question about Jobe and the prison (spoilers)

[Babarigo]

Hi, when I came back to the prison I saw that every civilian was killed by the RSM except Jobe. The other workers and the plantation owner Jim Auwaerter are not here anymore. When I come back there are just hostile foremen and Jobe that for some reason is the only civilian that has been spared. I find it quite suprising that an expropriated farmer has been spared when every other civilian including the plantation owner who seemed to be friendly with Danworth are dead.
Am I missing something?

[Gillsing]

Unless a specific NPC left a corpse, they might not have been killed by RSM, but just relocated. So it might not just be Jobe who was spared, but he's the one with a role to play, so that's why he's the one still around.

[Babarigo]

But why would the plantation owner and the farmers be relocated? A farm needs daily attention.
Also why Jobe is still here? I know he's alive in order to tell you about what happened to the dogs so yes I understand that he's alive because of the quest.

What I don't understand is why Danworth hasn't done anything about him. Jobe hates Danworth and for Danworth, Jobe is just an expendable expropirated farmer that works as slave labour.
Why would have Danworth killed or relocated (I would like to know where btw, the game has to tell those things, I don't have to imagine things to cover the plot holes) all the farmers and the plantation owner except Jobe when he has no particular interest him?

[Gillsing]

For all we know, they all just went to the outhouses together, hand in hand, perhaps dancing a little while doing so. And Jobe didn't get to go, because they all hate him. "Hey Jobe, tend to the farm for us while we go scratch our itches." And then the little animals all made a sparkling suit for Jobe, so he could go to the grand ball and dance with his fairy godmother. But the game didn't tell you these things, because they're not important.

[Babarigo]

Those things are what makes the consitency the game.
Danworth has gone on a killing spree killing every civilians and even the pigs who obviously couldn't have nothing to do with the rangers so there should be a pretty good reason why Jobe was spared.
So far there's none so I guess it's just something more to add to the bad writting of the Prison quest.
Also, those details might be meaningless for you but they are not for me.
That's fine but I haven't been disrespectful while asking my questions so I would like you to refrain from taking a mocking tone just because you think I'm nitpicking on silly things.

[Gillsing]

It's pretty clear from the earlier visit to the Prison that RSM thugs kill people whenever they please, or at least when van Overbake lets them. So it seems quite likely that people were killed because the RSM went a bit wild, and Danforth was too upset over his dogs to rein them in. That could explain why the pigs were killed: RSM gone wild. Party all night, shoot stuff all day.

Apparently Jobe was close enough to the dogs to be able to poison them. So if he was helping taking care of all their dogs, maybe that would've been a reason good enough to not murder him? Danforth really likes dogs, you know.

But oh, you say, why would Danforth be so stupid as to let Jobe get anywhere near the dogs when Danforth ought to know that Jobe would have at least some lingering resentment over losing his farm? Well, Danforth is a very stupid man, you know? Very, very stupid. He's an insult to the human gene pool, that's how stupid he is. He started being stupid even as a kid. Maybe there's something in the water?

As for the people not still being at the farm, maybe they simply fled instead of taking their chances with the RSM gone wild? You might want to consider that the developers can't tell every story of every person in the wasteland, and with no quest involving Jim and the farmhands, there's just no reason to go into their fates. Van Overbake also is nowhere to be seen in the end.

[red255]

jobe was spared because he knew what was coming and he hid.

duh.

[SeriousCCIE]

I hate it when they follow the script so closely! It's like foreshadowing or something!

Oh and I think Van Overbake, in my game anyway, is doing tax collection services in the great beyond. I only recently decided to stop using the nifty sidearm he so generously was left clutching as I flipped over his final assets due to a misunderstanding about how to apply ammo to my debts.