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Lucy Grandchester was the young heiress of the Grandchester family before the Great War and the focus of the Grandchester Mystery Mansion exhibit near the site of Nuka-World, which her ghost haunts to the present day. She appears in the Fallout 4 add-on Nuka-World.
Background[]
Note: The following is the alleged description of Lucy's life as given by the Grandchester Murder Mystery entertainment exhibit.
At some point before the Great War, Lucy Grandchester was born to Hannibal and Morticia Grandchester, who lived in a stately manor in a low-lying valley west of Boston, Massachusetts. The birth was a traumatic affair for the family, as Morticia nearly died in the act while Hannibal lamented the entire time on how he never wanted a child, on top of nearly losing his wife in the process, and denied Lucy any affection for the duration of her life.[1]
As they had Lucy at an advanced age, the Grandchesters were unprepared for the efforts it took to raise a young child. Morticia attempted to bond with her daughter over readings of horror works by Poe and Shelley and the history of the Borgias, but to no avail. Meanwhile, Lucy created entertainment of her own after being unable to make any friends her own age. Her habits included capturing small animals, playing around with them, and then later killing and skinning them with a small boning knife and nailing the pelts to the underside of her parents' furniture.[1]
Combined with her difficulty bonding and Lucy's grisly "playtime," Morticia became convinced that her daughter had been possessed by evil forces. Hannibal concluded that he could "rescue" his daughter by physically beating the evil out of her body. Madam Scarlotta, a psychic visited by Morticia, convinced the parents that Lucy was indeed possessed and they needed to exorcize her of the spirits inhabiting her body. Measures taken included erecting numerous active fireplaces to warm up unnaturally cold halls, designing entire rooms upside down, and building staircases leading to solid walls to confuse the spirits and get them to leave.[1]
Eventually, the Grandchesters' family cook quit after an incident when Lucy putt a live mouse in their stew. Shortly afterwards, the young girl made her first attempt on her parents' lives by putting poison in the dessert dish(es); the attempt was only partly successful and left Hannibal with a limp and reliant on the use of a cane. He would often use his cane to try and beat Lucy, but she learned to avoid that, too. When Madam Scarlotta visited the Grandchesters to hold seances trying to remove the evil spirits, Lucy would play tricks by knocking on the floor of her room above the seance room. Scarlotta herself allegedly experienced near death at Lucy's hands when the young girl tried to push her down the stairs.[1]
Soon, Hannibal reached a breaking point with his daughter after impaling his foot on a rusty spike that had been planted in his shoe. Lucy's elderly father came to her room to end her reign of torment once and for all; though the subsequent events are unclear, the result was Hannibal turning up dead with a pair of scissors stabbed into his eye and brain. When questioned, Lucy claimed she was holding them in self-defense as Hannibal tried to beat her with his cane, claiming he then tripped and fell onto the scissors. When it was found that Hannibal's fingers had all been cut off, Lucy remarked that it was done so he couldn't hold the cane again.[1] Sometime after her husband's death, Morticia also turned up dead, having suffocated with a cloth doll shoved in her mouth, along with signs of rope burns where she was tied up but no rope found nearby. Lucy was questioned again, but only replied that the doll was solely responsible because it hated that Morticia did not give her daughter a goodnight kiss.[1]
With both parents dead and nobody else to take her, coupled with all the strange and dangerous happenings that surrounded her, Lucy was sent to a mental asylum away from her home. She remained there until around her 18th birthday, when she carried out an escape. After being tracked down to her family home, it was discovered Lucy had apparently committed suicide by hanging herself in the mansion's attic.[1] The building was subsequently seized by authorities, and eventually converted into a tourist attraction based on the Grandchesters' bloody life circumstances, becoming an additional attraction when the valley was later acquired by the Nuka-Cola Corporation to construct their Nuka-World theme park.
In the years since then, leading up to October 2077 as well as far into the post-War era up to 2287, sightings of a ghostly little girl laughing and disappearing into the shadows when approached have been reported within the walls of the Grandchester Mystery Mansion, seemingly evidence of Lucy continuing to linger in the living world.[2]
Interactions with the player character[]
Interactions overview[]
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Other interactions[]
- Lucy's ghost can be seen or encountered several times throughout the Grandchester Mystery Mansion. She cannot be targeted in V.A.T.S. and has no name attached; however, she can be tagged with recon scopes and appears with the name "girl."
- Before entering the mansion for the first time, staring through the second window from the right to the top right above the entrance. If one flies up to that room, they will see the only door to the room is boarded shut from the inside. Lucy never notices the Sole Survivor.
- When entering the mansion for the first time, running to the left on the second floor.
- When entering the upstairs hallway, running back through the kitchen to the upside-down room. It is possible to chase her to the upside-down room, where she will stop. One can engage her with the "talk" option, but she will not reply, only stare.
- When entering the hallway beyond the seance room, running to the left into her bedroom.
- When entering the attic, running to the left. Lucy will run through a door on the back left wall shortly after spawning. If the Sole Survivor opens the door, a loud, jarring sound will be heard, and one will find a dead end.
Inventory[]
| Apparel | Weapon | Other items | On death |
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| Kid's dress |
Notes[]
- Despite it being stated that Lucy died by suicide when she was eighteen, the ghost seen in the Grandchester Mystery Mansion is that of a child.[1]
- If the player encounters the ghost while in combat, Lucy may run, leaving her scripted path and running to other parts of the house.
- It is possible to stagger or knock the girl down with gunshots, but doing so deals no damage and causes no reaction.
- If the player gets close enough to the upper front window of the Manor while Lucy is standing there and looks at the ceiling of the room she is in, they will see that Lucy's shadow appears to have a set of wings. This is an illusion created by the invisible light facing straight up from under the character model, which can be verified by the synchronization of the shadow flutter to the bottom of the girl's tattered dress.
Appearances[]
Lucy Grandchester appears only in the Fallout 4 add-on Nuka-World.
