Kit Ryder was a lounge singer affiliated with the Showmen of Atlantic City who participated in the failed heist on the Neapolitan Casino.
Background[]
In addition to being a lounge singer, Ryder was an experienced thief and schmoozer. Kit would charm "the old money" at the high rollers' lounge bar at the Neapolitan Casino, sleep with them, then steal their valuables and pawn them off by morning. His grift was known to the Lombardi Family, but was considered not worth pursuing. However, mafioso Andrew Murphy recruited Ryder into a plan for a heist on the Neapolitan Casino, targeting a rumored stash of unaccounted-for Devil's Blood. Murphy believed Ryder's skills as a thief could be of use, and Ryder accepted the invitation.[1][2]
Ryder's job was to get close to and charm Concerta Lombardi, who held a key to the casino vault, often worn as a necklace. Ryder would distract her with his charisma, and quietly steal the vault key.[3] However, Ryder's role was where the plan fell apart. On the night of the heist, Ryder sang at a lounge show and attempted to chat up Concerta once the performance was over. Ryder chose to give Concerta his "patented" shoulder rub, from which he could nab the key, but Concerta saw right through him and noticed him trying to grab the key. Ryder was knocked out and dragged to the Neapolitan's utility room, where he was beaten for information. Under the pressure of mafia interrogation (and the self-conscious threat of damaging his face), Ryder cracked and ratted out Murphy and Carlsen.[4]
With the plan now exposed, the heist was foiled; Ryder, having already been beaten to the point of using crutches, was blacklisted from the Casino Quarter and exiled back to the Showman's Pier.[4][5] While working on his own autobiography, written in a self-important manner, Ryder reflected on the events of the heist, before eventually concluding "maybe this one shouldn't make it to the autobiography."[4] Additionally, according to a Lombardi Family source after the fact, the rumor of the Devil's Blood stash turned out to be false, making the plan all for nothing.[5]
Appearances[]
Kit Ryder is mentioned only in Fallout 76, introduced in the Expeditions: Atlantic City update part two, America's Playground.