Ben Canning

Ben Canning is a water beggar found at seemingly random locations in the Capital Wasteland in the year 2277.

Background
Ben is a wastelander who came upon some bad luck, wandering around for days without water.

Interaction with the player character
Ben is a water beggar encountered randomly in the wasteland. Upon meeting, the Lone Wanderer may choose to give him water, or let him die. Unlike the water-beggars found outside Megaton and Rivet City who will only accept Purified Water, Ben will also accept Dirty Water. If given water, he proceeds to drink it repeatedly; when activated, he apologetically tells the character that he's not up to traveling yet. Standing after a minute or two, he simply says "Good to see you again, friend!" If he is nearby while you are fighting, he will rush to help you, although his usefulness in combat is limited.

Locations
Ben Canning is one of a multitude of random encounters in the game, and he may appear at any one of the assigned random encounter locations. If he is resuscitated with water, he will follow the same looping route as the Caravan Merchants.

Bugs

 * He will not accept Aqua Pura as water.
 * Sometime he can be found following the player everywhere with a fast travel after the player gave him a water (given a place is not within the city parameter i.e. inside megaton, however he can be found at the front of the city if your fast travel didn't bring you right inside the city's wall like in case of Rivet city).
 * When given water he takes out an empty nuka-cola bottle or a beer bottle instead of the plastic water bottles.
 * He can sometimes be found sitting with only his head sticking out of the ground.
 * If killed by a plasma rifle with a critical shot he will have a goo pile like a normally killed NPC, but if you search around the goo pile, you may get a message allowing you to search his corpse. You can even devour him with the cannibal perk. (Tested on xbox 360, with A3-21's plasma rifle)

YouTube Videos
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Appearances
Ben Canning only appears in Fallout 3.