Passing the 100 Medicine check - Good Samaritan

The "Good Samaritan" quest from New Vegas Stories has a 100 Medicine check. Here's what it looks like when you pass it.
Somebody asked what happens when you pass this check. So I did it.

[@Kattlarv]

"I'm sick." -"Well: Knock it off." -"I'M CURED!"

[@vadnegru]

That should be the Speech check

[@glass4600]

@@vadnegruhigh luck, high medical, loooooooowww intelligence.

[@aetius7139]

The courier became Jesus there for a moment.😂😂

[@VioletSilence]

The definition of psychotherapy

[@Exozealots]

Courier: "I used heal on hands." *Throws a DnD dice on thr ground.* Marshall: Yo what are you touching me for?! *Gets Nat 20.*

[@reagansido5823]

Literally Jesus just laying your hand on him and curing him of his ailments.

[@jwoz8517]

Pretty awesome considering they were just a mail man a few weeks before. I've never seen this dude before though, or quest. I LOVE the fact im still learning about this game new stuff. I remember the exact day I got it, it was a friday, I was in 6th grade and my dad got it for me after a soccer game. Gods what I'd do to live that worry free life again, even for a day

[@reagansido5823]

@@jwoz8517 I think this is a mod. the description mentions "new vegas stories" which I assume is the mod.

[@mrviking2mcall212]

Yeah, I was expecting him to use like 10 radaways and some booze for good measure.

[@Davidofthelost]

Becoming the Messiah of the Wastes!

[@nathankeller9812]

I mean, the Courier did die and rise again.

[@monteygovnar7884]

I was half expecting him to just pop back to being a normal human again

[@jakehamilton4053]

Complete with the pop noise Mike uses whenever an NPC apparates from existence. 😂

[@dwarfboy9996]

At the very least see the radiation go away

[@williamfalls]

I would say that's farfetched if it wasn't for this game having several miracle drugs that do stuff like regrow severed tissue in a single injection, reverse the effects of radiation by popping some pills, and allow you to eat hundreds of pounds of food within a fraction of a second without any major drawbacks.

[@migueeeelet]

I assume he just needed help with his alcohol withdrawal

[@xhilom]

​@@dwarfboy9996not even that, he said he was shaking for some reason

[@noble_ace9470]

Only Ghouls can say the Z word

[@sski]

Sheeee*t, muh z- -e!

[@flugzeugtagerauenbeleuchtu468]

Russians can say it too

[@lightcompanion9696]

@@flugzeugtagerauenbeleuchtu468 Я - гуль

[@TheLastBeanCan]

Zombies

[@noble_ace9470]

@@TheLastBeanCan Aaaaaaand Canceled!

[@amtree6333]

If this dude could find the children of atom, he would be worshipped like a god

[@peaceanquiet4528]

Too bad they're a continent away.

[@TurncoatCharles]

​@@peaceanquiet4528 if Harold can make it, anyone can!

[@WW2EnjoyerButFalloutNV]

​@@TurncoatCharles Yep 😂

[@jaesjmes5498]

@@peaceanquiet4528you mean a state?

[@draconite1018]

​@jaesjmes5498 This is in Nevada, and the Children of Atom are in Washington DC. They're almost on complete opposite sides of North America. So, saying that they're a continent away is somewhat apt.

[@immortanjoe9362]

Doctor : What did you do? Oh, I just gave him some jet. He said he felt great and wandered aimlessly into the wasteland.

[@Mordecrox]

Now wish I could find that video where a guy rhetorically answers that unless you had a few dozen shots of Psycho, you won't convince them. Cue [PSYCHO 100] diplomacy check

[@DanteTorn]

Except jet doesn't really work on ghouls. It's kind of hidden but there's at least a couple places it's mentioned in the games.

[@27tryan]

​@@DanteTorn they need that preem ultrajet

[@misterturkturkle]

Ghastly Scavenger

[@The-Dark-Complex]

😂

[@TenSidedDice]

*Passes a medicine check that would be very hard to do and would take multiple levels of stat dumps* LEVEL UP Welcome to LEVEL 2

[@trickydiagram5267]

Worth it considering medicine is pretty strong.

[@evanderbradley5900]

@@trickydiagram5267 This is a mod right? Cause his voice acting really does just sound a little off.

