So I join up and start collecting fingers. From time to time I go back to Regulator headquarters and sell the fingers to the boss, Sonora Cruz.

Then something really weird happens.

I am at Regulator Headquarters and just before I start talking to Sonora she panics, starts running around like a striped-ass-ape and runs outside the building. I find her crouched down in some weeds hiding from a rad-scorpion that is killing brahmin. I shoot the Scorpion and then look around... Ms. Cruz is gone, nowhere to be found. I figure she will show up sooner or later, but... she never does.

I have gone back to Regulator Headquarters half-a-dozen times and Sonora is not around, anywhere, inside the building, outside, nowhere. So I am now stuck with a bunch a fingers and nobody to sell em to.

Has this happened to anyone else?

Thanks for any help.

Yes, it has happened to someone else. Thank-fully not me.

I know because it was discussed in a topic a while back, I didn't read it to the end though. Forgot the conclusion, if the eventually comes back or not...

Try leaving and coming back in three days (game time).

I'm sorry to say that it's a common bug, and if you're on console, there's nothing you can do.

Sonora is really pathetic. The only thing she's good for is that cool hat. In fact, if you find her, you should kill her and take it, and then go work for Daniel Littlehorn.

Curate & Diviner... thanks guys.

Soon to be Disciple and Diviner.

Soon to be Disciple and Master! Just need those 200-and sometihng more posts!

its never happened to me, thankfully. cause all of the things that spawn outside of the shack are deathclaws and sentry bots.

hmmm, maybe thats why those regulators never do anything, there too scared to go outside.

i dunno what im gonna be next. so soon to be diviner and soon to be master and soon to be announced.

Clear the area of any hostiles. You see that bridge that is real close? Go look over there for her, under the bridge.

There's usually a Deathclaw or Yao Guai near their HQ, kill it first and she should be more brave :hehe:

Same thing happened to me on my most recent play through, a Deathclaw spawned outside the HQ and I ran in there, it followed and Sonora Ran out. My next visit a Sentry Bot spawned and made Sonora run even further from the HQ so I had it chase me into the HQ. I tried to do the reverse, by hitting Sonora and running into the HQ but all she does is flee and never gives chase. The good part is that she's essential meaning you can only knock her unconscious.

Now that the local "threats" are inside the HQ and she's outside, I just deal with her out there and on future play throughs I'll just make sure never to have any aggressive creatures follow me inside the Regulator's HQ building...

Hey,

Derragorn, Tojka, Big Daddy and souro... thanks guys.

We can all agree on one thing for certain... Ms. Cruz is a Wutz of the first rank.

And she hires some weird sorts... I mean, her Regulators act almost exactly like Talon Mercs. There's nothing heroic about them, they just seem to be mercs in different livery.

I think the FO3 Wiki mentions that she can run to and hide inside the Wheaton Armory as well.

Advice:try the nearest markers or places with cover... :unsure:

I was about to make a post for this, I have the lawmen perk and I went to the regulators once and she was acting like that. She never died or anything but when I came back she was gone. I figured she would come back but she never did. Well I'm screwed. I got 45 fingers just begging to be bought. I guess Daniel Littlehorn just got a new Contract killer.