Plik

Plik is a ghoul inhabitant of Point Lookout in the year 2277.
==Background==
A jovial host of his prestigious hunting club for society's richest (or most bored) clientèle, Plik has witnessed the spread of feral ghouls in the area, and seeks to limit this encroachment while attempting an enterprising scheme in the process.Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition p.91: "PlikA jovial host of his prestigious hunting club for society's richest (or most bored) clientèle, Plik has witnessed the spread of Feral Ghouls in the area, and seeks to limit this encroachment, while attempting an enterprising scheme in the process."(Fallout 3 Official Game Guide Game of the Year Edition Wasteland Census)
Plik runs a little hunting club out of the coastal grotto, but it is "strictly for high-rollers." It appears Plik has a scientific background and has taken extensive notes on the anatomy of feral ghouls, referenced in his journal which will grant the Ghoul Ecology perk upon reading.
==Interactions with the player character==
===Interactions overview===
===Quests===
* Plik's Safari: If one decides to join his club by paying the 1,000 cap entry fee, they can go on his safari. If he is kept alive, they may go on his safari once a day for 500 caps.
===Effects of player's actions===
* When first meeting Plik, he will greet the Lone Wanderer and ask if they want to join his safari for a fee of 1,000 caps.
==Inventory==
==Notes==
* With a high Sneak skill, one can pickpocket Plik for the 800 caps he initially carries and after paying his 1,000 cap fee, one can pickpocket the caps back without any change in Karma.
* After successfully participating in Plik's Safari and speaking with him again, the Lone Wanderer will receive a unique axe called the Dismemberer.
* Plik is one of the few ghouls who have a different voice from most of the other ghoul population.
* He will respawn if killed.
* He will refer to the player character as "sir" regardless of gender.
* Although he can be enslaved, he has no voiced lines during the exchange, only subtitles.
==Appearances==
Plik appears only .
==Behind the scenes==
Plik and his safari were described by developer Joel Burgess as his "pet project." Voice actor Jeff Baker, who also portrayed Desmond Lockheart, was originally supposed to voice Plik and put on a Southern accent; in the game files, Plik shares a voice type with Desmond. However, Plik's script never made its way into the voice recording session with Baker, and the mistake was not realized until long after the session was concluded. As such, Burgess simply recorded Plik's voiceover himself. Burgess self-deprecatingly joked that Plik's voiceover is him doing his "best impression of Grover wishing he had Robitussin."Fallout 4 Point Lookout Mod with Joel Burgess and Nate Purkeypile (1:22:20)Kenneth Vigue: "So, Plik's safari, who created Plik's safari, and uh, more importantly, who voices Plik?"Joel Burgess: "Yeah, yeah, this is... for better or worse, this is all me. I really wanted to do this, this was a little bit of a pet project for me on the side. So I did all the scripting and set up the cell, but... oh Christ, this line... so yeah, I wrote this character. And I remember like, we were debating whether or not we were gonna do it or if we could support it and this, that, and the other thing. And so it's like a little bit of an open question. Y'know, again, it was a short project, we have this thing in, and we get to the voice sessions. And the voice actor comes into studio and is sitting with the audio engineer and the voice director and, y'know, does all the lines for Desmond, or basically he comes in and does 'ghoul' voice type. And Plik was originally meant to be voiced by the same actor. A lot of times during direction you'll give the actors like, 'hey, just like, do this character with a Southern accent.' So even though it's the same voice type, they'll put in an inflection on it. So all of Plik's lines were on a few sheets of the script, and those sheets just like... didn't make it into the booth. So like, the day wraps up and the voice recording is finished, and y'know, the actor goes about their life. And we get the VO lines back, and it's like, 'welp, we don't have anything for Plik and we don't have pickups.' Right? Pickups are the term for when you have a voice actor come back. So I went in the booth and it's... awful. Like, the original lines for this are me just doing my best impression of Grover wishing he had Robitussin. It's just bad, bad ghoul voice acting. But hey, it made it in and I'm happy it's there."
==Bugs==
* After completing Plik's Safari, you can also pickpocket him for 1,800 bottle caps at a time, by going in and out of the safari. Each time you load, it will show he has 1,800 bottle caps in his inventory; this also results in no Karma change.
* He can be enslaved but if you try to mezz him, he will fall apart.
* His face may appear much paler than the rest of his body.
==Gallery==
Plik.png|GECK render
Plik bugged.jpg|Plik's bugged, pale face
==References==
Non-game
Category:Coastal grotto characters
Category:Fallout 3 ghoul characters
Category:Fallout 3 scientists
Category:Mesmerizable characters
Category:Point Lookout characters
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