Ricky

"Deadeye" Ricky is an all around undesirable person accompanying the Happy Trails Trading Company to Zion Canyon in 2281.

Background
Ricky is a compulsive liar with a tendency to create incredible stories about himself as he goes to talk himself up to be a significantly greater adventurer and scavenger than he actually is. His unsubstantiated stories include the time he tricked and killed a Brotherhood of Steel Paladin,, fought and killed four "deathjaws," which are like deathclaws with larger teeth, each with a shot to their eye while also divulging being born in Vault 22 – but he was sworn to secrecy, so he can't say anything about it. Ricky also carries an unhealthy addiction to Psycho and is prone to become agitated and hostile when someone doesn't believe his stories.

He has in his possession a Vault "two-two" jumpsuit and a "pit-boy" (which is broken with a locked screen and missing reboot button) which he loot from a dead prospector in Zion. Ricky says he grew up near Dayglow, stating one of his useful skills to be "a third nut that glows in the dark" because of his high exposure to radiation in his youth. Ricky is going along on the caravan through Zion because there's good loot involved but more importantly, Masterson needs someone to map the area, and what better way to do it than with a Pip-Boy?

Quests
Happy Trails Expedition: Ricky accompanies the caravan to Zion Canyon. If he is not convinced to leave the group, he will admit in a panic that his Pip-Boy doesn't even work during the ambush (the screen is locked up but the button to reset the device is missing), shortly before he is killed. As with all the members of the ill-fated Happy Trails expedition, Ricky's death is a scripted event and cannot be avoided.

Other interactions

 * Before leaving for Zion, the player can call Ricky out on all his lies when the appropriate checks come up in conversation. Then, after all of Ricky's dialogue checks are used up, the player can tell Ricky he's not cut out for the expedition or either order Ricky to leave the expedition or blackmail Ricky into carrying some of the player's gear, thereby extending the player's weight limit for traveling with the Happy Trails Expedition to 100 WG.
 * With a medicine check the player can see that he's a Psycho addict and can push it further by asking if he brought enough Psycho to last the trip. The player can then sell Ricky some Psycho or Fixer for 30 caps per Psycho, up to 10 hits, and 80 caps for a Fixer. If this check is done at the very start of the add-on, it is another way to convince Ricky to ditch the trip in case of a withdrawal in the middle of the trip.
 * He tells the player that he killed a "Steel Brotherhood" Paladin by firing through the eye slit by using an 11mm submachine gun, which is a lie. The player can respond that the eye slit is bullet-proof if the player has Power Armor Training, or there is no such thing as an 11mm submachine gun with a Guns skill of 45.
 * When Ricky comments about his "third nut" to a female player and offers sex on the expedition, you can use Black Widow and say that you will remember to bring tweezers and a microscope. If possessing a high enough Guns skill, the player can say it'll make it easier to shoot them in the dark.

Appearances
Ricky appears only in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on, Honest Hearts.

Behind the scenes
Ricky's claim of defeating his opponents by shooting them in the eyes is a reference to the targeted attacks of the original Fallout series, where hitting an enemy in the eye was both the most damaging and most difficult attack a player could land.