Kyle Edwards

Private Kyle Edwards is a ghoul found at Camp Searchlight in 2281.

Location
From Astors position at the tent, simply go South towards the Searchlight NCR Storage, Edwards is South / South-east in a white house.

Background
An NCR grunt caught in Camp Searchlight when the Legion released a load of nuclear material that irradiated the whole town, Private Edwards is now a forlorn ghoul hiding out in one of the accessible houses of the town. When asked why he hasn't left yet, he tells the Courier that he's too afraid of the outside radiation causing him to go feral and of a less-than-warm welcome back by the NCR. The latter seems well-founded, since upon asking the leader of the NCR in the area about Edwards, he says it's best to "put a rabid dog down."

You can say there may be a few Radscorpions left around and offer to kill them for him. The same three Giant Radscorpions will spawn outside. After dealing with them you can convince him to leave. Where Edwards goes depends on dialog:
 * You can lie to Edwards that going back to Astor is alright, which will most likely lead to his death.
 * If you pass an Intelligence check of 7 or a Speech of 60 you can convince Astor to accept him in which case Edwards can later be found guarding the camp
 * If you have talked to him about it, Astor will suggest an outpost to the north run by ghouls (this options results in the Courier getting good karma).
 * The outpost in question is Ranger Station Echo.
 * Edwards WILL show up at Ranger Station Echo if you suggest that he go there and protect him along the way. (Confirmed on 360, PC)
 * You can simply suggest that there are plenty of places he could go. If you do this however, you will later find his corpse at Mesquite Mountains Campsite (north of Mojave Outpost) where it appears that he was killed by 3 Giant Radscorpions that are hovering around his body.
 * If you attempt to save him by killing the Radscorpians before he gets there, upon arriving at the campsite he will turn round and return to Camp Searchlight. When he arrives there he will start the journey again and only settle at the camp site when he finds Radscorpians to kill there. He then settles into the camp, staying by the fire, occasionally doing push-ups or warming his hands on the fire and killing any Rads that approach.

If you are wanting to help him and still be able to get his Irradiated NCR dogtag then make sure to get it before you send him back to either of the NCR camps because once he leaves the item will no longer be available to pick-pocket from him.

Interactions with the player character
If you have a high enough speech skill, you can convince him that you killed all the Radscorpions and he will thank you and leave. Upon leaving his irradiated house you will see his body next to at least 3 Giant Radscorpions which are right outside the door and very difficult to elude. When doing this (or fighting off the 3 for him) use the other exit to his house and they will be on the other side. The battle is the same difficulty, except you aren't spawning yourself in the center.

Note

 * Private Edwards is one of the few ghouls which still have human eye color. Moira Brown from Fallout 3 is the only other known example of this. In both cases, the ghoul in question had just turned.

Bugs

 * If you talk to Astor about Edwards after you already collected Edwards dogtag, you will not be given option to talk about Ranger Station Echo, neither to convince him to accept Edwards in to his squad. (Confirmed)

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.