"My wife has been kidnapped by raiders! They want a ransom!"

First of all, those aren't raiders, they are super mutants.

Second of all, this is the fifth time she's been 'kidnapped', and I've gone to clean the same place out.

Your wife was not kidnapped.

She has a fetish.

Here's 400 caps. Get some platform shoes, paint yourself green, and in a bass gurgle yell "Here human human human! I have a treat for you!"

And she will come running right the hell back here.

Abernathy farm kidnapping number 6

"My wife has been kidnapped by-"

Stop. Let me guess. You ran out of green paint. Here. They also used to make shopping cart cages, she might dig that.

Makes sense, for an verification give the lady an set of improved heavy combat armor and some serious weapons like an gatling laser.

She still get kidnapped.

Like I said

Just for a second there, I thought I was reading loverslab...

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!! Totally valid explanation!! Makes sense! And I stopped rescuing kidnapped victims a long time ago... here are the caps and yes, yes, Super Mutants are totally trustworthy, they will take the caps and return then kidnapped person... said no-one ever! hahahaha

Makes a lot more sense than some settler being kidnapped over and over again from a farm with 150+ defense.

I'm telling ya. It would make that paint mixer in hardware town and all the darn paint I find everywhere be a useful commodity.

Oh wow! Yellow paint! Old Lady Abernathy will go missing pretty soon and I already have the blue...

Damn it raiders have taken over Hardware town -again-?

Hey wait a minute...

Maybe the ransom is for Hardware Town to mix the paint!

Yeah, after a while in each play through it become random caps for XP