Oil Rig Separatists begins with Delbert Cherry and asks you to recruit at least two new members before helping the group publicize its cause. Accept his membership conditions, approach the candidates he names, and return after successful recruitment. The final publicity discussion can use Reena's art or send you to Zaffer for a neon statement. These are branches, so a list of every conversation is not a requirement to perform every alternative.
The route below uses community quest and dialogue data for build 25738165 against the current Update #4 baseline. This site has not tested the quest in the game. Dialogue outcomes and relationship changes describe attached data, not a guarantee that every patched save applies them identically.
Accept Delbert's membership assignment
Delbert first discusses the relationship between the Oil Rig and Nivalis. Follow the conversation toward his ideas and O.R.S. rather than dismissing him. Asking about his outlook keeps the discussion moving; treating the ideas as dangerous or brushing him off leads to an earlier conversational ending. That introductory exit should not be confused with the explicit quest-failure exits in the later membership conversation.
When you meet him again, pursue the group discussion and agree to join. He explains three conditions: recruit at least two further members, contribute verse to the group's zine, and take part in activities supporting its cause. Continue through all three conditions until he gives you the candidate list. A positive response to joining is only the beginning of that exchange.
The candidates are Botan Noss, Reena Coda, Sanya Predex, and Finlay Basin. Delbert frames Finlay as a fallback. You can plan your conversations around the candidates whose interests match the campaign you want later, rather than interpreting four recruitment objectives as proof that all four must succeed.
Several exits in the second meeting are associated with failing the quest. Refusing membership, withdrawing after hearing the activities requirement, or leaving during the verse discussion can end the offer. If your intention is to complete the group assignment, stay in the conversation until the recruiting instructions are established.
The poetry responses change Delbert's reaction, but a poetic answer is not a physical item you need to find. You are choosing a contribution within dialogue. His favorable response to the more elaborate verse can be useful for the relationship, while the short or dismissive alternatives receive weaker reactions. None of those reactions establishes a separate money reward or recruitment count.
Recruit Reena through the group's artistic purpose
Reena discusses lighting, installations, and her disputes with CorpSec. Her interest in O.R.S. comes from its potential as an artistic movement. Listen until you can raise the group, then describe its poetry or allow its obscurity to intrigue her. Continue to the invitation rather than ending after she acknowledges the name.
A practical path is to discuss her work, ask about O.R.S., present the group's disruptive verse, and ask her to join. Her eventual acceptance is the recruitment checkpoint. Merely complimenting the installation, discussing her reputation, or hearing about her past terminal artwork does not establish that she has accepted membership.
If you initially deny that O.R.S. has anything to do with art, she loses interest, but the recorded conversation still contains a route back toward the poetry explanation. Follow the actual options available in your dialogue. Leaving to wish her luck instead is associated with her not joining.
Reena is useful for a specific later reason: when Delbert asks how to draw attention to the rig, an available response can nominate her work. Recruiting her therefore supports a publicity alternative that avoids relying on Zaffer's decision. That is a planning distinction, not proof that her art automatically completes the task as soon as she joins.
Recruit Botan by offering help with his papers
Botan's conversation initially sounds like a repair-shop discussion. He mentions hover boards, HOVAs, and his dislike of living on the rig. Continue toward why he cannot return to the mainland. His problem is missing papers after a bureaucratic change, followed by the loss of his shop and vehicle collection.
The recruitment approach exchanges help with that problem for attendance at an O.R.S. meeting. Offer to investigate his papers, explain that you want a favor in return, and ask him to go to the group. His complaints about Delbert's verse do not necessarily end the negotiation; keep the request focused on whether he will attend.
The wording of your help offer can differ with your existing connection to Agent Teleshko. One version refers to contacts inside CorpSec, while another describes people who might help obtain papers. Those variations appear in the dialogue conditions. They do not establish a requirement to buy an item, enter a code, or raise an unseen counter manually before asking Botan.
Acceptance ends with Botan emphasizing the deal. That agreement is the relevant membership result. The dialogue does not demonstrate that you must resolve a separate paperwork delivery before this recruiting step counts. Conversely, his repair prices at the opening are background to his profession; paying for a hover-board repair is not the recruitment method.
Dismissing the missing-paper problem or leaving before the offer is associated with a negative recruitment result. If you want him as one of your two members, do not treat the first explanation of his difficulties as a finished conversation. Reach the exchange and obtain his agreement.
Recruit Sanya by connecting photography to the rig
Sanya Predex is photographing the Oil Rig for an assignment that would support classifying it as hazardous terrain. Her own interest lies in the beauty she sees there, which conflicts with the purpose of that work. The conversation is about convincing her that the group offers a subject she wants to document without exposing her to unwanted attention on the mainland.
