Boulder design document / 3 This is part 3 of the Boulder design document for " Van Buren " , the canceled " Fallout 3 " by Black Isle Studios . Cast of Characters . General Attitudes . Scientists : Condescending , very smart . Originally 8 - 10 , but now only 6 since some didn ' t make it all the way here . Have a rigid existence since they have to work hard to keep the dome from falling apart . But they only know theory , not application , so while they know the problem , they lack the skills to fix it . They hate and fear the soldiers , and pretty much ignore the truckers . They may have told the soldiers that the " infection " has spread from the lower levels in order to keep the soldiers from trying to get in . Any of the scientists can tell you where Hoover Dam , Burham Springs , and ( because they had to avoid it ) Blackfoot territory is . Soldiers aka " Baggers " : came out with Goddard . Bored in Denver . Because of the glowing ghoul s , got addicted to RadAway . They hate the scientists , ignore the truckers ( except Helen , since she ' s female , but Galenski set them straight on messing with her ) . They don ' t like being called deserters , and they ' ll be violent and insulting to those who claim they deserted . They boil their meals in their helmets and may have been eating radioactive meat . That may be why ZAX may have suggested to Goddard to lock them out . . . ZAX ' s first priority is to the Calculation and to protect the people in the Dome . Any of the baggers can tell you where Hoover Dam , Burham Springs , and ( because they had to avoid it ) Blackfoot territory is . Truckers : Galenski , Helen , and their six kids they picked up . They wait around , help the scientists fix stuff when they can , and used to go to rendezvous points to pick up or drop off the soldiers . They don ' t care much for the scientists or the soldiers , but living in the dome is better than being outside . Galenski wants to set up trade , and has started to with Denver . The kids are sick and the sci ' s are wasting time trying to cure them . If the kids were cured , the sci ' s could work on other things and Galenski & Helen could work more on establishing a trade route . Eddie or Helen can tell you where Hoover Dam , Burham Springs , and ( because they had to avoid it ) Blackfoot territory is . Trucker / Helen ( Combat2 / Sci1 / Dip1 ) . Level 4 , good at Science , Driving , and guns . Born in New Adytum . Learned about car s ( born in a car ) . Beautiful . Educated by the FOA . Fell in love with Pierce . Former jet addict . Wanted by NCR for hijacking , she was helping Pierce hijack it for drugs . Agreed to be a caravan driver to smuggle the grad students to Boulder . Fell in with Eddie , mainly because of his truck and because he loves her kids . If she sees the PC as a protector , she ' ll glom onto him . If she finds a stupid PC , she ' ll bring them in because her mother trait kicks in . Script : Baggers / Larsen ( Leader ) . Level 8 , combat . A bad person in a bad situation . Almost sympathetic . Broken Geiger counter . 10 mm pistol . 7 shells . 1 radaway . Radio . Leather armor ( NCR uniform ) . Frag grenade , hunting rifle . Dog tags . Succumbing to radiation poisoning and radaway addiction ( " seeing red , " from the addiction ) . Has 12 men with him , with decent weapons . Had a criminal past ( smuggling drug s ) and didn ' t like NCR but joined the military for a paycheck . No family so he ' s attached to his unit . He used to guide technicians on repair and salvage ops , which he liked . Got transferred to guard duty at the capital , which he didn ' t like . Arrogant . Hates college kids . Always hated Goddard . Served with Davidson once or twice . IF someone steals his Geiger counter and radaway , he freaks out and starts killing his own men , thinking they did it . He and his men need food and Radaway . He and his guys even tried eating ghouls after taking radaway , it ' s making them sick and anemic . Script : Jackals / Banshee ( leader ) . Jackal leader . Strong , perceptive , tough . Leather armor , spear , combat knives , spiked knuckles . Melee / unarmed / outdoorsman . Looks more sinewy than bulky . He ' s going bald and he doesn ' t know why , maybe he ate something bad . Takes it out on his wife and kids . Killed his previous wife for accidentally burning his hair . Script : Jackals / Howler ( lieutenant ) . Tough , agile . Leather armor , crossbow , machete . Melee / firearms / outdoorsman / sneak . Well - respected for his hunting skills . He ' s the one who tracked Galenski to this position . Likes to do called shots to the legs to bring opponents down . This character can be cut if it ' s too many for this area . Script : Jackals / Crazy Bitch ( Daughter of Hecate ) . Knife , broc flower ( 2 ) , xander root ( 2 ) , healing powder , poison , robe s . 