Talent Pool

Talent Pool is a side quest in Fallout: New Vegas.

Synopsis
The Tops is looking for some fresh talent to showcase at The Aces.

Walkthrough

 * 1) Talk to Tommy Torini about his lack of performers.
 * 2) Recruit our new performers
 * 3) Billy Knight is found just outside The Tops Casino and can simply be offered one of Tommy Torini's business cards.
 * 4) Hadrian can be found at the Atomic Wrangler and hired after James Garret is convinced to break his contract. A Speech or Barter check of 50 will get Hadrian out of his contract; otherwise Garret has to be payed 150 caps to make it worth his while (100 caps with a Barter of 35). Terrifying Presence can also be used to intimidate James into breaking the contract.
 * 5) The Lonesome Drifter is found east of El Dorado Dry Lake in front of a Sunset Sarsaparilla billboard. Simply giving him Torini's business card will get him to check out The Tops.
 * 6) Bruce Isaac is found a second-floor room in the Dino Dee-lite in Novac. Offer him Torini's business card.
 * 7) Return to Tommy Torini.

Behind the scenes

 * Travis Stout designed Talent Pool.


 * At one point, the player would have actually had to deal with a Bounty Hunter hired by Mr. Bishop that was looking for Bruce Isaac. The only mention to this event is in the script for Talent Pool,, that has a variable named and a comment that reads, "Set to 1 after the player has encountered the bounty hunter on Bruce's trail." This was either cut due to time or deliberately cut to narrow the focus of the quest.

Bugs

 * After recruiting Isaac, going back to New Vegas may cause the Strip North Gate to become locked. Killing one of the Securitron guards and looting its key will allow re-entrance.
 * After recruiting any of the performers and talking to Tommy Torini, the game will constantly freeze or crash. Reloading earlier save fixes this.
 * Occasionally, after recruiting The Lonesome Drifter, the quest will glitch and either allow you to proceed to talk to Tommy Torini prematurely or only require you to recruit one more entertainer.
 * If you get Bruce Isaac he will never move from the stage and cause all the other acts to end.
 * After telling Hadrian you will try and get him out of his contract talk to James Garrett and offer to pay for him, pass a barter check of 35 to reduce the amount for him and then tell him you'll pay later, this barter check never goes away. Keep doing the check and then say you'll pay later.
 * Sometimes Billy Knight won't have any conversation options for recruiting him, and you will be unable to complete the quest.