Chief Hanlon > Dialogue
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TOPIC | TOPIC TEXT / PROMPT | EMOTION | RESPONSE TEXT | # |
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GREETING | GREETING | Anger 35 | {serious} I don't believe there's anything left for us to talk about. | 1 |
GREETING | Sad 35 | Go on. Go fetch a ranger and do this right. | 2 | |
GREETING | Happy 25 | Sorting and manipulating intelligence is what I do. It's what rangers are supposed to do. | 3 | |
Happy 45 | {joking a bit} This job isn't all gunfighting and gulping shots of whiskey, no matter what the boys and ladies out there say. | 4 | ||
GREETING | Neutral 50 | I'm occupied at the moment. Come see me when I'm on the balcony. | 5 | |
GREETING | Happy 40 | Back west, you don't see too many of these. Lakes, I mean. Natural or man-made. Any kind, really. | 6 | |
Happy 15 | We neglected the dams or pumped all the water out a long time ago. Owens, Isabella, the San Luis. Drained the aquifers of everything they had. | 7 | ||
Neutral 50 | Just a lot of mud and dust now. It's a different feeling, watching the sun come up over the water. Takes some getting used to. | 8 | ||
Sad 20 | But if you're here long enough, it starts to seem normal. That's what a ranger's life is now. Looking east. | 9 | ||
GREETING | Happy 10 | You've come back to see the chief. Nice of you to humor the radio tender. What can I do for you? | 10 | |
GREETING | Sad 5 | Like I said, I won't run out on you, but I can't let my people get dragged through the mud for this. | 11 | |
Sad 10 | You did good and you did it well. Work a ranger would be proud of. I'll handle the rest from here. | 12 | ||
HanlonConfession | HanlonConfession | Neutral 50 | Rangers, this is the chief. I know I can ramble on sometimes, but I need you to listen close for the next minute or so. I've got some bad news. | 13 |
Neutral 50 | I messed up. Made a mistake. I thought I could help get us out of here, but... it didn't work out. | 14 | ||
Neutral 50 | Rangers get injured all the time. It's part of the job. But if you lose a few fingers, get a bad break, that's it. You step down. | 15 | ||
Neutral 50 | We rely on each other too much to let our infirmities become a liability. A ranger knows when it's time. Only I didn't. | 16 | ||
Neutral 50 | Somewhere along the way, something broke inside me. I couldn't find us a way out of this desert. I wrestled with it, and it took me down a dark road. | 17 | ||
Neutral 50 | I wish I could explain it to you. The old chief's finally at a loss for words. | 18 | ||
Neutral 50 | Send me all the Legion you can. I'll be waiting for them. | 19 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic012 | Tell me about yourself. | Happy 35 | Folks around here call me the chief{han-luhn} , but Hanlon's just fine. The rangers run themselves pretty well, but I try to lend a hand. | 20 |
Neutral 50 | Mostly administrative work, helping coordinate intel on the radio. That and keeping an eye on the fires growing across the water. | 21 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic015 | Let's talk about something else. | Neutral 50 | Shoot. | 22 |
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic016 | Goodbye. | Neutral 50 | Adios. | 23 |
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic025 | What do you know about Caesar? | Neutral 50 | The best of the best, worst of the worst. He came out of NCR, one of the Followers of the Apocalypse. | 24 |
Neutral 50 | Like a lot of the Followers, he went out in the wilderness with a partner to try to help those who needed helping. | 25 | ||
Sad 35 | Not much different from how the rangers used to be, except with books and medicine instead of guns. | 26 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic029 | How is NCR doing? | Sad 25 | It's no secret that we've had better campaigns. Holding this whole length of river isn't easy. | 27 |
Neutral 50 | We're stretched thin and the Long 15 just keeps getting longer. Slow to get supplies. Slower to get reinforcements. | 28 | ||
Anger 20 | NCR's senate has got funds tied up at the Boneyard and President Kimball ordered our most experienced rangers to chase ghosts down in Baja. | 29 | ||
How is NCR doing? | Neutral 50 | Even Caesar knows that General Oliver's coming back to Hoover. Colonel Moore's doing a fine job of running things over at the dam. | 30 | |
Happy 25 | In her own way, of course, when she's not trying to wrangle my rangers into helping her. | 31 | ||
Neutral 50 | But just keeping that dam secure and operational day to day is enough work for one person, never mind building a defense against the Legion. | 32 | ||
How is NCR doing? | Neutral 50 | Mojave Outpost sent word through the stations. The rangers coming up from Baja moved through Dayglow a week ago. | 33 | |
Happy 5 | Some of the patrol rangers have reported that Oliver's power armor heavy troopers are starting to reinforce the front lines. | 34 | ||
Neutral 50 | Wish they got here a bit earlier, but that's the senate for you. | 35 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic030 | What's the Legion been up to? | Neutral 50 | Not too long ago, they took Nelson and Searchlight. | 36 |
Anger 5 | They've got some camps on the eastern shore of the Colorado, and the monstrosity on the hill across the lake - that's for Caesar. | 37 | ||
