Gloria Van Graff

Gloria Van Graff is the New Vegas head of the Van Graff family and manager of the Silver Rush energy weapons store in 2281.

Background
Gloria is the ambitious daughter of the Van Graff matriarch, who has expanded her family's operations into the Mojave Wasteland (largely because she didn't get along with her parents). She is a firm believer in the rule that might makes right and regularly practices it. The first opportunity to do so came when the Van Graffs first came to Freeside in 2276. The Van Graffs took over the dilapidated Silver Rush casino. When the Kings protested, plasma weapons caused them to withdraw the objections, leaving the family free to ply their trade. Gloria quickly set about entrenching her position, openly trading Energy Weapons to her customers. This attracted the attention of the Brotherhood, the only thing saving her skin being Elder Elijah's preoccupation with Helios One.

Her general strategy is to maximize profits through official and unofficial deals, as well as undercutting the competition. To this end, she has formed a covert alliance with Alice McLafferty: In return for hitting competing caravan outfits, like Durable Dunn's or Cassidy Caravans, staging them as Brotherhood attacks, the Crimson Caravan Company would undermine the Gun Runners' market share, motivating clients to deal with the Van Graffs instead.

Of course, Gloria has bigger ambitions. As the Legion was making entreaties towards traders in the Mojave, she contacted one of their representatives and agreed to provide them with energy weapons. Unbeknownst to the Legion, the deal was actually a set-up: Gloria has negotiated a deal with the NCR. She would draw the Legion's representatives into a trap laid by the Army, and the Army would start purchasing weapons from her in return. This allowed her to overcome the hostility of the Republic to her family, earning her not only a big defense contract, but also connections in the NCR which could be leveraged to the further benefit of the family. If anything, the fact that she made five times more money on selling out the Legion to the Republic than dealing weapons to them and kept the Legion's payment as a bonus will make her mother listen.

Relationships
Gloria is a passionate woman and has been known to have held intimate relationships with Kings member Pacer and with a former Van Graff employee Jacob. Both have ended on less and amicable terms. Other than those two relationships, Gloria has been known to sleep with many employees of the Van Graffs so much so that her mother has told her to not "tip the help".

Pacer's relationship with Gloria, while never mentioned in-depth, is reason enough for Pacer to nose around in the business of the Van Graffs. Pacer often harasses Simon during his shift, but an action like that could easily result in an easy and well-disguised political assassination.

The other relationship with Jacob was as straight forward as could be with the power dynamic between manager and employee. Gloria had admitted to Jacob that she gets easily jealous and would only entertain the relationship if he stayed loyal to her. While Jacob promised to do so, he was later caught by Gloria at Gomorrah being serviced by one of their prostitutes. She would then kidnap Jacob and use him for target practice of the efficiency of Van Graff weapons.

Quests

 * Birds of a Feather: Gloria has an opening for a guard to aid Simon in monitoring and controlling the flow of customers. Getting on her good side with little jobs could allow the Courier to delve deeper into Van Graff operations.
 * Heartache by the Number: Upon discovering that the Van Graffs are working with Crimson Caravan to force smaller caravans out of business, Cass wants to see Gloria suffer; either through death, or political action from the NCR.
 * I Could Make You Care: Veronica's quest is initiated by Gloria's greeting "Welcome to the Silver Rush..." and her line "Please let me know if anything catches your eye" which is the response to the player saying, "I'm just browsing."
 * Tend to Your Business: If Hardin is made Elder of the local Brotherhood of Steel chapter, then he'll task the Courier with annihilating the Van Graffs so that the Brotherhood can recover their stockpile of energy weapons.

Endings
If the Courier steals the Gun Runners manufacturing schematics, regardless if they were caught or not, and finishes Heartache by the Number peacefully, then Alice McLafferty and Gloria will be ambushed and killed by Gun Runners seeking revenge.

Inventory

 * See bugs.

Appearances
Gloria Van Graff appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs
Gloria drops drained microfusion cells in place of drained small energy cells. This bug is present with every plasma pistol user, as the particular leveled list for equipping a non-player character with a plasma pistol and ammunition (WithAmmoPlasmaPistolLoot, to be precise) calls for microfusion cells in place of energy cells.