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| 339 | I told you my work focused on the health of Appalachia's people. You must see that my research was towards that aim. |