Emily Ortal

Doctor Emily Ortal is a Californian physician from Arroyo and a Follower of the Apocalypse found outside the Lucky 38 Casino on The Strip in Fallout: New Vegas.

Background
Hailing from Arroyo, Emily Ortal is a member of the Followers of the Apocalypse, with an affinity for computers and related projects. She has been working in the Mojave since 2276, joining the Followers to do some good, as neither the OSI nor other NCR-aligned organizations funded research into medical technology, unless it had military applications. The inflation and taxation in Republic territories also played a factor in her choice.

She is responsible for reprogramming Yes Man for Benny, making it connect to the network, but as an invisible peer, so that Mr House wouldn't fry it remotely. Benny kicked her out of the Tops soon after. What made it all the more embarrassing was a brief affair she had with him, chalked up to sleep deprivation and one atomic cocktail too many.

Quests

 * The Moon Comes Over the Tower: Emily Ortal will approach the player outside of the Lucky 38 casino and ask them to bug one of Mr. House's computers in order to obtain medical data. At this point the player may accept her request with no reward, or, by passing a skill check (Barter 40), the player may acquire several medical supplies from her as payment.

Other interactions

 * A dialogue option exists where the player can pass an (Intelligence 6) check to ask how Emily made it onto the Strip. She will explain that the matter of Mr. House's technology was important enough that the Followers managed to scrape together enough caps for the credit check.

Bugs

 * Sometimes Emily may not appear in game.verified
 * After bugging Mr. House's computer network, Emily Ortal may not appear outside the Lucky 38, where the quest objective is.verified
 * On PC, she can be made to reappear by typing:


 * Sometimes Emily will spawn inside the Presidential Suite and/or the casino at the Lucky 38.verified
 * Emily can sometimes be found at The Fort, after the drawbridge, where she will make her request for The Moon Comes Over the Tower. If this is the case the player may then need to return there to complete the quest.verified
 * The first conversation with Emily will act as if she's already asked the Courier to bug Mr. House's, and was rejected. This may have to do with the order you do the quests in. (Likely to happen if Benny is not killed at the Tops.)verified
 * Emily appears at the gates of the Sierra Madre Casino at the end of Dead Money before you travel back to the Wasteland, ending the add-on. This makes the quest impossible to complete as she will wait there, and the player cannot return to the Sierra Madre after the end of the DLC.verified
 * On PC, this can be changed using the console.verified
 * After completing the quest The Moon Comes Over the Tower, you can talk with her about what happened during her previous attempt of fulfilling her task, and you'll eventually have the possibility of making infinite speech challenges. If your speech skill is 35 or more, you can win as many of these speech challenges as you want, since they make up an infinite loop of experience winnings.verified

Appearances
Emily Ortal appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.