Gladys Culkelly

Gladys Culkelly is a fence aboard the Groundbreaker. Her office is in the Rest-N-Go.
==Background==
Gladys runs a pawn shopWhen he was short on bits, Udom Bedford pawned his Official Seal of Halcyon Holdings Board to Gladys. and is a black market fence. She can sell the Stranger a Navkey to Stellar Bay on Monarch, and is also an information broker.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."
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,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." but she also knits pillows stuffed with the hair of famous tossball players.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."
She is friends with Edna IngmireGladys: "Do you know Edna, over in Engineering? Sweet as a pea, that one. On occasion, she'll pass along transmissions I might find interesting.", and met Phineas Vernon Welles when they were young - he borrowed some bits from Gladys and never paid her back.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.".
==Player interactions==
===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==
Category:Characters (The Outer Worlds)
Category:Groundbreaker