[@_blood_moon_proto_1500]

@@evanderbradley5900 no, its pretty common in older more constrained games that have ambitious goals, pretty common now too, halo 4 and 5 had shit cutscenes because no motion actors, just va's and socially inept/dense animators who have no idea how people act and move when talking (and shit writing) and if i remember rightly crysis 1 had a few hicups in audio quality and audio recording mostly due to sacrifices made for maximum graphics showcasing (considering the game was a showcase of what cryengine can do in the right hands which accidentally turned into an amazing series, which afterwords they may have wrecked it, kinda hard to say since i don't really like games with launchers for the companies games)

[@evanderbradley5900]

@@_blood_moon_proto_1500 Yeah looked up the quest before and found it, still haven’t done everything in New Vegas it would seem. Understandable that it would be like this though considering obsidian’s tight deadlines to get the game out and all.

[@_blood_moon_proto_1500]

@@evanderbradley5900 true and fair, i've only ever beaten skyrim once, i still have not beaten 4 (the writing is shit and its more of an open world shooter than an rpg) i have yet to really get past meeting benny in new vegas and do not even get me started in fallout 3, it refuses to even launch for me

[@Hakasedess]

"he's constantly emitting radiation" Me, not hearing a singular tick out of my geiger counter, slowly coming to the realization the thing is broken and I've been eating rads for god knows how long: 🤢

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

doc: "You're constantly emitting rads and killing others due to your presence. please go away. Ghoul: "no." doc: "Okay, i can't stop you from murdering others." Also doc: "Did the player just punch the town brahmin? time to shoot him dead."

[@ryanjones_rheios]

I wonder what, canonically, was being done in the mod to cure alcoholism shakes in a second without medication, lol.

[@samward7539]

Essential radioactive oils

[@ryanjones_rheios]

@@samward7539 A drop of fixer in a gallon of water

[@ulysses11]

He payed for Joel Osteen to pray for him.

[@ryanjones_rheios]

@@ulysses11 Ah, so the Luciferian medical mysticisms. Truly advanced. =P

[@kobold7466]

100 medicine and you know the pressure points to erase addiction

[@Turnpike04]

Holy crap he's from fallout 2, maybe he suggests the chosen one overloaded Gecko's nuclear plant?

[@kobold7466]

p sure theres also just a lot of non feral glowing ones there that have turned glowing from just absorbing so many rads from the plant

[@damsen978]

This is a mod. Guesses don't take place for non-canon content.

[@StevenMeti]

@@damsen978 It may be a mod, but the mod author was still trying to make reference to a previous game, and that's interesting to see.

[@axonis2306]

Of course there is. Mods create their own canon.

[@som3random72]

No, I'm pretty sure this guy is just referencing Clark Field, an irradiated powerplant filled with geckos. It's the place you can get rocket fuel for Come Fly With Me.

[@bthsr7113]

It looks like her hair's been falling out from trying to be there for him.

[@aRandomFox00]

If your hair is falling out, your radiation sickness is already at lethal levels and no longer curable.

[@lordpumpkinhead265]

The Followers all have wild and interesting haircuts. Julie Farkas has a spiky mohawk. I doubt she's losing hair due to radiation.

[@davidlewis1418]

The undercut is *so* close to greatness, but it's ruined by that stupid strand of hair that is apart from the rest. It takes a radical hair cut and turns it into a rad hair cut.

[@bthsr7113]

@@davidlewis1418 That patchy part is why I think her hair is falling out. Because some of that look is very intentional looking, but no so with other parts.

[@donovanberserk4993]

Nah that’s just a typical girl boss haircut

[@Midwestemoisme]

“i dunno what you did smooth skin” yea we don’t either lmao

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

so this essentially translates to 'I dunno what you did cracka, but thanx'

[@CallMeMimi27]

What 100 medicine does to a mf

[@DarkAvengersBGCGuild]

100 Medicine at level 1. Truly a miracle of science.

[@JezuzRamirez94]

Thank God SOMEONE acknowledged that 😂😂

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

Well, it's the same way the mod author increased his 'writing' skill to 100.

[@Naoseilek]

So... with 100 medicine you can cure him by staring at him, that's good

[@kevinforget549]

You become Jesus at 100 medicine

[@adudewhoasked7123]

@@kevinforget549unfortunately you don’t get the water into wine perk.

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

This was the laziest modding i've ever seen. And i thought bethesda wrote bad quest endings. modder fits right into the team.

[@aova687]

HOLY SHIT! I voiced Marshall!

[@kpmh2001]

You did well! Doing the Ghoul voice in my Tabletop Campaign wrecks havoc on my throat, I can't imagine it was much better for you lol.

[@aova687]

@@kpmh2001 The trick is to vibrate the back of your tongue instead of your throat.

[@SkyChaser-]

You have an amazing ghoul voice!

[@aova687]

@@SkyChaser- Thanks, smoothskin ;D

[@danielpenalvapanighel7475]

What is the name of the mod, partner?

