However, it is not necessary to kill a single nightkin for Harland to sneak out alive only mindful timing.

Harland can die on his way out of the basement if the player doesn't wipe out the nightkin.

If you try to approach by going up the stairs, he will turn hostile on you as soon as you make it up the stairs.

Harland claims he only joined the Bright Brotherhood for the 'ghoulettes'.

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It is evident that he cares much for his friend, shown through the fact that he wouldn't leave until her whereabouts were confirmed. Harland is a hardy survivalist seen by the fact that he knows how to make 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. 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. When the Courier finds Harland, he is set up in a defensive position on the second floor of the room and has already killed several nightkin. He and another member of the Bright Brotherhood were running away, but his friend ran off to a deeper part of the basement. Harland was separated from the rest of the Bright Brotherhood while fleeing from nightkin in the basement.

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