Grandma Sparkle

Grandma Sparkle is a trader and a cook at Wilhelm's Wharf in 2277.

Background
Grandma Sparkle was born in 2205. Despite the recent super mutant and raider incursions, she refused to leave the wharf. She is protected by her deft hunting rifle skill and her family, who are out searching for mirelurk meat. She has tasted all kinds of critters and swears that mirelurks are the most delicious.

Appearances
Grandma Sparkle appears only in Fallout 3.

Behind the scenes

 * Grandma Sparkle appears in a form list whose only other entries are for the unimplemented Rock Crick hunters, indicating that they are the "boys" who "are out hunting 'lurks."
 * A partially completed dialogue option in the Broken Steel add-on was to have allowed the Lone Wanderer to ask Grandma Sparkle what she thought of Split Jack's gang. Sparkle's reply is not present.

Bugs

 * 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 Lone Wanderer with good Karma is being hunted by Talon Company hitmen. An alternate dialogue about someone looking for "some troublemaker from one of them vaults" is supposed to be said for a karmically evil Lone Wanderer. However, the dialogue is set so that she checks her own Karma instead of that of the Lone Wanderer. Since she is a good non-player character, the evil dialogue never plays.
 * Sometimes, Grandma Sparkle will be sitting in the ground, under her chair. She acts exactly the same and gets up as usual.


 * The game can possibly crash when exiting Grandma Sparkle's shack. This has been dubbed as "The Curse of Grandma Sparkle" by Youtuber Mitten Squad. It's unknown why this happens, though it's possible that the loading zone for the DC area overlaps with the shack and causes the game to crash.