Don't Lose Your Mind
| Don't Lose Your Mind | |
|---|---|
| Type | Side Job |
| Giver | Delamain |
| District | Vista del Rey |
| Region | Heywood |
| Items | Delamain no. 21 |
| Previous | Epistrophy |
Don't Lose Your Mind is the last side job of the Delamain storyline, after Epistrophy. A virus has reached the core of Delamain, the AI that runs a taxi company, and its runaway cabs are causing chaos on the roads. V goes to Delamain's headquarters in Vista del Rey, Heywood, to decide the fate of its core.
Story
Trouble on the Road
The journal notes that V's friend Delamain seems to have personal problems: how else to explain cabs standing in the middle of the road and blocking traffic? Johnny suggests a call, adding that V is short on friends, imaginary company excluded.
A few days after the runaway cabs are recovered, V may come across three Delamain cabs blocking a truck on the ring road in Corpo Plaza. Or Delamain simply calls. Either way, the news is the same: the virus that split off the runaway cabs has now infected Delamain's core, and Delamain needs help.
Delamain HQ
At the headquarters, Delamain struggles to speak and cannot open the doors to the offices and garages. V finds another way in. Inside, V unlocks a door from a terminal and follows the hallway into the workshop, where drones patrol and attack each other. Past the workshop lies the control room.
The Core
In the control room, each runaway Delamain tries to persuade V to set it free, while the original Delamain asks V to reset the core. As V approaches the core, Johnny appears and asks V not to reset it. V must choose.
Don't Lose Your Mind Map Location and Walkthrough
Don't Lose Your Mind map location:
- Answer Delamain's call some time after Epistrophy, or call him after seeing his cabs blocking the road in Corpo Plaza.
- Return to Delamain HQ.
- Find a way inside: the garage door with 8 Technical Ability, or the grate on the roof, reached by climbing the crates in the alley.
- Search the office for a way to open the door. The locked computer's password is 1234.
- Open the double doors from the local network tab.
- Go down the hallway and find a way into the workshop. Watch for the drones.
- Find a way into the control room, by the stairs, the catwalk, the hangar or the shaft.
- Hear out the Delamains.
- Find Delamain's core and talk to Johnny.
- Destroy, reset or hack the core.
- Talk to Delamain.
- Leave through the side exit, approach the car and get into the driver's seat.
- Talk to Delamain.
Map credit by Map Genie.
Choices
The Core
Resetting the core restores the original Delamain, but wipes his memory. He no longer knows V, but finds in his logs that V helped him, and gives V a car from his fleet as his previous version wished.
Hacking the core needs 20 Intelligence. It merges all the Delamains into one being whose only wish is to leave Night City. It leaves V its "one true son", a car that will stay at V's side until V's dying breath, and says goodbye.
Destroying the core, by shooting it from a safe distance, frees the runaway Delamains, and they flee the garage. Johnny praises the choice. One cab stays behind in the hangar, introduces itself as Excelsior and offers its services, as its father's last words asked.
Rewards
Completing Don't Lose Your Mind rewards Delamain no. 21 and Autonomous Delamain CabPatch 2.3 onward..
Whatever the choice, V receives a car, the Delamain No. 21, and the same experience and Street Cred.
Characters
The characters who take part in Don't Lose Your Mind are listed below.
| Name | Image |
|---|---|
| Delamain (AI) | - |
| Johnny Silverhand | 
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Notes
- The choice made here changes the Delamain that flies V to the Afterlife in Path of Glory.
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