Cass

Rose of Sharon Cassidy (aka Cass), is a water merchant and owner of Cassidy Caravan in 2281.

Background
Born in 2244, Cass is the daughter of John Cassidy, a companion of the Chosen One in Fallout 2.

Worn down by years of hard luck and a recent rash of terrible misfortunes, Cass is a despondent merchant who's about to get out of the caravan business. She's smart, tough, and steady with a gun, but she hasn't been savvy enough to survive the ruthless caravan wars that have flared up in Nevada since NCR's expansion. Though she's quick to join up with the player for some easy money(you do NOT have to pay her), she's still interested in finding out if she's been suffering from bad luck or something more sinister.

She claims she was once followed by a King, who she eventually had to "chase off with a shotgun."

Quests

 * Heartache by the Number: The player recruits Cass as a companion, then investigates her sacked caravan and helps exact revenge on the perpetrators.
 * You Can Depend on Me: The player is sent by Alice McLafferty to convince Cass to sell her caravan.
 * Birds of a Feather: The player is sent by Jean-Baptiste Cutting to either kill Cass or lure her to the Silver Rush to be killed.

Other interactions

 * If the player has the Lady Killer perk, he can accuse Cass of flirting with him saying "Miss Cassidy... are you flirting with me?" a reference to The Graduate. Doing so will result in Cass making it clear that nothing is ever going to happen between the two, she "knows his type", implying the courier is a "player".
 * If the player has a high enough speech and the Lady Killer perk she'll say she "knows his look" and knows he says all the right things to leave a trail of broken hearts across the Mojave.
 * If the player has the Confirmed Bachelor perk, he can respond to Cass's flirting by saying they should not be anything more than friends. Cass states that he must have a "Legion" point of view, implying that he is not interested in women.
 * If the player has the Black Widow perk, she can respond to Cass's comment about not liking "soft men" by saying that they're rarely a problem for the player.
 * If the player has the Cherchez La Femme perk, Cass will respond by nervously saying that when she's had enough to drink, she doesn't care who she ends up in bed with.
 * Opening a conversation with Cass after she has joined you and when you have substantially negative karma will force a Speech check. If you fail your Speech checks in both conversations with her, she will leave you permanently. Even if the first speech challenges are successful, talking to her a third time will result in her leaving your party anyway. If the Courier chooses to make a comment about her dead parents, she will become hostile. Players can avoid this by not entering conversation mode with her, but this will make her personal quest impossible to complete.

Inventory
Cass comes equipped with both a Combat Knife, and a Caravan Shotgun. She also has 13 Bottle Caps, and an Empty Whiskey Bottle in her inventory (Although combat knife, and caravan shotgun are not included in her inventory)
 * Cass's shotgun is a companion variant (id 00176E55) Same with her Combat Knife (00176E56). Useful if a casino robs her and gives it to the PC.

Appearances
only appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes

 * Rose of Sharon is a common name that applies to several different species of flowering plants that are highly valued throughout the world and originates in the Bible. She is named after the character of the same name in John Steinbeck's novel The Grapes of Wrath, which she describes as "some old Pre-War book about dirt farmers."

Bugs

 * Attempting to heal Cass by giving her Stimpaks may cause the game to freeze.


 * Sometimes for no reason she will keep talking to you as if you selected to talk and she will repeat this every few seconds and sometimes even reloading the game cannot correct this error.


 * Like with all companions on New Vegas, sometimes when a script which empties your inventory takes effect, such as when entering casinos, it will will remove their "companion only" weapon, and upon leaving you will receive it in your inventory. 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.


 * If you kill the Van Graffs before recruiting her she will talk to you about the quest "Heartache by the number", but you will not be able to recruit her.


 * The Calm Heart perk is bugged. The added health bonus is 50/0 which means that she gets a health boost of 50 points but her max health limit is the same as before (ex. 270/270 HP (default) 320/270 HP (with Calm Heart perk)).


 * She is not needed to get "the whole gang" trophy. [Update: She was required to get "the whole gang" achievement for this user.]


 * When attempting to reload a weapon with an internal box or tubular magazine, such as the cowboy repeater or hunting shotgun, she may get 'stuck' in a loop of the reloading animation indefinitely. Telling her to switch to melee weapons, and then back to ranged via the companion wheel will 'fix' the problem, with the weapon now fully loaded.


 * After recruiting Cass, if you try to speak to Lacey, the game will freeze but the start menu is still available.


 * If she was sent to Lucky 38 before starting sub-quest from the Van Graffs brother, quest mark will indicate that she is located close to the Mojave Outpost, but player won't be able to actually see her there. Then quest mark will guide the Courier to the Silver Rush where player can tell Jean-Baptist that she is dead. She seems to disappear from the game at this point.


 * Cass can cause the game to crash repeatedly around New Vegas.


 * In some cases Cass has returned to the Mojave outpost even after being Killed by Jean-Baptiste during the "Birds of a Feather" quest.


 * For an unknown reason Cass after becoming a companion to the player may lose the companion wheel and only say in the chatlog "". —Preceding comment was unsigned. Please sign your posts with ~ !


 * Cass may randomly die while fast-traveling to Brooks' Tumbleweed Ranch. Attempted multiple times with the same save.


 * You cannot complete the quest "Heartache by the number" if you elect to investigate the Van Graffs and Crimson Caravan. The reason for this is that you cannot investigate the Van Graffs without triggering a full on gunfight to which a converstaion with Cassiday leads you to taking the law into your own hands. But the appropriate parts of the quest are never marked as complete. Approaching Alice McLafferty will not result in any additional dialog options (note that this was after becoming idolized with Crimson Caravans).

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