Pariah Dog?

danferry · Post by **danferry** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 7:03 am

Whats the deal with this? He had 750 hps, but only got 20 xp for killing him!

Rat Keeng · Post by **Rat Keeng** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 7:25 am

It's just a bad luck encounter. If you pick the dog up and let him tag along, you'll get critical failures all the time. Pretty annoying.

Red · Post by **Red** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 8:46 am

Actually, meeting him has nothing to do with luck.

I've spend over 2-3 hours looking for him with 2 (and 4) luck to no avail. I'd only encounter "good" encounters (bridge, portal, and most commonly the Cafe of Broken dreams). When I posted this someone posted he got the parraiah dog with 8luck. So it's just not related.

Rat Keeng · Post by **Rat Keeng** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 9:00 am

I know, we discussed this over on the BIS boards once, and i've gotten the Pariah dog with 8 luck before. I should have said an encounter that gives you bad luck, that's what i meant.

DansingMungki · Post by **DansingMungki** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 8:54 pm

I had 3 luck when I got him.

He gives you bad luck, knocks it down to 1 and gives you the jinxed perk. I wouldnt mind the bad luck and the jinxed if he actually fought as he has a rediculous amount of HP but he just runs off.
Took me ages to kill especially as I punched him to death as I didnt want to waste ammo on him.

Blarg · Post by **Blarg** » Wed Jun 19, 2002 11:15 pm

I've never tried it, but I have read that you can lure him into the organ extraction room in the Sierra Army Depot, lock him in, and yank his brain.

Red · Post by **Red** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 12:02 am

Course you can, however 2 warnings. First, every time you do this, you lose 100 karma. Second, the parraih dog has something along 45% damage resistance, so when you take him to the place to have him killed, instead of getting 1000 damage and dying, he only gets 650. And a brain. Do it again and get another brain! yey! course that 200 karma loss is rather big. You can heal him (wait for him to heal) and get as many brains as you want...

Blarg · Post by **Blarg** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 3:30 am

That reminds me... If Karma measures rep, how do you lose or gain it if there are no living witnesses besides yourself?

How low could you drop your Karma with this procedure? Imagine having a reputation so bad that even slavers think you suck.

As many brains as I want? Imagine this as an exploit if something/someone in the game ate brains and gave you stuff in return.

BigJack · Post by **BigJack** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 5:26 am

And what can we do to the brain?

Kashluk · Post by **Kashluk** » Thu Jun 20, 2002 7:53 pm

Karma = the meter of your acts and deeds, noble or evil.

Reputation = the meter of how others think about you.

Radoteur · Post by **Radoteur** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 5:10 am

I'll admit i've not played Fallout 2.

Is this dog biological or a robot?
I think that a robot brain would be good for something, like that one Skynet NPC. Of course, i'm probably wrong.

Rat Keeng · Post by **Rat Keeng** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 5:34 am

It's a "normal" dog, like any other dog in the game. There's no robotish about it.

Radoteur · Post by **Radoteur** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 5:56 am

What is good about a normal dog's brain?
Can you chop it up and sell it as an iguana stick?

Red · Post by **Red** » Fri Jun 21, 2002 6:27 am

Well, if you extracted the chimpanzee or abnormal brain from the brain storage, you can use that brain instead of better caliber to bring SkyNet forth...

Sykotik · Post by **Sykotik** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 3:27 am

If I remember correctly SkyNet used to go wonky and explode.

danferry · Post by **danferry** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 3:14 pm

Sykotik wrote:If I remember correctly SkyNet used to go wonky and explode.

No that was either a computer malfunction that destroyed the brain, or it was the robot that retrieved the brain that explodes.

Sykotik · Post by **Sykotik** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 3:16 pm

Yes you're right. Apologies for being a dumbass

danferry · Post by **danferry** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 3:19 pm

You are not a dumb ass, just got some info confused. I do it way to often for my own good. That is why I try to control myself when it comes to posts.

Sykotik · Post by **Sykotik** » Sat Jun 22, 2002 3:24 pm

Awww.... fank yoo mishtah...

> buddies right up to danferry <