Traveling merchant

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	Fallout: New Vegas character Traveling merchant
	Biography and appearance Race Human Gender Male Female Role Merchants Location Mojave Wasteland Statistics Alignment Neutral SPECIAL Strength: 6 Perception: 6 Endurance: 6 Charisma: 4 Intelligence: 6 Agility: 4 Luck: 6 Derived Stats Hit Points: 105 DT: 4 → 6 Tag Skills Barter: 54 Repair: 58 Guns: 54 Level 7 Technical Base ID 000d7f28, 0015c4da, 00163cb9, 00163cba, 00163cbb, 00163cbc, 00163cbd, 00163cbe, 00163cbf, 00165055, 00165056, 00165057, 00165058, 00165059, 0016505a, 0016505b, 0016505c, 0016505d, 0016505e, 0016505f, 00165060, 00165061, 00165062, 0016507a, 0016507b, 00165155, 00165166 Ref ID ? Actor Male: Jesse Burch, Emerson Brooks Peter Renaday (old male) Female: Katherine Pawlak, Lora Cain, Debra Wilson Marianne Muellerleile (old female)

 

Traveling merchants are present in Fallout: New Vegas and can be found wandering the Mojave Wasteland buying and selling goods. They do not enter the New Vegas Strip.

Characteristics

They usually have a companion mercenary as a bodyguard, who are armed with decent firepower. There is also usually one brahmin per merchant to carry their baggage and inventory. Occasionally two traveling merchants will travel together, each with his own merc and pack brahmin. Heavily trafficked areas for the merchants include the Mojave Outpost, Novac, Freeside's North Gate and near the Crimson Caravan Company.

Interactions with the player character

Interactions overview

This character is a merchant.

Sells: various items

Inventory

	Apparel	Leather armor and wasteland hat
	Weapon	10mm pistol or cowboy repeater and Knife
	Carried items	Various aid and food items
	Drops on death	No additional items

Locations

• Mojave Outpost has a merchant who never wanders far from the location, if he is not at the outpost he is east of it at the bottom of the highway.
• A lone merchant with no mercenary guard will appear at Boulder City the first time that location is visited; he will travel south to Novac, where he will remain at a fixed position at the gate entrance to the gas station. His inventory does not replenish, which eventually makes him useless for trading purposes (see bugs, below).
• The highway overpass north of Wolfhorn ranch is the site of a battle between two merchant caravans and a group of Caesar's Legion recruit legionaries.
• The Crimson Caravan Company will often have a merchant who remains near the location, like Novac, and never leaves.
• A Crimson Caravan merchant will periodically travel between the Crimson Caravan and Camp McCarran.

Notes

• Traveling merchants do not offer reputation discounts; a good barter skill is necessary when dealing with them.
• Caesar's Legion members are hostile to traveling merchants, and will often kill both them and their guards.
• For lower level characters, traveling with a merchant and their mercenary can provide protection from the dangers of the road.
• The player can find the static remains of a dead traveling merchant, their guard and a pack brahmin near the El Dorado dry lake, the brahmin is a normal corpse able to be looted, however the merchant and guard are static objects and appear as mauled corpses.
• The merchant who frequents the area around El Dorado dry lake may be killed by the giant ants or Viper gunslingers in the area, but will generally survive multiples encounters with them before disappearing from your game completely.
• Merchants may carry items from the Gun Runners' Arsenal add-on.

Bugs

• PC A merchant that has been killed by a plasma weapon turns into a goo pile that can be used to initiate a conversation once the merchant has respawned. The merchant can be quite a distance away but the conversation zooms in and initiates anyways.
• PC A single traveling merchant can be initially encountered just outside Boulder City, armed with a cowboy repeater and lacking a mercenary escort. This merchant will buy and sell goods, but his stock consists only of what he is carrying and does not change periodically, as with a normal merchant. Furthermore he will travel from Boulder City to Novac only once, and will remain in Novac for the rest of the game.
• PC At least two traveling merchants' inventories are not set to change periodically (or "update") as they should be: the merchant found outside the Mojave Outpost, and a merchant located near the Strip. These merchants will still buy and sell goods, but aside from changes due to sales their inventories will remain the same over the course of the game. This is true even if they are killed and later respawn.
• Xbox 360 PlayStation 3 One of the traveling merchants who wanders between Crimson Caravan Company and Novac, upon exiting her trade menu, will make your system freeze. This also happens after trying to exit the trade menu with the trader at the Mojave Outpost.
• Xbox 360 One traveling merchant may stop near the Poseidon gas station in Novac and remain there for the whole game.

Appearances

These traveling merchants appear only in Fallout: New Vegas.