Jeannie May Crawford

Jeannie May Crawford is the proprietor of the Dino Dee-lite Motel and the closest thing Novac has to a mayor in Fallout: New Vegas.

Background
Jeannie puts on the best impression of a frontier town mayor she has. Tough, fair, and proud of the hard work poured into the little town of Novac by its inhabitants, she appears to drive an honest bargain, a rare thing in the wastes. Minor cracks appear in the image when someone criticizes Novac and she immediately jumps to its defense, citing the hard, honest work people do on the frontier.. The cracks grow when the subject of Jason Bright's ghouls is brought up, when she rather bluntly states that she'd not miss them if they all were slaughtered, considering them little more than parasites looking for handouts. The prejudice is only deepened by her awareness that Novac exists by the salvage of the REPCONN test site and any ghouls standing in the way threaten the basis of the town's economy.

As if that wasn't enough to prove that the Good Miss Crawford persona is a sham, Jeannie May has no compunctions about betraying passersby city folk or people who settled in Novac, even if their only crime is failing to appreciate Good Miss Crawford's quaint little town. Carla Boone learned this the hard way. Never one to mince words, her apparent ingratitude grated on Jeannie May, who decided the best way to get rid of the problem by selling her out to the slavers of the Legion, clearing a path to the Boone apartment so that they could abduct her with ease. To cover it up, she started lying that Carla just up and left their quaint little Novac; painting Craig as maddened with grief and inventing the whole kidnapping to cope - all the while keeping her bill of sale in the motel's safe, waiting to collect the 500 pieces of silver on top of the 1 000 she received for selling Carla out.

<!-- Didn't like Carla well especially because she didn't like her town. Came up with the lie about her running away.

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Room prices and reputation

Used to like their neighbor town Nelson until the Legion took it. Either ignorant or lying about of the Legion scouts the snipers have been killing just across the highway overpass.

Dismissive of actual goings on in town // Gratefull of the snipers because they protect the town while Ranger Andy is recouperating.

She sends potential customers to the town General store. // Cliff Briscoe is a lonely-lonely man

Her take on her town, quiet, to take it easy // considers the cult in REPCONN sinister

GREETING Is everything all right? Awful late to be dropping in unexpected.

GREETING Well. Welcome to you. You look tired from the road. Why don't you relax a spell, let this fine town take care of you?

GREETING I hope you're finding everything to your liking. ---

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Quests

 * One for My Baby: Jeannie is by far the least obvious suspect, but opening the safe in the Motel lounge shows that Jeannie sold Craig Boone's wife, Carla, and their unborn child to the Legion for 1500 bottle caps.

Other interactions

 * If the Courier attains the reputation of Accepted for Novac she will gift the player the room key to the motel room.

Bugs

 * The option to take someone out to the front of the Dino can bug out if the player talks to her before they know she's guilty. This can be corrected by typing in the console or asking another character to go to the Dino (and NOT wearing Boone's beret), then going off to sleep for an hour.

Appearances
Jeannie May Crawford appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes

 * The intention behind Jeannie May Crawford's preferring the Bright Brotherhood ghouls killed and her selling Carla Boone into slavery was to present a villain, who on the surface was relaxed and friendly, but pride in her small town caused insecurity that motivated extreme reaction to any kind of opposition or detractor.