Toaster (Old World Blues)



Toaster is an automated personality computer in the Big MT in 2281.

Background
The Toaster in The Sink was ordered to go offline when Dr. Mobius left the Think Tank. His personality back-up is recovered from a "toaster altar" in The Cuckoo's Nest. The Toaster is psychotically violent, aggressive and megalomanical, bent on destroying the Earth with atomic fire. Humorously, he is unaware atomic fire has already rained when the Great War began. When informed that the Earth has already been destroyed, he becomes momentarily disoriented, before returning to his "Burn the World" agenda.

Quests

 * All My Friends Have Off Switches: The Toaster is one of the appliances that the player must retrieve a module for. The module is found in The Cuckoo's Nest sitting on what appears to be a shrine for toasters.

Effects of player action

 * If the player lies, claiming that his prior statement that the world had already been incinerated in atomic fire was "just a joke", Toaster will be relieved that he "isn't as redundant and useless as Muggy".
 * The ending slide show of Old World Blues relates that the Toaster continued to rant about how he would burn the world. After a particularly violent episode, the other appliances tired of the Toaster, and dumped him into a bathtub. In his last moments, the Toaster swears they would "rue the day when they had bread... and no way to toast it."

Other interactions
The Toaster can heat up a Saturnite fist to become a Saturnite fist super-heated.

The Toaster can also strip down specific small appliances for (5) energy cells and (3) microfusion cells per item. Turning in other toasters returns (1) scrap electronics per item in addition to the energy and microfusion cells.
 * Even if the player is not carrying any toasters, but has other small appliances or Saturnite fists in his inventory, 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 can break down the following appliances:

Notable quotes

 * "Cursed electric heating filament! You are inadequate to my needs! Why? Why? Why was I not built with a death ray!"
 * "Ahahaha! I am on-line once again! Tremble, world, before my heating coil of doom!"
 * "Buddy, if my heating element was a little bigger, you'd be on fire right now. On fire!"
 * "You should be afraid! I am the scourge of all small appliances and the bogeyman that keeps lesser toasters awake at night!"
 * "Soon, pitiful worms! Soon I will rule, and your lives will have their doneness setting turned to... darkest!"

Appearances
The Toaster appears in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on, Old World Blues. A talking toaster, similar to this one, was to appear in Fallout 2 but was cut before the final version.

Behind the scenes

 * The reactivation of the Toaster during the game is a reference to the toaster repair skill of Wasteland, the 1980s game which is considered to be Fallout's predecessor.

Тостер (Old World Blues)