The Book Chute, or Library Processing Unit 232.7, is an Artificial Intelligence at Big MT in Fallout: New Vegas.[1]
Background
The Book Chute is a mechanical device located in the Sink. Like all the other systems there, it was disabled shortly after Doctor Mobius left the Think Tank for the Forbidden Zone. When his personality back-up is recovered from Dr. Klein's house (House 101 in Higgs Village), he speaks like a dystopian authority, promising to protect citizens from "seditious material," namely Pre-War Books.
According to his dialogue, he was also supposed to come equipped with an indoctrination module, but it was stripped to suit the R&D budget. He instead instructs the player character in how to perform a form of self-indoctrination, involving a small cage and a sack of mole rats. The Book Chute also dislikes communism, and anything related to it, often commenting on it when the player character is nearby.
Interactions Overview
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| This character is essential. Essential characters cannot be killed. | ||
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Quests
All My Friends Have Off Switches: The Book Chute is one of the appliances the Courier must upgrade.
Other interactions
The Book Chute converts old books into Blank Books, with each old book turned in yielding one blank book.
Following the acquisition of the appropriate recipe holotape (which are single-use items), one skill book of each type can be created at a Workbench using Blank Books (25) and Wonderglue (2)
Notes
- Doctor Borous references the Book Chute in a pre-recorded message in the X-8 Research Center. He refers to it as an "incinerator chute" and both are anti-communists.[2]
- The Book Chute claimd to have a "re-indoctrination module" planning to be installed, this option was cut though due to budget concerns.[3]
- The Book Chute is the only personality that does not have any special greeting nor dialogue after the completion of Old World Blues.
- A reliable location to find books is the X-8 Research Center, over a hundred can be found there.
Quotes
- "I smell... sedition!"
- "If you know what the word "proletariat" means, do you know what that makes you? Well read and erudite... for a Communist!"
- "Citizen! Did you know that Communists have an organ behind their eyes that converts salt water into fresh? Or, wait... is that penguins?"
- "Ah! Good day, Citizen! Library Processing Unit 232.7 is on-line and ready to eradicate sedition!"
- "If you haven't found any Communists in your back yard, you're not looking hard enough!"
- "The Commies have eyes everywhere, Citizen. And that means they're not just Commies. They're Peeping Toms!"
- "I never trusted those Think Tank brains. Gave off a stench like ivory tower elitism. And brine."
- "Blank books are better for the mind, Citizen! Real science by real men in lab coats has proved that introducing outside thoughts confuses the brain!"
Appearances
The Book Chute appears in the Fallout: New Vegas DLC Old World Blues.
Gallery
Book Chute ending slide
References
- ↑ Book Chute: "Ah! Good day, Citizen! Library Processing Unit 232.7 is on-line and ready to eradicate sedition!"
(Book Chute/Dialogue) - ↑ Doctor Borous: -Please place all filthy propaganda books in the incinerator chute in the Sink, especially those with funny pictures of me in them.-"
(Doctor Borous/Dialogue) - ↑ Courier: "But those books are our last legacy of the time before! You can't destroy them!"
Book Chute: "Citizen, that sounds dangerously seditious. If my re-indoctrination module was installed, I'd take care of that for you. Sadly, that system was cut for budget concerns, so you'll have to perform your own indoctrination. Now, to begin with, you'll need a cage that can fit over your head and a sack of Mole Rats..."
(Book Chute/Dialogue)
