though you can't take him with you in Vault City (where you need
doctor skill for the computer). In practice, I never noticed an
option to ask him to heal me when he's in the group, and he's utterly
inept even at healing _himself_. Another bad part is that he's a real
lousy fighter, has poor AP, and has remarkably poor strength to boot.
And he'll stay that way for the rest of the game. In case I have to
spell it out for you, it means he'll have massive penalties with most
firearms. That can be changed by giving him a power armour, but
that's only MUCH later. And yet another bad part is that in many
places you either aren't enter with a ghoul or mutant (e.g., Vault
City) or people will refuse to talk to you if you have one in your
party. Of course, you can leave them at the door, but that makes it
more tricky to level them up: if you do a quest and level up, and
they're not in your party, they don't get a chance to level up, too.

Speaking of Vault City, interestingly enough, if you have Lenny the
_ghoul_ with you, the guards tell you to get the _mutant_ away from
the gate. And if you're with Marcus the _mutant_, they say _ghouls_
are not allowed inside. I.e., the messages are switched. Bug?

On the overall, I'd say he's not much of an advantage to have around.

Go north. A merchant ghoul will give you a quest to find Woody in the
Den. Another ghoul can modify weapons, but don't do it yet. He'll
tell you he needs a super toolkit. Yet another ghoul will tall you
that greed is good, and tell you to take a disc to Vault City with an
interesting business proposal.

(Yeah, right... greed is good... Watch the ending movie to see how
the ghouls were occupied by Vault City troops, and turned into slaves,
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