Lily and Leo[1] is an unmarked quest in Fallout: New Vegas.
Walkthrough[]
While having Lily Bowen as an active companion, to begin the quest, the player character has to get her to play a recording of her speaking with her grandchildren. This requires the following conditions to be satisfied (in no particular order):
- Lily must mention "Leo" and one must ask about him ("I have some questions about you" -> "What is the best way to use your skills?" -> "Who is Leo?").
- Lily must suffer a psychotic break during combat; this typically occurs when she has been reduced to 25% of her total HP by any means, which includes friendly fire that can occur outside of combat, meaning it can be triggered by purposefully attacking her until she reaches 25% HP. Once she recovers (e.g. "Oh? Did Grandma do all of this?"), one must ask about her condition ("What happened in the fight back there?").
- Lily must be witnessed taking her medicine (e.g. "Medicine Time", "Hush Leo; it's medicine time now" or "Grandma has to take her pills now, Dearie") and one must then ask her about the medicine ("I have some questions about you" -> "Tell me about yourself." -> "What kind of medicine are you using?").
After these conditions are fulfilled, simply sleep or wait while Lily is the active companion. It is not necessary to actually sleep or wait; simply entering the sleep/wait menu is enough.[verification needed] After this, Lily will then play the recording. Due to the way this trigger is scripted, it is best to not sleep or wait after fulfilling Lily's previous three conditions until after midnight (once the in-game clock resets back to 0:00); see below for an explanation of the issue.
After the entire recording has elapsed, one must then ask Lily about the recording, which gets her to reveal that she has only been taking half the recommended dosage of her medicine to avoid losing her memories of her grandchildren. From there, the player character has three options to complete the quest:
- Recommend that Lily begin taking the complete dosage. If this option is chosen, Lily will no longer suffer from psychotic breaks but her combat effectiveness is reduced - these remain in effect regardless of her mental state. (Melee Weapons skill set to 60)
- Recommend that Lily continue to take half her dosage. If this option is chosen, Lily will continue to suffer psychotic breaks when she is reduced to 25% HP but will now calm herself immediately if the player crouches and makes her activate her Stealth Boy.
- Recommend that Lily stop taking her medicine altogether. If this option is chosen, Lily will now suffer psychotic breaks when reduced to half HP but will gain several permanent stat bonuses - these remain in effect regardless of her mental state. (Melee Weapons skill set to 100)
The choice made will also have an effect on the game ending Lily receives.
Notes[]
- The timer to make Lily play her holotape is set on the first time that the player enters the sleep/wait menu after fulfilling the three conditions. Furthermore, the timer works by taking a float value fRestTimer based on the exact time that the player enters the sleep/wait menu, and then playing the holotape once the current time of day becomes greater than the value of fRestTimer. Since New Vegas uses military time, this means that a player who chooses to wait for an hour at 23:30 will not be able to hear the recording at least until 23:31 on the following game day. This can make the recording very hard to trigger without knowing exactly what time the timer was set to.
- Thus, once the three dialogue conditions are fulfilled, not entering the sleep or wait menu until after midnight (when the time value resets to 0) is the most reliable way to make sure the recording will play.
- Since you can't sleep or wait to let the time pass, you can trigger the event by fast traveling to different locations to make the time pass faster.
- Some quest stages can be started through the use of console commands:
- To start the medicine dialogue, enter set "160267".ftimer to -1 and set "160267".bMedicineTime to 1
- To start the holotape dialogue, enter set "160267".fresttimer to 1 and set "160267".bdoonce to 1
- To start the psychotic break dialogue, enter set "13e510".bPsychoticBreak to 1. This won't make Lily enter a psychotic break, but will unlock the dialogue option about it and allow for the quest to proceed normally.
References[]
- ↑ Quest name from Fallout: New Vegas Official Game Guide
