JOHNNY FRIENDLY

I love working with kids. We’re the past, they’re the future.

I’m saving up to start an orphanage. There’s a lot of lost children in the Commonwealth, and they need our help.

This place can get really dirty. I really can’t stand a mess.

I get a bit compulsive when I have a broom in my hand. And if there’s dust on the counter, then look out! Johnny’s coming for ya.

I love Diamond City Radio. Some people think Travis is a bit awkward, but that’s just part of the charm.

You ever run the bases? It’s my favorite thing in the world.

I heard you’re looking for your son. A parent should never be separated from their child.

Noodles are the official eats of Diamond City. You should try some!

The bleachers aren’t that much better than the field. You’re so much further removed from the action.

Just another great day in the best city in the world!

Love and peace. The best two words in the dictionary.

 

Diamond City Generics (vanilla scenes that all Diamond City unnamed NPCs have, edited to be character specific)

Scene with Moe 1

I’m telling ya, back before the war, everyone played baseball. Kids, the elderly.

Really?

That’s right. It was considered a National Pastime, meaning it was mandatory after work hours.
Every day the whole family would have to go out and play the ole’ b-ball for a couple of innings, or they were fined for letting down the sport.

Wow, I always thought it was a way to help kids exercise. I never knew folks took it so seriously.

Why wouldn’t they? Look around you. No one’s playing the game, but baseball is a way of life in Diamond City. And it always has been.

Scene with Moe 2

Whoever had the ball on the opposing team would try to throw it at his head to knock him out. That’s what an official “Out” meant back then.

So players ran around with the bat? Why wouldn’t they just drop it?

No, that would be suicide. The bat was the hitter’s only defense as he ran the bases.

That sounds pretty violent Moe. I definitely won’t be letting my kids play.

Scene with Takahashi 1

Nani-shimasuka?

Yeah, I’ll have the noodles please.

Scene with Takahashi 2

The number three, please.

Nani-shimasuka?

I said, the number three, if you don’t mind.

Nani-shimasuka?

Ha, I’m kidding. Give me the noodles.

DiamondCityGenericSolomon01

Hey, you’re looking a little sluggish today. You feeling all right?

Yeah, I’m not sure why, but I feel like my body’s out of whack.

You gotta balance out the chemistry in your life. You work too hard, for example, that causes the whole body to slow down.

Really? Too much work can do that?

Oh yeah. Work’s a real downer. You need to add a little pick-me-up in your diet to even it out.
You mix a little Jet into your meals every day, your whole body will feel lifted right up.

Thanks, but that sounds a little too dangerous.

ConvDiamondCityGenericSolomon02

Hey Solomon, do you have anything that’ll help me impress people?

Trying your hand at the game of love, maybe? Ah, don’t answer that. Your business.
Whoever you’re trying to win over, a good regimen of those little red pills will keep your prepared when the time comes.
You crush some Mentats in with your coffee in the morning, it’ll help loosen the language centers in your brain. Lower anxiety.

Yeah, I’m not interested in anyone. I’m thinking of helping with the school is all, and I’m worried about the job interview.

ConvDiamondCityGenericArturo01

Do people really need such heavy firepower, Arturo?

It all depends on where and what you need to protect.
Take the home, for example. A shotgun’s great for its intimidation factor. Robbers might run off without you even needing to fire.

What if you’re not all that experienced with weapons?

Small semi-automatic with a good holster is what you’re looking for.

ConvDiamondCityGenericArturo02

You still carrying that old handmade around? I’m telling you, the grip on that thing is just going to fall off one of these days.

I carry around a broom, Arturo, not a gun.

Who’s talking about a gun?
I can sell you a properly machined grip at a discount, and you can install it yourself.

The grip is pretty worn…
All right. I’ll think about it.

ConvDiamondCityGenericDocCrocker01Sun

Hello Doctor Crocker? Could you take a look at my arm? I had a kitchen accident and I’m worried the cut could get infected.

Oh… Um… Well, infections are more Doctor Sun’s field of expertise. Now, if you had a scar or something you’d like me to remove?

Really? I heard you were the best in all of Diamond City.

Now now, Doctor Sun is a very… competent physician. But… all right. Why don’t you see me tomorrow?

ConvDiamondCityGenericDoctorSun02Crocker

Hi, Doctor Soon? (Spelled “Sun” pronounced “Soon”)
Doc Crocker referred me to you. He said you’d be handling the “post-op procedures?”

If you mean I’m going to be cleaning up all his lazy stitch-work and patching infections due to careless incisions, then yes.

