Troike

Background
Troike works for the Omerta family as a weapons dealer. He can be found in the Gomorrah casino, Lower Brimstone (through the double doors near the dance floor-unloacked using the Club Zoara Key) and is directly involved in the quest How Little We Know or For the Republic, Part 2, whichever you come across first. Troike has a fearful personality, very talkative yet too reluctant and cowardly to reveal any information about the Family; he is also a chem-addicted murderer, as can be uncovered in the quest. He has a big network of contacts in the Mojave, and was framed by the Omertas and blackmailed into their employment because of this. Once the Courier has contact with Troike, he can either be freed from his contract or assisted by finding a missing shipment of weapons. However, if you free Troike, he'll reveal what he does for the Omertas. Under Omerta contract, he uses his contacts to sneak weapons into Gomorrah using the monorail out of Camp McCarran. Although Troike reveals his "stroke of genius" while expressing this information, the realization is simply that the weapons are stored in crates marked as 'food' or 'medical' supplies and sorted out at The Strip from some crooked soldiers. Because of this plan, the Omertas have an extensive array of weapons stored in the basement, awaiting the Family's plan to possibly take over The Strip.

Although Troike comes off as a complete coward, it turns out he decided to make enough Thermite to destroy all of the Family's stored weapons and tampered with the light in the basement to produce enough of a spark to set it all off.

Behind the Scenes

 * His story about how he killed a prostitute is similar to the story of British punk rocker Sid Vicious and his girlfriend Nancy Spungen. Sid and Nancy blacked out from drug use one night in a hotel and the next morning, Sid wakes up to find Nancy dead. Coincidentally enough, Nancy was an ex-prostitute.


 * Another possible influence for his story might be the movie "The Godfather Part II" in which the Corleone Family staged an encounter with a Senator and a prostitute in which he passes out and wakes up in a room with blood everywhere and the prostitute dead in bed with him. Tom Hagen then offers to cover up that he killed the girl, even though it was the Family that killed her and framed him. It is implied that the Omertas actually killed the prostitute and framed Troike to make sure he wouldn't betray them.


 * Troike's name is probably a reference to Troika, a Video game developer comprised of many members from the original Fallout team.


 * The "snuff tape," dead prostitutes, and general environment of the Gomorrah may be a reference to the horror themes of Troika's past games, in particular the Vampire: The Masquerade series.

Notable quotes

 * "Thermite burns as hot as the devil's asshole, and can melt through just about anything."

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.