1d60 Wasteland NPC names

 
This _should_ be a community prompt post related to elements. I had something picked out too; thought I'd get all clever and put a cyberpunk spin on it. "Elements of the Post-Cybernetic World" or some shit I'd call it. Basically the old elements of fire, air, water, and earth would be replaced with data, misinformation, greed, and hate. 

Had a datamancer in there, using cocaine to communicate with webcrawling AIs; a cargo cult to the twin gods of capitalism the Bull and the Bear; mutants from nuclear reactor safety shortcuts. Hell, was even going to try and jam a radiation golem in there. It was gonna be so nice. So fun. Completely on topic. 

But then, long angry story short, the news happened. No, not my ongoing, twenty plus year feud with the Newsboys, the actual more sinister news. The new elements and the examples I can lined up too close with what's going on. Turns out, warning against dystopia is a lot more draining when you're actually in one, so I'll probably be taking a break from cyberpunk for a bit. Could use a change of pace anyway.

This brings me back on my Wasteland bullshit, for which I've consumed George Miller's Mad Max series as if I was a Republican senator alone in a car park with a bag of cocaine, purchased using money from kickbacks from private prisons.

What this _is_ is a 1d60 list of NPC names for any Wasteland bad guy. 

I ain't the learned sort by any means, but there's an air of Gothic to Miller's work: stories of deeply flawed or disturbed characters often suffering from physical deformities or insanity; decayed and desolate settings; and grotesque situations (Bloom, Harold; 2010). I can only imagine the Babe and Happy Feet series follow the same themes. 

Playing off that logic, one can extrapolate that the more gross a person's name is, the more evil they are - supporting evidence being that people named "the People Eater" are never good people. In turn, the more normal your name is, the more likely you are to be a good person - Max, Jack, Hope, Glory, Jessie, Goose. While Miller's work doesn't hold to this just now made up reasoning, I'm certain that had I a chance to present it to him, he'd pat me on the back, smile softly, and shove me out of the speeding car. 

1d60 Wasteland NPC names

1. Aleister
2. Axe Wound
3. Beefcake, the
4. Bleeter
5. Blister and Wart (one is a parasitic twin)
6. Boilrot
7. Budgie Smuggler
8. Buttpaste
9. Chewie
10. Dak Sniffer, the
11. Dingus, the
12. Dog Eater
13. Dr. Necrotic
14. Dr. Ramcock
15. Dunnyesky
16. Festerwart
17. Flatulence
18. Fleshmouth
19. Fudgie, the Erect
20. Fungal
21. Gang Green
22. Gouge
23. Grizz
24. Horsemeat
25. Maggot Brain
26. Mozzie
27. Mr. Norrell
28. Naughty Nitrean
29. Nippleus
30. One Nut
31. Piss Monger
32. Prismatic Youth, the
33. Puss Mouth
34. Pustulus
35. Ratpuker
36. Sackless
37. Sandsucker
38. Scab
39. Scalpless
40. Scroda
41. Scween, the
42. Skullhumper
43. Sluice
44. Spew
45. Spine Collector
46. Spit, the Dummy
47. Sprockette
48. Stink Beast
49. Stubby
50. Swerve, the
51. Tadpole
52. Temptress
53. Tenderloin
54. Thundercunt
55. Toe Licker
56. Tooth Collector
57. Upchuck
58. Vomitwench
59. Vulture Wife
60. Weevle

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