Neutral 50 | Some folks don't believe he's here yet, but you can tell. He's the eye of the storm. It all roils and spins around him. | 38 | ||
Anger 5 | You don't have to see the man to see the effect he has. | 39 | ||
What's the Legion been up to? | Neutral 50 | Intel says the legate's coming. {lan-ee-us} Lanius. They call him the Monster of the East. If he's half as bad as Graham was, we're in for a heck of a fight. | 40 | |
Neutral 50 | With Caesar and a new legate here, the Legion's not going to fall for the same old bag of tricks. | 41 | ||
What's the Legion been up to? | Fear 5 | Word is that the Legion's old timers have shown up, Caesar's veterans from the Red Okie {sen-tur-ee-ah} Centuria and what was the Painted Rock tribe. | 42 | |
Neutral 50 | They're the best of the best and the baddest of the bad. Short of a centurion or {pray-tor-ee-an} praetorian, they don't come any tougher. | 43 | ||
Neutral 50 | You come across a pack of them, weigh your options carefully. | 44 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic031 | Tell me about the rangers. | Happy 5 | I could tell you a lot if you had the time, but at my age I'm not sure which of us would get tired first. What do you want to know? | 45 |
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic032 | Do you ever stop talking? | Surprise 35 | I didn't realize you were in such a hurry. | 46 |
Neutral 50 | I get so used to sitting in this chair and listening to radio reports, sometimes I forget people are getting ready for a war out there. | 47 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic033 | I'm investigating some intel problems for Technical Sergeant Reyes. | Anger 25 | Interesting that she would wrangle someone else into sorting out the problem. | 48 |
Happy 25 | But I suppose you're in the right place. A lot of intel comes through here. | 49 | ||
I'm investigating some intel problems for Technical Sergeant Reyes. | Anger 50 | This again? All right. What do you want to know? | 50 | |
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic034 | I know you're the one who's been manipulating intelligence data. | Sad 35 | Hold on. If we're going to have this conversation, let's go somewhere more private. | 51 |
Happy 25 | {joking a bit} Don't worry. Not much bite left in this old dog. | 52 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic035 | Do you know anything about the problems? | Surprise 35 | I don't know Technical Sergeant {ray-ess} Reyes, but coordinating intel can be messy sometimes. Things get mixed up, people get confused. | 53 |
Happy 25 | Heck, I get confused and I've been doing this for a long time now. What he - or she - sees as a problem might be standard operating procedure. | 54 | ||
Happy 35 | That's not to say Reyes is wrong for being concerned, but it's easy for the sand to get in your eyes out here. | 55 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic036 | Can you give me any advice? | Neutral 50 | Well... {thinking} the logical thing to do is to check with the patrol rangers and comm officers. Don't be too discouraged if some things don't match up. | 56 |
Happy 35 | Different people see different things, and sometimes the meaning gets twisted, lost in static from person to person. | 57 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic037 | How do you coordinate the intel? | Neutral 50 | It's a simple system, when it works. Patrol rangers radio intel to ranger stations. | 58 |
Neutral 50 | Comm rangers send the intel up the station chain until it reaches Camp Golf. | 59 | ||
Neutral 50 | Then I or one of the other rangers on duty organize the data, evaluate it, and send information to camps or troopers in the field. | 60 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic038 | Why don't the ranger stations send the intel directly to the troopers? | Neutral 50 | Comm rangers might have an incomplete picture of the situation. There's a lot going on out there. | 61 |
Neutral 50 | Intel needs to be coordinated through Golf so we can verify and advise appropriately. | 62 | ||
Anger 25 | Troopers have enough to deal with. We don't want them questioning their intel. | 63 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic039 | But you're inventing your own intelligence reports. I've seen the logs and talked to the rangers. | Happy 35 | {smiling a bit} You have, have you? {Beat, more somber} Misdirection. When you're pinned down, outnumbered, and two days from any help, it's just about the best friend you can have. | 64 |
Sad 45 | Misdirection's what's saved me all these years. It's what saved us at Hoover Dam. But it's been five years now and {see-zar's} Caesar's right across that lake. | 65 | ||
Anger 35 | He's closer now than he ever was before. {bit angry} I was a young man once. I know what it's like to want to fight for your home, but this isn't it. | 66 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic040 | Why did you do it? | Sad 50 | It's never going to end. This fight with Caesar. People back home don't know what these young men and women are in for. | 67 |
Sad 50 | The Legion is the worst enemy we've ever faced, but we can't stop Caesar here, not without getting a lot of good people killed. | 68 | ||
