Dog and God

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	Dead Money character Dog/God
	Biography and appearance Race Mariposa super mutant (Nightkin) Affiliation The Master (formerly) Father Elijah Nightkin Role Elijah's slave Companion Location Sierra Madre Dialogue File Dog and God's dialogue Gameplay Quests Find Collar 8: "Dog" Fires in the Sky Put the Beast Down Statistics Alignment Neutral SPECIAL Dog: Strength: 10 Perception: 3 Endurance: 8 Charisma: 5 Intelligence: 3 Agility: 10 Luck: 6 God: Strength: 5 Perception: 5 Endurance: 5 Charisma: 5 Intelligence: 5 Agility: 5 Luck: 5 Derived Stats Dog: Health: 175 → 1225(note) (max 1750) Fatigue: 250 God: Health: 50 → 1750 (no max) Fatigue: 50 Perks Dog: Nightkin Toughness (30% Damage Resistance) God: Health Regeneration (5%) Level Dog: 5 → 35(note) (max 50) God: 1 → 35 (no max) Technical Base ID xx001301 (Dog) xx00e413 (God) Ref ID xx001306 Actor Dave B. Mitchell Designer Chris Avellone

 

“

Where is Master? Did he go away? Dog will be good this time.

”— Dog

“

No... no, the world's always got another cage, waiting, keeping everything you want... just out of reach.

”— God

Dog is a psychologically disturbed nightkin who helps Father Elijah by capturing "assistants" for him and fitting them with explosive collars. His alternate personality, God (referred to by the former as simply "the voice"), is trying to break Dog free of Elijah's grasp.

The "Dog" personality is activated by the sound of Father Elijah's voice, and the "God" personality is activated by the sound of his own voice (via holotape or radio). When one personality is dominant, the other is said to be in "the cage" or "the basement".

Background

Prologue

The origins of Dog/God (let alone his actual name) prior to Unity are unknown. What is known is that he was a member of the Master's elite Nightkin. Like the rest of the mutant army he was psychically linked to the Master and conditioned to slavishly serve him until death. Its several dominant personalities controlling his every action. With the destruction of the Mariposa Military Base, then the Cathedral, and the subsequent loss of connection to the commanders his grip on reality broke and the two personalities would emerge.

The one personality is Dog. The slavish, childlike character of pure instinct. Built from the conditioning the Master bred its army with. The other God, the subconscious voice of reason. As the years went by the Dog personality would constantly get into trouble. Wandering, eating, and listening to those he shouldn't. His ravenous hunger can only be described as gluttonous. Once he started to feed, anyone and anything that Dog hunted would be crushed, mangled and twisted until he is satiated. An act of uncontrolled greed. He knew that he was doing wrong but simply could't help himself. Eventually the voice of reason couldn't stand the constant self imperilment, nor the cannibalism, and began to emerge to counter Dog. Dog in response began self mutilation. Eventually going so far as to carve the name Elijah gave him on his chest to remind himself who he is. The pain serving to stifle the "other voice." However as time passed the other voice became stronger and stronger, consequently it took more and more pain to stifle the God personality.

Dog's hunger would always drive him to the surface when the hunger was satiated and/or fatigue set in God would emerge. While Dog is unaware that the God personality is actually a part of him, he refers to the personality as climbing into his head and constantly being mean to him. Misinterpreting God's attempt at protecting him from harm by locking Dog in places. Despite this God continues to try to protect Dog, seeing him as his younger sibling. Both personalities would grow to resent the suppression of the other being in control. Each referring to the other putting them in the cage, or the basement. While in the cage each personality would only perceive glimpses of the others actions. This has had the effect of allowing the personalities to keep secrets from each other. This however is both a "gift" and a curse, for while it helps keep strategic ignorance it only exacerbates the animosity between the two.

