Rory Maclaren

Rory McLaren is a slave at Paradise Falls. In order to get Penny to leave for the quest Rescue from Paradise, he will ask that you escort him to the entrance. Once you finish escorting him he will go to Moriarty's Saloon and stand in the room to the right where you find Mr. Burke. When you try talking to him he says "Hey. Talk fast, they hate it when I talk to customers." He may also stop at the entrance to Paradise Falls, saying the same when talked to. Either way he seems to be bugged or the developers simply forgot to give him a purpose (and gratitude) after rescuing him.

It is possible that he may be dead when you go to save him. This seems to happen the most when the town goes hostile towards the player before he is set free. It may be a scripted event, or he may just be fired on through the shelter as a friendly NPC. If the player wishes to gun his or her way out of Paradise Falls, this problem can be solved by setting him free during the normal course of the escape quest, leading him to the far back corner of the childrens' pen, and having him wait while you decimate the slavers. He is not much use during the very intense firefight that ensues, even when reverse-pickpocketed with a weapon.

If you successfully saved him during Rescue from Paradise quest, and he began following you everywhere resulting from a bug, it is possible to use him as a joinable character. There's no way of healing him and the only way to give him stuff is by reverse-pickpocket, which will result a small karma loss and may randomly turn him hostile. He can use Shishkebab and prefers it over Combat Shotgun. As with most NPCs, he can be rendered essential. You can find his base id by typing "save fred 1" (with out the quotes) and look for his entry in the first section.