ConvDiamondCityGenericDoctorSun01 

Excuse me, Doctor Soon?

It’s Soon.

What?

Doctor Soon. Rhymes with moon? How difficult is that to understand?

Yes, that’s what I said. I’m not like everyone else here. I can pronounce your name correctly.

*sigh* Whatever it is, come back later.

 

ConvDiamondCityGenericJohn02

I’m really liking this haircut you gave me John. How do you do it?

You just gotta read people. It ain’t all about the hair. It’s the face. The way the person carries themselves.
You keep the whole frame in mind, and the portrait will look good wherever it hangs. My pa taught me that.

Your father? Was he a barber too?

Nah, he was a painter. Gave it up when the Salon opened, but he was always going on about color and composition and all that.

ConvDiamondCityGenericMyrna01

Myrna. Do you have any fusion cells?

Why would you need those?

I was just tinkerin’ with some stuff at home. Thought I’d fix up one of those prewar appliances.

Or maybe you need it to recharge yourself? That’s what you things do right?

Myrna, for the last time, you know me! I was just here yesterday!

That would’ve given the Institute an entire evening to snatch you up and replace you!

Sigh…I’m leaving.

ConvDiamondCityGenericMyrna02

You. You can’t shop here. Diamond City Surplus does not serve Synths.

Myrna. I told you. I’m human!

Oh sure. You might THINK you’re human, but that’s just because the Institute has programmed you that way.
Look at that nose of yours. That’s not a human nose.

Um, I think I’ll try a different store.

 

VANILLA IDLES, PROBABLY TOO GENERIC TO RECORD

ConvDiamondCityGenericNPC08 (both sides of conversation should be recorded)

What’s gonna happen to all the synths? You know, if the Institute’s really gone…

Don’t know. With any luck, they’ll all just break down at some point.

ConvDiamondCityGenericNPC08

Maybe now that the Institute isn’t hiding they’ll stop taking people.

We’ll see. Maybe they just won’t bother covering it up anymore.

You ever know anyone that’s been taken?

Thank the Wall, no.

What do they do with them? Where do they take them?

Hey, hey. Keep your voice down.

ConvDiamondCityGenericNPC07

Living here, with the Institute just working in the open. I don’t know if I can handle it…

In the open, or in the shadows, they’re just gonna do what they want. There’s nothing we can do about it.

Maybe living here’s not worth it. If the paper’s telling the truth…

Where are you gonna go, huh? Make your way in the Commonwealth, with all those mad men out there?

ConvDiamondCityGenericNPC07

You know, I think Diamond City’s really starting to feel safe. It’s like… the air’s lighter, you know?

I don’t know. It might be the radioactive fallout from that blast.

ConvDiamondCityGenericNPC06Mayor

Now that we know the Mayor was a synth, I’m never missing another issue of Publick Occurrences.

If that article in the Publick is right, then McDonough… what if he is…?

Yeah, well, you say that now, but in another few months? Everyone’s just gonna find something new to argue about.

Hey, hey, enough of that. Look, we’re safe on this side of the Wall. That’s all that matters.

ConvDiamondCityGenericNPC05

You know, all this talk about the Institute being gone. Maybe now we can actually make the Commonwealth safer.

The Institute owns us now, I’m telling ya. We should just pack up. Go anywhere else.

Maybe I should just… go… leave. Might be better than going to sleep every night, wondering if I’m gonna be there when I wake up.

Be good to get to work and not have to worry about synths every other day.

And become Raider fodder, or maybe a Super Mutant’s dinner? World outside is still hell. No. We’re trapped.

Leave the Wall? What are you, nuts? You wouldn’t last an hour out there. I’ll take my chances on this side of the Green Guardian, thanks.

ConvDiamondCityGenericNPC04

Do you think things will be better now? If the Institute really is gone…

If the Institute isn’t hiding anymore, do you think maybe they’ll leave us alone?

What if they’re listening to us, right now? What if they’ve been listening this whole time?

Maybe. Who knows? Least I’m not afraid to go to sleep at night.

No, mark my words. It’s gonna get worse. Way worse. The Institute is out in the open because there’s nothing left they’re afraid of.

Hey, hey. Quiet. All right? Yikes.

ConvDiamondCityGenericNPC03

Do you really think they’re gone? The Institute?

Maybe. Still don’t feel comfortable saying the name out loud.

The Commonwealth without the Institute. I hope to God it’s true.

ConvDiamondCityGenericNPC03

They’re… they’re in control now, aren’t they? The Institute?

