Emily Ortal

Doctor Emily Ortal is a physician who is found outside the Lucky 38 casino on the Strip in 2281.

Background
Hailing from Arroyo, Emily Ortal is a member of the Followers of the Apocalypse, with an affinity for computers and related projects. She has been working in the Mojave since 2276, joining the Followers to do some good, as neither the OSI nor other NCR-aligned organizations funded research into medical technology unless it had military applications. The inflation and taxation in Republic territories also played a factor in her choice.

She is responsible for reprogramming Yes Man for Benny, making it connect to the network, but as an invisible peer, so that Mr. House wouldn't fry it remotely. Benny kicked her out of the Tops soon after choosing not to fulfill his end of the deal and ended their arrangement once he had what he wanted. What made it all the more embarrassing was a brief affair she had with him, chalked up to sleep deprivation and one atomic cocktail too many.

Quests

 * The Moon Comes Over the Tower: Emily Ortal will approach the Courier outside of the Lucky 38 casino, and will ask for them to bug one of Mr. House's computers in order to obtain medical data. At this point, her request may be accepted without an extra reward, or when passing a 40 Barter check, the Courier may acquire several medical supplies from her as payment.

Other interactions

 * A dialogue option exists where the player can pass an (Intelligence 6) check to ask how Emily made it onto the Strip. She will explain that the matter of Mr. House's technology was important enough that the Followers managed to scrape together enough caps for the credit check.

Appearances
Emily Ortal appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs

 * Sometimes Emily may not appear in-game.
 * After bugging Mr. House's computer network, Emily Ortal may not appear outside the Lucky 38, where the quest objective is.
 * On PC, she can be made to reappear by typing: and.
 * Sometimes Emily will spawn inside the Presidential Suite and/or the casino at the Lucky 38.
 * Emily can sometimes be found at The Fort, after the drawbridge, where she will make her request for The Moon Comes Over the Tower. If this is the case the player may then need to return there to complete the quest.
 * The first conversation with Emily will act as if she's already asked the Courier to bug Mr. House's, and was rejected. This may have to do with the order you do the quests in. (Likely to happen if Benny is not killed at the Tops.)
 * Emily appears at the gates of the Sierra Madre Casino at the end of Dead Money before you travel back to the Wasteland, ending the add-on. This makes the quest impossible to complete as she will wait there, and the player cannot return to the Sierra Madre after the end of the DLC.
 * On PC, this can be changed using the console.
 * Sometimes Emily will disappear and respawn in the Nellis array inexplicably. The quest can still be completed, however, the game may place her waypoint at Old Mormon Fort before redirecting you to the Nellis array. She spawns inside the array entrance with her normal dialogue. If you complete her quest, she will simply leave, and try to manually walk back to the Old Mormon Fort, but will be killed if you do not fast travel before she hits the artillery zone.
 * After completing the quest The Moon Comes Over the Tower, you can talk with her about what happened during her previous attempt at fulfilling her task, and you'll eventually have the possibility of making infinite speech challenges. If your speech skill is 35 or more, you can win as many of these speech challenges as you want, since they make up an infinite loop of experience winnings.
 * Emily may sometimes appear inside the REPCONN headquarters to give the Courier the quest The Moon Comes Over the Tower.