Gloria Van Graff

Gloria Van Graff is the head of the Van Graff family in New Vegas and manager of the Silver Rush energy weapons store $$

Background
Gloria is the ambitious daughter of the Van Graff matriarch, who has expanded her family's operations into the Mojave Wasteland, largely because she did not get along with her parents. She is a firm believer in the rule that might makes right and regularly practices it. The first opportunity to do so came when the Van Graffs first came to Freeside. They took over the dilapidated Silver Rush casino. When the Kings protested, plasma weapons caused them to withdraw the objections, leaving the family free to ply their trade. Gloria quickly set about entrenching her position, openly trading energy Weapons to her customers. This attracted the attention of the Brotherhood, the only thing saving her skin being Elder Elijah's preoccupation with HELIOS One.

Her general strategy is to maximize profits through official and unofficial deals, as well as undercutting the competition. To this end, she has formed a covert alliance with Alice McLafferty: In return for hitting competing caravan outfits, like Durable Dunn's or Cassidy Caravans, staging them as Brotherhood attacks, the Crimson Caravan Company would undermine the Gun Runners' market share, motivating clients to deal with the Van Graffs instead.

Gloria has bigger ambitions, and as Caesar's Legion was making entreaties towards traders in the Mojave, she contacted one of their representatives and agreed to provide them with energy weapons. Unbeknownst to the Legion, the deal was actually a set-up: Gloria has negotiated a deal with the NCR. She would draw the Legion's representatives into a trap laid by the army, and the army would start purchasing weapons from her in return. This allowed her to overcome the hostility of the republic to her family, earning her not only a big defense contract, but also connections in the NCR which could be leveraged to the further benefit of the family. If anything, the fact that she made five times more money on selling out the Legion to the Republic than dealing weapons to them and kept the Legion's payment as a bonus will make her mother listen.

Gloria was close to her employee Jacob, at least until she discovered that he utilized the service of a Gomorrah prostitute, upon which she decided to use him as a "volunteer" for a weapon demonstration during her negotiations with Mr. Soren.

Inventory
1 See bug section.

Appearances
Gloria Van Graff appears $$

Bugs
Gloria drops drained microfusion cells in place of drained small energy cells. This bug is present with every plasma pistol user, as the particular leveled list ("WithAmmoPlasmaPistolLoot") for equipping a non-player character with a plasma pistol and ammunition calls for microfusion cells in place of energy cells.