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Veronica has received the Elijah's Last Words perk.
She has learned a secret Melee Weapon technique that increases her attack speed by 150% and gives her a 25% chance to knock down enemies.
— In-game description

Elijah's Last Words is a special perk in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Dead Money.

Obtaining[]

This perk is rewarded by first completing the Dead Money add-on. Once returned to the abandoned Brotherhood of Steel bunker, enter Elijah's chemistry lab, the room that is initially locked by an Average-locked terminal before starting the add-on, now unlocked if it wasn't before. To the left of the door, a terminal sits on a desk, where the relevant option is to download a holomessage. The instructions say to bring it to Veronica.

Depending on whether she was already recruited as a companion and where she was dismissed to, Veronica can typically be found at the 188 trading post west of Boulder City or potentially in the Lucky 38 presidential suite in New Vegas. In order to unlock the option to give her the holomessage, all options in the dialogue path starting with "Tell me about yourself" must be exhausted until the topic of Father Elijah comes up and the specific dialogue "Where is he now?" is selected.

Once that is over, Veronica should have a new option of "I found Elijah." At the end, the player character has two options with the unlocked holomessage: to let Veronica keep and read it or keep and read it for themselves. The former will reward this perk while the latter will reward the Elijah's Ramblings perk.

Effects[]

Gaining this perk grants a permanent 150% increase to Veronica's melee attack speed as well as a 25% chance for her melee attacks to inflict a "knockdown" effect on enemies when she is an active companion.

Notes[]

  • The perk does not have a Vault Boy image nor an in-game description.
  • Like Causeless Rebel, Elijah's Last Words does not seem to appear at all in the Pipboy, even after receiving the notification of acquiring it.
  • The perk will only affect Veronica's melee attacks, not her unarmed attacks. Her Melee Weapons skill is not tagged and can never rise above 18.
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