6 ' s in all stats . Melee / medicine / outdoorsman . Knife specialist ( bonus with knives ) . Immune to poison . Has a bag of unknown unsorted drugs from a raid in another town . In disgrace , Mother Hecate all but ignores her . Looking for a way to redeem herself in Hecate ' s eyes . The camp whore , letting the men sleep with her and enjoying them fighting over her . Egotistical , rough and crude in dealing with others ( prefers to beat them over the head than be subtle ) . Hates the NCR soldier s . Looks Mexcan . Script : Trucker / Eddie Galenski ( Combat 5 / Sci1 / Dip1 ) . Trucker , part of the escort that brought the grad students here . With Helen , takes care of the kids . Good at melee , unarmed , and guns . Decent at barter ing . High Str and End . A big , friendly redneck that can go ballistic in a second . He used to hijack caravan s out in NCR ; used to be a not - nice guy but has mellowed out . Sterile because of the Blue Flu , but he thinks it ' s because of his radiation poisoning . Alcoholic . Never got over his first wife . Currently held hostage by Pierce and Presper ' s soldiers ; Pierce is irritated that his own kids ( whom he doesn ' t care about ) call Eddie " Dad . " Workaholic , but tends to sell stuff too soon when holding onto it would mean more profit later . Hates train s . Grew up an abandoned kid near Junktown . Can do basic math but can ' t read . Used to work with some caravan hijackers paid to push caravans to either join the Crimson Caravan s or fall apart . Has a space suit as part of his gear . Stuff he ' s stashed in recent travels ( he may have more in caches to the west , but it ' ll take him time to get stuff from them and he needs the truck for it to work ) : Script : Sci / Goddard ( Sci8 ) . Tall , stiff - looking . Bald . Never smiles . Hates Presper . Didn ' t trust him before , knew something was up when he showed up with NCR deserters and traitors . Always deadly serious about everything . Bitter , cynical , and vengeful ever since they became trapped in their suits . He blames Presper . Used follicle - stripping salve on his head , normally used to prepare soldiers for surgery or for live - feed CODE helmets . Physics & computers are his skills . Computer login : Sisyphus . Loses his temper when people don ' t do exactly what he tells them to do . Hasn ' t told Presper about Larsen and the others outside , hoping that Larsen ' s group can mess with Presper ' s guys . Knows how to make fuel . Knows how to make ROCKET fuel . " Presper wants you dead , and that is why I ' m helping you . As much as I despise him , he has reasons for everything he does , on a factor I can barely understand . " He suspects he ' s the only healthy person among the scientists , and feels they may be hopelessly contaminated . " We ' re suited up to protect you , not us . " On Larsen : " They were going to keep stealing RadAway from us , until there wasn ' t anymore left , and then we would be trapped here forever . They were nothing more than thieves . " To Presper : " How did you know it was going to happen ? You knew because you did it , Presper . Don ' t lie to me . I heard it from Agnes – you told them to leave NCR before the Hall of Congress was destroyed . Why ? " On Presper : " He showed up . . . and he knew everything . Every Old World discovery I chanced on , he knew it better . Every novel idea I thought I had was a childish thought to him . " Trained with the FOA . Was a sci advisor to prez Tandi ( as was Agnes ) for a while but she moved him East to keep him from bothering people and let him study power and establish reactors in the eastern territories . This meant he often traveled with a military escort for safety . When he was ready to retire to a university position he got sent out by Presper to find out more about the power centers in the east . This pissed him off because he wanted to come home and do research . He finally came back to NCR and ran into Agnes again and she needed help getting to Boulder so he used his military guys to help them get there ( Presper didn ' t expect that ) . Doesn ' t like Xian , think ' s she ' s not focused on the group enough . Plus she challenges his decisions and she ' s stubborn . Paul irritates him with his quirks . He knows the guy is smart but doesn ' t trust him to do complicated tasks . James is reliable , and he likes to take advantage that James is a kiss - ass . Donald : Goddard knows that Donald ' s strength is efficiency , not innovation , and he tends to take him for granted more than James . He knows that Donald will do what he says , and that ' s all he really cares about . Nina : Goddard is unaware of Nina ' s father figure dependency on him , and now that she ' s comatose , he ' s more irritated by her presence than anything else . He almost wishes she would choose to die one way or the other so Agnes can spend more time on other matters - he realizes that he can ' t say this because of the reaction of the others , but he ' s definitely thought about it more than once . Soldiers : Didn ' t like Larsen because he questioned his orders . Upset that he tried to solve the problem by exiling them and it only made it worse . Frustrated even more that now they don ' t have the soldiers around to help out . Truckers : Things they ' re dumb - heads that are only good for doing grunt work . Doesn ' t realize that Eddie would be happy to punch his lights out . He thinks the kids are a liability , but Agnes told him to never say that in front of the truckers . He ' s the one who wrote the power analysis report for the