Jerry the Punk



Jerry the Punk is a Great Khan poet living in Red Rock Canyon in 2281.

Background
Jerry is a Great Khan that can't quite complete the ritual initiation to become a Khan. When Jerry was a child, the Followers of the Apocalypse came to Red Rock Canyon with pre-War books. Jerry used to spend hours reading these books, especially poetry books.

Quests

 * Cry Me a River: Once the Courier converses with Jerry, they can find out if the Followers of the Apocalypse will accept Jerry for who he is.

Effects of player's actions

 * After completing Cry Me a River, Jerry will run to the Old Mormon Fort in Freeside, where he is accepted and sheltered by Julie Farkas and the Followers of the Apocalypse.

Appearances
Jerry the Punk appears only in Fallout: New Vegas.

Behind the scenes

 * Jerry the Punk is a reference to William the Bloody, aka Spike, from the television show "Buffy the Vampire Slayer". Jerry asks what rhymes with the word "indulgent", and begins to say the word "effulgent" before stopping and saying how terrible that would be. In the show, before Spike became a vampire, he was a terrible poet nicknamed "The Bloody" for his bloody awful poems. In his flashback, he is ridiculed by his peers for using the word "effulgent" in his poem. In addition, both characters wrote a love poem to a girl they loved, only to be mocked, and both characters eventually leave their homes.
 * The line "Oh, why do nice girls hate me?" is a reference to Blackadder the Third, in which this line appears in a poem written by the teenaged The Right Honourable William Pitt the Younger, Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Bugs

 * Jerry's pathfinding causes him to pace in the dueling ring, unfortunately this causes him to walk right past the Khans attacking the practice dummies. He will subsequently be killed and the quest will fail if the player spends too much time in the area (before or after accepting the quest). Upon the player's return, with permission for him to join the Followers, he may still be killed in this fashion, thereby rendering the quest impossible to complete if stuck in this reoccurring death loop. Jerry can be protected long enough to complete the quest by reverse pickpocketing stronger armor into his inventory. Even if he dies and after accepting the quest, Julie Farkas will still have all associated quest options in her dialog tree.
 * Sometimes, Jerry will not leave his tent in Red Rock Canyon once his quest is completed. He will thank the Courier if interacted with, as if he successfully made it to the Old Mormon Fort. Bumping him bodily out of the tent may start him on his way.
 * After completing his quest he may be hostile if you meet him while wearing NCR armor. This may be to do with the fact that he was once almost a member of the Khans.
 * Jerry may start attacking NCR affiliated gamblers inside the Mormon Fort. (This may be connected to the state of the NCR/Khans relationship at the time, per Oh My Papa). If he exits the tower the Followers guards may attack him.
 * After the completion of the quest Cry Me a River, Jerry will travel from Red Rock Canyon to the Follower's base at Old Mormon Fort. Unlike most non-player characters, Jerry does not fast-travel and will only move if the player character is in the same active map cell as him. Additionally, his path takes him straight through Fiend territory, past the lairs of Violet and Cook-Cook. As he is unarmed and unarmored, he is unlikely to survive the journey unless personally escorted by the player character. Jerry can then be found inside the west tower.

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