Fred the Farmer

Release date	4 January 2001 (Update)
Race	Human
Members NPC?	No
Quest NPC?	Sheep Shearer, Cold War, One Small Favour
Location	Lumbridge
Sells items?	No
Gender	Male
Examine	A well fed looking farmer.

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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.

TriviaEdit

• 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'.
• 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.