diff --git a/data/text/english/dialog/gcskeetr.msg b/data/text/english/dialog/gcskeetr.msg
index f55f99bcc..04de2f976 100644
--- a/data/text/english/dialog/gcskeetr.msg
+++ b/data/text/english/dialog/gcskeetr.msg
@@ -89,6 +89,7 @@
  mostly. Make 'em work better... sometimes. Keepin' myself outta trouble. Know what I mean?}
 {261}{}{I guess. Let me ask you something else.}
 {262}{}{Well, I think I better go do something myself. Goodbye.}
+{263}{}{Anything I can help you with?}
 
 {270}{}{You're lookin' fer a GECK, huh? Well, I don't rightly know where ya might find one of them thar
  things. I know that Vault City prolly used ta have themselves one.}
diff --git a/scripts_src/gecko/gcskeetr.ssl b/scripts_src/gecko/gcskeetr.ssl
index 6a9314d76..e622d57bd 100644
--- a/scripts_src/gecko/gcskeetr.ssl
+++ b/scripts_src/gecko/gcskeetr.ssl
@@ -550,6 +550,12 @@ end
 
 procedure Node015 begin
    Reply(260);
+   // another way to get the plasma transformer quest
+   if ((local_var(LVAR_Upgrade) == 0) and
+       (global_var(GVAR_QUEST_SUPER_REPAIR_KIT) == SUPER_REPAIR_KIT_SUCCESS) and
+       (global_var(GVAR_GECKO_SKEETER_PART) == 0)) then begin
+      NOption(263,Node027,004);
+   end
    NOption(261,Node009,004);
    NOption(262,Node999,004);
 end