Harland

"I don't have to tell you that Bright's group has got some fine-looking ghoulettes in it! Eh... or maybe I would have to tell you..."

- Harland

 is a Ghoul working with the Bright Brotherhood at REPCONN Test Site in 2281.

Background
Harland was separated from the rest of the Bright Brotherhood while fleeing from Nightkin in the basement. He and another member of the Bright Brotherhood were running away, but his friend ran off to a deeper part of the basement. When the PC finds Harland, he is set up in a defensive position on the second floor of the room and had already killed several nightkin. If asked how he survived for so long by himself, he claims to have lived off radroach meat, used the condensation off the pipes for water, and "does his business" in the far corner.

It can be assumed that Harland is probably ex-military or a survivalist of the Mojave due to the fact he knows what makes a good kill zone, has good marksmanship with his hunting rifle, knows how to set up bear traps and a shotgun trap, and knows how to lay mines in the ground without setting them off. This explains how he has been able to keep alive since being separated from the other Bright members.

Quests

 * Come Fly With Me: The Courier will find Harland in the basement of the REPCONN Test Site. He will offer an optional part of the quest to find his friend, whom he was separated from during the attack of the Nightkin on the Bright Brotherhood in the facility. If you accept and deliver him the bad news of the death of his friend, he will be able to escape the basement to rejoin the Brotherhood and you will be able to explore the heavily trapped room that he is barricaded in.

Appearances
appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs

 * Unlike other members of the Bright Brotherhood, and in fact most Ghouls in general, Harland is not associated with the Ghoul faction. This means that he will be attacked by any Feral Ghouls he encounters, including any which may somehow have been left alive in the REPCONN building.


 * When exploring around the room he is in after accepting the optional task to find his friend and after killing the Nightkin Davison, he became hostile for no known reason. This also happens when you sneak to the terminal behind Harland and let the Nightkin Davison know the location of the shipment, and then return. It's possible to bypass this bug using the "tcl" command in the game console (noclip)and simply "fly" to the terminal upstairs. You can use the terminal and retrieve the info without trigger Harlan.


 * After accepting the optional task, if you enter his room via the hatch and you have ED-E with you, ED-E may attack Harland. Boone may exhibit this behavior as well. Killing Harland gets you 15XP, and the ability to explore the room.


 * If you kill all Nightkin in the basement and tell Cris that the "Demons" are dead, before entering the room where Harland is, he will have disappeared and you can´t do his optional quest.


 * Harland may run into one of his bear traps and die before you get the opportunity to talk with him.


 * If you enter the basement area before meeting Jason Bright, Harland will not offer you a dialogue option to search for his friend. Seeing Davison first, killing all the Nightkin or any other sequence of events does not fix this. To prevent this bug you need to speak with Jason Bright before meeting Harland.


 * If you do not talk to Harland and accept his quest before clearing out the Nightkin, he may later appear in the launch pad area - not wearing a space suit, and will show up as a hostile.


 * If you rush to Davison, agree to go to the room that Harland is in and try to use the speech option "Jason sent me down here to get rid of the "demons.", the game will hang and will force you to do a hard restart.


 * If you go up the stairs to Harland's area and then run out making him hostile he sometimes spawns on the launchpad and starts shooting at you from below. Because of a glass barrier you cannot hit him however for some reason he can hit you.