BANG!

Vulpes: I ask of you to tell all you meet about what happened here

Courier: Why?

Vulpes: The only guy that we let go ran head first into a bunch of giant radscorpions and died

I think the khans have a genre of stories that are “NCR comedies” that are something in between campfire stories and live theater. They vary in tone but the ncr is always the butt of the joke. There are stock characters that appear in various ones and fulfill different roles:

• Maximilian: BoS soldier, stuffy, uptight, comedy comes from literal rule-following, denoted by a face-covering helmet (usually a motorcycle helmet if they don’t have a power armor helmet)
  

• Margaret: high-level ncr officer, outright cruel villain in any stories she appears in, always gets comeuppance, denoted by military-esque clothes with a heart patch someplace on them
  

• Publius: ncr functionary, better ideals but too sniveling to do anything about them, somewhat inflated view of himself, denoted by a tie
  

• Villanus: Brahmin baron, they heard from Karl once that it meant farmer in Latin and thought it was very clever, always a bad guy, even to other ncr characters, sometimes works with Margaret, denoted by a brimmed hat and cigar
  

• Diesel: rank and file ncr soldier, fills various roles, slapstick physical comedy, denoted by an ncr helmet (usually off one of regis‘s skulls)
  

• Jack: ncr local, usually rural, comedy from frequent misunderstandings, can be a sidekick or a bumbling henchman, denoted by a straw hat and piece of straw in mouth, sort of a lesser version of Villanus’s costume
  

• Trog: vault dweller, depicted as cave-dwelling creature that thinks it’s still pre-war, denoted by wearing blue
  

• Cobra: generally a Vipers/Jackals stand-in, can be a hero or not depending on the story, no costume but carries a switchblade
  

• Gwen: clever khan hero, witty, beats bad guys through trickery rather than strength, no costume other than regular khan clothes usually with patches