Vault-Tec Rep



The Vault-Tec representative (known as Vault-Tec rep in-game) was a door-to-door salesman working for Vault-Tec in 2077. After the Great War, he became a ghoul, eventually settling down at Goodneighbor's Hotel Rexford in 2287.

Background
The Vault-Tec representaive was responsible for selling positions to local families and assisting them in securing their in spot in Vault 111 prior to the Great War. The salesman was doing his rounds in the neighborhood of Sanctuary Hills in the final hours prior to the nuclear apocalypse. He called upon the Sole Survivor's family on that fateful Saturday morning, making it known that they had been selected for entry into Vault 111, for their patriarch's loyal service to the United States during the Battle of Anchorage.

The salesman assisted the family with filling out the paperwork required for entry into Vault 111. Being a safety-conscious fellow, he heeded the air-raid sirens signaling that nuclear strikes were imminent. The rep approached the Army officer guarding the gate, forcefully attempting to proceed into the vault his employer had constructed. His efforts were fruitless however, as he was driven off when a power-armored soldier threatened to open fire.

For his contributions to the operation to recruit local residents for entry into the vault, the salesman was to be rewarded a pack of steak knives. This never happened due to the onslaught of the nuclear war.

Post-War
Despite his failed efforts to ensure that he secured a spot inside Vault 111, the Vault-Tec rep had managed to survive nuclear armageddon. Surprisingly to him, the radioactive fallout had transformed him into a ghoul. The next 200 years would prove rather troubling for the former salesman. Years of dealing with oppressive wastelanders and anti-ghoul bias had left him a grief-stricken refugee, who felt depressed and lacked anywhere to go. This was contrary to the cheerful, but conscious demeanor the rep had possessed when he was still human. He was forced to live as a drifter and vagrant, squatting in local communities, where he was constantly taunted and threatened by local residents. The rep had to do low-paying, unfavorable odd jobs in order to stay alive.

Eventually, the former Vault-Tec salesman had discovered the town Goodneighbor, soon after being gruffly denied residence in Diamond City. This was an urbanized community located right in the heart of downtown Boston, that passed local laws protecting ghoul rights. Welcomed by the inhabitants of the tolerant community, he checked in to a room at the Hotel Rexford, where he has been taking refuge right up until his ultimate reunion with the Sole Survivor.

Quests

 * War Never Changes - Interacting with the Vault-Tec rep prompts the player character to choose their SPECIAL stats for the first time and enter a name for the Sole Survivor.
 * Familiar Faces - He can be recruited and sent to a settlement.

Other interactions

 * When the Sole Survivor talks to him about Vault 111, he will say that he didn't know anything about the Vault's cryogenic stasis and that he was supposed to "win a pack of steak knives," a reference to the popular stage play and film Glengarry Glen Ross by David Mamet. The knives were, ironically enough, the second place prize in the sale contest.
 * Piper and MacCready like recruiting the Vault-Tec rep. Hancock, Strong, and Cait dislike recruiting him. Danse will hate it if you recruit him.
 * Cait "loves" when answering his question with "blood of your enemies."
 * He can be assigned as a level 4 merchant for the trading emporium and will start selling rare junk items, such as the clean broom, military ammo bag and military grade duct tape. He also sells a unique armor piece, the Apocalypse left greave.
 * If recruited and sent to a settlement, the Vault-Tec rep will say lines about how Vault-Tec kept him in the dark about their experiments.
 * After being sent to a settlement, he will continuously repeat similar dialogue sentences about his hardships over the years, the Sole Survivor having it easy and that things will be looking up.

Appearances
The Vault-Tec rep appears only in Fallout 4.

Behind the scenes
From The Art of Fallout 4, for character gen storyboards in the preproduction chapter, "The rep looks like Fredo Corleone, smooth but obviously nervous."