Fred the Farmer

From Darkan
Revision as of 04:38, 10 November 2012 by imported>Duffmaaan (→‎Trivia)
(diff) ← Older revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Fred the Farmer
Release date 4 January 2001 (Update)
Race Human
Members NPC? No
Quest NPC? Yes- Sheep Shearer, Cold War, One Small Favour
Location Lumbridge
Sells items? No
Gender Male
Examine A well fed looking farmer.
Notable features A Farmer
File:Farmer fred npc.png
[view][talk]
A close-up view of Fred the Farmer
A close-up view of Fred the Farmer

Fred the Farmer is a non-player character that features in the Sheep Shearer, Cold War, Some Like It Cold and One Small Favour quests. Players can find Fred at the farmhouse north-west of Lumbridge, south-east of the Windmill and to the west of the Lumbridge sheep pen. His farm is where players can find onions, which sometimes are hard to find growing wild, especially for non-members.

If the player talks to him and says that he or she has seen the 'Thing', (which is actually just two penguins but he is mortally afraid of it, thinking it's a "shapeshifter") he will start to go on about grabbing chickens and running to the hills. In the end, the player will say that it is two penguins disguised as a sheep. He will ask the player if they have been "in the sun" too much, a refence to sun madness.

Fred also plays a role in One Small Favour where he is involved in obtaining chickens for that quest.

Trivia

File:Fred the Farmer Right-click.png
The right-click menu for Fred the Farmer.
  • On 15 December 2009, the same day as the update to the Sheep Shearer quest, a symbol appeared next to his name in the right-click menu. The same symbol appears in the right click menu for Black sheep.
  • After the quest, you can go back to Farmer Fred and claim another 1940 coins, as a reward because the black wool 'sold exceptionally well'.
  • Also, after the facial update, lots of NPC characters have their faces appearing through their equipment, Fred was a victim of this glitch
    File:Headfred.png
    Look closely at Fred's hat, his face, goes through the middle.
    .
  • The "Thing" Fred sees may be a reference to the 1950's novella Who Goes There?, or its 1982 movie adaption, The Thing. The novella features a shapeshifting alien called "the Thing" that causes paranoia within an Antarctic research camp, while Fred fears a shapeshifting monster disguised as a sheep.

See also

fi:Fred the Farmer nl:Fred the Farmer