“The fence? You'll find her in the Rest-n-Go. Make sure you bring an empty belly.
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Gladys Culkelly is a fence aboard the Groundbreaker. Her office is in the Rest-N-Go.
Background[]
Gladys runs a pawn shop[1] and is a black market fence. She can sell the Stranger a Navkey to Stellar Bay on Monarch, and is also an information broker.[2]
The old lady, as she calls herself, is famous for her cooking and "do it yourself" abilities - she is particularly proud of her sugar cookies,[3] but she also knits pillows stuffed with the hair of famous tossball players.[4]
She is friends with Edna Ingmire[5], and met Phineas Vernon Welles when they were young - he borrowed some bits from Gladys and never paid her back.[6].
Player interactions[]
| Available interactions with Gladys Culkelly | |
|---|---|
| Companion | Conversation |
| ✓ | ✓ |
| Quests | Merchant |
| ✓ | ✓ |
| Companion interactions | ||
|---|---|---|
| Ellie | Felix | Nyoka |
| ✘ | ✘ | ✘ |
| Max | Parvati | SAM |
| ✓ | ✓ | ✘ |
| Merchant inventory | ||
|---|---|---|
| Weapons | Armor | Consumables |
| ✓ | ✘ | ✓ |
| Modifications | General | Quest |
| ✓ | ✘ | ✓ |
Related quests[]
- Passage to Anywhere: The Stellar Bay Navkey can be purchased from Gladys for 10,000 bits.
- The Distress Signal: Gladys gives the Stranger a copy of a distress signal from Roseway and offers to buy any valuable data that they find there.
- Don't Bite The Sun: Parvati wants to buy some soap from Gladys.
- Weapons from the Void: Gladys sells two datapads which provide clues to the locations of the Prismatic Hammer and Mandibular Rearranger.
Notable items[]
Most of her "official" inventory is consumables, but she sells several notable items:
- Salvager's Helper - a unique pistol dealing corrosion damage
- Battered Mardet Datapad
- Hephaestos Hephaestus Mining - Archive Cartridge
- Stellar Bay Navkey - can be bought via dialogue for 10,000 bits
Additional notes[]
- Gladys holds weekly magazine club meetings at Rest-N-Go.
- Gladys follows "The Chairman's Children" serial, and invites the Stranger to join her in listening.
- When trading with Gladys, she will mention several items like a kettle, ceramic mantipillar or a throw pillow she made which may suggest those things will appear in her merchant inventory, but none of those items are actually for sale.
References[]
- ↑ When he was short on bits, Udom Bedford pawned his Official Seal of Halcyon Holdings Board to Gladys.
- ↑ Gladys: "If you should find any infromation worth selling, might be I could find a buyer. Corporate bigwigs'll pay top bits for inside information on their competitiors."
- ↑ Gladys: "Did the neighbors tell you how good my sugar cookies are? Made without a single natural ingredient or an oven, just like store-bought."
- ↑ Gladys: "I also knit throw pillows stuffed with the hair of famous tossball players. But that's more of a passion project."
Parvati: "I'm not sure that's entirely legal"
Gladys: "That's half of the reason I make them, my dear." - ↑ Gladys: "Do you know Edna, over in Engineering? Sweet as a pea, that one. On occasion, she'll pass along transmissions I might find interesting."
- ↑ Gladys: "He was quite the dancer back in his prime, did he tell you? Real light on his feet. Real light on his wallet too. He still owes me a small fortune. Laws, maybe I should charge you double."