Reckon so.

God, what are they gonna do to us?

Saw security cleaning out another house the other day.

Who was it?

Don’t know. Whoever it was, they’re no one now.

ConvDiamondCityGenericNPC02MayorInst

There ain’t no test. That’s the problem. You know what I say? No mayor. We let the city council run things from now on.

Shh. You want them to hear ya?

So the paper was right about McDonough all along. He was one of them.

You think that article is telling the truth? You know, about the mayor?

That traitor. Pretending to be human while he was selling us out.

Ah, the mayor’s okay in my book. He’s kept the Ghouls out, hasn’t he?

Well, the next time we elect a mayor we need some kind of test. What if we elect another synth again?

Yeah, but if he’s a… you know… that means he’s working for…

Mayor McDonough was a synth the whole time. I knew the paper was right about him.

Mayor and his damn speeches. “We give thanks to the Wall.” What a joke.

Yeah, well, ain’t like any of us did anything about it.

Hey, I’d rather be on this side of the Wall than on the other side, you know?

 

Ghost

Hey smooth-skins,

The bounty on Johnny Friendly is mine. So if you’re thinking about putting up a wanted poster, then don’t. 

La Voz

GOODNEIGHBOR or new mod-made tavern

If you’re here for the bounty on Johnny Friendly, forget it. It’s taken.
And if you got a problem with that, you can take it up with the maker when I send you to him.

If you’re looking for trouble, feel free to try me.
Better holster that sidearm kid. You don’t know what you’re getting yourself into.
La Voz will eat through your flesh like a hot knife through warm butter.

I just wanted to talk to you.
You got the wrong man then. I don’t talk. La Voz does enough for the both of us.

I don’t want any trouble. Maybe we can work something out.
There’s nothing to work out. Johnny’s a dead man. And La Voz is the one that’s gonna kill him.

I don’t care. It’s not my kind of work.
Smart. Leave it to the professionals. Like La Voz here.

(La Voz?) Who’s that? Are you talking about your gun?
Yeah. Although it isn’t my gun. More like my parole officer.
See, about nine years ago I had a bounty on my head. Killed a bunch of men. Not all of them deserved it.
But one day, I tried to kill the wrong man. A man in black. And pretty soon it was me on the ass end of the barrel.
Only, the man didn’t shoot. Instead, he gave me this gun.
Then he told me, “ten years.” I had ten years to atone. And if I did, he’d let me go free.

(Johnny Friendly) Who is this guy? The name alone says something.
Just another lowlife scumbag who needs to get got. Only difference is, he’s killed enough of these poor Commonwealth bastards to make a name for himself.
I kill him, and I help pay down my debt to society. And maybe have a little fun in the process.

(Need any help?) Is there anything I can do to help out?
Other than staying outta my way, not likely.
Just know that I need this. So don’t get any ideas about killing him before I do. He’s mine.

That’s all.
Watch yourself out there.

See ya around, kid.

Hellos/Your Thoughts?

One time I did a job to collect a super mutant’s balls. Buyer thought it was an aphrodisiac.
Problem is, the mutant I killed only had one. So I had to kill his brother to complete the set.

The man in black? Probably thought he could change me. Make me repent. But I don’t feel sorry for the men I’ve killed.
And I don’t give a damn about saving a life. I’m not one of the good guys. And I probably never will be.

One time I almost made a mistake and killed someone who didn’t deserve it. As much as I would’ve enjoyed it, can’t be sure he wasn’t watching.

Word is Mr. Friendly’s a bit of a sicko. Preys on women, young girls, kids.

The contract we have is simple. If I kill enough bad guys, he lets me live another day. And if I don’t, well, I’m sure I’ll be seeing him soon.

Be careful where you point that thing.

Either get lost or buy me a drink.

if player kills Johnny

So it turns out Johnny Friendly wasn’t such a bad guy after all. I should’ve known that bounty was too good to be true.
Funny thing is, some asshole killed him anyway. I should be sending him a “Thank You” card for all the karma he saved me.

Of course, who knows. Kid might’ve had a few skeletons. Everyone does. But in the end, it didn’t check out. Too many red flags.
Now, the guy who put up that bounty…him I might pay a visit.

end Ghost

NEED these for Credit Union GHOUL turns out you can get into the back door of the bank and access the hidden vault

Hey! How the hell did you get back there?

Was that you I saw in the back? Eh, doesn’t matter. Probably just as empty.

Was that you I saw in the back? I told you, this is my score!