Although God likes to think that he was the original personality he is completely unsure. For while he is in control he both refers to the body as a "shell" and that it is hard to fight in. Perhaps a consequence of God being the culmination of the self preservation and reasoning instincts. Calm, articulate, and controlling God seeks to eliminate Elijah to free himself from the need for a master and to eliminate his greedy ravenous hunger. In contrast Dog seeks to eliminate the God personality so that he may become pure instinct, and gorge on his master's affection and to his contentment on food. As such God has developed a furvored hatred for greed, one that neither could hide the bloodlust. Whether it's Elijah's, Dean Domino's, or the Courier's.

Act I – The Master Elijah

As this internal struggle was festering the Dog personality discovered the Sierra Madre broadcast over the radio. Believing it to be another voice – believing in all voices over the radio, one that promised to "Begin Again" in a calming, reassuring, and soothing voice he followed. It was at the time Dog found the Madre that he and the God truly began to wrestle for control, and the furthest point in the Dog personality's clear memory.

It was in this state that he encountered Elijah. A mad, rambling wreck blinded and embittered by failure, age, arrogance, and his own greed. Seeing the relatively docile mutant more like a mule that needs training to be his beast of burden. In his contempt for his kind Elijah wrote off the absolute obedience to this new domineering personality as just a side effect of the FEV. Dismissing the creature, his knowledge of the FEV, and ignoring the danger with his sense of superiority.

When Dog/God was first commanded by Elijah the conditioning by the Master kicked in. Revering Elijah as "the Master" he embraced him without question. In his arrogance Elijah named this creature "Dog," his new beast of burden to train as his tool. The reason personality however saw Elijah as a truly menacing threat and hid away. Taking advantage of said arrogance, and possible ignorance of him being a nightkin, to wait for the right time to wrestle control from both parties.

With Elijah unable to unlock the secrets of the casino's vault alone, he used his explosive collars to press captives into his service. Setting multiple man-traps at multiple locations in and around the Sierra Madre to capture fortune seekers, using the broadcast as bait. However the process was trial and error, as the multiple teams succumb to their Human nature as soon as they became close to the treasure. Inevitably turning on one another, believing that they all could take it for themselves. One team managed to trigger the Gala Event for the second time, getting Elijah into the heart of the casino. In the process Dog, at his post at the switching station cage, was frightened by the loud noises and bright lights. Because of this he accidentally tore apart the woman that helped him. The trauma and remorse causing Dog to try and suppress the memory. However as soon as Elijah made his way inside the casino sealed up, trapping him inside. Alone. With the casino's construction preventing him from contacting and controlling what was left of his team. Subsequently the collars unhooked, allowing an opportunity to escape. This is when Dog took control, with the collar off his hunger took control. He proceeded to hunt down any food and gorge himself. Ghost people and his former team alike. When he caught one of the latter he tore through the flesh with such voraciousness that he consumed the segmented collar around their neck. God later commenting how it looked like metallic radscorpions... attached to warm, red, neck flesh.

Interactions with the player character

Interactions overview

	This character is a temporary party member.
	This character is involved in quests.	Find Collar 8: "Dog" Fires in the Sky Put the Beast Down

Quests

• Find Collar 8: "Dog": The Courier has to travel to the Villa Police Station and recruit Dog.
• Fires in the Sky: The Courier has to escort Dog or God to Salida del Sol South to Trigger the Gala Event and hunt down some ghost people for Dog or God to eat.
• Put the Beast Down: The Courier must confront Dog or God in the Sierra Madre Casino.

Other interactions

• After recruiting Dog and watching him kill and consume one of the ghost people, the Courier can talk to Dog and, after going through a few speech options, Dog will give the Courier the Ghost Hunter perk.
• When Dog is dominant, he will eat any ghost people he kills, preventing them from reawakening. When God is dominant, it provides a bonus to stealth, as well as giving the Courier the ability to avoid traps.
• He has unique idle dialogue for locations around the Sierra Madre;

Dog and God's comments
Location and personality	Comment
God—Villa clinic, the makeshift mortuary	It looks like someone was experimenting... although they were doing so after the collars went off.
Dog—Villa clinic, the makeshift mortuary	People missing heads... make mistake coming here. Make Dog hungry.
God–The Sierra Madre vending machine in the Villa	Those machines feed on Sierra Madre Chips. There's codes that unlock other things, too.
Dog–The Sierra Madre vending machine in the Villa	Pretty circle on machine, all glowing.

