G.I. Blues

 is a side quest in Fallout: New Vegas.

Quick Walkthrough
The player is asked to perform several tests of loyalty to The Kings.

Part 1
Head through the North east door of Freeside after exiting Kings. Continue NE following your arrow.

Talk to Orris and hire him for 200 caps.

Follow Orris as he takes you around Freeside. After a while he will mention that he doesn't like the look of the men ahead and suggest another way around, follow him. He runs off and fire some shots.

When he talks with you an Intelligence of 6 allows you to ask why he fired 3 shots when there are 4 dead bodies. And a barter test of 50 allows you to threaten Orris.

Activate one of the "Bodies" a medicine test of 30 reveals the thugs are pretending to be dead. If your medicine is below 30 punching one of the "Dead bodies" will cause them to stand up and attack.

Either way report to the king to tell him Orris is a fraud, or will no longer be a problem to the Kings

Part 2
The King will tell you about NCR attacks on the people of Freeside. Tell him you'll get on it right away and exit the building going North east to the Old Mormon Fort.

Talk to Roy and Wayne ask them about the attack. Leave The Old Mormon Fort and head back to the Kings School of Impersonation to tell the King about the soldiers.

Head to one of the squatter camps in Freeside, the answers to the questions are as follows Question 1 - Who is the most popular NCR President of all time? - President Tandi. Question 2 - What was the original capital of the NCR? - Shady Sands. Question 3 - What animal is on the NCR Flag? - Two-Headed Bear.

Head west following the left wall, talk to either NCR guard, however the left one is easier to do a speech check on (30) if you don't know the password. Enter the ruined store and talk to Elizabeth.

Return to the King to tell him what you know. Pacer will start a forced conversation, choosing the top selection rewards you 200 caps, talk to the king and he'll send you out to the train station, to tell the NCR he will co-operate.

Head to the arrow, don't try fighting anyone when you reach the train station even though others are firing. Talk to Elizabeth Kieran behind the platform and tell her about The King. Return to The King.

He will reward you with XP and a favor.

Orris
The first request from The King is to hire a certain bodyguard, Orris, and see why he's so popular with the local tourists. The player must hire and follow Orris from the North Gate to the South Gate, noting any suspicious activity en-route.
 * The first time the player follows Orris, The King will supply the 200 caps needed to hire him. At this point you can keep the caps and simply go kill him. Since he wont be aggressive you can lay mines to lure him into or setup a sneak attack critical headshot.
 * (OPTIONAL) If real Freeside thugs come out, Orris will shoot them and tell you to be more careful then he will return to his original spot. When you tell The King that he is legit, he will force you to hire him again and that you must pay to hire him with your own money. After hiring him again, Orris will lead you to the front of The Strip North Gate and tell you that his men spotted you telling The King about his actions and he will become hostile and attack. If his men see this, they will also attack you.
 * Upon nearing the South Gate, Orris will say to the player and that he "doesn't like the look of some of those guys up ahead" and will make a rather long detour.
 * You can continue on the main path towards the thugs and Orris will approach you, mentioning how the thugs were harmless after all, and will continue to the south gate. (NOTE: This approach of the quest will skip the following method!).
 * When you follow Orris down the side street he will run far ahead of the player to kill a "thug". When questioned as to how he knew of the thug's presence, Orris tells the player it was instinct.
 * At this point, the player must catch Orris lying about the "thugs":
 * The player can interrogate Orris further by means of an intelligence check (6), followed by a barter check (50). Doing so results in caps from Orris.
 * Passing a medicine check (30), the player can examine the "dead thugs" to determine they are phony.
 * Attacking one of the "dead thugs" will cause them to get up and fight back, noting that they are not being paid enough for this. Orris will also attack the player.
 * The player can choose to kill Orris (difficult for a low level character)
 * If the player cannot catch Orris any way, he will have to be hired again before the quest will advance.
 * Note that pickpocketing Orris' ammo will break this task - when he goes to "shoot" his thugs, he'll be stuck in the firing position, but won't shoot, preventing the quest from advancing. Reverse pickpocketing even a single round onto him will correct this, as he'll reload and pretend to shoot his thugs.  Curiously, this doesn't actually consume any ammunition, and you can steal your ammo back afterward to make killing him much easier, especially if you stole his combat knife already.
 * If successful, the player is told to report back to The King.
 * If the speech check fails, the player must return to The King and tell him that Orris appears to be legitimate.
 * The King will not be satisfied with this, and orders the player to hire him again. The 200 caps will not be provided this time.
 * Upon re-hiring Orris, he will initially be friendly towards the player, but near the South Gate he turns to the player and say he saw them talking to The King, and that he "hates losing customers". He will then turn hostile, and several of his thugs will join him in combat.
 * To complete the quest after this point, Orris and his thugs must be killed.
 * Alternatively, the player may kill Orris without talking to him, and then report to The King without having to deal with Orris's thugs.

Old Mormon Fort

 * Return to the King. A new request is given to the player.
 * You must talk to a few roughed up Freesiders in the Old Mormon Fort. When you discover that off duty NCR troops roughed up some of the Kings loyal natives, go back and tell the King. He's disappointed with the lawlessness of off duty troops and asks you to probe a bit deeper. Evidently, there is a history of squabbling retaliations between The Kings and NCR.

NCR humanitarian convoy
The penultimate part of this quest requires the player to discover who's getting free NCR meals and water in Freeside.


