One for My Baby

One for My Baby is a side quest in Fallout: New Vegas.

Quick walkthrough

 * Talk to Boone about his wife. Note: Boone is a Night-Time sniper. You can obtain this knowledge from Manny Vargas and also the quest, Come Fly With Me.
 * Go to the Dino Dee-lite Front Desk and search the floor vault behind the desk, take the Bill of sale. (Steal Jeannie May's Safe Key from Jeannie May Crawford to open the safe without Lockpick).(You can also have Boone kill her then loot the key and then get the evidence.)
 * Lead Jeannie May Crawford to the front of the dinosaur between 10 P.M and 9 A.M, when Boone is in the dinosaur.
 * Equip Boone's Beret.
 * Jeannie May Crawford gets killed by a headshot by Craig Boone
 * Return to Boone, show him the Bill of Sale.


 * Or take anyone else out to die. You will need a speech skill of 55 to convince Boone that you were right in killing them.

Detailed walkthrough
1. Go to Novac between 9 PM and 9 AM. Find the giant dinosaur and enter it. Once inside, head up the stairs and go through the door at the top. You should meet a man named Boone. Talk to him about his wife and you will receive the quest to find out who sold his wife off to slavers so he may kill them. He also gives you his beret to wear as a signal to fire on the person you bring in front of the Dino.

2. You are then given the task to talk to select inhabitants of Novac. Luckily, you only need to talk to one of them in order to progress in the quest. This person is No-Bark Noonan, an older man that seems a little out of his mind. You can find his shack behind the motel. Talk to No-Bark about Boone's wife and he will tell you about strange business in the motel lobby. (If you have a high enough speech level you can finish the quest without evidence. Just talk to Boone after talking to No-Bark Noonan.)

3. Head to the Dino Dee-lite Front Desk and check behind the counter to find a safe in the floor. This safe is locked and will require you to either lock pick it (easy skill) or pickpocket the key from Jeannie (there is no loss of karma). Inside the safe you will find a note titled Bill of Sale. This document tells of how Jeannie May Crawford sold Boone's wife off to slavers. Alternatively, you can have Boone kill her first, then take the key and go back for the evidence.

4. Now you have the evidence, so wait until Boone is at the sniping spot (between 10 PM and 9 AM) to confront Jeannie and ask her to take a stroll with you in front of the dinosaur. Once in front of the dinosaur put on the beret and Boone will kill Jeannie and your job is done.(Remember that Boone has to be in the T-Rex ready to shoot before the dialogue that allows you to lure Jeannie May to get shot appears as a dialogue choice)

5. Head up to Boone. He will ask you how you knew it was her (this is where getting the evidence comes into play) and you tell him about the bill of sale you found. If you did not get the evidence you can use speech on him but if that fails he may try to kill you or he may get angry, snatch his beret back, and say that he doesn't ever want to see you again (thus no option of him being a companion, obviously). If you told him about the evidence you can keep talking to him and make him become your companion. Upon joining you, you will gain the Spotter perk.


 * Alternative: After accepting the mission, you can go talk to Manny and get him to walk in front of the dinosaur where Boone will kill him, whereupon you can get some good loot from Manny's corpse (including his beret which carries a +5 critical hit chance) without getting any negative karma, though Boone will be angry at the lack of evidence as mentioned above and not be your companion unless a speech check is passed (55). However the same +crit beret is given as a reward for completing the quest correctly (sending Jeannie May). If this alternative is chosen, the side mission of clearing out the building to the west should be completed and turned in first. Killing Boone will also let you loot the +crit beret.

Bugs

 * If you ask the wrong person to go in front of the dinosaur then talk to them about something else,they will become stuck and they do not return to their original location. After this you are no longer able to take Jeannie May Crawford in front of the dino, rendering the quest broken.
 * For some reason, Boone would not shoot the person sent to the front of the dinosaur with the beret equipped, no matter who it was. Apparently, the only way this was worked around is to shoot at Boone for his attention, then hide behind the person in front of the dinosaur.
 * Starting the quest without first talking to the hotel manager about heading over to the gift shop will cause Cliff to not take over as hotel manager and so making it impossible to access the hotel room; however, you can get the key before having her executed. If you executed her already then help Dusty Mcbride so you have a accepted reputation in novac this will let you get the key
 * Speaking to Boone, during the quest, as he's heading to the sniper post will cause him to become stuck. Making it impossible to complete the quest since Boone will no longer be able to shoot someone.
 * Sometimes, if you send Jeannie but don't wear the beret, you may not be able anymore to repeat the operation. However, Boone will consider quest as finished if you speak to him, so you can have him as a companion while Jeannie is still alive.
 * On rare occasions, NPC's (including Jeannie's) AI walking script will stop working. As a workaround, the player must push the NPC to the location to complete the quest. More convenient alternative is to get to intended position, open console and type in two commands: (selecting Jeannie after telling her to go in front of the dinosaur),
 * Sometimes you will not have the talk option to make Jeannie May follow you in front of the Dinosaur. The best way to fix this is to talk to Jeannie outside when she leaves around midnight.
 * Binding Boone's Beret to a hotkey may result in the game freezing or crashing.
 * Obtaining the evidence before talking to No-Bark will result in a quest completion for the optional objectives.
 * Sometimes the evidence will not appear in the safe, halting your progress unless high enough speech is available to convince Boone without it.
 * Sometimes upon trying to complete the quest, there will be no chat option to show Boone the Bill of Sale, rendering the companion recruitment broken.
 * After completing the quest Boone's beret will remain in your inventory.
 * During the dialog when Boone asks you "How did you know?" One of your Dialog options is "I just wanted you to kill her.", no matter the gender of the person you sent.
 * In some rare cases, talking to Boone for the very first time will instantly result in dialogue intended for after the assassination. Boone acts as if he killed the target, even if no one appeared (nor got shot). You will still receive all quest rewards (or punishments) depending on your response as to the question of evidence proving who was the criminal.

Behind the scenes
The quest's name, like all the companion quest names, is a reference to an old crooner song "One For My Baby (and One More For the Road)" by Harold Arlen and Johnny Mercer. It was popularized by Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis, Jr., and Billie Holiday.

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