Atomic Wrangler Casino

The Atomic Wrangler Bar & Casino, typically shortened to just Atomic Wrangler, is an unmarked location within Freeside in the Mojave Wasteland .
==Background==
Once a pre-War establishment, by 2281, the Atomic Wrangler serves as the only active casino in the slums of FreesideVault playing card while doubling as a flophouse, brothel, and prominent source of the chems craze in the area. Owned and run by the Garret twins, James and Francine, they keep a staff of armed thugs for protection, and provide service even to members of the Van Graffs in the nearby Silver Rush and the Kings from the down-the-street King's School of Impersonation. Many caravaneers and poor (but not impoverished) NCR folks can also be found here when they lack deep enough pockets to make it to the Strip.Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide Collector's Edition Tour of the Mojave Wasteland; 2C.06 Atomic Wrangler Casino
==Layout==
Situated in the south end of Freeside, the Wrangler can be seen past the patched-together "Freeside" sign on the west side with itself featuring a neon sign of a futuristic cowboy riding a stylized atom.Atomic Wrangler billboard
===Bottom level===
The main room has a vaulted ceiling, a stage, and a bar. The room directly opposite the entrance features the casino's cashier and casino games. The cashier's room contains some pre-War money and chems in the safes. To the right are the bathrooms and a staircase to the second story balconies.
Behind the bar is a kitchen and storeroom, accessible via a door around the corner near the bathroom with a Very Hard lock. Both of the Garrets have the key to the room, but it will eventually become unlocked as soon as one of the Garrets head upstairs to their room, as they neglect to relock it.
The storage room/kitchen area behind the bar contains a significant amount of common items of moderate value, such as various alcoholic beverages. The Courier can also find a large number of fresh apples, pears, and carrots (at least a half-dozen each), as well as a weapons locker and medicine locker, both containing many useful items.
===Second level===
This level has a balcony that oversees the stage and bar. Off of the balcony are four rooms. A rentable room is located in the eastern corner of the second floor. Stairways lead back down or up to the third level.
===Corner room===
On the second level, there is a door that leads to the corner room, which can be gained as player housing after completing Debt Collector for Francine.
===Third level===
This level is where the employees, including the Garret twins, live. In the employee living area, four guards can be found either milling around or sleeping. The door to this level is secured with an Average lock or opened with the key held by the Garrets. Guards here will not be hostile initially, instead following the Courier around, repeating a warning to leave. Rooms include a large bedroom the Garret twins take turns sleeping in, two general sleeping areas for employees (one containing 8 beds and one with 6 beds), two bathrooms and a storage room. Guard sleeping areas have footlockers with minor loot. The two bathrooms contain first aid boxes. The storage room, located to the right of the sleeping area, is filled with file cabinets, metal crates, and a gun cabinet. 
==Gambling==
; Games
* The Atomic Wrangler offers Blackjack, Roulette, and Slots.
* The Atomic Wrangler pays 6:5 on blackjack, and the dealer must draw to 16.
; Rewards and Ban
As the player earns chips, the casino offers increasingly valuable gifts:
* 1,250+ chips: beer
* 2,500+ chips: whiskey and dapper gambler hat
* 3,750+ chips: absinthe, Rum & Nuka & dapper gambler suit
After the player character earns 5,000+ chips, they will be banned from playing games in the Atomic Wrangler Casino. They can still use its other functions, such as the bar and services of the prostitutes (if Wang Dang Atomic Tango has been completed), but they cannot win any more money, permanently. If the player character breaks the house limit before getting any comp gifts (by getting a large win) they will not receive any comps they have missed. There is no floor manager at this casino, so the comp gifts are awarded directly to the player character upon reaching each winning milestone. Play is still interrupted by the player character being forced out of whichever game they were playing to receive the message rewarding their earned comps.
==Inhabitants==
* Atomic Wrangler cashier
* Atomic Wrangler guard
* Caleb McCaffery (before completing Debt Collector)
* Francine Garret
* Hadrian (before completing Talent Pool)
* Henry Jamison
* James Garret
* Beatrix Russell (after completing Wang Dang Atomic Tango)
* Fisto (after completing Wang Dang Atomic Tango)
* Santiago or Old Ben (after completing Wang Dang Atomic Tango)
==Notable loot==
* Nuka-Cola Victory - On the third level in the Garrets' room, on a shelf.
==Related quests==
==Notes==
* The casino's crier can be found outside on the street corner below the "Freeside" sign, advertising the casino to the public.
* Despite the Wrangler's reputation as a free-swinging brothel, dialogue options with Francine Garret that would suggest the same and sex-noises coming through the walls of most rooms, there seem to be no prostitutes in the casino beyond ones the player character recruits during Wang Dang Atomic Tango. After finishing the quest, one can then have sex with either ghoul cowgirl/dominatrix Beatrix Russell, Santiago/Old Ben (depending on decisions during the quest), or the sex-bot Fisto.
* Like all other casinos in the game, the amount of money kept in the cashier's office is small. Robbing the cashier nets at random a few dozen bundles of pre-War money and approximately 100 caps. The key is carried by both Garret twins.
