I have 4 playthroughs so far in this game. In each one, I help the Followers and have given them all kinds of Medical Supplies. I just discovered by doing this, you get invited to join the Followers and you can buy Skill Magazines from Julie.

Sounds good, right? However I have never in any of my playthroughs ever gotten the invitation, the key to the Safe House or the Followers Lab Coat. Is there some arcane combination of events that has to take place? I have tried donating more medicine and waiting several days to no avail. I am already Idolized by the Followers as I have done all the other quests.

Buy lots of magazines. Step away from her and then speak with her again. She should give you the Lab Coat, invitation and key then. After becoming idolized, that's all it took for me.

She never offers to sell me magazines. Which is what I really want her to do.

The magazine offer is based on how many of a specific chem you donate..
If you keep donating 3 rad X again and again, this will cause Julie to say we have enough now, but spares are welcome.
Exit the donate sub menu without exiting conversation, then she should mention magazines that she has to sell.

She restocks the magazines for each of the three chems, Rad Away, Fixer, and Med X.
So if you do them all one at a time you can end up with 9 - 12 of one magazine type.
By the time I've usually donated all three to the limit, she then offers me the chance to join + the safe house key.

You may also have to perform all the other Freeside quests, such as find the addicts and solve the need for constant supplies.

I have done all the quests, but I never gave her meds until she said stop. I have given about 30 of them this play through, but not a bunch of one type. I will spawn some RadX and give them to her until she chokes if that is what it takes. :tongue:

Ok, I think I see. When I donate the meds, I usually donate about 2 Fixer, 2 Med-ex and 2 Rad-X or Rad-Away. Sometimes 1, 2 and 2 or 2, 2 and 1. I think I do it about 3 or 4 times in between doing her other quests and then she makes the offer. It's hard to part with the Rad chem because I'm usually trying to save up for Vault 34. This has been my experience with it. Good luck.

I just did this in my NCR playthrough. What I did was:
Complete High Times
Convince the Atomic Wrangler owners (i forgot their names), to supply the Followers with med supplies in exchange for the repair services of the Followers.
(To do this, first go to Julie, and ask about the lack of supplies. She should give you a bunch of options about who to ask, i usually go to the Atomic Wrangler. Then go back to Julie with their offer. After this, go back to the Atomic Wrangler and say that they are looking forward to partnering with the Followers. Then go back to Julie, and the next time you try and sell her medicine, she should say that she has enough, but she can take all she wants. When you exit out of the dialogue, she will say something like "Thanks for helping, blah blah blah, I just got a shipment of skill magazines. Then buy a bunch of skill magazines, and it might activate.)

Another way to do this is if it's not working after doing all the above, get a good reputation by either working with the Kings or helping around with other quests. Also, you can go to the Great Khans and find Jerry The Punk near the training ring, and he'll complain about the Khans. Then go back to Julie and ask her if he can join. Then go back to Jerry, and he'll say something like "Shweet broski, I totally heart the Followers because they are teh 1337!" Then go back to Julie and tell her that Jerry is on his way. This is how i got it.

Basically, getting it takes a lot of fast travel and walking. It's kind of worth it, but if you want it, go for it. (I wore the FotA Lab Coat til it fell off me pretty much)

Thanks to everyone for the tips on donating more meds to get the Safehouse Key.


Well I spawned a bunch of Meds with the console. I then went to the Mormon Fort and had a chat with Julie. I kept giving her Fixer until she was satisfied and she talked about the magazines. I gave her some more Fixer and she said then talked about the extra stock. That is when she offered the membership and the perks.

So, I had not given her enough Meds. However, I think I had given her as much Rad A Way as I have Fixer this time around, but maybe I needed to give just a couple more of those. I wish I had kept track of the amounts, as I would rather not give away too much of my stash. Or, if this can be done with just one type of Med.

Does anyone know the exact donation requirements?

Went back and started donating other meds just to see what would happen. It took just a couple more Rad A Ways and she talked about having enough of those. Just for grins I kept giving her some meds and she soon stopped asking for most of them. However, she would take as much Fixer as I would give her, more than 20 in this case total in the two sessions.

Still wonder what the counts are....

The exact requirements are, 10-15 packs of Fixer, Rad-Away, or Med-X (Not 10-15 of each, 10-15 of all 3 meds)

i always get the key to the house, lots of quests help reputation with them, the helios one quest if you give power to the entire area you get a science book and gain rep for the followers, also helping the addicts and the supply problem, also bugging the lucky 38, you don't have to do all of that to get the key, i just give julie farkes lots of rad away, med x and fixer, stockpile from the get go and you can get the followers safehouse key pretty early in the game.

If you divert the power to everyone in Lucky Old Sun you gain a huge reputation boost with the followers.

I think that Safe House has some of the best gear on the beds. I've never been to the CL house though. Glad you got in.

Yea, there is some nice gear all laid out for you when you get there.

I am pretty sure I had given her more than 15 total meds by the time I spawned my other meds for this attempt. I don't think I stood there at anyone time and gave her 15 meds in a row.

The requirements are 10 or more for each of the required chems, Radaway, Med-X, and Fixer. Here's the relevant code snippet from the script:

if VFSJulieFarkasREF.iMedDonationRadAway >= 10 && VFSJulieFarkasREF.iMedDonationMedX >= 10 && VFSJulieFarkasREF.iMedDonationFixer >= 10

Completing this mini-quest sets the conditions for having Julie ask you to join the Followers. When you give the required amounts of supplies your Followers faction reputation is checked and if it passes a certain threshold Julie gets a new line of dialogue asking if you would like to join the Followers. Completing this mini-quest isn't enough by itself to have Julie ask you to join, you must complete at least one other quest that affects your Followers reputation such as High Times for example.

Thanks it is good to know how many meds to gather before I show up the next time.