Sad 65 | More than anyone cares to count up. And even if we do stop him, I don't see how we're ever going to be able to pull out. | 69 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic041 | Aren't you fighting for the people of New Vegas? | Anger 35 | We're fighting on their behalf, but Mr. House and the families are stringing us up, inch by inch. | 70 |
Anger 50 | They'll drain us dry while we fight and die over this dam. We offered them sanctuary in NCR territory before, but they won't listen. | 71 | ||
Disgust 25 | Troopers and rangers have been dying here for more than five years while the families sit pretty behind that... damned wall. | 72 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic042 | How does spreading false intel help anything? | Anger 45 | {exasperated} People back home don't listen. They don't care. Senators, Brahmin barons, folks who are just trying to make it from day to day. | 73 |
Sad 35 | It's been so many years that people forget about it. Conscription brings in fresh troops to die here every month. Like it's routine. | 74 | ||
Anger 25 | {getting more worked up} And even if we hold this dam, what then? Are we going to send the NCR's men and women to die here for another five years? Ten? | 75 | ||
Sad 25 | Patrol the whole length of the Colorado for hundreds of miles? Holding this dam. {pause, downbeat} It'll be the death of us. | 76 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic043 | What do you think I should do about this? | Sad 25 | First thing that comes to mind is to turn me in. But that might not be the best play, all things considered. | 77 |
Fear 25 | Even if your heart's in the right place, I reckon it might do a lot more harm than good. | 78 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic044 | You're dead. | Surprise 50 | Hold on. This is ranger headquarters. There might be a dozen rangers within earshot. | 79 |
Surprise 25 | Think twice before you decide to give the old chief a gut full of lead. | 80 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic046 | But what does that accomplish? | Sad 35 | {pause, quieter} Creating fear and instability among the troopers without causing harm, it's the only thing I could think of to shake things up. | 81 |
Sad 50 | It took some people getting killed to realize I had gone too far. I had to stop. | 82 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic047 | Too bad. I'm turning you in. | Anger 15 | Fair enough. You want to do this the right way, go get one of the rangers. Don't worry. I'm not gonna run out on you. | 83 |
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic048 | What will you do if I don't turn you in? | Neutral 50 | Oliver can't stand that rangers got credit for victory at Hoover. Whatever I recommend, he does the opposite. I said I wanted them on the ridge. | 84 |
Sad 35 | He put them right on the western part of the dam itself. We don't have enough firepower to hold that spot. | 85 | ||
Pained 25 | If the troopers fall back, and they will, the rangers will advance to cover Oliver's retreat. We lose the dam, Oliver and the senate are ruined. | 86 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic049 | What about you and the rangers? | Anger 25 | Rangers are volunteers. Every man and woman who signs up is willing to die for the NCR, myself included. | 87 |
Sad 50 | A lot of this is my fault. It's only right that I stand with them. | 88 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic050 | That's crazy. | Anger 35 | Maybe fifty rangers will die on that dam. We lose over a thousand troopers every year. Being here is crazy. Getting out's the only sane thing to do. | 89 |
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic051 | Caesar's dead. The Legion can't hold itself together for five years, much less ten. | Fear 35 | It's a gamble either way. Even with Caesar gone, we still might not outlast the Legion. I suppose that's a risk I'll have to take. | 90 |
Neutral 50 | For our sake, I hope you're right. I guess I should thank you for bringing me to my senses. So... thanks. | 91 | ||
Anger 15 | Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to walk out that door and pretend we never had this talk. | 92 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic052 | Caesar's sick. He won't live long. The Legion will fall apart a few years after he's gone. | Fear 35 | It's a gamble either way. Even with Caesar gone, we still might not outlast the Legion. I suppose that's a risk I'll have to take. | 90 |
Neutral 50 | For our sake, I hope you're right. I guess I should thank you for bringing me to my senses. So... thanks. | 91 | ||
Anger 15 | Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to walk out that door and pretend we never had this talk. | 92 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic053 | Caesar's dead. What more do you need? | Anger 25 | {a little angry} The Legion is more than just Caesar! It's got the momentum of thousands of men behind it. | 93 |
Anger 20 | They're not just going to roll off into Arizona if we give them a good shove. | 94 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic054 | Caesar is sick. Like... really sick. He could drop any day. | Anger 25 | {a little angry} The Legion is more than just Caesar! It's got the momentum of thousands of men behind it. | 93 |
