Philippe’s new dialogue options are done. I wanted to have a demonstration of what I can do when it comes to quest design. So here’s what I made (this has some minor spoilers for a 10 year old game):
Philippe is the head chef of the Ultra Luxe hotel and casino. You meet him if you do the good karma version of the quest, “Beyond the Beef”. He is an evil, arrogant, and foul mouthed man.
The vanilla ways to deal with him are to use medicine or barter to get his recipes and cause him to leave, use speech to convince him to run into the pantry (you then lock him inside optionally you could pickpocket the recipes before doing this), sneak past once you got Ted Gunderson in your party, or just kill him and take the recipes.
I added two new main branches of dialogue for him. One is a method of getting recipes, and the other is a way to make a non lethal approach to getting him out of there easier.
First the recipes. First option towards getting the recipes is you trying to butter him up, saying you love his cooking, but first you need to convince him of that. In order to do so, you need to either be obese or morbidly obese (he’ll still be a prick, I tried my best to emulate his vanilla dialogue). If you aren’t, he won’t give you the time of day, but he does give a hint (as if it wasn’t obvious) to gain weight in his rejection dialogues. I made two rejection dialogues, one for normal-well fed and another for chubby-fat.
If you meet the weight level requirement, you can ask for the recipes for Brahmin Wellington, and for the recipe that’s helpful for getting the best outcome to Beyond the Beef. To get the Brahmin Wellington recipe, you need a speech of 40. To get the quest recipe, you need to know about what’s going on (from the meeting with Chauncey earlier in the quest) and either a speech of 45 or The Cannibal Perk.
The elimination method is based around the pantry. Go into the pantry and you will be given a message box with two options. Either try eating things in the pantry or walk away. There are two versions of eating in the pantry based on whether or not you have the Big Appetite trait. If you don’t have it, you only eat some of the pantry (gain +10 weight points). If you do have the trait, you eat everything (+30 weight points).
Once you’ve tried eating in the pantry, another option will appear for Philippe. The option allows you to tell him that you ate everything in the pantry. If you didn’t have the trait (and thus, this would be a lie since you didn’t eat everything), you need 30 speech and need to be obese or morbidly obese for him to check (there is dialogue for failing the check and just being too thin). If you had the trait, your weight level doesn’t matter for the outcome (though there is different dialouge depending on your weight). If you convince him, he will run into the pantry like if you passed the vanilla 55 speech check. Then you just lock him in like vanilla.
If what I’ve said is confusing, here is what you need to do to see what I did once I upload the demo:
-Talk to him while well fed or normal for rejection dialogue 1
-Talk to him while chubby or fat for rejection dialogue 2
-Be obese or morbidly obese to bring up the recipe dialogue
-have speech of 40 for the brahmin wellington recipe
-meet Chauncey during the good path of Beyond the Beef and have speech 45/Cannibal perk for the imitation recipe
-Go into the pantry yourself to unlock the elimination method
-the method requires you to have the trait, or be at least obese and 30 speech.