* Exiting from dialogue with Fisto will give 10 caps, which can be repeated ad infinitum.
* Being banned from the casino by gambling does not affect the progress of completing the The Courier Who Broke the Bank achievement/trophy.
==Behind the scenes==
* The in-game Atomic Wrangler Casino is based on the real-world Atomic Liquors store, located on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas. 
* The logo of the Atomic Wrangler is a reference to a scene in the film Dr. Strangelove in which Major T. J. "King" Kong rides a falling nuclear bomb like a rodeo cowboy.
==Bugs==
Bugs
* Once a player attempts to go to the second floor, or perhaps attempts to lockpick the offices/rooms, a bug may occur that interferes with interactions with non-player characters inside of the Atomic Wrangler. Speaking with Francine Garret or the cashier may result in a locked dialogue, and the only action that can be made is dropping inventory items from your apparel (by hitting square, as the Pip-Boy doesn't respond). Once your apparel inventory is empty (not including what is equipped) the dialogue will unlock and allow you to finish the conversation. This may also interfere with any dialogue with James Garret, as it appears that he will have no dialogue options beyond just greeting you. A simple solution to the problem with the dialogue lock/inventory dump is to approach the non-player characters that the bug affects with your apparel inventory empty, except for what you want to have equipped. This allows uninterrupted dialogue.
* Once you enter the Atomic Wrangler and subsequently leave you will still hear the sounds of the casino's patrons in the background.
* Once you enter the Atomic Wrangler you may encounter a large framerate drop. If this happens turning around and facing the door has been known to stop it, however, running around backward can get quite irritating.
* A bug can occur where you will not be able to enter the Atomic Wrangler, clearing cache does not work. The black screen permanent crash can be fixed if you wear Caleb McCaffery's hat before entering the casino.
* After completing the quest Wang Dang Atomic Tango, if you acquired Santiago and Old Ben, both will show up at the casino. You can only solicit Santiago's services, Ben will just sit at the counter. If you open a dialogue with Ben, you cannot ask for his services, but you can go through the initial quest dialogue with him. You have the option of telling him that James Garret is looking for someone to work for him.
* Sometimes you may not receive the 'prize' for winning chips from the slot machine, even after exceeding the limit (i.e. 1250 chips). 
* If you're given the free room in the casino, prostitutes will not visit the player there, and you cannot purchase a room for them to visit. (Santiago and Fisto work in 1.2.0.285. This bug seems specific to Beatrix Russell. Additionally, Old Ben can never be hired).
* Once the player enters the Atomic Wrangler, all non-player characters within the building may automatically become hostile.
* Entering the Garrets' room upstairs can cause the game to freeze on the loading screen.
* Once you recruited Fisto to work with the Garrets, you can talk with him and he will offer you his services for 10 caps. If you refuse, you will be awarded 10 caps. This can be repeated (confirmed on the patch 1.2.0.315).
* Entering a room upstairs, you might find yourself locked in the room. You cannot pick the lock, as when attempting to open the door, it says it cannot be lock picked and you must use a key. No patch is known yet to fix this, so every time you enter the Atomic Wrangler, it is highly suggested you save your game upon entering.
* If Beatrix Russell is hired, she will never show up at your room and you cannot rehire her again.
* Most of the guards in the Atomic Wrangler don't seem to "see" the player. The player will often remain "hidden", even while in plain sight of the guards. This seems especially consistent with the guards that run up when you are in an area that you shouldn't be.
* All of the gamblers, the card dealer, and the roulette dealer in the blackjack and roulette area can be killed without causing surrounding non-player characters to become hostile, and without any faction penalty, as long as they are killed with a silenced weapon from behind and the player is crouching. This is the case even if the guards and cashier are all watching, and regardless of if the player is "hidden". A Karma penalty still applies.
* The game might crash whenever you win any leave either the blackjack table or the slots with a large number of caps earned. This can be avoided by briefly leaving either game after each progressive win (roughly 200 caps).
==Gallery==
Atomic_Wrangler_interior.jpg|Ground floor overview
Atomic Wrangler Casino Corner Room.jpg|Corner room, upstairs
FNV loading billboard02.jpg|Loading screen with the Atomic Wrangler billboard
FNV-CE-PlayingCard-AtomicWrangler.png|Atomic Wrangler playing card
FNV-CE-PokerChip-AtomicWrangler.png|Atomic Wrangler poker chip replica from the Collector's Edition
Icon pokerchip atomic.png|In game inventory icon for Atomic Wrangler poker chips
AtomicWranglerAdv.png|Atomic Wrangler billboard
FNV Billboard in game 9.jpg
FNV Atomic Wrangler billboard 2.jpg|Billboard near Westside
FNV Collect Edition 14.jpg|Concept art, Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide/Behind the Bright Lights & Big City
==See also==
* Spare Us the Cutter: Atomic Wrangler cut content
==References==
Category:Post-War businesses
Category:Fallout: New Vegas casinos
Category:Freeside buildings
Category:Bars
Category:Pre-War companies
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