Anger 20 | They're not just going to roll off into Arizona if we give them a good shove. | 94 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic055 | You've convinced me. Your secret is safe. | Fear 5 | I don't know if you're working for Caesar or if desperation's made me a heck of a lot more persuasive. Either way, this is the right thing to do. | 95 |
Neutral 50 | Now, I trust we're done discussing this. I'm going to step through that door and pretend like we never had this talk. | 96 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic058 | Doesn't matter. Your time's up, Hanlon. | Sad 25 | Well, you got that right. | 97 |
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic059 | Fires? | Sad 25 | Legion fires. They burn high wherever the Legion goes. | 98 |
Anger 25 | Caesar's a hard man to figure out, but he always wants you to know when more troops are at your front door. | 99 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic060 | Where did he go? | Neutral 50 | Out to the Grand Canyon. He met a missionary from Utah, a man by the name of Joshua Graham. Graham helped translate for the Followers and the tribes. | 100 |
Neutral 50 | All three of them got nabbed by the Blackfoots down there, back when they were still at war with every other tribe in the southwest. | 101 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic061 | How did a Follower wind up becoming Caesar? | Neutral 50 | Somewhere along the way, he realized he needed to educate the Blackfoots or they were going to get wiped out with the rest of the tribe. | 102 |
Neutral 50 | Showed them how to use guns, how to make explosives. Once he taught the Blackfoots a thing or two, they needed him. | 103 | ||
Anger 25 | And he no longer needed the Followers, NCR, or anyone else. He decided he could remake the tribes of the southwest, whether they wanted it or not. | 104 | ||
Sad 25 | He became Caesar and Joshua Graham became his legate, his right hand. And that's where Graham stayed until Hoover Dam. | 105 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic062 | What happened to Graham after Hoover Dam? | Neutral 50 | Losing the dam was the worst defeat the Legion ever suffered. Graham had been with Caesar since the beginning, but he had to set an example. | 106 |
Neutral 50 | The praetorians covered Graham in pitch, lit him on fire, and down into the Grand Canyon he went. | 107 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic063 | Are the Blackfoots part of the Legion? | Neutral 50 | Yes and no. The Blackfoots don't exist anymore, just like any other tribe that gets swallowed by the Legion. | 108 |
Disgust 25 | Caesar takes the tribal out of the tribe. Scrapes and burns off tattoos, breaks up families, forces mixed breeding so all the old loyalties die away. | 109 | ||
Disgust 45 | The only tribe in the Legion is the Legion. Caesar is their chief, father, and god all rolled into one. | 110 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic064 | So that was the end of Graham? | Neutral 50 | It's not that clear cut. You have to understand, Graham was the toughest son of a gun anyone around these parts had ever seen. | 111 |
Neutral 50 | Before Hoover, we had five kill reports on Graham from rangers and 1st Recon sharpshooters who tried to take him out. | 112 | ||
Fear 25 | Some folks think he's still alive, call him the Burned Man. | 113 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic065 | Why are funds tied up at the Boneyard? | Disgust 25 | Senate elections are coming up. Local representatives don't want to push any more funding to the Mojave campaign because it's unpopular. | 114 |
Disgust 25 | Most of the folks around the Boneyard haven't been to New Vegas and probably never will. | 115 | ||
Sad 25 | All they know is that their money gets sucked away to this desert and their brothers, sisters, sons, and daughters die here. | 116 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic066 | What's going on in Baja? | Neutral 50 | It's complicated. Goes way back. I told President Kimball that we need more rangers here. | 117 |
Anger 20 | He accepted that, but took the most experienced ones and sent them south. Patrol rangers are good men and women, but we're about to fight a war. | 118 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic067 | What about the troopers? | Anger 25 | You've seen it yourself. Some of them don't even have proper service rifles or armor. | 119 |
Anger 30 | Our heavy infantry, power armor units, they're back in NCR territory protecting the interests of Brahmin barons against small-time raiders. | 120 | ||
Neutral 50 | Brahmin barons only have one vote at the ballot box, but they have a lot of money to throw around. | 121 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic068 | Tell me about General Oliver. | Surprise 30 | Oh, well... now, you'll have to excuse me. The general and I don't always see eye to eye on things. | 122 |
Neutral 50 | Maybe it's best that I just say that he is a trooper, through and through. The man will not give up an inch for anything, least of all to the Legion. | 123 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic069 | Colonel Moore's "way"? | Neutral 50 | The colonel is an effective commander - one of the best - but she sharpened her claws on the Vipers and the old Jackals. | 124 |
