Masters of the Madre -- Player-Elijah Alliance and Cloud Ending Continue

Peoples Choice for Mod of the Month (June 2021)



For those who aren’t aware, there is an obscure alternate ending available for Dead Money where the player can choose to join Elijah to harness the holograms, the vending machines and the Cloud to eradicate the NCR and take over the Mojave and its trove of Old World technological treasures.

A wonderfully imaginative ending slideshow then plays, detailing the aftermath of your atrocities together years later. Unfortunately, in the vanilla game, you are forced to reload a previous save and choose a more traditional ending in order to complete the expansion. Which has always made this more of a curiosity than a viable choice with consequences. A homage to joining the Master in original Fallout. Still, at least we got that much considering the villainous ending that was cut from Old World Blues altogether, where you could choose to ally with the Think Tank and let them run amok in the Mojave.

I always wished that it was fleshed out just a little bit more by the developers, perhaps in the way that Lonesome Road gives you the choice to launch nuclear missiles at both the Legion and NCR and then adds two new areas to explore just a taste of the implied devastation this causes.

This mod is my attempt to expand on that ending. The changes I made are intended to not interfere with playing through the expansion normally. So you can still have this enabled in your load order even if you choose a more conventional ending and no vanilla scripts or quests will be broken as a result. There's also cut content that I restored or repurposed and expanded on as well.

Certain conditions must be met in order for this ending to become available. You must be vilified by the NCR and you must have exhausted all of Veronica's dialogue options concerning Elijah (you can enter NVDLC01Followers.bVeronicaDiscussedElijah into the console to check if this value is 1 or 0). Upon being contacted by the old man inside the Vault, you must tell him that you have questions before going any further and reveal that you know who he is--Veronica's mentor and the Brotherhood Elder who lost HELIOS One--which starts a conversation that will offer you the choice to join his quest to destroy the NCR.

After that, you may step outside and explore your dark new world.

As further fruit yielded by this dark alliance, an arsenal of devious new weaponry becomes available to the player.

Toxic Cloud explosives which can, whether thrown from the hand in gas canisters, launched from a 25mm or 40mm barrel or the diabolically destructive Toxic Cloud Missile,