Westside Story - A New Vegas Noir (Fallout: New Vegas quest mod; round 2)

Duchess Danielle is a Shakespeare-trained actress and the de-facto leader of the Thespian Guild, a monarchic organization grown out of a pre-war acting troupe. A woman of great power, talent and intellect, she exudes stage presence, aristocratic dignity and cold calculation in equal measure. As the player encounters her, she is caught up in a dispute around the succession to the organization's throne and will stop at nothing to secure it for herself - after all, every other outcome would result in certain death.

In keeping with the Guild's tradition of integrating their canonical texts into their vernacular, her manner of speech is dense and rhetorical, dripping with theatrical quotes and literary allusions.

NOTE: While any North American accent would be fine for her, a posh or even Shakespearean British would of course be especially apt.

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Line count: ~ 350

Wheelchair-bound and widowed following a stick-up gone awry, former bar owner Abby, always a pillar of the community, now splits her time between running the town treasury and serving as the incumbent speaker for the local assemblies, exemplifying the high amount of trust and esteem she enjoys as the "town mom".

She is wise, personable and has lived a full and eventful life, though when encountered away from the hustle and bustle of the streets, it becomes clear she has yet to come to terms with her personal tragedy - and that perhaps she never quite will.

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LINE COUNT: ~210

A very bubbly and affable person, Kendra serves as both the local rumor mill and bartender. Though there is a sharper side to her, owing to her past as a travelling adventurer and mercenary, she has now firmly embraced her domestic life as a married mother of two.

Kendra grew up on a farm, and thus speaks with a bit of a country twang.

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LINE COUNT: ~140

Aulus is a faithful member of Caesar's Legion, who, after 15 years of frontline service, is now looking to become a frumentarius (intelligence officer). His commander, seemingly looking to facilitate this promotion, has sent him to inaugurate an independent band of slavers into the Legion's ranks. Only after he arrived did Aulus realize this was a trap; the slavers are not remotely fit to join the Legion, but to give up would mean failure, and thus death.

Backed into a corner and running out of time, he now needs to find a way to either make the procedure go through or to break out of this commitment.

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LINE COUNT: ~130

Before dying in a suspicious fire, Nate earned his keep as the local handyman. He was the boyfriend of Nicole French, one of the mod’s primary characters who mysteriously went missing around the time of his death. Being a charred corpse by the time the story begins, he is usually only heard in voice recordings captured prior to his untimely demise, though he also shows up as an apparition in a very Disco Elysium-esque dream sequence.

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LINE COUNT: ~80

Corporal Adesso is a jaded, moderately corrupt officer in the NCR Military Police. She has been tasked with apprehending a group of deserters on the run after they killed their incompetent commanding officer. She is purposefully dragging her feet in order to let them escape.

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LINE COUNT: ~80

A former professional baseball player who turned to loan sharking and contract killing after a traumatic head injury put an end to both his career and frontal lobe. He is encountered during an interrogation segment, wherein the player finds themselves tied to a chair in his garage. Asher is a humorless, rough brute of a man who enjoys cracking skulls with his bat.

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LINE COUNT: ~80

A street thug with a mean temper, an inflated sense of self-importance and a disastrous gambling habit, Nelson offers the perfect storm of ego and fragility to ruin anyone's day in 5 minutes or under, dissatisfaction guaranteed.

As an enforcer for a crime organization in the slum district of Freeside, he usually handles protection rackets and illegal card games, though as the player encounters him, he's on a special assignment to lure them into a trap.

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LINE COUNT: ~70

The Thespians are something between a Dionysian cult and a knights order. An elitist guild of masked, sword-wielding actors living inside a fortified theater complex, they spend their days protecting their king and practicing stagecraft as a sort of religious ritual. Accordingly, they tend to speak in a jumble of theatrical quotes, Shakespeare especially, and have a somewhat stiff and formal demeanor about them.

These generic variants may appear as background extras and enemy variants; they can also have limited dialogue exchanges with both the player and one another.

