Hobbs

Hobbs
Release	1.41 (Wintermute Redux Update)
Date	17 December 2018
Wintermute	Episode 1
Mission	The Grey Mother
Location(s)	Paradise Meadows Farm
Biographical Information
Age	40's
Status	Critical Condition: Dead if "Push Knife Deeper" is chosen Alive but in unknown if "Pull Knife Out" is chosen
Occupation	Criminal
Physical Information
Eyes	Brown
Game Information
Voiced by	Ben Cotton

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Sentenced to 20 years at the notorious Blackrock Penitentiary, Great Bear Island was the end of the road for the unsavory convict, and he knew it. A cowardly man, Hobbs loved chaos. And even with a knife in his belly, he was still stirring up trouble. What I Know knowledge

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You think they put me on that bus for my good behaviour? Hobbs

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Hobbs is a minor character appearing in the REDUX version of Wintermute Episode 1. He can be found in the Paradise Meadows Farm, near the town of Milton.

History

Hobbs is one of the Convicts, a felon on his way to Blackrock Federal Penitentiary to serve a twenty-year sentence. The First Flare struck during transit, and he and at least two other inmates fled the prison bus into the nearby town when it crashed outside Milton (with the many other inmates going through the tunnel to Pleasant Valley) , causing the tunnel to collapse. With his fellow inmates, Hobbs took the remaining citizens of Milton hostage in the Old Schoolhouse before it caught fire due to the adverse electrical effects of the Aurora, inadvertently killing those inside.

Astrid tried to rescue the people trapped by the blaze, but Hobbs intervened, resulting in her stabbing him with a Hunting Knife in self defense and Hobbs taking the remainder of her scarf before running away (and later using the scarf as a makeshift bandage). Hobbs may be directly responsible for the the cuts seen on Astrid's hand and wrist in Episode 3, which presumably occurred during this altercation, judging from his statement "We barely clipped her wings... well she was bleeding... a bit."

Badly wounded, he fled town and took refuge at Paradise Meadows Farm, taking the time to pilfer and break open a Lock Box belonging to Martin Barker full of cash from inside the house, despite his dying state.

Episode 1: Do Not Go Gentle

The Grey Mother

Grey Mother thinks something happened at the tunnel leading out from Milton. Investigate.

His name (HOBBS, T.) first appears on the Prison Transport Manifest near the Crashed Prison Bus, foreshadowing him as a character.

Something precious was stolen from Grey Mother. Find it, and return it to her.

When first entering the farmhouse, Will Mackenzie finds Hobbs on the couch with a Hunting Knife in his belly. Hobbs tells him what happened and asks for the knife to be removed: granting the choice of killing him by pushing the knife deeper, or saving his life by removing the knife.

WARNING: No matter what option is chosen you will not get to keep the knife, so adjust your choice accordingly.

After you make your choice, Mackenzie takes the Bank Deposit Box Key 15 from the Lock Box and leaves the dwelling, and Hobbs is never seen again. Based on the decision spare or kill Hobbs, Methuselah will have unique dialogue options later in the episode Paradise Lost, giving a neutral warning to Mackenzie about "living by the sword" if he killed Hobbs or sounding relived but concerned that "this new world will grind his good nature to dust" if he spared the convict.

Episode 3

Hobbs appears in a voice over recap during the beginning of Episode 3, mentioning the Old Schoolhouse.

Episode 4

Hobbs once again appears in a voice over recap during the beginning of Episode 4, mentioning Blackrock Prison.

Hobbs on the sofa

Trivia

• Removing the knife from Hobbs' wound is the 'humane' option in-game, but realistically this would likely be as bad, if not worse than pushing the blade deeper. Blood loss from such a wound would be sealed by the knife itself; removing the knife would expose the wound, likely causing extensive bleeding and risk of death if left untreated. Ironically, such an injury should be dealt with by a doctor such as Astrid, not Will.
• Hobbs' knife removal is similar to the start of Episode 1, where Will removes the Scrap Metal Shard from his hand. Being an extremity and not an abdomen wound, the bleeding would be more manageable.
• It is widely misunderstood that Hobbs and the other prisoners are arsonists, perpetuated by the fact that he initially takes credit for the deaths of Milton residents in the schoolhouse fire: "We sure warmed them up!". However, Hobbs later states, "We put them all in the old schoolhouse so we could keep an eye on them. And then something happened to the lights... the power... it was like sparks everywhere and then fire." This is consistent with the effects of the Aurora, which sometimes causes electrical fires, as evidenced in trailers showing burning power lines and various burned buildings throughout Great Bear that were never reached by the convicts.