 * Talk to Julie Farkas in the Old Mormon Fort. (Optional)
 * She will send you to talk to Elizabeth Kieran at the Ruined store (note: finding the store is hard for some players, click the ruined store link for a detailed description) to discover that an unknown member of the Kings (most likely Pacer) thwarted her initial plans of setting up a food bank for all of Freeside's inhabitants.
 * NOTE: When talking to the guards at the ruined store, the one on the right will only ask for the password, but the one on the left has a low level speech check as well as asking for the password - can save some running around and caps if your speech is high enough (Speech 60).
 * If you want to remain on level terms with the NCR, not having to kill them, you must do this optional objective. *You also find out more details: when her NCR humanitarian convoy was jumped by some Kings (on the way to ask The King for local, humanitarian support) the NCR pulled out and refused to work with such lawless gangs. Thus, the historic rivalry between the Kings and NCR began. It appears the King is a little out of touch with his crews nefarious activities. Pacer, being the hot head he is, led a few nameless Kings to jump the NCR warming party sent for the King.
 * Alternatively, you can "ask around the squatter camps." The characters called "Missionary" have a note on them you can pickpocket for the store location, or you can claim to be an NCR citizen and answer 3 questions
 * Question 1 - Who is the most popular NCR President of all time? - President Tandi.
 * Question 2 - What was the original capital of the NCR? - Shady Sands.
 * Question 3 - What animal is on the NCR Flag? - Two-Headed Bear.
 * OR pay him 10 caps (75 barter check), to get them to give you the same information you'd get from pickpocketing them.
 * When you return to tell the Kings this, Pacer will immediately approach you as you walk in the Kings home base. He claims to be in a hurry (starting a fight with NCR), and asks you to keep hush about his involvement.
 * For your troubles, he'll give you 200 caps (or 300 with a Barter check of 50).
 * You can also take the caps and tell the truth to the King if you so choose.
 * Or you can tell him you think the king should still know about it and take no bribe.
 * The King advises you to squash the squabble with NCR by letting them know he had no part in the beating of the messenger originally sent.
 * Immediately after this conversation ends, a member pops up and tells you two of the battle near the train station. Leave the King and head over to the station for the final confrontation.
 * As you approach the quarrel, you will see Pacer cowering in a bus stop covering while the NCR is unloading on him and his fallen Kings.
 * If you wish to resolve the situation with speech, you must holster your weapons or put your hands down to allow the deal to be considered by NCR. If you are still being attacked reload your save and approach wearing (Disguised in) NCR Armor. Talk to Elizabeth Kieran to get the NCR to cease fire.
 * If you wish to gain reputation with the NCR, you can kill Pacer. You will fail the quest, but you will remain in good standing with the NCR. Also, you will be attacked by all King members whenever they see you. Exception: if you can one-shot sneak-attack kill Pacer from an undetected stealth position, you'll still fail the quest, but the Kings will not turn hostile and you can do their other non-Pacer quests.
 * If you would rather fight NCR, approach them and start fighting (Euclid's C-Finder will incinerate the entire fort with no survivors).* Note that if you wear a legion article of clothing, your reputation with the NCR won't go down as much.*
 * Return to The King. He will give you a reward of XP and a favor of your choosing. In this case, you can get:
 * Entrance into the Strip without the credit check (According to the wiki page about the Passport it can be purchased for 500, or 375 with a speech check from Ralph, so accepting 1000 caps and spend half on the passport sounds more logical than asking The King to get you in).
 * A Kings jacket and induction into the Kings: and you will be able to change your hair by speaking to Sergio, who can be found on the first floor at the back of The King's School of Impersonation.
 * 1000 bottle caps.
 * You can also use the favor on the Kings' Gambit quest. Using the favor will allow you to stop the violence against the NCR, but no other favors can be chosen, as the King will claim that this makes you even.

Alternative solution
Rotface, a beggar near Mick and Ralph's can be paid to reveal the information for around 250 caps, or less after passing a barter check.

Behind the scenes

 * During the quest, when talking to Wayne, he will mention he heard someone say "Lou Tenant", Roy then says that he means "Lieutenant", then calls him "dumber than a mutant". This is very possibly a reference to Lou, from the first Fallout.
 * G.I Blues is the name of a movie starring Elvis Presley. It is also the name of a song that is sung by Elvis.

Bugs

 * After hiring Orris you can encounter a bug where he just stands there pointing his gun instead of shooting the Thugs. You can fix it by killing them yourself which will advance the quest, though after he runs off he can sometimes die mysteriously before making it back to Freeside's North Entrance. This bug may be caused by pick pocketing Orris's ammo, even though he will still have some in his gun.
 * When asked to investigate the presence of NCR soldiers in Freeside, if the player doesn't ask Julia Farkas about the NCR before talking to Elizabeth Kieran, you may encounter a bug when asked to back up Pacer in the shootout with the NCR, where Pacer simply runs continuously into a wall with no dialogue options available.
 * If you are at the part when Orris "kills" the four thugs and a real thug comes out he will continue to fire more then the gun is capable of. Making it more then the three shots mentioned in the followed dialog, this has no effect on the quest at all.
 * Sometimes if you look close enough a King's member will be standing with the "men who don't look good up ahead". Also as part of this encounter, if you continue to follow Orris and you do the medical check, when the thugs/Orris attack you the King member will assist you in the firefight. After the fight the King member will become stuck in place with an aggressive gun fight look on his face with his gun still drawn. No interactions are possible with the King member at this point (including pick pocketing).
 * When returning to The King to report what you learned about Orris he disappears making it impossible to complete the quest.

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