Button Gwinnett
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Button Gwinnett is a Protectron robot in Fallout 3 who, due to a memory malfunction, believes himself to be the real Button Gwinnett, second of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence, and has locked down the basement section of the National Archives.
Built for the purpose of impersonating Gwinnett in the museum's reenactment gig, he is one of the three robots to have remained intact. The other two are a Thomas Jefferson bot and a backup bot, both to be found in pods in the room with the elevator. Button Gwinnett has total control over all the robots in the National Archives and addresses them with motivational messages as the player progresses through the basement levels and gets closer to his quarters. When initiating dialogue with him, he will call you a redcoat, and claim that they are surrounded by redcoats.
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[edit] Inventory
| Apparel | Weapon | Other item | On death |
|---|---|---|---|
| Button's Wig | none | Scrap Metal | Archives Security Terminal |
[edit] Related quest: Stealing Independence
You can choose to deal with him in one of the following ways:
- Assist him in forging a fake Declaration, to give to "King George." You will need to retrieve the Ink Container from the Arlington Library if you haven' already.
- Pass a Speech Check to convince him that you are Thomas Jefferson, and have returned to claim the document.
- Disable him via the Robotics Expert perk during dialog.
- Destroy him.
- After you tell him to make a copy with the ink well, you can tell him to blow himself up, which will give you negative karma.
[edit] Notes
- Unlike the other Protectrons, Button Gwinnett's voice sounds human. He speaks with a colonial accent.
- You can also find his wig in the corner of the room he is guarding, which may aid in passing the Speech Check with him, as it has a +10 Speech effect.
- If you convince him that you are Thomas Jefferson, he mentions that you should give his regards to "Sally". Sally Hemings was a slave with whom Mr. Jefferson is believed to have had children.
- Killing Button Gwinnett will make you lose Karma. After succeeding the speech-check to convince him that you are Jefferson, Button will rest by shutting himself down.
- If you help Button Gwinnett by telling him the war is over, he will actually salute.
- Strangely, you can't loot the wig he is currently wearing.
- He will still believe you're Thomas Jefferson even if your player character is female
[edit] Appearances
Button Gwinnett only appears in Fallout 3.
[edit] Behind the scenes
Whilst the Protectron identified as Jefferson is offline for maintenance (due to someone replacing its voice software with a radio broadcast as described in the maintenance logs), the personality can be transferred over to the backup. If activated, it will wander around and start broadcasting Galaxy News Radio, though it cannot be interacted with. The Recall signal does not function, but activating the Shutdown causes it to explode. Unusually, the activation of this robot doesn't seem to bother Gwinnett and doesn't open any additional dialogue options. Considering the admiration Gwinnett holds for Jefferson, the designers likely intended the robot to serve as an alternative solution for convincing Gwinnett into handing over the declaration; obviously, it was never fully implemented.
