Grandma Sparkle

Grandma Sparkle is a trader and cook at Wilhelm's Wharf in Fallout 3.

Background
Born in 2205, Grandma Sparkle is quite sprightly for her age and refuses to leave the wharf, despite the recent Super Mutant and Raider incursions. She’s protected by her deft hunting rifle skill and her family, who are out searching for Mirelurk Meat. She’s tasted all kinds of critters and swears that Mirelurk is the most delicious.

Appearances
Grandma Sparkle appears only in Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes

 * She occasionally says, "Y'all come back now, y'hear?". Every episode of The Beverly Hillbillies ended with this very phrase.


 * Grandma Sparkle appears in a Form List whose only other entries are for the unimplemented Rock Crick hunters, possibly indicating that they are the "boys" who "are out hunting 'lurks."
 * A partially completed dialogue option in the Broken Steel add-on was to have allowed the Lone Wanderer to ask Grandma Sparkle what she thought of Split Jack's gang. Sparkle's reply is not present, leaving her opinion on the matter a mystery.

Bugs

 * Grandma Sparkle comments that some people came around asking her about "some do-gooder from one of them vaults". This is supposed to indicate that a karmically good player is being hunted by Talon Company hitmen. An alternate dialogue about someone looking for "some troublemaker from one of them vaults" is supposed to be said for karmically evil characters. However, a setting in the conditionals for these dialog choices is incorrectly set, so she checks her own Karma instead of the player's. Since she is a Good non-player character, the Evil dialogue never plays.
 * Sometimes, Grandma Sparkle will be sitting in the ground, under her chair. She acts exactly the same, and gets up as usual.