Neutral 50 | Did four tours against the Brotherhood, too. She used to be ranger until an injury took her out of action. Happens to a lot of us, unfortunately. | 125 | ||
Pained 25 | She's better at making graves than making friends. Bring in Moore and the earth will be razed. Fields will be salted. | 126 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic070 | Is Moore in charge of all the NCR troopers out here? | Happy 5 | No, and thanks to General Oliver for that. Colonel {shoo} Hsu is at McCarran. Most of the New Vegas troopers are under his command. | 127 |
Neutral 50 | He's more sympathetic to the locals than Moore, but he's got the Fiends to deal with. | 128 | ||
Is Moore in charge of all the NCR troopers out here? | Happy 5 | No, and thanks to General Oliver for that. Colonel {shoo} Hsu is at McCarran. Most of the New Vegas troopers are under his command. | 129 | |
Neutral 50 | He's more sympathetic to the locals than Moore. Now that the Fiends aren't giving him grief, we should see more troopers assigned to the front lines. | 130 | ||
Happy 5 | Good work on that, by the way. Hope you got good bounties out of it. | 131 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic071 | What do the new rangers mean for NCR? | Neutral 50 | The Baja rangers can do more advance night scouting and sharpshooting to assist the troopers. | 132 |
Neutral 50 | Ranger combat helmets are old Pre-War gear. They have built in low-light optics. Makes a big difference. | 133 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic072 | Tell me about the heavy troopers. | Neutral 50 | They have the best equipment the NCR can get its hands on, power armor salvaged from our war with the Brotherhood. | 134 |
Neutral 50 | Techs strip out the joint servos so you don't need special training to wear it. | 135 | ||
Happy 5 | It feels like you're carrying a Brahmin on your back, but it can take a heck of a lot of punishment. | 136 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic073 | Tell me about Nelson. | Neutral 50 | Nelson was barely set up. We had a big stretch of unprotected land between Forlorn Hope and Searchlight, and Nelson was the solution. | 137 |
Neutral 50 | A {deh-can-us} decanus named Dead Sea took the place and caused a lot of damage. | 138 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic074 | What happened at Searchlight? | Sad 15 | Searchlight was worse. One of Caesar's {froo-men-tar-ee} frumentarii must have found something in there, flooded the whole camp with radiation. | 139 |
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic075 | [Continue] | Happy 5 | By the way, I appreciate what you did for the troopers down there. | 140 |
Neutral 50 | Nelson might not be the most strategically important place, but taking Dead Sea out means a lot to them. | 141 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic076 | [Continue] | Sad 5 | I can't say I think the legionaries at Cottonwood deserved the same fate, but what's done is done. | 142 |
Neutral 50 | Thanks to you, that's one less pack of slavers for people to worry about. | 143 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic077 | Why do they call Lanius the Monster of the East? | Neutral 50 | Oh, the usual reasons. People say he's enormous, carries a big sword, chops peoples' heads off. That's not what makes him a good commander, though. | 144 |
Neutral 50 | Folks say he came from a heck of a tough tribe, took Caesar a long time to conquer. It was thanks to Lanius. | 145 | ||
Neutral 50 | But once Caesar broke him, he was born again. He'll go anywhere and do anything to win. Legion says he can smell weakness. | 146 | ||
Neutral 50 | Once he finds out where an army's vulnerable, he'll go to it like a dog for the throat. | 147 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic078 | How bad was Graham? | Neutral 50 | He was a missionary from Utah who hooked up with Caesar at the Grand Canyon, became his translator. | 148 |
Neutral 50 | Graham helped Caesar with the Blackfoots after they got captured together. Up until Hoover Dam, he was Caesar's legate. | 149 | ||
Sad 20 | You wouldn't think a man of god could turn so brutal. Cruel to his opponents. Did the sort of things that make you sick to talk about. | 150 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic079 | Was Graham a good commander? | Neutral 50 | He wasn't a brilliant strategist. Wasn't tactically flexible, either. There was something about him, though. Menace, indestructibility. | 151 |
Neutral 50 | It made everyone afraid of him. Heck, the praetorians burned Graham four years ago and some of the tribes are still afraid of him. | 152 | ||
Fear 5 | They say the Burned Man still walks the land, blackens the earth wherever he sets foot. | 153 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic080 | What makes the veterans so tough? | Neutral 50 | Take a regular legionary and age him ten years. Whatever they lose to age they make up for with experience. Life expectancy isn't long in the Legion. | 154 |
Neutral 50 | You live ten years in Caesar's army, you're a force to be reckoned with. | 155 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic081 | Tell me about centurions. | Neutral 50 | There's no real equivalent to them in the NCR. Centurions are battle-born, elite officers who earned their rank with blood and sweat. | 156 |