Ask about the assignment, move the conversation toward people trying to preserve the rig, and introduce O.R.S. When she becomes interested in photographing the movement, explain the membership angle. Her hesitation is linked to her job and the need to keep other activities quiet.
The constructive response appeals to her wish to capture reality. When she agrees to investigate the group, she asks for secrecy. Finish that exchange with the promise she requests. The acceptance and promise together distinguish recruitment from simply telling her the group's name.
Pushing her toward abandoning the rig or accepting that she cannot risk involvement leads to recorded non-membership outcomes. Insulting her corporate work also changes the tone of the conversation; the useful objective remains giving her a reason to engage with O.R.S. and finishing the agreement.
Sanya's later role is photography for the press release. If she has joined, Delbert's planning discussion can refer to having a photographer available. If she has not, the player can volunteer to provide an image. The recorded data establishes that alternative request, but does not supply a tested photo angle, camera position, or complete picture-submission procedure. Follow any actual objective added in your journal rather than inventing a photo requirement from the topic alone.
Use Finlay as the fallback candidate
Finlay already wants to join. His difficulty is Delbert's reluctance, presented to him as a long waiting list. After the conversation about the cyberchair incident, raise O.R.S. and offer to get him into the group. Continue through his enthusiastic acceptance and the final reassurance.
You can also reach the offer after discussing his history with Delbert or reacting to his worries about being a disaster. The important distinction is whether you actually offer membership before leaving. A conversation that ends with him considering the Wastes is not the same as a successful invitation.
There is no supported application fee or waiting period in this recruitment exchange. Finlay's mention of a list describes what he has been told, not an instruction for you to spend days waiting. Your active role is making the offer and returning with the recruiting result.
When you report back, Delbert may criticize the choice to recruit Finlay. Continue the conversation. The recorded response ultimately accepts his willingness to support the group. That criticism is a branch in the return discussion, not evidence that Finlay's membership must be replaced before the campaign can proceed.
Return to Delbert and build the press release
Once you have the recruitment progress, speak to Delbert again. He moves from membership into publicity: a headline, an image, and an attention-grabbing statement on the rig. This conversation is the transition to the quest's final alternatives. Returning with candidates and walking away before selecting the campaign approach can leave you between those parts of the chain.
The headline options have different reactions. The direct call for the rig to survive is received as a proclamation and has a favorable business relationship attachment. A simple liberation headline receives a weaker response. The playful rhyming alternative gets its own reaction and recorded news-related attachment. You do not need to reproduce a particular headline to unlock all the later branches shown here.
For the image, nominate Sanya if that option is available because she joined. Otherwise, volunteering is an alternative in the conversation. Keep that image question separate from the next question about attracting attention to the structure itself. They serve different parts of Delbert's proposed release.
For the statement, Reena's participation can support a light-art route. Confirm that plan when it is offered. The recorded ending of that branch carries a quest-completion attachment. Another route proposes someone who works with neon signs, leading to the Zaffer favor stage.
If Botan joined, you may also see an explosive suggestion. Delbert rejects it and the conversation moves toward the neon contact. It is not a supported sabotage objective and does not tell you to acquire explosives for the rig.
Ask Zaffer for the neon statement
Take the Zaffer route when Delbert asks you to use the neon contact. Ask for a favor and describe an eye-catching statement for O.R.S. Mentioning the group leads into Zaffer's connection with Delbert. Continue to the actual request for help; hearing that they know each other is not yet an agreement.
His answer can be either acceptance or refusal. The recorded dialogue depends on a condition whose full practical threshold is not established in this material, so no single compliment should be presented as a guaranteed way to make him accept. Read his response and the next journal state.
Offering money receives an unfavorable reaction: he says this is not work he does for Lims. A response connecting the request to his willingness to do something kind has favorable relationship attachments. Those differences help explain the conversation's tone, but attached values do not prove that this one exchange overrides every prior choice affecting his decision.
If he accepts, thank him and finish the conversation. An apartment invitation may appear afterward, but that is an optional relationship development, not a required installation step for the Oil Rig campaign. Refusing the visit does not undo the recorded acceptance of helping O.R.S.
Identify the completed route
Check the journal after the final art confirmation or Zaffer conversation. Reena's branch has an explicit completion attachment in the recorded dialogue. Zaffer's branch records either his agreement to alter the rig or refusal; this guide does not infer a universal completion result from those technical attachments alone.
If you are still seeing recruiting objectives, compare your last conversation with the acceptance checkpoints above. If you are seeing the favor objective, resolve Zaffer's request instead of recruiting additional people without a journal reason. If you chose Reena's plan, do not assume that visiting Zaffer is also compulsory. The purpose of these checks is to follow the branch your save actually contains and distinguish a finished membership discussion from a completed publicity campaign.