Grandma Sparkle

Grandma Sparkle is an old woman who resides at Wilhelm's Wharf. She is just a merchant but has a very limited inventory of items to sell and even more limited caps.

The door to her shack can be opened with out a karma loss. Her shack can be looted for some weapons such as a Hunting Rifle and a supply of ammo.

Grandma Sparkle is armed with a Hunting Rifle and Brahmin-Skin Outfit. However, she is extremely weak and dies after only a few shots from even a low-level pistol. Despite being armed, she always seems to run from combat. If wandering Raiders or monsters approach Wilheim's Wharf, she'll usually retreat into the safety of her shack. If attacked by the player character, she has a tendency to run off in random directions (often right into the river itself). She is a mesmerable target, and can be made into a slave.

You can randomly find Grandma Sparkle killed in her house. Raiders have a tendency to follow her into the unlocked house and kill her, leaving the options to raid the home once you exterminate the Raider. She has a Sniper Rifle in a cabinet in the house. (Note from edit: it has been reported that players have found other loot such as a combat shotgun in her house)Killing Sparkle and looting the body will make you find the key to the refrigerator (contents will be up soon).

Grandma Sparkle comments that some people came around asking her about "some do-gooder from one of them vaults". This is supposed to indicate that a karmically good player is being hunted by Talon Company hitmen, and that an alternate dialog of someone looking for "Some troublemaker from one of them vaults" is to be said for karmically evil characters. However, a setting in the conditionals for these dialog choices is incorrectly set, and she will only say the "do-gooder" version.

With a name like Sparkle it is possible that she came from Little Lamplight

She often comments about 'her boys are out hunting 'lurks'. If you travel to the nearby Mirelurk-infested Anchorage Memorial, part of the Wasteland Survival Guide quest, you can find several dead wastelanders, possibly the 'boys' she was referring to, poorly equipped and wearing only Brahmin Skin and Wasteland Settler outfits.