Lydia Montenegro

Lydia Montenegro is a resident of Tenpenny Tower. She is one of several bigoted residents that you try to convince to change her views if you are attempting to help move Roy Phillips' ghouls into Tenpenny Tower.

Lydia runs the store Boutique Le Chic in Tenpenny Tower. She sells junk and Housing Improvements for your Suite. She also sells the schematics for the Dart Gun, and sells one of the Pre-war Books. She will leave the tower if you loot her safe, claiming it's not safe despite all the guards. If she leaves, you will lose the ability to buy house upgrades. If this happens, the only other option is to let the ghouls invade the tower. After the invasion, Michael Masters will take over the shop, and a different shop will sell the house upgrades.

If you loot her safe but haven't talked with her (which triggers her leaving). I got her to stay in Tenpenny Tower by putting 2 useless items back in the safe, but after I did that I also killed Roy and his gang. So I'm not sure if she stayed because I reverse pick-pocketed her safe, or because I killed the ghouls for the "Tenpenny Tower" quest, or both.

If she decides to leave Tenpenny Tower, she supposedly heads out to Megaton and can be found outside the main gate causing tremendous graphics lag for some reason (confirmed in both the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions). Scaring her away or doing her in, however, instantly removes her effect on performance. Same goes for Anthony Ling.

There may also be a glitch with Lydia because I went to buy things off her and she was completely bald, but a few days later her hair was back.

If you kill her and loot her corpse for her inventory key once the ghouls move in or invade the inventory box will be relocked by the new owner Bessie Lynn so make sure to loot everything before finishing the Tenpenny Tower quest. The store's inventory box will NOT contain any "house" items (Themes, Jukebox, etc).

Related quests

 * Tenpenny Tower (quest)

Appearances
only appears in Fallout 3.