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“Those who begin their stories with pompous quotes should spend some time to think of something original and witty to say for themselves instead.”
- Aristotle. . . . or Mao Zedong
What follows is really the story of Jeffrey Cross, known to his friends by the nickname “Kush.” Kush was a failed businessman and entrepreneur who had made a decent living shipping water between Canterbury Commons and Rivet City until some [censored] activated the Jefferson Purifier and the Brotherhood started handing out water for free. This ‘selfless’ act by some sappy, immature teenager put Kush’s fledgling operation out of business in one fell swoop.
After drowning his woes in liquor and cheap women, Kush set out to make it big once more by scouring the DC Metro ruins for valuable salvage. One day, when Kush was searching through the Museum of Technology, he found several snippets of old security camera footage left over from years earlier. The footage featured a short black man, possibly a raider, rambling to himself in a manic frenzy – the unfortunate side effect of a combination of several dozen, debilitating neuroses.
Kush found this footage so entertaining he took it with him. Ever the entrepreneur, he later converted that footage into a radio show and sold the idea to GNR. Kush’s program soon replaced the endlessly looped, “Adventures of Herbert ‘Daring’ Dashwood,” and the sale made him enough caps to buy a penthouse suite in Tenpenny Tower, where he still lives to this day.
What follows is the script of the Jiggs & Prime radio show created by Kush back in 2279.
Episode 1: Terminal 001 – Code # is 19
Setting: DC Museum of Technology, ground floor, April 1, 2277, 12:47 P.M.
[Prime enters the foyer of the museum and walks over to the reception desk. He has just shot a supermutant dead. Its hulky body is slumped over the front desk next to one of the museum’s ancient terminals. Prime walks over to the terminal and boots it up.]
Hey-hey hey there Jiggs. . .Jig Jig Jig, Jigitty Jig Jig Jig –Jaaaawwuuu! It’s your buddy, Prime, got another riddle – more of a code I guess. . . a patterned sequence of numbers for you to follow - the regular breadcrumb trail of fractional factorials, indivisible integers, and plucky little palindromes. I’ve hidden lots and lots of loot for you to find at the finish line, so you better get a’ cracking on this code. . .daddy-o. . .
What should the first number of my sequence be. . .hmmm, perhaps it should be a 3? 3 rhymes with ‘be’. . .and its also prime. . .I’m Prime and do I looove me a rhyme. I’m the most gifted lyricists this wasteland has ever seen.
Oh yeah, daaaaaamn right . . . I’m the rapper extraordinaire. Three Dog would have signed me if I hadn’t fried his dish. I’m a rappin’ mathematician, a Muslim muezzin, callin all of ya’ll to prayer with my magical numeric and linguistic incantations. . .I’m NOT a freaking electrician! Not my fault his dish couldn’t handle my grooves. . .
Just wanted to pirate the airwaves for a few minutes - play my holo-tape demo for the whole wasteland to hear - get funky respect from DJs here to the Commonwealth, dig? . . . hehehe. . .
[Prime turns to look at the dead supermutant. A large piece of the mutant’s skull slides off the countertop, lubricated by a slick of fresh, wet gore]
You wanna hear my mad lyrical skills, dead mutant? Check this. . .
Like my Xuanlong foo?
It’s baddest-looking assault rifle you’ve eva seen,
With a one-third larger magazine,
Knocked you down with a rat-tat-tat,
One three shot burst, and that was that. . .hehe. . .
You don’t look so hot now, with only half of yo’ head,
If I didn’t already know it,
I’d guess you was dead. . . . ,
But before they dipped you into that vat of FEV,
Were you a sixy little girl, all primmed and pretty?
The way look now, I can’t really tell,
One ugly, androgynous mademoiselle,
[Verse censored],
[Verse censored],
Hahahaha. . . .
Yup, the illest rapper out there. . . I’m an arithromaniac with ADD, OCD, and a [censored] - an idiot savant, that’s what Doc. Church diagnosed me!
[Prime turns back to the terminal]
Hmmm now, still need a number for you Jiggs . . . maybe a two? Two’s prime too! But two is too easy, just a single digit won’t do. . .better make that two, too! Two digits, that’s the gas!
[Prime rubs his hands together and runs his fingers across the keys]
Let me see. . . 11, 13, 17, 19, 23. . . all prime. . .like me - like beef, the rib I mean - prime rib - Grade A stuff - marbled and tender, goes down smoother than ice cold Nuka-Cola on a hot wasteland afternoon. . .I’m slick, sly, suave, and sneaky as hell – that cat who woos your woman and then sneaks back in to steal your stereo. . .hehehe. . .
[Prime shakes his head and slaps himself in the face to regain his concentration]
NUMBERS! Uh. .. . well. . .what do we have again. . .13. . .but that’s just unlucky . . . wouldn’t want to leave bad juju for Jiggs – he’s my buddy. . .11’s too repetitive, just two ones pushed together. . .no style, no flair . . .altogether not clever. . .
19?!?!?
What’s 19 again????
. . .that’s how old we were when we first hooked up, Jiggs - waaay back in Megaton – remember those digs? What a prig - Lucas Simms - can still picture his beet red face that day we put mines under the septic tanks and when they blew, a fountain of [censored] sprayed out from the rest rooms, and plasted the front of Moriarty’s saloon. Hahahahaha. . .that old ghoul spent hours scraping scat off the walls . . .and Simms was huffing and puffing – threatening to rip off our balls. . .
Totally worth getting kicked out of town - I’d do it again. . .we got to get back to that kind of hijinx. . ., now it’s all about caps. . .looting and shooting. . ..no time for just laughs.
[There is a loud crash upstairs followed by lumbering footsteps and a guttural groan. Prime gets down on his knees and gently taps on the keyboard]
Well here bud, I’ll make it 19 to remember old times, gotta check the upstairs . . . see what’s been clued in to my rhymes. . .
Tune in next week. . . .