Neutral 50 | They wear special outfits, too, pieced together from the armor of all their defeated enemies. Good commanders, tough opponents. | 157 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic082 | Who are the praetorians? | Neutral 50 | Caesar's elite guard. They travel with him wherever he goes. A bit of insurance in case any of his guests get funny ideas. | 158 |
Neutral 50 | They aren't the toughest legionaries, but they're the most devoted to Caesar. They believe in everything the Legion stands for. | 159 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic083 | Have any good stories to tell? | Neutral 50 | Suppose it depends on what you think is "good." Most folks want to hear about Hoover Dam and Boulder City, but it's a long story. | 160 |
Sad 5 | If you want some tall tales about hunting down slavers or busting up gangs, talk to one of the younger rangers. | 161 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic084 | How long have you been in the rangers? | Neutral 50 | Oh, well. I guess it must be coming up on... forty years or so. Back before {eh-leez} Elise was chief, anyway. It was a heck of a lot harder then. | 162 |
Pained 5 | Weren't as many of us to go around. But I think it was a lot easier to tell the good guys from the bad. | 163 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic085 | What do the rangers do? | Anger 5 | Well, there's what we're supposed to be doing and what we're actually doing. | 164 |
Neutral 50 | There's a big gap between those two things, about as wide as that lake out there. | 165 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic086 | Why are the rangers here? | Neutral 50 | There's a lot of answers to that question, but it started with the Ranger Unification Treaty. We weren't always the only show in town. | 166 |
Pained 5 | Nevada had its own posse, the Desert Rangers. They fought Caesar even farther east, out in Arizona. Didn't go well for them. | 167 | ||
Neutral 50 | Years back, we met with the Desert Rangers at Mojave Outpost and agreed to help them against Caesar if they would join the NCR. | 168 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic087 | Okay, what are you supposed to be doing? | Sad 5 | To protect against all forms of tyranny. As simple as that. Thirty, forty years ago, the wasteland was full of despots. | 169 |
Neutral 50 | Slavers. Raiders. Tough-talking hoodlums with gangs who liked to kick around towns. Back then the NCR military was still young. | 170 | ||
Happy 5 | Couldn't cover much ground. It took groups like ours to tip the balance back to the good guys. | 171 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic088 | What are you actually doing? | Sad 5 | Sitting on the shore of Lake Mead, looking east. Listening to a radio. Trying to not get too many people killed. | 172 |
Sad 10 | I'm too old to be slapping leather, but I had hoped for something else. More than this, anyway. | 173 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic089 | There must be something good the rangers have done that you're proud of. | Neutral 50 | [SUCCEEDED] It's kind of a long one, but all right. About twenty, twenty-five years ago, a group of NCR settlers pushed way south into Baja. | 174 |
Neutral 50 | I guess it doesn't seem so far now if you look at a map, but back then, they were out a ways. | 175 | ||
Neutral 50 | They built this little shanty town around a well in the middle of nowhere. Called it {rat-ul-tayl} Rattletail. | 176 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic090 | Come on. You must have lots of stories. | Sad 10 | [FAILED] I do, but I'm tired of telling them. Time changes how you look at things. | 177 |
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic091 | So what happened at Hoover Dam and Boulder City? | Neutral 50 | In big battles, Caesar deploys his legionaries in waves. Recruits up front, prime soldiers behind the recruits, old guard bringing up the rear. | 178 |
Pained 5 | Opponents wear themselves out dealing with the first two waves, if they survive that long. When the veterans step up, there's not much fight left. | 179 | ||
Neutral 50 | Caesar can adapt, though, and when required, he can run any mix of legionaries as skirmishers and still retain order in the ranks. | 180 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic092 | [Continue] | Neutral 50 | Word got back to one of our stations that raiders had been attacking the place. I went out with six rangers. | 181 |
Sad 10 | We must have been on the trail for a week before we got to Rattletail. We lost one woman to Night Stalkers and another almost died of dehydration. | 182 | ||
Sad 5 | When we reach the place, it's six shacks set up around an old well. | 183 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic093 | [Continue] | Neutral 50 | There's over two dozen bodies lying in the dunes way outside of town and five men with {three-oh-eight} .308 rifles crouched behind sand bags. | 184 |
Disgust 10 | And these bodies, these people out in the sand, they aren't raiders. Aren't even heavily armed. | 185 | ||
Disgust 5 | They're just people who were trying to get to the only well in fifty miles. I didn't have to talk to the men to see that they did not care one bit. | 186 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic094 | [Continue] | Neutral 50 | They had planted an NCR flag over the well and they would not budge until every last one of them was laid out, dead and cold. | 187 |
