Old Lady Palmer

Lucy "Old Lady" Palmer is a resident of Vault 101. She is retired from official work duties and lives in her apartment baking sweetrolls for children. She is the mother of Anne Palmer and grandmother to Jonas Palmer. She is friendly with the Lone Wanderer.

On July 13, 2268, Old Lady Palmer celebrates the Lone Wanderer's tenth birthday party in the Cafeteria. This is at least the second birthday party she has celebrated for the Lone Wanderer. Old Lady Palmer gifts the Lone Wanderer with a sweetroll. This sweetroll could become a point of contention between Butch DeLoria and the Lone Wanderer. Amata Almodovar and Old Lady Palmer engage in small talk about the room's decorations. She drops hints that connect to the fact the vault has not always been sealed shut and at one point when talking to her, she apologizes for her "rambling" after complaining about the Overseer's "rules" and "secrets". She then goes on to say "Why, I have half a mind to just up and tell you..." which would obviously lead on to the secret that the Lone Wanderer was never born in the vault.

During your escape from Vault 101 you can find a file on the Overseer's computer which states that Anne Palmer, her daughter, was team leader of a scouting party that left the Vault to explore the outside world in February 2241.

Much later, during the factional crisis in Vault 101, she will be holed in the classroom with Amata's rebel faction. She explains that during the earlier emergency in the Vault, her grandson Jonas died in suspicious circumstances which she attributes to the Overseer.

In the picture to the right it appears that she is not wearing her pip-boy, this could mean that the pip boy is not a permanent device and that the older residents forfeit theirs to the younger residents when they come of age due to the pip boys lack of number.

She also hints that Vault 101 used to be more crowded. This could be that when she was younger, the gross population of Vault 101 was much higher. Or that, as you find out later in the game, Vault 101 was not always sealed and that the doors were open. Perhaps traders and the like used to frequent Vault 101 often.

Related quests

 * Growing Up Fast
 * Trouble on the Homefront

Appearances
Old Lady Palmer appears only in Fallout 3.