Reilly

Reilly is the leader of a small mercenary band known as Reilly's Rangers. She can first be found unconscious in The Chop Shop where she is recovering from injuries sustained during a massive firefight with Super Mutants. You can heal her if your Medicine skill is 60+, or convince Doctor Barrows to wake her up through speech. Afterwards, she will tell you about a quest to help her unit at the Statesman Hotel (if you've already picked up the unit's distress signal near the National Archives, you won't need to talk to her). After completing the quest, Reilly's Rangers, she is found in the Ranger Compound. She will reward you when the quest is done with Ranger Armor or a Minigun, and offer a quest to map the wasteland in exchange for caps (you can talk to her again immediately to earn caps for the places you have mapped to that point).

Reilly is slightly tougher and more skilled than the other members of Reilly's Rangers. Additionally, she levels with the player, and her combat capacity can be anywhere from that of a Brotherhood of Steel Paladin to that of an elite Enclave Tesla Soldier. However, there is no point in the game in which she participates in combat, unless the player attacks Reilly's Rangers.

Bugs

 * Sometimes Reilly, when in Underworld's hospital, gets stuck in a dialogue with no exit options (like "I'll have to go now"). This seems to appear when you listened to her quest suggestion Reilly's Rangers and chose to think about it and return later and leave for other business. (But the quest already appears on your pip boy and when selected, states "Find Reilly in Underworld" in the top left corner although you already met her.) When you in fact return later, be sure to quicksave before talking to her. She's not continuing giving you the quest and password and directions but just injured in hospital. The only options then are asking about her health and suggesting to save her troops herself which both yields a rant about her state and returning to these very two options. No forthcoming here, luckily you did a quicksave, as advised. Now reload the situation before the conversation, the solution is simple: Go ahead with the quest as if you never met Reilly, rescue her troops from the hotel roof and tell them you don't know Reilly. You'll meet her anyway at Ranger Compound afterwards and collect your rewards.


 * I had a problem where I killed Reilly before waking her up, but the quest Reilly's Rangers still said to meet her in Underworld, even though she is dead! (PS3) That exact thing happened to me too, but i killed both the doctor and her and when i got the the roof of the hotel the rangers were hostile. (Xbox 360)

Appearances in games
Reilly appears only in Fallout 3.

Related quests

 * Reilly's Rangers
 * Geomapping with Reilly

Special Items

 * Geomapper Module

Trivia

 * Reilly appears fond of the lawnmower in the Ranger Compound, occasionally examining it and making adjustments with her wrench. This is odd, seeing as how there is no lawn to speak of and she will continue this behaviour regardless of whether you pillaged the blade from the mower. Edit: It seems that Donovan also maintains the lawnmower. It's likely just an idle script built into characters with a certain repair skill.

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