The Atomic Wrangler Bar & Casino is a casino in Freeside, situated across the street from the Silver Rush on the pre-War Fremont Street.[1][2]
Background[]
The Atomic Wrangler, the only active casino in Freeside (featuring a neon sign of a futuristic cowboy riding a stylized atom), is also a flophouse, brothel, and source of chems, located just down the main drag. It is run by the Garret twins, protected by their thugs, and is a common hangout for the Van Graffs and the Kings. Many caravaneers and poor (but not impoverished) NCR folks can also be found here.[3]
Layout[]
Bottom level[]
The main room has a vaulted ceiling, a stage, and a bar. The room directly opposite the entrance features the casino's cashier and casino games. The cashier's room contains some pre-War money and chems in the safes. To the right are the bathrooms and a staircase to the second story balconies.
Behind the bar is a kitchen and storeroom, accessible via a door around the corner near the bathroom with a Very Hard lock. Both Francine Garret and James Garret have the key to the room, but it will eventually become unlocked as soon as one of the Garrets head upstairs to their room, as they neglect to relock it.
The storage room/kitchen area behind the bar contains a significant amount of common items of moderate value, such as various alcoholic beverages. The Courier can also find a large number of fresh apples, pears, and carrots (at least a half-dozen each), as well as a weapons locker and medicine locker, both containing many useful items.
Second level[]
This level has a balcony that oversees the stage and bar. Off of the balcony are four rooms. A rentable room is located in the eastern corner of the second floor. Stairways lead back down or up to the third level.
Corner room[]
On the second level, there is a door that leads to the corner room, which the player character gains access to once the Debt Collector quest has been completed.
Third level[]
This level is where the employees, including the Garret twins, live. In the employee living area, four guards can be found either milling around or sleeping. The door to this level is secured with an Average lock or opened with the key held by the Garrets. Guards here will not be hostile initially, instead following the Courier around, repeating a warning to leave. Rooms include a large bedroom the Garret twins take turns sleeping in, two general sleeping areas for employees (one containing 8 beds and one with 6 beds), two bathrooms and a storage room. Guard sleeping areas have footlockers with minor loot. The two bathrooms contain first aid boxes. The storage room, located to the right of the sleeping area, is filled with file cabinets, metal crates, and a gun cabinet.
Gambling[]
- Games
- The Atomic Wrangler offers Blackjack, Roulette, and Slots.
- The Atomic Wrangler pays 6:5 on blackjack, and the dealer must draw to 16.
- Rewards and Ban
As the player earns chips, the casino offers increasingly valuable gifts:
- 1,250+ chips: beer
- 2,500+ chips: whiskey and dapper gambler hat
- 3,750+ chips: absinthe, Rum & Nuka & dapper gambler suit
After the player character earns 5,000+ chips, they will be banned from playing games in the Atomic Wrangler Casino. They can still use its other functions, such as the bar and services of the prostitutes (if the Wang Dang Atomic Tango quest has been completed), but they cannot win any more money. This ban is permanent. If the player character breaks the house limit before getting any comp gifts (by getting a large win) they will not receive any comps they have missed. There is no floor manager at this casino, so the comp gifts are awarded directly to the player character upon reaching each winning milestone. Play is still interrupted by the player character being forced out of whichever game they were playing.
Inhabitants[]
- Atomic Wrangler cashier
- Atomic Wrangler guard
- Caleb McCaffery (upon first visiting the Atomic Wrangler Casino, afterward he'll become the final target during the Debt Collector sidequest and will relocate to the Strip)
- Francine Garret
- Hadrian (before Talent Pool, after Talent Pool, he will be located in The Aces in The Tops)
- Henry Jamison
- James Garret
After Wang Dang Atomic Tango quest:
Notable loot[]
- Nuka-Cola Victory - On the third level in the Garrets' room, on a shelf.
Related quests[]
Notes[]
- The casino's crier can be found outside on a nearby street corner, advertising the casino to the public.
- Despite Atomic Wrangler's reputation as a free-swinging brothel, dialogue options with Francine Garret that would suggest the same and sex-noises coming through the walls of most rooms, there seem to be no prostitutes in the casino beyond ones the player character recruits in the Wang Dang Atomic Tango quest. After finishing the quest, the Courier can have sex with either ghoul cowgirl Beatrix Russell, Santiago, Old Ben (depending on decisions during the quest), or the sex-bot Fisto.
- Like all the other casinos in the game, the amount of money kept in the cashier's office is small. Robbing the cashier nets at random a few dozen bundles of pre-War money and approximately 100 caps. The key is carried by both Garret twins.
- Exiting from dialogue with Fisto will give the Courier 10 bottle caps, which can be repeated ad infinitum.
- Being banned from the casino by gambling does not affect the progress of completing The Courier Who Broke the Bank.
Behind the scenes[]
- The logo of the Atomic Wrangler is a reference to a scene in the film Dr. Strangelove in which Major T. J. "King" Kong rides a falling nuclear bomb like a rodeo cowboy.
- Atomic Wrangler is a real world location, Atomic Liquors, located on Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas.
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