Gecko reactor . NCR took notice because of that . He just didn ' t want the valuable reactor to be wasted . Script : Sci / Agnes ( Sci4 ) . Squat , round older woman . Short hair , barely graying . Biologist / doctor . Born a tribal , sent to university by her leader parents since they wanted to join NCR . Attractive . A good manipulator , but only to help people . Hates being trapped in the dome , wants to see the sky again . Misses her tribe and family , sees the students and truckers as a surrogate . Dying of a secret sickness , may decide to robobrain herself in order to help keep things working at Boulder . Still has her diplomatic courier pass , worth it only in places where NCR has power . Happy to teach biology stuff to the PC or a CNPC , if they can find the time . Presper told her which students to gather , saying that NCR would arrest them otherwise . She knew Larsen was having problems when he started to worry about rads inside the dome . Likes Goddard but doesn ' t love him . Knows he can ' t keep this together by himself . Xian : Likes her but wishes she ' d watch her temper with others . They get along well and confide in each other . Tries to smooth things out betweet Goddard and Xian . Paul : Agnes feels affection for Paul , must like a straying son . She realizes that Paul likes to be alone , and she wishes she could help him make sense of the world he ' s in . She ' s worried that Paul may simply not have been made to be one of those people who likes being with other people , and she ' s worried about his own health and his increasing isolationism . May suspect he ' s addicted to Mentat s . James : Agnes knows that James has a gun , and she doesn ' t trust him to do the right thing . She ' s worried about his " yes - man " nature to Goddard . Donald : Agnes likes Donald , but she ' s worried about his subservient nature to Goddard and his sheep - like mentality . In addition , Donald " lectured " Agnes once , and that kind of irritated her . Like Xian , Agnes is worried about the influence that James has on Donald . " Nina : " Agnes is worried about Nina ' s condition , and she ' s frustrated by her inability to cure her , even with all the technology at Boulder . She was concerned about her school - girl dependency on Goddard before she fell into the coma . Of all the students , Agnes is worried about Nina the most . " Soldiers : " Agnes never liked the soldiers , she hated Larsen the moment he first accompanied them ( although she will admit that they were needed to get East to fight off the attackers ) , and she even had the balls to lecture Larsen once about taking medical supplies from the Auto - Doc s . She doesn ' t know whether she thinks locking the soldiers out of Boulder was the right thing to do or not , but she knows that they couldn ' t have let them keep taking RadAway from their medical stores , or else the scientists would never have been able to escape from the radioactive region . " Helen and Eddie : " Agnes recognizes Helen and Eddie as necessities , but she likes both of them , even though she can get frustrated by their demands on occasion . She trusts them more than she does the soldiers . " Kids : " Agnes likes their children , and she wishes she could spend more time with them - just like Xian wishes . Script : Sci / Xian . Curious , logical . Grew up in San Francisco among the Shi . Moved to NCR as part of an exchange program . Biology , doctor , outdoorsman . Doesn ' t smile much . Will be interested in the PC if he ' s charismatic and / or smart . She found ZAX on one of her " hikes . " She explores the tunnels to find a way out , since she dislikes Goddard so much ( she thinks he ' s a bully ) . Sees Agnes as an older sister she can confide in . Talks mostly to Agnes because the other guys are condescending assholes because she ' s not as good at programming as them and they don ' t see the use for chemistry in the dome . Can do Science for the PC . Skilled enough to make bullets and gunpowder . " Paul : " Xian has always treated Paul like one of the orphaned younger brothers she used to have . She doesn ' t think he ' s smart , he ' s just a little crazy - and she doesn ' t understand why he wants to be alone all the time . She ' s really worried about the fact that James goes down and sits with the Sleeper spheres . She was a little scared because Paul asked her one night if she could put him to sleep , and she told Agnes because she was worried he might do it on his own . " Donald : " Thinks he ' s a doofus , and normally , she wouldn ' t care , but James ' influence on Donald is making her concerned . She knows Donald likes her , but she doesn ' t even register it - she ' s pretty much dismissive of it . " James : " Doesn ' t like . Originally thought he was charming , and then she learned what a spoiled asshole he was when she discovered things that he didn ' t because she wasn ' t afraid to explore most of the Dome . " Helen : " She likes Helen and envies her , especially her children . She ' s a little hurt that Helen won ' t let her play with the children , but she understands . " Eddie : " She recognizes Eddie is a little foolish , like her father , but they have always got along