Old Lady Palmer

Lucy "Old Lady" Palmer is one of the older residents of Vault 101. During your tenth birthday party, she is sitting at the same table with the Overseer in the cafeteria. When you talk to her, she will give you a birthday present: a freshly-baked sweetroll. If you talk to her, she will almost reveal the true origins of yourself and your father, but will be quickly hushed by the nearby Overseer.

Soon afterwards, Andy will attempt to cut the birthday cake (and fail) angering the resident bully, Butch, who will try to take the sweetroll from you. You will have several options to deal with the situation. If Butch attacks you, Officer Gomez quickly breaks up the fight.

During your escape from Vault 101 you can find a file on the Overseer's computer which states that Palmer was team leader of a scouting party that left the Vault to explore the outside world on February 2241.

Much later, during the factional crisis in Vault 101, she will be holed in the classroom with Amata's rebel faction. She explains that during the earlier emergency in the Vault, her grandson Jonas died in suspicious circumstances which she attributes to the Overseer.

Related quests

 * Growing Up Fast
 * Trouble on the Homefront

Trivia
The sweetroll and the scenario of a bully trying to take it from you is recurring event during the tutorial/character creation sequence of Morrowind, one of Bethesda's Elder Scrolls games.

Appearances
Old Lady Palmer appears only in Fallout 3.