[@galaxy-eb9sp]

could also give him a radiation suit to wear, would contain the radiation he is emitting allowing him to be around other ppl

[@null_and_void__]

One of the ways to solve the quest is with a medicine check with Jude to basically say to give the patients rad suits or rad away

[@QuantumShock1]

@@null_and_void__ Seriously? Lol

[@landonletterman831]

Look up "The Demon Core" and remember that's what happens when you try to contain radiation..... it's called "super critical," for reason.....

[@onba7726]

He'd get extremely hot quick. The suit would melt, but not before he bursts into flames.

[@Graknorke]

​@@landonletterman831 He's not made of fissile material, you're not going to reach criticality by putting him in a radiation suit.

[@O-01-45]

A new vegas video where it doesn't end with it cutting to the brutal murder of the person being talked to? Unthinkable!

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

Kind of disappointing. Would actually have been a better ending. given that the ghoul obviously wants to die, given his drowning himself in alcohol. where does he even get the caps? radiating others to death and steal their stuff? passive-mugging?

[@TailsGaming1999]

I thought this too. So refreshing

[@classyrobot5648]

"Thank you, smoothskin!" "No problem, my Zomba"

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

Racial tensions, sweet.

[@JBrander]

@@Infotainment-cb6cy i know it's the post-apocalypse and there are raiders and bandits and you can't even get basic necessities anymore like clean water, but you will call me by my preferred pronouns or else.

[@Dragonwolf920]

In a universe where radaway, rad-x, and radiation suits are common, they couldnt find a solution to working around radiation.

[@kristoferhellmann6676]

Or they just wait for some weirdo coming around healing him by just looking at him. Save the radaway for the important people 😂

[@sampeters5589]

He's the only non feral glowing ghoul ever! Jason Bright: Am I a Joke to you?

[@ValenRei]

Yes.

[@danielgioiosa9845]

This guy is halfway to being a reaver.

[@roseandsword.]

Oswald the Outrageous too.

[@dylanmarquez3800]

Jason bright isn't a well known character in universe tho, being the leader of a group of ghouls trying too escape too space in an abandoned launch site

[@517342]

@@dylanmarquez3800 Wasn't the space thing just a misconception? I thought so too when I played but I thought they were just using the rockets to travel across the country. It even said so in one of the ending cards that some of them returned to help fight off some kind of menace.

[@zoneoperator1419]

"I cured and incurable ailment." "cool, thanks"

[@rvfharrier]

Tbf, he's still a glowing one. The ailment in question that needed to be and was cured was alcoholism. Bro basically dedicated hundreds of hours of reading medical magazines just to say "dude stop drinking so much".

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

It really feels this way. god the writing is below todd howard.

[@meydintorki]

I thought I missed a vanilla content after thousands of hours and I was gonna scream

[@-----Alcatraz------]

Props to the VA for Dr. Jude

[@dmar4194]

She sounds like a pro.

[@francismaguire3207]

Marshall’s VA ain’t half bad either

[@-----Alcatraz------]

​@@francismaguire3207 I don't like it. Maybe it's because of the microphone but it's kind of mid.

[@mpg272727]

Good voice acting? In a Fallout mod? Wow, guess it is indeed possible

[@lildaiki7629]

I do love how every fallout mod uses a ghoul because it's easier to voice act. But dr Jude is good too

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

Good voice acting? Good? You're calling this... good? ...also i think it's an AI.

[@jebalitabb8228]

@@Infotainment-cb6cyyou don’t seem to think very often

[@SpitefulToast]

​@Infotainment-cb6cy at worst it's fine. it's not professional grade work, but it's literally not a professional product.

[@Maxthekillbot]

Would be nice if the Ghoul guy had a better microphone, but Dr Jude's voice sounds incredible, I thought for a second that she was a real character and had to make sure it was a mod.

[@SuiteDevil7]

This mod makes me think about how a ghoul doctor could work. On the one hand there’s the literal peeling off flesh, but on the other hand there’s a resistance to radiation and disease which makes them perfect for handling contagious patients. Give one a good pair of gloves and they’re good to go really.

[@TheNemesis432]

Fallout 2 had ghoul doctor companion.

[@Negniwret]

Yeah, and 200 years of job experience. That guy has seen every ailment under the sun

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

It's hillariously stupid to realize that these beings without an epidermis which is the organ that protects our body from illness first and farmost, is immune to disease.

[@Azereiah]

local doctor just crams some radioactive waste in him, sends him on his way

[@d13x001]

you're talking about chemotherapy, right?

[@Ecliptor.]

