Quick question for those of you who have finished "Old World Blues" (I'm only part way through so no spoilers please!). I'm assuming you can get your brain back in the end. If you take back your organic brain, can you keep the cyborg spine and heart? Or are the organic parts a package deal? I wanted to get my real brain back, but keep the cyborg spine and heart, but I wasn't sure if that was possible or not. I want to maybe get a +1 strength with my last perk (to make 8 total with the spine), but I might not do that if I have to give the spine back. Anyway, thanks for your time folks!

You can have any combination you want. None of the three are packaged. You also have the option to switch them out again at any time.

Awesome! Thanks for the response!

Original spine is better, though. +2 Strength and +2 DT. Although I guess you might value torso being immune to crippling more than extra strength and DT, so, like the others, it's pretty much choosing which bonus you want. :disguise:

Ok, so not exactly understanding what would happen I got my brain back but I hadn't done a bunch of quests yet and now it appears that my only avenue to to speak to Kline (SP?) and that starts a fight no matter what you say to him. I had another quest going where I had just talked to "O" and he told me to speak to Kine about other people wandering around the big empty so he won't talk to me about it now. You actually can't put at least the brain back once you get it to my understanding (I tried) though so I'm not sure what your meaning is regarding having the option of "switching them out again". Can you expound on that a bit? I saw this thread and it's remotely where I am at so I hope I'm ok posting here. I sure wish that I had saved just before taking my brain back though becasue right now it appears that my only option would be to start all over again in the big empty by deleting and downloading OWB all over again to be able to play through all of the quests that I want to. If anyone has another work around having to do that please tell me.

Once you complete the main quest, you can use the Auto-Doc to switch in/out your brain, heart, and spine. At any time. You need to complete the main quest though.

You furthermore don't have to fight Klein and the rest of the Think Tank. A fight can be avoided by passing a speech check, medicine check, or science check. Alternatively, if you've done the side-quests for the other Think Tank scientists (which it appears you haven't done), you can avoid the fight by getting Klein to confer with his colleagues. They should then take your side and you can avoid the fight without passing the checks.

Thanks! You're right though. It was the quests that the other guys will give me that I was concerned about the most. I was talking about not being able to put the brain back into the tank where i found it though and had yet to use the autodoc to put my other body parts back. I'll go back now though and give the autodoc a try and/or try speaking to Kline again. There weren't any speech checks when I tried talking to him though and I have all but one of the first choices of speaking to him but all of the ones I have tried have gotten me into a fight so far. I'll keep trying or as I said start over again. Usually I just tramp about a bit and find stuff before messing with the quests but this time I started out doing quests but not doing them as they came up but bouncing around a bit so that is how I got to the end of OWB so fast.