Raul (Fallout: New Vegas)

Raul Alfonso Tejada, born 2047, is a 234 year old half blind ghoul mechanic living in the Mojave Desert in 2281. He can join the Courier as a follower.

Background
Raul is a ghoul who has had a long and storied history. Before the war, Raul was a delinquent living in Hidalgo Ranch, Mexico. He was a good shooter and mechanic, both which occasionally got him in trouble with the law, although his family mostly kept him in line. After the war, he survived on his families' ranch in Mexico until his family ran out of space for refugees and the refugees got violent. Raul and his father had to chase off around 2 dozen people, they later came and burnt his house down. His Mother, Father, 2 sisters and 2 brothers all died in the fire. He was able to save one sister, Rafaela, and they went to Mexico City to begin a new life. One day, while scavenging, he found a Vaquero outfit at a costume store. He began wearing it and became sort of a legend that began to attract people trying to make a name for themselves. While his sister was out one day scavenging, she was brutally murdered by a band of raiders, identifiable only by a tiny scar on her knee. Raul, who was unable to go with his sister because his "ghoulification" made him sick, tracked down the raiders' market and killed everyone in retaliation. Seeing it as a reason for his problems, he got rid of his vaquero outfit and found a Petro-Chico jumpsuit with the name tag "Miguel". After being freed from captivity, he will join the player out of gratitude. A new taste of adventure reminds Raul of his tumultuous past, prompting him to consider if he should embrace his old gunslinging ways.

Interactions with the player character
Raul is a mechanic and can become a follower for you, should you visit the State of Utobitha and release Raul from captivity.

Raul can grant repair services like some NPCs but unlike your typical NPC repair, Raul's are at 100%. He charges caps for this and it can only be done if he is told to return to his shack near Nellis Airforce Base, not the Lucky 38. One way to get around this is to say you need to head on without him, and then when he walks away talk to him again and the game will think he is back in his shack, allowing you to use his repair skill. When you're done, talk to him again to get him to follow you. The location of his shack will be revealed, although you will have to still discover it before fast traveling there. He will not repair equipment if he's currently following The Courier, only if he is idle.

Quests
To unlock his prison door in Crazy, Crazy, Crazy, hack the computer to the right or check the computer to the left for Entry number six.

By completing an unmarked side quest for Raul, Old School Ghoul, you can change his companion perk and default armor.

(Patch 1.01) Full Maintenance perk seems to do nothing at all, this is a empty perk now. Attaining the Vaquero outfit can be difficult due to a bug which can remove a speech trigger necessary to unlock it, see Vaquero outfit bug section.

Endings

 * After the game is completed, if Raul was used as a companion, you never released him, or you didn't do any quests for him, the aftermath cutscene may say he left the Mojave and assumed a new name, as he had so many times before.

Appearances
Raul only appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Notable quotes

 * "This crouch-walking is hell on my back, Boss."
 * "Don't worry boss, with my cataracts, you only sort of look like the bad guys."
 * "Hey boss! I may be ugly, But I am on your side."
 * "I wouldn't mind this so much, if it weren't for the maniacal gleam in your eye."
 * "I'm an open book, boss. Granted, the book's in Spanish and some of the pages have fallen out, but I'm an open book."

Bugs

 * If you kill Tabitha, she will have the key. Unfortunately, when you do this Raul will not be in the room.
 * Likewise with all companions that use weapons in New Vegas, sometimes via script such as entering casinos will remove their "companion only" weapon. Upon leaving you will receive it in your inventory and can even use it, but if you happen to drop it on the ground, you cannot pick it back up when you click it -- it will only say "steal" with no weapon name shown.
 * In order to complete his side quest and get his vaquero outfit you have to recruit him as a companion before you meet Ranger Andy for the first time or you will never be able to complete his side quest, or get the new outfit, or bonus perk. Speaking to Loyal in the Nellis Air Force Base hangar may trigger Raul to talk.
 * Raul will sometimes "vanish" during certain quests. You'll still be able to hear his voice upon doing stuff like crouching, but will not be able to see him, the only way to fix this is to use the moveto console commands. This also may happen during the vaquero side quest, upon which Raul would normally speak with you (such as after talking to the corporal) he will randomly be wandering the wastelands, in which once again; you will have to use the console command. Upon doing so, he will speak to you and you will be able to complete the quest.
 * When you try to get Raul to repair your equipment at his shack, he keeps saying that he has to be at his shack to repair your stuff, despite already being there. (If sent back to his shack and is no longer following the Courier Raul will repair items but still charges for caps.)
 * On the 360 and PC versions, the recent patch seems to have removed the side quest trigger from Ranger Andy, making it impossible to complete, thus the armor is currently unavailable.(This is confirmed on xbox 360)(confirmed on PC with patch 2 installed)(completed 12 hours ago with a patched PC version, worked fine)
 * Raul sometimes will run off to kill a creature in the distance that you may not even see. This is likely due to Raul's high perception (interestingly despite his cataracts), he will come back afterward if he survives.
 * Raul's free quest is tied to a Speech check with Ranger Andy that grants the perk Ranger Takedown. If you have already completed the speech check with Ranger Andy prior to acquiring Raul as a companion the free quest will not register you as having talked to Ranger Andy and Raul's free quest will not be able to be completed.
 * When exiting buildings in the Strip, Raul will not leave the building with you, and then die. Reloading the autosave will fix this.
 * If Raul disappears, just travel to vault 22 and use the elevator and he will spawn next to you (Confirmed XBox 360)

Workarounds
After that, take Raul as your companion and go talk to Andy , it'll trigger the dialogue , then Corporal Sterling and Loyal to finish the quest.
 * Entering and making a transition to an outside environment will produce the dialog you'd get after speaking to Ranger Andy.
 * Similarly, allows you to get the dialog from meeting Corporal Sterling if he will no longer talk to you at Camp Forlorn Hope.
 * E61A5 is an unknown variable with patch 1.01. Possibly related to the removal (Bug?) of the Ranger Andy trigger.
 * If you're stuck at loyal and Raul is not saying anything after talking just use set "000e61a5".metloyal to 1. Exit any building, and this can trigger the final conversation. Then you can get either the armored petro chico outfit or vaquero outfit.
 * - Received Ranger Takedown perk from Ranger Andy as well as checking Charlie Station for him before having Raul as a companion. Visiting the ranger after acquiring Raul did not trigger side quest.  Went straight to Sterling at Camp McCarran and his dialogue successfully triggered Raul's quest.
 * If setting MetRangerAndy variable to 1 does not initiate conversation, try setting the variable to 2 and talk to Raul.
 * Enter in console - set "e61a5".raulupgrade to 0 then after resetquest e61a5.

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