Toaster (Old World Blues)

Toaster is an automated personality 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, the wind is somewhat taken out of his sails - albeit briefly - before he quickly returns to his "Burn the World" agenda by threatening to bathe the world in "atomic fire...again."

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 and electric appliances.

Effects of player's actions

 * 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."
 * If the Courier has good or neutral Karma, 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 got tired of the Toaster, and dumped him into a bathtub. In his last moments, the Toaster swears that they would "rue the day when they had bread... and no way to toast it."
 * If the Courier has evil Karma, then the ending slide show shows that the Toaster, learning from the Courier, continued destroying appliances and eventually built a shrine to itself in The Cuckoo's Nest.

Other interactions

 * The Toaster can heat up a Saturnite fist to become a super-heated Saturnite fist.
 * 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:

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

Behind the scenes
The Toaster is a reference to the cut character from the Environmental Protection Agency, a cut location from Fallout 2, who in turn was a reference to the character from Red Dwarf also named Toaster.