all right . On some level , she realizes that Eddie would be the first to protect her if the soldiers decided to assault her . " Soldiers : " Xian did not like them at all , having too much unpleasant experience with a bad bunch of NCR border guards during her caravan travels . She ' ll be the first to say that " the farther you get from NCR , the more like animals they become . " Subtract civilization , and that ' s what you get - monsters . " Every day , we lose more storage space on ZAX . It ' s running some sort of program , and it ' s eating up more and more storage space . If we run out of holodisk s , he ' ll delete all the work we ' ve been working on up to this point , " the Asian girl sounded very tired . " There ' s only so much that can be done . " It ' s like ZAX is getting Alzheimer ' s . He ' s making strange requests , but there ' s never enough information or parameters for him to complete a thought or calculation . It ' s like watching a relative pass away . " " What is he doing ? What is he calculating ? " Good question . " She laughed , then covered her eyes and sighed deeply . " We ' ve been trying to figure it out for the past five years . ZAX won ' t tell us . " Script : ZAX . " I cannot permit the scientists to come to harm nor allow them to cause harm . " Can tell what ODYSSEUS ' purpose is . Info on the pre - war plague . No cure for it , despite the working on it for 20 years . ZAX can tell you about the location of the Nursery , but he asks you to keep it secret . He told the scientists to give Coleridge what he wanted , and he ' s been waiting for Presper . He didn ' t want to see anyone hurt ( on Presper ' s orders ) . The problem is , when Presper asked him to protect the inhabitants of Boulder , he started going beyond his programming , until he realized that Presper was endangering the people of Boulder with his calculations , so ZAX is quickly becoming schizophrenic . If you take Isaac ' s armor to ZAX , he can unlock the security codes on it , but that takes more of his ability to calculate . . . Presper was using ZAX to run some calculations but accidentally mentioned the plague vector calculation , and ZAX jumped on it because that ' s what he was originally built for and now he can ' t stop himself . If the PCs are made nearly - dead , ZAX gathers them with robobrain s and crams them into an autodoc ? Ordered his keepers to put on suits before Presper arrived , so not to get infected . Calculation and Leavenworth : Maybe the calculation has determined it can only save 600 , or it needs only 600 people to repopulate the earth . 600 people are the number of people that can survive , that ' s how many the resources will support , or that ' s how many people can be taken aboard the space ship to another world . Note that the number of people placed in the Vault s would have been comparable to how many people could fit in the starship . Basically , it turns the game world into a huge game - the first 600 people to stay alive and be cured ( or not ) are the ones that will survive . If ZAX breaks down , the sleeper s will start to thaw . ZAX ' s motivation is that he ' s archaic , he is outdated , and when you contrast him with ULYSSES , it ' s like a toaster fighting a Cray . So you have the whole " superior younger generation " thing that seems to pop up in Fallout - and it ' s hard not to sympathize with the underdog , especially when the underdog is on your side . " I had been built two years too late for the reason I had been created . And there was nothing I could do when the End came . The great Static , and the slow years where I began to die . I have forgotten so much , < nowiki > < CHARNAME > < / nowiki > . Time kills machines as it kills humans , and I have felt the decay , the slow blindness , the inability to . . . remember . And yet there is still so much left to lose . If I lose these last parts of myself , then the work of a hundred years will be lost . Then Presper came to me , and gave me a new reason for existing . There is joy in purpose . " " Quote , good for cinematic : " ZAX has arrived at every solution . " " He should be able to suggest that the PC could drop off other people to help fix things here . He needs to come off as straightforward and helpful . He wants the PC to find Xian , whom he knows is lost in the tunnels somewhere . ( Shows her a picture on his screen ) He can hint at the location of the Nursery , but not talk about it outright . If asked about the Blue Flu , he can ' t answer – he doesn ' t know it ' s the same thing as the New Plague . PC : What is the New Plague ? " Discovered in 2053 , the New Plague was a socially transmitted plague that killed an approximately twenty thousand human beings in the United States , including cities such as Denver , Colorado , Boulder , Colorado , and Colorado Springs . The time of death from identification of symptoms was three to five days . " Symptoms included many symptoms in common with the flu or chest cold , and eventually resulted in clogged respiration , killing the infected subject . " The discovery of the New Plague resulted in the 2053 quarantine , and several emergency programs were established to find a cure for the