Endings

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#	Slide	Voice-over narration	In-game condition
1		When Dog fell in the Sierra Madre casino, two died as one. Dog died hungry, alone, frightened. The voice in his head died with him. Screaming. Furious. Enraged. But the voice was gone, and Dog was grateful. At least Dog was dead and the voice needed to watch over him no more. In the moment before their lives ended, the wall between the two personalities fell. The two became silent as they saw the chain between them. Hunger and control are twin greeds, something Dog and his shadow had never realized.	Dog dead.
2		Dog forgot himself, as did the voice that raged within him. After their passing, a new voice spoke within the mutant's shell. It was difficult for the voice to remember the two it once was... there was the beast, Dog consumed by hunger... ...and the other in reverse... the one consumed by control. Both were driven by need for the other. The Courier brought them together, somehow, joined the two into one. All that happened at the Sierra Madre, was a faint memory to the new personality... like a flickering light in the clouds of the mind. The new voice did not think of the Courier again until the battle at the Divide reached his ears. The battle between the two couriers, beneath the torn skies and the Old World flag... each bearing a message for the other. And the mutant prayed the Courier that had saved him... had been saved in return.	Dog alive, God alive.
3		Dog, free of the voice inside his head and no longer waiting on the voice of the Master, wandered back West. His hunger never ended. Often, small communities would suddenly vanish. They were assumed to have been hit by Wasteland creatures and dragged away... dogs, brahmin, and humans alike.	Only Dog alive.
4		Freed of both Dog and the one who held Dog's leash, the other voice resumed control. First the mind, then finally, the mutant's shell. His first act was to tend to the scars on the body with careful hands, slowly healing all the scars except the ragged name torn on his chest. He briefly thought of remaining at the Sierra Madre. But it was a monument built by humans, representing something he no longer needed. He began walking west, in search of others like him. As he did, he spoke of the courier who had set him free and allowed his life to begin again.	Only God alive.

Inventory

	Apparel	-
	Weapon	-
	Carried items	-
	Drops on death	empty

Much like Lily Bowen, Dog and God are limited in the weapons they can use. These weapons are:

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• Annabelle
• Assault carbine
• Assault carbine (GRA) Gun Runners' Arsenal
• Baseball bat (GRA) Gun Runners' Arsenal
• Bumper sword
• CZ57 Avenger
• Frag grenade
• Gatling laser
• Grenade machinegun
• Heavy incinerator
• Hunting rifle
• Incinerator
• Light machine gun
• Lily's assault carbine
• Lily's gauntlet
• Lily's Vertibird blade
• Nail board
• Nuka Breaker (GRA) Gun Runners' Arsenal
• Mean super sledge
• Mercy
• Minigun
• Missile launcher
• Oh, Baby!
• Paciencia Gun Runners' Arsenal
• Plasma grenade
• Rebar club
• Sledgehammer
• Sprtel-Wood 9700 Gun Runners' Arsenal
• Super sledge

The only weapons within the Sierra Madre or the Villa that Dog and God can use, however, are the few scattered frag grenades, and the single sledgehammer within the service route.

