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About Moira & Minions


Name: Moira *********> Probably plenty, but none she's retained.
Gender: Female
Age: ~30s, mentally... physically, who knows? Undead are tricky that way.

Faction/Race: Undead / Poison Headcrab Zombie
Natural Ability: Headcrab Minions - In addition to the 'control' headcrab on her head, Moira has three additional headcrabs that ride around on her back most of the time. These headcrabs can communicate with her (and her alone, they can't talk to just anyone). She can send them out away from her, and recall them if she wishes. The headcrabs are named Gordon, Vance, and Kleiner. Why? Because those are their names, silly!


Personality: Moira is a sweet, good-hearted ditzy inventor. She means well, but somehow she has a tendency to build the most astonishing deathtraps while intending to build something totally innocuous. Or to 'fix' something by overbuilding it into a complicated mess. But it makes complete sense to her, so it's okay, right?

Being undead, Moira seems to have little conception of physical danger. So what if the formerly-clogged garbage disposal now has an array of blades that takes up most of the sink? It works really well, and you can just stitch that hand back on! Sometimes she'll even shock herself badly enough that she shorts out her short-term memory, meaning she doesn't remember people she met the day before. That only happens a few times a year, though. In general, Moira believes that she's pretty smart about facts, but when it comes to basic, insignificant things, she can be fooled with misinformation if it's presented in a deadpan, convincing fashion.

Moira will happily talk to students about anything and everything - she genuinely loves absolutely every student sight unseen, and usually calls them pet names like 'spookie'. Amityville Academy is her beloved home, and even though her student days are long gone, Moira still has a boatload of school spirit. She does her very best for Amityville, and will defend the school and its students against all comers.

While Moira is generally optimistic and unfailingly cheerful, she can buckle down and get serious about really important things. Underestimating her because of her 'menial' title would be a mistake: she knows the Amityville campus better than almost anyone, has access to a vast network of secret tunnels, and effectively controls an army of trash-collecting robots and gnomes.

Moira can often be found lurking about her workshop and scrapyard, designing new sweeping devices and making robot trash cans that can empty themselves. Or scoop up students by mistake. Whichever!


What do they do at Amityville Academy?: Moira is the school janitor and the Lord of the Gnomes - she cleans, makes repairs, and manages a large segment of Amityville's gnome population.


FEAR: Deadly Neurotoxin (Tainted Fang): Moira throws her headcrab minions at targets (up to three); when they hit, they bite, sending a sharp shock of highly damaging poison directly into the targets' systems. In addition to the initial poison damage, the remains of the neurotoxin continue to deal damage over the next few minutes.


Physical Description: She's a poison headcrab zombie! She does have a visible face - she wears her 'control' headcrab like a hat and peeks out from under it. The skin on her face is pretty much intact, but her entire ribcage gapes open at the front and her fingers have extended into long claws. She always walks hunched over to support the headcrabs on her back, and seems incapable of standing up any straighter than that.
Eye Colour: A vivid yellow-green.
Hair Colour/Style: Black, and a bit messy. She has no bangs, but the length of her hair - which goes down to her butt - sticks out from under her control headcrab. It does not get in the way of her face. While her hair isn't dirty, it is effectively perpetual hat-hair, so it isn't gracefully styled.
Skin Colour: Caucasian, with an edge of greying and old bloodstains.
Clothing Style/Colours: Moira does laundry every day, but her work is dirty and physical and her attire reflects this. Her clothing is very practical, consisting of a worn coat and simple top - she has no breasts to speak of, given that her torso is mostly gaping open. She keeps a toolbelt (with wrenches, screwdrivers, small pouches, dustpan and whisk broom) around her waist, and always wears a pair of comfortable blue jeans and proper stompin' boots.
Extra: She always carries four poison headcrabs: the 'control' headcrab on her head, and three others that ride on her back. Also, Moira's bloodstains come in two kinds: the standard dried red blood and Moira's own ichor, which is a bile-ish yellow-green color. She can often be seen with a basic Zero Point Energy Field Manipulator, which she uses to lift heavy things like dumpsters and robots. (Gravity gun does not work on any animate FEAR source.)

Nahm had finally located the janitor's office. House. Shack. Whatever. Either way, he'd gathered up a baggie of unidentifiable bits of something that might once have been meat to bring with him, and had even resisted snacking on the bits on the way over.

He knocked politely on the door and waited.

Prior to the beach madness that was Famine's Trial, Mort had managed to find his way to Moira's office, if it could be called such. He got mini shivers remembering the ordeals he and Alex had to go through to finish the open class, though it didn't appear as if there were any large trashbots around at the moment. Quietly the xomboil slipped in, summoning his own mini version of the 'bot, which crawled through one of the smaller holes in the janitor's office to leave behind his homework.