The Sink

The Sink is the futuristic apartment that once belonged to Doctor Mobius, built as a testbed for the Think Tank's personality subroutines. After you meet the Think Tank, Doctor Klein hands it to you as your base of operations, and completing Welcome to the Big Empty makes it a player home. Five rooms branch off a central hub: a foyer with Nuka-Cola and Sunset Sarsaparilla machines, an agricultural room, a living room, a bedroom with safe storage and a workshop with a workbench and reloading bench.

Almost every appliance has a personality, and most start switched off. The Sink Central Intelligence Unit sells ammunition, energy weapons and mods and repairs gear, the Sink Auto-Doc heals you and later installs implants, the Toaster super-heats Saturnite fists and breaks down junk, Blind Diode Jefferson the jukebox remodulates the Sonic emitter, and the Book Chute, Biological Research Station, Light Switch 01 and 02, Muggy and the Sink itself all add services. Their backup personality holotapes are scattered around Big MT, which is what All My Friends Have Off Switches is about.

Behind a door in the bedroom that starts locked are the tanks holding your heart and spine, and your brain joins them if you recover it during Old World Blues. Upgrade holotapes for each appliance, collected during Influencing People, unlock extras such as Light Switch buffs, purified water and Muggy's daily production. Every container in the Sink is safe to store gear in, and the Big Mountain Transportalponder! brings you straight back to the balcony from the Mojave.