Happy 5 | So I walked up and told them there was a group of raiders coming, one hundred strong. {laughing a bit} I made up some cockamamie name for them and everything. | 188 | ||
Neutral 50 | The men looked at each other, looked at us, and asked me what we were going to do about it. | 189 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic095 | [Continue] | Neutral 50 | I told him we would take them back into NCR territory because we had already lost ten rangers on the way out. Ten rangers, five men with .308 rifles. | 190 |
Sad 5 | Well, that was enough for them. They packed up what they could and we took them back north. Last I heard, they settled somewhere in {ahn-zah} Anza-{boh-reh-goh} Borrego. | 191 | ||
Pained 5 | Raised Bighorners. Had some tough times, but it worked out okay for them. So there you go. That's my one bit of good. | 192 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic096 | [Continue] | Neutral 50 | Joshua Graham, Caesar's old legate, he's wasn't so flexible. | 193 |
Neutral 50 | When the Legion attacked Hoover Dam, General Oliver ordered his troopers back to the middle ground just after first contact. | 194 | ||
Neutral 50 | Graham pushed all of the legionaries onto the dam, filling the east side with recruits up front and veterans in the back, by the book. | 195 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic097 | [Continue] | Happy 5 | But once they were in, they were stuck there. Oliver's troopers were entrenched and wouldn't give a foot. | 196 |
Neutral 50 | That's when we ordered the rangers and 1st recon sharpshooters to start picking off veteran legion officers from a high ridge west of the dam. | 197 | ||
Neutral 50 | That only lasted about a minute before Graham ordered the back ranks to push through to the front and rush the ridge. | 198 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic098 | [Continue] | Neutral 50 | Caused total chaos among the younger legionaries, and Oliver's troopers fell back to the side walkways and stayed out of the veterans' way. | 199 |
Happy 5 | By the time the veterans got to the ridge, we were already in Boulder City. | 200 | ||
Neutral 50 | They followed us down there, but we were out before they realized what was happening. | 201 | ||
VCampGolfHanlon2CHanlonTopic099 | [Continue] | Neutral 50 | We had packed the old city with C4 and dynamite. Crude, but it did the job. Those who didn't die in the blast were in no position to mount a defense. | 202 |
Neutral 50 | The ones left on the dam didn't know what to do. The troopers routed them. Graham pulled the remaining legionaries back, but the battle was over. | 203 | ||
Fear 5 | He went south, back to the Grand Canyon, back to Caesar. And that was the last we saw or heard from Joshua Graham. | 204 | ||
VCampGolfHanlonRepBranch | VCampGolfHanlonRepBranch | Neutral 50 | You must be the courier folks have been talking about. Word on the radio is that someone wronged you back in Goodsprings. | 205 |
Happy 50 | The Mojave has a way of burning decent people up, but it sounds like you've done right by the NCR. It's appreciated. Now what can I do for you? | 206 | ||
VCampGolfHanlonRepBranch | Anger 5 | I know a bit about you, courier. Heard someone messed you up pretty bad over in Goodsprings. I heard a few other things too. Some good, but not all. | 207 | |
Anger 10 | If you're going to be associating with rangers, you'd best stay on their friendly side. With that out of the way, what can I do for you? | 208 | ||
VCampGolfHanlonRepBranch | Anger 10 | I'm surprised to see you here. Folks with your kind of reputation, I expect to see them cooking in the sand with some {forty four} .44 slugs to keep them company. | 209 | |
Neutral 50 | If the rangers haven't caught up to you yet, they will. Myself excluded, of course. {joking} The only thing I catch up on now is chair time. | 210 | ||
VCampGolfHanlonRepBranch | Happy 5 | I don't think we've had the pleasure of meeting before. What can I do for you? | 211 | |
VEndingRangers | VEndingRangers | Neutral 50 | {narrating} After the death of Chief Hanlon, the power of NCR's Rangers was broken for years. | 212 |
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Their organization, so reliant on the wisdom and guidance of its elder members, became a shadow of what it once was to people across the wasteland. | 213 | ||
VEndingRangers | Neutral 50 | {narrating} Defying Chief Hanlon's worst fears, NCR's rangers persevered and distinguished themselves during the second Battle of Hoover Dam. | 214 | |
Neutral 50 | {narrating} The rangers, along with NCR's many troopers, shared the glory of victory. | 215 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Hanlon wisely stayed out of the spotlight, crediting General Oliver's leadership for NCR's success. | 216 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} After a brief fanfare, Hanlon stepped down as chief and returned to the peace and quiet of his ranch outside of Redding. | 217 | ||
VEndingRangers | Neutral 50 | {narrating} During the attack on Hoover Dam, Chief Hanlon and his rangers threw themselves into the path of the Legion assault, dying to the last man and woman. | 218 | |
