Three clueless pirates wandering in a world without booty. Maybe you can help them out.
— Instruction booklet
From left to right, Short, Brutish and Nasty, inside the Leviathan.
Inside the Leviathan, Vexx will meet three pirates who need help to open a chest. They are named Nasty, Brutish, and Short. The combination that opens the chest is found on page 28 of the instruction booklet. The following codes are:
I'm Nasty. I'm hot for some cash! So hurry up with the combination.
Nasty is a tall thin pirate. He was apparently very angry when finding out the treasure chest contained a Wraithheart and no treasure.
Thief! We hates it. We hates it forever!
Brutish[]
My name is Brutish. Oh, what's in the box?!?!
Brutish is the largest pirate, and happens to be the nicest and most optimistic of the pirates. He compliments Vexx when he opens the treasure chest.
You ARE great!
— Brutish praises Vexx
Short[]
They call me Short. We're after the loot in this here treasure chest. If you can't open it for us, we'll be kickin' you out of the exit-hole!
Apparently the leader of the pirates, Short requests Vexx to help him open a treasure chest, which happened to contain a Wraithheart. Seeing no use for it, he rejects the Heart and lets Vexx take it.
Short is shown to be, well, short tempered. He threatened to kick Vexx out the "exit hole" if he fails to open the treasure chest by inputting the wrong combination.
Arrgh! There be no gold in this chest! Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick.
Trivia[]
Short's design was probably inspired by Adventure from The Pagemaster.
According to Vexx designer Kynan Pearson, the idea of the treasure chest code found only in the instruction booklet was inspired by Meryl's codec frequency from Metal Gear Solid. In the game, the player would have to read the frequency off the back of the game's case and enter it into the radio.
