Settlement
Crimson Caravan Company
The Crimson Caravan's walled New Vegas compound beside Freeside. Alice McLafferty offers caravan work and Blake trades from a roadside stall.
- Region
- New Vegas
- Faction
- Crimson Caravan
- Danger
- Safe
- Map position
- 11 × 5
The Crimson Caravan Company compound is the New Vegas branch of the big trading house from New California, built on an abandoned block of outer Vegas between Freeside's two gates and the New Vegas Medical Clinic. Guarded walls surround a campfire, a workbench, a pen of pack brahmin and several barracks buildings, three of which you can enter: the main office, the guard barracks and the caravaneer barracks.
Alice McLafferty manages the branch and starts You Can Depend on Me, a string of jobs that begins with delivering an invoice to Doctor Thomas Hildern at Camp McCarran and grows into business with Cassidy Caravans and the Gun Runners. That thread ties into Cass's companion quest, Heartache by the Number, and continues into Pressing Matters. During the day, Blake sells goods from a roadside stall across from the brahmin pen.
Janet, the caravaneer that Jack at Nellis is pining for, works here, which matters in Young Hearts, and Don Hostetler is around during the day for Aba Daba Honeymoon deliveries. The company is tied to the NCR, so the guards attack if you walk in dressed as a Legionary, a Great Khan or a Brotherhood of Steel member. A star bottle cap sits on the ham radio in the main office.
How to get there
Leave Freeside by the East Gate and walk a short way northeast to the walled compound.
Notable loot
- Sunset Sarsaparilla star bottle cap (on the ham radio in the main office)
Related quests
- You Can Depend on Me
- Heartache by the Number
- Pressing Matters
- Young Hearts
- Aba Daba Honeymoon
Notable characters
- Alice McLafferty
- Blake
- Janet
- Don Hostetler
Tips
- Change out of Legion, Great Khan or Brotherhood gear before walking in.
- Visit Blake during the day; his stall is across from the brahmin pen.
- Take You Can Depend on Me early if you want to follow Cass's story.
Collectibles and items here
- Holotape Crimson Caravan - Van Graff agreementIn the safe next to Alice McLafferty's desk in her office.
- Key Crimson Caravan safe keyCarried by Alice McLafferty, head of the Crimson Caravan Company.
- Character Alice McLaffertyIn the Crimson Caravan main office.
- Character Don HostetlerIn the Crimson Caravan main office during the day; at night he walks home to the Hostetler home down the road.
- Character JanetTending the brahmin pens at the Crimson Caravan Company during the day and sleeping in the barracks at night.
- Quest item Tiny, Tiny Babies: All You Need to Know About Pediatric MedicineOn the bottom shelf to the left of Blake at his roadside store, between two cartons of cigarettes and four bottles of whiskey.
- Quest item Stress and the Modern Refugee: A PrimerOn the shelf to the right of Blake at his roadside store, behind two ammunition containers and above a shelf with three first aid boxes.
- Side quest Pressing MattersAfter finishing You Can Depend on Me, talk to Alice McLafferty again in the Crimson Caravan main office.
- Side quest You Can Depend on MeTalk to Alice McLafferty in the Crimson Caravan main office on the east side of the compound and take her runner job.
- Skill magazine ¡La Fantoma! (Sneak)Inside the caravaneer barracks, on a desk.
- Skill magazine True Police Stories (Critical chance)On the floor inside the first restroom stall.
- Star bottle cap Crimson Caravan main officeCrimson Caravan Company, inside the main office. On top of the ham radio amplifier on the corner desk.
- Merchant BlakeCrimson Caravan Company compound, at the trading post inside the walls.