Book Chute

Book Chute is a character in the Big MT in 2281.

Background
The Book Chute is a mechanical device located in The Sink. Like all the other systems there, it was disabled shortly after Dr. Mobius left the Think Tank for the Forbidden Zone. When his personality back-up is recovered from Dr. Klein's house (House 101 in Higgs Village), he speaks with personality akin to a dystopian authority, promising to protect citizens from "seditious material"; namely, pre-War books. According to his dialog, he was also supposed to come equipped with an indoctrination module, but it was stripped to suit the R&D budget. He instead will instruct the player in how to perform a self-indoctrination, involving a small cage and a sack of mole rats.

Quests

 * All My Friends Have Off Switches: Book Chute is one of the appliances you have to upgrade.

Other interactions

 * The Book Chute converts old books into blank books at a one for one exchange. The books that it will accept are as follows:


 * These blank books can, in turn, be used at a workbench to create one skill book of each type. The player will need to acquire the recipe holotape (which unfortunately are single-use items) for the skillbook they wish to assemble, as well as 25 blank books and two bottles of wonderglue.

The four clipboards types it accepts include:
 * The mulching upgrade allows the Book Chute to breakdown any type of clipboard into 1 duct tape and 1 scrap metal. It can also breakdown pencils into 5 lead and 1 scrap metal for each turned in.

Notable quotes

 * "I smell... sedition!"
 * "Stay loyal, citizen!"
 * "Do you know what 'proletariat' means? If so, congratulations; that makes you well-read and erudite...for a communist."
 * "Citizen! Did you know communists have an organ behind their eyes that converts salt water into fresh water...or is that penguins?"
 * "Look out! Communist! False alarm, it was just a plate."
 * "If you haven't found any communists in your backyard, you're not looking hard enough!"
 * ''"Now to begin with, you'll need a cage that can fit over your head, and a sack of mole-rats..."'
 * ''"The Commies have eyes everywhere, Citizen! And that means they're not just Commies, they're Peeping Toms!"'

Appearances
The Book Chute appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.

Behind the scenes

 * The Book Chute mentions that the Courier can get rid of your own sedition with "a cage that fits over your head and a bag full of mole rats." This is a reference to 1984, specifically to the scene where Winston was being tortured in a similar fashion in Room 101 of The Ministry of Love.
 * Arguably, the entire premise of the character is based on 1984. Its use is inherently similar to the Memory Holes of the Ministry of Truth.
 * The Book Chute is also likely a reference to the book/movie "Fahrenheit 451," which centered around "Firemen," a group of authorities whose sole purpose was to collect and burn books, which were categorically outlawed as vessels of seditious ideas.
 * The word "proletariat" (a word the Book Chute asks if you know the definition of) is used in Marxist communism to refer to the working class. Also, in 1984 "proles", which is short for proletariats, is used often.
 * In The Venture Bros. episode "Eeney, Meeney, Miney... Magic," Dean Venture declares that penguins have a gland above their eyes that converts salt water to fresh water. The Book Chute paraphrases this, confusing penguins for communists.