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Side Quest: You Can Depend on Me
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Background

You'll receive this quest from Alice McLafferty in the main office of the Crimson Caravan Company.


Walkthrough

When you ask McLafferty if she has any work available, she'll tell you that she needs a runner to deliver a Crimson Caravan Invoice to Thomas Hildern at Camp McCarran. You'll find Hildern in his office there (in the southeastern corner of the ground floor of the terminal building). You won't have to do anything special to give him the invoice. Afterwards, when you return to McLafferty, she'll reward you with 150 caps and 25 xp.

Next up, McLafferty will give you three jobs to complete:
  • Negotiate the purchase of Cassidy Caravans. You'll find Cass, the owner of Cassidy Caravans, in the barracks of the Mojave Outpost. You'll have to talk to Cass for a while, but eventually you'll get four dialogue options to convince her to sell -- one each for Barter 50 (plus 750 caps), Barter 75 (plus a dozen bottles of Whiskey), Speech 50, and Speech 75 -- and passing any of the checks will get the job done and earn you 500 caps and some NCR fame when you return to McLafferty.

  • Convince Henry Jamison to quit. You'll find Jamison at the Atomic Wrangler in Freeside. When you talk to him there, he'll demand a lucrative "severance package" from you, and you'll get three options for how to deal with him. With Speech 50, you can threaten him into leaving, which will earn you 500 caps when you return to McLafferty. With Barter 50, you can offer to pay his gambling debts only, which will earn you 400 caps when you return to McLafferty. Otherwise, you'll have to meet Jamison's outrageous demands, and you'll only earn 300 caps when you return to McLaffery. You'll also receive some NCR fame for completing the task.

  • Infiltrate the Gun Runners. For this task you'll need to download the manufacturing specifications from the Gun Runners headquarters located next to Freeside (the building with the vendortron out front). You'll find two guards patrolling the outside of the headquarters, and one guard plus some gunsmiths on the inside. It should be easy to time your approach to the entrance so the guards on the outside don't spot you, and on the inside you can hide behind the reception desk until midnight when the gunsmiths go to sleep. You can also just use a Stealth Boy and sneak past everybody. You'll find the manufacturing specifications on the terminal in the workshop (straight ahead from the entrance).

    If you complete this task without violence and without anybody spotting you, then you'll earn 500 caps and some NCR fame when you return to McLafferty. Otherwise, you'll only earn 300 caps.

    Note: This task is optional. You can simply tell McLafferty that you're not interested in it. This will prevent you from getting the reward for the task, but your reward at the end of the quest will remain the same.
After completing these tasks, when you return to McLafferty, you'll receive 500 xp, and McLafferty's next quest, Pressing Matters, will become available.