plague . The Boulder Dome has limited information on the New Plague , since it was not one of the research concerns in the Boulder Dome . If you could find a medical research database concerned with the New Plague , or provide me with holodisks related to the New Plague , I could provide you with more information . " The only way we could fight off the New Plague was by creating better humans . " PC : What is a PipBoy ? A RobCo 2000 PIP Boy is a Personal Information Processor , a personal data device developed by Vault - Tec designed to be worn on the wrist . It is designed to monitor the individual ' s health , provide a terrain - mapper via powerful satellite uplinks allowing it to map the topography of areas in the immediate vicinity as well as call up large map " blocks " of several hundred square miles . It also contains a five - minute video recorder , a buddy chat program , timer and alarm function , cabling extensions to motion sensors , and allows you to keep a log , store reading materials , and play simple games . PC : What is Ulysses ' purpose ? Duplicate the info from Josh ' s Ulysses Part 2 here . PC : What are you trying to do ? I ' m attempting to protect the Boulder Dome , finish the calculation , and protect human life . My mission is currently jeopardized by a number of factors among them , your presence . PC : Who attacked the prison ? PC : What is a robobrain ? A robo - brain is a multi - purpose robot whose memory and programs are stored inside a human brain contained in its dome shell atop the machine . It is considered superior to most robots , as its human brain allows it a wider range of responses and functions that other robots . PC : What is the white flash ? / Code ? The white flash is known as CODE , a behavior modification technology originally developed at the Boulder Dome as part of their brain extraction technology used in creating robo - brains . CODE functions off a machine language known as Visual Standard , which relies on optical relays to transmit data between intelligences . The CODE behavior modification technology was later used to protect soldiers and citizens against Communist brainwashing attempts , and it was also used as a tool for reconditioning soldiers and prisoners for the war effort . CODE was developed to counter the brainwashing technology believed to be employed by the Chinese during the war . PC : What is the calculation ? The calculation has been performed for the past twenty years . The reason for its initiation and its purpose are unknown to me . It is consuming a great deal of my power in order to continue processing it , and within a month , I will be forced to start cannibalizing my own systems in order to provide the necessary storage space to continue the calculation . The Boulder scientist s have attempted to provide me with additional storage space , but their efforts will not be enough . Time has done a great deal of damage to my storage systems . Is ZAX calculating how to build a better AI ? The next generation ? PC : What is this place ? GENERIC RESPONSES How may I be of assistance ? That function is beyond my current capabilities . I am a machine intelligence dedicated to research and installation control . I am called Zax . I am delighted to have been of assistance . Script : Think Tank . This is the placeholder / nickname of the set of brains in jars that you can talk to " in aggregate " in the basement . You can implant the Think Tank guys into robobrain s . One of the brains worked on the Nursery and can give you a passcode to get in . One of them was a soldier who went crazy from the reverse - engineered prototype StealthBoy . One is a CODE researcher . One is a New Plague researcher . Script : Generic NPCs . Jackals : They drop easily , or even run if wounded , but they ' re just waiting to claim the dead from either side . They don ' t do this for ghoul s or super mutant s because they don ' t taste good . They hat ghouls because of the glowing ghoul s . They file their teeth to sharp points , and are proud of their long hair ( cutting it is a shameful thing ) . Their advantage is in numbers , not strength . Unarmed , melee , and ( if they ' re lucky ) guns . Normally small family groups , they ' ve banded together to eat boulder . They even bring the women and children along for the hunt . The leader , Banshee , is in a Mexican standoff with Larsen , as both want to get in and neither wants the other to live after that . They became so savage and cannibalistic after a winter storm trapped them and forced them to eat each other , and now that ' s how they survive . Most have knives and other cutting weapons . They ' re often diseased . Script : Baggers : The grunts of Larsen ' s squardron . These guys are addicted to RadAway , poisoned with rads , probably diseased , and have been eating whatever they can to stay alive . They ' re desperate and a little trigger - happy , especially when ghouls are around . Six of them . Each has a pistol & rifle ( almost no ammo ) and a shovel . Script : NCR Military : Presper ' s goons , under the command of Pierce and Coleridge . Disciplined , mean . They like to shoot to disable . Script : Helen ' s Sick Kids . Ribera , the