Notes

• Dog is set to level as the player does, and will reach a maximum level of 45 depending on the order in which each add-on is completed (Dead Money being completed last/close to last). God also levels with the player, but has no maximum allowed level, and also has no minimum level either. Because of this, Dog has an extremely high amount of hit points at very high levels, more than any other enemy in the game other than the legendary bloatfly or X-42 giant robo-scorpion. This, combined with his innate 30% DR, can make him a very powerful opponent if the player is forced to fight him towards the end of Dead Money.
• God is actually larger than Dog, set to a scale of 1, whereas Dog is set to a scale of 0.9. Like Lily Bowen, Dog and God are noticeably shorter than a normal super mutant, although they still stand a head taller than a normal human.
• Dog and God have different combat-related personal perks. Dog has the typical nightkin's 30% damage resistance, while God's health regenerates over time.
• Dog knows the exact sweet spot to hit in order to kill the ghost people, and can give the player the Ghost Hunter perk.
• He will occasionally refer to the Mariposa Military Base and the Cathedral in idle dialogue, stating that he misses the base and the church.
• If the player has the Cannibal perk, he can be asked what the ghost people taste like. God will say that they "taste like copper".
• Dog/God has a unique face, a unique body appearance and a unique voice compared to other nightkin.
• God will engage Dean Domino in conversation while they are both dismissed to the Villa fountain by the Courier. He is apparently familiar with Dean and expresses contempt for the ghoul for not leaving the Sierra Madre when he had the opportunity.

	The following is based on ​the Wild Wasteland trait and has not been confirmed by canon sources.

• If the player has the Wild Wasteland trait, Dog will say "OM NOM NOM" the first time he eats a ghost person.

	End of information based on ​the Wild Wasteland trait.

	The following is based on Fallout New Vegas cut content and has not been confirmed by canon sources.

• Within the game files exists a unused character named Dog Script Test Dude. It is a generic super mutant used to test some scripts related to Dog/God.

	End of information based on Fallout New Vegas cut content.

Notable quotes

• "I'll prop your broken body in view of the Sierra Madre so you can see what you came to steal... forever out of reach as you die." (God)
• "With our collars and manacles, why, we may as well be kin." (God)
• "That Pip-Boy... maybe I'll tear it off your arm, wear it on my neck." (God)
• "{Irritated}Wish I had a Stealth Boy instead of this bear trap." (God)
• "You look like food, smell like food, Dog - hungry." (Dog)
• "Don't like this place. Want to go back, {quieter}back to the base. {Beat, quiet}Or the Church, miss the Church." (Dog)
• "No... no, the world's always got another cage, waiting, keeping everything you want... just out of reach." (God)

Appearances

Dog and God appear only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on, Dead Money.

Behind the scenes

• Dog and God's reference art often revolved around Mr. Hyde from Alan Moore's League of Extraordinary Gentleman comic.

Bugs

• PlayStation 3 Xbox 360 Sometimes, when clearing out Salida del Sol north with Dog/God, he will fall through the floor and be suspended underneath it.
• PCDog/God is prone to getting stuck in walls around the villa and may be unable to follow the player in the same cell.
• Xbox 360 Sometimes God/Dog may be unable to heal when administered stimpaks or after combat.
• Xbox 360 Sometimes when giving the wait command to God/Dog, he will attack the first ghost person he can find and then wait.
• Xbox 360 There is an exploitable bug, where you can obtain God's perk, without him being a companion, by having God as a companion, using Elijah's voice to bring out Dog, and dismissing Dog. This is only temporary, as soon as the player dismisses him at his post for Fires in the Sky, the Courier will lose the perk.