@@d13x001 chemo isn't radioactive, that'd be ridiculous, you mean radiotherapy

[@imstupid880]

4:56 "Cool, because I don't know what I did either."

[@FaytVanguard]

I feel like this is just basically a placebo cure with a side of alcohol.

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

He got infected with joggin's disease. (Gosh, the run animation in this game is so bad, why coudn't he just walk away?)

[@admiralalyssa]

I appreciate mods keeping New Vegas fresh all these years later but at least try and think of a handwave to the solution. Bro really just had magic fingers at medicine 100.

[@Marxon1134]

Medicine 100 means. Knowing how to effectively apply placebo.

[@joshuabowen316]

straight up touched him with Jesus power

[@dritzdemon2243]

Your addiction is MINE!!! Removes hands and starts slamming whiskey while walking away

[@lordpumpkinhead265]

A true Courier heals other's addictions by taking them for himself. If you don't require at least fifteen different addictive substances in order to function, you're not playing New Vegas.

[@RoastedPheasant]

There REALLY needs to be a popup with some technobabble about what just happened.

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

"By putting your quantum harmonizer in his photonic resonation chamber you swiftly dispatch of the ghoul's illness." - This option is unavailable if you skipped the G.O.A.T. (No wait, wrong game)

[@andrewmeredith15]

Being a glowing one that can actually talk honestly would suck, you can't have any long term relationship with anyone else, and probably not even regular ghouls because they might see you as a risk to keep around, either for trading with regular humans or people might mistake you for a group of ferals, so he turned to alcohol, and seeing how ghouls can't get drunk on regular stuff he's probably drink some messed up stuff, it's honestly sad, but amazing story telling

[@LemarSullivan821]

patient: I am sick, doctor, help me doctor: stop being sick patient: omg, I am cured, thanks doc

[@booneshow1863]

Wait, we haven't even started treatment yet...

[@colinkamoda9502]

I thought this was vanilla content when Dr. Jude was talking. The voice acting is great.

[@ettoresalvatore9437]

All he did was look at him and he was cured.

[@GhostOfTommyFinton]

what a well written mod and not terrible at all.

[@themarlboromandalorian]

Thought there was something off about the sound design of that ghoul.

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

Thanks. I needed that thick spoon of sarcasm.

[@ssjbread2803]

>"this guy is emitting so much radiation that hes only been outside the clinic for a week and everyone inside is suffering from radiation sickness!" >looks inside ghoul >no radiation

[@JBrander]

post apocalyptic scenario but mercy on your soul for saying the 'z-word' because you risk offending ghouls. lol

[@acacacacacacaccaca7666]

It would be hilarious if by curing him you made him a feral ghoul again

[@lordnoobus7260]

"I think there were power plants, and... Geckos?" That's a reference to Fallout 2! Gecko is a ghoul town run by Harold built around a nuclear power plant. Looks like he was from there.

[@mr.mushroom4917]

Welcome to level 2

[@markusdead96]

Thank you, happy to be here

[@josephkwiatkowski2735]

People asking for the mod, it’s “New Vegas Stories”

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

No, it's "bad". Sorry but as an ex-modder i had to say this. i know i'm being unfair, having seen only a snippet.

[@DarknessFuchsia]

Thanks, I was wondering the name of the mod

[@everlastiny]

Bethesda level writing in new vegas feels so weird

[@Ecliptor.]

this is a mod pretty sure

[@polishscribe674]

Wait, this is a mod? The voice acting tricked me! Although it's not as impressive when you know I haven't played any Fallout yet.

[@cartridgetiltersofficial9311]

I immediately thought of Ed bassmaster when you chose that option. "OH WOULD YOU LOOK AT THAT, ALL I HAD TO DO WAS JUST LOOK AT IT"

[@reeferbrownie4220]

He just gave him a pat on the back and said "Walk it off"

[@jackmcmorrow9397]

EVEN FLOOOOW THOUGHTS ARRIVE LIKE BUTTERFLIES

[@abelstarence1555]

This whole quest is a deep cut reference of a quest from the cancelled Van Buren. Even down to the character names and actions.

[@michaellemmons4759]

>come across a suffering glowing one >need an actual medical genius to help him >luckily, I am a medical genius >help him "...and that's how I reached level 2."

