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Unused dialogue from an early version of this quest.

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El-Rey Motel

Wrench#

An NPC from the quest VMS10 that would become 'The White Wash' in the final game. There are remnants of this very early iteration even in the final data, but this build contains the full dialogue of the cut NPC Wrench, an alcoholic mechanic who would have spilled the beans on what was really going on with the water supply in this quest before he was replaced. It seems he never got beyond having temporary text-to-speech dialogue, and the lines here seem to have been re-written multiple times already. Many of the below lines are duplicated in the archive, so only the first instance of each particular line is documented. Notably Wrench was a ghoul character, something he even mentions in his dialogue. As already known, the pawn shop vendor Miguel was called Angelo at this point in time, and Westside was called 'The Doldrums'. The below dialogue confirms Corporal White was called by his final name at this point, and seems to be the only NPC involved with the quest who wasn't renamed. An NPC entry for Wrench as well as more information on the early version of the quest are present in the November build.

Generic dialogue for Wrench, including general questions and requesting repairs:

The player could then ask Wrench what he knows about the water shortage, which would prompt him to ask the player for a favour:

Speaker	Dialogue	Form ID
Player	I was told you might know something about a water shortage.
Wrench	Mmm, heard something about that. Maybe know something about that if you did me a favour first.
Player	I'm looking for Corporal White. I was told he came to see you.
Wrench	Haven't seen him lately. I might know where he is though. Need a favour first.
Player	What favour?
Wrench	I pawned off my Snap-off super toolkit to buy more booze. I think I was drunk when I did it.
Player	What's the favour?
Wrench	I pawned off my Snap-off super toolkit to buy more whiskey. I think I was drunk when I did it. The irony.
Player	-
Wrench	Anyway, I can't do proper work without it. Get it back from Angelo and I'll tell you what I know. His pawn shop is up in the Doldrums.

The player could agree to the favour for Wrench. The dialogue here shows that the Super Tool Kit was an incidental item which could be found outside of Angelo's pawn shop as well:

Speaker	Dialogue	Form ID
Player	I'll get you a Super Tool Kit, even if it's not that exact one.
Wrench	As long as it's a complete kit, I'm one happy ghoul.
Player	I'll get you a Super Tool Kit.
Wrench	I'm glad to hear it.

Instead of doing a favour for Wrench, the player could instead pass a speech check of 40 to get the information from Wrench:

Speaker	Dialogue	Form ID
Player	I'm on official NCR business. Your help would be appreciated.
Wrench	Potential pay raise, huh? I have been thinking about buying another Mr. Handy. Alright then, about White.
Player	I'm working for the NCR, you know, so you'd better tell me what you know.
Wrench	The NCR needs me more than I need them. Nobody knows the pipe system better than me. So, ready to do that favour?

If the player did not have a high enough speech skill, they could instead attempt to intimidate Wrench. There are two checks present, one is a skill check while the other checks for one of the player's SPECIAL stats instead. The stat in question is presumably strength:

Speaker	Dialogue	Form ID
Player	Tell me what I need to know or else.
Wrench	Say, I don't think you've got it in you. So, about that toolkit of mine…
Player	Would you like me to bury you out in the desert for the next hundred years?
Wrench	Hmmm, a while back I happened to notice one of the Western pipes leaking.
Player	[Crack your knuckles ominously.]
Wrench	Alright bruiser. Forget doing me a favour.