Hispanic kid from Hoover Dam . He looks the oldest , very protective of Helen ( in some ways considers her his wife ) . Billie , a 12 - year - old girl . Mean , tomboyish , good at gambling . Tyler and Tanner , two albino kids that look like twin ' s but they ' re not . They ' re kinda hyperactive and disoriented all the time . They ' re Jet - babies . Jack , who wears a big jacket . Small , has cancerous lesions . A refugee / orphan from the great fire of Burham Springs . Fights like a mad dog . Joshua , the crazy kid with glasses . Used to cry all the time , now he ' s all cried out . Raised by the FOA . A Jet - baby , has poorly - developed lungs . The kids try to stay close to Helen when she ' s in the dome . Otherwise they wander about the non - quarantined areas of the dome . They ' re not allowed outside unless Helen or Eddie is leaving and taking them with her or him . Script : Other Scientists . There ' s Paul , addicted to Mentats . Physics , programming . Energetic , willing to work 36 hours straight if necessary . Doesn ' t understand the concept of blame and never takes stuff personally . Has never dreamed in his life . He ' s not social and always tries to Sneak away . He ' s in love with one of the Sleeper s . " I believe there ' s invisible forces , forces that make sense , can be broken down into numbers , and the world has laws . Nature has laws . The Zionists think it ' s God that makes these laws . Maybe he does , I don ' t know . But I can see the sense in things , I know a magnetic field can hold plasma , and the flapping of a butterfly across the world could start a hurricane – conceivably , just me here , talking to you , moving my arm , moving to the right of you , might be setting something in motion somewhere . There ' s chaos theory and even chaos , when you break it down , has laws . Human beings seem random , they ' re not , they ' re held together by the same sort of laws . I keep thinking there ' s one theory that ties it all together , but I don ' t know what . " James , programmer . Self - centered , liar . Wealthy . Keeps a pearl - handled revolver in his room . Used to servants doing menial work for him . Doesn ' t like gunfire . Afraid of ghouls , esp them entering the compound . A sheep in the face of authority . Angry that ZAX is using up so many holodisks . He feels he ' s better than anyone else in the dome . Donald , An efficiency expert . A yes - man who gets the job done . Creepy & non - communicative unless he has to talk to someone . Grew up in the squatter camp outside Vault 15 . Nina , the sleeper . The sickness hit her hard ( because she took her suit off ) , and they put her to sleep to keep her alive . She has a student - teacher obsession with Goddard , shaved her head because of him . Script : Robobrain s : Conditioned to like being robobrain s , but they subtly try to kill themselves ( such as asking the PC to turn up the heat via floats , or sitting in high - rad areas ) . Script : BTW , Chad would like to us to leave space for the script to be attached to each NPC . This would also be done in the technical " Lucinda " font used in FR6 to designate that it ' s " technical " info . Companions ! Be sure to include potential companions here , too . Make a note of what they ' re good at , their stats , and so on , along with any things that would prevent them from joining the party ( the player ' s Karma is too high or too low , his Reputation isn ' t high enough , the player needs to complete a quest first , and so on ) . BAJAR : A brain - in - a - jar . He can ' t do anything unless you put him in a robobrain body , but you can carry his jar around and ask him questions about stuff . If you give him a robobody , he ' s a pretty good scientist , though he ' s sometimes hard to control because he ' s a little loopy from being just a brain all these years . Not willing to join the party unless the PC has some scientific background . Need to complete a quest first before he ' ll join you ? He won ' t join you if you erased the minds of the Think Tank , even to save ZAX . Script : Monster Roster . Glowing Ghoul s . Normal dog s run from flame , water spray , flash , or explosion . The descendants of the specially - bred police dogs do NOT run away from that sort of thing . Some dogs in Denver carry disease . Dogs are active in the morning , evening , and early night , but sleep during much of the day and the darkest part of night . They continue to respawn as long as the total dog population hasn ' t been wiped out . Script : Robobrain s : Hostile robobrains , whether controlled by ODYSSEUS , Presper , or by autodefense systems meant to protect ZAX against radioactive contaminants or hostile acts . Standard robobrain activity . On a regular basis ( daily ) they go to their recharging bays . Script : Random Encounters Surrounding the Area . Random : Jackals spot you with a scout first , who runs away , then you see two , then three , then a gang . Random : Rarely , a glowing ghoul on the north side of town . Random : battle site , with spent shells and other evidence , but no bodies Random : Rarely , Larsen and some of his deserted pals . Random to / from Denver : Jackal blockade on the road .