William Farber

Corporal William Farber is the cook responsible for both Camp McCarran's mess hall and the diet of the troops stationed there in Fallout: New Vegas.

Background
Although Camp McCarran is amply supplied with vegetable foodstuffs, their diet, imbalanced as it is, has recently taken a turn for the worse. Not only has their food processor finally broken down past the point that they can quick fix, but the Camp is experiencing a minor bout of dysentery. Due to the recent lack of cooked food, and regular unsanitary conditions. The situation is such a mess that he has to bribe the yearly health inspector.

Since Camp McCarran has an abundance of foodstuffs, they have not bothered to acquire meat and spices from traders. Causing the men to become restless, even sneaking in food from the outside.

Quests

 * Not Worth a Hill of Corn and Beans: The cook requires spices and/or some repair work to make the diet more palatable for the troops.
 * Poor Meat Never Makes Good Soup: Quality meat will help too.
 * Gland for Some Home Cooking: The legendary Ruby's casserole is something that the Corporal wanted to taste for a while.

Effects of the player's actions

 * The player slowly accumulates a greater and greater discount on Farber's goods as his requests are completed. Each bonus adds onto the discount, to a maximum possible discount of 28%.
 * Fixing the food processor will earn the player a 5% discount on his wares.
 * Each meat distributor can be convinced to supply McCarran normally, but passing a Speech check (or a Barter check with Blake) will increase the discount. Ruby Nash increases the discount by 2%, Fitz increases it by 3%, and Blake increases it by 5%. Passing the checks increases Ruby's and Fitz's bonuses to 5%, and Blake's to 8%.
 * Delivering the food additive from Vault 22 is worth another 5%.
 * A low NCR reputation will result in a 50% surcharge. This disqualifies the player from any discount.

Bugs

 * If the player recruited Fitz, the dialogue option is never properly disabled, allowing the player to report it ad infinitum and stack an infinite discount. Fitz is heavily bugged himself.
 * The dialogue is generally quite buggy and will be broken if the player fixes the food processor before talking to Farber, will not remove the food additive from inventory properly ( removes the quest item tag from the item), and a variety of other problems. See quest pages for details.

Appearances
William Farber appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.