This dialogue is for turning in the Super Tool Kit to Wrench:

Speaker	Dialogue	Form ID
Player	I don't have one yet.
Wrench	I'm not in a rush if you're not.
Player	I got one for you. Here.
Wrench	Ah, much appreciated. These are a little hard to come by. So, about White…
Player	I happen to have one of those on me. Want it?
Wrench	Good enough for me. So, about White…

After returning his Super Tool Kit or passing a skill check, Wrench would discuss the matter with the player:

Speaker	Dialogue	File
Player	Actually, I already have a Super Tool Kit with me.
Wrench	Ah, thank you kindly. These are hard to come by. Not sure what I was thinking, but anyway...
Wrench	Water's flowing into the West side of town - NCR water. The problem with that is it's not supposed to be happening at all. The West side's cut off.
Wrench	White came to me, asking if I had noticed anything going on with the water pipes. After a generous payment of whiskey, I told him what I knew.
Player	So, there is a water shortage after all. How is that possible?
Wrench	I think that's what White was trying to find out. Since I couldn't tell him the who or the how of it, he decided to go with a stakeout.
Wrench	Unless all that water is just spilling into the ground somewhere - and I don't think it is - someone's collecting it.
Wrench	I think White was planning to keep an eye on the cisterns on the West side of town, and see who showed up. Guess it was more than he could handle.
Player	I don't care about the water. Where can I find White?
Wrench	White said he was going to keep an eye on the cisterns over on the West side of town. Someone's gotta collect the water, after all.
Wrench	Since White's gone missing he probably caught someone in the act of taking the water, and it turned out to be too much for him to handle.
Player	Someone could've hacked into the pump station computer systems.
Wrench	I hadn't thought of that. You might be right. It's the only way this could even be going on without the NCR catching on.
Wrench	Unless all that water is simply spilling into the ground - and I doubt it - somebody's got to be collecting it.
Wrench	White's plan was to catch and interrogate whoever was collecting the water from the cisterns on the West side.

NCR Sharecropper Farms

Lieutenant Romanowski#

Some unused lines of dialogue for Lieutenant Romanowski referencing the early scenario for The White Wash quest. Notably, he directly references the cut NPC Wrench. Worth noting is that there is an unused part of the quest referenced in the November build that involves investigating the East Pump Station. There is no mention of this in Romanowski's dialogue here, suggesting it was cut by this point.

This dialogue is for questioning Romanowski about the situation:

Speaker	Dialogue	Form ID
Player	Trent Bascom says he's not getting his full allotment of water.
Romanowski	Yeah, that's what everybody says around here. Do you see a field of dead crops? I sure don't.	000F0860
Romanowski	I'll say what I've already told everyone else: the pipes are fine, the computers fine. Now shut the fuck up.	000F0860
Romanowski	Besides, I've already got a man, Corporal White, wasting his time looking into it.	000F0860
Player	Lieutenant Boyd has me out looking for Corporal White, actually.
Romanowski	Is that right? Corporal White is currently occupied with investigating the great water shortage. It would serve him right if the NCR declared him AWOL.	000F3BEF
Player	What did Corporal White have to say about the water shortage?
Romanowski	He hasn't reported back yet. He was supposed to track down that ghoul Wrench, and have a word with him about it.	000F4831
Romanowski	I told him it was a waste of time. Wrench is a lazy drunk, but for some reason he's always on the ball when it comes to the New Vegas water system.	000F4831

The conversation would eventually lead into the part of the quest where the player would need to speak with Wrench:

Speaker	Dialogue	Form ID
Player	What do you know about Wrench?
Romanowski	Hell if I know. We try and bring a little law and order around here, and some folks are damn ungrateful about it.	000F5181
Player	Where can I find Wrench?
Romanowski	If he's not walking the pipelines checking for leaks, he's probably passed out at the El Rey motel.	000F4C9F
Player	You don't seem too worried about Corporal White's whereabouts.
Romanowski	AWOL troops are Lieutenant Boyd's problem, not mine. As long as the water pipes and pumps are secure, my jobs done.	000F482E
Player	-
Romanowski	Well, I haven't seen it with my own eyes or anything. But I'm pretty sure we'd know about it.	00135EF

Speaker	Dialogue	Form ID
Player	What do you do around here?
Wrench	Fix water pipes mostly. Fix other things, too.
Player	Can you repair something for me?
Wrench	Hey, sure. Pipes, guns, delicate electronics, it's all pretty much the same, right?
Player	I need something repaired.
Wrench	Fine.
Player	Goodbye.
Wrench	Yep.