DETH 98.1 is run by the original dwellers of Vault 5, now turned raider. Forced to listen to endless punk rock music, most of them were driven insane over the generations; when they escaped the Vault, they brought with them their massive collection of banned pre-War rock and punk music, retrofitting a small fleet of stranded craft on the coast and escaping to the Pacific Ocean before the New California Republic pacified the Boneyards. By 2260, they have rechristened themselves the "Pirate Raider Legion" and are infamous for their devastating raids of coastal towns and assets up and down the coasts of New California, all the while broadcasting music and anti-NCR propaganda from their flagship, the Palace of Death, which possesses a working pre-War radio broadcast array.
The radio is jointly hosted by Dan-D-Lion and the Pirate Raider Legion's warlord Terror Max, who sporadically broadcast their recorded tortures of General O'Neill, a captured NCR commander. The station's tracks consist of garage, psychedelic, and surf rock as well as proto-punk from before the Great War.
Broadcast Segments[]
"Terror Tool Time"[]
"Brahmin-Skull Death Delivery Device"[]
Vacuum Cleaner, Duct Tape, Fission Batteries, Fire Ant Resin, Mini Nuke, Woodchipper. Results in a massive explosion.
Step 1: Go to your workbench. At the workbench, combine the woodchipper and vacuum cleaner, along with the fission batteries.
Step 2: Explode.
"Cazador Poison-Coated-Taxidermy-Cudgel"[]
A Deathclaw Gauntlet coated in Cazador venom.
"Super Mutant Head-Club"[]
A Decapitated Super Mutant head and a Pool Cue.
Step 1: Take Super Mutant head.
Step 2: Take a pool cue.
Step 3: Stick head on cue.
Step 4: "uuuuuhhh"
Step 5: Profit.
"Wait Wait Don't Shoot Me!" (Co-starring General O'Neill)[]
Question 1: "What is my favorite thing about Super Mutants?"
Answer: "My favorite thing about Super Mutants is feeling of their decapitated neck cunts and bathing in the blood of their eviscerated bodies!"
Answer: "They're pathetic idealists. Ruling the world with a bloody clenched fist is the only path to happiness!"
Question 4: "What is your name?"
Answer: "Your name is General Scumfuck!"
Question 5: "What is your favorite color?"
Answer: "Your favorite color is red, the color of the blood of all who stand in my way!"
Question 6: "What is the landspeed velocity of a pissed-off Wanamingo?"
Answer: Unanswerable, as Terror Max forgot to mention if it was a female or drone.
Related quests[]
Bridge Over I-15 and Join The War Machine: If one listens to DETH 98.1 while these quests are active, Terror Max can be heard tipping off the Raider Alliance to the arrival of NCR ArmyAble and Baker Companies' caravans along I-15. This can best be heard on the radio playing DETH 98.1 in Johnathan Nos' vertibird.
Behind the scenes[]
DETH 98.1 is a reference to the underground "pirate radio" stations of the 1950s and 1960s, which would often play banned music and usually attracted listeners due to the eccentric personalities of their hosts.
The third segment of "Wait Wait Don't Shoot Me!" is a reference to the infamous "Bridge of Death" scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail which is also referenced in a special encounter in Fallout 2.