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References

Dead Money Quests Sierra Madre Grand Opening! · Find Collar 12: Christine · Find Collar 14: Dean Domino · Find Collar 8: "Dog" · Fires in the Sky · Mixed Signals · Strike Up the Band · Trigger the Gala Event · Curtain Call at the Tampico · Last Luxuries · Put the Beast Down · Heist of the Centuries · Big Winner, Sierra Madre Achievements and trophies Assemble Your Crew · Having a Ball · Cash Out · Safety Deposit Box · Sierra Souvenir Aficionado Locations The Villa Medical district (Villa clinic) · Puesta del Sol (Puesta del Sol switching station · Ruined building · Ruined cafe · Ruined store · Service route) · Residential district · Salida del Sol (Campanas del Sol · Salida del Sol courtyard) · Villa (Villa police station) Sierra Madre Casino Sierra Madre Resort & Casino (Cantina Madrid · Executive suites · Sierra Madre casino · Sierra Madre lobby · Sierra Madre vault · The Tampico) Items Weapons Automatic rifle · Bear trap fist · Cosmic knife (Clean · Super-heated) · Demolition charge · Gas bomb · Holorifle · Knife spear (Clean) · Police pistol · Throwing knife spear Armor and clothing Assassin suit · Dead Money jumpsuit · Dean's tuxedo · Father Elijah's robes · Sierra Madre armor · Sierra Madre armor, reinforced · Vera's outfit Consumables Cloud Kiss (weak), (potent), (lethal) · Ghost people flesh · Ghost Sight · Pre-War steak · Sierra Madre martini Miscellaneous items Auto. rifle upgr. internals · Bear trap fist HD springs · Embalming fluid · Gold bar · Holorifle focus optics · Holorifle adv. calibration · Holorifle reinf. components · Jar of Cloud residue · Sierra Madre chip · Sierra Madre snowglobe · Sierra Madre vending machine Holodisks and notes Casino security passcode · Dean Domino's "Saw Her Yesterday" song · Dean Domino's blackmail evidence · Dog command tape · Elijah's holomessage · Ennis's noteCut content · Extracted holotape · Journal (ruined store) · Journal (Salida switching station) · Message from Elijah: Gala eventCut content · Prisoner commands · Recipe: Super-Heated Knife! · Remote maintenance terminal password · See you in hell asshole · Shipment invoiceCut content · Spliced holotape · Stained note · Stained page · Tampico's front desk terminal password · Tampico's stage manager passcodeCut content · Torn journal · Toxic samples · Vault security protocols · Vault turret terminal password · Vending machine code · Vera Keyes' "Begin Again" song · Vera Keyes' "Go to the Faraway" song · Vera Keyes' "Let the Bright Tomorrow in" song · Vera Keyes' "Let the Bright Tomorrow in" song (cut)Cut content · Vera Keyes' "Let the Bright Tomorrow in" song (cut) · Vera Keyes' audition · Vera Keyes' medical report · Vera's partitures · Worker's note Characters In-game Christine Royce · Dean Domino · Dog and God · Elijah  · Vera Keyes  · Frederick Sinclair Mentioned-only Ali-Din · Joey Baxter · Mike Berlyn · Bill · Chief of Villa police · William Ennis · Foreman · Joshua Graham · Martin T. Harris · Kevin · John K. Lester · Andrew Levine · Lieutenant · Madame Lolita · Lou Martin · Maxis · Tyler Morris · Vince Natali · Danny Parker · Millicent Purvis · Rubin · Evelyn A. Sainz · Sheila · Konrad Simmons · Ulysses · Shane Velloric · Harry Wilfred · White Arrow Heart Dude Cut content · Mr. Yesterday Creatures Ghost people (Harvester, Seeker, Trapper) · Holograms Perks And Stay Back · Coin Operator · Elijah's Last Words · Elijah's Ramblings · Ghost Hunter · Heavyweight · Hobbler · In My Footsteps · In Shining Armor · Junk Rounds · Light Touch · Old World Gourmet · Ravenous Hunger · Sierra Madre Martini · Signal Interference · Unclean Living Cutscenes Dead Money trailer · Dead Money intro · Dead Money endings Italics denote unmarked and/or interior locations.

Companions in Fallout: New Vegas New Vegas Arcade Gannon · Cut content Betsy the Brahmin · Craig Boone · ED-E · Lily Bowen · Rose of Sharon Cassidy · Raul Tejada · Rex · Veronica Santangelo · Cut content Ulysses Dead Money Dog and God · Christine · Dean Domino Honest Hearts Follows-Chalk · Waking Cloud · Joshua Graham Old World Blues Roxie Lonesome Road ED-E (Lonesome Road) · Ulysses

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