No-bark Noonan

No-bark Noonan is a crazy conspiracy theorist living in Novac in 2281.

Background
Not much is known about No-bark Noonan's past. However, when asked about his nickname, he reveals that he suffered from either one or more radscorpion stings that pierced his skull. The event undoubtedly made him into the man he is. He also claims to be a scientist, which he may have been in the past before being stung by radscorpions, since his advanced vocabulary might suggest higher education. He wanders the streets of Novac, looking into windows and spouting conspiracy theories and other ramblings that sometimes have nuggets of truth hidden in them. It's not exactly certain how he earned his nickname, although Alice McBride, a Novac resident, believes that his name comes from the phrase "not all of his dogs are barking". No-bark says otherwise; he claims that "they know I aint just barking here. What I say's got bite, 'cause its the truth."

Quests

 * They Went That-a-Way: You can ask him if he has seen a man in a checkered suit; he claims that he saw him running away from wanamingos, although none can be found in this portion of the Mojave Wasteland.
 * One for My Baby: Despite his obvious madness and his seemingly random, humorous ramblings about mole-men and time-shares, No-Bark actually gives the player useful information about the night of the crime, saying that he witnessed shady goings-on at the Dino Dee-lite Front Desk.
 * Come Fly With Me: While No-Bark has no clue what is going on at the REPCONN Facility, he humorously states that he believes the plant is inhabited by "commie ghosts that don't know they're dead". He speculates that their plan is to hi-jack the nearby rockets, so they can travel to the moon, paint it pink, and "draw a huge Lenin face on it".
 * The Screams of Brahmin: No-bark will direct the Courier to speak to Alice and Dusty McBride after claiming he saw an "invisible chupacabra" shoot some of the McBride's brahmin.

Other interactions

 * When you first meet No-bark, he threatens to stick you with his "stickin' knife". No-bark is also extremely paranoid of communists and has many pro-American posters covering his walls of his shack.
 * After the player completes Come Fly With Me, Radio New Vegas takes an interview with him, where he actually correctly states that the rockets belong to “religious ghouls looking for a land to call their own.” He further states "Don't you laugh at me! I know a spell that will make you show your true form! Cave rat taught it to me" He does this interview while speaking to a teddy bear near a microphone.

Notable quotes

 * "Them quack doctors can say what they want about all the radscorpion stings that done pierced my skull. I know what I seen."
 * "I don't trust a man that doesn't have something strange going on about him, cause that means he's hiding it from you. If a man's wearing his pants on his head or says his words backwards from time to time, you know it's all laid out there for you. But if he's friendly to strangers and keeps his home spick-and-span, more often than not it means he's done something even his own ma couldn't forgive."
 * "Well, says No-bark, we got a chupacabra with an automatic weapon. And that's when they get real quiet, 'cause now they see the predicament we're in."
 * "It's ghouls, I tell ya. Religious ghouls in rockets looking for a land to call their own. Don't you laugh at me! I know a spell that will make you show your true form; cave rat taught it to me."

Appearances
No-bark Noonan appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes

 * No-bark Noonan was written by Eric Fenstermaker.
 * No-bark Noonan references Vladimir Lenin, the founder of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

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