“Attention students! This is the prerecorded voice of your prerecorded principal, Doctor-Principal Borous!”
Doctor Borous is a scientist living in Big MT in Fallout: New Vegas.
Background[edit]
Before the Great War, Borous was bullied in American High School by a classmate named Richie Marcus. He also had an unrequited crush on another student, Betsy Bright, who had turned him down for Richie and picked on him as well.[1] His only friend was his dog, Gabe.
Later in his life, he became a part of Big MT's staff as head of the X-8 cyberdog project and began experimenting on his own dog Gabe, feeding him various drugs such as Psycho.[2] Sometime before the Great War, Gabe was eventually transformed into a prototype model of the cyberdog.[3] However, due to errors in programming, he was forcibly sealed in an unfinished section of X-8's test areas, as a "...precaution."[4]
After the Great War, together with the rest of the Big MT "Think Tank," the doctor became a Think Tank to continue his work at Big MT. Doctor Borous is the "Head of Animalogy, Beastology, and DNA-Scrambling technology" and has created both the Nightstalkers and Cazadores.[5][6] He is responsible for creating the radar fence around the crater.[7]
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Effects of Player's Actions[edit]
- If the player character has shown Borous Gabe's Bowl before completing Old World Blues, and the player character does not have a 100 in Science or 85 in Medicine to convince Doctor Klein, Borous will side with the player character in convincing Klein to back down.
- After A Brain's Best Friend has been completed, once a day, the player character can ask Borous what animals he is experimented on today and he will give the player character some of their parts:
- Three Cazador Poison Glands and Nightstalker Blood jars if Dr. Borous was caused to feel guilty over the treatment of Gabe.
- Three Cazador Eggs instead, if A Brain's Best Friend has been completed with passing the Speech 45 or Animal Friend check.
Inventory[edit]
| Weapon | On death |
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| Brain beam Brain mesmetron | Electron Charge Packs, Over Charge Energy Cells Fission Batteries Microfusion Cells, Over Charge Scrap Electronics Scrap Metal Sensor Module |
Notes[edit]
- If one has Gabe's Bowl but have yet to complete the X-8 Residential Test, the player character can ask him if the bowl looks familiar. He will express that he cannot remember, thinking it might be a cazador skull or a Bowlian. Then he tells them to find more information somewhere in Big MT.
- Test Lab X-8 is a re-creation of his high school with Dr. Borous acting as the "Doctor-Principal."
- In Borous's house in Higgs Village, in the same room where the player character finds the key to the basement, one may find a knife stuck into a crayon picture of a monster with the word "DAD" written on it on the floor near the bed.
- Borous has a unique dialogue if Gabe is spared.
- He may mention how Vault-Tec once competed for human test subjects, displaying he is one of the handfuls of individuals aware of their experiments.
Quotes[edit]
- "You may know me as the Head Chief First Researcher of Labs Z-9 and Z-14. There I fought valiantly to preserve rattlesnake DNA, and put it right where it belongs, in the husk of another feared predator. Oh, and the tarantula hawk. Can't splice enough, I always say, especially if you can make a magnificent Cazador!"
- "Attention students! This is the prerecorded voice of your prerecorded principal, Doctor-Principal Borous!"
- "FIRST WAS THE HEART! Uh - wait... I mean SECOND WAS THE HEART! Brain was first. THIRD WAS THE SPINE!"
- "A GUN! Are you MAD?! We can't give it a GUN! GUNS kill."
Appearances[edit]
Borous appears in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.
Behind the Scenes[edit]
- Chris Avellone stated that according to Brian Menze, the Think Tank members are depicted (left to right) as Dala, O, Borous, Klein, 8, and Mobius on the Old World Blues Intro slide.[Dev 1]
- Avellone stated that Seth McCaughey animated the Think Tanks' chassis.[Dev 2]
Gallery[edit]
Old World Blues Intro slide
References[edit]
- ↑ Courier: "Wait a minute - that means you're trapped here?"
Doctor Borous: "Ever since my anxiety-filled days of powerlessness and being bullied in American High School, I have dreamed of such security as the FENCE. That, and giant cybernetic dogs that would ruthlessly patrol and kill anyone who wasn't my friend. Like RICHIE MARCUS. And BETSY BRIGHT. Who's laughing NOW, Betsy? I hope you and Richie are HAPPY, smoking in your radioactive coffins. I'm GLAD you never came to my birthday party."
(Doctor Borous' dialogue) - ↑ Doctor Borous: "Gabe would bark and snarl and bite whenever ANYONE came to visit. That's why I replaced his legs with spare parts and fed him a steady diet of Psycho-laced dog chow."
(Doctor Borous' dialogue) - ↑ Courier: "Is this Gabe's bowl? Your dog from X-8, Gabe?"
Doctor Borous: "WHAT? Why... yes, it is. I used to leave it outside his dog house, chock-full of chems. Before the cybernetic modifications, of course. And... no matter how chemmed the food, he would always eat it. And his tail, would wag... even...even while I... I... You know, I am having the most perplexing feeling squiggling through my biogel. I can't quite... pin it down."
(Doctor Borous' dialogue) - ↑ Courier: "You reprogrammed their names as part of recursion loop? What, to trap their processors?"
Doctor Mobius: [SUCCEEDED] Now, "trap" is a rather harsh word. Like "excrement." Not an inappropriate word, but still - rather harsh. But... yes, I did... take some liberties with their programming. It's all right, they don't remember. I certainly didn't until you said "trap." And then I said "excrement." And then..."
(Doctor Mobius' dialogue) - ↑ Courier: "Who are you - what do you do here?"
Doctor Borous: "BEFORE you is the brain of Dr. Borous. Head of Animalogy, Beastology, and DNA-Scrambling technology here at Big MT. I lay the bones and hearts of animals bare beneath my searing gaze. Especially the dogs. I did so love dogs once. Especially Gabe, that rascal. But there are MANY animals to shape. Industrious Cazadores, the happy-go-lucky Nightstalkers... they are my living, breathing DNA test tubes."
(Doctor Borous' dialogue) - ↑ Courier: "All right... when did you create Cazadores?"
Doctor Borous: "In... two thousand... let's see, carry the three... then count backwards from the Great Static... or beyond? There were the tarantula debates... and something about hawks, which made it around... eh, 2003? May? Tuesday. It was definitely Tuesday."
(Doctor Borous' dialogue) - ↑ Courier: "Tell me about this "Radar Fence" around the Crater."
Doctor Borous: "The RADAR FENCE protects us all! If evidence is correct, the one who built it - is ME! It keeps anything with a disembodied brain INSIDE - like US - and anything without a brain... also INSIDE! It is the ULTIMATE DEFENSE against Communist aggression. There'll be no infectious ideas on MY watch!"
(Doctor Borous' dialogue)
- ↑ Jayalay: "@chrisavellone You know the picture of the pre-lobotomy Think Tank guys? Which one is which? Guessing Klein is old, Mobius bespectacled?"
Chris Avellone: "@Jayalay According to Mr. Menze, the artist: Dala, O, Borous, Klein, 8, Mobius (he purposely looks like Dr. Morbius from Forbidden Planet)."
(Fallout: New Vegas Developer Statements/Old World Blues; Chris Avellone: Think Tank Intro Art, 2011 July 27) - ↑ "...Seth McCaughey, one of our animators on the DLC, did all the ED-E's animations for DLC4, just like he did with the Think Tank chassis, and that did more to create emotion than anything I can write - especially the animations when Borous in DLC3 breaks down at his own memories..."
(Old World Questions)
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