Neutral 50 | {narrating} In the aftermath that followed in the NCR, bitter citizens and opportunistic senators were quick to denounce President Kimball and General Oliver. | 219 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Hanlon and his fallen rangers were revered for their bravery and sacrifice. | 220 | ||
VEndingRangers | Neutral 50 | {narrating} Despite distinguishing themselves during the second Battle of Hoover Dam, the rangers' victory was short-lived due to the Courier's interference. | 221 | |
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Chief Hanlon personally directed the evacuation of the rangers to Mojave Outpost as they fell back into NCR territory. | 222 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Bitter over the waste of life in the Mojave, Hanlon stepped down from his post. | 223 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} After a campaign in which he denounced Oliver's and Kimball's hawkish, imperialist ways, Hanlon was elected as the senator of Redding. | 224 | ||
VEndingRangers | Neutral 50 | {narrating} Although they performed admirably during NCR's defense of Hoover Dam, the rangers fell into decline soon after. | 225 | |
Neutral 50 | {narrated} With Hanlon's plot against the occupation exposed and Oliver hailed as NCR's new war hero, many rangers were greeted coldly on their return home. | 226 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Few openly blamed the rangers for Hanlon's treachery, but public and political support for the organization quickly dwindled. | 227 | ||
VEndingRangers | Neutral 50 | {narrating} With Caesar's victory came a small measure of vindication for the rangers' late Chief Hanlon. | 228 | |
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Upon the military's return, debate raged within NCR's senate about who was to blame for the loss of Hoover Dam. | 229 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Though some in NCR regarded Hanlon as a traitor, many believed he was the only military commander who saw the futility in defending New Vegas. | 230 | ||
VEndingRangers | Neutral 50 | {narrating} Although they performed admirably during NCR's defense of Hoover Dam, the rangers fell into decline soon after. | 231 | |
Neutral 50 | {narrating} With Hanlon's plot against the occupation exposed and Oliver denounced for losing Hoover Dam, many rangers were greeted coldly on their return home. | 232 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Few openly blamed the rangers for Hanlon's treachery, but public and political support for the military as a whole quickly dwindled. | 233 | ||
VEndingRangers | Neutral 50 | {narrating} Due to the Courier's intervention, Chief Hanlon abandoned his plan to sabotage the defense of Hoover Dam. | 234 | |
Neutral 50 | {narrating} The rangers assisted the troopers admirably during the Legion's ill-fated attack. | 235 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Though General Oliver and Chief Hanlon were both praised for their leadership, the chief quietly stepped out of the spotlight. | 236 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} After a brief fanfare for a life full of accomplishments, Chief Hanlon retired and returned to the peace and quiet of his ranch in Redding. | 237 | ||
VEndingRangers | Neutral 50 | {narrating} Due to the Courier's intervention, Chief Hanlon abandoned his plan to sabotage the defense of Hoover Dam. | 238 | |
Neutral 50 | {narrating} The rangers heroically assisted NCR's troopers in their ill-fated defense against the overwhelming power of Caesar's Legion. | 239 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Though many NCR military officers fled the territory soon after the dam was lost, Chief Hanlon remained at Camp Golf to surrender to the Legion. | 240 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Out of respect for Hanlon's composure and worth as an adversary, Caesar had him beheaded. | 241 | ||
VEndingRangers | Neutral 50 | {narrating} Due to the Courier's intervention, Chief Hanlon abandoned his plan to sabotage the defense of Hoover Dam. | 242 | |
Neutral 50 | {narrating} The rangers heroically assisted NCR's troopers in their ill-fated defense against the overwhelming power of Caesar's Legion. | 243 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Though many NCR military officers fled the territory soon after the dam was lost, Chief Hanlon remained at Camp Golf to surrender to the Legion. | 244 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Despite the late Caesar's respect for Chief Hanlon as an adversary, Legate Lanius had Hanlon crucified along with all of the other rangers. | 245 | ||
VEndingRangers | Neutral 50 | {narrating} Due to the Courier's intervention, Chief Hanlon abandoned his plan to sabotage the defense of Hoover Dam. | 246 | |
Neutral 50 | {narrating} The rangers assisted the troopers admirably during the Legion's ill-fated attack. | 247 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Though the Courier snatched victory from NCR, only General Oliver was blamed for the loss of Hoover Dam. | 248 | ||
Neutral 50 | {narrating} Hanlon, exhausted after a lifetime of service to the NCR, stepped down from his position in the rangers and retired to his ranch in Redding. | 249 |