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LINE COUNT: ~60

The Thespians are something between a Dionysian cult and a knights order. An elitist guild of masked, sword-wielding actors living inside a fortified theater complex, they spend their days protecting their king and practicing stagecraft as a sort of religious ritual. Accordingly, they tend to speak in a jumble of theatrical quotes, Shakespeare especially, and have a somewhat stiff and formal demeanor about them.

These generic variants may appear as background extras and enemy variants; they can also have limited dialogue exchanges with both the player and one another.

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LINE COUNT: ~60

Ever since fragging their unpopular and incompetent commander, Sergeant Lee Hofman and his squad have been deserters at large.

While the inciting incident may be excusable by their dire circumstances, Hofman and his band of renegades have since turned to banditry, both to keep themselves afloat as well as to showcase the futility of the NCR military's ongoing occupation of the Mojave.

By the time the player finds and confronts him, he has been reduced to little more than a cornered animal, holding a hostage at gunpoint in a rundown shack.

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LINE COUNT: ~65

Normally a stably employed homebody working as a cook, Raquel has been convinced by her bozo of a boyfriend to venture out into the desert in search of treasure. Two weeks in, he has been enslaved, most of their friends are dead and Raquel is barely fending off the animal and raider attacks that beset their ill-supplied camp on the regular; suffice it to say, she's not having a good time, but her sense of loyalty forbids her from returning behind the safety of the town walls until the so-called love of her life has been freed from captivity.

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LINE COUNT: ~65

Clint is the leader of the Housekeepers, a gang of janitors feathering their nest by way of after-work break-ins.

He would very much like to be a suave con artist, though he is not anywhere near as eloquent or clever as he believes himself to be. The player encounters him and his accomplices in the act of clearing out a former associate's apartment, upon which he immediately tries to finesse them.

LINE COUNT: ~30

Clyde works as a pawnbroker by day and handles body disposal for a criminal organization by night. He is a full-blooded sycophant, always bowing and scraping around his his boss while being too squeamish to get involved in the action himself. He encounters the player right after they extricated themselves from his employer's private torture chamber in the pawn shop's basement.

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LINE COUNT: ~15

A person who can be encountered in a drug laboratory, trying out the latest in recreational chemistry.

Can be either male or female.

LINE COUNT: 6

Lloyd is a drifter and a drunk looking to finally clean up his act and get respectable. The player meets him in the middle of a job interview.

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LINE COUNT: 6

George is a member of the Housekeepers, a gang of janitors feathering their nest by way of after-work break-ins.

The player encounters George and his accomplices in the process of burgling an apartment, to which he reacts in a dry and deadpan manner.

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LINE COUNT: 4

Janitor Jill is a member of the Housekeepers, a gang of janitors feathering their nest by way of after-work break-ins.

Upon getting caught in the act along with her accomplices, her first instinct is to want to murder the player in comically over-the-top, yet career-appropriate ways.

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LINE COUNT: 4

An unfortunate civilian being used as a human shield by a group of military Deserters turned raider.

Can be either male or female.

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LINE COUNT: 3

NOTE: This role has already been cast ahead of the public casting call. It has been added here to give the actor their due credit.

Laurence, a Sergeant in the NCR military, is a braggadocious rich kid who reached his position through nepotism rather than merit.

Originally supposed to lead his squad out on a regular patrol, he has gone rogue in an effort to stage the war hero story he deems requisite for the high political office he's really angling for. In spite of this cynical and opportunistic demeanor, however, he displays a pronounced idealistic streak beneath it all.

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LINE COUNT: ~120

NOTE: This role has been cast ahead of the public casting call. It has been added here to give the actor their due credit.

A redneck farmer looking to hire a mercenary after some NCR deserters took over his farm - or at least that's his story.

Speaks with a thick country twang. An all around shifty character.

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LINE COUNT: 97.

NOTE: This role has already been cast ahead of the public casting call. It has been added here to give the actor their due credit.

A Mister Handy robot which exclusively speaks German following some damage to its speech synthesizer.

LINE COUNT: ~40.