[@Exobiologic]

I love the lil happy jump after completing the quest

[@ravelordnito8226]

With all the videos I've seen with dialogue checks I was honestly expecting you cutting to making Marshall to explode

[@Mordecrox]

Courier got the John Coffee perk Now time to breath radioactive cirrhosis on Caesar

[@D.reNDED]

Jude's voice is beautiful

[@coltizar7]

I like the little jump for joy at the end 🤣

[@Antraeon]

The only reason to max out medicine on a non-Legion run

[@nicholasmeador2874]

Leveling up at the end is the best part

[@SamLabbato]

jumping in victory is so relatable

[@TheBluemindedGod]

Wow! I didn't play New Vegas as much as 3, but I've also watched a lot of KZbin videos of interactions from both games. I've never seen this. Really cool!

[@Infotainment-cb6cy]

It's a mod.

[@Rez_97]

I like the happy victory jump at the end lol

[@Yurioh]

The level up bit got me good

[@goatedconfirmed1337]

Whats even more impressive is he just hit level 2 and already had 100 Medicine 😂

[@chaostails7]

Heartwarming

[@RareScrap]

This YAY-jumping after quest completion got me xD😆

[@oldtimer4791]

And it was all done with absolutely *zero* explanation. Yeah, that sounds about right.

[@sunnyd6519]

I see the courier went to a similar med school as Dallas from payday. Just aggressively tell someone to feel better, and they will!

[@vylbird8014]

Just give him a radiation suit. They work both ways.

[@JohnSmith-mc2zz]

They work?

[@ManuFortis]

Proceeds to level up to lvl 2. Ah. I see you took the scenic route too.

[@wojtekpolska1013]

they were dumb, instead of fixing him, which seemed to take barely any time, they refused to heal him, making him stay at the door for a whole week giving radiation poisoning to everyone who walked past. if they just cure him, even if it would take much longer than how quick it takes the player to heal, surely it would take less than a week.

[@NavarroRefugee]

14 years later and still seeing quests in this game that I missed lol.

[@advente_]

This is a fan expansion, you can tell by the awful voice acting

[@Chloethepomsky]

Crazy the amount of stuff in these games im a new Vegas veteran I never knew you could do this

[@surprisesnek8514]

It's a mod.

[@mayhudson]

the doctors VA made me question a lot of this was a real quest

[@Jottagelado]

That was an incredible disappointment 😂

[@ps3tony1]

Completing that quest made the player level up to level two...

[@SlZIJI]

Very nice line delivery by the va playing Jude

[@madmarduk1936]

Dude jumped up and ran off like Usain Bolt. You tell the doctor you cured the glowing ghoul and she is just like “cool” and doesn’t even ask how you did it lol.

[@edwetodd7654]

It was the staring that cured him in the end. Ungrateful alcoholic.

[@parkourguyyy]

reminds me of the "Look at this" guy when he said let me look at you lol. cant not read it in his voice

[@Hwoarang300]

I platinum the game back in 2017s and explore every nook and cranny in the mojave wasteland but never encounter this. 😮

[@JohnFWitt]

Dr. Jude - “she’s a saint” - trying to help a ghoul who can’t be helped. St Jude is the patron saint of lost causes

[@freaktv1069]

Ive played New Vegas dozens of times and ive never seen this before.

[@jeffisaperson4471]

Huh, I've never encountered him. Neat to see a callback to Fallout 2 like that. For anyone who doesn't knoe, Gecko is a town near Vault City, populated by guouls who operate a nuclear reactor. It was run by Harold, from Fallout 3.

[@CalebJones1]

10/10 jump at the end

[@Hypnos10001]

Bro pushed to start on his liver… 😅

[@kalebvaitkevicius8494]

The stare of medicine GOD saves another ghoul

[@noelrattigan6495]

How did i never see this mornin

[@rw0dyxer012]

"We can't have him go near people. They suffer from radiation sickness." The Courier who has been eating radiated food for God knows how long: "What is that? Some sort of food?"

[@datastorm75]

But...what did you DO?!

[@calzone.mp3]

Fallout 4 tier dialogue, just in case you wanted to mod it into New Vegas.

[@TheSaival]

Just as Todd intended.

[@Salamandro54]

Me about to say marshall he's not the only non feral glowing one

[@cl86241]

He looks more like a reaver than a glowing one. Also Jason Bright is a non-feral glowing one, so Marshall is a little less unique :P

[@damsen978]

What a dumb quest. Or at least the Medical check. There's no explanation to what the Courier did to him.

[@antivirusfrisk]

you should put those skill points into medicine

[@Angelo87653]

It required a cavity search

[@blightedthicket5797]

A radioactive boozer? As if a regular one wasn't already a detriment to your health.

[@Fapaljack]

Yo this is a MOD?! I thought this was original content i somehow missed, good enough i couldnt tell it was fan made

[@synchacker25]

Chicken choker 9000 cured him right up

[@conman0723]

Bro is seriously level 1